BlackNoir Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) Spare a ramen noodle.... Good, now that I hate myself, what is your favorite poor man's meal....I understand if some of your were never poor or never went to college or whatever....$5 to feed 2 people is the random ass borders I'll create for this experiment. Mine is Spammy Mac....I think it's obvious it's spam and macaroni n cheese...Shit is soooooo good.....$2 for the can of spam, $1 for some noodles and $1 for cheese (I used to get a pack of Kraft singles)......Nowadays, I'll use sharp cheddar and Muenster but that takes it well over $4. I think my runner up would be baked beans and hotdogs and lite bread (white bread...I have no idea why people call it that, but that's growing up in the South for ya.) Every once in a while I eat a struggle meal because I'll be honest, trash is kinda good Canned corned beef and rice....NO, NOT CORNED BEEF HASH....It's so weird that I've asked 2 people to bring me a can of corned beef before and they both brought home corned beef hash Edited January 30, 2021 by BlackNoir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 32 minutes ago, BlackNoir said: Spare a ramen noodle.... HEY 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawdamizer Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Egg noodles and ketchup 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainyDayJizz#35 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Rice and eggs Egg noodles cooked in cream of chicken soup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 ziti alfredo which is just a box of ziti and some alfredo sauce. sometimes i'll put some frozen cubed chicken on it so it's not as depressing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawdamizer Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 1 minute ago, Naraku4656 said: ziti alfredo which is just a box of ziti and some alfredo sauce. sometimes i'll put some frozen cubed chicken on it so it's not as depressing Fucking Scrooge McDuck over here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainyDayJizz#35 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Just now, Sawdamizer said: Fucking Scrooge McDuck over here Frlz, I could probably buy both my meals for less than the alfredo sauce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 tuna patties and tater tots 3 cans of tuna or 1 big can = $3 at most. Sometimes as low as $1.50 negligible amount of breadcrumbs and oil tater tots = $1.50 - $2.00 To feed 5 ppl Since we're still poor white trash this is a meal I still have regularly tho I won't blame u if u think I'm lying and we're actually rich bc there's fresh produce included in this particular meal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 it was a "failure dinner" several times when I was first living in an apartment and couldn't cook for shit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiles Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Tomato soup and grilled cheese. Cheap, easy, and delicious. Just like me, babeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 oh i didn't read the "grew up on" part. i don't really remember any distinct struggle meals my parents did. grilled cheese i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ninja_Jesus- Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Spam musubi. Only like 2 bucks at a 7/11 and my family would buy enough to last us a few weeks. Got sick of it after a while but eventually reached a point where we could buy real dinner food, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapinator_X Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Frozen pizza items like Celeste, Stouffers French Bread pizza, and Pizza Bagels. Instant pasta packets like Knorr's Alfredo or Butter & Herb Noodles. Canned bread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoir Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 44 minutes ago, Jiro_Dreams said: Canned bread. Beer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoir Posted October 22, 2020 Author Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Poof said: tuna patties and tater tots 3 cans of tuna or 1 big can = $3 at most. Sometimes as low as $1.50 negligible amount of breadcrumbs and oil tater tots = $1.50 - $2.00 To feed 5 ppl Since we're still poor white trash this is a meal I still have regularly tho I won't blame u if u think I'm lying and we're actually rich bc there's fresh produce included in this particular meal Well, while I don't believe you're poor white trash, you don't have to be a baller to get fresh produce. Edited October 22, 2020 by BlackNoir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 I used to very lightly butter a slice of bread, sprinkle it with garlic powder and toast it in the toaster for garlic toast. That and two cups of tea using the same tea bag twice would often be a meal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, BlackNoir said: Well, while I don't believe you're poor white trash, you don't have to be a baller to get fresh produce. lol why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 I guess as a kid it was homemade potato pierogis. During College, I guess egg pancakes (crepes). I didn't make them often, I kinda lost my nerve after finding dead roaches in the flour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreHunter Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Guess I'll exclude wild game and plants I'd gather from outside. Liked cut up hotdog in eggs, Spam, bologna and ketchup sandwich, pork n beans with cut up hotdogs, ramen, Butter Noodles with salt and pepper, biscuits with gravy, canned beans, Braunschweiger with onion and mustard sometimes as a sandwich. I remember a period of eating canned salmon for a while because it was super cheap that I would fry in a pan. I actually got nostalgic for it a while back and was going to buy some and it's like fucking $8 a can now. Reminds me of how canned chicken used to be so cheep that it may as well have been free. Then Buffalo Chicken Dip became popular and it went up to $5 a can. Always sucks when your poverty foods become trendy. Though seems a lot of foods have just jacked up in price I remember 15 years ago when Roast Beef Lunch Meat was $2.99lb and now it's $10.99lb. Most Hated is Stale bread in hot milk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seight Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Anything with Spam is a correct answer. That's like the solid backup QB if the starter (aka actual food that you would want to eat) is unavailable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamped Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 4 hours ago, Poof said: tuna patties and tater tots 3 cans of tuna or 1 big can = $3 at most. Sometimes as low as $1.50 negligible amount of breadcrumbs and oil tater tots = $1.50 - $2.00 To feed 5 ppl Since we're still poor white trash this is a meal I still have regularly tho I won't blame u if u think I'm lying and we're actually rich bc there's fresh produce included in this particular meal The tuna patties Im familiar with. You gotta throw one of those bags of season all in it and my mom would call them "salmon croquettes" Clearly not salmon but whatever XD 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamped Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 2 hours ago, katt_goddess said: I used to very lightly butter a slice of bread, sprinkle it with garlic powder and toast it in the toaster for garlic toast. That and two cups of tea using the same tea bag twice would often be a meal. >.> Ill still use a teabag twice if no one is watching 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapinator_X Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 3 hours ago, BlackNoir said: Beer? I’ve had beer for dinner before, but this is the canned bread I mentioned: It’s a decent side item with baked beans or mac & cheese. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 50 minutes ago, Vamped said: The tuna patties Im familiar with. You gotta throw one of those bags of season all in it and my mom would call them "salmon croquettes" Clearly not salmon but whatever XD my parents don't know what seasonings are. they fit that stereotype 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Guignon Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Jiro_Dreams said: I’ve had beer for dinner before, but this is the canned bread I mentioned: It’s a decent side item with baked beans or mac & cheese. What the fuck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naraku4656 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, Le Guignon said: What the fuck that's what I said in voice chat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainyDayJizz#35 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Naraku4656 said: oh i didn't read the "grew up on" part. i don't really remember any distinct struggle meals my parents did. grilled cheese i guess Further demonstrating your distance from what the struggle is. Go ride your horse or go for a sail or some shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameraka Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Stuffed Spaghetti squash. Fried bluefish. We lived near the coast. Venison burgers when my uncle got lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
André Toulon Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 22 minutes ago, nameraka said: Stuffed Spaghetti squash. Fried bluefish. We lived near the coast. Venison burgers when my uncle got lucky. Did the homeless buy up all the baby lamb chops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nameraka Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 1 hour ago, André Toulon said: Did the homeless buy up all the baby lamb chops I should clarify. We didn't buy any of that. It was all grown, caught, or hunted. When we had to buy food, it was meatloaf... Always meatloaf... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and grilled cheese sandwiches with a bag of hot fries. These are some of the things from my childhood when I was poor that I can still eat. I'll turn to crime before I ever eat bologna again. Luckily, nowadays I always keep a big bag of rice on hand, a jug of soy sauce, fresh cabbage, and frozen dumplings for when I'm broke and want a nice hot meal. Oh and hot pickles. Edited October 23, 2020 by DragonSinger 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 21 hours ago, Vamped said: >.> Ill still use a teabag twice if no one is watching They were the cheap ones. That's all we'd get at home because paying extra for anything name brand was frivolous. It's why I also hate Rite-Aide flavored drink. Screw you, gimme Kool-Aide. Preferably grape. During my college years, they were the cheap crappy tea bags that I would slowly pillage from the college cafeteria over the course of the school year in order to have something to drink during breaks. In those years, it was one brick of cheap ramen a day and tea. Split the brick, extra water and two cups of tea [ one bag ] per meal for two meals daily. Currently I keep Republic of Tea and Harney & Sons teas stocked here - each little tea bag makes a full glass pot of tea without being all watered down and weird. And if I did try the old cheap garlic bread trick, it would now be done in a glorious Batman toaster. Classy af. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamped Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 30 minutes ago, katt_goddess said: They were the cheap ones. That's all we'd get at home because paying extra for anything name brand was frivolous. It's why I also hate Rite-Aide flavored drink. Screw you, gimme Kool-Aide. Preferably grape. During my college years, they were the cheap crappy tea bags that I would slowly pillage from the college cafeteria over the course of the school year in order to have something to drink during breaks. In those years, it was one brick of cheap ramen a day and tea. Split the brick, extra water and two cups of tea [ one bag ] per meal for two meals daily. Currently I keep Republic of Tea and Harney & Sons teas stocked here - each little tea bag makes a full glass pot of tea without being all watered down and weird. And if I did try the old cheap garlic bread trick, it would now be done in a glorious Batman toaster. Classy af. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilosipherStoned Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Chef Boyardee stuff I guess. I mean even if I'm not struggling they're my guilty pleasure though. Instant ramen is a close second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juice McKenzie Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 are chicken nuggies considered struggle meals? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Vamped said: Damn straight. I'm also the one who saved up and bought a set of metal chopsticks to eat my shitty $0.10 ramen bricks with so I could feel like I had something. I still have and use those things too. Gods damned things are nearly 30 years old now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonSinger Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 3 hours ago, katt_goddess said: They were the cheap ones. That's all we'd get at home because paying extra for anything name brand was frivolous. It's why I also hate Rite-Aide flavored drink. Screw you, gimme Kool-Aide. Preferably grape. During my college years, they were the cheap crappy tea bags that I would slowly pillage from the college cafeteria over the course of the school year in order to have something to drink during breaks. In those years, it was one brick of cheap ramen a day and tea. Split the brick, extra water and two cups of tea [ one bag ] per meal for two meals daily. Currently I keep Republic of Tea and Harney & Sons teas stocked here - each little tea bag makes a full glass pot of tea without being all watered down and weird. And if I did try the old cheap garlic bread trick, it would now be done in a glorious Batman toaster. Classy af. Those knock-off packets were the one time my family was like, "We may be poor, but we can't drink this shit." So Kool-Aid was the only real name brand thing we had other than trips out of state when we picked up Faygo and Clearly Canadian drinks. 😭 I miss cheap Clearly Canadian sodas. Now those suckers are almost 3 bucks at friggin World Market. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoir Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 4 hours ago, Juice McKenzie said: are chicken nuggies considered struggle meals? Borderline, but yes. Also, any of those Banquet meals that cost $0.89-$1.29......Once you get to the Hungry Mans, it's no longer a struggle...Just gross for the sake of being gross. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackNoir Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 Bootleg koolaid is ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I've got to try this stuff Spoiler 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distortedreasoning Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 eggs and hot dogs or eggs and tortilla both with side of refried beans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resurrected Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Luckily, we never had to struggle for food. Lunches were usually just junk, like Spaghetti O's or a sandwich. Breakfast was either cooked or cereal. Dinner was always cooked every night. But I do have a guilty pleasure of Hormel Chili without beans and Chef Boyardee macaroni and cheese. I'll eat them both out of the can, cold. At the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunStarHero Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 So many to choose from! Popular choices include: -Nearly expired meat tossed onto a derelict Foreman grill, rolled into tortillas with a bit of BBQ sauce. -Rice and cheese (may contain zero authentic rice or cheese) -Peanut butter on a single slice of probably stale bread -Pizza sandwich -Mac and cheese with eggs/hot dog -Sugar toast -Vienna sausage and ramen -Buttery noodles -Frozen pot pies -Canned chicken -Literal trash from restaurant dumpsters 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stilgar Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 I guess it would be pork roll on a hamburger bun, frozen corn, and mac and cheese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poof Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 21 minutes ago, GunStarHero said: So many to choose from! Popular choices include: -Nearly expired meat tossed onto a derelict Foreman grill, rolled into tortillas with a bit of BBQ sauce. -Rice and cheese (may contain zero authentic rice or cheese) -Peanut butter on a single slice of probably stale bread -Pizza sandwich -Mac and cheese with eggs/hot dog -Sugar toast -Vienna sausage and ramen -Buttery noodles -Frozen pot pies -Canned chicken -Literal trash from restaurant dumpsters no blueberry muffins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 25 minutes ago, GunStarHero said: Literal trash from restaurant dumpsters Never went "Dumpster Diving", though a lot of people I knew in college did...until McD's started putting a padlock on the dumpster lids at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Ninja_Jesus- Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 minute ago, tsar4 said: Never went "Dumpster Diving", though a lot of people I knew in college did...until McD's started putting a padlock on the dumpster lids at night. I never got to a dumpster diving level of struggle which I’m thankful for but working at a grocery store deli made me realize how much needless food waste there is. Literally throwing out whole slabs of ham or beef or cheese because they’re a day or two out of date, dumping packaged foods because they’re past the sell by date, it really pissed me off being a part of that system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsar4 Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 minute ago, -Ninja_Jesus- said: I never got to a dumpster diving level of struggle which I’m thankful for but working at a grocery store deli made me realize how much needless food waste there is. Literally throwing out whole slabs of ham or beef or cheese because they’re a day or two out of date, dumping packaged foods because they’re past the sell by date, it really pissed me off being a part of that system. College Dumpster Diving wasn't about being poor, necessarily. For some, it meant having more money to hit the bars with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunStarHero Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Poof said: no blueberry muffins? That is beyond struggle. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunStarHero Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 1 hour ago, tsar4 said: Never went "Dumpster Diving", though a lot of people I knew in college did...until McD's started putting a padlock on the dumpster lids at night. I was homeless for awhile and even when I got off the streets afterwards I was still struggling for food. Opted to fish food out of restaurant dumpsters during that time. Tried to get the old, wrapped stuff when possible. Eventually I was caught and the manager of the main place I dumpster dived at asked me to stop in exchange for them just outright giving me the old sandwiches and a cup for water. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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