Oatmeal for Dandruff/Eczema

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I'm on a gluten and dairy-free diet and eat a lot of organics, too, and my grocery bill is about $60 a week, sometimes less. You can eat gluten-free and healthy on a budget, as long as you are willing to cook things yourself. A lot of time, it's the processed, pre-made gluten-free foods that are most expensive.

Before I figured out the diet stuff, the best relief came from olive oil and Burt's Bees Honey Lip Balm (has to be the honey kind, the regular kind has peppermint which burns like hell). I used to go through a tube of that stuff every 3 or 4 days. . . I'd put it everywhere I had eczema, so all around my mouth, my eyelids, and inner arms. I'd use olive oil if I was hanging around the house wearing clothes I didn't care about or if I was going to put bandages on my arms so it wouldn't stain my clothes.

Interesting, sounds like it could be caused by a diet too heavy in 'cold' foods. Try cutting back on white sugar, bread and dairy (unless fermented) ((assuming you eat some or all of these things)) (((many people do)))

And I think if you spend money on better food, you probably find you need to eat less, cos you're not eating some kind of bangers that are half woodshavings, half soy, fraction 'meat'

I'm talking about produce, which is nowhere near that cheap. I know a guy who eats nothing but produce, and a couple or so weeks ago he spend eighty dollars on a mere half of a shopping cart of produce. Also, my grocery bill this week was under sixteen dollars (15.74 to be exact), and all I bought was processed crap, so it's not more expensive than produce. Unless you're talking about health wise.

There's just one problem. My affected areas are mainly above the neck, which is hard to hide.

Lately I've been eating 46 cent lunch meat, 1.36 Totino's pizza, 18 cent ramen noodles, 33 cent yogurt, and 59 cent microwave pot pies. If you're talking about table sugar, I've never bought that- I'm too cheap. I also don't eat bread unless it's from the pizzas, pot pies, etc.

Yeah, most of mine was on my face. Gah, it was terrible. I can sympathize with the budget constraints, but to me it is totally worth it to not be totally embarrassed for people to see it and to not feel like crap all the time.

I eat a lot of potatoes (red and sweet), brown rice, almonds, sunflower seeds, and rice noodles. I try to keep some produce in the house, but I don't usually manage to eat all of it before it goes bad and I hate wasting food/money. I usually have romaine lettuce, baby carrots, dried cranberries, and canned mandarin oranges, because the oranges and cranberries will take forever to go bad and the lettuce and carrots can go to my guinea pigs if they start to go. Occasionally I'll buy other stuff, like bananas and tomatoes when they're more in season. I'll buy frozen chicken or ground turkey if I can afford it. Peanut butter is another good thing to have around. I also have enriched flax or rice milk (usually over Cocoa Krispies, the one decent-tasting, cheap, gluten-free cereal) to get the calcium and vitamin D most people get from dairy products. Other than occasional problems with iron deficiency (which I suspect is partially genetic), my diet seems to be fairly balanced. I'm not entirely sure how much I spend on groceries because my mom will buy me stuff I use a lot like rice and chicken and peanut butter whenever she goes shopping, but I'd say I probably spend about $100 per month on groceries.

Do you live in the inner city or something? Where I live, produce is pretty inexpensive, but I think it varies by region. I honestly cannot imagine anyone actually spending $80 on just produce, but then again I live in Lancaster County where I am surrounded by farmland. Still, that seems a bit outrageous to me. If you do want to be frugal, try buying things in season, you can save a bit of money that way.

I live in the very center of Springfield, MO. I shop at Wal-Mart and Aldi. The guy I know spent 80$ on half of a cart of produce at Wal-Mart, which is not much more expensive than Aldi.