I don't have a crockpot ):

You can go on Pinterest and look up crockpot meals. When I do crockpot I will go shopping and spend about 60$ for everything if we didn’t have meat then maybe 80$. And I would make chili, creamy chicken and veggies, pot roast, broccoli beef, stroganoff, chicken tacos and so much more in he crock pot super easy and super cheap. And you aren’t slashing for hours over a stove literally prep is maybe 20 minutes. You can even do it on a Sunday for a couple nights.

My so fav meal I make is creamy chicken and rice. I get chicken breast and cook it,cut it up and use the cream of chicken and chicken broth as a sauce then I male white rice and I mix it all together. It's his FAV meal

3-4 boneless chicken breast

2 2 tomatoes sliced

1 lb bag mozerella

And pesto

Chicken breasts, tomato slice, cover with mozerella

I take some frozen veggies and cover the pan around the chicken with a little olive oil

All goes in the oven for 30 minutes. I get individually frozen huge bag of boneless chicken because a 10 lb bag is like 20$ and it last us about a month

Walmart sells these bags of mixed veggies for stir fry. Great value brand. One that features a lot of asparagus, snow pea, water chess nut, etc

Then l just make a cup of rice and sautee a chicken breast or two. You can use kalbasa or thin steak. or no meat. Stir fry in 30 min.