You can eat healthily and lose weight on a budget. Diet magazines and newspapers are always running diet plans that require you to eat all sorts of exotic and unseasonal fruit and vegetables, particularly fruit, and use other expensive ingredients. They are also full of articles about 'super' foods, once again almost always exotic, unseasonal and expensive fruit. In fact nutritionally it doesnt matter whether you eat a guava or an apple, a carrot or a sweet potato providing your diet includes at least 5 portions a day of fruit and veg.
All you need to do to lose weight is eat fewer calories than you burn off and it can be done just as cheaply and healthily lunching on an old fashioned stew made with cheap cuts of meat with plenty of root vegetables, served with cabbage and potatoes as it can on some concoction using wild rice, pomegranite and asparagus. Trim the fat off the meat, only spray the casserole with oil before browning meat and vegetables and just boil the potatoes. The calory count is actually not that high and 1lb of meat will be sufficient for 6. A medium chicken should be able to feed 2 for 4 days, once again add plenty of cheaper seasonal vegetables. Again, health, cheap and can be part of a weight loss program.
