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Expert names healthy and budget-friendly alternatives to popular expensive foods
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Winter is a time when your diet should be particularly balanced and nourishing. Experts advise eating seasonal vegetables, fish and meat, seafood, seeds, berries, and drinking healthy teas, icluding fruit ones.
Hearty salad.
Nutritionist Olha Dorosh shared a list of budget foods that can easily replace expensive ones on Instagram.
Red fish.
Meat
You can replace it with offal: liver, heart, or ventricles. You can bake or stew it or make pates!
Sandwiches with pate.
Red fish
An alternative is mackerel or very healthy and tasty herring!
Sandwiches with herring.
Sea bass, dorado
Hake, tilapia, pollock are no less healthy than dorado and sea bass, which are many times more expensive!
Healthy fish.
Buckwheat, wild rice, amaranth, quinoa
Millet, barley, wheat, and any available cereal can be a useful alternative, and beans and chickpeas are also a great substitute.
Buckwheat.
Tomatoes, cucumbers
Cabbage, sauerkraut, carrots, and beets can replace fresh tomatoes and cucumbers. You can also replace sweet potatoes with regular potatoes!
Beets.
Salad mix, microgreens
These greens can be replaced with budget-friendly wild garlic or green onions!
Salad with greens.
Olive and flaxseed oil
They can be replaced with any other oil that will be no less useful but more budget-friendly!
Olive oil.
Couscous
It can be replaced with wheat porridge or oatmeal.
Broccoli
Ordinary and red cabbage are as good as broccoli!
Boiled broccoli.
Cottage cheese
You can opt for kefir instead of cottage cheese!
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