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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
Are we talking about only the plain substance, not allowing for spices? Because I feel like every food isn't delicious unless you season it in some way, or at least use an oil in cooking. If we're just talking about baking everything then I'd say everything is "bland" Lol
For me it's all about how you prepare the food. I eat chicken, canned beans, and mushrooms pretty much all the time because I try to buy cheap as much as I can, but just those few main items can be made so many different delicious ways with other "smaller/lesser" ingredients.
Pizza is pretty cheap in Italy, also Pasta.
Cheap and definitely delicious, maybe not so healthy as it's a carbs explosion. I have pasta once a week and pizza at most once a week. There are some interesting variations like chickpeas pasta, sourdough pizza etc... but then you get more healthy and less tasty in my opinion. You might love it 🤷♂️
Where I live soy milk is extremely cheap. I make a lot of smoothies with soy milk, bananas, and spinach. Costs about .30€ a serving.
I am making vegetarian lentil soup today.
Ingredients are cheap (you can add nearly any seasonal vegetables) and lentils can be grown locally (America, Europe, Asia, maybe elsewhere too) without too much environmental damage and dried lentils can be stored for long times, you do not need expensive spices and no industrial processed stuff.
Cooking it in a pressure cooker makes it energy effective and done very fast.
You can freeze it over longer periods, so you can make one big pot, but eat multiple times. It should stay perfectly fine for three month in a freezer* and we kept it for three days in a fridge just fine (could stay good longer but I haven't tried it).
And we love it.
Highly nutritious. Lentils are often overlooked, even though they're an inexpensive way of getting a wide variety of nutrients. For example, they're packed with B vitamins, magnesium, zinc, and potassium. Lentils are made up of more than 25% protein, which makes them an excellent meat alternative.
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.
Shred a rotisserie chicken, yellow rice with black beans and peas. Even healthier and cheaper is brown rice. For $20-$30 you can make days of meals and season each serving as pleases at the moment.
I cook whole chickens in a crockpot and it's awesome for broth. You can do that with the remnants of a rotisserie, too. You get so much more when you make broth out of it too - I use that as a the base for all sorts of soups and stews. So first you get to eat the chicken, then after that, a big pot of soup!
Look into Indian foods and even traditional japanese. Really hearty and nutrient dense foods there. Plus there's a book on Depression era cooking that has a lot of great recipes for low cost and self sustaining.