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10 Inexpensive Health Foods You Should Be Eating

If you're not used to eating healthy, it can be a challenge to shop for those types of foods, especially if you think healthy food is expensive.

In fact, according to a survey conducted by Prevention and Centrum, 53 percent of Americans said it was too expensive to eat a healthy, balanced diet.

However, that couldn't be farther from the truth. Many common healthy and inexpensive foods can be found right in the produce department of your grocery store.

According to the article in Prevention, here are the 10 common inexpensive healthy foods:
  1. Bananas
  2. Canola oil
  3. Carrots
  4. Canned tomatoes
  5. Broccoli
  6. Beans
  7. Sweet potatoes
  8. Frozen vegetables
  9. Eggs
  10. Flaxseed

Listen in as Abbie Gellman, MS, RD, shares the top inexpensive health foods you should be eating.
10 Inexpensive Health Foods You Should Be Eating
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Abbie Gellman, MS, RD
Abbie GellmanAbbie Gellman, MS, RD, is a professionally-trained chef and Registered Dietitian. Abbie has over 10 years of hospitality and food and beverage consulting experience and nearly 10 years of nutrition-related experience.

She received a Master of Science degree in Nutrition from Teachers College, Columbia University and completed a dietetic internship at New York – Presbyterian Hospital in NYC. Abbie holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and earned her Culinary Degree from Peter Kump's New York Cooking School (now known as ICE).

In addition to working with a wide variety of food service operators, Abbie also counsels and educates patients and groups in a private practice setting and cooks privately for individual clients.
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