Making high quality, nutrient-dense meal decisions is one of the most important factors to having success with a healthy lifestyle. Ideally, you’re buying nothing but organic, preservative-free, humanely-raised, wild-caught produce and proteins.
But…what if you’re poor, struggling, going through a rough patch?
Most of us get to this point of lovely struggle in adulthood. Sometimes, it’s a reoccurring thing. As a fitness professional also pursuing a music career in the oh-so affordable city of Los Angeles, I know the struggle all too well.
With that said, I’ve never been healthier in my entire life.
How about we take this to the next level?
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When you’re in a financial rut, taking care of yourself is of the utmost importance. Without good physical health, you are merely just throwing another bucket of stress in the pot. You need to sleep as well as you can, eat as well as you can, and exercise your body as well as you can.
Major emphasis on the “as well as you can” part.
I’m not exactly the first person to write about this. For a quick little bit of nutritional education on cheap and healthy food items, check out this link from the Broke Girl’s Guide:
While I agree fully with all of the foods mentioned on The Broke Girl’s Guide list, but if you’re willing to give certain stores and sellers a chance, you can cut the cost on some of those items by over half. Farmer’s Markets may be one option, but you should also consider your local dollar stores. Those stores are often immediately turned down in the minds of most, as many of us assume that dollar stores stock low quality merchandise and foods, but that’s not the case for all. I discovered one just down the street from me that has a wide variety of fresh produce well below large popular grocery store prices. Most of the time, they are the exact same brands as well as more local ones. Don’t be afraid to go into one of these places. You probably have one nearby.
I will elaborate further in later articles on healthy recipes, how to stick to certain popular diets, and fitness advice as well. I’ll be back soon with more. Until then, hang in there!
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Orean Keels Jr.
If I’m broke, how am I supposed to afford to take her classes?
Michael Morang
This is just a long winded advertisement. Lame
Jamie Hincks
I do not think that it is a good idea for anyone, especially gays, to go to a dollar store. First of all, those low prices come at an enormous cost to all the people in sweatshops and getting starvation wages to keep those prices low. A good majority of the dollar stores are also owned by Art Pope, who has donated massive amounts of money to prevent LGBT from getting equal rights. Go to a local thrift store, if you want to save some money, so you can reuse something instead of buying more cheap crap that will fall apart and become land-fill material soon.
Glücklich
99¢ stores…bane of my existence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqIks3UCFMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p227z98e66Q
MarionPaige
Interesting article in a number of ways …
1. Just noticing how the prices of certain things like raw fruit, honey and olive oil seem to have skyrocketed far beyond the prices they were decades ago, more so than other foods. Honey in particular (like good apples) seems to have become a luxury item in New York.
2. There is no denying that junk food is cheap. meat is probably the cheapest way to get all the required amino acids and meat is cheap. If you avoid meat then, automatically your costs for food is going to increase. A stupid salad (that isn’t even balanced for required amino acids) is at least $7.00 in NYC. On the other hand, you can probably get all of the required amino acids by paying $1.50 for a hotdog or, what, $1.75 for a burger at McDonalds?
We just took a look at the coming “battle” over the use of the term BROKE, as in “BROKE ASS” http://www.bitchless.net/index.php?showtopic=106474 Like,
The more “fashionable” way to say BROKE FIT would probably be BROKE ASS FITNESS (looks like that “term” is being used by Broke Ass Stuart (who’s running for mayor of San Francisco).
MarionPaige
Broke-Ass Stuart’s Broke-Ass Fitness http://brokeassstuart.com/sf/tag/broke-ass-fitness/