This website features articles about how to eat healthier for less money. They are excerpts of and a companion to a book I'm writing about this topic. For more information, see my About page.
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Eggs are one of those foods that the media have named angel, then devil and then angel again. What should we believe? Are they healthy or not? Spoiler alert! Deviled eggs aren’t the devil anymore.
Regardless of the headlines of the last 5 years or so, butter is loaded with saturated fat, which is not good for your health…but it tastes sooooo good! What to do? Read about why saturated fat is still bad for you (despite the optimistic press) and how you can still get that buttery taste while saving your arteries and your money. Now that’s hard to beat.
I talk to a lot of people who like the idea of vegetable gardening, but don’t feel they have the time to devote to it. I am a gardener, but this year, I didn’t plant and tend my usual patch. Still, I got quite a lot of produce out of my garden. How is that possible? Some plants just keep growing weather you tend them or not, and can give you free food for very little effort.
I repeated my June experiment pitting the farmer’s market against the grocery store for produce prices. Why? Because, as a scientist, I feel the more data, the better. The results really knocked my socks off because the farmer’s markets dominated the grocery store…both on quality and price!
On June 24th and 25th, I headed out to four of the largest weekend farmer’s markets in my home town of Colorado Springs to see what was available at this date, which is for us very early in the farmer’s market season, and what it cost. I then headed to the grocery store to see if I could find the same produce and do a head-to-head comparison. I checked prices both at our local regular-sort of grocery store, King Soopers, and then at the more upscale Whole Foods.
