Often times people think eating healthy is expensive, although in the long run a cheap diet of junk food will cost you in health and enjoyment of life. Regardless of the cost, here are 5 ways to save when you’re looking to eat healthy, yet stay on a budget.

1. Buy in bulk
Probably my favorite way to save =) Not only do you avoid extra trips to the grocery store you save from the bulk discount rates. The large containers of rolled oats are my favorite. Much cheaper than buying the small round containers.

2. Avoid buying ‘diet foods’
While it may seem like a good idea to buy the healthy diet foods, often they are just over priced and even sometimes less than healthy options. Instead of buying the protein fortified candy bars, make your own at home. Ditch the 100 calorie snack-packs and have some celery.

3. Stick to the basics
While having 37 different breakfast options provides variety you end up wasting or not using a bunch of what you buy. Stick you what you eat often and a lot of. Come up with different staple meals and stick with them. Which brings me to the next tip.

4. Plan your meals and only buy what you need
Do you often end up throwing food away because it’s gone off before you’ve had a chance to use it? Knowing what you will eat ahead of time will save on headache, wasting and unhealthy eating. So before you go shopping, plan ahead of what you know you’ll need for the week ahead. Next point…

5. Shop from a list
I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly enjoy shopping. I’m not one to just peruse the grocery store aisles with a hint of curiosity. Whenever I go into a store I already know what I want. I run to that item then run to the checkout. There is no ’shopping experience’. So the point being, know what you want ahead of time, make a list, and stick to it. No matter how much you’ll save on that 2 for 1 donut special, you know you don’t need it.

The year is half over by tomorrow. Can you believe it?

How are you doing on your new year’s fitness goals?

Are you half through with those?

Or are you back to where you started (or perhaps even worse off then in Jan).

Before you know it the whole year will be over and passed by while your goals just sit there on the wayside. For you to achieve your fitness goals by the end of 2008, 3 things will have to happen:

1. You’re going to have to eat right
2. You’re going to have to exercise plenty
3. You’re to going to have to stick with it

That’s it. Pretty simple really. Just do it, and stick with it.

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I just happened upon this picture the other day (by chance my brother sent it to me from his archives, yeah for me). I just love it.

It’s of when I was in my first years of college. I was trying to gain weight at the time.

Any guesses of what is on the big green plate?

I’ll give you one guess, okay never mind no guesses. It’s an egg product. Mised with sliced ham, salsa, green peppers, chopped onions, and a few other secret ingredients, so secret that I don’t even remember what they were.

Anyway, take a look and enjoy, and if you want email me for specific cooking instructions.

I just came by a study this week talking about how people make better food choices when they have the calorie content in front of them. That’s great!

But, here’s the best part. The focus was calorie counts at restaurants, so the difference was between something like ordering a double whopper with cheese and maybe just the single whopper without cheese.

Now, I’m pretty sure, both of those options are “less than optimal”. Just like at the store, every packaged item has the food label on it. But I still see plenty of people eating the junk.

So coming from the title of this. Should you have the chocolate or glazed donut, while the glazed probably has a few less calories, the point is you shouldn’t have either.

Most of the better options in the store don’t even have a label. Fruits, vegetables, some meats, etc. With a few exceptions like frozen chicken, canned beans, some dairy, etc.

Here’s a fun little segment I did on the news a while back about getting a full body workout using nothing but a watermelon, check it out here: Spokane Watermelon Workout Video…

I also created a manual / guide that went along with it explaining in detail the exercises and the workout, you see it here: Spokane Watermelon Workout Manual…

Let me know what you think!