My roomie and I used to survive on Cheapo Mac&cheese,popcorn and peanut M&M's back in the 70's. Want me to send a care package of Split pea soup?LOL
Damn it 47 Tudor, I just spit coffee all over my keyboard ... the one about grandpa dying made my day...some funny shit in this thread!
you youngsters are soooo spoiled..just checked my frig..all liquid...water,cokes,beer,and,when I want to feel healthy,OJ... being divorced= more money for toys,less for food shit of course,I'm 65 pounds lighter than I was while I was married.. I can wear my 21 YO sons jeans now..I get his hand me downs now... as long as the daily can pull up to a drive thru speaker,it's OK
Eating on a budget? Rice is your answer, 3 bucks for a bag that will feed you for like 2 weeks, maybe a pack of hotdogs for some meat apeal. Bonus. To boot you get that nice lean "starving for a cause" look. Very stylish. Man this thread brings me back to my college days. Goodtimes.
That made me cry right along with ya.... That's funny...... The secret to eating co-co wheats is TONS of sugar... and then melt a huge, heart-clogging, glop of butter on top, but don't stir it in... It's more like sweet buttery dog poop then... One of these, a sharp knife, a meat grinder and a bag of onions and you can feast like a king and not have to put food into your budget at all... I shot this one from my bedroom window with my bow. Lord, I am blessed... JOE
Way back when I was required to have a runnin' scooter ( a limey for a back up was acceptable) and no "garbage wagons" I was seen dumpster diveing more than once behind the local super market. Hell I fought a guy in suite over a package of out of date cinnimon rolls once. Ahhh the price of being " cool". I discovered a long time ago that eggs are cheap and you can make an omelete out of about anything as long as you have eggs to wrap around it.
I hope you didn't stop and start licking yourself in the middle of the street or run around on all fours smelling other dogs butts.
Rice is dirt cheap if you get the mongo sized bags. It takes a while to cook but its cheap. You can then streatch damn near anything. Hit the frozen veggies on sale. Get some dehydrated soup stock. It sounds just like college days!
I ate beans and rice for a month. bag o beans for like 50 cents and a bag of rice for a dollar. that lasts a long time.
I'm happy, overjoyed really, to say that as a kid, Mom never bought food, just rum and cokes at the local dive. Sugar sandwiches were our staple, or ketchup on...a finger. We LIKED porridge. The overjoyed part is that my fridges are NEVER empty. I'll not go hungry again..or without parts...electric bill might be late and I could live without a phone...but I'm gonna eat something.
Ahhhh, the batchelor days. Sometimes at the grocery store they sell Ramen noodles 10 for a dollar, sweet jesus! Years back Jack in the Box killed somebody with undercooked meat, remember? Well soon after, locally at least, you could score a cheeseburger, taco and fries for 1 dollar. Had a lot burgers, tacos and french fries that week. My all time favorite, though was Balogna Burritos. Yessir, one tortilla with 2 or 3 slices (depending on budget) fanned out on a buttered tortilla. Mmmmmmm, that's livin'!
Ha Ha Ha...dog poo, eh?! I woulda gladly treated you to some REAL "Man fuel" at Hardees last night, dumbass!! Seriously...are you SURE those were Co-Co Wheats you were eating? You didn't fall down by the dog bowl or anything did ya??!! (But, on the subject of dog food, those treats that look like little steaks are pretty damn good! Shame to waste 'em on a dog. Uhh, err...so I'm TOLD, anyway!!! )
damn nordern cheesehead backwoods poach'n hillbilly types i tells ya. . . makes me homesick for the U.P. . . . growin up i learned how to violate deer before i learned to hunt legal... my first legal deer was, well, anti-climatic PS... before breeder or anyone else runs with "violating deer" . . . thats a U.P. term for poaching... not um, yaknow what they do with horses out in washington state, or sheep in montana, or say, a sister in Missouri
That was during the bow season... not last night at 3am... All taged and registered... I don't violate anything but young girls integrity..... JOE
i violated a case of coors and a large pizza a few minutes ago! aldi sells some way cheap microwave grub like the guy from flint said. you can buy a weeks worth of food there for about 20 dollars!
NYC 1993, there was an italien place next door, I helped them out with some handyman shit, they always gave me leftover food. Moving to LA, it was Top Ramen all the way, for month on end.
"When I die I hope I go peacefully in my sleep like grandpa did, and not screaming hysterically like all the rest of the people in his car did."[/quote]LMFAO , whilst I am eating OREO's for dinner
Maybe not everybody has Mommy and Daddy, helping out. My Dad was and still is, not giving me any free rides, he's old school, "if you want it, work for it". I guess the struggle makes you appreciate things more. Worked for me.
My secret recipe: 1 bowl of cheerios, 1 table spoon of peanut-butter, and 1 table spoon full of grape jelly. Combine in bowl...or if you broke your last bowl, in a pot, stir eat, wash down with a glass of milk. Peanut-butter and Jelly-0s. Yum, Yum. Your bowels will thank you.
When I was single---my roommate and I were build cars---with no money---so we go to the local mega-box store and buy something like 2 cases of canned tamales and 2 cases of cheap-ass chili--all for something like $5.00! For the next month--we'd ask each other"whatca want for dinner?" Then we'd laugh and heat up those goddamn tamales and chili--I think we stole some cheese from his mom's house too. To this day---can't even look at that shit in the market!!! Hey Jeem---I thought I was the only one who ate bolona burritos---good to here their are other crazy bastards around!
If you want to know how to make seriously cheap, and very good food; Get a cookbook from the 40's or 50's (theres re-prints) You learn handy shit like breadcrumbs and a little milk can make a pound of hamburger go a loooooong way.
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