<prompt> Human: My SO and I try to spend 300 a month total on our groceries. We are pretty creative with our meal planning but I often notice most of what we buy isnt always cost effective a lot of frozen prepared meals from trader joes. I notice our fridge is almost empty usually while our freezer is packed. The downside to this is that each 5-6 freezer meal only lasts one serving meal. We also find that 300 isnt enough each month and we end going out buying sides or extra stuff to eat or accompany our meals. Any suggestions maybe a list? of affordable staples to buy that we can use throughout the month that are still healthy and not boring?Any advice or experience would be great! This is the one area I feel that our budget is too loose- and the extra cash would be great to throw at our credit card debt!  <response>: reatcheapandhealthy 