253: Eating healthy on a budget
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
It can feel nearly impossible to feed a family well when both time and finances are limited. We all know it takes an investment of time to cook and a fair amount of money to get decent quality meals on the table. Enter Monica Ford. Monica is an ancestral cuisine educator and the founder of Real Food Devotee, the first traditional foods delivery service in Southern California.
Today, Monica brings her empowering food philosophy into our homes, offering practical suggestions for making the most of our resources to feed our families well. She covers a number of topics including which cuts of meat give the biggest bang for the buck, tips for low-maintenance nutrient-dense meals, and how to help family members transition to eating healthy, nourishing foods.
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| 0:14.4 | This is a big part of what can be a challenge in this way of eating right cost and also having some family inclusion around wanting to eat this way because it's it's not always true that every member of the family wants to eat nutrient-dense food and sometimes it's important to make this food |
| 0:19.2 | more normalized or to taste like what we're used to eating. |
| 0:23.9 | The dishes we're used to eating. |
| 0:25.2 | So for liver to be mixed into the meatloaf we're used to eating |
| 0:29.4 | is really important. |
| 0:30.4 | And there's not always a necessity to tell everyone in your family, |
| 0:34.0 | hey there's liver in this meatloaf. |
| 0:36.0 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for |
| 0:46.4 | Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and The Healing Arts. We are your source for |
| 0:51.1 | scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. Hey, Helda here. Organic meat and produce prices often feel out of reach. Plus, it's hard to find |
| 1:08.7 | time to actually prepare nutrient-dense meals for the family anyway. |
| 1:13.0 | Time constraints and a limited budget are often the biggest impediments to cooking real food |
| 1:18.1 | meals at home. |
| 1:19.5 | This is episode 253, and our guest today is Monica Ford. |
| 1:23.5 | Monica is an ancestral cuisine educator |
| 1:26.8 | and chef for busy families, celebrities, and athletes. |
| 1:29.9 | She is known as the Real Food Devotee. |
| 1:33.0 | Today she walks us through a lot of things. |
| 1:36.1 | Cooking tips when you've got limited time, |
| 1:38.5 | how to collaborate with friends to get real food on the table, |
| 1:41.6 | low maintenance meals, the cheapest things to buy |
| 1:44.1 | that are still nutrient dense, and most importantly, how to get the family to eat and |
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