Eat right when your budget's tight. When you cook cheap healthy meals with inexpensive ingredients, you can live frugally without having to resort to eating TV dinners every night.

Here are some of our favourite cheap healthy recipes for health-conscious cooks who shop on a budget:

Irresistible bread dumplings top a flavourful cabbage and root vegetable stew. 

When fresh tomatoes are abundant and in season, make this simple and delicious sauce to toss with any cooked pasta. Top each serving with shaved Parmesan cheese and extra pepper if you like. This dish is the king of cheap healthy recipes!

Stir-fries are a super way to meet a number of nutritional recommendations. They traditionally supply plenty of vegetables while making it an easy task to cut down on blood cholesterol–elevating saturated fats.

Vegetables and grains cook conveniently together in this big savoury casserole. You can use any combination of your preferred vegetables as long as the total amount equals about 8 cups (2 L). Save any leftovers for toting in your lunch box. 

Beef borscht usually requires hours of simmering tasty yet tough cuts of beef to tenderness, but with ground beef, you can get the flavour quickly. Serve this nutritious soup with Russian pumpernickel or rye bread.

Wake up your taste buds with this vibrant take on tuna salad. 

This fast soup is as appropriate for a dinner party menu as it is for the weeknight dinner table.

This mixture makes a good filling for wraps or a tasty topping for a baked potato, another inexpensive ingredient perfect for cooks in search of cheap healthy recipes.

You won't miss the usual calorie- and fat-heavy scalloped potatoes when you serve this healthier potato dish that's just as delicious. A mandoline makes short work of slicing the potatoes and celery root (celeriac).

 

10. Tuscan Swiss Chard and Bread Soup
This comforting, warming soup helps you incorporate dark leafy greens into your diet. The bread is used as a flavouring ingredient as well as a thickener in the soup.