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I had to visit the food bank for a while while I was living with my Dad and going to school and the money from EBT wasn't near enough to stretch between food, gas, rent and his girlfriend's need for jewelry or wtf. I remember a ton of canned veggies and tuna being the staples. Plus random stuff like nectarine juice, veggie "ground beef", a lot of pre-packaged fresh meals on their last legs and weird pastries, like gigantic cinnamon rolls. I used the vegetarian ground "beef" to make spaghetti. It was ok? Just a weird sweetness to it, but perfectly filling and edible. You could tell it wasn't meat, so the whole dish was a little off-putting but hell, I ate that for 3 days. The worst part was getting all these parts of meals but not being able to make a whole traditional meal. Like, I could throw canned veggies together but that wouldn't be a stew, it would just be vegetables in hot juice because I rarely got tomato paste/sauce, etc to even make a veggie stew. My experience with food banks was mainly eat anything remotely fresh as soon as possible, then stare at canned food until I could find an acceptable combination. I made the worst dish I've ever eaten once out of desperation with all food bank ingredients on the last week before we could go back--- cheap mac n cheese and tuna but without any butter or dairy of any kind. The closest equivalent I had was water and chipotle mayo. That was the worst thing I've ever eaten. I don't even know how to describe the taste but it was soul-killing.
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