Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Clean Eating on a Budget.

We get our veggies and fruit mainly at Costco. They really have some amazing deals where I haven't seen anything fantastic at the regular grocery store lately.

We get our bread at Walmart or the Sara Lee outlet.

We get our meat on sale.

When you cut out the junk, you have more money to spend on other things.

Easy cheap meals:

Wraps-
Tortillas
Veggies
Hummus or blend your own white beans and use that

Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup
Use whole wheat bread and Reduced fat cheese and use Pam instead of Butter.
Blend up your own canned tomatoes and add seasonings and skim milk.

Chicken Salad
2 or three chicken breasts cooked, diced and coated in BBQ Sauce
Lettuce
Canned Mexi Corn
Little bit of cheese
Salsa
and Light ranch

Individual Pizzas
Wheat Tortillas or Wheat English Muffins
Hormel Natural Choice or other nitrate free deli meat (bought at Walmart it is HALF the price of the grocery store) Deli Ham diced up
Low fat mozzarella
Pizza sauce (whatever is on sale)
Pineapple Chunks
Diced olives
Peppers
Onions
Mushrooms

Tacos
I get cheap beef and drain it and rinse it THEN add the seasonings
Lettuce
Corn or whole wheat tortillas
Low fat cheese
Tomatoes
Salsa
Low fat Sour Cream
Avocado

Spaghetti
Whole wheat Noodles ( Wally's sells them for like $1 a package)
Cooked Chicken or Beef
Spaghetti sauce
Fresh Parmesean
Side salad

Tortilla Soup
1 can chicken stock
2 cans Rotel
1 can enchilada sauce (mild)
1 green pepper chopped
1 onion Chopped
3 chicken breasts diced
Put in Crock pot for 4-6 hours
garnish with diced avocado, cilantro, low fat sour cream, and a little low fat cheese.

Chicken Ceaser Pita
Reduced Calorie Ceaser salad kit (-the croutons)
Sliced grilled chicken
Whole wheat Pitas

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