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ARTICLE INDEX

RECIPE COMPILATIONS
1 Chicken, 17 Healthy Meals, $26 Bucks, No Mayo

20 Cheap, Healthy Dishes Made From 10 Pantry Staples

38 Cheap, Healthy Recipes for Thanksgiving Leftovers

60 Cheap, Healthy Marinades

65 Cheap, Healthy, One-Dish Meals with Good Leftover Potential

68 Cheap, Healthy, No-Cook Recipes

156 Cheap, Healthy Recipes for Ten Common Leftover Herbs

A Beginner’s Guide to Beans, Plus 42 Bean Recipes

Cheap, Healthy Asparagus: 81 Recipes for the Springiest of Spring Vegetables

Cheap, Healthy Leafy Greens: 246 Recipes for Cabbage, Kale, Spinach, Swiss Chard, and Beyond

Cheap Healthy Beef Part I: Recipes and Methodology

Cheap Healthy Party Food

Cheap Healthy Pork: Recipes, Methodology, and Tips

Cheap, Healthy Salad Dressings: 102 Light Recipes

Cheap, Healthy Zucchini and Eggplant: 134 Recipes

In Defense of Potatoes (Plus, 12 Potato Recipes)

Dozens of Cheap, Healthy, Environmentally Friendly Seafood Recipes

Save Money on Seasonings: MYOM (Make Your Own Mix)

Seriously, Eating: 40 Recipes From the Other Website I Write For

Seriously Eating II: 94 Recipes from Serious Eats' Healthy and Delicious Column

Super Bowl Recipes: 77 Cheap and Healthy Foods for the Big Game

Super Bowl Recipes XLV: 77 Cheap and Healthy Foods for the Big Game

The Only Thanksgiving Post You’ll Ever Need: 100+ Links for Turkey Day

Winter Squash 101 (Plus 18 Recipes!)


COLLEGE, CURRICULUM, & LIFE LESSONS
Cheap, Healthy College Food: Tips for Frugal, Nutritious Dining in the Dorm and Beyond

Cheap Healthy Good and the Triangle of Compromise

Finance, Food, and the Role of Personal Responsibility: A Question for Readers

Food, Finance, and Judging Others

“Healthy” Defined! (As Best We Can)

If I Had Known Then: Food and Financial Advice for the College-Bound (Also, a Story)

Life Skills 101: A Curriculum for Food, Finance, and Other Real World Basics

Life Skills 102: Advanced Adulthood (Write This Down)

Musings of a Healthy Cooking Teacher

Navigating the Reboot: Getting Back on Track After Falling Off of It. (The Track, I Mean.)

Observations From a Novice Cook

On Progress

Prepping for Unemployment: Food, Money, Mind

Reader Request: Defining "Healthy"

Roommate Living: Your Food, Kitchen, and Sanity

When Food Frugality Pays Off: See Ya, Sallie Mae

When NOT to Eat Cheap, Healthy, and Good (Er, Well)


COOKING
10 Cheap Shortcuts to Making Cooking Oh-So-Much Easier

10 Signs You’re Becoming a Better Cook

10 Ways to Eat Less Meat

13 Ways to Cook Without an Oven

15 Time-Saving Food Prep Tips

18 No-Cook Meal Ideas

Baking and Cooking for the Sensitive and Cleansing

The Brown Bag Brigade: Your One-Stop Shop for Work Lunch Ideas

Call the Waaaaahmbulance (on Greenmarkets)

Cheap, Healthy Carnivore

Cheap, Healthy Master Recipes: Eight Versatile Dishes Entirely Adaptable to Your Tastes

Cheap, Healthy, Sick: 10 Easy, Nutritious Foods for When You’ve Contracted the Plague

The CHG Hall of Shame

CHG's Top Ten Recipes: Year One

CHG Turns 2: The Year's Top Ten Recipes

Chop ‘Til You Drop: The Ultimate Guide to Slicing, Carving, and Cutting Your Food into Tiny, Affordable Pieces

Converting Those Pesky Weights and Measures

Cooking Day: 39 Yellow Tomatoes, 11 Hours, No Mercy

Cooking For Small Children: 15 Hows, Whys, and … Honey, Please Put That Cleaver Down

Cooking for Survival Eaters

Creating a Global Pantry

Don’t Fear the Bean Curd

Easy Veganization

The Eat Your Veggies Experiment Part 1: Meet the Eaters

The Eat Your Veggies Experiment Part 2: Results

Eww…That’s Not Vegetarian 101

Fear Itself

Five Delicious Ways to Eat Broccoli Stalks

Free Cooking Lessons. No, Seriously.

Frugal Food Hacks: 10 Tricks to Simplifying Online Recipe Searches

HOW Old is that Oatmeal? When to Clean Out the Pantry

How to Tell is a Recipe is Cheap and Healthy Just by Looking at it

Last-Minute Little Dinners for One: Tips, Ideas, and 25 Recipes

Learning to Love Foods You Hate: A How-to Guide for Frugal Eaters

Lighten Any Meal: 10 Easy, Inexpensive Steps to Healthier Recipes

Little Meals for One

Navigating the Reboot: Getting Back on Track After Falling Off of It. (The Track, I Mean.)

Overcoming Your Cooking Obstacles

Overcoming Your Cooking Obstacles, Part II: So, Your Family Doesn’t Cook

Pantry of the Gods

Reaching into the Mailbag—Mom Seeks Help with Teen Veg

Rest in Peas: A Working Mothers Guide to Not Making Baby Food

The Three Rules of Leftovers

Vegetarian Meal Planning for Meat Eaters


DIETING and EATING RIGHT
15 Reasons I Gain(ed) Weight (And Two Reasons I Didn’t)

The Booze of Summer: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Lighter, Cheaper Drinks

How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off: 10 Rules to Live By

The Incredible Shrinking Dad: How One Guy Lost 108 Pounds (and Kept it Off)

The Problem With Diet Foods

Serving Sizes and Portion Control: A Primer

Touchy Subjects: Confronting Loved Ones about Weight and Money Problems

Trading Butter for All the Broccoli in China: Getting Healthy Takes Practice

Why Weight Maintenance is Harder Than Weight Loss, and How to Help it Along


DINING OUT
Cheap Healthy Vacation Food Part Deux: 10 More Tips for Travel Eats on a Budget

Cheap Healthy Vacation Food: 61 Tips for Travel Eats on a Budget

Feeding a Group on Vacation

Healthy Takeout on a Budget

On Splurging

There is No Free Breakfast

Traveling While Vegetarian


DO-GOODING
Feed the World: Holiday Volunteering and Food Donations

So This is Christmas: 37 Food Philanthropies


EXPLORING THE ISSUES
5 Ways to Eat Healthier, Cheaper, Tastier, and Better for the Planet in 2011

The $25 Food Project: One Man, Seven Days, 21 Meals

The $25 Food Project Finale: Recipes, Conclusions, and an Exit Interview

As for Me and My House, We'll Serve the Veggies

Companies vs. Consumers: A Manifesto

Eating on $25 Dollars a Week: The Experiment

Eat Cheap and Healthy – How to Help Others?

Food Money Matters: Why Healthy Eating Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive

The Junk Food Tax: Reader Ideas, Opinions, and Solutions

The Junk Food Tax: Reasonable Public Health Measure or Evidence of a Nanny State?

The Presidential Plate: Obama and McCain on Food

Newsflash! Scientists Getting Closer to Lab-grown Meat

The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Food Crisis: How it Started, Who it Hurts Most, and How to Solve the Problem

Understanding the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Part I: Causes and Effects

Understanding the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Part II: Wide-Scale Solutions

Understanding the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Part III: Small-Scale Solutions

I Want to Be a Tofu Butcher

What the Great Depression Can Teach Us About Food and Frugality


GROCERY SHOPPING
The #1 Rule of Personal Finance

4 Key Ingredients to Eat Well and Frugally at Home

10 Cheap Ways to Simplify Food Shopping

The 10 Cheapest, Healthiest Foods Money Can Buy

10 Foods You Should Always Splurge On

26 Common Food Labels, Explained

Angus Anguish: Is Angus Beef Worth the Money?

C. Everett Co-op

The Cheap Healthy Good Guide to CSAs

COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) for You and Me

Couponing for People Who Hate Couponing: A Zero-Stress Guide to Clipping Big Bargains

Dr. Veg-love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Seasonal Produce

Eating Healthy While Clipping Coupons

Food Labels That Ate My Sanity

Food, Frugality, and Fighting Brand Loyalty

Frugal Grocery Shopping for City Folk

Grocery Shopping: What Works for Me

How to Buy the USDA Recommended 4.5 Cups of Fruits and Vegetables for $2.50 Per Day

How to Eat Green Without a Greenmarket

Local Going Into Winter

Meal Planning – An Experiment and Conversion

Nutritionism, Your Health, and Your Money

Olive Oil - Buying, Storing, and Using it, Demystified

Need a Weekly Meal Planner, a Grocery List, or Price Books? We Have 36 of ‘em.

Recession-Proofing Your Diet: Food Strategies for a New Economy

Relax, Frugal Eater: A Measured Approach to Lifestyle Changes

Save 95% on Groceries, a.k.a. Why You Should Shop at Ethnic Markets

Save Money on Food: Buy it Whole Rather Than Pre-cut, Pre-cleaned, or Pre-whatever

Spend Less, Eat Healthier: The Five Most Important Things You Can Do

The Sweet Stuff, Part I: A New Color in the Packet Rainbow

The Sweet Stuff, Part II: White, Brown, and Sparkly Crystals

The Sweet Stuff, Part III: Nectar of the Gods

The Argument for Spending More on Food

The Case for Frozen Food

The Circular Game: Decoding Your Supermarket Weekly

The Hour: How 60 Minutes a Week Can Save Hundreds of Dollars on Food

Touch of Class: 10 Thrifty, Healthy Ingredients to Improve the Quality of Your Meals

Treating Food-Borne Affluenza: 15 Tips to Curb Your Foodie Leanings

Weekly Menu Planning for Singles, Couples, and Working People

When to Splurge on Organic

Why Eat Local?


KITCHEN EQUIPMENT
10 Essential Kitchen Items for the Healthy Cook

The Best Everyday Cookbooks

Cheap Healthy Good’s Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Equipment

Dessert Island Kitchen Gadgets

The Dos and Don’ts of Buying a Cookbook

Finding Quality Kitchen Equipment on the Cheap

Frugal Storage Solutions for the Small Kitchen

How to Care for Cast Iron Cookware

Kitchn Cure Week 1 - Pantry and Fridge


MISCELLANEOUS
A Confession and a Prayer to Remain Tailless

A Plan! A Wonderful Plan!

An Engagement, a Veg-friendly Wedding, and an Anniversary

Apple Hacks, or 43 Incredible, Mostly Inedible Uses for Extra Apples

CHG: New and Improved!

CHG Year 2: A Feedback Request

Embracing the Asthma-lete Within

If You Like CHG, You’ll Love These: 18 Stellar Food Blogs

Information Central: 32 Free Food Charts, Checklists, and Wallet-Sized Guides

Last-Minute Lunch

Lunch Buddies: Share Costs and Get Healthy Together

Mission Statement ... OF DELIGHT

My Wet Hot New Yorkian Summer (Staying Cool for Cheap During a City Summer)

Should You Read Cheap Healthy Good? Take This Quiz and Find Out.

What I Learned About Food in Italy


PARTIES, GET-TOGETHERS, & GIFT-GIVING
10 Steps to a Saner, Thriftier, Somewhat Healthier Thanksgiving

Cheap, Healthy, Good Entertaining - Hosting While Preserving Your Finances, Sanity, and Well-Being

Classy Parties on the Cheap: Baby Showers, Barbecues, and Beyond

DIY Holidays Part I: Food

DIY Holidays Part II: Crafts

Five Ways to Save on Wedding Food: A Guest’s View

Of Risk and Celebration

Picky, Picky: Frugal, Healthy Menu Ideas for a Fussy Crowd

Potluck Tips to Save You Time and Moolah,

Recession Chic, Party Planning, and Me

The Practical Guide to Christmas Gifts for Foodies


POP CULTURE
10 Modern Food Myths, Busted

11 Things Dwight K. Schrute Has Taught Me About Food and Frugality

19-Hour Food Network Running Diary: The Whole Thing and Various Conclusions

2008’s Food Quotes of the Year: Zing!

40 Greatest Songs About Food: Part I

40 Greatest Songs About Food: Part II

The Biggest Loser Season 8 Finale: Livebloggin’

Cutting Calories and Saving D'oh: 25 Lessons "The Simpsons" Taught Me About Cheap, Healthy Eating

Defending the Doyenne: The Semi-Cheap, Kind-of-Healthy Goodness of Rachael Ray

Film Fest ’09: Three Essential Documentaries About Food

Food, Money, Culture: Why Biggest Loser Might Be the Most Important Show on TV

Food Network, the Decline of Stand and Stir Programming, and Where to Go From Here

Foodie Mags: What to Buy and Where to Get ‘em

Free Cooking Lessons Part II: A Beginner’s Guide to TV Chefs

I Have Seen the Enemy, and She is FABULOUS: How to Read Women’s Magazines Without Feeling Awful About Yourself

This Movie Changed My Life (No, it’s Not Showgirls)

Vintage Cookbook Hoedown: The Quick Cook Book (1961) by Lois S. Kellogg