Healthy Living Tips

By Neena Saloiya

1. When eating out, consider trying to be content with yourself enough to be able to buy salad and if absolutely necessary bread.
2. For your home: buy Preferably some kind of bread other than white bread. Honestly, breads like Rye, sphelt, rice and flat breads are usually better than whole wheat. Even gluten free bread is best.
3. Perhaps make your own flat breads, that way you will save more money, and use less yeast.
4. Buy vegetables in bulk.
5. Buy beans in bulk.
6. For your meals: have salad once a day, (preferably with dark lettuce like romaine, and mix in things like spinach and or grated carrots, and cale and arugala.
7. Then for the second time of the day have frozen vegetables.
8. To budget wisely: write down everything you spend money on right after you spend your money. That way you'll know what you have and what you've spent. Reward yourself for the less you spend.
9. Buy your milks or alternatives in bulk.
10. If you want to watch a movie, buy your movies and watch them at home.
11. If you want pop corn, buy yourself a popper from Wall-Mart for $15. The pop corn that comes with it is only $7.99, and you can make a lot of it.
12. Find affordable places to shop such as Kenzington Market at 65 Nassau Street, and 487 Church Street. Also Bloor West Village, Food Basics and No Frills.
13. Make yourself smoothies for breakfasts and or fruit salads out of fruits like apples, and grapes and affordable fruits.
14. Get things from community gardens and farmers markets of local produce.
15. For free healthy activities: ask if any church in your area or worship place is holding any social community outreach activities.
16. Go out for all day breakfasts and ask if you can have some tomatoes, or cucumbers or some variation ov vegetables on the side.
17. Go for walks.
18. Volunteer as doing good for others brings happiness.
19. Get in touch with Food Share Toronto, and sign up for a good food box, and look for a Good Food café near you. Look for it all at www.foodshare.net
20. Have some activity to distress yourself. As in, find things to laugh about, or things to look at or touch that don't cost a lot to help yourself smile.
21. Listen to music, whichever kind you like.
22. Find and hang around people that can validate you, or their presence and compliments can help you raise self esteem.
23. Buy things like laundry detergents, shampoo, soap, dryer sheets, dish detergent, tooth paste, hand cream, and shaving lotion in larger quantities, so you won't be constantly spending money.
24. Read used books but clean them off right when you get them home to avoid having cock roches in them.
25. Join a subsidized gym (usually in community centres.
26. Join another interest oriented agency or class that's affordable.
27. When going out to eat again, find Indian restaurants with buffets, or Mediteranian falafel places, as they're more affordable.
28. Also find Chinese markets or malls where food is a little more affordable when you get two sides or three for a nominal fee.