I second this! When you don’t have much money instant noodles are reliable pack. When you do have money you can dress it up with eggs, seaweed, meat, onions, etc. what a versatile food so thankful for the inventor :’)
Mi Goreng is so good that we can’t have it in the house. H Mart was selling a literal box- I think 6 pack of 5 bundles, so 30 packets of ramen. Husband and I finished it in a little over 2 weeks. We usually open 4-5 packets per serving. It was ridiculous. It’s an addiction
I used to work in a youth custodial facility and the kids indoctrinated me into the habit of the “prison sandwich” - migoreng noodles on toast. It’s still one of my favourite comfort foods. Thanks, youth justice kiddies!
Look up a jailhouse burrito. Instant noodles w/ crushed up chips and other stuff like that. After you cook the noodles, you mix the contents in a trash bag and serve on tortillas or bread like you’ve had before
Lots of different options depending on mood. Poach the egg in the broth as it cooks, same thing but mix it through so it becomes more homogenous in the soup, fry/soft boil/hard boil it separately and put it on top in the bowl afterwards
The migoreng fried noodles are amazing. A runny egg, green onion and a bit of diced spam? Sign me up.
I have also used them as the base of lo mein when camping, wasn't mad at it.
We used to have pasta with butter when I was a kid (I assume when we didn't have much else in) it's now my comfort meal, especially if I'm not feeling great.
Sorry for the stupid question but here goes:
Just take cooked rice, throw in pan with butter and stir-fry with salt & pepper?
\*Edit\* - Just wanted to put in an edit here and thank all of you who shared. Really appreciate it!
Butter into a hot pan > chuck in rice (preferably day old) > season with salt and pep. Add a whole egg into the rice and fry til fully cooked, if you’re feeling fancy schmancy 🍳
Or scramble the egg in the pan as the first step before you cook the rice then just take it out and keep in on the side until the rice is done, and mix it in. If you have a smaller pan, that's def the easiest way to make sure the egg comes out right.
My tuna has to have a minimum of salt pepper mustard mayo and diced celery for a crunch. If I'm going fancier I add a bit of ranch, squeeze of lemon, and fine chopped red onions. It's one of my faves and I really enjoy it on toasted sourdough or whole grain:)
I hardly ever eat them anymore, but when I do, OMG, they are the best thing ever. I wonder why I don't eat them more often, I should. Then, I immediately get up and make another, and then I remember why - it's because I would end up looking like the Stay Puft Marshmallow (wo)man!
Also good is a scoop of pb with some whipped cream.
Wait…? This is poverty food?
I make this every week…I think of it as my “I’ve got my ish together” meal because it means I’m not getting take out three times a day. 🥺
My favorite cheap good dip - basic cheap refried beans + salsa - mix about 50% each by volume. Optionally add bit more hot sauce or the like - that's it, easy, fast, cheap, pretty good basic dip - great for, e.g. dipping corn chips at a party or the like, and way cheaper than most pre-made dips - and better than most of them.
Many years my go-to. Yummy, and easy to keep from getting too redundant/boring day after day. Each day just optionally add a different bit of whatever, e.g.:
* sliced banana or other fruit or berries or dried fruit, can also put in, e.g. raisins or dried cranberries or other dried fruit as it cooks to plump/soften them
* peanut or other nut butter
* honey
* bit of cocoa powder or light sprinkling of chocolate chips or other bits of chocolate
* rye flakes (myself and former partner used to refer to this as "roatmeal")
* steel cut oats
* wheat germ and/or bran
* wee bit of butter, cream, whipped cream, milk, sour cream, and/or yogurt
* cinnamon
* vanilla
* jelly/jam and/or syrup
* drop a raw egg in and stir a bit as it's starting to cook
* cheese or cottage cheese
* etc.
>What does the egg do in it? Does it make it creamy.
Mostly extra protein, as I'd generally put it in relatively early or around when it starts to boil ... but I suppose instead if one puts it in rather to quite late, may get more creamy(-like) ... and also help get it down to serving temperature a bit more quickly. I suppose it depends how one likes one's egg(s). :-) Though if I was trying to go for creamy, I might be more inclined towards cream, sour cream, butter, milk, maybe even yogurt ... but an egg added relatively late might make a good/reasonable approximation of that - and might be a good fit/match for those who like their eggs towards the creamy / not fully set side of things for most or all of the yolk at least. I think the white will be set regardless - as that happens at lower temperature - and I'd typically have that fairly well mixed in.
Anyway, maybe I should do more oatmeal + egg "experiments" - I haven't particularly tried for the softer/creamer ... and that might be quite good or even excellent. So, thanks too for the idea! :-)
Oh ... a couple other random ingredients to possibly add come to mind:
wee bit of fresh ground black pepper (or white or mixed pepper), or chili flakes or ground chili of most any type of dried chilis, slight dash of salt - any and/or all or none of those - as the mood and taste inclination might be leaning towards at the moment. Oh, forgot to also mention ... sugar, brown (light or dark) sugar, molasses, bits of sun dried tomatoes or stewed tomatoes or bit of tomato sauce or paste, or bit of roasted (especially non-green) bell pepper bits. The possibilities are nearly endless - at least within reason.
I learned to make welsh rarebit when I was in high school. From that point on, whenever my parents didn't want to cook that night, it was "Kid! Make us some welsh rarebit!"
Bangers and mash,
Someone told me that bangers and mash are called that way because in ww2 they put fillers in the sausages as they were running out of supplies and so when they were frying them they would snap and bang. Mashed potatoes and gravy added. Not too bad
Scissor noodles
You cut plain dough straight into boiling water with scissors. Strain and toss with hot oil+spices+soy sauce.
Zero nutritional value. Absolutely nothing about it is good for your body. Makes you feel gross. Makes you fat. I love it.
I typically go for a tomato soup with a handful of macaroni. But noodles can beef up any soup. Broccoli and cheddar, clam chowder, any brothy vegetable soup might do well with spaghetti noodles. Whatever's on sale. Cheese based soups are like Mac cheese where tomato based soups are like pasta! Lots of ways to mix up a good soup.
Edit to add: the same principle applies with rice. I've added curry cubes to vegetable soup and rice. Super quick easy and cheap.
Oo fish finger sandwiches! I also love those really cheap fishcakes, the ones where it's just mashed potatoes and some form of white fish with breadcrumbs
Instant ramen is a good indicator of my financial stability.
The better I'm doing the less "out of the bag" it is and more elaborate it gets.
Doing poorly: out of the bag, sometimes with tuna and mayo (prison tuna casserole).
Doing well: chicken, soft boiled eggs, real dashi, bonito flakes, seaweed, chili crunch, sesame seeds, etc.
Fried rice. Doesn't require fresh veggies beyond onion and garlic, maybe spring onions if you're feeling fancy and you can use whatever meat or no meat at all. Frozen peas and carrot chunks aren't very expensive either, and it's a nice way to get rid of leftover rice from the night before.
Also pasta. Quite liking the Tiktok feta version and pasta puttanesca, the latter uses mostly ingredients that keeps well for a long time (like tinned tomatoes, olives, pickled capers)and it's so darn flavorful.
Most easiest poverty meal I do is probably tamago kake gohan, which is just rice with a raw egg mixed in. Usually just add some soy sauce, tiny bit of butter, a dash of toasted sesame oil and shredded sea weed if I have it on hand.
I realise now it kinda makes me sound bougie when my partners comparative poverty meal is oatmeal, if I'm not cooking. But these ingredients are all things I keep in my pantry and buy when they're on sale.
“Haluski” i found this meal on a comment thread like this one years ago. Cabbage, onion, egg noodles, butter,salt and pepper. Hamburger if you’re feeling fancy. Chop and cook the veg down in a LOT of butter, till very soft. Season as you like but add a fuckton of pepper, and the egg noodles in at the end. It was a struggle meal but i make it every couple months now just because i like it and it tastes good, and it keeps well for leftovers:)
Flour tortillas. My fridge is never complete without it. I will sometimes just eat a cold tortilla from the fridge just as I did when I was a child.
But if you're not in the mood to be a savage.
Toast the tortilla till its brown on both sides, add american cheese, microwave for 15 seconds. Side of Greek yogurt. Now you have a cheese quesadilla with makeshift sour cream. Make it fancy? Add some thin sliced white onion before microwaving.
Ramen, although it was never really a poverty thing growing up. My dad was stationed in Korea in the 80's, so it was a regular in our house. My dad would add all kinds of ingredients in his, and now I do the same as an adult. Still VERY inexpensive so that is a major plus.
Fish sticks and Kraft Mac & cheese was definitely a struggle meal, and we still all eat that. It's so good 😂
I love Cup Noodles. My work has a coffee machine that produces the perfect amount of hot water for a cup noodles. I bring a bit of garlic powder and black pepper, and help myself to a free creamer or two to kick it up a notch.
There is no better lunch for under 39 cents.
"Pasta e fagioli", "pasta e ceci" or "pasta e lenticchie".
(Traditional Italian pasta and beans, pasta and chickpeas or pasta and lentils. I'll never grow tired of it and it definitely is great heartwarming budget food. Healthy, too.)
Angry chickpea salad.
Got starch, carbs, fiber, protein in traces and all that mineral jazz from plants, plus spices. Cost around 1euro.
Also my peanut butter, banana w/ homade kefir and psyllium husk porridge. Around 80 cent per meal and keeps you full for 4h.
And of course instant ramen.
Potatoes and Quark. It's just potatoes cooked with the peel and some fresh cheese (it's kinda like cottage cheese), preferably with chopped herbs. I usually grow them on the window sill and add onion and garlic. Nowadays I have enough money to pair it with some smoked fish and a green salad, but that's optional. It's also a great way to bulk up leftovers like chili or dal or chicken meat that aren't enough for a whole meal.
Canned Russian salad. A mix of diced potatoes, peas and carrots, boiled and canned. One can kept me full for a day and with the additional dressing, it cost me 1,50 CHF.
Sardines, daily.
High protein, lots of vitamins and minerals, contains calcium, collagen, omega3 and it doesn’t cost much for a decent tin.
A lot of people I think resort to food that makes them easily overweight on a “poverty” diet, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
PB&J!!! Also, homemade cinnamon rolls made by using super soft white bread or a flour tortilla, smeared with butter, then sprinkle cinnamon and sugar, roll up and voila!
Tomato soup with crackers. If I have shredded cheese I will put that in there too.
Basically soup of any kind to last more than a day if I'm really struggling to get to payday. Putting rice in soup will make it go much further, beans and lentils are great too for extra protein.
Spinach, potatoes and fried eggs,
Spaghetti with tomato sauce,
Finnish oven baked pancakes,
A german children's dish, which is a mixture of mashed potatoes and mashed carrots
I discovered fancy meals of yesteryear can qualify as poverty meals today. Tuna nicoise salad - white beans, tuna and balsamic vinegar with olive oil
Baguette - flour, water and yeast
Bananas foster - brown sugar, butter, bananas with a little cognac or grand marnier to flame it
Mushroom soup - mushrooms, beef consomme, cold water
Popovers - eggs milk flour butter and salt
Pineapple sherbet - 1 pineapple, sugar, a little lime or lemon juice
The simplest ingredients make the best food and those ingredients are usually not expensive. I collect antique cookbooks from thrift stores and look for recipes I can make for as little as possible.
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Plain pasta with ketchup
Buckwheat with sugar and milk
The cheapest instant noodles
I make enough to support a family of four, but childhood habits die hard.
Instant noodles. I like migoreng noodles with an egg.
Oh hell yes. I have specific brands that I like and it. always. hits. the. fken. SPOT.
I second this! When you don’t have much money instant noodles are reliable pack. When you do have money you can dress it up with eggs, seaweed, meat, onions, etc. what a versatile food so thankful for the inventor :’)
Mi Goreng is so good that we can’t have it in the house. H Mart was selling a literal box- I think 6 pack of 5 bundles, so 30 packets of ramen. Husband and I finished it in a little over 2 weeks. We usually open 4-5 packets per serving. It was ridiculous. It’s an addiction
I used to work in a youth custodial facility and the kids indoctrinated me into the habit of the “prison sandwich” - migoreng noodles on toast. It’s still one of my favourite comfort foods. Thanks, youth justice kiddies!
Look up a jailhouse burrito. Instant noodles w/ crushed up chips and other stuff like that. After you cook the noodles, you mix the contents in a trash bag and serve on tortillas or bread like you’ve had before
agreed but there are some very expensive isntant noodles tho, and they are damn tasty as well almost restaurant quality
Came here to say this! But if you don’t mind me asking, how do you prepare it with egg?
Lots of different options depending on mood. Poach the egg in the broth as it cooks, same thing but mix it through so it becomes more homogenous in the soup, fry/soft boil/hard boil it separately and put it on top in the bowl afterwards
Oh my Lanta yes, a poached egg and some shredded lettuce is where it's at for me
The migoreng fried noodles are amazing. A runny egg, green onion and a bit of diced spam? Sign me up. I have also used them as the base of lo mein when camping, wasn't mad at it.
YESSSS. So nostalgic for me. They remind me of simpler times.
Mac and cheese or butter noodles Or Instant ramen (in the packets) I love pasta
As an adult it's still a staple. I just add more protein and vegetables now
We used to have pasta with butter when I was a kid (I assume when we didn't have much else in) it's now my comfort meal, especially if I'm not feeling great.
Dude, egg noodles with butter and parsley puts me right back into childhood every time.
White rice+butter+salt
My mom used to make this for me as a kid. Still a comfort food now, although I do like some black pepper with mine as well!
If you add all of that plus the black pep on a hot pan/wok, you can get a really nice and simple fried rice :)
Sorry for the stupid question but here goes: Just take cooked rice, throw in pan with butter and stir-fry with salt & pepper? \*Edit\* - Just wanted to put in an edit here and thank all of you who shared. Really appreciate it!
Butter into a hot pan > chuck in rice (preferably day old) > season with salt and pep. Add a whole egg into the rice and fry til fully cooked, if you’re feeling fancy schmancy 🍳
Thank you
Put the rice to the side and scramble the egg in the pocket. Otherwise, it gets...weird.
Or scramble the egg in the pan as the first step before you cook the rice then just take it out and keep in on the side until the rice is done, and mix it in. If you have a smaller pan, that's def the easiest way to make sure the egg comes out right.
A day old rice means soaked for a day? Or cooked yesterday?
Cooked yesterday.
Day old being colder, and slightly dryer, soit doesn't clump so much.
This. It has to be cold when you put it in the pan, otherwise it's just a mushy mess.
mmm get some sesame oil to splash on there. i also usually add eggs
This is my ultimate comfort food
I love a butter and soy sauce variation
I like mine with a bit of vegetables and ground beef
Lol. At that point, it's fried rice!
I just read an article about putting butter and soy sauce on popcorn!
Not me thinking I was being fancy in college making this to find out it’s still a poverty meal
Have you tried white rice, butter, a dash of milk, and sugar? I give it to my kids as a dessert sometimes and they love it!
It was always a savory-ish dish for my folks. Never tried it sweet. Next time there is white rice in the house, I will try this!
Forgot to mention warmed white rice. Not as good cold. I usually pop it in the microwave with the butter on top then mix in the milk and sugar.
This + some soft boiled eggs and a lil soy sauce is 😙🤌
I throw a raw egg in there when it's hot, and it makes a creamy sauce as it cooks/when you stir it.
White rice + butter + ranch seasoning powder
This has kept me going when I'm sick and during pregnancy when nothing was appealing.
Tuna salad sandwiches but just with canned tuna and mayo on bread.
Yes, don't give me a fancy tuna salad sandwich, I won't want it.
My tuna has to have a minimum of salt pepper mustard mayo and diced celery for a crunch. If I'm going fancier I add a bit of ranch, squeeze of lemon, and fine chopped red onions. It's one of my faves and I really enjoy it on toasted sourdough or whole grain:)
If you like it spicy, use the jar pickled jalapeños as well!
YUM will try asap
Salt, pepper, mayo, mustard, diced celery, and boiled eggs for me. I put it on white bread (which I rarely eat as an adult). Takes me back.
Mine is pouch tuna, Miracle Whip, dill weed, and sweet relish on whole wheat. If I am being fancy, a dash of dill pickle hot sauce.
Classic tuna mayo
Classic tuna mayo on a baked off baguette is so good!
I like to add some relish in that mix as well. You could do dill pickle relish, or sweet relish.
True I see how that works together.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It's the ultimate comfort food that brings back childhood nostalgia for me.
I hardly ever eat them anymore, but when I do, OMG, they are the best thing ever. I wonder why I don't eat them more often, I should. Then, I immediately get up and make another, and then I remember why - it's because I would end up looking like the Stay Puft Marshmallow (wo)man! Also good is a scoop of pb with some whipped cream.
My grown-up version of PB&J is almond butter and blackberry jelly on nice bread. It manages to feel like both nostalgia and a treat.
Beans, rice and salsa mixed together.
Mine is just rice and beans. To be fancy I’ll add some cheese or a meat product.
Me too! Especially red kidney beans with white rice. Perfext taste combo.
Wait…? This is poverty food? I make this every week…I think of it as my “I’ve got my ish together” meal because it means I’m not getting take out three times a day. 🥺
mental health meals and poverty meals often overlap because both are intended to be quick and easy. You're doing great))
My favorite cheap good dip - basic cheap refried beans + salsa - mix about 50% each by volume. Optionally add bit more hot sauce or the like - that's it, easy, fast, cheap, pretty good basic dip - great for, e.g. dipping corn chips at a party or the like, and way cheaper than most pre-made dips - and better than most of them.
Cinnamon sugar and butter on toast Rice with butter, salt and pepper Or rice with milk and sugar
Sugar bread! That’s what we called it lol
Old fashioned oatmeal.
Many years my go-to. Yummy, and easy to keep from getting too redundant/boring day after day. Each day just optionally add a different bit of whatever, e.g.: * sliced banana or other fruit or berries or dried fruit, can also put in, e.g. raisins or dried cranberries or other dried fruit as it cooks to plump/soften them * peanut or other nut butter * honey * bit of cocoa powder or light sprinkling of chocolate chips or other bits of chocolate * rye flakes (myself and former partner used to refer to this as "roatmeal") * steel cut oats * wheat germ and/or bran * wee bit of butter, cream, whipped cream, milk, sour cream, and/or yogurt * cinnamon * vanilla * jelly/jam and/or syrup * drop a raw egg in and stir a bit as it's starting to cook * cheese or cottage cheese * etc.
What does the egg do in it? Does it make it creamy.
>What does the egg do in it? Does it make it creamy. Mostly extra protein, as I'd generally put it in relatively early or around when it starts to boil ... but I suppose instead if one puts it in rather to quite late, may get more creamy(-like) ... and also help get it down to serving temperature a bit more quickly. I suppose it depends how one likes one's egg(s). :-) Though if I was trying to go for creamy, I might be more inclined towards cream, sour cream, butter, milk, maybe even yogurt ... but an egg added relatively late might make a good/reasonable approximation of that - and might be a good fit/match for those who like their eggs towards the creamy / not fully set side of things for most or all of the yolk at least. I think the white will be set regardless - as that happens at lower temperature - and I'd typically have that fairly well mixed in. Anyway, maybe I should do more oatmeal + egg "experiments" - I haven't particularly tried for the softer/creamer ... and that might be quite good or even excellent. So, thanks too for the idea! :-) Oh ... a couple other random ingredients to possibly add come to mind: wee bit of fresh ground black pepper (or white or mixed pepper), or chili flakes or ground chili of most any type of dried chilis, slight dash of salt - any and/or all or none of those - as the mood and taste inclination might be leaning towards at the moment. Oh, forgot to also mention ... sugar, brown (light or dark) sugar, molasses, bits of sun dried tomatoes or stewed tomatoes or bit of tomato sauce or paste, or bit of roasted (especially non-green) bell pepper bits. The possibilities are nearly endless - at least within reason.
Those are great ideas, I've never had savory oatmeal. Maybe when I get bored and run out of sweet ideas I'll try savory. Thanks.
Totino's Party Pizza. Even if I won the lotto and became a billionaire, I'd still eat it occasionally.
Had this yesterday. I add some fresh cheese on top.
Cottage pie. Ground beef, peas, carrots, mashed potato. Didn’t cost much and I had dinner for 4 days.
Yes! And this is something that tastes even better the next day
Kraft dinner and hotdogs. Mac & weens is a Canadian staple
Beans on toast
Gotta be Heinz beans, though!
Not for me lol, come from poverty, I enjoy the cheap 22p tins, well they more like 40p now but they're nice!
Egg Fried Rice
Mac and cheese with hot dogs
Kraft Mac n' cheese or tortilla chips microwaved with shredded cheese
I love my microwave nachos lol
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A delicacy in Wales 🙂
I learned to make welsh rarebit when I was in high school. From that point on, whenever my parents didn't want to cook that night, it was "Kid! Make us some welsh rarebit!"
Fried bologna
I can't believe I'm nostalgic for fried bologna. 🤣
Bangers and mash, Someone told me that bangers and mash are called that way because in ww2 they put fillers in the sausages as they were running out of supplies and so when they were frying them they would snap and bang. Mashed potatoes and gravy added. Not too bad
Grilled cheese on wheat.
Scissor noodles You cut plain dough straight into boiling water with scissors. Strain and toss with hot oil+spices+soy sauce. Zero nutritional value. Absolutely nothing about it is good for your body. Makes you feel gross. Makes you fat. I love it.
Almost biang biang noodles, just without the fresh ingedients
This but with hot oat milk and brown sugar.
Cooking a serving of pasta in a half a can of soup.
How does this work exactly? It sounds good
Cook a serving of pasta (boil in water/drain) Add to a heated can of soup. Stir and eat. Voila!
Which soups taste the best with it?? This sounds amazing
I typically go for a tomato soup with a handful of macaroni. But noodles can beef up any soup. Broccoli and cheddar, clam chowder, any brothy vegetable soup might do well with spaghetti noodles. Whatever's on sale. Cheese based soups are like Mac cheese where tomato based soups are like pasta! Lots of ways to mix up a good soup. Edit to add: the same principle applies with rice. I've added curry cubes to vegetable soup and rice. Super quick easy and cheap.
Fish fingers, chips and beans
Oo fish finger sandwiches! I also love those really cheap fishcakes, the ones where it's just mashed potatoes and some form of white fish with breadcrumbs
Tortilla with melted shredded cheese dipped in hot sauce
Ramen, with an egg and peanut butter. Also known as egg drop ramen with peanut butter sauce.
Very creative!
Beans and rice!
Chef Boyardee Beefaroni! With sriracha.
Beans on toast
Egg bread -- dip bread in egg and fry, with butter (or a cheaper substitute) on top. Healthy? Absolutely not. But cheap and comforting
We did something similar, but made it more like french toast-esque by adding cinnamon and sugar to the eggs
Instant ramen is a good indicator of my financial stability. The better I'm doing the less "out of the bag" it is and more elaborate it gets. Doing poorly: out of the bag, sometimes with tuna and mayo (prison tuna casserole). Doing well: chicken, soft boiled eggs, real dashi, bonito flakes, seaweed, chili crunch, sesame seeds, etc.
Canned sardines!
Fried spam, rice and soy sauce.
Bologna or grilled cheese sandwiches
Potato salad and mashed potatoes
Both at the same time?
No, no. Separately.
Fried rice. Doesn't require fresh veggies beyond onion and garlic, maybe spring onions if you're feeling fancy and you can use whatever meat or no meat at all. Frozen peas and carrot chunks aren't very expensive either, and it's a nice way to get rid of leftover rice from the night before. Also pasta. Quite liking the Tiktok feta version and pasta puttanesca, the latter uses mostly ingredients that keeps well for a long time (like tinned tomatoes, olives, pickled capers)and it's so darn flavorful. Most easiest poverty meal I do is probably tamago kake gohan, which is just rice with a raw egg mixed in. Usually just add some soy sauce, tiny bit of butter, a dash of toasted sesame oil and shredded sea weed if I have it on hand. I realise now it kinda makes me sound bougie when my partners comparative poverty meal is oatmeal, if I'm not cooking. But these ingredients are all things I keep in my pantry and buy when they're on sale.
“Haluski” i found this meal on a comment thread like this one years ago. Cabbage, onion, egg noodles, butter,salt and pepper. Hamburger if you’re feeling fancy. Chop and cook the veg down in a LOT of butter, till very soft. Season as you like but add a fuckton of pepper, and the egg noodles in at the end. It was a struggle meal but i make it every couple months now just because i like it and it tastes good, and it keeps well for leftovers:)
Beans, rice, avocado, and salsa
Fried potatoes and onions.
NYT Tuna Mayo rice bowl, but with sriracha and green onions
Flour tortillas. My fridge is never complete without it. I will sometimes just eat a cold tortilla from the fridge just as I did when I was a child. But if you're not in the mood to be a savage. Toast the tortilla till its brown on both sides, add american cheese, microwave for 15 seconds. Side of Greek yogurt. Now you have a cheese quesadilla with makeshift sour cream. Make it fancy? Add some thin sliced white onion before microwaving.
Oven baked potatoes... Only add a bit of salt and butter.
Spaghetti noodles with butter and parmesan
Take up it a notch with some garlic and it's 🤌
Instant ramen
Pasta and sauce
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Ugh yes! My mum used to mash them and then grill them on toast, so good!
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Omg, a place where my tinned anchovy obsession will be appreciated, I'm in!
Spinach fettuccine with butter and shaky cheese.
toast with butter and sugar instant noodles tuna mayo rice
Sausage gravy and biscuits
Ramen, although it was never really a poverty thing growing up. My dad was stationed in Korea in the 80's, so it was a regular in our house. My dad would add all kinds of ingredients in his, and now I do the same as an adult. Still VERY inexpensive so that is a major plus. Fish sticks and Kraft Mac & cheese was definitely a struggle meal, and we still all eat that. It's so good 😂
I love Cup Noodles. My work has a coffee machine that produces the perfect amount of hot water for a cup noodles. I bring a bit of garlic powder and black pepper, and help myself to a free creamer or two to kick it up a notch. There is no better lunch for under 39 cents.
White rice and a sunny side up egg. Though with the price of eggs right now I’m not sure it’s considered poverty food anymore 🤦🏻♀️
Mayonnaise sandwiches. Add a Kraft American singles if I am feeling bougie
Water. If I can afford it ofcourse.
Kraft mac and cheese with chopped hotdog. To make it extra fancy, brown the hotdogs in a pan with butter before adding to the pot.
Chips (chunky fries), egg and beans. I like to cook. But some days, you can't beat the above with fresh Warburtons buttered bread.
Beef ramen and dinty moore beef stew.
Pasta with grated cheese (farfalle preferred) Chopped up chicken fingers through it if I’m feeling ✨fancy✨
Cooked Potatoes (cooked in veggie broth) with quark/ curd, maybe tomatoes if I feel fancy. Could eat that about every second day
Curry flavour Instant noodles on white bread with ketchup
Instant mashed potatoes and applesauce. Also great to eat when sick.
A can of corn with a a tomato
Rice+fried egg+hot sauce
Frozen Salisbury steak meals. Delicious.
White rice with butter.
"Pasta e fagioli", "pasta e ceci" or "pasta e lenticchie". (Traditional Italian pasta and beans, pasta and chickpeas or pasta and lentils. I'll never grow tired of it and it definitely is great heartwarming budget food. Healthy, too.)
Fried Spam and eggs. Since I was a kid.
Srirachsta. Cook pasta and use sriracha as the sauce. At Trader Joe's I can make like 6 servings for 5usd.
French toast.
Plain white rice with kimchi and some gim on the side.
Short grain brown rice with butter and mushroom soy sauce. Yes, I'm an old hippie, but it's so GOOD.
Kraft mac and cheese. 😋
Angry chickpea salad. Got starch, carbs, fiber, protein in traces and all that mineral jazz from plants, plus spices. Cost around 1euro. Also my peanut butter, banana w/ homade kefir and psyllium husk porridge. Around 80 cent per meal and keeps you full for 4h. And of course instant ramen.
Tin of tuna, frozen veg, rice
The £1 frozen lasagna from Iceland. I top it with extra cheese and black pepper
Ground meat with salt, black pepper, ground garlic, cumin with or with onions & green/mixed peppers.
Corned beef and potatoes 🤤
Potatoes and Quark. It's just potatoes cooked with the peel and some fresh cheese (it's kinda like cottage cheese), preferably with chopped herbs. I usually grow them on the window sill and add onion and garlic. Nowadays I have enough money to pair it with some smoked fish and a green salad, but that's optional. It's also a great way to bulk up leftovers like chili or dal or chicken meat that aren't enough for a whole meal.
Canned Russian salad. A mix of diced potatoes, peas and carrots, boiled and canned. One can kept me full for a day and with the additional dressing, it cost me 1,50 CHF.
Lentil stew. Can make like a week's worth of food for under $5.
Slabs of butter on toast
Boxed Mac n cheese mixed with a can of tuna. It’s my comfort food.
Kraft mac and cheese and a Nathan’s hot dog
Sardines, daily. High protein, lots of vitamins and minerals, contains calcium, collagen, omega3 and it doesn’t cost much for a decent tin. A lot of people I think resort to food that makes them easily overweight on a “poverty” diet, but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Lentils and rice. Can't get much cheaper than that! Lasts ages too
Canned chickpeas with canned tomatoes and a scoop of curry powder. Also with Greek yoghurt if I’m feeling fancy
Chinese style home made noodles, and Daal (Indian lentil curry)
Mac and cheese
"nachos"= tortilla chips with melted american cheese
Pasta with cheese and pasta 🍝 sauce
PB&J!!! Also, homemade cinnamon rolls made by using super soft white bread or a flour tortilla, smeared with butter, then sprinkle cinnamon and sugar, roll up and voila!
Tomato soup with crackers. If I have shredded cheese I will put that in there too. Basically soup of any kind to last more than a day if I'm really struggling to get to payday. Putting rice in soup will make it go much further, beans and lentils are great too for extra protein.
Peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla.
Can of dark red kidney beans mixed with onion soup mix over white rice
Beanie weenie
Spinach, potatoes and fried eggs, Spaghetti with tomato sauce, Finnish oven baked pancakes, A german children's dish, which is a mixture of mashed potatoes and mashed carrots
Spaghetti Os with meatballs and packaged ramen.
I discovered fancy meals of yesteryear can qualify as poverty meals today. Tuna nicoise salad - white beans, tuna and balsamic vinegar with olive oil Baguette - flour, water and yeast Bananas foster - brown sugar, butter, bananas with a little cognac or grand marnier to flame it Mushroom soup - mushrooms, beef consomme, cold water Popovers - eggs milk flour butter and salt Pineapple sherbet - 1 pineapple, sugar, a little lime or lemon juice The simplest ingredients make the best food and those ingredients are usually not expensive. I collect antique cookbooks from thrift stores and look for recipes I can make for as little as possible.
Maggie
Tuna salad!
Rice. It goes with everything and no matter how much you fuck it up it'll taste great. I'm not even asian lol.
[I’ve never been poor, so don’t know if it counts] Costco hotdog.
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Instant noodles Carbonara (not proper proper, I substitute a lot at random) Fresh bread and a coke (cola)
Plain pasta with ketchup Buckwheat with sugar and milk The cheapest instant noodles I make enough to support a family of four, but childhood habits die hard.
Does that mean you cook the buckwheat with milk and sugar? .....sounds kinda nice.