<p>PASTA FTW
Good cheese can get expensive though …</p>
<p>Chicken and rice is a really good one. Throw whatever vegetables you have in and you’ve got a solid, complete meal for hardly any money. Chicken and pasta is cheap too, and good if you make a pesto sauce with olive oil, parmesean cheese and pepper.</p>
<p>Stir fry with eggs, scallions, and peppers.</p>
<p>hot pockets</p>
<p>Pasta Puttanesca</p>
<p>You need: 3-4 large Roma tomatoes depending on their size, 2 bulbs of garlic, fresh basil, angel hair pasta (which is realllly cheap), and olive oil and parmesan cheese (optional because it’s kind of expensive)</p>
<p>the sauce: coat a medium-sized skillet with olive oil and let simmer for a few minutes on high heat setting. While you’re doing this, dice the tomatoes and about 4 cloves of garlic. Also, grate the cheese if you have it. Then after a minute, add this to the skillet and stir it together, then let it simmer for a while. After a few minutes, add the basil - don’t add it right away because it’ll lose its flavor. You can add pepper flakes/black pepper or whatever else also. Then just basically stir this mix on medium heat until it’s the right consistency, which probably will take 15 minutes or so. </p>
<p>the pasta: simple, prepare it like you would any other pasta (put water in a pot, add a bit of salt to the water, bring the water to the boil and then add the pasta). Do this last, though, because the sauce takes a while and the pasta takes only a couple of minutes. </p>
<p>And then you just combine the sauce and the pasta. It’s REALLY good. It probably sounds kind of ritzy but none of the ingredients are especially expensive (except parmesan which might be expensive if you buy a large quantity of it) or hard to find, and pasta is one of the cheapest things you can buy. Also, this recipe is enough for at least 2 meals.</p>
<p>PB&J or Easy Mac. Im incapable of making food.</p>
<p>pho using instant pho broth packets + noodles
probably not very healthy though…</p>
<p>I agree with burritos…if one’s <em>really</em> careful, one can even make beef burritos in the microwave (chunks of ground beef can be made small enough that they cook all the way through). Adding brown rice to the mix is nice too, though cooking brown rice in the microwave is not as easy.</p>