Healthy meal prep for 1 person for under $25 a week

I work 40 hours a week and then another 10 hours a week, so I don't have all day to go to the store, prep, and cook. My least expensive, least time consuming meal prep is chicken and rice.<br><br>Even a rotisserie chicken is too expensive for a person on an extremely tight budget so I buy two lbs raw chicken from Costco for $8 and cook it in the oven with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. I divide it into five containers and add a cup of rice (I buy a 20 lb bag of rice from Costco for $15) and a cup of mixed frozen veggies (two lbs of frozen veggies from Costco for $4). This is the perfect amount of food for me. Sometimes, I get full on 3/4ths of it by the afternoon so I save it for the next morning. <br><br>I take it to work and microwave it when I'm hungry. I can eat 5 meals for under $20. I buy a small bottle of water for $1 and a small cup of fruit for $1 so that's $2 a day and $10 a week. If we add $5 for unexpected food needs (sometimes I'm in the hospital over lunch and supper when no one is there to feed me, sometimes I miss a meal because of an unexpected overtime), that's still only $25 a week for all of my food.<br><br>I also get to spend one whole day off work a week, so on that day, I usually make a big crockpot meal or do meal prep. I prep a bunch of snack containers with fruit, cheese, and crackers in them, too, with leftover chicken, cheese, and fruit for a quick, easy snack. Sometimes, I buy cheese sticks and granola bars. Seriously, once a month I spend $2 on a granola bar and a cheese stick and I feel like I'm living large. <br><br>Seriously, you can eat healthy for under $25 a week. I don't understand how this is so hard for people.