How To Save Money While Dieting By Re-Using Ingredients To Create A Variety Of Different Meals

It’s no secret that eating healthier foods is a good idea for your health, and your weight loss goals.

But sometimes, the healthier foods aren’t always the cheapest in the grocery store. So what can you do to save money, and get more mileage out of the food you buy?

One way to do it, is to prepare meals which can be used for another meal either later on, or the next day.

In this article, we will give you an example recipe which you can use to prepare a delicious, healthy meal – and how you can use the same left over ingredients to prepare another dish...

Let’s get started:

The first meal will be baked chicken breasts with brown rice and steamed broccoli.

Here’s how to prepare this meal.

Pull the skin back from the chicken breast but don't remove the skin just yet. Sprinkle with lemon juice, freshly ground black pepper, and just a bit of salt. Add a touch of dried herbs such as oregano, parsley and thyme.

Then you need to replace the skin over the herbed chicken breasts and bake until the meat is no longer pink, and fully cooked. Now you simply remove the skin before serving.

Serve with brown rice and steamed broccoli.

This is a very simple meal to prepare, but it’s also very tasty, not to mention healthy.

Right after you’ve eaten this meal (but before you're tempted by the leftovers!) you can use the remaining food to make a tasty chicken and broccoli soup.

Place the left over chicken breasts without the skin but with the bones in a large pot and cover with one quart of chicken broth. If you have a few extra carrots, onion, or celery stalks throw them in the pot as well. This will all help to bulk out the meal, and give it more variety.

Simmer for 30 minutes. Cool and strain the broth into a clean storage container. Discard the veggies, because their flavors will have been played out by now.

Remove the meat from the chicken and chop into all into bite size pieces. Add the chicken and broccoli to the broth. Refrigerate the soup. When you're ready for dinner, add the brown rice, heat the soup through, and serve with a salad.

Here's another idea you could use.

Shred the chicken, chop the broccoli into bite size pieces and set aside. Mix ¼ cup rice wine vinegar, the juice of one lemon, a tablespoon of low sodium soy sauce, a bunch of chopped scallions, one chopped clove of garlic and a ½ teaspoon of grated ginger in a large storage container. Now it’s time to add the chicken and broccoli. Next, you simply refrigerate until your next meal.

When you're ready to serve up, reheat the brown rice separately from the chicken and broccoli. Serve the chicken and broccoli over the brown rice.

With just a little effort you've made another satisfying, low fat, low calorie dinner. This is a great way to create healthy and delicious meals – without having to break the bank with expensive ingredients for every meal.