Budget Cooking
50 min
Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili
Entirely meatless, under $10 for the whole pot, and hearty enough that nobody notices there's no beef in it.
Cooking cheaply is mostly about knowing which techniques make inexpensive ingredients taste like they cost more — browning properly, building depth with pantry staples, and using cuts and beans that reward slow cooking. Everything here is genuinely inexpensive per serving, and most of it makes enough for a second meal.
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Entirely meatless, under $10 for the whole pot, and hearty enough that nobody notices there's no beef in it.
Set it in the morning, come home to dinner. About $2.50 a serving and it tastes like it simmered all day, because it did.