#196 Eat well on a Budget!
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re talking all about eating well on a budget and we’re covering a selection of topics including:
- The cost of living and average costs of food shops in the UK
- What healthy means and how we can achieve that on a budget
- Quick wins and general rules of thumb for eating well for less
- What I do before the shop, at the shop and during the week
- Some of my favourite budget-friendly ingredients and also what not to cut corners on
- Plus I dive into proteins, frozen vs fresh and how you could potentially save £1000s per year on your food bill
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References:
Factors influencing our food choices
https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/nutr1100/chapter/lifestyles-and-nutrition/
Average household spend:
https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/average-uk-household-cost-food#inc
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Doctor's Kitchen. |
| 0:02.0 | Restorpees, Health, Lifestyle. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Doctor Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor. I study nutrition. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:31.0 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants |
| 0:36.0 | of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Doctor's Kitchen podcast. It's going to be just me today. |
| 0:48.0 | It's a solo episode and we're going to be talking about eating well on a budget. |
| 0:53.0 | Everything to do with the cost of living and average costs of food shops in the UK. |
| 0:58.0 | I've used ONS data. That's the office of national statistic data to look at the average costs. |
| 1:04.0 | And I think it'll be really interesting for you. |
| 1:07.0 | No matter what household you're in, whether you live alone, whether you live with a partner, |
| 1:12.0 | whether you have a family, I think it's a really interesting look into what other people are spending on their food shops. |
| 1:19.0 | We also talk a bit about what healthy means and how we can actually achieve that on a budget. |
| 1:23.0 | And I've got some experience of doing that both in clinic, but also for things like TV shows, |
| 1:29.0 | the thrifty cooking in the Doctor's Kitchen show and the recent BBC budget exercise |
| 1:34.0 | I did as well at the end of last year. |
| 1:36.0 | We're going to talk about what I personally do before the shop, at the shop and during the week. |
| 1:42.0 | Some of my favorite budget friendly ingredients and also what not, I believe, |
| 1:46.0 | what you not, what you not, what you should not be cutting corners on. |
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