1 Cup Self rising flour (15 cents) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z7C6FVK?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
1 Banana (15 cents)
Mush a ripe or slightly over ripe banana into 1 cup self rising flour. Add water and mix until batter texture.
Cook like pancakes
3/10 plain.
Not super inspiring eaten plain, edible, but far more mild than I expected, and texture is, expectedly, not perfect.
Just fine as a vessel to carry jelly/butter/syrup to you though. Maybe a teaspoon of sugar would have helped.
You can get instant pancake mix for fairly cheap. A box of Ms. Butterworths runs $.18 per serving, which makes the cut just at $.33 per serving with the banana. Truthfully, you are going to have a hard time keeping below $.33 if you don’t include staples like salt, sugar, and a leavening agent, however, all of those things are cheap to buy or free at any food pantry. Sure, you can eat a mouth full of unseasoned flour, but you’ll get zero nutrition and zero flavor.
Yeah it didn’t work great!
The problem with box of Ms. Butterworths, if we’re looking at the same box, is that it’s only 170 calories per serving. Not a passable meal at all if the goal is a minimum of 1500 calories per day!
Also part of this is challenging creativity! There are going to be failures and mess ups, but it’s rather fun to try and think of how to do things cheaper.