I'm not familiar with the food costs where you live, but as the previous poster mentioned, rice, oats, potatoes, and beans (which also contains protein) generally are fairly cheap. When you're...
Generally most people go by the pre-cooked weight. After cooking, the weight lost is primarily water. Depending on how you cook it (and how over done it is), the post-cooked weight can vary...
I was born in 1984. Does that make me an 80's child or a 90's child? Honestly, if you were born in the early 90's, it was already the late 90's before you were old enough to comprehend or remember...