10 cheap healthy foods vs 10 ridiculosly expensive foods!

The cheap and overall healthy foods:

1. Bananas - about $0.33 each


2. Beans  ($0.75/15oz can)


3. Canned tomatoes ($1.67/28oz can)


4. Carrots ($0.66 per pound)

5. Frozen spinach ($1.00/10oz bag)

6. Lentils ($0.79/1lb bag)

7. Oatmeal ($3.69/42oz canister)

8. Peanut butter ($2.39/18oz jar

 

9. Peas ($3.00/2lb bag)

10. Sweet potatoes ($0.50 per potato)

Here is the list of hilariously expensive foods!

 1  Matsutake Mushrooms – $1000pound because of its rarity

2. The World’s Most Expensive Bagel – $1000 topped with white truffle cream cheese and goji berry infused Riesling jelly with golden leaves.

3. The Zillion Dollar Frittata – $1000
It consists of a mixture of eggs, lobster and 10 ounces of sevruga caviar (which costs the restaurant $65 per ounce).


4. Wagyu Steak – $2800
Kobe beef comes from cows that are allegedly fed only beer and massaged by hand to ensure a tenderness and marbling beyond compare



5. Samundari Khazana, the World’s Most Expensive Curry – $3200 To celebrate the DVD release of Slumdog Millionaire, Bombay Brassiere packed this curry platter full of the most expensive ingredients they could find. Devon crab and white truffle and a half tomato filled with Beluga caviar and dressed with gold leaf are just the start of this lavish dish

6. Domenico Crolla’s “Pizza Royale 007″ – $4200


The 12 inch pizza pie is densely packed with an assortment of some of the world’s most expensive food ingredients, such as lobster marinated in cognac, caviar soaked in champagne, sunblush tomato sauce, Scottish smoked salmon, venison medallions, prosciutto, and vintage balsamic vinegar. In addition to all these fine ingredients, it’s topped with a significant amount of edible 24-carat gold flakes.



7. Dansuke Watermelon – $6,100
In a country where watermelons are rare game, they can be a costly commodity. That’s how a 17-pound Japanese watermelon became the most expensive watermelon in the world. Densuke watermelons, a type of black watermelon grown only on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, are usually given as gifts due to their extraordinary rarity. There were only sixty-five of the fruits among the first harvest this season. They are harder and crisper than the watermelons we Americans are used to and, according to Tohma Agricultural Cooperative’s spokesman, they “have a different level of sweetness.”


8. Yubari Melons – $22,872
Another type of expensive melon, the world’s most expensive cantaloupes are a pair of Yubari melons and were the first auction of the 2008 season. They had previously been judged the best pair and were purchased by the owner of a nearby seafood lunchbox and souvenir business. It had some competition—100 melons grown by farmers from Yubari were also judged.

9. Almas Caviar – $25,000
Almas caviar comes from Iran making it extremely rare and extremely expensive - sol only in the Caviar House & Prunier in London England’s Picadilly that sells a kilo of the expensive Almas caviar in a 24-karat gold tin for £16,000, or about $25,000. Coincidentally, it is also where you can find the most expensive meal in Britain. The Caviar House also sells a £800 tin for those on a smaller budget.



10. Italian White Alba Truffle – $160,406
Expensive truffles are notoriously pricey because they are difficult to cultivate. This makes them a true delicacy which some have called the king of all fungi. The Associate Press reported that a real estate investor and his wife from Hong Kong have paid €125,000 ($160,406 USD) for a gigantic Italian White Alba truffle which is reportedly the world’s most expensive ever. The most expensive truffle weighs in 1.51 kilograms (3.3 lbs).

Sources: http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/10-cheapest-healthiest-foods-money-can.html
http://most-expensive.net/foods