If you shop at WalMart try the ground turkey chub (freezer case) for $1.36 a pound. Low fat and good in any ground beef recipe. Ten pound bags of chicken legs with thighs attached are under $5.00. Remove the skin and it's relatively low fat.
For healthy veggies, Great Value frozen veggies with no additives like fake butter sauce, etc. Cheap and as healthy as fresh. You can eat cheaply and well, but you have to look around and think outside the box.
They drumsticks are good. I've made them before, with and without skin. I've gotten pretty good at weeding out the inexpensive, healthy foods as of late. It was sticker shock at first, to be sure. I like the thighs as well, but I'm the only one, so I don't get them as often. Frozen veggies are my friend, but the broccoli is sometimes more bitter than usual (and I don't mind the bitter, usually).
Cheap and as healthy as fresh. You can eat cheaply and well, but you have to look around and think outside the box.
This bears repeating. I think far too many people who are earning less don't bother, don't want to bother, and are resistant to change. But it is certainly a challenge to scavenge for the good stuff, through the myriad of less healthy, heavily processed foods.