hacker culture and ramen
lionhearted: There's actually some quite healthy, cheap foods if you don't mind just a tiny, little bit of cooking. The three easiest ones that are healthy, cheap, and delicious (once acclimated!) are oatmeal, cottage cheese, and eggs. You can get all of them dirt cheap, whip it together for a meal in 5 minutes or less, and they're good. Just eat the oatmeal straightup - nobody likes it when they first start eating it since it's fairly bland, but it has a good texture and you'll learn to like it after a month or so. Dirt cheap, very healthy and filling. Cottage cheese is also not so good before you're used to it, but you acclimate. If you can get chives pre-mixed in, it's even better. And eggs - well, everyone knows eggs. I just always get surprised with how cheap eggs are when I haven't bought them for a while - you can get a dozen cheap eggs for like a dollar. A few dollar for uber-premium nicely packaged dozen eggs.