Originally posted by axelcat Bread with sugar spread
add butter and it was dessert
Moms always made the dollar stretch
- Tortillas, we always had an hoya (large pot) full of beans = burritos, and tostadas.
- Instant coffee or Kool-Aid (sweetened with sugar packets from the local restaurant)
- Hard boiled eggs with salt
- Quesadillas with mexican cheese
- Grilled cheese, or fried bologna sammys
- French toast with jelly and peanut butter (no syrup)
- Toasty O's when we had milk
- Cream of wheat
- Caldo, a potato and corn stew very bland, sometimes we'd have a soup bone, with more marrow than meat,in it for flavor.
- mac and cheese with hot dogs and catsup (cheap ketchup)
- Raw Ramen, I would eat it crunchy
The purchase of our first microwave was a step up in culinary delites...
- hot Slim Jims (off the ice cream truck)
- Of course I cannot forget sunday meals after church, menudo and tacos.
BTW due to my mothers frugelness she put herself through school and is now a Professor of spanish languages, and latin cultures. Sorry to get all emotional and shit, this post brought up some memories.
worst i had was Benny's potato soup when i was 18 living in hollywood, the soup was made with milk and potatos and Benny was a shitty cook! those tators were crunchy!
Originally posted by Rich In college we used to eat full meals at 7/11 all the time. A hotdog, bag of chips, and drink was like $1.50 or something. Fuck that expensive mac and cheeze.
I moved out when I was 16. I lived off of cans of corn and ramen noodles for about two years, then I discovered this biz. Now I eat a whole lot better.
Originally posted by JDog Top Ramen ($0.25) a pack! But shit I still eat that, and I'm not poor!
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i just bought some ramen for $0.14 a pack the other day. i just bought a case because i didnt want to bother getting a shopping cart lol. funny thing is it only came to like under $5 and will probably last me over a year.
Heh. I have low class tastes. I like Ramen noodles but I'm too lazy to boil them. I'll buy the ones that you can nuke in a cup. Not really a money saver, since they cost more than a regular can of soup. I guess I make a bad poor person.
Boil, and about 20-30 seconds before it's done, toss in a egg, and stir it up.
I tossed in some chopped up green onion too. Here is a tip, cut up a batch of green onion, and then toss all of the unused into a container in the freezer. The stuff lasts this way, so you have it around for the next Ramen day.
Rice and beans (buy dry beans of all kinds in the bag, no canned)
Homemade flour tortillas. Homemade pizza, Homemade bread.
Homemade tamales (for divine breakfasts washed down with coffee)
Lots of potatoes (baked potatoes, homemade french fries, hashbrowns, mashed potatoes)
Eggs. (Egg salad sandwiches, omelettes, scrambled eggs, eggs over easy, eggs over rice, fried rice)
Spaghetti (w/tomato sauce, garlic and olive oil, carbonara)
Grilled cheese sandwiches.
Tea and coffee, Eau d' Faucet
Grew my own salsa garden, too.
WARNING: Be sure to walk five miles a day and do Pilates or Yoga three days a week (get a book at the library don't pay for $200 a session class) so you won't gain a pound on this "survival" diet.
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One time I had nothing to eat but a box of cereal and no milk. I was so hungry I added water to the cereal, I started eating it but just couldn't finish. That was some NASTY tasting shit!
I am currently in college and eating on the extremely low budget scale. Pretty much pasta roni, ground beef, mac n cheese, and chicken on the forman. We try to bbq everyweekend but i spend more money on alcohol than on food.... :/
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Originally posted by gutter I am currently in college and eating on the extremely low budget scale. Pretty much pasta roni, ground beef, mac n cheese, and chicken on the forman. We try to bbq everyweekend but i spend more money on alcohol than on food.... :/
Heh, now that is low budget by choice. If you cut out the alcohol ya could probably eat out every night
Originally posted by footsex One time I had nothing to eat but a box of cereal and no milk. I was so hungry I added water to the cereal, I started eating it but just couldn't finish. That was some NASTY tasting shit!
Originally posted by B_Maverick Ate Bolonga sandwiches...a lot. When things got really bad, I ate peanut butter sandwiches. Mac and Cheese was a luxury.
Fried Bolonga on Toast With Mayo and Mustard Rocks
gawd...back in my college days, I lived on Ramen Noodles 100%, and even got creative with it:
ramen w/ cajun spices
ramen w/ spaghetti sauce
ramen w/ melted cheese
ramen w/ egg
ramen w/ butter sauce
ramen w/ white cream sauce
ramen w/ soy sauce
ramen w/ red beans
...
Needless to say, I got pretty burnt out on the Ramen noodle front...although, they do taste good so I occasionally boil up a pack for old times sake.
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