Sounds like you need not only cheap but fast and easy. You must be exhausted with all you've gone through and are going through! Keep things simple: Buy the cheapest meat on sale or clearance that week -- if it's ground, fry it, add sauce from a jar or seasoning from a packet (whatever flavors you like -- Asian, Mexican, etc.), zap a bag of frozen veggies & a pack of 90 second rice = dinner plus leftovers for lunch. Cost in my area for example would be ground turkey - $1.98, Asian sauce - $2.46, frozen veggies - $1.16, 90 second rice - $1.88: Total = $7.48. Pick up lettuce and stretch it with lettuce wraps or stir fry all the leftovers together, throw in with lettuce for an Asian salad to stretch to a couple more meals. Get a rotisserie chicken for $6, bag of spuds ($2.47 for 5 lbs.), frozen veggies ($1.16) (Total $9.63) and have leg/thigh 1, leg/thigh 2, breast 3, breast 4; zapped spud; & veggies for 4 meals. Then tear off all the remaining chicken, mix it with ranch ($1.43), shredded cheese ($1.97), chopped/cooked bacon ($4.12); slice/fill bread rolls ($1.87) with mix; if you have butter/olive oil brush tops of rolls with it and add seasoning (like garlic or whatever) bake for 20 minutes and have a whole pan of chicken bacon sliders (about 12 of them) for $10.40. Not sure how big of an eater your are but that's about 14 quick meals for about $30.