Eating healthy, buying ethically, sustainably, etc. is fun, but your bank account doesn’t necessarily appreciate change. In this article, I’ll show you how to consume better so that you spend less.
Impossible? However, I buy 100% organic and as much as possible local, ethical, sustainable, etc. for 3 years, without consumer credit. Even when I was unemployed, then at the minimum wage (joys of entrepreneurship) because certain tips allow you to consume quality food without breaking the bank.
Attention, I did not say without spending money! Supermarkets have given us very bad habits on this subject, with purchase prices far from real prices. However, quality does have a cost; but it doesn’t have to be exorbitant. Here are 7 tips for light races like a cow’s fart flying towards the atmosphere.
Consume better to spend less: in practice, how do we do it?
1. Buy less meat
Well, precisely, since we are talking about cows. One of the most significant ecological gestures is to reduce your meat consumption. But it also prevents your bank account from suffocating on the 8th of the month.
Eating less meat doesn’t just mean vegetables. You can replace animal protein with a whole bunch of vegetable protein. Lentils, soybeans, seaweed, chickpeas, split peas, flax, chia or hemp seeds, oilseeds… There are more possibilities than there are days in the month to taste them.
2. Choose your local and seasonal fruits and vegetables
In addition to being cheaper and much more environmentally friendly, seasonal fruits and vegetables harvested near you will have been ripe. Richer in vitamins and minerals, better in taste. They have everything to convince you to adopt them.
3. Favor bulk
Bulk is very often less expensive than the same packaged quantity, in addition to being zero waste!
Personally, I love coming back from shopping with my jars and cloth bags filled with cereals, dried fruits, and seeds of all kinds
4. Cooking the raw products
In modern food, what is very expensive are processed products, prepared meals. In short, everything that deviates from raw food. Cooking, therefore, becomes essential for those who want to spare their wallet. No choice: we will have to sharpen the knives.
Can’t prepare your meals every day? For example, you can cook large quantities and freeze for the evenings when the lazy is too great.
Tip: to control your budget, get in the habit of always looking at prices per kilo (or liter). You will make sacred discoveries.
5. Prefer short circuits
When food doesn’t need 47 middlemen to get to you, it obviously costs less. But where can you find producers near you?
6. Track down good deals and promotions
Once it is not customary, you can do the sales with a clear conscience. Look for:
Reductions on food close to the expiration date, such as apples good for jam, eggs to eat quickly, etc.
Private sales of organic products.
Exits from the factory: Léa Nature has a Direct Factory section, which allows you to buy products with labeling or filling defects at very reduced prices.
7. Buy wholesale and / or in groups
Especially for internet orders, because delivery costs are often high! If they are offered from a certain amount, not all of us want a purchase of € 256 to save € 6.90 on delivery.
Not to mention that it’s a bit stupid to receive a big package for a very small product. In short, why not order your moon cup all together with 12 girlfriends, you will see that it brings you closer.
And you, what are the tips that allow you to consume better and spend less ? Peace and love on your wallet.
DigiTexture 