My experiences as a graduate student and then as a vegan taught me a lot about shopping at the grocery store. If your #1 goal of your regular diet is affordability of food, here are a few menu items you must keep in mind. The goal of cheap food is to get around a pound of food for around a dollar--and if you can occasionally do better than that.
Frozen french fries
The cheap brands are often down to around 5 cents an ounce, and they're not bad baked.
Canned vegetables
Shop around and you can get a can of vegetables for under 50 cents. It's also an incredibly low calorie food.
Bagels
Really filling, and really quite cheap
Spaghetti
Even with the sauce, you can get a very cheap meal
These are your year-round cheap items; occasionally you can get seasonal items cheap too (I bought grapes for 89 cents a pound today). Now, can a human person live on fries, canned veggies, bagels, spaghetti, and occasional grapes? I don't know. Not happily, I suppose.
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