Tips to optimize meal costs at a time when vegetable prices are expensive

Hồng Anh (theo The Nutrition Source) |

How do consumers cope to get a nutritious meal at a time when vegetables are expensive?

Despite being busy and having to tighten spending, family meals can still be quality and delicious if applying the 4 simple tips below. Smart processing not only retains all the vitamins but also helps workers optimize their monthly ham market budget, especially when vegetables are "cyclonically" growing as they are now.

Take advantage of boiled vegetable water

Steep or boil is the best way to retain most of the precious vitamins and minerals in vegetables. Nutrients, especially vitamins B and C, are less lost than being fried at high temperatures and flooded with oil.

When steaming or boiling without cooking oil, it will help save costs and time for housewives.

In particular, vegetable boiling water, which is seemingly unused, is a source of nutrition and has a unique flavor.

Boiled water of familiar vegetables such as water spinach, amaranth, cabbage, radish... brings natural sweetness and contains part of the dissolved minerals. So take advantage of the vegetable boiling water to supplement minerals for the body.

Just add a little more spices, you have a cool bowl of soup, rich in fiber and significantly save cooking time.

Buying seasonal vegetables

seasonal vegetables often have high yields, making prices much cheaper than off-season vegetables. seasonal vegetables have fewer pesticides and the quality of nutrients is also more delicious and stable.

In the cold season, popular vegetables such as sweet cabbage, cumin, chrysanthemum cabbage, cauliflower, vegetables such as kohlrabi, carrots, radishes are grown. In the summer, vegetables such as water spinach, amaranth, Malabar spinach, Malabar spinach... are chosen by many people.

Growing vegetables without land

Growing water spinach is no longer strange to everyone. For families with small living areas or in apartment buildings, they can apply the method of growing water spinach with onions, garlic, ship odor...

Herbs are one of the ingredients that make family meals more attractive. Growing herbs yourself also helps you save a small amount of money, especially when vegetables are expensive like now.

Another option that many women successfully apply is making bean sprouts at home. Bean sprouts are an extremely abundant source of vitamins E and C, which are essential for human health.

Just a little green bean sprout, cook at a reasonable temperature. From 3 to 5 days, you can harvest bean sprouts to prepare many nutritious dishes.

Hồng Anh (theo The Nutrition Source)
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