20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1

New York Times [http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/healthy-foods-for-under-1/ ] recently reposted DivineCaroline’s 20 Healthiest Foods for Under $1 [http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22107/52070-20-healthiest-foods--1]. Read the original article at http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/22107/52070-20-healthiest-foods—1

My thots:

1. Oats Good for breakfast, lunch or dinner AND oatmeal cookies.
2. Eggs One of the most affordable forms of protein around, eggs win the Miss Versatility Contest. Use them for egg sandwiches and Eggs Benedict, bread budding and flan, and don’t forget those Green Eggs ‘n Ham!
3. Kale Something for my “I’ll Consider It” list.
4. Potatoes Bake them, boil them, hash them, mash them. My fave: pan sauteed with garlic and onions!
5. Apples An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Save ya’ some bucks, on that end, too. Too bad my favorite variety, Pacific Rose, can’t meet the $1 test.
6. Nuts Accoring to DivineCaroline, “Though nuts have a high fat content, they’re packed with the good-for-you fats—unsaturated and monounsaturated. They’re also good sources of essential fatty acids, Vitamin E, and protein. And because they’re so nutrient-dense, you only need to eat a little to get the nutritional benefits.
7. Bananas DivineCaroline found them for 19 cents apiece. Obviously she doesn’t live in Hawaii.
8. Garbanzo Beans ‘Spose I can hummus them.
9. Broccoli The one green vegetable 13 year old likes - but again not so cheap in my neighborhood.
10. Watermelon Yes! Plus, a Chinese man at Costco this summer taught me how to finally pick a good one!
11. Wild Rice What about brown and white rice?
12. Beets DivineCaroline says they’re powerhouses of folate, iron, and antioxidants. I say they’re mostly red.
13. Butternut Squash Time to dig up that butternut squash soup recipe.
14. Whole Grain Pasta A keeper for all sorts of sauces. I like De Cecco, imported from Italy, which pushes me over the $1 limit.
15. Sardines My dad taught me to eat them on soda crackers. Sadly gone are the tins with the roll back lids.
16. Spinach Spinach salad, soup, dip and layered in vegetarian lasagne. Creamed spinach - mmmm!.
17. Tofu For the best, go back to the source for Chinese and Japanese preparations.
18. Milk Plus, I can still get a milk mustache from my morning latte.
19. Pumpkin Seeds Only cheap if you’re scooping them out of a pumpkin. And then you have to use the pumpkin meat. Whatever.
20. Coffee Once again, one of my favorite foods makes the list! Fresh roasted Peets Sumatra please.

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