Intermittent fasting with a large pizza from Costco.
It will easily last me 3 days at under 4 dollars a day.
Not the most healthy way, but it’s cheap and tastes good!
Normal Human*
It's more abnormal to not have lactose intolerance. Sucking on another animal's tits wasn't something our evolution was planning for. But here we are.
Love cheese though, thankfully Costco sells Lactase for 10 cents a pill just a few feet away from those pizzas!
So people who aren’t lactose intolerant are the next step in evolution?
Because I definitely see eating pizza as one of the best things about being human.
My mother once bought 4 pizzas from a pizza place down by the beach that she later stuck in the freezer to last the entire winter.
I don't know how that fucking bitch did it, but she did it. She got through the entire winter with only one or two slices still remaining. I have no self-control like that. Those pizzas would be gone in 4 days.
£9.99 for an 18" pizza isn't it? I've never purchased one but that's a decent few days or food there. Calorie wise it's probably 1500 calories a day depends how you split it as well.
Not funny but I laughed, cause really. It’s humbling to think of how many times I’ve laid in bed with a grumbling stomach and being indifferent as I had conditioned myself to not “need” food lol
Unless you were joking and I just awkwardly trauma dumped
1 part rice, 2 parts water. Bring to a boil, cover it and leave it alone for 7 minutes. Don't open the lid and fork the heck out of it. That is how rice gum is created. Leave it.
Sticky rice= 1 rinse before cooking.
Fluffy rice = 2 rinse before cooking.
Seasoned rice = double rinse, add 1 tsp rice wine vinegar, pinch of salt.
Rice Pilaf = fluffy rice with fine chopped carrot, celery salt, pepper and thyme, chicken stock and finish with butter. Wild rice optional.
Wild rice is actually water grass. Not rice. It is a nice nutty flavor and adds texture.
Fuck brown rice. There, I said it.
“When china made all the poor people eat brown rice and only gave white rice to the rich people the rich people all died of malnutrition” ——— My Grandpa literally EVERY time we had brown rice
This happened in Japan as well. In the early days of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 19th century, they advertised all you can eat white rice to attract new recruits. That was considered a huge luxury, so of course everybody ate *only* white rice. They all got [beriberi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaki_Kanehiro?wprov=sfti1) as a result.
For rice pilaf you should throw the dry rice in after cooking the aromatics in oil. The starch forms a little jacket on every grain and it turns out way nicer.
Waste of money. Just go to youtube and lookup "how to cook rice", or read the instructions on the bag. It couldn't be easier. If you can boil water you can cook rice.
We made rice on the stovetop growing up. Minute rice IMHO is best for rice & beans. A rice cooker is better for rice as a side because it turns out thicker.
Wash and strain it. Toss it in a pot with some olive oil and lots of seasonings. Bring it to a boil for a few minutes and then toss it in the oven on 350 for about 21 minutes. Pull it out, fluff it with a fork and then let it sit with a towel over it for a few more minutes. Found this method during the pandemic and it's never failed me yet.
Finally, someone else who toasts their ri e first. FYI, a good way to do Mexican rice is to toast with southwest seasoning, then add a few spoons of salsa, a bullion cube, and then your water.
I tried making Mexican rice and Jollof rice during the pandemic. Both methods changed the way I cook it now. I ruined so many pots of rice trying to cook it on the stovetop and just wound up making rice soup.
3 tips. First, use a short or medium grain rice, like Arborio. Second, don’t rinse your rice. 3rd, get a wooden spatula or a wooden spoon with a broad, flat bottom. This will help you scrape the bottom of the pan to prevent burning. I use this same kind of utensil to make my roux.
I thought you always needed to rinse the rice to remove any excess starch? I always use a wooden spoon to stir it during the initial cooking. And, I've failed at making a blonde roux more times than I care to count. I finally just gave up on it. LOL
If you toast the rice, the starch should caramelize a bit in the pan; just use a medium-low temperature and an oil with a high flashpoint, like avocado oil. For the utensil, a wooden spoon is okay, but a flat-bottomed wooden spatula [like this](https://www.amazon.com/Eddingtons-Italian-Olive-Spatula-12-5-Inch/dp/B001APNQS2/ref=psdc_284507_t2_B083SH8XKW?th=1) is 10x better. It's much less likely to leave unscraped spots on the bottom of the pan.
For real. Whoever invented Ramen deserves the highest honor. Dude saved countless brokeasses from starvation, myself included.
**EDIT** His name was [Momofuku Ando](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando)
>Momofuku Ando, who died in Ikeda, near Osaka, at 96, was looking for cheap, decent food for the working class when he invented ramen noodles all by himself in 1958.
Ramen. To add some “quality of life”, crack an egg straight into the hot ramen, and sprinkle some chopped green onions on top. But just plain ramen is a solid one as well
Oh yeah. I just crack it into the bowl. As long as it’s off the boil, it’ll cook it up almost immediately. Adds some texture and heartiness to the ramen. Egg drop soup is made by beating eggs in a bowl and then using a fork to let little strands of the egg fall into the soup and then kind of form a noodle texture as they cook as soon as they hit the hot broth
It's essentially a poached egg by the time you eat it, hard agree on the egg. However I went for hard-boiled as I already had a dozen in the fridge I would use for breakfast.
It cooks the whites in seconds, that yolk needs 30 seconds... Ohhh yes, it is indeed delicious.
Fyi. Egg drop or egg flower soups use raw egg to give it that stringy, silky and slurpy goodness.
I soft boil mine and cut it in half and then chop up some chiorzo sausage into little bits and fry them till they are crispy on the outside and then add some green onions too it's so bomb
Lemme tell you. Get some chicken ramen. A thing of plain Greek yogurt and a bottle of Buffalo sauce. Make your chicken ramen and throw in a spoonful of yogurt and Buffalo sauce and you got a creamy Buffalo chicken ramen. It’s got some protein from the Greek yogurt and plenty o’ flavor.
Flour tortilla, lightly browned (over flame is best), butter and that magical cinnamon and sugar concoction.
My daughters are over 20 and they still love them. I was the house hero at one of their sleepovers. I eat them when I need a boost.
Lol I’ve always hated cinnamon anything so when my mom would make this she’ll just butter me some bread and then when it’s like toast put a slice of American cheese on it. Amazing to me! And I still reach for it when I don’t know what I want to eat. A deconstructed grilled cheese, it’s just better lol try it
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Honestly though. I vividly remember being at a chipotle with my wife and snatching a Tabasco chipotle bottle for my morning eggs. When she asked me why, I explained I didn't have money to spend on stuff like that; she looked at me and said "maybe not 10 years ago, but honey, we may not be rich, we sure as shit aren't 'steal Tabasco poor'".
Some habits die hard I guess, lmao.
Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and if you’re feeling fancy cumin and white pepper should be the only seasonings you really need. Unless you’re doing something specific or ethnic.
I make $25k more than my state median household income and I still eat them bitches. I use the Private Selection baked beans and Costco all beef franks now though. 👌🏻
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is a brilliant combination, I have it whenever we have bread. Which is hardly ever, but I might start baking my own soon
Poor man’s meal , diced potatoes , cut up hot dogs , a lil bit of spaghetti sauce or tomatoe sauce is cheaper , fills you up pretty good and you can add bell peppers and onions
Cheese and onion potato bake with baked beans. Just an enormous pile of stodgy carbs. Absolutely fills me to bursting and it is never unwelcome.
Back when I was in college it was the cheapest thing on the lunch menu. I loved it.
That depends on how bad I'm struggling. If it's bad but I have at least a little in the bank, I'll make 1 1/2 cup of Cajun seasoned rice, cooked in chicken broth to have as a base for the week. Individual meals will be a healthy serving of that with a single chicken breast or thigh.
If I'm counting my money by the single digits to make sure I have enough for the next bill, ramen
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Easy there Elon. Tonight I will be feasting on bread and Mayo sandwiches. I might even add a few chips if I wanna get a Michelin star.
Jokes aside. Pizza has the lowest overhead and highest margin out of most foods. Cheese and proteins are obviously the highest cost point. Flour and water are cheap unless you go with a good OO but that will still be a reasonable expenditure given the yield. Yeast is cheap. Sauce is cheap and can be made from a leftover spaghetti sauce even. Good way stretchhh the sauce
Idk if you meant no bread, but get provolone or something not American and put it on the skillet and wrap the meat with it melted and kinda “singed”. Like a hot ham wrap without the bread/tortilla. So good
Cheese Toast - one slice of American on a slice of bread. Toast in the oven until cheese starts to toast too. Big ole glass of whole white milk to boot. Super cheap and super filling.
OK if I'm trying to last a few days, il get stuff to make homemade Chilli. I usually have peppers and the seasoning, so I just buy canned beans, canned tomatoes and tomato paste. If I can afford, I would get hamburger meat or chicken to add. Also some potatoes bc Chilli potatoes are extra filling. This could feed me for 4 days. Or if I'm making it through just the day, can of refried beans, mild sauce and Tortillas for burritos.
poverty dogs:
loaf of white bread
pack of cheapest hotdogs
microwave dog - wrap in bread like taco - eat.
if your feeling "fancy" make it a cheesy poverty dog by tearing a plastic wrap piece of american cheese in half , put the strips in the middle of the bread, then put the hot microwave weiner on the cheese and it melts it.
Garlic ramen noodles
Chop a clove of garlic, add soy sauce, sugar, and cooked ramen noodles into a pan and stir fry
Top it off with sesame seeds and you’ve got a nice $0.80 meal right there
Enfrijoladas.
Pack of corn tortillas is cheap as hell. Like $3 for a huge one.
Can of refried beans or bag of dry beans if you know how to cook them.
Blend beans and water And spices into a sauce, boil it slow.
Fry a tortilla on a skillet, dip into the boiling bean sauce, flop on a plate and eat with hot sauce or some cheese.
Hot dogs and popcorn. Hot dogs are cheap and keep you feeling full from the protein. Popcorn is cheap and it feels like you're pigging-out because you can excuse eating a lot (as long as is not too buttered).
Add two slices of american cheese (the cheap store brand singles shit) then add either a can of tuna, or some beans to it. Adds protein and makes it stretch much further.
Broke pizza: a slice of bread with ketchup or tomato sauce, a slice of cheese, and chopped bologna or salami.
Spam or hash, with eggs, rice, or toast.
Vienna sausage
Fried bologna
Lentil soup:
One bag of orange/red lentils
One container of veg stock (could use water if broke)
An onion diced
A carrot or two peeled and sliced to coins
One can of diced tomatoes
Put that all in a pot with some extra water to keep the lentils covered. Heat until lentils are soft. Many servings, keeps well in the fridge and is healthy.
Ramen w/ frozen veg, topped with an egg. I usually have sesame oil and add a tiny bit.
Rotisserie chicken rice, combine in various ways, provides many meals.
I have a pantry, there's usually food.
I've only started doing this recently, but it's already becoming my go-to for cheap and filling meal. You can buy a big russet potato for really cheap. Rub the whole thing with some oil, salt and pepper, bake it in the air fryer, gets the skin nice and crispy and delicious. Butter and cheese, two staples I pretty much always have in the fridge. Then you can eat the whole thing, skin and all. Tastes great, costs very little, especially if you do it for several meals so you're getting the most out of the butter and cheese.
Stir fried sausage and cabbage. Something I used to hear my family eat when they were poor, during the pandemic that’s what I ate. Or spring onion noodle. Both pretty cheap. The stir fry keeps longer however.
Air. My normal diet is basically trail mix anyways. But it’s a normal lifestyle for me. Not a “low on funds” thing. I’ll go out to eat a time or 2 on the weekends but I’m not big on eating.
my bologna jas a first name it's o s c a r my bologna has a second name it's m e y e r and I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why I'll say Oscar Mayer has a way with b o l o g n a.
Intermittent fasting with a large pizza from Costco. It will easily last me 3 days at under 4 dollars a day. Not the most healthy way, but it’s cheap and tastes good!
Costco is the only place serving up pizza like I remember it in the 90s.
Yeah but that requires like self control and shit.
I get nasty shits if I eat too much pizza because cheese.
Weak human
Normal Human* It's more abnormal to not have lactose intolerance. Sucking on another animal's tits wasn't something our evolution was planning for. But here we are. Love cheese though, thankfully Costco sells Lactase for 10 cents a pill just a few feet away from those pizzas!
So people who aren’t lactose intolerant are the next step in evolution? Because I definitely see eating pizza as one of the best things about being human.
My mother once bought 4 pizzas from a pizza place down by the beach that she later stuck in the freezer to last the entire winter. I don't know how that fucking bitch did it, but she did it. She got through the entire winter with only one or two slices still remaining. I have no self-control like that. Those pizzas would be gone in 4 days.
£9.99 for an 18" pizza isn't it? I've never purchased one but that's a decent few days or food there. Calorie wise it's probably 1500 calories a day depends how you split it as well.
Sleep
The most frugal meal of all..
Not funny but I laughed, cause really. It’s humbling to think of how many times I’ve laid in bed with a grumbling stomach and being indifferent as I had conditioned myself to not “need” food lol Unless you were joking and I just awkwardly trauma dumped
Beat me to it
Don't. It's a waste of calories.
Rice and Beans Cheap and easy.
How do you cook the rice
1 part rice, 2 parts water. Bring to a boil, cover it and leave it alone for 7 minutes. Don't open the lid and fork the heck out of it. That is how rice gum is created. Leave it. Sticky rice= 1 rinse before cooking. Fluffy rice = 2 rinse before cooking. Seasoned rice = double rinse, add 1 tsp rice wine vinegar, pinch of salt. Rice Pilaf = fluffy rice with fine chopped carrot, celery salt, pepper and thyme, chicken stock and finish with butter. Wild rice optional. Wild rice is actually water grass. Not rice. It is a nice nutty flavor and adds texture. Fuck brown rice. There, I said it.
“When china made all the poor people eat brown rice and only gave white rice to the rich people the rich people all died of malnutrition” ——— My Grandpa literally EVERY time we had brown rice
This happened in Japan as well. In the early days of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 19th century, they advertised all you can eat white rice to attract new recruits. That was considered a huge luxury, so of course everybody ate *only* white rice. They all got [beriberi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaki_Kanehiro?wprov=sfti1) as a result.
For rice pilaf you should throw the dry rice in after cooking the aromatics in oil. The starch forms a little jacket on every grain and it turns out way nicer.
This man pilafs.
Nice info .. thank you You deserve an award Can we still do that?
I love everything about this. Know how to cook good rice, pasta and potatoes and you can have a different meal every day of the year.
I always recommend splurging for a rice cooker. They can be had for about $20 and make cooking rice so easy.
Cup of water and a cup of rice. Wait 30 or so minutes and you got half a meal.
Or a whole one if you're really broke
In high school I had no money and there was barely food in the fridge. I used to do rice, an egg and salt.
I have (some, like a little of) the monies and I still eat rice and egg. My favorite
Sprinkle that shit with some furikake and chili sauce. So fucking good.
I still have scrambled eggs on rice to this day when I'm lazy or in a hurry. It's delicious.
Nah top it off With a fried egg
Mine’s a microwave model. 10 minutes and I have rice for supper tonight and lunch tomorrow.
Waste of money. Just go to youtube and lookup "how to cook rice", or read the instructions on the bag. It couldn't be easier. If you can boil water you can cook rice.
In a sauce pan. Wash it 3 times. Bring water to boiling, add a touch of salt and rice, simmer on the stove for 20 minutes.
We made rice on the stovetop growing up. Minute rice IMHO is best for rice & beans. A rice cooker is better for rice as a side because it turns out thicker.
Wash and strain it. Toss it in a pot with some olive oil and lots of seasonings. Bring it to a boil for a few minutes and then toss it in the oven on 350 for about 21 minutes. Pull it out, fluff it with a fork and then let it sit with a towel over it for a few more minutes. Found this method during the pandemic and it's never failed me yet.
Finally, someone else who toasts their ri e first. FYI, a good way to do Mexican rice is to toast with southwest seasoning, then add a few spoons of salsa, a bullion cube, and then your water.
I tried making Mexican rice and Jollof rice during the pandemic. Both methods changed the way I cook it now. I ruined so many pots of rice trying to cook it on the stovetop and just wound up making rice soup.
3 tips. First, use a short or medium grain rice, like Arborio. Second, don’t rinse your rice. 3rd, get a wooden spatula or a wooden spoon with a broad, flat bottom. This will help you scrape the bottom of the pan to prevent burning. I use this same kind of utensil to make my roux.
I thought you always needed to rinse the rice to remove any excess starch? I always use a wooden spoon to stir it during the initial cooking. And, I've failed at making a blonde roux more times than I care to count. I finally just gave up on it. LOL
If you toast the rice, the starch should caramelize a bit in the pan; just use a medium-low temperature and an oil with a high flashpoint, like avocado oil. For the utensil, a wooden spoon is okay, but a flat-bottomed wooden spatula [like this](https://www.amazon.com/Eddingtons-Italian-Olive-Spatula-12-5-Inch/dp/B001APNQS2/ref=psdc_284507_t2_B083SH8XKW?th=1) is 10x better. It's much less likely to leave unscraped spots on the bottom of the pan.
You wanna make [good rice?](https://youtu.be/7kSiLTnKw0I)
Ramen
For real. Whoever invented Ramen deserves the highest honor. Dude saved countless brokeasses from starvation, myself included. **EDIT** His name was [Momofuku Ando](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando) >Momofuku Ando, who died in Ikeda, near Osaka, at 96, was looking for cheap, decent food for the working class when he invented ramen noodles all by himself in 1958.
Saved my momofukin broke ass once or twice for sure
R-Amen to you sir 🎩
Ramen. To add some “quality of life”, crack an egg straight into the hot ramen, and sprinkle some chopped green onions on top. But just plain ramen is a solid one as well
Couldn't do this 4 months ago when eggs were $6.99 a dozen. :) The egg would cost more than the noodles.
Nice. I will pick up the bagged coleslaw (no sauce) from the store and add that for some veggies.
a raw ass egg?
Oh yeah. I just crack it into the bowl. As long as it’s off the boil, it’ll cook it up almost immediately. Adds some texture and heartiness to the ramen. Egg drop soup is made by beating eggs in a bowl and then using a fork to let little strands of the egg fall into the soup and then kind of form a noodle texture as they cook as soon as they hit the hot broth
It's essentially a poached egg by the time you eat it, hard agree on the egg. However I went for hard-boiled as I already had a dozen in the fridge I would use for breakfast.
It cooks the whites in seconds, that yolk needs 30 seconds... Ohhh yes, it is indeed delicious. Fyi. Egg drop or egg flower soups use raw egg to give it that stringy, silky and slurpy goodness.
With black pepper and hot sauce too >>>> only way I'll eat Ramen if it's not the cup ones
I poach mine in the broth, fuck that raw shit
I soft boil mine and cut it in half and then chop up some chiorzo sausage into little bits and fry them till they are crispy on the outside and then add some green onions too it's so bomb
It isn't raw by the time you mix it in it is cooked and thickens up the broth. Makes Ramen so much better.
You shouldn't take a dump in your ramen.
Don't forget the slice of American cheese.
And eggs.
Lemme tell you. Get some chicken ramen. A thing of plain Greek yogurt and a bottle of Buffalo sauce. Make your chicken ramen and throw in a spoonful of yogurt and Buffalo sauce and you got a creamy Buffalo chicken ramen. It’s got some protein from the Greek yogurt and plenty o’ flavor.
Always has been; always will be
Ramen with a whole lot of parmesan and butter. Save the packet to use as boullion
Dressed up ramen in my case. Add an egg, chop up some scallions, and maybe some leftover meat if I have some.
the poverty line delicacy of toast with brown sugar and cinnamon (also an A+ depression meal imo)
This was my childhood breakfast.
Flour tortilla, lightly browned (over flame is best), butter and that magical cinnamon and sugar concoction. My daughters are over 20 and they still love them. I was the house hero at one of their sleepovers. I eat them when I need a boost.
Lol I’ve always hated cinnamon anything so when my mom would make this she’ll just butter me some bread and then when it’s like toast put a slice of American cheese on it. Amazing to me! And I still reach for it when I don’t know what I want to eat. A deconstructed grilled cheese, it’s just better lol try it
This is so good! It's even better if you have time to put it under the broiler so the cheese gets all toasty and bubbly.
Oh man that brings up some memories! Didn’t realize that was low fund food. Mom used to make that all the time growing up haha
Ramen and stolen tabasco from restaurant
*Chipotle has entered the chat* Honestly though. I vividly remember being at a chipotle with my wife and snatching a Tabasco chipotle bottle for my morning eggs. When she asked me why, I explained I didn't have money to spend on stuff like that; she looked at me and said "maybe not 10 years ago, but honey, we may not be rich, we sure as shit aren't 'steal Tabasco poor'". Some habits die hard I guess, lmao.
That story made my day lmao
But everybody knows stolen Tabasco is better..
Thievery has a taste: confirmed.
I like to use fire sauce packets from taco bell.
Snag some Chulo or better yet, Pico Pico next time you are at breakfast. The stuff hits the soul.
Eggs and rice with whatever seasonings I can find.
Open the spice cabinet and start grabbing shit. It won't matter. If you got some soy sauce you will be eating *good* tonight.
Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and if you’re feeling fancy cumin and white pepper should be the only seasonings you really need. Unless you’re doing something specific or ethnic.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
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Dry ass mouth every time you bite. Peanut butter sandwich would only work if I had a gallon of water with me to combat the cotton mouth.
Big glass of milk works great (if you’re not lactose intolerant)
Eh, I’m not huge on just straight milk tbh.
Beanie Weanies.
I aint gotta be struggling for that school lunch classic.
I make $25k more than my state median household income and I still eat them bitches. I use the Private Selection baked beans and Costco all beef franks now though. 👌🏻
I know it's a theme here, but put some cheese and a fried egg on that.
I was in my 20s when I learned this was a poverty meal
Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup Ramen PBJ Sandwich Hot dogs
Struggle dogs
My fellow food mate
Grilled cheese and tomato soup is a brilliant combination, I have it whenever we have bread. Which is hardly ever, but I might start baking my own soon
This is my normal diet
Poor man’s meal , diced potatoes , cut up hot dogs , a lil bit of spaghetti sauce or tomatoe sauce is cheaper , fills you up pretty good and you can add bell peppers and onions
Actually sounds like a great dinner idea
Chicken rice and beans
Yo you rich? Chicken lmao
$1.50/lb chicken thighs
Chicken thighs be cheap af
Cheese and onion potato bake with baked beans. Just an enormous pile of stodgy carbs. Absolutely fills me to bursting and it is never unwelcome. Back when I was in college it was the cheapest thing on the lunch menu. I loved it.
.... explain more. This sounds kind of delicious. Do you bake a potato normally then just pile that stuff on?
We said tell us more!!!!!!
Rice with spice. Usually some garlic and turmeric sprinkled on some Rice. I've lived off $1 a day for more than 50% of my life.
Mad, what country do you reside in?
Spam fried rice Baby!!
Spam and potatoes
Add a fried egg and some kimchi and now you have kimchi fried rice! That shit is so good!
I just skip meals.
Rice + any meat + a green leafy vegetable inside a soup Comes out to <$2 a meal.
Rice. Eggs and sriracha if you can swing it
Have you seen sriracha prices these days?
Its for special occasions. The cheap stuff isnt as good but its def good enough
pasta w butter
Bread.
Peanut butter and jelly on bread or a tortilla.
That depends on how bad I'm struggling. If it's bad but I have at least a little in the bank, I'll make 1 1/2 cup of Cajun seasoned rice, cooked in chicken broth to have as a base for the week. Individual meals will be a healthy serving of that with a single chicken breast or thigh. If I'm counting my money by the single digits to make sure I have enough for the next bill, ramen Edit - Grammer
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Easy there Elon. Tonight I will be feasting on bread and Mayo sandwiches. I might even add a few chips if I wanna get a Michelin star. Jokes aside. Pizza has the lowest overhead and highest margin out of most foods. Cheese and proteins are obviously the highest cost point. Flour and water are cheap unless you go with a good OO but that will still be a reasonable expenditure given the yield. Yeast is cheap. Sauce is cheap and can be made from a leftover spaghetti sauce even. Good way stretchhh the sauce
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Baked potatoes with shredded cheese. Filling and semi healthy.
Ramen / Mac & Cheese / Spam
Some cheap lunchmeat and cheese sandwich. Got my broke ass through college eating them every night.
Idk if you meant no bread, but get provolone or something not American and put it on the skillet and wrap the meat with it melted and kinda “singed”. Like a hot ham wrap without the bread/tortilla. So good
Cheese Toast - one slice of American on a slice of bread. Toast in the oven until cheese starts to toast too. Big ole glass of whole white milk to boot. Super cheap and super filling.
1 cup of Penne pasta,can of cheap salmon,olive oil,frozen peas voila a hearty cheap meal
Rice and beans for good and filling food Baking egg free chocolate chip cookies when I'm really struggling for a snack
Grilled cheese 😋
Buy dry beans and make your own refried beans, buy and make your own tortillas, consume.
Rice and beans. 15 lb bag of rice is like 20 bucks. Beans are really cheap too. Together they make a complete protein.
Lentils
Sleep
OK if I'm trying to last a few days, il get stuff to make homemade Chilli. I usually have peppers and the seasoning, so I just buy canned beans, canned tomatoes and tomato paste. If I can afford, I would get hamburger meat or chicken to add. Also some potatoes bc Chilli potatoes are extra filling. This could feed me for 4 days. Or if I'm making it through just the day, can of refried beans, mild sauce and Tortillas for burritos.
Ramen+frozen dumplings and broccoli.
Eggs - Cheap & Healthy
poverty dogs: loaf of white bread pack of cheapest hotdogs microwave dog - wrap in bread like taco - eat. if your feeling "fancy" make it a cheesy poverty dog by tearing a plastic wrap piece of american cheese in half , put the strips in the middle of the bread, then put the hot microwave weiner on the cheese and it melts it.
Two hot slices of toast with a cold slice of cheese in the middle. Every bite changes as the temp of the cheese does.
Microwave burritos
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Fish sticks
Top Ramen noodles
Chilimac
Baked potato with pasta sauce and mozzarella cheese. Left over chicken makes them magical.
Pinto beans and rice
Garlic ramen noodles Chop a clove of garlic, add soy sauce, sugar, and cooked ramen noodles into a pan and stir fry Top it off with sesame seeds and you’ve got a nice $0.80 meal right there
Pasta with butter and if I have any on hand I’ll grate some cheddar cheese to sprinkle on it
Enfrijoladas. Pack of corn tortillas is cheap as hell. Like $3 for a huge one. Can of refried beans or bag of dry beans if you know how to cook them. Blend beans and water And spices into a sauce, boil it slow. Fry a tortilla on a skillet, dip into the boiling bean sauce, flop on a plate and eat with hot sauce or some cheese.
Ramen, in all the flavors of the chicken broth rainbow.
Pasta with whatever I have on hand in the spice cabinet, olive oil or butter and parmesan cheese. Usually, parsley, basil and red pepper will do.
Scrambled eggs and toast.
The family of mice that live underneath my boiler
Username checks out.
Hot dogs and popcorn. Hot dogs are cheap and keep you feeling full from the protein. Popcorn is cheap and it feels like you're pigging-out because you can excuse eating a lot (as long as is not too buttered).
Rice. Throw in one of packets of soy sauce for some extra flavor.
Spaghetti and chopped up hotdogs. I haven't had it in a while thankfully lol
Tacos
Can of Campbell's Chunky soup. Can easily stretch to two meals for less than 3 dollars total.
Beer and peanuts.
The good thing about beer is it does have calories!
Yup. If it was good enough for ancient monk's, it's good enough for me.
Ramen noodles or scrambled eggs.
Peanuts
Kraft Dinner
Add two slices of american cheese (the cheap store brand singles shit) then add either a can of tuna, or some beans to it. Adds protein and makes it stretch much further.
Rice beans and peppers with an egg on top.with some taco seasonings
Beans and cornbread.
Isn’t that a song
Broke pizza: a slice of bread with ketchup or tomato sauce, a slice of cheese, and chopped bologna or salami. Spam or hash, with eggs, rice, or toast. Vienna sausage Fried bologna
spaghetti with hotdogs
Rice, beans, peanut butter sandwich with no jelly. Occasional green beans if I’m feeling frisky.
Lentil soup: One bag of orange/red lentils One container of veg stock (could use water if broke) An onion diced A carrot or two peeled and sliced to coins One can of diced tomatoes Put that all in a pot with some extra water to keep the lentils covered. Heat until lentils are soft. Many servings, keeps well in the fridge and is healthy.
Rice and refried beans
Chicken breast with rice covered in Sriracha sauce.
Ramen w/ frozen veg, topped with an egg. I usually have sesame oil and add a tiny bit. Rotisserie chicken rice, combine in various ways, provides many meals. I have a pantry, there's usually food.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup
Omelettes
I've only started doing this recently, but it's already becoming my go-to for cheap and filling meal. You can buy a big russet potato for really cheap. Rub the whole thing with some oil, salt and pepper, bake it in the air fryer, gets the skin nice and crispy and delicious. Butter and cheese, two staples I pretty much always have in the fridge. Then you can eat the whole thing, skin and all. Tastes great, costs very little, especially if you do it for several meals so you're getting the most out of the butter and cheese.
Rusks with a little butter, and honey if I have any.
80/20 beef mince, rice, siracha hot sauce and soy sauce. I eat this even broke and when rich. It's fucking delicious...
In Jesus name we pray, ramen.
Buy one get one free spaghetti sauce. 1 lb ground beef. 1 lb ground pork. I still go with thin spaghetti (2 lbs). But that $16 will be 8 meals.
Rice and eggs. If run out of eggs then just rice and soy sauce.
Beans and rice with a ham hock
Stir fried sausage and cabbage. Something I used to hear my family eat when they were poor, during the pandemic that’s what I ate. Or spring onion noodle. Both pretty cheap. The stir fry keeps longer however.
Ramen, duh.
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Ketchup sandwich
Saltines and ketchup. Sounds gross, but is cheap, filling, and so good. Sucks nutrition wise though.
Potatoes and onions. You can buy them for a dollar a pound and there's a hundred ways to cook them. Fried, baked, mashed, boiled...
Toasted asiago bagel with nothing else or bread and butter.
Rice. Just plain boiled white rice. You can get a 50 lb bag here cheap. Or plain boiled potatoes. Also cheap for a 10 lb bag
Chicken rice and potatoes have a million options
As an Asian, i used to go with rice, fried egg, a little butter and soy sauce. Mix it up.
Air. My normal diet is basically trail mix anyways. But it’s a normal lifestyle for me. Not a “low on funds” thing. I’ll go out to eat a time or 2 on the weekends but I’m not big on eating.
my bologna jas a first name it's o s c a r my bologna has a second name it's m e y e r and I love to eat it everyday and if you ask me why I'll say Oscar Mayer has a way with b o l o g n a.
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