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Yes, it's the lack of nutritional diversity that is the issue, not the eggs. Although it's beyond me how you assumed I was suggesting eggs were the concern.
Yes, it's the lack of nutritional diversity that is the issue, not the eggs. Although it's beyond me how you assumed I was suggesting eggs were the concern.
I was responding to a poster who DID assume that. Not to you.
There is nothing wrong with having eggs for dinner, I ate them all the time when i was single, mostly because I love the taste of eggs. Don't turn your nose up to, good quality cheap protein.
I don't believe it was about eggs. Personally, i will also eat eggs, day or night. What the person listed for meals in general seemed dismal and could have been better.
Since it often costs me $30 to buy the fresh vegetables for one week, it doesn't seem to me like $50 a week is all that much to be spending on groceries for a week. And no, I do not buy fancy out-of-season vegetables. Just ordinary every day vegetables and stuff for a green salad. Although that $30 might include a couple of bananas or 2-3 apples.
It doesn't matter how frugal you are, the price of food has gone up rather substantially during the past few years. It would take some very clever shopping to eat a balanced diet for $50 a week.
I spend about that. But I live in a rented room that has no cooking facilities other than my microwave. I subsist on a lot of frozen dinners (the ones on sale are really cheap) fast food, and sandwiches from the local supermarket. I consider food a write off since it's a necessity so I don't care how much it costs (within reason)
Since it often costs me $30 to buy the fresh vegetables for one week, it doesn't seem to me like $50 a week is all that much to be spending on groceries for a week. And no, I do not buy fancy out-of-season vegetables. Just ordinary every day vegetables and stuff for a green salad. Although that $30 might include a couple of bananas or 2-3 apples.
It doesn't matter how frugal you are, the price of food has gone up rather substantially during the past few years. It would take some very clever shopping to eat a balanced diet for $50 a week.
This time of year we eat a lot of cabbage & carrots. I can get a head of cabbage for around a dollar, & 5 pounds of carrots for $2. A bag of potatoes for $2, so we do eat a lot of veg for our $50 a week, Cabbage is very versatile, you can make coleslaw, stir fry, steamed plain, sauerkraut, etc. I also buy frozen veg for a dollar a pack. I will buy a fresh pineapple for 2.50 & a bag of tangerines for $3. I might buy fruit one week, & veg the next, as they will last us more than a week. We average $200 a month on food, & we eat fresh meats & a large variety of produce. But I only buy proteins on sale & stock freezer. I also cook from scratch, most days.
I am the person who said eggs are great. I did not mean to start a flip flop.
This was my basic shopping list from fall 2013/winter 2014:
Meat & Dairy:
a small amount of fresh salmon or a package of tuna
1-2 lg. chicken breast or a package of thighs
1/2 gallon of milk (used both as milk and made into yogurt)
half-carton of eggs
Produce:
a few apples
spinach
2-3 lemons (I zested them in addition to juicing them, and used the zest with pepper as seasoning.)
a pound of carrots
bunch of celery
onions, either a bag of small onions or 2-3 large ones
head of garlic
1-2 jalapeno peppers
3 sweet potatoes (a serving was 1/2 potato)
few bananas, which I froze for smoothies
Canned goods:
pumpkin puree
Bulk foods (about a cup or so of each of the following):
steel-cut oats
garbanzo beans
brown rice
black beans
lentils
a handful of walnuts
I generally shopped at H-mart for the produce and Sprouts for bulk/meat and bought only the quantity needed for the week. Pantry staples I already had on hand included frozen home-made vegetable stock, yogurt starter, spices, sugar, flour, yeast, butter, olive oil, and vinegar. From my garden, I had tomatoes preserved earlier in the year, kale, and a thriving patch of parsley (amazingly hearty stuff).
I ate three meals a day, which included options like pumpkin smoothie; apple cinnamon oats w/ toasted walnuts; chicken/garlic sauteed greens/roasted sweet potato; black bean soup with parsley pesto; rice with vegetables and poached salmon or flaked tuna; mujadara (lentils with sauteed onions); chana masala w/ yogurt and home-made naan; home-made garlic hummus with vegetables; and beans & rice.
My kitchen tools were fairly basic: a chef knife, a couple of oven-safe pots and a skillet, all w/lids; a jelly-roll pan (for roasting veggies), and a blender.
By the end of the week, I had eaten everything. I was very conscientious about my serving sizes and found that the calories were sufficient for my needs as a middle-aged woman and provided a variety of nutrients. Total spent was somewhere around $50. I think the lowest I ever got was $42.
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I have found H Mart to not have great prices, lower, compared to my regular grocery store. I was hoping it would and after a couple of trips, which is about 17 mile round trip, I decided to not shop there.
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