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The Savvy Scot

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5 Ways A Meal Plan Saves Your Budget

By Pauline

It happened to me so many times until I figured out the solution. It may seem like a no-brainer, but having a meal plan works. Here are 5 ways a meal plan saves your budget.

How often have you walked into a grocery store with a budget in mind only to leave having spent nearly double the amount? It happened to me so many times until I figured out the solution. It may seem like a no-brainer, but having a meal plan works. Here are 5 ways a meal plan… Read more

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: budget, meal plan

How to be  on a budget friendly vegan diet  with meal options!

By Pauline

There are some simple tips to follow to keep a vegan diet budget very close, if not less, than your food budget before going vegan. Below are the four steps to incorporate into your new vegan diet to be successful and not break the bank.

January 1, 2017 rolled in and you decided to eat healthier.  Specifically you’ve decided to go vegan and eat an all plant based diet.  You’re excited!  You do research, you find recipes and watch tons of Youtubers video blog about what they eat in a day.  You then rush to the grocery store and discover… Read more

Filed Under: Diet, Fitness, Food Tagged With: vegan

How to Construct a Frugal Meal

By savvyscot

And yes, the food is delicious. I find frugal meals to actually be more delicious than expensive meals.

Groceries are a major expensive, no matter who you are. It’s something we must constantly be dealing with. I remember when I was in uni. On most days, I would earn $0. I remember thinking that I was going into the red on each one of those days. That’s true because no matter what, I… Read more

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: frugal meals, meals

The Fastest Ways to Prepare Cheap and Healthy Meals at Home

By savvyscot

Prepare Cheap and Healthy Meals at Home

  If you’re reading this, you probably spend too much time cooking. Your diet is probably a bit worse than it should be as well. Or maybe you just find yourself ordering in or popping out to a restaurant way too often. All of these issues will be addressed in this post. I know how… Read more

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: foods, healthy meals, Healthy Meals at Home, prepare cheap meals

10 things to know before you get a Great Dane

By Pauline

10 things to know before you get a Great Dane

Little Napoleon, the cutest Great Dane to ever walk the Earth, has been with us for a few months now, and in an attempt to see how to keep him happy and healthy, I have learned quite a bit that I wanted to share if you are considering a giant breed.   They are huge… Read more

Filed Under: Food, Money, Pets Tagged With: danes, dog, giant breed, Great Dane, napoleon, raw diet

Three ways to save time in the kitchen

By Pauline

Three ways to save time in the kitchen

We are all busy, and we all want to spend time doing things that are important to us, be it spending more time with the kids, enjoying a hobby or focusing on our careers. Not doing routine tasks like cooking. Still, today I want to show you that there are ways to save time in… Read more

Filed Under: Food, Money Tagged With: cooking, food

5 Top Tips for Saving Money on Food

By savvyscot

Saving Money on Food

  There was an article today in the news regarding food waste. Studies have shown that an average family in Britain throws away about £680 ($1000) of food every single year! This amounts to 7.2 million tonnes of waste food – 4.4 million tonnes of which could have been eaten (over 60%). Let alone the… Read more

Filed Under: Food, Money, Personal Finance, Saving Money Tagged With: Food Tips, Saving Money on Food, Shopping Smart

Make your own junk food! Chapter two

By Pauline

Last time, we looked at easy recipes to replace convenience food, making your own burger, fries, soda, mayo and salad dressing. You won’t regret spending a little time in the kitchen to make a much healthier, tastier and cheaper version of junk food. And imagine the time you spent as an investment in your most… Read more

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: junk food, make your own, pizza, salt, soda, sugar

Make your own junk food!

By Pauline

junk food

I have been reading Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the food giants hooked us and it is pretty alarming. Basically, in a never-ending quest to make their products taste delicious, flavor busting in your mouth while they score more and more market shares, the food giants have loaded the convenience food we it with salt, sugar and… Read more

Filed Under: Diet, Food Tagged With: burger, fat, fries, junk food, make your own, salt, soda, sugar

Health and fitness in your 50s

By Pauline

Health and fitness in your 50s

Неаlth, nutrіtіоn, fіtnеss аnd ехеrсіsе аrе stаrtіng tо аdd thеmsеlvеs tо уоur lіst оf соnсеrns nоw thаt уоu’rе іn уоur 40’s аnd 50’s. Іt mау stаrt wіth а bіt оf bасk раіn whеn уоu gеt uр іn thе mоrnіng оr thе fіrst tіmе уоu fіnd уоursеlf runnіng shоrt оf brеаth аftеr сlіmbіng stаіrs. Аnd bу… Read more

Filed Under: Diet, Fitness, Food Tagged With: 50s, being healthy, Fitness, Health

Health and fitness for kids

By Pauline

Health and fitness for kids

  Іf уоu аrе а раrеnt, оr аrе рlаnnіng tо bесоmе оnе, уоu саn’t hеlр but bе соnсеrnеd аbоut thе сhіldhооd оbеsіtу сrіsіs. Ассоrdіng tо thе Сеntеrs fоr Dіsеаsе Соntrоl аnd Рrеvеntіоn wеbsіtе, сhіldhооd оbеsіtу hаs mоrе dоublеd іn thе lаst thrее dесаdеs; fоr аdоlеsсеnts іt hаs quаdruрlеd. Іn rеаl tеrms thіs mеаns thаt оvеr… Read more

Filed Under: Diet, Fitness, Food Tagged With: being healthy, Fitness, Health, kids

How to eat healthy for less

By Pauline

eat healthy for less

I have always cooked most meals from scratch, but in the early days, it was a bit harder, having a full time job and 2-3 freelancing jobs on top made it a bit complicated to be a master chef every night. You want to optimize both the time you spend in the kitchen and the… Read more

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: eat healthily, food, healthy

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