Vegan On A Budget
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible to be vegan without breaking the bank? So many people think that you'll spend half of your paycheck on food if you're eating a plant-based diet. But that's not true! In fact, on this week's show "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll and registered dietician Lee Crosby will show you how you can buy a week's worth of groceries for a two people for less than $41! We went to the store and filled our cart for a ridiculously low price and all it took was a little planning! Lee also gives her Top 8 Tips to Save Money on Fruits and Vegetables!
Healthy food and the SNAP program has been in the news as of late. Registered dietician Susan Levin joins the show to talk about why many receiving assistance to buy groceries aren't choosing healthy foods. What can be done to help make wiser choices?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, you know there's a myth out there that if you're going to eat in a healthy |
| 0:13.6 | way it's got to be expensive. |
| 0:18.1 | And you know that can really be daunting for folks who think well, I just don't have |
| 0:21.9 | the money to provide helpful foods for myself or my family. |
| 0:25.6 | But today we're going to be talking with PCRM dietitian Lee Crosby and she is going |
| 0:30.6 | to show you how you can really eat in the healthiest possible way. |
| 0:35.1 | For actually the least amount of money, the truth is you do not have to pay big bucks to |
| 0:40.4 | follow a plant-based diet. |
| 0:42.0 | You'll learn how to keep your grocery bill down, keep your health up. |
| 0:45.3 | And we're going to also touch on one other thing and that's the SNAP program, supplemental |
| 0:49.5 | nutrition assistance program used to be called food stamps and how that program unfortunately |
| 0:56.8 | has been sort of hijacked and is now really promoting unhealthy foods to people who really |
| 1:03.6 | need help with good foods. |
| 1:05.1 | So we'll tell you how you can be on a great plant-based diet if you're on SNAP and for |
| 1:09.1 | everybody how to follow a healthy diet and get your budget down. |
| 1:13.1 | Here is Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:20.5 | You're listening to the Exammer Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee, the |
| 1:24.1 | Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll here with you as always and the Social Media Plug as always |
| 1:28.9 | hop on Facebook and give the Physicians Committee a like also on the Twitters at PCRM. |
| 1:36.3 | Vegan on a budget. |
| 1:37.7 | That is the topic to sure. |
| 1:39.3 | Is it possible to be plant-based and save a whole lot of money? |
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