Spaghetti Con Olio:
Cook spaghetti in boiling water.
Whilst it's cooking, finely chop a clove of garlic
Once spaghetti is cooked, dump it into a colander to drain.
Put a good glug of olive oil and the garlic in the pan and heat gently for a couple of minutes. Maybe add some chilli flakes if you've got them.
Dump spaghetti back in the pan, good grind of black pepper, good stir, eat.
Lovely.
Have a look at Waitrose website they have some great recipes and if you put your mobile number in they text you all the ingredients for free!!
Spag bol - a pound of cheap mince, 4 tins of tomatoes and a pepper (plus the spaghetti) will give you 3 to 4 meals for a total cost of under £3 (depending on the kind of mince you go for). It freezes well too.
I'm also a fan of lentil stew - half a cup of lentils, 400g of diced beef, 1 tin of tomatoes plus a few herbs (bay leaf, mustard etc) and an onion and a carrot - 3 meals for about £4.
Chili - similar to spag bol.
And tbh, pasta has so many potential variations - one £1 pack can last you a week with a variety of fresh veg, frozen prawns, leftover sausages etc.
Oh, and last week I got some cheap chicken thighs, put some honey and orange on top, baked them in the oven til they were really sticky and had them with mash. All for under £2, very tasty and I felt like a cooking god. 
Don't get sucked in by readymeals, as it's usually cheaper, and not much more difficult, to cook it yourself from scratch
Tuna pasta bake too:
Can't remember proportions but basically pasta, tin of sweetcorn, tin or two of (organically reared free range dolphin friendly if you must) tuna, tin of condensed mushroom soup. Cook pasta, add the rest (as is - don't 'make up' the soup) grated cheese on top, in oven until crispy and brown.
Really works well for making in bulk and having leftovers.
i've not read all of this so it might well have been said before, use cheaper cuts of meat, mince, stewing steak, shin of beef use a whole chicken. when making stews, chillis use plenty of lentils, beans etc. as you shop it's worth buying different spices and herbs etc to make different meals from much the same things. it takes more time but most of that is actual cooking time so you can be slaving hard over your studies while it cooks. i think i'm too obsessed with making things from scratch but i can't see a way i'd ever go back to eating processed food, basically paying loads extra for a far inferior end product (to my taste buds)
i think i'm too obsessed with making things from scratch
I don't think you can be can you? I love cooking and eating more than I love riding.
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