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Managing a healthy diet on super tight budget can gettricky, because you have to consider a lot of optionswhen dealing with health and diet, it most often thannot leads to a healthy bill for you to pay. But when youare on a tight leash for you budget, it gets hard for oneto manage.

Here are 7 best tips for you, so that you can managethat perfect balance needed when on tight budget.

Buy Fresh Produce in Bulk and Preserve It

Consuming a Batch of fresh produce is good forhealth and can help you maintain your health easily.But the cost of buying a fresh produce every time can escalate very quickly.

One way to solve this problem is to buy fresh produce, when they are in season and cost less, in bulk andfreeze it. As the produce will be in season it will cost much less than when not in season. You can buy thefruits and vegetables from a local farmers market instead of buy it from a place where you know the goodsare shipped in. The shipped in products are of less quality compared to the goods of local grocer. It is avery efficient way to stock up.

Another way is, you can try canning of goods. This can help save a lot of money.

Take benefits of discounts and sales

You can shop at your local store, if they have amembership card, take it. By doing this, you will benotified of any kind of sale or discounts that are givenby that store and you can use this opportunity to stockup or plan your upcoming meals accordingly, thereforemaking the most out of it. More often than not thereare deals on goods that you require regularly, liketomatoes or onions, you can grab this opportunity andstock up. This type of shopping will guarantee that youeat healthy.

Watch out for these two things:

1. Items on sale go out of stock very quickly. So don’t forget to grab the opportunity quickly.

2. Sales and discounts are mostly because there is a surplus of goods, so before you go and grab thegoods don’t forget to check the freshness of the goods.

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Try to move away from brands

Buying food produce from a branded company not agood choice. As most of the time, the only differencebetween the branded foods and non-branded ones isthe packaging. And there is a noticeable differencebetween costs of the branded ones and non-brandedones. So you can cut your losses and with the brandsand save lot of money.

Implement K. I. S. S. (Keep it simple,shopper)

It is always tempting to buy the best presented fruits like the pre-cut fruit platter, but these type of goodscosts way more than buying the fruits in their base form and cutting them yourself. It is actuallyrecommended by the USDA to buy the vegetables and fruits in the basic forms (natural). The pre-cut oneshave steep prices as compared to simple fruits and the only difference is the cutting part, which you can doit yourself, thus saving a lot of money from being wasted.

Try to cut down on Meat

Meat, as compared to veggies, is costly. You can save a lot of money on cutting down on meat and eatingveggies. It is actually recommended, if you are trying to lose weight, to cut down on meat (as it is hard todigest) and start eating protein rich vegetables.

You can go for no cook meals like salad, beans etc. as a substitute for a meat.

Reuse your Leftovers

After big meals there are leftovers, instead of throwingthem away you can use them as your next meal. If youdon’t like eating the same meal twice you canrepurpose your leftovers and use them as add on foryour next meal. Leftover vegetables can be blended insoups and can be added to casseroles.

Finding Ways to buy InexpensiveVegetables

Given some conditions any veggie can become costly.This can depend upon the time of the year, the availability of the veggie, the source of the veggie etc. Assaid earlier buying veggies that currently in season can do some cost cutting. For example, during winteruse the frozen produce instead of buying produce that will be shipped in.

Buy veggies that are generally pocket friendly year round. Like cabbage, potatoes etc. Instead of buyingthe goods from a super market, find a farmer’s market or a CSA, If possible, local farmers, these are someof the great sources to buy cheap and high quality veggies.

You can search online for finding a farmer or a CSA (Community supported agriculture) or a farmersmarket nearby to your area. If you still are not able to find any one you can ask nearby families who havebeen living there for long, they are a great source for these kind of info.