Café Gratitude might be opening up new stores in California on a regular basis now, but it all started in San Francisco. It all started as a healthy way of eating and healthful living. Unlike so many other dining options, Café Gratitude is all about health, and what better way can a girl pamper herself? Their menu is fully organic and vegan.

Just because you’re on a budget doesn’t mean you have to eat unhealthy, fat-laden fast food fare. Fortunately, Chicago has plenty of restaurants that fit the bill, providing healthy food, served quickly for the girl on the run, at an affordable price. One such restaurant is called Pockets. Pockets offers “Fresh Food Fast.” Not only is

Imagine, for a moment, a bowl of fluffy Jasmine white rice, topped with tofu, carrots, peas, and bell peppers, all smothered in a Vietnamese peanut sauce. Wait…scratch that. How about instead a bowl of Japanese udon noodles, topped with pork, green onion, bean sprouts, and broccoli, in a coconut curry sauce? But this one sounds even better: B

If buying food that was sustainable to the environment as well as natural and organic was also inexpensive, probably everyone would be doing it without thinking twice about it. But pampered girls know that buying healthy food is important—the problem is finding it for less. Lucky for Boston gals, there’s just such a place (well, actually on

Inexpensive dining often means fast food or worse. But who feels pampered when eating fast food fries? Even though the food is cheap, it usually feels that way too. Fortunately, there are a variety of choices in Boston. Take The Paramount, a restaurant that’s been around since the 1930s. Voted Best of Boston by Boston Magazine in 2009 and