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Life Kit

5 Steps To Eating Healthy On A Budget

Life Kit

NPR

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dietitian Shana Spence joins Life Kit to share her tips to making nutritious meals without spending more than necessary. (This episode originally ran in October 2020.)

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0:00.0

This is NPR's Life Kit.

0:01.6

I'm Ruth Tam.

0:03.6

Walking down the grocery aisle,

0:05.0

you'll see lots of labels jumping out at you

0:07.2

about how healthy they are.

0:08.8

Natural, organic, non-gimo, low sugar.

0:14.2

That's Shana's fence.

0:15.4

She calls herself an eat-anything dietician.

0:18.3

That doesn't mean anti-health.

0:20.4

It just means that there are ways

0:22.3

where you can enjoy food and not be scared

0:25.0

to eat foods that you like,

0:26.8

and you can still be quote unquote healthy.

0:29.6

You really don't have to look for those buzzwords

0:31.9

in the aisle to get the nutrition that you want.

0:34.2

Vegetables come in many other forms

0:37.0

besides a cold-press juice.

0:39.7

You know, organic is fine if that's what you want to buy,

0:43.1

if that's what, you know, how you choose to spend your money,

0:46.5

but for someone who can't afford that,

0:48.3

for someone who is struggling, that's not necessary.

0:52.5

So on this episode, how to mine your budget

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