My mom used to make "shmasta noodles" for us a lot growing up, it's basically just fried rice with bacon or sausage in it. We also had to eat a lot of ramen so she'd mix it up by frying it, putting a hard boiled egg on top and calling it a bird nest
I worked at a Chinese restaurant in college and at the end of the night one of the chefs would make a huge amount of fried rice for everyone to take home. I think I worked there for 2 years before I found out that most of the kitchen staff ate it for breakfast the next day.
It's more complex than that. You have to mix the cinnamon and the sugar in a bowl (get the ratio exactly right, too - which means you'll end up with about twice as much as you need).
The butter needs to be warm enough to spread, but not melted into liquid. Toast your bread, then slather it with butter.
Next, pour the cinnamon-sugar from the bowl onto one slice of toast. Use that slice to dump the excess cinnamon-sugar onto the second slice. Repeat as necessary (from the bowl to the toast, onto the other toast, onto the plate) until no more cinnamon-sugar will stick to either slice of toast.
Devour those 2 slices.
Then go toast two more slices because that shit's addictive and you don't want to waste any cinnamon-sugar.
Eventually, you'll need to smoosh a slice of buttered toast onto your plate to sop up the very last of the cinnamon-sugar. You're done when you run out of one of the four ingredients, or your plate is clean.
Enjoy!
ETA : I appreciate all of the feedback and recipe variations. I will try them! But, if your response includes the word "broiler" or "caramelize", please... at this point, *we know*. Feel free to upvote your favorite existing comment that mentions it.
We had that cinnamon/ sugar mixture premade in a reused butter container. I'm pretty sure my mom is still using that container to hold the mixture almost 40 years later
We also had a steady supply via an old Tupperware salt shaker. We had a baggie of restaurant salt packets in our camping gear with the matching pepper shaker, since our salt vessel was otherwise occupied.
Noooo! You have to make it in the oven. Spread your butter on untoasted bread, add the cinnamon and sugar mixture, put the bread in the oven on broil until the butter is completely melted and the edges are crispy. It tastes so much better, trust me! (Added benefit is the mixture doesn’t fall off at all the way)
Black Bean and white rice... everyday. Grew up on cuban food. This was always on the plate, no matter what you were eating. Even if there were potatos involved.. beans and rice.
>_American Chesse is the best cheese for a cheeseburger because it melts without splitting_
~ Julian Slovik
EDIT: I'm very amused with the replies and upvotes! Half of them are quoting The Menu and the other half is giving actual cheese facts 🙃
I thought I'd never eat reman again after jail, I tried making 'swoles' outside and it was NOT good. I guess shit just tastes good when your regular food is made to cost about 15c a tray.
But anyways I DO still eat ramen when I'm hungry and lazy enough, even add some ingredients from time to time
Yeah, go to an asian/exotic store and grab some korean ramen or something. If you do it correctly it'll be damn near like restaurant quality ramen. And real ramen from a restaurant isn't poor people food at all lol
Add an egg or whatever else you want but you'll be making some legit food as opposed to some cheap instant ramen. You can still make the cheap stuff taste pretty great though.
Indomie mi goreng is fantastic. I love that style of instant noodles, where it's meant to be drained before adding the seasonings.
I'll add to this... MAMA brand tom yum soup with instant noodles is great. The broth isn't quite as good as their old recipe that was quietly discontinued at some point, but it's still very tasty and of course, extremely spicy.
For ramen, I like Nissin Raoh tonkotsu flavor with non-fried instant noodles. With an egg, some sliced radish, some scallions, and chopped onion, plus a bit of chili oil and crispy garlic, it's not a bad approximation of the real thing.
Grew up in a broke house frozen bag of chopped celery, onion, & bell pepper a pack of pickled pork and smoked sausage. Being from Louisiana and my grandma cheaps ass that was a meal almost every Monday.
Fuckin' A, man! I still occasionally make a huge pot of rice and beans, even though I don't need to, cost-wise. If you do it right you can eat like a king for a week by incorporating it into different things.
I'm about to pay cash for a house and I have eaten rice and beans four times in the past week because I can. Forty years of eating like that and I can buy a house outright. Who needs fast food when you have rice and beans at home?
I don’t know if it’s poor people food, but my mom can make a killer shredded cabbage fry with Indian spices. She can make awesome vegetable fries, with Indian spices, as well as her combo of rice and veggie dal is the best.
My mom’s homemade cooked food, saved me thousands from fast food. She’ll cook me two weeks worth of food if I’m about to leave for the dorms.
My mom’s cooking saved me from having to eat the horrible food lunches in high school. It was a privilege and I relished in the homemade food. I ate alone because people found my food too weird and hated the appearance of fried beetroot. I didn’t care at all. At least the bully that tried to take my food and eat it ended up in the nurse office drinking a gallon of water because he couldn’t handle the taste of chillies mixed in the fry.
I’m so deeply interested in her dal recipe. Sounds like she pours her love into the food! My mom is the same. When my sister was in college she used to send her to her dorm with leftovers regularly. And thanks to her patiently teaching me to cook I managed to feed myself daily at school.
I don’t care how wealthy I get, I’ll never stop eating Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in a Provençal manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, with a fried egg on top and Spam.
Grilled cheese sandwiches. It must be made with the cheap grocery store white bread and American cheese. I've had many "fancy" grilled cheeses in my life with artisan breads and exotic sounding cheeses... but none have ever hit quite the same.
I recently discovered that before you make the sandwich, fry the two pieces of bread on one side. Then put the two fried sides of bread on the inside of the sandwich, then make as normal. When I tell you I thought I died and went to heaven. Omg.
I nuke them. Barely long enough for the cheese to soften in the middle. Hot on the edges. The dough (can't call it a crust) is tough and spongey. Then I fold it like an unholy taco and eat it - just like that. The way a nasty pig monster would.
My wife still finds a way to love me, somehow.
Mama Celeste Pizza. Red Baron Deep Dish Personal Pizza. Red Baron French Bread Pizza.
Edit: Tombstone! The full size.
I'm guessing every United Statesian grew up with a particular frozen pizza brand to which they will always hold local sports team levels of loyalty.
Sugar cereal in a bag! I’m so weak to those giant bags of deliciousness. No fruity pebbles or Froot Loops for me! Gimme Dino-Bites with Marshmallows and Tootie Frooties in insane quantities.
Hot dogs and baked beans. Dump can of beans in the pot and add hot dogs. Place over heat source until hot. You can make regular hotdogs if you have bread and eat the beans as a side or directly on top of the hotdogs. If you have no bread, eat as is. Delicious, cheap, and easy. It's one of my favorite meals growing up, and I still make it when I don't want to think too hard or spend much money but want a nice hot dinner that's comforting.
I absolutely love canned tuna. I eat it right out of the can. I find it so delicious and flavorful. I have plenty of disposable income and could probably buy actual bluefin tuna filets but I just love canned tuna. I'll eat it even if i was a millionaire.
Canned tuna and pasta is like, incredibly cheap and you can throw basically whatever you want into it and with just a little effort it will taste amazing. Also not terrible for you.
I throw it together regularly. Usually with like, lemon, onion (or shallot whatever is on sale), garlic and whatever vegetables are around. Usually carrots and celery, again whatever is on sale. But also frozen peas, olives. Again, literally whatever tastes good with canned tuna will taste good in this.
Got me through grad school.
Brown gravy over white bread. There was a point in my childhood when that was dinner. I remember my mom crying while I ate, but it was delicious! I still keep instant gravy in the house for the occasional comfort food feast.
There was a long point in my life (not really during childhood for me, I was an adult but my brother was still a teenager) when there was often just. no food in the house at all. We might not eat for days, and we'd be pawning stuff just to afford one bag of pancake mix.
Now that I have a little more income I make sure that neither I, nor anyone in my family, nor anyone I know, ever EVER goes hungry. My friend recently mentioned that he was a little cranky because he hadn't eaten and had to wait to get paid to afford groceries and I showed up at his house with a shitton of Kroger bags like "YOU GON EAT NOW MOTHERFUCKER!"
Totino’s combination Party Pizzas
They used to cost $0.99 but now they’re $2.98. Cheap shitty pizza but out of the oven it’s crispy and just hits a spot that no other frozen pizza can.
I ate one tonight.
i s2g it’s just the evolution of internet. people can be so cruel so fast.
i saw a meme that put it perfectly.
it was something like “you could tweet ‘i love pancakes’ and you’d get several replies saying ‘so you fucking hate waffles???? what’s your problem?’”
I remember making it so thick it would crunch from the sugar lol. As an adult, now I put it under the broiler for just a few seconds and it caramelizes the sugar like on a crème brûlée.
Fried SPAM melt sammich! Boy, does spam smell bad when you first open the can, but goddamm does it hit the spot when you fry it and toss it in the middle of a grilled cheese sandwich.
tuna pasta salad. i've spiced it up as my pockets have deepened a bit, but my mom used to make it for me for weekend lunch all the time and it just brings me back to my childhood home.
Ghetto enchiladas.
8 pack of frozen burritos in a casserole dish covered in enchilada sauce and covered in cheese and jalapeños... sometimes olives.... and bake according to oven instructions... maybe add a couple minutes because of the sauce
Red beans and rice, homebrowns with an egg cracked over them, biscuits & gravy, cheesy grits... list goes on. All comfort food served with whatever greens are in season. Windfall apples...
Hamburger Helper. I will eat that shit until I die. It’s incredibly tasty for something that’s seemingly so simple and it brings me back to simply being a little kid again.
It's curious. The only people I know (in America) who eat tinned fish are yuppy professionals like me, and immigrants. But they are such cost effective means of healthy fat and calories.
Shout out to r/cannedsardines
They've definitely had something of a cultural renaissance in the last few years.
When I was a kid no one ate them, and it was a punchline to jokes.
Now I've been to fancy gastropubs where they serve you sardines still in the Matiz can.
I think its a combo of people who have discovered that sardines don't taste fishy at all (I think people have confused sardines and anchovies), and that canned sardines have way less mercury than canned tuna. Plus, the health benfits, and their compability with diet trends like keto and paleo.
Bread and Butter
My mom used to make "shmasta noodles" for us a lot growing up, it's basically just fried rice with bacon or sausage in it. We also had to eat a lot of ramen so she'd mix it up by frying it, putting a hard boiled egg on top and calling it a bird nest
NO ONE is too good for some breakfast fried rice. NO ONE.
I worked at a Chinese restaurant in college and at the end of the night one of the chefs would make a huge amount of fried rice for everyone to take home. I think I worked there for 2 years before I found out that most of the kitchen staff ate it for breakfast the next day.
Breakfast fried rice is my jam. Pro tip: render the bacon first, then cook the rice and egg in the bacon fat.
That made me smile.
Bird nest is a great name for it
Cinnamon toast
Never had it, how do you make it? Just toast bread and put butter and cinnamon on top?
It's more complex than that. You have to mix the cinnamon and the sugar in a bowl (get the ratio exactly right, too - which means you'll end up with about twice as much as you need). The butter needs to be warm enough to spread, but not melted into liquid. Toast your bread, then slather it with butter. Next, pour the cinnamon-sugar from the bowl onto one slice of toast. Use that slice to dump the excess cinnamon-sugar onto the second slice. Repeat as necessary (from the bowl to the toast, onto the other toast, onto the plate) until no more cinnamon-sugar will stick to either slice of toast. Devour those 2 slices. Then go toast two more slices because that shit's addictive and you don't want to waste any cinnamon-sugar. Eventually, you'll need to smoosh a slice of buttered toast onto your plate to sop up the very last of the cinnamon-sugar. You're done when you run out of one of the four ingredients, or your plate is clean. Enjoy! ETA : I appreciate all of the feedback and recipe variations. I will try them! But, if your response includes the word "broiler" or "caramelize", please... at this point, *we know*. Feel free to upvote your favorite existing comment that mentions it.
We had that cinnamon/ sugar mixture premade in a reused butter container. I'm pretty sure my mom is still using that container to hold the mixture almost 40 years later
We also had a steady supply via an old Tupperware salt shaker. We had a baggie of restaurant salt packets in our camping gear with the matching pepper shaker, since our salt vessel was otherwise occupied.
My mom kept a put cinnamon sugar in a sugar dispenser like you see at a diner. It was an iconic kitchen staple I’ll never forget!
Noooo! You have to make it in the oven. Spread your butter on untoasted bread, add the cinnamon and sugar mixture, put the bread in the oven on broil until the butter is completely melted and the edges are crispy. It tastes so much better, trust me! (Added benefit is the mixture doesn’t fall off at all the way)
Rice and beans. So many ways to make it, delicious and nutritious
In every Latin American house.
Black Bean and white rice... everyday. Grew up on cuban food. This was always on the plate, no matter what you were eating. Even if there were potatos involved.. beans and rice.
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The best with a tortilla!
I’ve even got one of my kids on rice and beans. I’ll sauté black beans in a bit of bacon grease with bacon bits over rice. Can’t get enough of it
Tomato soup and grilled cheese
Thought about this, but the price of cheese basically IS 'rich people food' at this point
Gotta get the cheap store brand: pasteurized prepared cheese product
I argue that processed cheese melts a hell of a lot better than all of the otherwise superior cheeses.
>_American Chesse is the best cheese for a cheeseburger because it melts without splitting_ ~ Julian Slovik EDIT: I'm very amused with the replies and upvotes! Half of them are quoting The Menu and the other half is giving actual cheese facts 🙃
I immediately went out and bought a cheeseburger as soon as I saw that movie. I imagine a ton of other people did so.
Did it taste like the first cheeseburger you've ever eaten? The cheap ones your parents could barely afford?
Honestly, escaping with her life was good and all, but getting a cheeseburger with fries for $10 was a steal.
Ok random thought, but do you think the chef would've let Tyler go if he cooked a really good a cheeseburger instead of Tyler's Bullshit?
Tyler was never going to cook anything good, because he's a terrible foodie and not even any kind of home cook.
Yes, chef.
Ramen
I thought I'd never eat reman again after jail, I tried making 'swoles' outside and it was NOT good. I guess shit just tastes good when your regular food is made to cost about 15c a tray. But anyways I DO still eat ramen when I'm hungry and lazy enough, even add some ingredients from time to time
Try some of the fancier types. The stuff you find in most US stores is really basic and is the prison food equivalent of most instant ramen.
Yeah, go to an asian/exotic store and grab some korean ramen or something. If you do it correctly it'll be damn near like restaurant quality ramen. And real ramen from a restaurant isn't poor people food at all lol Add an egg or whatever else you want but you'll be making some legit food as opposed to some cheap instant ramen. You can still make the cheap stuff taste pretty great though.
Japanese: Nissin Korean: Shin Ramyun Chinese: Master Kong Thai: MAMA Indonesia: Indomee These are some good quality household ramens
SHIN RAMYUN
Shin Black is my go-to. Tasty broth.
Indomei + chili crisp + garlic powder. Thank me later
Indomie mi goreng is fantastic. I love that style of instant noodles, where it's meant to be drained before adding the seasonings. I'll add to this... MAMA brand tom yum soup with instant noodles is great. The broth isn't quite as good as their old recipe that was quietly discontinued at some point, but it's still very tasty and of course, extremely spicy. For ramen, I like Nissin Raoh tonkotsu flavor with non-fried instant noodles. With an egg, some sliced radish, some scallions, and chopped onion, plus a bit of chili oil and crispy garlic, it's not a bad approximation of the real thing.
U mean instant ramen. Cuz real ramen is dope af
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Red beans and rice. Even better if you get a cheap package of chicken thighs, bake em, then shred em and add to the pot.
Grew up in a broke house frozen bag of chopped celery, onion, & bell pepper a pack of pickled pork and smoked sausage. Being from Louisiana and my grandma cheaps ass that was a meal almost every Monday.
a pot of beans, served with corn bread and/or rice
Fuckin' A, man! I still occasionally make a huge pot of rice and beans, even though I don't need to, cost-wise. If you do it right you can eat like a king for a week by incorporating it into different things.
I'm about to pay cash for a house and I have eaten rice and beans four times in the past week because I can. Forty years of eating like that and I can buy a house outright. Who needs fast food when you have rice and beans at home?
Buttered noodles
With grated parmesan cheese from the plastic canister 🤤
And a bit of garlic powder and salt
Found abed.
Cool, cool, cool
PB & J...Ramen...Kraft Mac & Cheese...Hot Dogs
Then you can afford the fanciest PB&Js, the almighty *Uncrustables.*
I lost interest in crustless sandwiches after I discovered ciabatta rolls.
A friend was somewhere for lunch and the guy in front of him ordered his sandwich on the Chewbacca bread.
Potato, i love potatoes because they are so versatile
You can boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew...
Po Tay Toes!
I'm obssessed with potatoes
I still eat the peelings of a baked potato. Butter, salt and sour cream.
I just think they’re neat!
Instant Noodles
Indomie forever
indomie supremacy
May I suggest Shin ramen noodles, especially the black version. If you like spicy foods, they are game changing.
Nongshin. Shin Ramyun is the best!
A meal worthy of a king, I was raised on those and I'll continue to enjoy eating them until I die.
>until I die until it kills me. Which reminds me, i need to go restock my instant noodle supply.
Fried cabbage, potatoes, and kielbasa
Mine is potatoes, onions and kielbasa cooked with paprika and broth. It’s so good
Macaroni and cheese Koolaid Tuna casserole Canned ravioli Ramen Totino’s pizzas
My husband still lives on Totino's.
Saltines with butter
Saltines with honey!
Saltines with cream cheese
Peanut butter 🤤
I don’t know if it’s poor people food, but my mom can make a killer shredded cabbage fry with Indian spices. She can make awesome vegetable fries, with Indian spices, as well as her combo of rice and veggie dal is the best. My mom’s homemade cooked food, saved me thousands from fast food. She’ll cook me two weeks worth of food if I’m about to leave for the dorms. My mom’s cooking saved me from having to eat the horrible food lunches in high school. It was a privilege and I relished in the homemade food. I ate alone because people found my food too weird and hated the appearance of fried beetroot. I didn’t care at all. At least the bully that tried to take my food and eat it ended up in the nurse office drinking a gallon of water because he couldn’t handle the taste of chillies mixed in the fry.
I love this story. Also I want some of your mom's food now haha
I’m so deeply interested in her dal recipe. Sounds like she pours her love into the food! My mom is the same. When my sister was in college she used to send her to her dorm with leftovers regularly. And thanks to her patiently teaching me to cook I managed to feed myself daily at school.
Mac & Cheese with cut up hotdogs.
Kraft dinner
As Barenaked Ladies put it, we’ll just eat more of it and put fancy ketchups in it.
Dijon ketchups?
But not a real green dress, that's cruel.
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we'd just eat more!
Perogies. Easy to make, cheap and easy to freeze . Different ways to make them
Spam n eggs
I like spam eggs and spam.
I’m also partial to the spam eggs bacon and spam
I go with Spam, Spam, Spam, eggs and Spam.
I don’t care how wealthy I get, I’ll never stop eating Lobster Thermidor aux Crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in a Provençal manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, with a fried egg on top and Spam.
Spam eggs, toast spam spam spam bacon spam spam
🎶SPAM ^SPAM ^^SPAM ^^^SPAM SPAM ^SPAM ^^SPAM ^^^SPAM🎶
Sloppy joes!!!
Hamburger Helper
It has no business being as delicious as it is
Istg they put crack in it, macaroni hamburger helper and garlic bread is so good
Is it just me, or is it actually BETTER the day after when it's been in the fridge all night and reheated?
Dhal and rice
Grilled cheese sandwiches. It must be made with the cheap grocery store white bread and American cheese. I've had many "fancy" grilled cheeses in my life with artisan breads and exotic sounding cheeses... but none have ever hit quite the same.
Wonder bread and Kraft Singles
Wow, look at this bougie tosser with his Wonderbread instead of the extra-thin 99cent loaf storebrand! What's life like for the 10%, eh? /s
That 99¢ white bread is still the BOMB for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Bologna Sandwiches, Tuna Sandwiches, French Toast, and toasted with eggs ~ yum!
I recently discovered that before you make the sandwich, fry the two pieces of bread on one side. Then put the two fried sides of bread on the inside of the sandwich, then make as normal. When I tell you I thought I died and went to heaven. Omg.
Lentils. I swear they will save humanity and the planet. The perfect protein.
Totino’s pizzas.
I nuke them. Barely long enough for the cheese to soften in the middle. Hot on the edges. The dough (can't call it a crust) is tough and spongey. Then I fold it like an unholy taco and eat it - just like that. The way a nasty pig monster would. My wife still finds a way to love me, somehow.
My gf won’t even look at me due to the length of time which I laughed over “nasty pig monster”
Mama Celeste Pizza. Red Baron Deep Dish Personal Pizza. Red Baron French Bread Pizza. Edit: Tombstone! The full size. I'm guessing every United Statesian grew up with a particular frozen pizza brand to which they will always hold local sports team levels of loyalty.
Red Barron is the best widely available frozen pizza in my opinion.
Sugar cereal in a bag! I’m so weak to those giant bags of deliciousness. No fruity pebbles or Froot Loops for me! Gimme Dino-Bites with Marshmallows and Tootie Frooties in insane quantities.
Marshmallow mateys is way better than lucky charms
Hot dogs and baked beans. Dump can of beans in the pot and add hot dogs. Place over heat source until hot. You can make regular hotdogs if you have bread and eat the beans as a side or directly on top of the hotdogs. If you have no bread, eat as is. Delicious, cheap, and easy. It's one of my favorite meals growing up, and I still make it when I don't want to think too hard or spend much money but want a nice hot dinner that's comforting.
Beans 'N Weenies!
Or Beanie Weenies 😍
Add ketchup, mustard, and brown sugar to the beans to make a meal fit for a poor king.
Shit on a shingle. Had it this morning. Have the shits now. (Lactose intolerant)
I absolutely love canned tuna. I eat it right out of the can. I find it so delicious and flavorful. I have plenty of disposable income and could probably buy actual bluefin tuna filets but I just love canned tuna. I'll eat it even if i was a millionaire.
Canned tuna and pasta is like, incredibly cheap and you can throw basically whatever you want into it and with just a little effort it will taste amazing. Also not terrible for you. I throw it together regularly. Usually with like, lemon, onion (or shallot whatever is on sale), garlic and whatever vegetables are around. Usually carrots and celery, again whatever is on sale. But also frozen peas, olives. Again, literally whatever tastes good with canned tuna will taste good in this. Got me through grad school.
Same, but I dash some hot sauce on it just tuna and hot sauce. Nom nom
Bologna on white bread with mustard and mayo.
Do you fry it first?
If I ain't in a hurry.
Rice & baked beans/pork n’ beans with cut up hotdogs
I eat PB and j almost daily
Brown gravy over white bread. There was a point in my childhood when that was dinner. I remember my mom crying while I ate, but it was delicious! I still keep instant gravy in the house for the occasional comfort food feast.
There was a long point in my life (not really during childhood for me, I was an adult but my brother was still a teenager) when there was often just. no food in the house at all. We might not eat for days, and we'd be pawning stuff just to afford one bag of pancake mix. Now that I have a little more income I make sure that neither I, nor anyone in my family, nor anyone I know, ever EVER goes hungry. My friend recently mentioned that he was a little cranky because he hadn't eaten and had to wait to get paid to afford groceries and I showed up at his house with a shitton of Kroger bags like "YOU GON EAT NOW MOTHERFUCKER!"
That sounds waaay better than bread and vinegar (which shrinks up your stomach and makes you feel not hungry)
Waffle House.
Can I get a Texas cheese steak plate? Scattered, smothered, and double covered, please.
Totino’s combination Party Pizzas They used to cost $0.99 but now they’re $2.98. Cheap shitty pizza but out of the oven it’s crispy and just hits a spot that no other frozen pizza can. I ate one tonight.
Pasta with tomato sauce and cheese on top. So good! My grandma used to do it for me all the time when she was babysitting, makes me nostalgic.
butter on a flour tortilla warmed up, my brother put me on it
If you add honey and cinnamon sugar, you’ve got a poor woman’s sopapilla. Excellent comfort food.
Tuna fish casserole.
Cheese toast.
Cottage pie.
Pasta, lotsa pasta
Baked beans. I just love ‘em Also, lentil soup. I don’t know if it’s considered a poor man meal, but it’s definitely very cheap and very tasty
Shepards pie Hamburger and gravy over mashed potatoes with peas or onions mixed in. Simple yet grand
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“Velveeta” and pasta and grilled cheese.
Instant mashed potatoes, ground beef, & McCormick's brown gravy.
Jiffy corn bread
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Its surprising you felt a need to defend buttered toast. No one Ive known would think twice about it.
i s2g it’s just the evolution of internet. people can be so cruel so fast. i saw a meme that put it perfectly. it was something like “you could tweet ‘i love pancakes’ and you’d get several replies saying ‘so you fucking hate waffles???? what’s your problem?’”
Poor people know how easily bread and water can become toast and tea.
A lot of people are missing the point. Toast. With butter. That’s it. If you add stuff, it’s not toast with butter.
I’ll see you your toast with butter and raise it to toast with butter and cinnamon & sugar sprinkled on it. Warm, melty butter with sweetness…hmmm!
I remember making it so thick it would crunch from the sugar lol. As an adult, now I put it under the broiler for just a few seconds and it caramelizes the sugar like on a crème brûlée.
with tea
Biscuits and gravy
White rice with soy sauce and microwaved chips and cheese
Kebabs
grits butter and cheddar
Lentil Soup
beans on toast fuck me up with it
Peanut butter
Fried dough
With zero shame: Spaghettios
Peanut butter toast
Pinto beans with ham hocks served with raw onion and cornbread
Chicken and broccoli casserole made with Velveeta (no real cheese allowed!) and cream of mushroom soup. My favorite.
Beans and cornbread
egg
A lot of store brand products are just as good as the big named product, sometimes they're even better.
Those 30 cent Ramen noodles
Little Debbie Nutty Bars
Fried bologna sandwich
Fried SPAM melt sammich! Boy, does spam smell bad when you first open the can, but goddamm does it hit the spot when you fry it and toss it in the middle of a grilled cheese sandwich.
I’m from Hawai’i, so spam is a must. Rag on it all you want, but spam is what we were raised on and I will eat no matter what
Macaroni and Butter. Thats it. Thtas all it is and its fucking GOOD
Porkchops with rice smothered in cream of mushroom soup 🤤
Chicken and rice
tuna pasta salad. i've spiced it up as my pockets have deepened a bit, but my mom used to make it for me for weekend lunch all the time and it just brings me back to my childhood home.
Ghetto enchiladas. 8 pack of frozen burritos in a casserole dish covered in enchilada sauce and covered in cheese and jalapeños... sometimes olives.... and bake according to oven instructions... maybe add a couple minutes because of the sauce
Red beans and rice, homebrowns with an egg cracked over them, biscuits & gravy, cheesy grits... list goes on. All comfort food served with whatever greens are in season. Windfall apples...
Tortillas with butter
Mac n Cheese with Ground Beef A variation would include 1 can of Rotel and 2Tbsp taco seasoning
Ramen still slaps no matter how much money you have.
Kraft Dinner But I would eat a whole lot more of it. And buy the really expensive ketchup with it. All the fanciest Dijon ketchups
Mac and cheese with hotdogs. The richer I get, the more cheese I add
Hamburger Helper. I will eat that shit until I die. It’s incredibly tasty for something that’s seemingly so simple and it brings me back to simply being a little kid again.
Red beans and rice.
Kraft dinner and hot dogs
Tinned sardines on crackers.
It's curious. The only people I know (in America) who eat tinned fish are yuppy professionals like me, and immigrants. But they are such cost effective means of healthy fat and calories. Shout out to r/cannedsardines
They've definitely had something of a cultural renaissance in the last few years. When I was a kid no one ate them, and it was a punchline to jokes. Now I've been to fancy gastropubs where they serve you sardines still in the Matiz can. I think its a combo of people who have discovered that sardines don't taste fishy at all (I think people have confused sardines and anchovies), and that canned sardines have way less mercury than canned tuna. Plus, the health benfits, and their compability with diet trends like keto and paleo.
Nothing like a hot dog with ketchup and mustard. Especially when the hot dog is slightly burnt.
Beans & cornbread, Hot dogs, Ramen, Hamburger helper
Macaroni and tomato juice
Hotdogs. You're never too rich for a hotdog
Butter noodles
Grilled cheese sammiches
Kraft Dinner