Compare those prices to buying pasta and rice in bulk, however, and you're ultimately looking at a higher receipt.

Yes, cheeses are stupidly expensive, unless you're buying the cheap super-market kind, which comes at $4 a packet and lasts a single person at least two weeks.

A $10 packet of ground beef will make me food to last a full week, sometimes more. $10 worth of veggies lasts half as long, if I'm lucky.