Breakfast: oatmeal

Snacks: popcorn (air popped, buy kernels. Need an air popper, but they’re like 20 bucks. Then you can eat cheap popcorn forever)

Lunch/Dinner:

• Fried rice (egg, whatever meat/veg, I like doing soy sauce glazed canned sardines with it for a cheap meal)

• Red beans and rice

• Enchiladas, rice, beans

• Rotisserie chicken tacos

• Collard greens and cornbread

• Pasta bake (chicken, spinach, pesto, white sauce)

• Korean rice bowls. Chicken, gochujang (a little expensive but lasts a long time in the fridge), red pepper flakes, ginger, garlic, vinegar, sesame oil. Marinate overnight. Cook on stove or in oven. Serve on rice with side dishes: carrot and cucumber banchan - just get some matchstick carrots, combine with vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, chili flakes. Cucumbers: slice thin, salt, drain. Combine with sesame oil, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, red pepper flakes. Assemble.

• Make like 200 pierogis for like 20 bucks (and several hours) and freeze them for later. Boil or pan fry and eat with a sausage and some saurkraut.