Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal.
iamelgringo: My wife and I have been working on this for a while.  We want to eat at home, but we really don't like the process of cooking every day.So, we cook once every 4-8 weeks.  We purchased a freezer that we put in the garage for $3-400, and we do all of our meal prep at once.  We buy all of our ingredients in bulk at Costco or the local Farmer's market, and then we prep 30-40 meals in one day.  So, all we have to do for each meal, is thaw the package the day before, throw it in the oven or in a pan the following day, add a salad, and you're done.It takes a lot of planning, and it takes a while before find a set of recipes that freeze well, but after a year or so of doing this, we pretty much have the list.  We're at the point now, that my wife pulls 8 or 10 recipes from the database, she puts the ingredient list together, we go shopping on one day, and asssemble and freeze meals the second day.  It's about 8-10 hours work for both of us, and it cuts down 1-1/2 hours of meal prep and planning every day for 4-6 weeks.  Along with the recipe in the database is a label with cooking instructions that gets printed out and saran wrapped to the package.If you Google for this, it's called "Once a month cooking".