Healthy doesn't have to mean not frugal! You can eat well on a budget. Below is a short selection of my favorite frugal foods.Whole Chicken - Whole chickens are incredibly frugal. Typical price is $.99 a pound, while average sale price is $.79 a pound. And three to four times a year you can get whole chicken for $.59 a pound. That's my stock up price. I can get two to three meals or dishes out of one whole chicken. I love roasted chicken for the first meal, then triple mushroom bisque for the second (a Cooking Light recipe)and then I make homemade chicken stock for the third use.Fruit Waters - Whether its sparkling or still, I love homemade fruit waters. Sparkling waters make me feel like I'm having something a little fancier and are very frugal to make. Simply take a bottle of sparkling water (like a two-liter for $.59 at Kroger), add a handful of your favorite frozen fruit to the bottle and chill in the fridge. My favorite is raspberry. The juice from the berries will infuse the water, giving it flavor. You can do the same with a pitcher of fresh-filtered water. The raspberries are cheap, too - I have two different favorite sales. First, when they were 10 for 10 over the summer, I bought a bunch of pints and froze them. Second, when Cascadian Farms has frozen fruit sales at Kroger, I'll stock up. $2.99 for frozen organic fruit and a $1/1 coupon makes it $1.99 for a package - and since I'll use about 1/4 cup per two liters of water, that's a good deal! No sugar needed in the flavored water. (Oh, and don't let lemons or limes sit in the water for more than 24 hours. The rind becomes bitter and so does the water. )Oatmeal - Oatmeal in its whole form is incredibly healthy for you! A whole grain in and of itself, oatmeal high in fiber and other nutrients. Kroger had a sale on Quaker Oatmeal that made it free after coupon, so I stocked up. My favorite recipe is to make my own instant oatmeal. (The boxed variety typically has 13 grams of sugar per 1/4 cup serving.) I mix a 1/2 cup of whole oats with 1 teaspoon of organic sugar (that's only four grams of sugar), a handful of raisins, one tablespoon of dried milk and some chopped toasted walnuts if I have them. Then I mix it up and eat it or freeze it in individual servings. (To eat, add boiling water to your 1/2 cup serving - enough to not quite cover the oats, about 1/4 cup - then microwave for 30 seconds to one minute until it's fully cooked, depending on the power of your microwave. Mine only takes 30 seconds.)Aunt Millie's Breads - Aunt Millie's makes great whole-grain breads with no added corn syrups. There are sales on these breads every three months. For example, I recently combined the sale with a coupon: $.50/1 coupon, and at $1 a loaf, that makes it less than $1 for a loaf of good whole-grain bread. I don't suggest eating a lot of bread while trying to lose weight, but it does help with making sandwiches for the kids' lunches. I will stock up at this price and freeze it for future use.Evaporated Milk - A trick I learned from Nigella and Rachael Ray - skim evaporated milk does a good job replacing cream in many recipes. Now, it won't whip and it's not exactly the same, but if you have a favorite recipe that's pretty healthy except for the cream, try this substitute. Cup for cup they should measure the same. I love to make a lemon cream sauce to go over whole wheat pasta and chicken or salmon (I love piccatas and scallopines), and I use the evaporated milk to make this dish more frugal and healthy. And I recently got back evaporated milk free after coupon at Kroger, so I'm well stocked.Frozen Pacific Wild Salmon at Walmart - I believe Aldi has it cheaper, but I'm not 100 percent sure that its Pacific wild salmon, which is the healthiest type there is. Skip Atlantic salmon - there are many warnings about it, and as I've been reading up, I'm finding it has higher fats and less protein. Anyway, Walmart has wild Pacific salmon for $6.99 a 16 ounce package. That's four servings of a great source of lean(ish) protein!Rice - Used to be we could get free rice all the time with the Whole Grain Rice-a-Roni products (by using a $1 coupon with a 10/$10 sale). Not so anymore. Still, rice is a great deal. Remember to get whole-grain or brown rice and buy it in bigger bags for a bigger bang for your buck! I love to mix some Italian spices along with a bit of parmesan cheese (a small grating won't kill your diet) into it for a new flavoring.Potatoes - Potatoes can be baked, mashed, steamed, roasted, etc. They get really cheap during certain times of the year (you'll pay as little as $1.99 for 10 pounds) and can be stored in cool, dark places to make them last longer. (I put them in my garage, off the floor during the winter.) They also freeze well. I like mashed potatoes flavored with the skim evaporated milk, a little garlic and some salt and pepper.Frozen Vegetables - Did you know that frozen veggies are almost always healthier than the ones in the "fresh" area of your grocery? It's true! Frozen veggies are picked at the height of their ripeness, and frozen within 48 hours of picking. "Fresh" veggies, however, are often picked before they're ripe, and have been off the vine/tree/plant for as much as two to three weeks before you buy them! They've lost lots of vitamins since they were picked before full ripeness, and many of their vitamins evaporate into the air as they sit waiting to be bought. As for deals, Birds Eye and Green Giant steamers have frequent great sale, like steamer packs for $.30 each or even free! Cascadian Farms have been on sale several times, and when combined with a $1-off coupon, have been under $1 a package for organic frozen veggies - a GREAT deal!Kashi - I love Kashi foods, and they are one of the best deals to be found in the health food section. Watch Kashi's website and sign up for their e-mails and for the VocalPoint program to get the best coupons. I get $2-off coupons all the time, and so often their cereals and snacks will go on sale for $2.50 a box or less! Right now I'm holding coupons for free boxes of their cereal bars (which my kids love!) and $2/1 box of cereal bars. I'm just waiting for a sale....Eggs - Eggs as whole protein are incredibly healthy and frugal. When local stores offer eggs for less than $1 a dozen (I've seen Walmart have them for $.88 a dozen locally), I'll stock up. While you can't freeze eggs in the shell, good chefs know that eggs can still be frozen. Just crack and freeze them whole - scrambled, unscrambled, all whites, all yolks, etc. I love scrambled eggs with a little spinach and mushroom for my breakfast.The Misto - The Misto is not a food product, it's a food tool. The Misto is a substitute for Pam or other oil/baking sprays. Instead of buying individual cans, the Misto is a refillable pump sprayer. I can buy extra light oils and fill the Misto, give the cap a few pumps to build up air pressure and then spray my foods or pans lightly. I get small amounts of oil (often under 1 gram of fat per use) but sprayed evenly and cheaply. The Misto cost me $12 when I bought it and has saved me well over that amount this past year alone.