Low cost healthy choices

Although healthy food requires a bit of preparation as a rule, it really is much more affordable than unhealthy food. Cabbage and celery and onions and potatoes are all very affordable and they go in soup, or in rice or in many other things. Who doesn't like a whole chicken simmered until tender in a broth swimming with celery and onions a a few carrots? How about a pot of beans with a bit of ham or beef to flavor them? Chili? "Pasta" made with spaghetti sguash instead of starchy pasta? Or made with multigrain pasta? These are not expensive dishes. Some dieters avoid eggs but I think that is a mistake because eggs are brain food and help us make sensible choices, plus they are quite inexpensive if you shop prices. The best thing for dieters to do is cut out all the white bread and cake and donuts and cookies and ditch the diet sodas that have artificial sweeteners that stimulate the appetite for carbs and real sugar--and all the processed foods that contain high fructose corn syrup.

Food should not be expensive but economics dictate that people have to make money in order to stay in business. Sometimes produce is allowed to rot in the farm rather than be brought to market where a farmer will incur more costs in order to sell at a very low price.

How old is the daughter and what is it they can't afford? If she's old enough, she could be a gardener. That could help with affording vegetables, seeds are cheaper than veggies. If she's old enough, she can pick berries or apples or something like that. Fruit is cheaper when you pick it yourself. It's diet and exercise that works. So by gardening and picking things, she would get exercise, too. Milk, if can't afford, put powdered milk in food that he cooks for his daughter. Like mashed potatoes. Beans are cheaper than meat and no waste. There are so many kinds of beans in the world and so many ways to fix them, he could have different dishes of beans every night and never repeat for a month or more. Pasta, rice, many whole grains are cheap. Just make sure the serving size goes with the amount she's supposed to weigh, not with how much she likes to eat. Indoor or window sill gardens of lettuce and radishes. You can eat a lot of lettuce and radishes to fill up. Drink water a little while before eating so she can feel full faster when she eats. For more ideas, see the Gatherer and Wild Food topics at Mylot. Take care and I wish him luck.