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Eating whole food meals, like whole fresh fruits and vegetables.

Staying away or limiting raw gourmet recipes. If using recipes, halving or quartering the recipe, and/or replacing more expensive nuts with less expensive (ie. using cashews instead of macadamias; walnuts instead of pecans)

Limiting waste by blending greens instead of juicing. Re-using juicing pulp (we freeze ours, then feed our carrot-apple pulp to neighbor's horses and mix it into our dog's raw food - so nothing goes to waste).

Freezing fruit before it goes bad, or feeding it to a pet, or putting it in the compost. I've put mangos into a smoothie that I otherwise wouldn't eat by itself. I freeze overripe bananas and use them in smoothies or to make ice cream.

Growing your own sprouts and lettuces and any other food you can garden or grow indoors during the cold months.

Avoiding or limiting special ingredients, "superfoods" (processed and packaged foods such as maca, cacao, 'green' powders, lara bars, etc.). Note - fresh foods provide the most useable anti-oxidents and nutrients than any other.

Avoiding or limiting dried foods. Most "dried" food is dried at high temps, and not sun-dried.

Avoiding or limiting oils & nuts. Seeds are more economical.

Eating higher calorie filling foods, such as bananas, mangos, grapes, etc.

Buying by the case, seasonally and locally.