How do you stretch your food money?
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- How do you stretch your food money?
Sometimes no matter what you do, there just isn’t enough money.
How do you make your food money last as long as you can?
How do you save money and get everyone filled up?
Getting enough to eat is most important. Nutrition comes later. You can have both, but to enjoy life and do well, you must get enough to eat.
Maintain the structure of sit-down meals and sit-down snacks.
Choose higher-calorie forms of your usual foods.
Include high-fat foods: butter or margarine, gravy, and regular salad dressing.
Serve one each of expensive foods, all-you-want-to-eat of others.
Stretch meat, poultry, and fish. Use cooked dried beans.
Introduce new foods in small amounts – just enough for each a taste.
Buy foods that don’t spoil.
Teach children to take many small helpings.
You may fear that choosing higher-calorie food will make you and your children eat too much and get fat. Not so. Being afraid of going hungry makes you overeat and gain weight.
Knowing you will have enough to eat lets you go to meals hungry, eat until you are satisfied, then stop. You will know that another snack or meal will be coming soon, and you can do it again.
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HAND EXPRESSION
How it works
Use your hand to gently massage and compress your breast to remove milk.
What’s Involved
Average Cost
Free
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