Try eating organic! Nothing is cheap! Not complaining. It’s my choice. I shop constantly for sales and meat, milk, eggs, orange juice, yogurt, etc on clearance.
Get some tubs and grow greens and veg in a sunny window.
A friend of mine always started his seeds in wet paper towels, he wanted to plant them as sprouted seeds, so he knew how many to put in a pot.
It is also used, to test seeds.
I do not recall the details of it all, something about rolling them up in a wet paper towel, what happened next, I have forgotten.
I like putting them in soil, so was not paying as much attention as I should have.
A search testing vegetable seeds might work.
LOL, I should always ask google, before speaking out loud: