What to do when you're bored with your food!?

Invest in a crock pot. There's one on sale at Walmart right now for $19... you can make some darn delicious meals and save time & money....not to mention cleanup. When making a recipe, double or triple the veggies to make it go further. Buy whatever veggies are on sale--no need to follow a recipe to a 'T'....carrots, celery, onions, peppers....whatever you can afford. It will make your serving size a bit bigger and give you more nutrients as well. Good luck.

Look up recipes online.

Then add cheese and gravy.

I know this sounds obvious but try buying things you don't normally buy. instead of rice try cous cous, or noodles instead of pasta, sweet potato instead of regular potato , things like that. for protein try tuna instead of chicken even just once a week and mix it with salsa (sounds horrible but trust me its good!) instead of mayo. If you get cravings for a snack have one piece of toast with a light skim of peanut butter. its filling and will stub out the craving. just little changes will make all the difference.

in the super market walk down the aisles you dont normally go down and check out the bottom shelves for the budget items. super markets will put the most expensive items at eye level. if you look at the bottom shelves you'll find similar products for cheaper and usually healthier as they haven't had butter/sugar/salt etc added for flavour.

hope this helps, good luck

Add Sriracha sauce to savory meals.

Mix it up--if you're used to having a certain fruit with breakfast, try a different one. Or a different cheese in an omelet.

Add chilli sauce!

I have about 3-4 breakfast staples that I switch between, so I'm not having teh smae thing ll the time. (Eggs, toast with peanut butter, porridge or overnight oats, Greek yoghurt)

Buy whatever veg is cheap and in season. Make it into batches of chunky soup/ stew. Add a tin of beans (any variety) for protein. Freeeze in individual portion tubs. My freezer is stocked with a range of meals, none of which are the same.

add a few more foods to your diet. kalamata olives, red peppers to your plate. Sugar free sweet pickles sometimes help. Sugar free jello and cool whip, and EAS Advantedge shakes. still gets boring. I think the goal is to look for excitement in activities other than food, but it is hard and I am struggling too

I marinate like 5 lb of chicken and make it on the weekend to spread out through the week, so what was really yummy on Monday, is a pain to stomach after being eaten for lunch and dinner til Thursday. My boyfriend basically does the same thing and he recommended using different sauces, I put it in a ramekin to better know how much I'm using, but mustards are great a lot have no calories, so you can go hog wild, The one I'm using now is 5 calories per teaspoon, so I squeeze about a tablespoon into a ramekin and lightly dip my chicken in. House of Tsang also has an amazing spicy szechuan sauce, and a great thai peanut sauce, those are a little higher in calories but they pack a huge punch so not a lot is needed. You can also make your own oatmeal packets and add in different spices, dried fruits and nuts to each packet for some variety there.

If you google "healthy eating single tight budget" and other combinations that apply to you, you'll find tons of blogs, articles, recipes and the like. Browse a bit! Maybe you can find a few new things to try each week.

If I had to eat bland/savory foods like that for every meal, I think I'd stop eating. Haha. The most versatile food you could start including in your meals: oats! You can make, well, oatmeal (duh), muffins, breakfast bakes, granola, banana oat cookies...
You can grind it into flour and make anything you would with regular flour (pancakes, bread, snack cakes, crackers, etc). Just put the word "healthy" before any oat recipe you search and it'll be pretty easy to include in a healthy, cheap college plan. Haha. Same goes for almonds, or quinoa! Anything you can make with oats can be done with quinoa. But buying quinoa flakes and flour... probably not college budget stuff.

Also, could try switching out veggies with fruits in your regular recipes. Mandarin oranges and berries in your salad, cranberries and oranges with cooked chicken, strawberries and apples in your sandwiches... Try having hot things cold (noodles, for instance) or cold things hot (like sandwiches). Easy way to mix things up.

I'm a huge fan of creeping other peoples' diaries for ideas. I'd go crazy eating the same thing every day.

ETA: While there are TONS of sources for recipes online, I found when I was first teaching myself how to cook at home that actually having a physical cookbook to work through was TREMENDOUSLY helpful. I'd suggest anything from the America's Test Kitchen or Cook's Illustrated for super comprehensive, detailed instructions and great variety. Once you've learned some of the "healthy" work-arounds for higher fat or calorie recipes, there should be no stopping you.

I'm so sick of thinking about what I'm going to eat all of the time and I'm also getting bored. I almost wish I just had zero appetite so I could just eat whatever and not care. I would seriously do something like Jenny Craig or some meal delivery service if I could afford it!!