Hit the salad bar for just the toppings
“For the best deal on new ingredients to try out healthier recipes, hit a salad bar, where you can find healthy and tasty ingredients like marinated artichokes, hearts of palm, sun-dried tomatoes and nuts. You can often find gourmet cheeses like blue cheese or Parmesan as well. Buying these items on the salad bar is a lot cheaper than buying them in other parts of the store, where you’d most likely end up with big blocks of cheese or bags and jars of expensive specialty items in order to get all the ingredients that a recipe calls for. But at the salad bar, you can choose the exact amount you need. You’ll end up saving a ton and there’s no waste.”