6 points
Agreed. Amortized it much cheaper but when you have an empty kitchen with only a box of macaroni and cheese, getting groceries can feel very expensive.
There are cheap, single serving meals, such as:
- baked potato - extra lazy version is 6 min in the microwave, add toppings
- oatmeal - overnight oats, microwave (3 min, water shouldn’t quite cover oats), etc
- sandwiches - lots of options; freeze extra bread and cheese
- eggs - scrambled, fried, boiled; eggs last weeks
I got through college cooking stuff like this. It was cheap, quick to make small portions, and didn’t require many seasonings. I lived on sleek something like $45-50/month, which covered the vast majority of my meals.