The Cost of Eating Healthy: $2.38

Mother Jones has a nice wrap-up on the cost of eating healthy: Yes, there's a price, but one that's not too bad, assuming you and your family plans ahead. The article, along with a slew of others, stem from this week's federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, a report from Health Affairs that emphasized the need for Americans to consume more potassium, dietary fiber, vitamin D, and calcium, and to get fewer calories from saturated fat and added sugar.

Two writers at Grist report that they were able to eat healthily for $2.38 per person, per meal (cooked at home) while eating "plenty of organic produce ... local eggs, buffalo meat and un-homogenized milk in glass bottles."