I would argue against the eggs, potatoes and apples. Cardiologists keep lowering the level of cholesterol they consider healthy, and some recommend a max of 2 a week even for healthy people. As for potatoes and apples, their high calorie counts outweigh their nutritional values. At least iceberg lettuce was not included; red-tip or green-tip has much, much higher nutritional values.

We've got to eat something! And the list isn't "the healthiest foods ever", it's "the healthiest foods under $1 a serving", which limits the field considerably.

In other words, you can pry potatoes out of my cold, dead hands.

Yogurt instead of eggs for the protein.
Strawberries instead of apples.
Cauliflower instead of potatoes. It even mashes well.

I feel like my love for eggs borders on the spiritual. From grass and bugs to delicious, protein-rich, nutritious foodstuff. It blows my mind a little bit.

Man, I love eggs.

I could get the tofu for under a 100 yen - the rest nope. List does not translate outside of USA.

Yeah, here in Poland a dozen eggs is about a dollar, but kale and wild rice? Good luck finding that. TPS, this is the world capital of potato everything. And beets? My supermarket basically has a beet-product aisle.

OMG it's such a pain to find beets here in Japan! I must drop by Poland!

Even in Buffalo I couldn't manage to get kale for less than $1, unless it was a can of "seasoned greens" or something.

You don't have kale in Poland? Odd! I'd think it perfect for the climate.

Strawberries instead of apples.

You can't get many strawberries for $1. And potatoes are much higher than cauliflower in carbohydrates, but are also much higher in iron and protein, and certainly more versatile in cooking methods.

I also love eggs. They are a fantastic source of protein with low environmental inputs, and very tasty. And I demonize potatoes a little, too, but they do have a lot of Vitamin C.

When talking about "healthiest" I think it's important to remember that not everyone is focused on a weight-loss or cholesterol-reducing diet. If eggs are one of the only animal proteins you eat, cholesterol is probably not a big problem for you - most of that would be coming from your meat products. For those of us without naturally high cholesterol that eat less meat, it's not hard to stay under recommended dietary limits, if you even accept the dietary cholesterol studies s conclusive (I know some people who don't).

I'm shocked that kale is expensive in Buffalo? What the heck? It's one of the cheapest things around here. I mean you can get a giant bunch for $1.50 even at the farmer's market, organic. I've never ever thought of it as a pricey vegetable - just the opposite, I eat it a lot 'cause it's cheap.

And it is ridiculously easy to grow. You can basically plant it and walk away, and come back to find insane bushels of the stuff taking over. I'm really surprised that it's considered exotic in those locations!

You don't have kale in Poland? Odd! I'd think it perfect for the climate.
I've never ever thought of it as a pricey vegetable - just the opposite, I eat it a lot 'cause it's cheap.
I was thinking exactly the same things.

i didnt see butter on that list . weird :p

Where the hell are they shopping? At least half of those things cost $2.50 or more where I live.

Yeah pup, I have trouble with the methodology too. Like, is there one? I am guessing that she means "under $1 per portion," but she never specifies. It's not easy to buy smaller quantities of some of this stuff - like a butternut squash - you're not going to buy $1 worth, you're going to buy the whole squash. They seem to run me between $1.50 and 2.00. And my grocery only carries strawberries in those clamshells, starting at $2.50.

So I'm pretty sure she means by portion size. But in that case, you could add a lot of other foods - $1 per portion is fairly generous.

It would be cooler if it would be done more scientifically - like, if you want to make a list of cheapest healthiest foods you could list by cost per ounce or something and then order that by nutrient content to reveal the top 20 in terms of nutrition for cost.

That may be what this is, but there's no way to tell.

Still, it was a list of food, and I like lists of foods.

Yeah, Miko, I'm with you. I just got all excited because, for me, the title of the list promised "Hey, you can eat something better than beans and ramen noodles at the end of the month when you're trying to shop on $2 a day!", but didn't really deliver.

Oh, man. When you find that website, let me know.

Maybe we should start it ourselves, and grow rich.