Food Inc.

[Sundae]

Depends where you get it from.
Supermarkets charge a premium because higher standards are set.

When I lived in Leicester I bought fresh produce nearly every day, as I walked past the market on my way to work. I also had a greengrocer and a butcher on my road.

It was approx the same price as supermarket shopping - sometimes a little cheaper - but the difference was the sell-by date. Fruit, veg, fish, meat pies - all needed to be consumed same day or day after. So you didn't get any bulk-buy discount. And you had to eat what you had bought. It seems like an old-fashioned way of eating now, but it was what I grew up with. And I wish I was within such easy proximity to fresh food now. It's easier to say "oh bugger it" when it's a two mile round trip on foot.

Pulses are always cheap, if you can stomach them.
Not fast food, but very filling and in the US they might have a small carbon footprint?