Day 113 & 114
I dedicate this entry to Jonnie M. He's a really cool guy and a friend in meatlessness.
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Well? Is it truly expensive to eat healthy?
Nah, I don’t think it really is.
It may depend on whether your area has more fast food places than it does BJ’s or TJ’s. If you are stuck in an area where there are more places that sell unhealthy food cheap than places that sell healthy food cheap then you may be screwed.
But have you really looked around your area?
How do you know what is out there for food buys if you haven’t really looked around? Don’t take another person’s word for it; go and see for yourself.
Make a list of what you usually buy for food and take it with you to as many grocery stores as you can find in your area. Compare prices from store to store and see where the healthiest foodstuffs are at the best price.
Don’t have the time? I don’t believe it. Maybe not this week, but eventually you will have some spare time to look. It will be time well spent when you do. Trust me on this.
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Showing posts with label Trader Joe's. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
A Simple Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Recipe
Days 76 and 77
I actually did decide to have that cinnamon apple oatmeal on Friday morning and it was great! I made it in no time at all and it turned out just fine.
To make it you need:
- 1 apple, cored and cut into 6 equal pieces
- 1 cup of dry oatmeal
- 1 cup of Rice Dream (most oatmeal packages recommend water but I prefer milk or a milk substitute)
- A shaker of cinnamon
1. Mix the dry oatmeal and Rice Dream in a microwaveable serving bowl. (My recipe calls for one cup of each ingredient but you can customize the consistency of your oatmeal by varying the amounts.)
2. Microwave on high about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes.
3. Core and slice your apple. I recommend one of these; it will core your apple and slice it up in just one smooth step.
4. When the oatmeal is done cooking in the microwave, sprinkle some cinnamon on top then place the slices of apple on top as shown in the picture below.
Wait, wasn’t there something that was supposed to be special about this meal? The recipe is a real no-brainer—you can probably figure out how to make it from the title alone! But still, there is something special about this particular dish. Read on.
- The apple cost 49 cents at a Trader Joe’s.
- The drum of oatmeal cost $2.99 and contains about 30 servings. This recipe called for approximately one serving so $2.99/30 = .10 (rounded up from .099) is the cost of one oatmeal serving.
- The Rice Dream I used instead was from a 64 oz. container that cost me about $4.40. I used a cup (8 oz.) in the recipe. $4.40/8 = .55 cents.
So .49 + .10 + .55 = $1.14.
Not bad for a meal that includes three food groups and is made from quality, healthy ingredients. To get more out of this meal I recommend a nice, big cup of coffee (flavored with some unsulphured blackstrap molasses of course) and a veggie patty standing in for a sausage breakfast patty.
I actually did decide to have that cinnamon apple oatmeal on Friday morning and it was great! I made it in no time at all and it turned out just fine.
To make it you need:
- 1 apple, cored and cut into 6 equal pieces
- 1 cup of dry oatmeal
- 1 cup of Rice Dream (most oatmeal packages recommend water but I prefer milk or a milk substitute)
- A shaker of cinnamon
1. Mix the dry oatmeal and Rice Dream in a microwaveable serving bowl. (My recipe calls for one cup of each ingredient but you can customize the consistency of your oatmeal by varying the amounts.)
2. Microwave on high about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes.
3. Core and slice your apple. I recommend one of these; it will core your apple and slice it up in just one smooth step.
4. When the oatmeal is done cooking in the microwave, sprinkle some cinnamon on top then place the slices of apple on top as shown in the picture below.
Wait, wasn’t there something that was supposed to be special about this meal? The recipe is a real no-brainer—you can probably figure out how to make it from the title alone! But still, there is something special about this particular dish. Read on.
- The apple cost 49 cents at a Trader Joe’s.
- The drum of oatmeal cost $2.99 and contains about 30 servings. This recipe called for approximately one serving so $2.99/30 = .10 (rounded up from .099) is the cost of one oatmeal serving.
- The Rice Dream I used instead was from a 64 oz. container that cost me about $4.40. I used a cup (8 oz.) in the recipe. $4.40/8 = .55 cents.
So .49 + .10 + .55 = $1.14.
Not bad for a meal that includes three food groups and is made from quality, healthy ingredients. To get more out of this meal I recommend a nice, big cup of coffee (flavored with some unsulphured blackstrap molasses of course) and a veggie patty standing in for a sausage breakfast patty.
Remember that upcoming book I told you about from Supersize Me director Morgan Spurlock, Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture? You can now pre-order it from Amazon here.
Talk to you soon!
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Talk to you soon!
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Some of the Food I’ve Been Eating, Part 1: Fruits
Day 67
(I dedicate the “Some of the Food I’ve Been Eating” series to my friend Sunny who has been eagerly awaiting it.)
Many of you have asked what foods I’ve been devouring ever since I went meatless back on November 2nd. This entry is the first of a four part series and each part will focus on a different food group; fruits, meats/proteins, dairy (which I was still consuming before I cut that group out on New Year’s), and, of course, vegetables. These entries will not cover all the foods that have been in my diet these past eight weeks, just the ones I eat most often that have become my staples in this eating experiment.
Whenever I prepare my meals I like to include a serving of fruit. They are great for giving you the energy you need to function throughout the day and they have antioxidants. I prefer to eat them in their whole form as opposed to guzzling fruit juices that have less fiber and are usually loaded with sugars. Go with fruit in its whole form; it just feels better. Trust me on this one folks.
I purchased my first pomegranate a few weeks ago and cut it in half as soon as I got home. I am a sucker for products that are flavored with pomegranate (even artificially) such as grenadine, pomegranate teas, chocolate with pomegranate flavoring and etc. I was always curious as to what the fruit would look like halved and how the insides of a real pomegranate would taste.
The interior of the pomegranate I brought home looked like it contained all these tiny rubies with seeds inside of them that are surrounded by fibrous matter that looks like white latex. I removed all the “tiny rubies” or arils, as they are properly referred to, from the white matter and filled a good size tupperware (I refuse to capitalize tupperware no matter what my spell checker says) container with them and put the container in the fridge. Over the course of the next few days I kept on going back to the container to have some of the arils with my meals. They are very tasty but pomegranates are expensive, $2.50 for just one of them. Pomegranates are not something I can afford to consume on a weekly basis no matter how much you can get out of one.
Bananas have always been something I have loved but I find that they most often don’t make it through the week, no matter how early in their life cycle I purchase them. I love them but when they start turning brown I leave them be.
Apples are the fruit I munch on most often. If I get the organic ones from Trader Joe’s I find they are bigger, fresher, crisper, firmer and even tastier than anywhere else. The real kicker is that the Trader Joe’s apples are better priced than anywhere else and have a longer shelf life too. I pay 49 to 69 cents each for Gala and Granny Smith apples at Trader Joe’s. I bought two the other day from a mainstream supermarket and paid $1.97 for them. They were a higher price at lower quality. Go figure.
One last thing about fruits, beware of the “superfoods” label. This is a label I believe the produce industry has put on some particular fruits and veggies claiming that they are even healthier than less expensive fruits such as apples or strawberries. Pomegranates, coconuts and other more exotic fruits have been slapped with this label but many fruits that are not considered “superfoods” can be just as packed with vitamins and minerals as the so called “superfoods”. A 49 cent apple a day is just as effective at keeping a doctor away as a pomegranate that is $2.50 a pop.
Talk to you soon!
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(I dedicate the “Some of the Food I’ve Been Eating” series to my friend Sunny who has been eagerly awaiting it.)
Many of you have asked what foods I’ve been devouring ever since I went meatless back on November 2nd. This entry is the first of a four part series and each part will focus on a different food group; fruits, meats/proteins, dairy (which I was still consuming before I cut that group out on New Year’s), and, of course, vegetables. These entries will not cover all the foods that have been in my diet these past eight weeks, just the ones I eat most often that have become my staples in this eating experiment.
Whenever I prepare my meals I like to include a serving of fruit. They are great for giving you the energy you need to function throughout the day and they have antioxidants. I prefer to eat them in their whole form as opposed to guzzling fruit juices that have less fiber and are usually loaded with sugars. Go with fruit in its whole form; it just feels better. Trust me on this one folks.
I purchased my first pomegranate a few weeks ago and cut it in half as soon as I got home. I am a sucker for products that are flavored with pomegranate (even artificially) such as grenadine, pomegranate teas, chocolate with pomegranate flavoring and etc. I was always curious as to what the fruit would look like halved and how the insides of a real pomegranate would taste.
The interior of the pomegranate I brought home looked like it contained all these tiny rubies with seeds inside of them that are surrounded by fibrous matter that looks like white latex. I removed all the “tiny rubies” or arils, as they are properly referred to, from the white matter and filled a good size tupperware (I refuse to capitalize tupperware no matter what my spell checker says) container with them and put the container in the fridge. Over the course of the next few days I kept on going back to the container to have some of the arils with my meals. They are very tasty but pomegranates are expensive, $2.50 for just one of them. Pomegranates are not something I can afford to consume on a weekly basis no matter how much you can get out of one.
Bananas have always been something I have loved but I find that they most often don’t make it through the week, no matter how early in their life cycle I purchase them. I love them but when they start turning brown I leave them be.
Apples are the fruit I munch on most often. If I get the organic ones from Trader Joe’s I find they are bigger, fresher, crisper, firmer and even tastier than anywhere else. The real kicker is that the Trader Joe’s apples are better priced than anywhere else and have a longer shelf life too. I pay 49 to 69 cents each for Gala and Granny Smith apples at Trader Joe’s. I bought two the other day from a mainstream supermarket and paid $1.97 for them. They were a higher price at lower quality. Go figure.
One last thing about fruits, beware of the “superfoods” label. This is a label I believe the produce industry has put on some particular fruits and veggies claiming that they are even healthier than less expensive fruits such as apples or strawberries. Pomegranates, coconuts and other more exotic fruits have been slapped with this label but many fruits that are not considered “superfoods” can be just as packed with vitamins and minerals as the so called “superfoods”. A 49 cent apple a day is just as effective at keeping a doctor away as a pomegranate that is $2.50 a pop.
Talk to you soon!
meatlessman@yahoo.com
Facebook A Man Finally Eats his Veggies Fan Page
All writing and pictures copyright the author of this blog unless otherwise noted.
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