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A typical quick dinner around here is some polish sausage baked in the toaster oven and some Knorr Alfredo noodles boiled up on the stove.

Hardly any labor involved,...not much money,..and you have a big plate of sliced up polish sausage and Alfredo noodles to fill up on.

We have dinners like that all the time around here.

Kidney beans and smoked meat of some kind or pintos and ground venison or beef, sometimes cabbage or mustard greens, catfish or bream that we catch. Even though I can afford better now I still eat poor folks food. Most of the ethnic foods such as Mexican, Cajun, or Black folks food was cooked by poor folks getting by on what they had. A gumbo or a chili are both good examples of throwing together some cheap ingredients with seasoning. Bar b que started out about the same way thousands of years ago.

Mayonnaise sammich and hawaiian punch

I thought you were a Miracle whip fan??

When my budget was really tight. I ate fish, venison, potatoes and white bread. A few beans.Drank water and black coffee. Wasn't too bad.

There is a lot of economical food, it is boring.

You must think I live in a trailer

Put a slice of Velveeta on that sumbitch and eat like the rich folks.

I don't eat expensive food anyway.

No change.

I eat what I like. It's not hard to make even cheap food "tasty".


In college when we spent more on beer and girls than we should we'd go shoot a few jackrabbits and jerk their backstraps.

Fry them up chicken fried style, with mashed taters and homemade gravy from the drippin's, and eat like kings...

Darn. Makes me wonder what you eat when your flush.

I pitched a couple of chicken thigh and leg quarters in the last crock of pintos, chopped celery and onions, 2 beers, 2cups of coffee, water and Spanish Rice seasoning after the beans had cooked for 2 hours.
2 hours later it was great, Hastings. I sometimes pitch in a few cottontail hind quarters.

My budget doesn't get so tight I can't eat whatever I want.

Elk, then deer, then elk and deer, then deer and elk. Pancakes, eggs, oatmeal, canned veggies. Trying to avoid pasta but that got me by many times in many ways.

Well, I did. Lol

You posted you raise Sea monkeys in a MW jar?

A 'loney sammich, RC Cola, and a Moon pie.

As in the depression, on the farm there is food.

First couple of terms I had a budget of about $3/day that had to cover booze and cigarettes too. Slim pickings! I had help, food boxes and soup kitchens! And free dialup offers...

People here these days don't know poor. It ain't having a used car, small tv and cheap cell phone! I saw poor in the Philippines, no food boxes or soup kitchen, no car, no tv, just flip flops, t-shirt and a cheap cell phone....

I lived on rice, sweet potatoes, eggs, and whatever cheap greens were on sale for quite a while. I rode the schit out of bicycles and struggled to get enough calories on what the change in my couch cushions afforded me. Lol.

Pour a can of clearance soup on top and it was a feast!

I've lived so cheap all my life. One thing I dont skimp much on id food. I will however, buy a cheaper steak, like a shoulder steak instead of Tbones .

That’s a 3 course meal. You weren’t poor....

trapping rabbits and possums in rabbit boxes works as a supply of protein.

remember the dog has to eat too. showing ribs is ok, but not starving.