If you really want cheap, you have to break down the best way to obtain the 3 land proteins.
Chicken/pork/beef
This usually involves breaking down the animal yourself, either sales of grocery stores to "the clubs"
i'll use my own area as an example in ks.
I can get whole chickens that don't look mutated for .95c /lb
i've broken down a roasted chicken before and a 4lb chicken will net you
cataloging that a roasted 4lb chicken will produce
14oz in bones
20oz in white meat
21oz in dark meat
the rest is chicken fat.
You could really stretch that chicken by using that 14oz in bones (my recommendation is to freeze your first carcass and wait until you have 2 birds) and make chicken stock. you don't even have to throw in veggies to make the stock, but celery and carrots are like the cheapest veggies and they add enough flavor.
Once you have this chicken stock made, you can then use that stock to flavor and cook other recipes
It's also actually one of the ways to make keto enjoyable, it's called keto bone broth, usually ppl cook w/ beef bones instead and freeze it, but it's all just stock in the end.
Again once you realize all stock is, is just a way to extract bone marrow into yumminess, you'll keep on doing it., even have an ice tray where you freeze a few cubes to just dump in your food when it's cooking.
While I am sure it's tasty. Why bother doing this when better than boullion is so inexpensive?
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