what did you eat when you were poor?
 

I'm always interested in hearing how creative people can be to survive. When you were poor (assuming you have been) what was the cheapest but tastiest meals you managed to put together?

top ramen, 5 for a dollar.

Bread with sugar spread

Tuna on crackers with a baked potato. Very cheap and pretty tasty. I still eat it every now and then.

Ramen, Pasta, A lot of Rice, Microwave Bean Burritos, Canned beans, and Chili. I was poor and farted a lot!:1orglaugh

Èokolino?
$1.5 and your good for a week! :glugglug

EDIT: hmm you need some milk for this so plus $2

ramen is 10 for $1 here I believe...I use to make tuna surprise, ramen, tuna, and some seasoning...it put something in your stomach

macaroni n cheese and pbj. still eat them just from the childhood addiction

we were so poor we couldnt eat at all:waaaaahh will someone donate sumthin so I can get some warm water for ketchup soup:(

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.

mostly same as GonePhishing, but except the farting

I did the tuna on crackers too! And baked potatos they are so cheap, and at the grocery store you could get this huge tub of microwable meat and sauce conglomoration, I used to make quesadillas with that stuff. Cereal, microwave burritos and pancakes.

Ramen, definately. 6 for $1 most of the time and 10 for $1 on sale. I also ate alot of canned new potatoes, beans and rice, microwave burritos, rice with diced tomatoes and butter (this is surprisingly delicious).. and during the REALLY poor times I ate mayonnaise and mustard sandwiches! Oh, and lots of Kool-Aid at 10 cents a packet. LOL

It's not tuna surprise if you make it for yourself:winkwink:

We used to make white rice with potatoes and black beans. Throw on a little Crystals hot sauce and we had a meal.

Top Raman - Mac & Cheese :thumbsup

The very best place to go if you're going through a cash crunch or are just a frugal fucker are restaurants / bars with big happy hour buffets.

I had an aunt in Newport Beach that did this every night for her dinner. Knew all the places with virtually full course food selections.

Beans? No way..:1orglaugh

To me, ramen is the flavor of poverty

Ate Bolonga sandwiches...a lot. When things got really bad, I ate peanut butter sandwiches. Mac and Cheese was a luxury.

well it might have helped to heat the house so it saved you money there too

Ramen is good.

I boil them in the microwave and then mix cheese and hotdog pieces in with it. It's better than regular boxed mac & cheese.

I still love ramen noodles, cant get em here though...sigh

LoL! Yeah, I had to spice up the Ramen like that as well. :thumbsup

I have never been poor thank God. Maybe if things turn to shit I will be.

$1 double cheeseburger at mcdonalds going out to get one right now :)

alot of times we just didnt eat anything, but mostly just bread & water, sometimes we had crackers & tuna, sometimes mac n cheese all the basic cheap shit. alot of times dinner was bought out of a vending machine for .50. :(

Growing up when times were tough we ate a lot of pastas, rices and home grown veggies. The big bulk bottles of tomato sauce would last weeks.

Luckily the one side of my family is/was all farmers. Fresh foods were always available.

50cent hot gods :1orglaugh

Kraft dinners and cans of Puriton chilli from the variety store :mad:

bread. some egg on it. fried or toasted if possible.
cheap and you even get some protein ;)

Top Ramen Italiano

1 part ramen 1 part ragu

Ghetto Burger

Bologna Cheese Ketchup mustard

Quasadilla con cheapo

tortilla kraft single left over hot sauce

ghetto pizza

toasted bread kraft single ragu


man i have a ton of them....hmmm lets see what was for dinner last night

why do americans classify ramen noodles as a poor people food?

have any of you lived near Asian people?

good lord, there are asian sections here where you can eat Ramen in a restaraunt and its not even cheap. ive ordered ramen in a restaraunt, its very authentic and very asian, they just put things in it, maybe its because poor white trash and poor blacks in america eat it plain and have no clue about ethnicity?

its just rice noodles, and rice noodles are cheap, ive always wondered are all Asian people poor, because all the asians i know have always eaten a ton of ramen....

its a silly thing that has become of a cultural food.

its just a form of noodle folks, are you saying pasta is for poor people? or is rice?

i still eat ramen and always will.

its got nothing to do with being poor, its got weverything to do with enjoying rice noodles.

can you make your own rice noodles? or would you prefer to buy them at the store for under 25 cents a bag?

capitalism is love.

Ramen, rice, and I'd throw in tuna for protein. If I was doing well I would splurge and buy Albacore.

They can be good to use in stir fry stuff, etc but i have to throw away that little powdered seasoning pack.

6 for a dollar down here :Graucho

if you want a real treat, fry up some ground meat and mix it in

ill do that shit no matter how much money i have.. it's good

Fletch....we are merely saying they are inexpensive....

Since they are inexpensive.....it is an affordable meal for those less fortunate.....

it's not like we are saying eating ramen is like having head lice or even blowing truckers for candy bars at truck stops....

when i did not have shit to spend on food ...ramen was a favorite....

Baked beans on toast...gotta be Heinz



Now I can afford to put butter on the toast :Graucho

In addition to Ramen and Mac&Cheese (including the Golden Grain box, which didn't demand milk, so it was cheaper to make,) there was Rice, made in a cooker, with a can of chicken noodle soup cooked in.

And, on a rich nite, Hamburger Helper (sometimes w/o the hamburger)

mac & cheese
potatos
pasta