30 Affordable Healthy Foods We Should All Eat More

9. Oysters

Best Place to Buy: Local fishmonger

Avg. Price: $20 per small bushel*

Benefits: High in vitamin B12

While they are certainly an acquired taste and texture, oysters contain enough healthy nutrients to encourage most people to give them another try. When eaten raw with lemon juice or another strongly flavored salty or acidic sauce, oysters are high in vitamin B12, which can be hard to find naturally in many other foods and help maintain energy levels, among other benefits.

You can skip the supplement aisle and get natural vitamin B12 by eating a few oysters at the nearest restaurant's dollar oyster happy hour, or buy them yourself after visiting your local fish market. Just be careful when shucking them open with a knife, or ask the fishmonger to shuck them for you to avoid injury.