Heres a sample of Sentinel's list of lazy healthy cheap foods. Buy my book titled "how to survive uni on something other than ramen and pizza and still have plenty of booze money"

Get some rolled oats and yogurt (the liquid one that you drink, not the thick one that you eat with a spoon) and shit like chia/flax/black seeds. Grab a big mug, fill it 1/3 with oats, 1 table spoon of each of the seeds, 1/3 yogurt, mix it and let it soak for 3-4 mins. There you go, ridiculously cheap healthy breakfast that takes 3 minutes to make. Almonds work too, just dont get roasted ones since they've got too much salt.

Or soft boil 2 eggs and eat them with toasted whole wheat rye bread. 5-10 mins of prep time. Personally I use bread from sprouted wheat and rye, it's more expensive than regular bread but it's more filling and 5 slices have almost 1/2 of your ideal daily fiber intake.

Bake chicken breast with potatoes or rice or just eat it with salad. 10 min prep time (season it and slice the potatoes while preheating the oven to about 180-200 Celsius) and 30 min cook time where you can just sit around and do something else.

Fish is god tier. I hate canned tuna and salmon is expensive here (thirdie country lul) so I just use frozen hake (very tasty without spices, very lean protein). Get like 200-400 grams or however much you wanna eat, clean it if needed, defrost if needed, bake in a 180C preheated oven for 30 ish mins, add some lemon and whatever side dish you want

If you don't want to cook them yourself, canned beans and peas are god tier sides, just make sure they don't have any additives.

You can cook rice and buckwheat on a stove in single portions and it takes about 20 mins. Get a small pot, put a bit of butter in it, let it melt on medium heat with some onions (or use oil and heat it up). Add rice and stir fry it for like a minute, season, add water (2:1 water to rice ratio works fine) and keep stirring on medium heat till the water gets absorbed (15-20 mins, just listen to a podcast or whatever while you do it). You can also replace some of the rice with buckwheat to make it healthier or add some sliced mushrooms at the start for extra flavor.

Protein shakes or fruit/veggie smoothies also take 2 mins to make and are extremely cheap unless you use exotic shit. One that I'm fond of is 1 banana 1 carrot 1tbsp each of black/chia/flax seeds and 75 grams of dry roasted soy beans. That's 30-40 grams of protein, tons of vitamins, complex carbs and fiber for a ridiculously low price and short prep time. And in case you're actually looking at the soyboy memes kids these days love, don't worry, you'd need to be eating 18+ servings of soy per day every day to even begin to be at risk from the estrogen agonists in it.

Apart from the usual healthy greenies that you'd want to use in smoothies, remember that aronia/blueberries/cranberries are god tier ingredients. A banana is almost necessary to give the smoothie actual texture so you don't feel like you're drinking cold vegetable stock.

Edit: oh ya, when baking, if you don't want to spend ages getting bits of burnt food off the pan, grab a roll of cooking paper and use it to line the pan (aluminum foil works too but it also taints your food with traces of aluminum so don't overuse it). Of you can't get it to match the pans shape, crumple it up into a ball and then uncrumple it (life tip sponsored by Martha Stewart)

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Get a big bag of flour tortillas and block of whatever cheese you like and make quesadillas, add beans, some protein like chicken and anything else you want. Should be super cheap.

People chow $3.50 a day
https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfection

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChSr5-8JrD57t_qTxVK0kZg/videos

chicken + rice

if u have a costco membership buy the $5 rotisserie chicken and strip the chicken of all its meat and keep it in the fridge then put the bones in a pot of water and boil it then you have
a bunch of chicken meat
chicken soup
which should last you like 1-2 days worth of food

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rice and fish is never bad

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instant noodles (hey you didn't say it has to be healthy)

sandwich

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I live off of sugary and chocolaty cereals, but if you get tired of it, I can recommend trying out porridge. If you're into unhealthy, chocolatey food, you can melt 2 tablespoons of nutella into your porridge for a thick and yummy chocolate soup. If you're trying to not overdo things, a bag of dried fruits, nuts and some banana slices will do your porridge good.

a bag of Uncle Ben's ready rice is under $2 and has pretty big portions per bag

i discovered it this past semester and found myself feeling better after eating the rice than when i ate ramen

brine your chicken breast first. literally the difference between moist and dry chicken

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Bullets for breakfast

Made some pita bread today. Super easy to make and can easily make dough for a few days in advance. Takes 5 mins to heat up and works with most toppings.

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the classic

oatmeal is always a cheap, easy, and delicious go-to.

honestly in my experience rice is one of the harder things for college students to make taste good unless it comes in a box so

(uncooked)corn tortillas + frozen chicken + seasonings/oil = tacos

package of chorizo, can pinto beans, can cannellini beans, can crushed tomatoes, some brown sugar and garlic = chili that doesnt suck

notice how there are a ton of optional ingredients in both of these dishes

and if u get lazy, remember, mcchickens are still a dollar

gotta second the lentil soup/stew mentioned below lentils are honestly a godsend nutritionally for how cheap they are

big stew style things (chilli con carne etc), bulk out with loads of veg then freeze + microwave them

lentil soup (curried is amazing)

cut any mince 50/50 beef/pork

most stew recipes that ask for braising steak etc can have a portion of meat replaced by mince

chickpeas through stews

go to dodgy asian shops for bags of spices instead of the supermarket for small jars (works for rice too if buying in bulk)

anything that is flavourful and goes with rice is godtier

veggie stir-fry with eggs either boiled/poached or beaten and mixed through

egg fried rice

spinach is god tier food if you can incorporate it in your recipes, it'll pick up the flavour of whatever you cook it with if you don't like the taste of it as is.

not really a money saving tip but you should try to season everything you cook to taste, it'll seriously raise quality of any meals, making cheaper/blander meals much more appealing

Invest in a rice cooker, rice is a good cheap staple food, and a good rice cooker will be worth what you pay in time savings, since making it in a pot on the stove takes more attention.

Try to get good at shopping cheaply. Get less popular, less expensive cuts of meat, like chicken thighs and oxtail. Learn how to coupon effectively. Also learn how to portion your meals, a cheap dish can become expensive when you eat 4 servings of it. Learn how to make bland foods that tend to be cheap, like potatoes, rice, and noodles, taste good by judicious use of spices.

Some cheap recipe ideas:

Black beans and rice

1. get canned black beans
   
2. heat canned black beans, season to taste
   
3. put black beans on cooked rice. optionally, top with chopped tomato and onion.

People Chow (very nutritious)

1. Get spinach and canned tuna (other dark greens like swiss chard and kale are ok too, but spinach is generally cheaper)
   
2. clean and chop spinach, and drain the tuna
   
3. mix spinach and tuna into rice

Breakfast Bowl (should make enough for a week or two of breakfasts if you pre-portion and freeze)

1. Get ground meat, a couple packets of gravy mix, cheese, and potatoes
   
2. Brown ground meat in a pan, and prepare gravy (bonus points if you mix the drippings from your meat into the gravy
   
3. grate potatoes and cheese, then mix all ingredients in a large casserole dish
   
4. top with more cheese, and bake until cheese on top is browning

Edit: Also, a very important thing that I learned from eating a LOT of asian home cooking growing up is that the trick to a good rice dish pairing is an intense flavor in the topping, that gets cut somewhat by the rice. If you're making something to top your rice, it probably needs to be a little saltier, spicier, or sweeter than you expected.

add cumin

the cheapest fresh meat i've found is chicken thighs. i've seen them for as little as $2 for a pack of four. throw them in a toaster oven on some tin foil they're pretty good.

^ here are ways to use this for meals:

-chicken quesadillas (literally just tortillas and cheese. throw some chicken pieces in there.)
-baked potatoes (potatoes and cheese. throw some chicken pieces on there.)
-augmented ramen. Get the cheap ramen noodles and throw frozen peas/corn/green onion/egg whatever you have lying around, and some chicken bits.
-easy pasta. I buy the cheapest noodles i can ($0.69 farfalle), throw in some chicken pieces and cheese. parmesan can be expensive but if you get mozzarella or shredded "pizza mix" kroger usually has it pretty cheap.

that's four meals for about $12 (unless you live in la in which case thats about $25 because fuck socal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvKQNLdMr48

not entirely sure about price but this is rly good and filling

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/725645/refried-bean-quesadillas

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