Slow Cooking
Sprinkle a packet of dry ranch seasoning over raw ground beef in the slow cooker with 3 other ingredients for a meal so creamy your mother-in-law will swear you spent hours
Nana stretched about $8 of groceries into supper for 8 with this layered bake, and nobody ever went back home hungry.
My grandmother fed a table of 6 for under $7 with this every September. Just 4 ingredients and the whole pot was always gone.