Good Cheap stuff:
watereggs
rice
bananas
mixed nuts
dried papayas
Good Medium-priced stuff:
Milk
Apples
Turkey
Chicken
Dark Chocolate
Whole wheat bread
Expensive stuff:
V8
Guacamole
Stuff to minimize because it's unhealthy:
all soft drinks
all alcohol
all caffeine (except dark chocolate)
most chips / pretzels
most restaraunts
Beef
Pork/Ham/Bacon
hot pockets and similar crap
ice cream / candy
desserts in general
Stuff to avoid because it tastes/feels like shit:
Broccoli
Cabbage
Green Beans
Alcohol
Stuff to avoid because it's overpriced:
almost all restaraunts
Pizza
Processed/prepared foods
Alcohol
Stumble This
also, pretzels are a relatively healthy snack, so long as you don't go crazy or get the ones covered in flavored crap.
should probably avoid just about every white carb/starch too.
Pizza strikes me as more of the "cheap / unhealthy" type food. At least around here it's cheap as hell - but not very good for you. Last time I was in the US, I remember Little Caesers had 2 large pizzas for something like $12
Depends what kind of pizza you're talking about. totinos=shitty $1 pizzas, digiorno = good $5 pizzas
And you can have my alcohol when you pry it from my limp, sweaty hands.
bread
cous cous
linguini
garlic
onion
potatoes
spinach
feta
tuna
chicken
tins of chopped tomatoes
sweetcorn
kidney beans
there are plenty of simple, tasty meals to make just using those ingredients plus they're all pretty cheap. i could live on that shit for a while.