Tips on good Cheap foods to buy as a College student?

Tofu, legumes ( beans, lentil) and look at the specials.

Shop at an asian or mexican market if they are near you. You can get everything so much cheaper - including vegetables and meat.

Tofu is $1.19 for a pound at my asian market.

Tofu is 2.39 a pound in a chain store.

Markets are definitely cheaper than big chain stores.

coupons are wonderful don't do what I did and eat nothing but ramon pizza when I could get it and beer lol I got huge! like 130 to 230 huge it was bad

As far as meals, look for stuff that's on sale, or clip coupons. Try something new!. I purchased some freeze dried apple chips with cinnamon at big lots for a dollar today!! I absolutely love them! They are extremely good for you and it was something different besides eating a plain ol' apple!! Good luck to ya!!

Bump for future reference. Single mama of 3 here! lol

Go out at night and get some free grapes. Just kidding.
I'm not sure how it is there, but here in AZ, this is what I find:
The 99 cent store has great produce prices as well as canned fish.
Win-Co has very good meat and produce prices, but their bulk bin items can be a bit stale.
Sprouts has great produce and meat specials and fresh bulk items.
Since Safeway, Albertsons and Frys are hi-lows, they're fine just for their sale items and beer.
Food City (caters to the Hispanic market) has good produce and meat prices.
Walmart has good prices on staple items.
Hope this helps.

I try to eat low carb to lose weight but meat is expensive. As a single Mum I have to be a flexitarian. I eat a lot of Quorn as easy to cook, a relatively cheap protein with a better texture than tofu (and probably better for me and the environment). I add fajita spices, red bell peppers and onion and stir-fry.

In the UK you can buy 4 cans of baked beans for a pound from Lidl - that's 25p each. If you wash off all the sugary tomato sauce you can use the beans for anything. Particularly nice to add to veggies and make a curry or a chilli.

I generally eat beef mince once a week which I buy from a farm shop as cheaper, better quality and better animal welfare standards than supermarket stuff. Lidl also sell passata for 25p per 500ml. Much cheaper than a tin of tomatoes. Great for chillis/bolognaise sauce.

Freezers are a great help if you have one. The supermarkets sell chicken/salmon at almost half price when it is close to the best before date. I buy it, separate it into individual portions and freeze it, taking out just what I need. I do the same with sliced brown bread which I try not to eat too much of these days.

I have three chickens and as eggs are so expensive these days, it works out cheaper. I eat an egg every morning. Hope that helps!

frozen veggies
whole wheat pastas
brown rice
beans all kinds
meat on sale and freeze it

Hi there, i'm from Australia but i find that fruit is extremly filling and healthy (grapes and watermelon) make some smoothies and add some spinach and banana and whatever else you like and have it for breakfast, really filling and you may not be that hungry for a few hours after ALSO porridge/oatmeal is cheap and filling!!