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The cheapest option is to make it yourself. Keep an eye out for renovations or demolition around town, then either speak to the workers and ask politely for a cutting-board sized slab of discarded wood, or raid the skip when no-one is there.
If you've got a saw, a planer and a sander you can make one up in about an hour. Then just treat it a handful of times with cooking oil and you're good to go.
Pick one.
Don't forget your health if you grab a piece of lumber that's been treated in any way.
Or even if it's some exotic toxic hardwood like purpleheart.
That's completely idiotic, you don't know what's been on that wood.
You telling me this weird colored wood I found behind the chemical plant is dangerous? What are you, a woodologist?