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Episode 3: How to Eat Healthy on a Budget

ByAcademy of Culinary Nutrition Last updated onMay 5, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes
How to eat healthy on a budget

Are you ready for another episode of the Today Is The Day Podcast? Now that you’re up to speed on the best detoxing strategies, we are ready to move on to food and how it impacts your finances! Our third episode, How to Eat Healthy on a Budget, is now available on your favourite podcast platforms.

Today we’re challenging the belief that it is expensive to eat healthfully, looking at some powerhouse foods and answering the question: How can you maintain a healthy diet on a budget?

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Covered In This Episode

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How the amount of money people have spent on food has changed over time.
  • Why you’re losing out on both savings and nutrition when you make processed foods your mainstay.
  • Which foods are simultaneously very nutritious and easy on your wallet.
  • How to get started on sprouting and growing your own healthy veggies at home.
  • What North Americans are missing when they skip out on fermented foods like sauerkraut.
  • About flax seeds: the forgotten superfood.
  • To consider the season, location, and even your own garden in budgeting for your diet.
  • Waste not, want not: tips for reducing the amount of food you end up throwing out.
  • Why Meghan and Josh cooked up a storm and stocked up right before Finley was born.

Additional Resources Mentioned In The Episode

  • Culinary Nutrition Guide to Sprouting
  • 6 Easy Foods to Grow Indoors
  • How to Make Sauerkraut
  • Grain-Free Flax Crackers + the Health Benefits of Flax
  • How to Best Store Produce (And Save Money in the Process)
  • 10 Important Questions to Ask Your Farmer at the Market
  • Stocking a Culinary Nutrition Pantry
  • Healthy Batch Cooking 101
  • 20 Best Freezer Meals for New Moms (and busy people)
  • 5 Essential Meal Prepping Tips
  • How to Reduce Food Waste + Best Zero Waste Recipes
  • Wild Edibles: Guide to Harvesting + Enjoying the Best Wild Foods
  • 20 Best Budget-Friendly Recipes

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Featured Culinary Nutrition Expert

Shannon Mulligan Mayernik, Founder of Mayernik Kitchen

Eat Healthy on a Budget

Shannon is an herbalist and plant medicine maker, beekeeper and educator of all things local, seasonal and homemade. Shannon is the owner of Mayernik Kitchen, located in New Jersey, where she creates herbal products from homegrown or foraged herbs and weeds. Mayernik Kitchen offers organic tea blends, honey, tinctures and beauty care products that celebrate the beauties of the land and are great for our health!

Learn More: www.mayernikkitchen.com

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