Why does my aunt's $3 soup pot beat every meal kit I've tried?
My aunt in Toledo made a pot of split pea soup Sunday that fed 6 of us for dinner and still left 4 containers in her fridge, and the whole thing cost her about $3.50. I did the math on my HelloFresh box from that same week, and it worked out to $11 a plate for food I still had to cook myself. She just used a bag of dried peas, an onion, a carrot, and the ham bone she'd been saving in her freezer for 2 weeks. Now I'm sitting here wondering why I ever thought meal kits were the cheap option. What's the one pantry staple that saves you the most cash?