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I have a theory that there is a impossible trinity (like in economics), where a food cannot be delicious, cheap and healthy at the same time. At maximum 2 of the 3 can be achieved.

Is there any food that breaks this theory?

Edit: I was thinking more about dishes (or something you put in your mouth) than the raw substances

Some popular suggestions include

  • fruits (in season) and vegetables
  • lentils, beans, rice
  • mushrooms
  • chicken
  • just eat in moderation

Edit 2: Thanks for the various answers. Now there are a lot of (mostly bean-based) recipes for everyone to try out!

Also someone made a community for cheap healthy food after seeing this topic!

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[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Rice and beans, just be a little creative with preparation. Also you can make lots of soups that are cheap and healthy and its super easy to make too.

[–] sudneo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My very Italian answer is "pizza bianca" . I guess "healthy" depends, but it's generally OK carbs, it's delicious and with few Euros you can buy quite a lot (enough for a lunch).

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Beans! Especially stew with them, you can throw in pretty much anything (veggies, meat, adjust your spice levels...) and once you learn the correct balance it's very tasty and filling.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Popcorn is very low calorie per volume, especially the types without a lot of fat.

[–] skylinestar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is rice healthy? It's just something to keep me full.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fyi rice is high in calories so you should have a small amount of it with food

[–] sacbuntchris@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Brown rice is a great source of complex carbs

[–] LostCause@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don‘t know about economics, but this is my entry to research:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Xa7Dp3-eYA

And cucumber prices went up more than 50% for me in the last 2 years alone, so maybe you‘re onto something.

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[–] syn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say sandwiches, depending on what you want to put in them. A loaf of healthy (low sugar) bread isn't going to be the cheapest option on the shelf, but if you're dividing the cost by the number of sandwiches you can make out of it, it still ends up amounting to a large number of really inexpensive meals. I normally just add some meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomato, and it's very nutritional and also delicious.

[–] whenever8186@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you make the bread yourself (i.e. with a breadmaker) it's dirt cheap. I buy flour and yeast in bulk and it costs bugger all per loaf.

You could maybe argue bread isn't healthy because it's technically a processed food (flour, carbs, etc.), but as others have pointed out moderation is key.

[–] overzeetop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My reply to the the whole thread would be bread/sourdough. Healthy might be pushing it, but a whole grain, hard wheat (bread flour) at least has a bit more protein. Plus I usually add eithe a bit of olive oil to the dough (good fat) and brush the top with butter (extra taste).

I’d put steel cut oats in this boat too, with a bit of honey to sweeten.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pizza is pretty cheap in Italy, also Pasta.

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[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jimmy Joy. Cheap (under 2 euros per meal), delicious and you can't really get any more nutritious than that. It has all the recommended nutrients in one go.

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

+1, jimmy joy is great

[–] ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well chicken maybe as it is the most cheap meat. And it is subjective, but something like chicken soup (if cooked at home) can be relativly cheap and really delicious.

Also, just thought about it - fruits and berries also easily break this trinity

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

Meat is an expensive luxury product

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The one thing missing from the trinity is "effort". For instance, you could make any Dal, which would fit the trinity, but takes a lot of time. There are books with hundreds of Dal recipes that all taste different and work, too. And this is just one example. Less than a dollar a meal if made in bulk with rice.

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[–] pineapplefriedrice@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

BEANS

Addictive carbs and salt, dirt cheap, and healthy as shit. Also convenient and compatible with most dietary/ethical restrictions.

If you learn to like beans when you're 20 and throw it into an index fund, you'll have a modest retirement fund just on the money you saved (yes, I calculated it based on money saved and growth of the S&P).

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then there is mc Donald's and similar chains. They managed to avoid all three of those things

[–] Double_A@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wonder if they are actually that unhealthy. After all a burger is just meat, bread, and some veggies. Doesn't seem that unbalanced.

I assume the most unhealthy part there is the gallon of sugar soda that people also drink there ._.

[–] ComeScoglio@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

undefined> Kebab

It's all the additives to these otherwise quite wholesome ingredients that make them less healthy and not as nutritionally dense as they should be. McDonald's burgers are not JUST meat, bread, and some veggies unfortunately.

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, interesting, that page says that vegan diets "reduced food costs by up to one third [emphasis mine]", which I guess is nothing to scoff at but on the other hand doesn't seem that large; I would have expected the relative cost of including meat in your diet to increase food costs by much more given how resource-intensive it is to produce meat compared to producing vegetables.

[–] NotAPenguin@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

The prices of animal products are kept artificially low by subsidies and don't reflex the real world cost.

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