Eating healthy doesn’t have to mean spending a lot of money. Here are five easy ways to fatten your wallet while trimming your waistline in 2011, courtesy of Healthland’s friends at the It’s Your Money blog. (For even more fun with resolutions, check out New Year’s Resolutions: The Good, the Bad and the Annoying.)
5 Ways to Improve Your Diet on the Cheap
By ordering strategically at restaurants, you can easily limit calories while trimming your tab. Obviously, entrees with fish or veggies are healthier and less expensive than the bloody porterhouse. But the sneakiest items on the menu are the extras — appetizers and dessert — which tack a few more dollars and often more than a few thousand extra calories into the equation. Forgoing both is best, of course, but also a bummer. So if you're going to pick one to go without, skip the appetizer, which is probably something deep-fried and unhealthy — and ultimately less satisfying and possibly worse for you than that piece of Death by Chocolate cake, which you can share with the entire table. Next: Turn Off the Cartoons SPECIAL REPORT: See Healthland's Full Guide to Life in 2011 More on It's Your Money: Skip Restaurants for a Month, Save Over $500