Preparation is the key to success. Why not apply that golden principle to grocery shopping?
Once you’ve mastered a few skills you will be able to greatly reduce your weekly grocery bill and still bring home healthy food in the process.
First, you must get a general sense of what items cost. I always try to look over the weekly flyers to get an idea of the baseline prices for each grocer. It also keeps me in tune with how prices are adjusting for seasonal changes. It might seem like common sense, but shop at the store with the best deals that week.
Also, some stores promote price matching and you are missing out if you are not taking advantage of this! You could fund a family vacation with the savings you recoup from price matching each week. It takes a little practice, but this extra step will save you a lot of money. I’m not ashamed to say I try to price match often. I’ve come up with a great system that works really well and keeps me organized. Perhaps I’ll detail it in another post!
Sadly, healthy food can be expensive and we need to be smart shoppers in order to feed nourishing food to ourselves and our families.
Here’s a great healthy soup my family loves and won’t cost you a lot to make!
Nourishing Cauliflower Soup
INGREDIENTS
- 3 medium onions, chopped
- 3 celery stalks, chopped
- 1 large cauliflower (Approximately 2.5-3 pounds)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp dried dill
- 4.5 cups filtered water
- 1 bay leaf
- Sea salt to taste (Depending on size of cauliflower, I used 1 tsp)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- [Optional] 1 tbsp or more grass-fed butter
METHOD
- Warm the coconut oil in a medium large dutch oven
- Sauté the onions and garlic until soft (adding a pinch of sea salt will help bring out the flavours!)
- Add the minced garlic and cook for a few minutes until fragrant
- Add the vinegar and stir the onion/celery mixture until all the vinegar evaporates
- Add all the spices, with the exception of the dried dill, and mix to combine
- Add the chopped cauliflower, bay leaf, salt and water to the pot and bring to just the boil
- Lower heat and simmer, covered, until the cauliflower is soft
- Removed the bay leaf and blend the soup until a smooth and creamy texture is achieved
- Stir in the optional butter, fresh lime juice and dried dill
- Enjoy!
So I’m curious, do you have any budget friendly tips for grocery shopping?
Until next time,
Simply Whole Foods 
12 thoughts on “Budget Friendly Cauliflower Soup”
K @ Peeled Wellness
I’m recently learning that I have been totally under-utilizing cauliflower all these years. If you’re interested, I’d love you for you share a post in my blog link up tomorrow. There’s a quick explanation right on my main menu under ‘Tell ’em Tuesdays.’
xoxo K
http://peeledwellness.com
Simply Hollie
Hey K! I agree-the world of cauliflower is awesome! Pizza crust and rice-who knew 🙂 Thanks for the heads up on your link up. I’ll check the details out! Thanks again, Hollie
fellochrist
Which proteins would go well with this? I have deer sausage and blackstrap on hand, but not sure how well that would work lol
Simply Hollie
Hey there! I think I would pair/top this soup with a poached/easy over egg or diced chicken. Another possibility would be seafood like salmon, shrimp or tuna which would go really well with the dill in this recipe. Hope this helps!
fellochrist
Yes it does! Unfortunately I’m a guy so I’m gonna go with the chicken (even though the egg is realllly tempting) cause it’s easiest 🙂 thank you for your help!
Simply Hollie
No problem, hope you enjoy the soup!!
mscarletti
I love how most of the ingredients are ones I have on hand! Can’t wait to try this.
zebrakat
Looks amazing, I will give this a try. 😄
Simply Hollie
You’ll have to let me know how it turns out! Enjoy 🙂
Kris Letcher
Dear Hollie, thank you for your beautiful recipe – I am going to try this.
In regards to healthy food being expensive at times this is just not the case especially when buying products in different quantities. Like you said one needs to be smart shoppers. In the supermarket the other day I saw a small bag of non-organic macadamias in a local supermarket selling for $70 / kilo- there were only about 8 in the packet.
I sell them for $39 / kilo online, when buying 1 kg of whole foods.
Packaged / processed goods are also very expensive when working out weight / kilo. I saw chewing gum selling for 75 dollars / kilo the other day.
Thanks for the blog
Great website.
Kris
Simply Hollie
Hi Kris, I agree, you can find deals but you need to keep an eye out and know your prices.
Thanks so much for your comment and hope you enjoy the recipe!
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