Going Paleo Without Going Broke

I really should add those! I wish I could buy more locally: But, baby steps, right? Some change is better than none! Some of the best cheap cuts in my opinion is the heart and tongue. Short ribs are usually pretty affordable too. Since you live in Arizona, you might want to look into a solar cooker. Anything you can cook in a slow cooker does very well in a solar cooker…plus, no energy costs!

You can buy one or make your own. Solar Cookers International is a good place to start.

I live on the coast and have fog days but am able to use my solar cookers at least days of the year. Just like a slow cooker you can put everything in it point it to high noon, and forget it. Food cooked by the sun is the best! Wow, I have never heard of those before, they sound fantastic! No one seems to have caught on to pork shanks yet, thank goodness! Your enthusiasm and wonderful tips are so refreshing and enlightening to someone, like myself, that is still quite new to eating Paleo. You indicated you are an hour from a town.

I live in the Phoenix area, and I find that wild fish — which you stated you find to be less expensive than steaks — is really expensive. I would love to see an article on your shopping trips. I just found your sight today and need to explore! Most of the stuff that you see in stores behind counters was frozen, anyway. You do have to read a lot of labels — as always — but I find that frozen is practical and usually pretty cheap: Hope that helps a little! A way for me to cut the cost on eggs is to have hens in my backyard.

Not only I know exactly what they eat, but the cost of their feed is way less than buying eggs. This is my third week of Paleo eating and I feel so much better, and I have already lost twelve pounds!! Your email address will not be published.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content nightshade free wizardry. Get the latest recipes right in your inbox. I simply cannot afford to buy everything organic. But I DO make sure that all of the meat we eat, as far as possible, is grass fed or pastured.

I also make sure that our eggs are at least organic. I also spend money on our occasional grass fed dairy in the form of cheese and butter. There is a limited selection of produce local to me that is organic. This means that I tend to buy in bulk and eat things in order of how-quickly-they-go-bad. Other produce is often conventional because that is either what I can find or what I can afford.

Another tip is to check out the frozen section: Save and savor your treats: Daily grain free goodies will empty your bank account and probably not satisfy your hunger or sugar cravings anyway. Simply put, steaks and bacon are expensive: I also generally find that wild caught seafood can be even cheaper, especially if you can buy it in bulk or frozen, and make for quick, easy paleo meals. Plus, for the less squeamish, organ meats are a fantastic source of nutrition and tend to be cheap since so few people purchase them. You may even have to ask for them as a result.

The high cost of good quality food is often to blame for the obesity problem here in the U. I remember watching the documentary Food, Inc where they were discussing this issue. The film showed a family eating fast food as they talked about how expensive it was to buy healthy, fresh food. I used to think this too, but is it true? I decided to do a little case study of my own.

A family can eat paleo for less than it costs to eat off a fast food dollar menu. As with any study, you first need a bit of background information. First things first, my family has been eating paleo for about 3 years now, so eating healthy comes fairly easy these days.

Just as the family in Food, Inc, we are broke too.

Why going paleo while broke was a huge problem for me

My wife is a teacher, so we are by no means swimming with access cash. This is an average day and the meals below are part of our regular rotation. I did not include the recipes for our meals in this post. You can sign up at the end of this article for your free copy! On most days, the kids start the day with my breakfast bread or paleo pancakes. My wife and I typically start with bulletproof coffee.

The bread typically has squash, eggs, oil, coconut flour, and spices.

Off to a good start: For lunch, we will typically eat a salad of some sort or leftovers, which are both cheap lunch options. However, for this lunch, we are having one of our go-to travel meals: I slice the hotdog down the middle and add the condiments, that way the hotdog becomes its own bun. Our newly discovered Siete chips paleo approved will be our side.

For dinner last night, I made beef and broccoli. Before you say eeww, yes my kids ate the broccoli, and yes, they eat this meal every time I make it.

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My beef and broc has 2 onions, beef tallow, water, molasses, 1 pound of beef, 2 pounds of broccoli, and spices. Would ya look at that. We actually saved almost 2 bucks by eating paleo instead of the fast food dollar menu. Guess what, my family is a family of 5, and we still ate for less! Not only do we have one more mouth to feed than that family of 4, but we ate only high quality ingredients. Our beef came from our local farmer. The hotdogs were organic as were most of the ingredients I used. Not only did we eat paleo for less than the dollar menu, we ate mostly organic AND paleo for less than the dollar menu!

AND we had leftovers for lunch the next day. Do you need more convincing?

Total Cost of Day 2: Oh no, I guess you got me. We spent a whole 85 cents more on this day.