Salsa soup

Type: Recipe hack

Ingredients:
2-3 pork steaks
1 can black beans
1 can corn
1 jar of salsa
1 soy milk or packet (1/4 cup)  milk powder (I use powder)
1 bag tri-colored tortilla strips

Cost: under $8 (the vegetables are usually below one dollar)
Feeds: 4-5

What's really great about this is it will be the 'temp' you prefer in your salsa mild (me), hot (hubby), or you can even go green. I should have worn safety goggles, because as I was stirring hot (two ways) salsa it popped up in my eye. Nice. Eyedrops. Tears. Cold pack (yes, from the Dollar Tree). sigh.
Trim fat and cut pork. Throw everything but the chips in a crock pot. Cook four hours or so on high. Add salt and pepper to taste, most flavor is already in the salsa jar! Sprinkle chips on top, the chips really bring it to the next level.
The thing here too is that this can be even less expensive. These ingredients are at your dollar store, but I stock up when beans, veggies and diced tomatoes go down to .50 a can in Smith's truckload sales) I buy meat when on sale. It is good with cheese sprinkled, but I do not recommend dollar store cheese. Sometimes they will get a brand you recognize and that is fine. Cheese freezes. Fake cheese is worse for constipation (yes, I said it) than normal cheese.

Vegetarian:
Omit pork, add zucchini. Cook on high for an hour or so. The cost goes down by 1-2 dollars. The taste is still marvelous.