Cheap food - Ghetto ingenuity at its best

[Kid Afrika]

What kind of food have you eaten when you were truly broke?

Here are some examples...

Fried Cheerios - Cheerios sauted in a li'l bit of butter and salt to taste.

Homemade Chex Mix - Chex cereal in place of the cheerios.

Cinnamin Toast - Self-explanatory

Ramen noodles (I still eat 'em)

Cream Chipped beef on toast - Cream soup with sliced beef cold cuts over toast.

Chicken for a week (from one chicken) - Chicken soup, Cream chicken over noodles, chicken and drop noodles...

Potatoes - fried, twice-baked, scalloped w/ ham, potato pancakes

Kool aid

Cookie dough - flour, egg, butter and sugar (we couldn't afford chocolate chips)

[ClusterF@#$]

uhm... are you like hungry or something? Stop it already... I'm trying to quit smoking and you are giving me the munchies.
mokey:

[Maynard]

I think the worst thing was when I was completely broke. For about 2 months, all I ate were bagels (that my friend used to bring home from the bagel shop he worked in), ramen noodles, and luckily.....there was a soup kitchen 1 block down from my apartment that used to serve lunch.

Without that soup kitchen, I could very well have died from starvation. What a fucking low point in my life.

Gee, thanks for reminding me k1d. uicide:

[Silera]

Rice and:

<ul>canned sardines
fried eggs
spaghetti
vienna sausages
tuna</ul>

[Is Don on the phone?]

My mom used to make noodles, tomatoes and peas. She would make a big pot of it, and it would feed the family, cheap and quick, for three days. She used canned tomatoes and peas-the generic or store brand, and elbow noodles. But then again, it was hard to support two kids on a parochial teacher's salary in New York City-we weren't poor, but we sure were not rich.

I hope I never see that dish again in my life! I've told my mom to call me if she ever feels like making it, and I'll drive back to Queens and take her out for steak.

[JerseyThunder]

ketsup packets
tuna (the cheap shit not starkist)
Ramen (a case of 24 for 3 bucks) eaten dry on occassion(sp)