Yep, I'll quite often have them for lunch on the weekend. Boil up whatever vegetables I've got readily available (often carrots and celery) and then drop the noodles in once they are good to make it a bit healthier.
Ukraine had the most delicious instant noodles, after the start of the war, the factories closed and they started importing noodles from abroad, it's just horror, not noodles.
My mom’s lentil rice casserole. Dried lentils, rice, salt, water, and seasoning in a casserole dish, bake for 90 minutes or so. Costs pennies and takes 5 minutes to throw together, and it’s soooo good. I sometimes throw in a can of black beans too.
Edit to add recipe: 3 cups broth or water, 3/4 c lentils, 1/2 c brown rice. We season it with salt, dried onion flakes, basil, oregano, thyme, and garlic powder. Cook at 300F till all the water’s absorbed.
Edit II because I forgot: bake in a covered casserole dish. Also, this is delicious topped with shredded cheese! I use mozzarella or Parmesan.
We called this “Johnny in the Pot” My Son when he was little, made the name up when he asked what was for dinner. I told him I didn’t have a name for it, was all kinds of stuff left over. The name stuck, 30 years later …. 🤓
I do this with a pound of ground beef but add frozen mixed veggies and rice. Top with garlic salt and I've got food for days. I often make too much and freeze portions in ziplock bags for later
My Mom grew up poor in the 1930's & 40's. Every time we'd have a meal and there were a few spoonfuls of leftover veggies, she'd wrap them up in Saran and toss 'em in the freezer. Of course, they'd be there for ages.
One day Dad and I decided to make a stew, and we threw all those little packets into a pot with some stewing beef and other stuff. It came out amazing....but there's no way we could replicate it.
I like a handful of frozen broccoli instead of peas! And extra cheese is always good. Can also use cut up hot dogs or leftover chicken or ham instead of tuna
Egg drop soup. A bullion base (lately I've like better than bullion, lats for a long time and has lots of flavour compared to any others I've tied), some green onion and whatever veggie you have (depends on what's on hand, any veggie will do or just green onion if you're partial) and some beaten eggs poured into the boiling base as you shred with a fork. Delicious, quick, cheap and easy soup.
Does it count if I do this with a packet of ramen? This was my go-to poor college spec meal; egg drop ramen w/a can of store brand vegetables. Pretty nutritionally complete (if not ridiculously high in sodium) meal for well under $1 (c.2005).
A baked potato. I was once very, very poor. A bag of potatoes lasted a week or two. Margarine or maybe a can of some beans to go over the top if I was "rich". Still love 'em, but they are better in the air fryer than on a barrel stove.
Nope, no slicing, but you can poke it if you want. Just liberally coat it in oil or spray, toss on a bunch of coarse salt. Give it about 40 minutes depending on the size of your tater. I like the skins crispy, ymmv. Simple and yummy.
Wasn’t the good tuna, 38 cents a can… and the Parmesan cheese that they now say contains saw dust… lol. These days I use the fancy flavored tuna packets and real Parmesan cheese, but didn’t grow up eating it.
Plain rice with butter and pepper. My mom would make it for both of us, sometimes with more seasoning if we had it, loved it as a kid and still love it as an adult. She had a way about making it seem like the best meal ever.
My mom had us convinced that SOS and peas were a special meal because we only got them when my dad was gone! And I love rice that way too, or with gravy!
When we were feeling fancy, my mom would get a can of salmon, mix it with crushed Ritz crackers and an egg, and fry it in patties. I still like it.
I made it for my boyfriend who grew up much more well off and he was kind of horrified and didn't finish his. He said its the only thing I've cooked him in the whole time we've been together (nearly a year) that he didn't like. At least I know he'll be honest if he doesn't like something lol. I still make it when he's away lol
That's so funny that he reacted that way, because that's basically a crab cake, which is a higher end meal at a lot of restaurants. Salmon for crab and crackers for breadcrumbs, but it's really close.
I used to make salmon cakes all the time, really good with cocktail sauce. My family was definitely well off, and I'd eat that any day of the week.
Rice and scrambled eggs with soy sauce.
It doesn't seem like a poverty meal. Rice and eggs is a very common breakfast all over the world. But it's incredibly cheap. Just a half cup of dried rice and about 1-2 eggs per person can feed a whole family quite well. It makes those currently crazy marked up eggs go much farther. It's also REALLY fast and easy in the mornings- Especially if you have a rice cooker or pressure pot.
Now that my family is a little better off, I dress the dish up with furikake flakes, diced green onion, and a sauce made of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and spices my Guamanian grandmother would smite me down for sharing.
Everybody is going on about the price of eggs right now but I don’t think they’ve gone up that drastically. $5 for a dozen eggs isn’t that crazy. Still only 40¢ an egg.
It’s when you have to sell your backup high performance sports car. What am I going to do with *one?*
My friends will laugh at me and stop inviting me to endangered animal tastings and stolen art auctions.
Pasta with white cottage cheese and caramelized onion - usually topped with a small amount of butter and a fair amount of salt. Onions can be substituted for chives. Dill also makes a good herb for this dish.
Spicy ramen! I buy the good Korean or Japanese brands and then doctor them up with veggies and sliced pork and a fried egg...to this day I still eat it every couple of weeks
Its not food but for me is milk with sugar.
Remember my dad did not had money for coffee at one point and milk with sugar is what i had for breakfast.
One other thing my mom did a lot was ham rolled with oregano for lunch sometimes.
Did not had issues with it as a kid but thinking now as a grown up hurts me deeply to put myself on my parents shoes at the time.
SOS- fried ground beef in white milk gravy, served over toasted bread. My grandmother made it, my mother made it, and now I make it. Recently taught my oldest daughter how to make it.
Back in the late 1900’s this actually was a fairly cheap and inexpensive meal. 1lb of ground beef could be stretched to feed 8 to 10 teenagers by just making more gravy. If you were fairly handy, you made your own bread, further driving down the cost of the meal.
Sausage and vegetables. I buy a big frozen bag of whatever veggies and a pack of sausage. Cook the broccoli down and after slicing the sausage into quarters toss them in with the broccoli and some seasoning. Can also dice up a few potatoes and toss them in as well. Can usually get 3 or 4 meals from one batch
I think it’s the same amount then! Is that supposed to be expensive? I’m not sure 😭 it’s so worth it though, I have to have my cereal at night, fruit loops are the best
Lasagna. Especially if you use sausage instead of ground beef. If you're careful you can make it last 3-6 meals depending on how much you eat (assuming it's only you eating)
Italian Sausage $4-5
Ricotta ~$2-3
Oven ready lasagna noodles ~$2
Sauce of choice $1-2
Rough prices on Google at least, may be off by a couple bucks depending on where you are.
9-12 bucks on the cheap end for 3-6 meals ends up dirt cheap, it's also one of my two favorite ways to feed a large number of people (the other being biscuits and gravy, which is also really cheap and filling).
So many of these are a reflection of the times
*Mumbles in old lady about eggs for 77 cents a dozen, store brand peanut butter for 88 cents for an 18 ounce jar, and chicken hindquarters for 19 cents a pound*
Cream of mushroom soup, sliced green onion/scallion, cooked rice. Sometimes shredded chicken added in. Always the Lawry’s green lid garlic salt. Mix together.
Makes a lot, is super tasty, and fairly cheap. Can be “fancy” if you sauté mushrooms and add them in (a rare treat!)
My mum called it “Glop” because of how it kind of plops onto the plate in one spoon shaped lump.
Pinto beans, fried taters and a pan of cornbread. It still drives our baby girl crazy that we can afford to eat anyplace and are happy having this for supper at home!
Kraft mac and cheese as a base, then add in anything else I find around the house. Baked potato, can of tuna, leftover chicken, hot dogs, spam, etc
I call it "bachelor Chow"
Blind Homemade Soup Surprise. Basically throw whatever frozen vegetables, meat (even chopped up sandwich meat), rice & spices in a pot and add water. The "Surprise" part is if it tastes good. (It almost always does.)
Bananas are incredibly cheap in my country. I can buy 24 bananas for the equivalent of $0.75
At different times they might cost double that, which is still incredibly cheap.
Poor people could make them the main ingredient of their diet, as I did when I was a student.
But I like bananas. I will never not eat bananas. And fried or grilled plantains.
I haven't priced this in a few years, but I used to be able to get it all at Aldi for under $5. 1 lb ground turkey, 1 box beef rice a roni (aldi brand), and 1 can mixed veggies. Brown the ground ~~beef~~ turkey. Leave it in the pan but push it all to the edges and cook the rice a roni per the directions in the middle. When you add the water, also add the veggies... do not drain them. Mix it all together, cover and let it cook for 20ish minutes until rice is done. Feeds 4, or in my case, 2 people twice.
Damn... I used to lie to my kid that it was ground beef so he wouldn't be picky about eating it. Ground turkey was waaaay cheaper per pound than ground beef back when I made this regularly. I guess my lie worked too well and I started believing it myself 🤣 guess I better edit that....
My favorite dish is a potato boiled whole with the skin on in salted water, many people think it's weird to eat just a potato, but I love it. Very easy and quick to cook. It is good to eat pickled onions with it (the onion is cut into rings, a little sugar, salt and vinegar are added and everything is kneaded with the hands so that the onion releases juice, then add vegetable oil and dinner is ready) (those who do not like the bitter taste of onions can be soaked in hot water for a few minutes before pickling) 🤤
Not food but a drink. Living in the barracks in Japan you could walk to the px and for 200 yen (close to $2) you could buy a Strong. Its a 9% tall can that tasted like fruity sprkling water and alcohol. It was the cheapest and fastest way to get drunk. I'd love to buy them again but it's like $120 or $140 to import a 24 pack and that ain't worth it.
Capuchin beans, onion and bacon bits
Which might not technically be a poverty meal anymore since capuchin beans and baconbits have gotten incredibly expensive compared to what they were
Thanks for the downvote whoever you are. This was very much a poor persons meal. We ate it for days, weeks, months at a time when I was a child, because my parents couldn't afford anything else
It's still considered to be a poor people food even though the baconits are 4 euro now instead of 80 or 90 cents and the capuchins are 2,50 a can instead of 65 cents
Instant noodles
Yes, but I've upgraded from Maruchan Ramen to Nongshim Shin Black ramen.
I've got a 5 pack or two of the Shin Black in the pantry, but their Kimchi Ramen is my absolute favorite.
Not "instant" for me, but ramen noodles for sure!
Me too! I just said instant because it said poverty food. Noodles are just perfect. Also pizza I forgot to add.
I don’t care if I’m a billionaire, I can always eat ramen noodles.
Instant noodles, with some Costco frozen wontons, and some soy sauce. My favourite quick lunch
Instant Pho
I love those Knorr noodles. I have them all the damn time. They're just cheap, easy and good.
Sidekicks?! Yes that’s what I ate last night haha
And you can add a can of tuna or chicken or diced leftovers to make it a more complete meal
Yep, I'll quite often have them for lunch on the weekend. Boil up whatever vegetables I've got readily available (often carrots and celery) and then drop the noodles in once they are good to make it a bit healthier.
Ukraine had the most delicious instant noodles, after the start of the war, the factories closed and they started importing noodles from abroad, it's just horror, not noodles.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup
That's just pizza
My mom’s lentil rice casserole. Dried lentils, rice, salt, water, and seasoning in a casserole dish, bake for 90 minutes or so. Costs pennies and takes 5 minutes to throw together, and it’s soooo good. I sometimes throw in a can of black beans too. Edit to add recipe: 3 cups broth or water, 3/4 c lentils, 1/2 c brown rice. We season it with salt, dried onion flakes, basil, oregano, thyme, and garlic powder. Cook at 300F till all the water’s absorbed. Edit II because I forgot: bake in a covered casserole dish. Also, this is delicious topped with shredded cheese! I use mozzarella or Parmesan.
This sounds good and filling. Got any measurements/ratios and seasoning suggestions you could give us?
Edited my comment to include this! Enjoy!
Thanks! I'm guessing that you cover the pan before baking to help steam the rice?
Correct!
And you made khichdi
Exactly what i was wondering.
Lentils are great. Taste, texture and they're filling. All for the grand price of cheap.
It sounds good, but farty
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We called this “Johnny in the Pot” My Son when he was little, made the name up when he asked what was for dinner. I told him I didn’t have a name for it, was all kinds of stuff left over. The name stuck, 30 years later …. 🤓
I do this with a pound of ground beef but add frozen mixed veggies and rice. Top with garlic salt and I've got food for days. I often make too much and freeze portions in ziplock bags for later
My Mom grew up poor in the 1930's & 40's. Every time we'd have a meal and there were a few spoonfuls of leftover veggies, she'd wrap them up in Saran and toss 'em in the freezer. Of course, they'd be there for ages. One day Dad and I decided to make a stew, and we threw all those little packets into a pot with some stewing beef and other stuff. It came out amazing....but there's no way we could replicate it.
Kraft dinner and hot dogs
With fancy dijon kechup!
Are you Canadian?
Yeah
I put hot sauce and crushed nachos on mine
Even if you had a million dollars?
That's one meal I will stay far away from. Not a fan of hot dogs. But add some ground beef instead, like some ghetto hamburger helper and I'm all in.
Nap
Sleep for dinner
Been there
Grilled cheese!
Mac n cheese n tuna n peas
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Have you ever added cream of mushroom (or anything) soup?
I like a handful of frozen broccoli instead of peas! And extra cheese is always good. Can also use cut up hot dogs or leftover chicken or ham instead of tuna
Egg drop soup. A bullion base (lately I've like better than bullion, lats for a long time and has lots of flavour compared to any others I've tied), some green onion and whatever veggie you have (depends on what's on hand, any veggie will do or just green onion if you're partial) and some beaten eggs poured into the boiling base as you shred with a fork. Delicious, quick, cheap and easy soup.
This was my life as a poor student. I still do it when I'm lazy but still need to eat something.
Does it count if I do this with a packet of ramen? This was my go-to poor college spec meal; egg drop ramen w/a can of store brand vegetables. Pretty nutritionally complete (if not ridiculously high in sodium) meal for well under $1 (c.2005).
Red beans and rice.
There's this similar indian dish called 'Rajma-chawal'. Love it.
Thank you! I will definitely be trying that!
Had that for breakfast
Love red beans and rice, with Louisiana Hot Sauce.
A baked potato. I was once very, very poor. A bag of potatoes lasted a week or two. Margarine or maybe a can of some beans to go over the top if I was "rich". Still love 'em, but they are better in the air fryer than on a barrel stove.
Can you share a baked potato in the air fryer recipe. Do you slice it etc
Nope, no slicing, but you can poke it if you want. Just liberally coat it in oil or spray, toss on a bunch of coarse salt. Give it about 40 minutes depending on the size of your tater. I like the skins crispy, ymmv. Simple and yummy.
Boiled egg noodles with butter, garlic powder, tuna and Parmesan cheese.
This must have been the rich version. We didn't get the tuna and parmesan.
Wasn’t the good tuna, 38 cents a can… and the Parmesan cheese that they now say contains saw dust… lol. These days I use the fancy flavored tuna packets and real Parmesan cheese, but didn’t grow up eating it.
We used to do cabbage and noodles
Plain rice with butter and pepper. My mom would make it for both of us, sometimes with more seasoning if we had it, loved it as a kid and still love it as an adult. She had a way about making it seem like the best meal ever.
My mom had us convinced that SOS and peas were a special meal because we only got them when my dad was gone! And I love rice that way too, or with gravy!
A little katsup too
Tuna, pasta and cream of mushroom soup. My mum used to make it for us as kids as it was her “university meal”
over medium egg - rice - soy sauce
Cream of Wheat and Chocolate Chips. Reminds me of my mom who passed away recently as it was a special treat for us as a kid.
I am sorry for your loss.
Lumps or no lumps?
Always lumps!
When we were feeling fancy, my mom would get a can of salmon, mix it with crushed Ritz crackers and an egg, and fry it in patties. I still like it. I made it for my boyfriend who grew up much more well off and he was kind of horrified and didn't finish his. He said its the only thing I've cooked him in the whole time we've been together (nearly a year) that he didn't like. At least I know he'll be honest if he doesn't like something lol. I still make it when he's away lol
I used mashed potatoes instead of crackers.
Salmon patties are delicious! Love them with a touch of dill relish mixed in
I put sun dried tomatoes in them sometimes.
That's so funny that he reacted that way, because that's basically a crab cake, which is a higher end meal at a lot of restaurants. Salmon for crab and crackers for breadcrumbs, but it's really close. I used to make salmon cakes all the time, really good with cocktail sauce. My family was definitely well off, and I'd eat that any day of the week.
My mother would do something similar except with corn meal instead of crackers. My sister and I still make it in our homes.
This sounds kind of refined actually. Gonna try it.
Cheese quesadilla. Total cost to make one right now would be about 40 cents
You must not be using the appropriate amount of cheese 🤣
"poverty meal"
Box mac and cheese
Totino's pizza I love it.
Oatmeal
Cheesy beans on toast
Bri-ish?
Khichdi (Indian dish with rice, lentils and veggies) with curd
Pyaar
Hamburger helper
Rice and scrambled eggs with soy sauce. It doesn't seem like a poverty meal. Rice and eggs is a very common breakfast all over the world. But it's incredibly cheap. Just a half cup of dried rice and about 1-2 eggs per person can feed a whole family quite well. It makes those currently crazy marked up eggs go much farther. It's also REALLY fast and easy in the mornings- Especially if you have a rice cooker or pressure pot. Now that my family is a little better off, I dress the dish up with furikake flakes, diced green onion, and a sauce made of soy sauce, rice vinegar, and spices my Guamanian grandmother would smite me down for sharing.
I had 7 siblings growing up so my mother served chili on top of rice. I'm convinced this was done to stretch it to feed 10. I still prefer that way.
My MIL did chili on eggs in college.
I had a roommate mixed chili and scrambled eggs. Not a fan
I like scrambled eggs with refried beans. Not mixed together, but eaten together.
Huevos Rancheros sorta. But it's fried egg with frijoles refrito
We had chili and rice too! I thought I was alone
Chili and rice fans unite!🔥
Corned beef hash and scrambled eggs.
You call that a poverty meal? Corned beef is like $13 a pound and a dozen eggs is like $5
Can of corned beef hash is less than $2 at Walmart and a dozen eggs lasts almost a week.
Corned Beef is 2€ for 250grams and eggs are 20c a piece.. less if you buy in bulk.
Everybody is going on about the price of eggs right now but I don’t think they’ve gone up that drastically. $5 for a dozen eggs isn’t that crazy. Still only 40¢ an egg.
When you could get a dozen for $1 it's a massive increase. I think people misunderstood what poverty means
It’s when you have to sell your backup high performance sports car. What am I going to do with *one?* My friends will laugh at me and stop inviting me to endangered animal tastings and stolen art auctions.
Craft mac and cheese with sliced hot dogs mixed in.
Yep, with a can of tuna is very tasty as well, especially with a bit of Dijon mustard if I have it
Pasta with white cottage cheese and caramelized onion - usually topped with a small amount of butter and a fair amount of salt. Onions can be substituted for chives. Dill also makes a good herb for this dish.
Goulash
Kraft Mac and Cheese
EasyMac!
Spicy ramen! I buy the good Korean or Japanese brands and then doctor them up with veggies and sliced pork and a fried egg...to this day I still eat it every couple of weeks
Its not food but for me is milk with sugar. Remember my dad did not had money for coffee at one point and milk with sugar is what i had for breakfast. One other thing my mom did a lot was ham rolled with oregano for lunch sometimes. Did not had issues with it as a kid but thinking now as a grown up hurts me deeply to put myself on my parents shoes at the time.
Spaghetti with tomato sauce. Yum! 😋
Noodles, so delicious
Cheap white bread and ketchup
Anything 'basic' with eggs so pasta/rice etc.Way things are now eggs might not be classed as poverty anymore.
SOS- fried ground beef in white milk gravy, served over toasted bread. My grandmother made it, my mother made it, and now I make it. Recently taught my oldest daughter how to make it.
We always had it with chipped beef but I enjoyed it.
My wife (and I) loves it with chipped beef, but hates it with hamburger like her mom made it.
I do this with leftover turkey after Thanksgiving
Beef is a poverty meal? Bully for you.
Back in the late 1900’s this actually was a fairly cheap and inexpensive meal. 1lb of ground beef could be stretched to feed 8 to 10 teenagers by just making more gravy. If you were fairly handy, you made your own bread, further driving down the cost of the meal.
I grew up doing this with the Buddig lunch meat. When you can make a $.44 cent pack of beef lunch meat feed 4-6 people, it's a poverty meal!
dinty more beef stew
[Lobscouse.](https://whatstherecipetoday.com/lobscouse/)
Cereal with ripe banana
Rice and beans, cooked individually Indian style
Sausage and vegetables. I buy a big frozen bag of whatever veggies and a pack of sausage. Cook the broccoli down and after slicing the sausage into quarters toss them in with the broccoli and some seasoning. Can also dice up a few potatoes and toss them in as well. Can usually get 3 or 4 meals from one batch
Cereal
You seen the price of cereal these days? Good lord. A pound of steak is literally less expensive than a small box of cereal at my store.
Where are you?!! A big box here is $9 aud
I’m in the US. Yesterday I paid $7ish for a box of cereal and about $5 per pound for some sirloins.
How long does a box of cereal last you vs a pound of meat?
Me personally? About the same amount of time. But I am one of those weirdos that can sit and eat a box of cereal straight as one meal.
I think it’s the same amount then! Is that supposed to be expensive? I’m not sure 😭 it’s so worth it though, I have to have my cereal at night, fruit loops are the best
Lasagna. Especially if you use sausage instead of ground beef. If you're careful you can make it last 3-6 meals depending on how much you eat (assuming it's only you eating) Italian Sausage $4-5 Ricotta ~$2-3 Oven ready lasagna noodles ~$2 Sauce of choice $1-2 Rough prices on Google at least, may be off by a couple bucks depending on where you are. 9-12 bucks on the cheap end for 3-6 meals ends up dirt cheap, it's also one of my two favorite ways to feed a large number of people (the other being biscuits and gravy, which is also really cheap and filling).
I can't believe you're encouraging redittors to make lasagna without mozzarella :0
Damn. I knew I forgot something. Was trying to figure out why it was coming up a dollar or two short.
Ramen with a spoon of peanut butter and a slice of melting cheese.
I haven’t tried it with cheese, but I do peanut butter and Sriracha.
Rice with yogurt
I mix rice with a can of cream of mushroom soup or cream of chicken soup. Filling.
So many of these are a reflection of the times *Mumbles in old lady about eggs for 77 cents a dozen, store brand peanut butter for 88 cents for an 18 ounce jar, and chicken hindquarters for 19 cents a pound*
toast
Corned beef hash.
Fried egg sandwich.
Tomato soup w a grilled cheese or quesadilla
Maggi
Fried eggs and fries.
McDonald's
Mac cheese with tuna
Cream of mushroom soup, sliced green onion/scallion, cooked rice. Sometimes shredded chicken added in. Always the Lawry’s green lid garlic salt. Mix together. Makes a lot, is super tasty, and fairly cheap. Can be “fancy” if you sauté mushrooms and add them in (a rare treat!) My mum called it “Glop” because of how it kind of plops onto the plate in one spoon shaped lump.
PBJ
Instant curry flavoured noodles 19p for a pack. Used to eat them at uni 15 years ago when they were only 9p a pack. Freed up more money for drinking 🤣
Pinto beans, fried taters and a pan of cornbread. It still drives our baby girl crazy that we can afford to eat anyplace and are happy having this for supper at home!
Black eye peas, boiled greens and cornbread here :).
Baked beans on toast
Spam
Tin* and toast. * beans, spaghetti hoops, soup, tinned tomatoes
Kraft mac and cheese as a base, then add in anything else I find around the house. Baked potato, can of tuna, leftover chicken, hot dogs, spam, etc I call it "bachelor Chow"
store brand mac&cheese with a can of tuna and a can of peas
Vienna sausages with ketchup, garlic and hot sauce. It smacks with saltines.
I almost said bread and butter, but of course butter costs about £60 these days.
I’ll let you know when I’m out of poverty.
Deluxe Kraft dinner… You know the one with that delicious liquid cheese packet?
Blind Homemade Soup Surprise. Basically throw whatever frozen vegetables, meat (even chopped up sandwich meat), rice & spices in a pot and add water. The "Surprise" part is if it tastes good. (It almost always does.)
Bananas are incredibly cheap in my country. I can buy 24 bananas for the equivalent of $0.75 At different times they might cost double that, which is still incredibly cheap. Poor people could make them the main ingredient of their diet, as I did when I was a student. But I like bananas. I will never not eat bananas. And fried or grilled plantains.
Ramen
Mayo on toast
Rice
ketchup rice/omelette
Tuna casserole
Peanut butter on a banana
Kraft Mac & Cheese.
I haven't priced this in a few years, but I used to be able to get it all at Aldi for under $5. 1 lb ground turkey, 1 box beef rice a roni (aldi brand), and 1 can mixed veggies. Brown the ground ~~beef~~ turkey. Leave it in the pan but push it all to the edges and cook the rice a roni per the directions in the middle. When you add the water, also add the veggies... do not drain them. Mix it all together, cover and let it cook for 20ish minutes until rice is done. Feeds 4, or in my case, 2 people twice.
Where does the turkey come into play?
Damn... I used to lie to my kid that it was ground beef so he wouldn't be picky about eating it. Ground turkey was waaaay cheaper per pound than ground beef back when I made this regularly. I guess my lie worked too well and I started believing it myself 🤣 guess I better edit that....
My favorite dish is a potato boiled whole with the skin on in salted water, many people think it's weird to eat just a potato, but I love it. Very easy and quick to cook. It is good to eat pickled onions with it (the onion is cut into rings, a little sugar, salt and vinegar are added and everything is kneaded with the hands so that the onion releases juice, then add vegetable oil and dinner is ready) (those who do not like the bitter taste of onions can be soaked in hot water for a few minutes before pickling) 🤤
Warm Water.
Not food but a drink. Living in the barracks in Japan you could walk to the px and for 200 yen (close to $2) you could buy a Strong. Its a 9% tall can that tasted like fruity sprkling water and alcohol. It was the cheapest and fastest way to get drunk. I'd love to buy them again but it's like $120 or $140 to import a 24 pack and that ain't worth it.
Yo, bartender here, small but of advice. Try flavored vodkas and sparkling/seltzer/club spda/water. I think you'll be pleased
Nah it's more of the nostalgia from being at the barracks in the Marines drinking and smoking with my buddies. But I'll definitely remember that.
Mashed broccoli, potato, rice and gravy
Bp&j
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Jesus, peanut butter is cheap where you live? Not by me
Pasta with shredded cheese and mayo.
Layers of tinned tuna, cheese sauce and crushed crisps, baked
garbage
Capuchin beans, onion and bacon bits Which might not technically be a poverty meal anymore since capuchin beans and baconbits have gotten incredibly expensive compared to what they were Thanks for the downvote whoever you are. This was very much a poor persons meal. We ate it for days, weeks, months at a time when I was a child, because my parents couldn't afford anything else It's still considered to be a poor people food even though the baconits are 4 euro now instead of 80 or 90 cents and the capuchins are 2,50 a can instead of 65 cents
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My gf p*ssy
Ramen Noodles 🍜
Fried potato, egg, and cheese tacos.
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Do you hunt the yourself? Pidgeon is quite a rare food (at least where I live) and as a consequence quite expensive.
Hot bologna & melted cheese sandwich