Cheap eats

As some of you have noticed, I have no sense of moderation. At the moment, the spirit of the day is frugality. For the last month I've been keeping my weekly food budget to $40 or less (admittedly not much less) per week. This includes luxuries such as V8 juice, vitamin B tablets, and fish oil tablets.

Mainly this has been achieved through judicious use of legumes (lentils, beans (baked and real), rice, tinned tomatoes, potatoes, cereal, milk and spices. So it's not all gruel :).

Unfortunately I'm running out of cheap, tasty, mostly healthy foods that I can freeze for later consumption. Today I was thinking tofu.

How much IS tofu per meal (I'm aiming to spend less than or equal to $1 per meal). And importantly, can I make it taste less like cardboard, and can I freeze the resultant meals down for future consumption?

Does anyone have any ideas/recipes/websites they would like to point me to?

Alternatively, can anyone suggest somewhere where I can get cheap cuts of meat? I'm pretty good at slow cooking various types of meat, and am not adverse to eating offal. Again, the 'cheap, tasty, mostly healthy' caveat applies.

PS. My frugality doesn't extend to my media reading habits. Today I forked out for The Monthly, The Fin, and The Oz (if only for something longer from George Megalogenis than his too infrequent/brief blogs), and The Guardian Weekly (a suggestion from Tom). I have to have something to mull over/get angry about over Sunday breakfast, right?

PPS. I just got back from the Subiaco Station Street Markets and bought some cauliflower, eggplant, and spinach (amongst other staples) (for various types of curry). Unfortunately I did not get my shit together to go to the Subiaco Farmer's Market this morning, but I'll be venturing back to Subiaco next weekend becuase the Angry Almond promised me 20 Kg of Viet jasmine style rice for $40 (I had to settle for $5 Kg at Kongs).

PPS. I've had to buy more plastic containers to hold these cooked foods in. Finally I'll have a deep freezer full of ready to eat meals with variety!