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Most of the time students find that their budget is tight and it is very difficult to make ends meet.If you are one of them and your financial situation is not one of the most favorable ones, here are a few tips on how to be vigilant on your nutrition if you want to stay healthy on a low budget:

Cook your own food

• Most students cannot cook. They prefer to eat in restaurants. This may not be healthy to you as well as your wallet. When you prepare food yourself, you concisely take care of excluding any non-healthy ingrediants. You also take care of ‘proper cooking method’s.
• Never throw away leftover food from a dinner. You can keep it in hermetic boxes and use it for breakfast or brunch the next day.
• If you are really unable to spare time for cooking, it is better to cook in large quantities at once and to keep the excess food in the fridge for your next meal.
• Eating healthy means having all the nutrients in correct proportions in your plate. So for each nutrient, there are always cheaper alternatives to the expensive ones. As an example, for protein, you can always eat eggs which are cheaper than meat or for calcium, milk is cheaper than cheese.

Fruits and Vegetables

• Fruits that are ‘in season’ are cheaper . They are also more delicious to eat. Kiwi, Carrot, citrus fruits in winter, strawberries during spring, tomato, watermelon, peach in summer, pear and grape in autumn, apples and bananas all year long.
• Markets provide cheaper and fresher fruits and vegetables than large supermarkets
• Frozen fruits and vegetables can sometimes be nutritious as well as cheap. In addition, they are easy to prepare. Tinned foods are also at times better alternative.
• It is better to make jams, salads or soups from fruits and vegetables which are too ripe or have been slightly damaged instead of throwing them away.

Non Veg Food

• The prices of meats and fish vary depending on their nature, locations of sale and the season of sale. Compare prices and verify that the meat which was cheap last week is still cheap this week before buying it.
• Chickens, eggs and milk are nutritious and cheap foods. They can easily replace meat in your meals, which are usually more expensive.
• Meat, fish and eggs can be replaced by vegetables like pulses, lentils and beans. So it is not necessary to eat them everyday. In fact, It is sometimes recommended to go vegetarian one or two days per week.

Other components of a dish

• Pasta is very cheap and allow you to create dishes which are nutritious and make you feel full.
• Potatoes are also cheap and can be cooked in various ways: boiled potatoes, baked potatoes combined with a salad.
• Many people buy dried vegetables. They are cheap and contain a lot of fibers but they do not replace fresh vegetables. Instead of buying a lot of dried vegetables, better buy fewer fresh ones.
• Bread is very nutritious and easily affordable to everyone. Choose the whole wheat ones instead of the white ones.

Drinks

If you cannot afford to buy a lot of bottled water, buy a water filter. Alcoholic drinks are very expensive and not very nutritious. Soda drinks also must be avoided but if you cannot resist one or two cokes from time to time, then better buy the light ones.

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