I used to make a turkey chili for lunch--one crockpot full would last about four days. The ingredient cost totalled about $12. That's just the main dish, for

I used to make a turkey chili for lunch--one crockpot full would last about four days. The ingredient cost totalled about $12. That's just the main dish, for the same price per day as a regular hamburger, medium fries, and a soft drink at McDonalds. This week I made a quinoa salad. The grain boils for 15 minutes, which also hardboils eggs perfectly, so I chop in a few vegetables and get an easy, healthy, cheap, reasonably tasty meal. But it's far from trivial to find such a combination.