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Vegetables are far cheaper than meat?
Like a bag of rice and lentils/beans is next to nothing.
And beans are hella calorie dense depending on the kind
Beans are one of the corner stones of my diet and damn are they good and cheap
i just saw at the shops, an 20kg bag of rice was $30. do you have any idea how long 20KG of rice would last? a long long long time. It's simply not possible that buying FEWER ingredients (i.e. no meat) could be more expensive than buying more ingredients.