Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What do you eat when the budget is tight?

For me, first it is pinto beans and cornbread.
And spam and cabbage fried.
And scrambled eggs.
Canned mackerel fried like crab cakes.

Hamburger from freezer!

Beans and Cornbread. Cheap TV Dinners that cost $1.35
Ravioli that’s .75 cents a can at Dollar General. 😬

boilt pork neckbones, w/salt and black pepper.

add cornbread. maybe some potatoes.

Ramen noodles. They make an excellent base for about 2 quarts of soup made with sliced carrots, celery, onion, minced garlic, and a tuna-sized can of Walmart chicken breast. The whole meal costs maybe $1.50 and it's healthy and filling.
Jerry

fideo, papas caldutha stuff like that cheap good tasting mescan food.

Spam isn’t that cheap, anymore.

Sardines, oranges, almonds , boiled eggs. Black coffee in the morning kills my appetite and usually drinking a lot of water does too.

Depends on the time of year. Might be woodchuck and dandelion greens in spring/summer. Venison, rabbit or ruffed grouse with ramen noodles in fall /winter.

Ain’t that the TRUTH.

I buy cheap cans of tuna fish and boil eggs to make tuna salad sandwich’s. Add a little sugar, mayo, and sweet pickle relish to mine to make em tasty.

Ramen noodles suck.

You can buy a pack of those alfredo noodles for a buck. I like them even when I'm not on a budget,....a little milk,..a little butter. They're a meal.

This stuff.

https://www.target.com/p/knorr-174-pasta-sides-pasta-side-dish-alfredo-4-4oz/-/A-12936122

I had a student loan glitch in college.... zero money..... some friends had had a bumper crop of beets in their garden and gave me a huge bag full of them. I lived on beets and white rice (which was very reddish/purple after been steamed together....) for maybe 3 weeks. It was 20 years before I could even look at beets again.

Our eating habits dont change.

Always have staples like sugar, flour, rice and the like. If it got real tight, could get a bag of beans, otherwise it's canned beans for the convenience. Always have a six pack or more of the Sam's Club canned white chicken breast around. That's good for lots of stuff. Plenty of deer around if you're hungry.

If things are real tight and you can't shoot or catch something for some reason you can live for a week on a package of cheap bologna and a generic loaf of bread.

Venison, beans and rice

I’ll have to give those a try. I ate so many Ramen Noodles in College I don’t care if I ever eat another.

My budget hasn't been tight enough to have to carefully select food for a while. But there's still a lot of budget priced food out there that I eat because it's good.

Those packs of Knorr pasta dishes are good stuff.

Some of them only need water. Some of them need butter and milk.

All of them are good.

Thank the Lord my budget is not tight and hasn't been in many years. But we always spend wisely anyways. We've been eating from the garden and the elk killed last year. Tonight we had an elk roast, sweet corn, okra, yellow squash and red potatoes. Later gonna have some more watermelon and cantaloupe. In my 20s used to eat a lot of $1 frozen dinners. Or for a real splurge a $1.25 Totinos pizza.

I like ramen noodles. Got a case of them in the pantry right now. I like to boil them until tender, then drain off all the water, pour the flavor packet into the drained noodes and stir. Good by themselves. Better with some fried, cubed venison stirred into the beef flavored noodles or grouse/pheasant stirred into the chicken flavored.