Reply #28: Whole chickens are pretty inexpensive too [View All]

[Nikia]

Fresh produce can be pretty expensive in the off season. When I was growing up poor we didn't eat many vegtables, aside from the ones in school lunches, during the winter because fresh produce was expensive and my mother had a prejudice against canned vegtables.
There are some produce items that are generally inexpensive like dried beans and some produce items in bulk (potatoes, carrots, apples) and cheap bread and eggs, for non vegans.
Culturually, I think that many lower and working class people do consider meat as an important part of their diet and would not eat beans regularly and consider eggs a breakfast food or hear that they are high in cholesteral. There is cheap meat that does provide plenty of calories per dollar when compared to many vegitarian options.