Fifteen budget tips for good health

The news is full of: cuts and rising health costs. How to stay healthy? Quality of life does not have to be expensive. You can also enjoy a healthy way with a small wallet! Fifteen budget tips for good health.

Breakfast

1. Start the day with a breakfast that includes everything; carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, soy milk with real muesli (possibly homemade) and some fresh fruit. Or choose eggs with a wholegrain whole-wheat sandwich or wholegrain rice cakes and a portion of fruit or raw vegetables. Cup green tea and you can handle it.

Oatmeal

2. Packed with fiber, which stabilizes your blood sugar level and reduces the risk of diabetes as well as your cholesterol. The best of all; oatmeal is cheap. Choose the coarse variant. Then you have something to chew and there are the most nutrients!

Whole grain

3. Eat whole-grain products as much as possible. Wholegrain bread, unpolished rice, wholemeal pasta etc. Avoid the white, refined products from which all the nutrients and fibers have been extracted from the industry. These products may seem cheaper but are much more expensive in the long run. You will be sick of it! And being sick is always more expensive than being healthy!

Smaller portions

4. Eating small portions several times a day is better for your health. This gives your body the chance to digest the food and to make good use of all nutrients. This gives you more energy and makes you feel fitter than if you slide large amounts of spike once or twice a day. Go for quality instead of quantity!

Colorful

5. Eat as much colored food as possible. Fruit and vegetables in all colors and varieties are the cheapest food with the most value for money. Choose products from the season. These are usually on offer because the supply is temporarily larger. With a small purse you can best go to the market, where you certainly at the end of the day for a snack a bag full of vitamins and minerals can score.

Freezer

6. Good choice when it comes to fruit and vegetables. Choose pure, washed and fast frozen varieties. Then you have the most value for money. Buy frozen food if they are on sale. You can keep them for a long time, so make your own stock of fast health.

Legumes

7. Perhaps the cheapest form of proteins and fibers that you can vary endlessly. Especially when you buy beans and lentils in dried form, they are indispensable in a budget household. Eat them with rice or another form of cereals to get high quality proteins.

Water

8. Tap water costs nothing at all. Rinses all toxins and waste from our body, which makes you feel much better! If you want to drink filtered water then buy a can or filter that you can place on the tap so that you drink really good water. It is just a publication but one that you will enjoy for a long time.

Get rid of the bottle

9. In the light of free water, which you can make delicious tea from, you can leave the plastic bottles of prick and other sugar-containing drinks. Not only bad for your health and environment, also bad for your wallet. Teach your children to drink sugar free. Saves a lot of money and is also better for them. Buy one good bottle of syrup (thick juice) and handle it economically.

Children

10. Do not do any shopping without children. They often want to eat very different things than good for them so that you are more expensive than if you can do some shopping alone and in peace. Buy something tasty for the whole family once a week and enjoy it.

Cheap is expensive

11. Leave all the cheap fast food manufactured by the food industry. That seems cheap but in the long run it is bad for your health because you fill your body with it and do not feed. In addition, the fast sugars quickly get you hungry again, so you eat more. Buy less but better quality food. We throw away $400 for each household each year. Buy consciously and enjoy what you eat.

Buy big

12. Buy large packages, pay attention to the kilo price. Small packages cost more than large ones. Products at eye level are more expensive than those at an altitude. So just bending to grab the cheaper, but just as good variant. House brand is always cheaper than branded products.

Move

13. Are you tired and listless? Then move. Walking, cycling, swimming, dancing. It does not matter what you do, if you do it! Do you not want to wander aimlessly than the neighbor's dog. Then you have a good excuse to walk your daily minimum thirty minutes. Good for heart and blood vessels and your mood. And free!

Stop smoking

14. Duration! And unhealthy. Stop. Saves you hundreds of euros (with a package per day € 1.642, - per year!) That you better spend on healthy food or a nice holiday.

Relax

15. Reserve at least ten minutes each day for yourself to relax and get new energy. You will be amazed at how much this simple tip will bring you! Just sitting still and breathing quietly and attentively provides you with a lot of energy. The last and cheapest tip!