We've been spending WAY too much on food every week and I've decided we're GOING to spend less. It just costs so much to eat healthy!!
Any ideas on cheap healthy dinners?
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Beans. Way cheap. Way healthy. Lots of protein and fiber. The perfect food. Cook a lot of beans ahead of time and stick them in the fridge. Add them to salads for protein, process them for dip, saute a few veggies for a healthy side dish. My default 'cheap' meal is Ham and Beans. It costs about 2.00 to make and will feed a crowd. Just one bag of navy beans (or any other kind!) and a smoked hamhock. Follow directions on bag o' beans, add salt and pepper, and the hamhock during cooking. :-)
Soups are pretty inexpensive in the long run because you can have leftovers. A big pot of soup can last my husband and I a whole week.
Our biggest money sucker is produce. We always get the our mainstays: celery, carrots, onions, and apples. In addition to that, just get one type of fruit/veggie from each group: Get 1 kind of berry, greens (don't get spinach and greenleaf, just pick 1), pepper, and citrus... just make sure you have a variety of colors so you can cover all your nutrition bases. I love variety so I tend to get 4 kinds of greens, 3 citrus, all the berries I can, LOL.... it ends up to be a lot of money.
Whole wheat Kangaroo Pita Pockets are great item, and really cheap. We haven't had them here in a while, but 1/2 a pita would go great with some lean turkey slices, lettuce, & cucumber. It is a good replacement for bread.
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Mindijean - I feel the same way. Vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, corn are all very expensive down here. Those that you do get grown locally are not that good. I end up having to buy different mixes of veggies which are 2x the price.
I need cheap low carb low fat ideas 
