Ep 116: Healthy Eating on a Budget
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2015
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Eating healthy on a budget is absolutely possible. In fact, what I want to demonstrate in today's episode is that you can actually save a lot of money by eating clean, eating for fat loss and focusing on whole foods.
Can it be more expensive to eat healthy? Yes.
Can it be more expensive to not eat healthy? Yes.
You can do it either way. The choice is yours. But eating healthy on a budget is 100% possible.
Eating Healthy On A Budget
I've talked before about details like how to save money on proteins and when it's important to buy organic and what items you can save money on by going conventional. You can check out that episode here.
In today's episode, however, we're talking about the specifics about how you can eat very inexpensively while focusing on fat loss friendly & whole foods.
I have 6 specific recipes you can make for less than 1.99! But before that, let's establish some basics.
- Complex recipes are going to cost far more than simple meals
- Eating for fat loss does not have to include exotic recipes, a million spices or special cooking oils
- Identify your favorite fat loss foods & keep it simple
- It kinda goes without saying that you're going to spend far more if you shop at luxury grocers like Whole Foods. While that is lovely, it is not necessary
- You don't have to opt for the most expensive fruits and veggies. Berries cost more than apples, most of the time. Brussels sprouts cost more than cabbage. Choose wisely and emphasize inexpensive staples.
Bacon & Egg Sweet Potato Cups: $1.04 per person
Salmon Cakes & Mashed Cauliflower: $1.87 per person
Bacon, Egg & Veggie Breakfast Bowl: $1.93 per person
Spaghetti Squash with Ground Turkey: $1.77 per person
Quarter Pound Turkey Burger with Bacon & Avocado: $1.31 per person
BONUS (This one is just over $2.00)
Baked Marinara Chicken Thighs with Brussels Sprouts: $2.12 per person
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Menden. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast and I am going to be talking |
| 0:32.0 | today about how you can eat fat loss friendly meals, you can go paleo, you can go primal, |
| 0:41.5 | you can eat clean, whatever you want to call it, for less, less money than the traditional |
| 0:48.3 | American diet. |
| 0:50.5 | Also people talk about how it is just so expensive to eat healthy and it can be, it absolutely |
| 0:57.4 | can be, but it can also be very expensive to not eat healthy, it can be very affordable |
| 1:04.9 | to eat healthy, it is what you make it, it does not have to be more expensive. |
| 1:10.8 | And I am not going to go into a lot of the nuances in this episode about when you should |
| 1:16.4 | go organic and when you can get away without it and hormone free versus organic or whatever |
| 1:24.6 | else because I have already done that and I have done a whole episode on that which I will |
| 1:29.2 | link to over on the show notes page at Primal Potential.com. |
| 1:33.6 | So I am not going to go into the whole fresh versus frozen and all of that because I already |
| 1:39.8 | did. |
| 1:40.8 | I am going to be redundant necessarily but I have been getting a lot of emails from people |
| 1:47.0 | who say that their biggest challenge is how expensive it is to eat healthy and I totally |
| 1:53.7 | get it, I totally hear you but it just means that you are not doing it the right way because |
| 1:59.6 | there is a cost effective way to eat clean and that is what I want to share with you today. |
| 2:06.4 | So I took a couple hours this week and I went to the grocery store and I priced out |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Elizabeth Benton, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Elizabeth Benton and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

