Budgets can be difficult to stick to,especiallywhen it comes to grocery shopping.
Sure, there are tons ofways to save money on groceries, includingplanning your meals in advance.
But those products are ofteneven moreexpensive.
Peanut butter is inexpensive and packed with protein. Tina Russell/The Penny Hoarder
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Beans are the most commonly talked about protein-rich plant-based alternative.
For comparisons sake, a cup of chopped or diced chicken breast has43 grams of protein.
But its not just black beans!
(Just kidding, that sounds mildly unhealthy.)
A lot of green veggies are surprisingly high in protein, along with so many important vitamins and minerals.
When you read grains, what is the first thing that pops into your brain?
Is it trusty quinoa?
Well, then your brain would be wrong but only mildly wrong.
There are grains, and then there are pseudograins.
Unless you have an allergy or sensitivity to grains, you could use them interchangeably.
The difference is that pseudograins are technically seeds, but we eat them like grains.
However, we usually eat these types of seeds sparingly because theyre relatively high in calories.
Edamame are whole, young soybeans and we mostly see them green and in pods.
That can be steamed and salted and eaten as snack.
Or the pods can be shelled and the soybeans can be added to a salad.
You will often find them on the appetizer menu at Chinese and Japanese restaurants.
Look for them in the frozen food aisle of your grocery store.
For a while, eggs got a bad rap for being high in cholesterol.
In one cup of plain greek yogurt, there are about 29 grams of protein.
Cottage cheese clocks in at just under 28 grams of protein for roughly the same amount.
There are about 30 grams of protein in one cup of canned tuna.
Grace Schweizer is a junior writer at The Penny Hoarder.
(Can you sense my millennial sarcasm there?)
You know which ones were talking about: rent, utilities, cell phone bill, insurance, groceries…
