My shopping list for my kids when they started in their own places, this can make it about 2 weeks.
2 dozen eggs
bag of potatoes
2 loaf of bread
celery
bag of carrots
bag of onions (cut up and freeze in ziplock)
mayo, mustard & ketchup
2 jar tomato sauce
2 or 3 lbs pasta, spaghetti can be broken up before boiling for soup
american cheese
4 cans tuna
ground beef
2 Roast chickens from wherever, Wegmans are under $7 each and not very salty
So well thought out!
*Roast chickens are great for regular meals, save all the bones for soup within the week or freeze in a ziplock for soup, can be cut up for chicken salad with mayo and bread, cut some up for protein with pasta
*chicken soup, boil the bones with a few carrots and the leafy part of the celery, drain and then put new carrots and celery with pasta
*eggs can be scrambled, in a sandwich with american cheese or hardboiled, egg salad with mayo
*cheese, on sandwiches or grilled cheese
*pasta goes in soup, with butter for a meal, can be mac and cheese
*tuna salad with mayo is great as a sandwich
*ground beef is great for burgers, some onion and breadcrumb with 1 egg per pound meatloaf, sloppy joes with tomato sauce
*potatoes are great as a side, microwave and have with some ground beef and tomato sauce, microwave and make with eggs
*carrots are a good side, boil and saute with some onion and butter
One chicken can feed a person for a week if you do the soup