Sure bacon can be had for $4.00 a pound but try eating it. Hamburger is $3.99 where I live and it isn't a big town. You may find some 70-30 cheap pre frozen stuff for $3.00 but hamburger is not cheap. I eat the cheaper cuts cooked in my instapot but edible steak is 12-14 dollars a pound. I use a Sous Vide cooker to tenderize cheaper cuts.
We have all the major stores including Costco within 30 miles. Chicken is not real meat and I grow my own eggs.
Your foodie snootiness really doesn’t belong in a discussion of food costs for the indigent.