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Things like brown rice and dried beans and lentils are dirt cheap when you buy the huge 10lb bags. Canned beans are okay, but are much higher in sodium than the dried ones, and are much more expensive pound for pound. It takes a little planning to soak beans overnight so that you can use them the next day, but it's worth it if you're serious about controlling what you're eating. Oh yeah, and you don't have to soak lentils, since they're so tiny.
If you have the space, you might want to try starting a little herb garden as well. A few leaves of freshly-picked basil add so much to a tomato sauce, and if you buy it from the grocery store, not only are you paying too much, but chances are you're not going to use the whole bunch before it goes bad.
You don't have to go completely vegetarian, but keep in mind that meat is expensive as hell and there are other ways to get your protein.
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