Tag: health

Smart and Savvy: Budget-Friendly Healthy Foods for Your Family

April 14, 2016

Eating healthy can be a challenge, especially when you’re on a budget. With so many options available, it can be difficult to know which foods to choose that are both good for you and affordable. However, there are plenty of budget-friendly healthy foods that you can incorporate into your family’s diet. By making smart choices at the grocery store and cooking meals at home, you can save money while still providing your family with nutritious meals.

The perfect match: How fitness and frugality can lead to a healthier and wealthier life

March 7, 2016

In today’s world, our health and finances are two of the most important aspects of our lives. In order to lead a happy and fulfilling life, we need to prioritize both. However, it can be difficult to find a balance between the two. The good news is that fitness and frugality can go hand in hand to help us achieve our goals.

Focusing on your health is of huge importance to the Frugal Lifestyle, as you want to enjoy as many of your years as you can, and without wasting tons of money on healthcare costs. You could become vegetarian, although this still relatively uncommon in the US with a Vegetarian Times Magazine survey back in 2008 revealing that there are 7.3 million million US vegetarians (3.2 percent of the population). Being vegetarian can certainly be a great frugal step but if this is a little extreme for you, upping your fruits and vegetable intake is likely to be a significant health benefit to you Continue Reading

Frugal Exercise – Walk, Jog, Bike & Even Surf!

June 20, 2014

Keeping up with an exercise program not only makes you feel great and keeps your weight down, it can also potentially save you a lot of money in terms of health care costs, so eating healthy and exercising form a major part of the frugal life style. Continue Reading

Don’t Set Your Cash On Fire

February 28, 2014

Controlling or at least limiting your vices can not only help you live a much longer and healthier life, it will likely make you much, much richer. (I don’t mean to preach, and I strongly believe in personal liberty). Perhaps the one to really try to avoid is smoking, or if you do smoke, I wish you best of luck if you decide to quit. Yes, tobacco is one of the most addictive substances you will come across in everyday life, and so quitting can be incredibly hard to do. In smoking your are literally burning money away Continue Reading

Brown Bag It

February 1, 2014

One way is to bring lunch to work, for starters it can certainly be much tastier than the offerings you can get from many a canteen or food court. Moreover, you can keep to any organic, vegetarian and/or minus food allergen type of diet of your choosing much easier.

At $10 a lunch, for 5 days a week for 1 year is $2400, assuming 4 weeks vacation. Clearly $24,000 over ten years is nothing to be sniffed at Continue Reading

Why Frugality?

January 21, 2014

OK, so the question of why frugality could easily turn into a very long winded and potentially quite boring essay, which I will try my best not to do!

To keep it relatively short, I see three major reasons for embracing frugality, where each of these are clearly intertwined. The first is financial independence. At a time when many people are worried about how they will get by in retirement, a very sad state of affairs, would you instead like to still be working, but knowing that you are already financially free? Continue Reading

Skip the Car, Ride the Bike

January 7, 2014

It is quite likely that one of your major expenses is for driving to and from work, thus you can make huge inroads, excuse the pun, to reduce expenses and maximizing your savings here. Take a look at your car loan, your insurance costs, and the (ever increasing) price of gas. These can add up to many hundreds of dollars a month, and that is even excluding any maintenance and potentially costly repairs when your car it’s out of warranty.

What can you do instead? Continue Reading