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One of my favorite cheap master recipes, parts all by weight:
If you're using eggs as the protein, it's 1:1:1:2 instead. 1:2:2:4 comes out not as good. One of my personal favorites is spam+frozen peas&carrots mix+rice with a bullion cube in the water.
The basic instructions is "Put everything in a pot, boil until the ride is cooked", but there are lots of things you can do in the middle of that. Toasting the rice in fat, browning the meat, etc. He if you quadruple the water it also works as a soup recipe, just don't add the rice until you're ready to eat it. Rice expands a lot, and you will end up with a savory rice pudding. Edible, but 0/10 experience. If you break up the noodles in the top ramen packs they come out basically the same as the canned chicken noodle noodles though. I have yet to run into a combination of things I didn't like with this.
Spices also help a lot with cooking. Even just a good season salt (I use Tony Chachere's) makes a huge difference, and they're usually like $5 for a canister that'll last a year or two.
Bullion cubes in rice dishes. The store brand ones are usually $0.10 each, maybe $0.15, and they make a huge difference in rice.
Another note: Biscuits are cheap and easy. If you don't have milk, you can use water, just add a little extra fat, and a little bit of sugar to the dough. They don't come out the same, but it's close enough. Gravy is great for extra flavor that's cheap, and not as bad for you as people think. Rice and gravy is great.