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rndmnmbr posted:Chicken leg quarters are always cheap. Mix a can or two of cream of mushroom with rice and a little water, put the leg quarters on top, bake until done. For some reason, no matter how much salt you add before it cooks, it will always need more when done. I lived on eggs and just enough butter to fry them for something like 6 months when I was younger, both might be too expensive for that to pay off now. I was on a DNR trail building crew at the time, I was ripped as gently caress for the only time in my life. Now to save money I make homemade bread and lots of mujadara, along with cheap sardines and tuna. Lao Gan Ma and a cold baked potato is a great dinner too. Myron Baloney fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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When I was at my poorest it'd be homemade bread. Flour, water, salt, yeast. A whole loaf for basically pennies. When times were good, a slice of bread and maybe mayo on it. When times were bad, some ranch or ketchup from the work fridge.
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No-knead focaccia isn't that too much more than plain bread, if you don't mind using cheap oil! I prefer it, anyway And man, I think I grew up on Nalley chili for lunch, loved the stuff. Put it on a baked potato and you're all set for most the day. It's been a while in general since I bought canned chili though, I remember it being $.89-.99 a can just a few years ago and it's over twice that now. I don't think I could justify the price vs. making a huge pot and freezing it. Assuming you need the spices purchased new, it still has to be around 50-60% the cost, using dried beans anyway. $2.12-$2.55 for a can of Hormel is a joke even considering convenience. edit: I also realize that my conception of chili is anathema for Texans or whatever. I don't care, bean me baby. Bean me hard. ---------------- Carlton Banks Teller fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Dec 11, 2022 |
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a sexual elk posted:Wish Weinersnitzel sold their chili in cans Depends on the franchisee if they participate but they do now.
FrankeeFrankFrank on 07:55 May 03, 2015 posted:sometimes i rub Fabreeze on my hands and now my hands are very dry. FrankeeFrankFrank on 04:55 Apr 10, 2017 posted:I still believe in Second Winter. Put this in your sig if you also believe in that and that it is real and not fake like the others say.
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I got lazy by last week and ate canner grade ground beef chili. Never again
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Those frozen premade pbjs on the toilet
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Carlton Banks Teller posted:edit: I also realize that my conception of chili is anathema for Texans or whatever. I don't care, bean me baby. Bean me hard. as a texan chili purist, I saved a few cents recently by buying the wolf brand with beans and frankly it was still pretty great ----------------
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Carlton Banks Teller posted:edit: I also realize that my conception of chili is anathema for Texans or whatever. I don't care, bean me baby. Bean me hard. no beans means more meat
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Dec 11, 2022 20:05
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Whichever fellow Texan said chili doesn't get beans is full of poo poo. You make a huge pot of Texas red, and eat it until it's about 2/3 gone. Then you cook up a batch of beans, add it to the chili, and finish the pot of chili with beans. Best of both worlds.
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Beans are cheap as hell and extremely nutritious and healthy to eat, no-beans chili is a luxury and doesn't really fit ITT
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Idk if this is poverty food or fast after work throw it together food for 6 people. Mom used to make a box of Mac n cheese, can of tuna, and can of peas - no bake tuna casserole. Also remember canned salmon patties; fried spam on toast; Hormel tamales; corned beef hash, beanie-weenies. Dad’s special was pizza burgers, which is Manwich on bread baked with mozzarella on top. Summer time we got steamed squash/zucchini/onions and farm fresh corn. Grandma always made white beans with the ham bone after Easter; I still love them, with a piece of cornbread on top. I did vegetarian for lent once, made sautéed onions in bbq sauce on a piece of toast often. Nowadays I will take a can of collard greens, a can of kidney beans, mix together and microwave. Will also just have Brussel sprouts halves and microwaved. I have plain oatmeal for breakfast. Y’all ever had a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch with ready whip on top? High recommend.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Beans are cheap as hell and extremely nutritious and healthy to eat, no-beans chili is a luxury and doesn't really fit ITT The trick is to find a store that regularly discounts about to expire meat, and hit them up right as they open. The rest of the ingredients are cheap.
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when I was very poor and very depressed I'd eat what amounted to open-faced giardiniera sandwiches. a thin scrape of mayo piled with the cheapest hot giardiniera I could find (usually a huge jar of alpino brand for <$10). it's still pretty good every once in a while. I really like giardiniera is what I'm saying and you should try it too if you've never had it. use a slotted spoon to get rid of most of the oil. canned tuna, relish, and yellow mustard eaten over the sink after the gym (somewhat depressed) or at 3am (very depressed) red beans, white rice, crystal hot sauce, and shredded grocery store mozzarella cheese for an even poorer man's red beans and rice thankfully I'm doing much better now both income and mental health wise but man my 20s were probably the only time where I could scrape along like that. I think if I have to do that again in my 50s or 60s or something my organs will just shut off TriggerHappyMarie posted:made sautéed onions in bbq sauce on a piece of toast often. a classic
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:when I was very poor and very depressed I'd eat what amounted to open-faced giardiniera sandwiches. a thin scrape of mayo piled with the cheapest hot giardiniera I could find (usually a huge jar of alpino brand for <$10). it's still pretty good every once in a while. I really like giardiniera is what I'm saying and you should try it too if you've never had it. use a slotted spoon to get rid of most of the oil. This sounds legit. I'd eat that.
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Treecko posted:I spend so much of my time cooking for my family, it really sucks when they just 'want' something else and don't eat any of it. I had to read this three times to understand it. You cook food for your family and they don’t eat it? What the gently caress? Get a new family.
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Right? What the gently caress is that? If someone cooks for me I'm thrilled even if it sucks. I didn't have to cook! They like me enough to cook for me!
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Ya I have friends that work on the road or they’re just single and kinda helpless in that area, and they’re always super happy to have a home cooked meal even if I gently caress it up by my standards. I remember when I was living together with some friends who also did not have money, we’d eat margarine and noodles pretty regularly. One day I made a pot and put one of the aforementioned lemon packets in, and I’ll never forget how much one of my friends praised me for how good it was. It’s funny how that little difference cheered them up so much. My mom also used to make that Mac and cheese tuna peas thing. I still make it for myself once in awhile.
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To be fair, I mean my children. Now that I know better from experience, I try to make them healthy meals. It takes time and effort. Can't just make them eat it. Still wish they would at least try it! Tuna noodle is good as hell though
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bread and worcestershire sauce is my poverty food
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Reading this thread really brought me back to the incredibly lean years of 2012-2013. I’m not sure if what I felt was nostalgia or sadness or relief or something else. The Mama Celeste pizzas hit really hard.
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Dinner tonight was a big piece of sourdough with a knife of Mayo on half and a squirt of mustard on the other half folded over, kids had Mac with cheddar mixed in, talk about poverty food haha
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Wendigee posted:When I was growing up we had canned peas, potato patties and canned salmon patties on the reg. I'll never forget the salmon bones. The bones are the best part of canned salmon. MMM, vertebra.
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Knorr sides Spainish rice with a bag of frozen veggies and some pouch chicken tonight We're not that poor anymore but my husband gets free nearly expired poo poo from work and goddammit I'm going to use it
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When I was little we were pretty bad off after my dad died, one of my staples was miracle whip on the whitest white bread available. I hadn't touched the 'whip in decades until a few months ago; I bought a small jar (store brand, Kraft is fuckin expensive as hell) and some Kwik Trip white bread ($.79 a loaf) and made a sandwich. Goddamn it was still good. I ended up tossing the jar so I wouldn't eat the whole thing in a few days.
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The mayonnaise sandwich is a shame before the eyes of God, but goddamn if it doesn't hit the spot sometimes.
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The key to a good mayo sammy is to add a lovely tomato, or those $0.49 tomato paste cans.
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rndmnmbr posted:The mayonnaise sandwich is a shame before the eyes of God, but goddamn if it doesn't hit the spot sometimes. I've started doing this with tortillas to make mayonnaise wraps sometimes.
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rndmnmbr posted:The mayonnaise sandwich is a shame before the eyes of God, but goddamn if it doesn't hit the spot sometimes. warmed[/img] mayo sandwich put on the pan for a little while on each side to maybe give it a superlight toast also just put the completed thing on top of the toaster
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That's just a cheeseless grilled cheese. Which still sounds kinda good, to be fair. I dunno if it counts as poverty because it feels fancy but I grow a little basil every summer and if you toast bread with oil and put in some basil you're basically making pesto bread and it's cheap and good.
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Treecko posted:Knorr sides Spainish rice with a bag of frozen veggies and some pouch chicken tonight Frozen veggies are always better then canned, so Chicken, Rice, and Veggies doesn't sound like poverty food at all to me, that's a filling, healthy, basic food groups covered good dinner! I mean I don't know what you actually got specifically, and yeah you said it's free stuff so sure it counts, but I'd be all about that on a budget or not!
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Treecko posted:Knorr sides Spainish rice I am reminded of this which I consumed in massive amounts as a child but have not had in years. Gonna have to get some and see if it awakens something in me. 
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Oh it was definitely a complete meal. Bellies were full. It's just not the most extravagant looking. Nobody who was truly hungry would turn it down, but it's so close to the exp date I'm not sure if a food pantry would take it and I know enough 'real' cooking from being in food service industry I can jazz it up.  Lots of pasta roni and instant mash in our future.
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Cheap peanut butter slathered on a kraft single, call that dinner anyone eaten anything like this
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Treecko posted:Oh it was definitely a complete meal. Bellies were full. It's just not the most extravagant looking. To be fair, those instant mash things are awesome.
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yeah i fuckin' love them. just boil water and dump it in, don't even have to put milk or butter or salt in like with the boxed instant mashed.
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Vienna sausage with the slime wiped off, cut into 2 pieces length wise on white bread with miracle whip
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