{"id":442,"date":"2012-05-06T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2012-05-06T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:30:24","slug":"frozen-foods-eating-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college\/frozen-foods-eating-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Foods &amp; Eating Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img \/><\/p>\n<p>For those who have read our blog for a while, you know that we often like to cover college hacks and kitchen hacks to help you save time and eat healthier and smarter.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s post features a recent article on LifeHacker about frozen food and the concept of &#8220;reinventing it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What exactly does that mean?  Well from a financial perspective, going with frozen food isn&#8217;t always the most cost effective.  Some meals can cost you $5 or more, and in terms of contents, not provide much nutritional value either.<\/p>\n<p>Take for example the frozen pizza, as lifehacker says<br \/>\n&#8220;One of the biggest wastes of money is frozen pizza. It seems cheap because delivery pizza costs about twice as much, but if you&#8217;re only feeding yourself you don&#8217;t need an entire pizza in one sitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True!<\/p>\n<p>So, what are the tips?  For me personally when I&#8217;m buying frozen food, I&#8217;m looking for options where I can add fresh ingredients.  Take for example Lean Cuisine meals.  Adding in some fresh tomatos to the pasta or rice dishes goes a long way to keeping me more full and healthier.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t have time to keep fresh produce in your refridgerator?  Go for the frozen vegetables route.  Often you can find vegetable medleys in the supermarket and picking up a bag or two of these could last you for week.s<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re a big fan of rice dishes, one of the recommendations is to grab a slow cooker.  This will help you slow cook foods overnight and then wallah! Have food ready for the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/272324354\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have read our blog for a while, you know that we often like to cover college hacks and kitchen hacks to help&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[109,192,414],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-college","tag-eating-healthy","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}