Video: Sara's Tasty Ideas on the Cheap!

Low-income families are eating dinner at home, together a new survey sponsored by the ConAgra Foods Foundation reveals. Most of the time, low-income families are cooking dinners at home from scratch but are they using the most nutritious ingredients? The healthy wants...and financial means of these families may not always align- and cost is perceived to be the primary barrier to healthy eating.

A study dealing with the barriers of healthy eating may actually surprise you. Healthy eating doesn't have to be as expensive as you think! In fact, there are many tricks of the trade that can end up saving you money. Practical information and simple strategies, especially around planning meals and food budgeting, can help low-income families get healthy meals on the table more often. 

About Sara Moulton:
Admired by millions as the host of "Cooking Live,"" Cooking Live Primetime," and "Sara's Secrets," Sara was one of the Food Network's defining personalities during the outlet's first decade.  In addition to her work on the Food Network, Sara was the Executive Chef of Gourmet Magazine for twenty-three years - right up until its closing in October 2009. Sara's restaurant experience peaked with a stint as chef tournant at La Tulipe in New York in the early Eighties.  It was also during this period that Sara co-founded the New York Women's Culinary Alliance, an "old girl's network" designed to help women culinary professionals. In October of 2011, "Sara's Weeknight Meals" will begin its second season on public television. She is also the Food Editor of ABC-TV's "Good Morning America." The late fall of 2011 will see the introduction of "Sara's Kitchen," an iPhone app featuring 60 recipes, 60 photos, and ten videos. Sara lives in New York City with her husband and two children.