processed food and eating healthier

tigersword

ground meat is usually the cheaper cuts of meat ground up.

Not necessarily. Most ground meat is either the it it's named for (sirloin, chuck, butt, etc,) or it's simply leftover pieces. There are many cases where the basic "ground hamburger" is actually ground up leftovers of beef tenderloins. Not a cheap cut of meat at all.

Personally I grind my own meat, as it gives me the flexibility to mix and match different cuts at will, but saying ground meat in the store is automatically low quality just isn't true. It's cheap because it's made from what otherwise would've been waste, due to size, or because it's trimmed off scraps. Still high quality cut, just not enough to package as-is.