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I think the albacore has the higher mercury content, MB

budget never changes on food......

always good chow here........

watch for sales......freeze/store it.......

two big azz Ribeyes in fridge for tonight......

I waited tables at Steak and Ale in college for the left overs and free baked potatoes. I figured if a chick was clean and good looking I could eat her meat (left on her plate).

My wife grew up dirt poor.
She is kind and gracious even when times have been bumpy.
We love boiled cabbage and potatoes.

Never got that tight, that it changed my eating habits. Pay yourself first.

In college, bought 3 loaves of bread for a buck.

5 boxes mac & cheese for a buck. Can't remember what ramen noodles cost but they were cheap too.

Big jug of spaghetti sauce.

Government cheese my buddy got. We made a lot of little pizzas with the bread, cheese and sauce.

Pretty hard to pay yourself when the till is empty.

I just bought a 12 pack of ramen noodles the other day for $1.60 at Walmart.

That's cheap food, I don't care who you are.

Don't get there often as the nearest is now 3+ hours away, but if I lived where they had one I could get to every day Costco has a big slice of pizza, get the combo slice, for $2.14. Ask for a cup for water, two packs of Parm, and pack of hot peppers. Lunch, could be lunch and dinner if one was really strapped for cash.

Boiled cabbage, a few carrots, and some taters, maybe some greens especially the free ones in the fields and that can be pretty decent cheap food for sure. The more water, you have in it the more it stretches.

Friend in college used to go to the Safeway store at 5 PM, $1 loaves of French bread hot out of the oven. He'd get two and some milk, one for dinner, the other for breakfast. He was one of the guys with crab rings, so we ate french bread and crab a few times too.

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It'll keep my thermometer stiff...

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Same boat. I eat really healthy which means lots of salads and meat. And then there is beer...

I remember mom telling dad that with these three growing boys that she was going to have to start frying 2 chickens instead of one. Dad said no, make a few more biscuits & stretch the gravy. I learned young about the tasty little hidden morsels of meat on chicken parts that are often thrown out, or that marrow is good.

After my divorce, I lived on venison, fresh fish, & other assorted wild game for about 6 months to get a couple bills cleaned up. Luxuries were a big bottle of gator aid & a six pack of Old Milwaukee per week.

Now days, cost aside I still love country food, wild game, soul food etc., foods that some call cheap.

My wife says I could live off whatever I could find in a ditch.
I have always eat good no matter the money. Its not hard when you're not picky. Evil wife #2 put me on beans and rice for a while but you can add anything to that and make a great meal.
Good thread.

Peanut butter on saltines. Creamed tuna on toast. Hot dogs and beans.

Damn, I'm getting teary eyed remembering how Mom used to stretch the budget.

Pinto beans, of course.

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next great thread: How many bean recipes do you have? Best way to cook beans? Best dishes with beans?

My wife does not like beans so they are a treat to me now. She is just beginning to catch on why I encourage her to go visit family and spend the day with her friends.

Had a college professor attempt to describe his 'hardships' of pursuing his PhD to us in class.

He claimed he existed on pinto beans and tube steak.

Obviously the rumors were confirmed.

I've discussed my wife's cabbage rolls before. It takes a bit of time to prepare them but they're fairly cheap food. The ground beef costs a bit and if you want sour cream on them you have to pay a bit for that, also. But cabbage and rice make up the bulk of the meal,...and they're good stuff!

I could eat them every day.