Dried lentils are really cheap, wonderfully healthful, and much faster to cook than dried beans. Peanut butter is already ready to eat, and pretty cheap. Eggs

Dried lentils are really cheap, wonderfully healthful, and much faster to cook than dried beans. Peanut butter is already ready to eat, and pretty cheap. Eggs are cheap protein. You can pour milk right over uncooked, raw rolled oats and eat it immediately. (This is Quaker's (or store brand) traditional oatmeal or old fashioned oats or something like that. It's the kind that comes in a big cardboard cylinder.) Very cheap and it is delicious and takes only seconds to "prepare".