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Cornbread crumbled into a glass of ice cold whole milk is one of my favorite foods. But, it has to be real cornbread baked in an iron skillet and it can't have any sugar or flour in it.

Wiener water soup.

hardly any work at all

Ate so much of this growing up it was coming out my ears.


Now it’s what I ask for my bday meal, we dress it up w fried potatoes and salad now, but that’s the main course

i asked my slavic grandfather why he came to this country in the beginnings of the last century. He said he really didn't know what the United States was, but it had to be better than the village he came from, where every winter people starved to death.
i remember a big ham in a pan setting on top of the wood fired stove as a kid, him and grandmother were spooning out the congealed grease to spread on home made bread before touching the ham. You need fat in your diet, it was a luxury in the old country.
My mother came through the depression not knowing there was a depression, they never had any money anyway. But they farmed pinto beans. She said you trade for anything with pinto's.
i could live very well with a big sack of pinto's, which i keep in stock, and tortilla's, my wife makes them.
that and given her southern heritage is cornbread in a skillet.
During college, i used to manage to feed myself on about three dollars a day. you just have to look around.
another family relative was in the german army in russia. he managed to live. he described living on erzatz bread after the war ended. basically bread made with sawdust. he said it was a real treat to get one spoonful of lard per week.
These people were survivors.

There are a few beers you can drink on keto, but not many, and those you can will likely not satisfy. Way too watery for me.

I'd rather have tap water than those so called beers, keto or not.

yeah i needed to stop anyway beer is why i gained the weight to begin with.

I'm cutting my beer consumption by replacement. Every other one is replaced by a big glass of water.

ha, been months since i had water, just beer. drinking tea now.

Budget food or bug out food....Fried taters with whatever added..

I can feed me and my 20 yr old son together on that today and have been off and on during the summer.

Local mom and pop grocery had oscar meyer hot dogs .99cent a pack. They got no-name hot dog buns also .99 cents a pack. I grabbed about 25 packs of them and dropped them in the freezer.

Family size bag of generic potato chips from Aldi for $1.89. Bottles of spring water.

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When we get sick of hot dogs, we can always use them for giving the dogs their pro-biotic.

I'd get a job.

I married Ebenezer Sue so that I wouldn't have to make decisions like this.

Well I remember back when Walmart started selling their Great Value brand bean soup for 50 cents a can, it was on the shelf next to the Campbells at $1.38 a can. Near as my taste buds can tell it is the same stuff, just like one week they run Wallyworld labels and the next week Campbells but the same soup just a label change. Ain't to bad if you put some black pepper on it. Real good, fact is you make 2 cans a time throwing some mixed frozen vegtables and a half pound of ground beef, venison , antelope etc. Seasoned with garlic powder and some cayenne it's great. Guy can add noodles or rice or other things ever onct and awhile for variety. Can eat all right for $30-40 dollars a month and not starve. good way to lose a little weight. One time I went to the check out with 30 cans a bean soup in my cart and a bag of dog food. The gal that was the cashier said your dog is eating better than you are, I said rightly so her nose is better and she finds the birds I eat with the bean soup. Did I find everything I was looking for? Yep I said got it all, don't need anymore rubber dogshit from Walmart today. Going to Walmart is entertaining , kinda like crossing a zoo with a freak show. But onct every 2 weeks or so is often enough for me. All the other grocery store in this town make you have a membership card or screw you on the price you gotta pay f'em. MB

What do you eat when the budget is tight?


Shadow soup

One hot meal a day, a bowl of steam.

Robert White: To tell the truth it has been so long since my budget "has been tight" that I don't remember.
I am thankful for that.
I like Spam and agree with the above poster, it is NOT cheap anymore!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

The corned beef in the trapezoidal can is also quite expensive these days.

Mac n cheese with ground venison in it and a little pepper. still like to eat it when I'm not broke and the cost is pretty low. Can't stand ramen or spam or other "traditional" broke foods.