“You can add small amounts of higher quality food to make a struggle meal much better for cheap. Like adding a boiled egg, green onion, maybe some pickled veg, and a few tablespoons of cut up leftover meat to a packet of instant noodles. Makes it much more filling for about a buck. “
And I agree with the comment on the last one. Outside shades or shutters are the only safe thing to keep heat out and the windowpanes in one piece