Tips & Tricks

Savvy Alternates and Cost Cutting Tips

A simple guide to our blog: how to glean essential info from Savvy Grub.

Our recipes are inherently wheat and gluten free, peanut free, mostly nightshade free, corn and soy free, largely diary and lactose free, mostly vegetarian, easily made vegan, and several are grain-free and paleo!

FIRST STOP: what is SAVVYGRUB all about??

Dana is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Personal Trainer. Josh is a former CPA, CFO. Together we create budget-friendly nourishing solutions to otherwise expensive good food. Dig deep into the top menu bar tabA SOLUTION“. There you will find a plethora of detailed WHAT, HOW & WHY:

Very seriously, read or at least skim through those. We already did the ground work for you!

If you skip those pages, you likely won’t understand our mission, how we fixed our budget, or where to begin.

NEXT STOPS:

READ this quick guide and you’ll maximize your budget savings and mealtime nourishment on-the-fly.

For many people, creating an “A” meal from a single recipe is ideal because there is less work required.

That said, there are occasions when we need the liberty of going gourmet but don’t want to break the bread-budget doing it: hosting for a gourmet dinner party, mixing up the menu for a special occasion, just because I want yummy fancy food…

< your reason here >

That’s why I created a separate section in the majority of the recipe posts you’ll find on our site. It’s called: Savvy Alternates. Hello food budget buddy.

Here’s an example from our Tangy Beet Salad recipe post:

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WOW Your Guests with These 3 Easy Gourmet Pancakes

Gourmet pancakes are en-vogue. Bisquick, your days have been numbered for a while now.

With the birth of ketogenic, paleo, gluten free, lectin free, dairy free diets (and any of their relatives), comes demand for innovation. Look no further friends; the following recipes are a $-savvy fit for one or many of the aforementioned “diets”.

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Keto Breadsticks and Pizza

Are you Keto but avoiding cow’s milk products? SUB goat cheese instead. EASY!

Why y’all LOVE my keto bread recipe…

It’s versatile, super quick n’ easy, yummy, nourishing and CHEAP.

  • Add toppings to make a pizza — a main meal made easy!
  • Remove the olives, spice it up and slice it into long strips for keto breadsticks
  • Keep it simple and serve it as a side to any salad or soup
  • Make it fluffy or flat and use it as “sandwich bread” for a custom easy on-the-go meal
  • Switch up the type of cheese and olives, add your favorite veggies (even pureed works!) for something new
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Almond Flour Butter!

Home-made Almond Butter

\Why buy the spendy premade stuff when you can easily make it from scratch for cheap?

Haul out that food processor and get ready to leave it on for several magical minutes.

Pulverizing the almond flour takes at least 1/3 less time than pulverizing whole almonds. Use what you have!

Almonds are a quality source of fiber and a fantastic, Calorie-rich and nutritious alternative to peanut butter.

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“Survival Style”… Nourish Your Tribe with these Salmon Cakes!

Survival Savvy Salmon Cakes_served

In the times of COVID-19, it seems that finding food on grocery shelves is more of a “hunt” than a “gather”.

Frozen aisles are decimated and canned goods can be slim pickins…except for canned salmon, to our advantage!

Interestingly, a lot of folks are skimming past these omega-3 rich gems because they’re considered “too pricey“.

WE’VE CREATED A $-SAVVY SOLUTION FOR THIS DILEMMA!

Good news: You can actually FEED NINE PEOPLE with ONE CAN of wild salmon, not five!

We’ve even created a “survival style” version with less ingredients! See “Savvy Alternates” Table for costing, below.

Here’s How:

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Tips & Tricks

A Detailed Week to Cut Your Cook Time!

We did all the work for you: here’s a meal plan with cooking schedule and costs!

The “HOW TO” part of meal planning, budgeting and mouth feeding without spending all week in the kitchen.

I created this week menu and game-plan as a snap-shot example of how to incorporate a range of budgets into a single week (from A-grade to C-grade meals) and still come out at UNDER $250 per person for a monthly grocery estimate… while fulfilling Calorie and nutrient needs.

Research supports eating a vegan or pesca-vegan diet to promote a more healthful longevity, so I’ve also included a vegan rendition for this week. The vegan and non-vegan meals are all included in this single file. In other words – each recipe is either inherently vegan or easily made into vegan meal.

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A Detailed PALEO Week to Cut Your Cook Time!

We did all the work for you: here’s a meal plan with cooking schedule and costs!

The “HOW TO” part of meal planning, budgeting and mouth feeding without spending all week in the kitchen.

I created this paleo week menu and game-plan as a snap-shot example of how to incorporate a range of budgets into a single week (from A-grade to C-grade meals) and still come out at UNDER $250 per person for a monthly grocery estimate… while fulfilling Calorie and nutrient needs.

Research supports eating a vegan or pesca-vegan diet to promote a more healthful longevity, so I’ve also included a vegan rendition for this week. The vegan and non-vegan meals are all included in a single file. In other words – each recipe is not just Paleo, it is also either inherently vegan or easily made into a vegan meal.

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