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Healthy Recipes on a Budget

You want to fix healthy meals for your family. Is that so much to ask? Happily, the ingredients for healthy meals—organic foods, whole grains and healthy fats—are readily available in even the regular supermarkets. There’s only one problem: those nutritious super foods can get pricey. When you’re on a budget, the secret to fixing healthy recipes is going for simple meals with fewer ingredients, using seasonal produce, buying quality fats like extra virgin olive oil or virgin coconut oil in bulk, using cooking methods that make the most of the protein, vitamins and other nutrients and purchasing the cheaper grains, like brown rice, whole wheat and oats. Here’s a day of energizing, great-tasting healthy recipes for the budget-conscious.

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10 Cheap Dinner Ideas for Family

Being thrifty can be challenging when you have a family, and with the cost of food rising, your family budget can take a real hit at mealtimes, with dinner being the most expensive. Here are 10 cheap dinner ideas for your family that can help spread out your dollar while still providing tasty and nutritious food at home for everyone.

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Tips on Organizing a Family Reunion

Closely knitted families should make it a point to have a reunion every year. Aside from the usual Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays, there should be a separate day for families to get together to have fun, eat good food and strengthen the bond that holds them together. Organizing a family reunion can be a challenging undertaking, but proper planning and execution can make it a successful one.

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Healthy Recipes for Two

Cooking for two often seems like an impossible task, but with a little bit of advanced planning and some basic recipe alterations, it can be done with very little effort. Cooking at home is more affordable and often healthier than eating out, and gives you the ability to customize your ingredients to your own tastes and dietary needs.

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Healthy Carbohydrate Diet Plans

Carbohydrates are essential to the body since they a source of energy. However, too much carbohydrate intake can lead to obesity and other health-related problems, such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. There are many diet plans promoted as “low-carb” diets that many people try to follow in order to lose weight and lead healthier lives. It is important to note, however, that lowering is not enough on its own. Combined with a high-protein or low-fat diet along with regular exercise works best to promote a healthier lifestyle.