buy spaghettios take an onion and green pepper add a pound of cooked hamburger let it simmer and it is delicious and inexpensive
kids love it
also beanies and weannies pork and beans cut up the hot dogs add onion doctor it up with some bbque sauce and you have an instant hit
also buy a chicken whole that goes a long way, save the bones and make chicken soup with raman noodles, celery carrots very inexpenise several meals
another favorite is pea soup from the ham hock after you eat you ham