10 Cheap Foods My Mexican Mother Always Kept for Hard Times

None of these cost more than a couple of dollars. All of them keep. And every single one quietly replaces something the store sells you for three or four times the price. Beans, rice, masa, eggs, lentils, papas, fideo, dried chiles, oats, and the one by the stove they told you to be afraid of. This was never about being poor. It was about knowing how. Let me show you. Tell me in the comments: what one cheap food did your mamá or abuela always keep in the house? I read every one.