I full on splurge with my beans. Dried beans, but I cook it up with pepper, an onion and clove of garlic. It's luxury beans if there ever were any. And it comes out to about $2.50 for 10 cups of cooked beans. And it's an even better value when you factor in that it lets me get protein on a vegetarian diet without needing to resort to buying supplements. Plus they're actually filling!