So there was a time when I was very, very broke. I needed a way to feed myself as healthfully as possible on a ~$50/month budget, without it being just rice and beans. (okay, rice, but not so much beans yuck.) So I got some websites for ya'll.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/ - a subreddit that started it all for me.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ynlygozezyz/redditfoodpdf.pdf - a PDF based on an askreddit thread, tons of good stuff. Not all healthy, but all cheap and made with the college student in mind. I still reference this occasionally!
https://mymealprepsunday.com/2015/03/09/hello-world/ - another way to look at eating healthy is to make it as easy as possible on yourself. Spend time once a week prepping all your snacks and such so all you have to do is grab it out of the fridge. The recipes here are really good too!
Something I used to eat a lot that was nice and quick was this rice veggie thing. Make a bunch of white rice, then throw in a bag of frozen veggies, (peas and carrots was my fav.) cook up a pack of bacon and chop it up nice. mix it all together. Then before I'd eat it I'd pull some out, crack an egg and mix it all together before microwaving for a bit. tasty and quick, great when you're short on time at work or whatever.
OATMEAL: go to sprouts or wherever you can get oats in BULK! No Quaker's packets, those are awful for you. I get them for like 1.50 a lb where I am, the quick cooking kind too which is nice. It's important to remember you can microwave any kind of oats, you just have to go for longer depending on what type they are. Anyways, get yourself some fruit on sale, I love strawberries, blueberries, bananas, mangoes. Whatever you like that you can get for cheap. Then chop those suckers up and freeze them! For really wet fruits like strawberries and mangoes, freeze them in an ice cube tray then pop them out into a bag, otherwise you'll just have an unusable frozen fruit mass. Get your oatmeal and add your favorite milk, then throw some banana's + whatever fruit you like. I find that banana's are really sweet, so you don't need any added sugar! Yay!
Curry: Really cheap and tasty, but spicy. Get your curry paste/coconut milk from the local Asian market, not the grocery store, it sucks and is way too expensive. Curry makes a great fridge cleaner, just throw in whatever protein you want, tofu, shrimp, beef, chicken, etc. Any veggies you got or whatever's in the freezer. Then you can add potato, but I stay away from the extra starch if I'm going to put it over rice.
Once you get more comfortable with eating healthier (if you're just starting out) start looking at the ingredients list of things you already buy. Nutritional information too but I find the ingredients themselves are much more telling. They put the list in order of how much is in there, so there's more of ingredient #1 then ingredient #2 in a serving, and so on. So people will tell you peanut butter is awesome and healthy for you, but then you look at a jar of skippy and it's essentially sugar peanut paste. So PB is great, but you have to make sure it's actually just peanut butter, and not skippy or jif haha. I personally keep sugar and HFCS out of the top 5 ingredients in my processed foods.
I've got more but I really should get back to work lol.
