Go buy a $5 DVM from your local hardware store or even eBay if all you want to do is check Resistor values. The Voltmeter functions will come in useful for checking your PIC circuits later.

By the time you get all the parts for a PIC, the display, build a circuit, add the software, put it in a neat box with some leads, and factor-in twenty hours of your time, you could have budgeted for a Fluke.