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adjl posted...

Long grain brown rice is $13 for an 8 kg (281.6 oz) bag at Costco. Black-eyed beans are $23 for a 10 kg (352 oz) bag. Split evenly (4.25 oz of each), that'd be 8.5 oz for 47 cents. Those are also Canadian prices and include delivery (I'm just going by the website, buying in-warehouse would be cheaper), so that's 37 cents US if we go just by the exchange rate, and even less with the in-store discounts. The water cost is negligible (~$1 per 1000L here, you'd have to work to use more than 10L), seasoning costs are pretty negligible (especially if you buy in bulk; grocery store spice bottles are a massive ripoff), and you've got something more nutritious for less money. Heck, there's enough left on that budget that you could even throw in a bit of vegetable to spice things up a bit.

can i go

and buy all of that right now

for only fifty cents.

no, i can't, which is why breakdowns like that do not work, because it's always "if you spend $40 you can create something that maybe would be cheaper than this thing you can just buy right now for a fraction of the price as the other stuff"