How To Cook On A Budget

I didn't grow up in a house with cooking, so food shopping was always a bit casual: a box of this, a bag of that. We'd have Fruit Roll-Ups in the cabinet and ice cream sandwiches in the freezer and so, when I became an adult and lived in my first adult apartment in college, I shopped the same way. I'd go to the store and buy a few frozen pizzas, a packet of cheese, a loaf of bread. There wasn't much thought behind it; the idea was when we weren't ordering in Chinese food or going down to E...