Get a crock pot, OP. It is 100% impossible to fuck up a meal in a crock pot. It's like game genie for when you're just learning to cook. Just take some meat, some veggies, literally any flavor of thing you like, and throw it into a crock pot, put it on high, then go to work. When you come home, every single time, delicious food, always. A full meal in a crock pot can be had for like maybe $15, and it'll feed you for days.
Trust me, it is absolutely impossible to fuck up food on a crock pot.
Give you an example of a meal with a crock pot -- buy 2lbs or so of pot roast out of your grocery store, grab some baby carrots and potatoes and mushrooms, and head to the spices section of your store and look for these:
Throw all the ingredients into the crock pot on high and let it cook for 8 hours. When you serve, open a can of green beans and maybe make some white rice, and serve together. Bam, meal for days for under $15. There are tons and tons of things you can make with a crock pot. Chili, stew, pot roast, cheese dips, broccoli and rice, etc.
Take out and especially tv dinners are loaded with salt, you'll be very unhealthy to eat that way. They're also expensive. It's so much cheaper and easier and even healthier (although not that healthy) to eat with a crock pot.
