If you like to shop for food, buy higher-quality versions of everything. Buy the expensive fair-trade chocolate instead of the plastic bag of chocolate muffins,

If you like to shop for food, buy higher-quality versions of everything. Buy the expensive fair-trade chocolate instead of the plastic bag of chocolate muffins, or the chocolate bar from the vending machine. Or go to a vegetarian restaurant instead of the burger chain. These measures will reduce your budget for food, especially when your amount of money you can spend in a month is constrained. But you will eat higher quality ingredients and this alone will have a small beneficial impact on your body. Even if you do this to only a certain degree (you still buy junk food once a week, say) it will be beneficial, but more in a subtle way. You might even lose some weight this way, but don't expect too much. Take a close look at "light" products or "fat reduced" products they are often more expensive and still contain _lower-quality_ ingredients. This also holds for many "vegan" products als well (margarine re-labeled as "vegan butter" for instance)