Back when I was in college and would cook for my dates (wasn't making a ton of money and spent most of it on booze and partying) I would do a chicken parm with baked spaghetti and meat sauce.
Tater if you don't know how to make chicken parm from fresh ingredients go to the store and find the frozen chicken tenders (the big ones if you can get those. I used to get them from Costco, huge bag for cheap. Cook the tenders almost all the way, season and brown the ground beef and add tomato sauce to it. Again depending on your cooking skills a jar of the Prego/Ragu/Bertolli Sauce will do if you don't want to venture on making your own. Cook the pasta...Throw the pasta in a casserole dish with the chicken tenders, either put them off to the side so you can serve them separate or right on top. Cover the pasta and chicken with the meat sauce, top it with a cheese blend and bake it in the oven until the cheese has been melted with a nice color. And that's how you do a poor man's chicken parm. Grab a bottle of two buck Chuck and you will be on the fast track to the Hershey Highway.