Split pea soup from dried peas with 2 carrots 2 potatoes with skins and a small onion (ham/bacon optional) with thyme, garlic powder, pepper and salt for spices fired with hardwood coals in a camp style dutch oven and corn muffins as a side. The hardwood imparts a natural smokey flavor to the soup.
Cost about $2- $2.50 worth of ingredients if you buy the stuff on special and go the vegetarian route can feed an army. A dozen muffins and around 16 cups of soup.
You also can make chicken/turkey soup from 3-4 chicken carcasses/necks or one turkey carcass/neck but it is somewhat labor intensive picking the meat from the bones. That amount typically yields about 1 lb of meat. I like to add a cup of pearl barley, a 12 oz can of tomato sauce and root vegetables to my soup and salt/pepper for seasoning.
If you like popeye's beans and rice there is a recipe that IMO duplicates the flavor floating on the internet and that is also very cheap to make especially if you don't use instant rice.
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