Mine isn’t really a “Meal”, I used to put margarine spread on white bread and sprinkle a tiny bit of cinnamon and sugar on it as a sweet treat growing up.
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“stuggle” ?
damn its been like that all day and you’re the first person to point it out.
One might say it was quite a stuggle.
Hot dogs with white bread instead of a bun goes CRAZY imo
It’s like eating with a time limit!
Do you lay the hot dog diagonally?
Cut the hot dog lengthwise. Brown it in a skillet. Hot dog sandwich.
Disassembled hot dog
Graham crackers with whipped cream on top. This one was very much the bottom of the barrel. 🥲
Ghirardelli brownie mix from Costco, filled up to about 1/3 of a mug mixed with milk and microwaved for 45 seconds to make a little brownie. Serve with ice cream on top, or with a glass of milk. I actually still do this one, it is delicious and costs basically $0 per serving.
Rice + milk + sugar and then mixed up in a bowl into a kind of puree. This goes great as a dessert after rice + frozen vegetables sauteed up from those massive Costco bags lol. If you’re feeling bougie you can shred some cheese on top.
Hotdogs in ramen, hands down.
Our poverty “treat” as kids was toast with tomato sauce and a slice of government cheese, for a makeshift pizza.
We would put hot dogs in Mac N Cheese but never ramen, I did learn recently that some people put hot dogs in spaghetti and I wanted to try it but my husband absolutely refuses.
Hot dogs in spaghetti is the bomb. Add some butter and grated cheese and mmmmm delicious
Rice and beans. Mine are usually white rice and black beans. Beans cooked with a little onion, green pepper and garlic. Salt and pepper. Hot sauce.
I eat it regularly, to the point I have a tiny slow cooker that I pretty much just use to cook beans.
Crunchy peanut butter on a tortilla, rolled up. Add honey if you are feeling boujie
This except toasted on a frying pan and maple syrup instead of honey.
Fried chick peas (I use cans since they’re more convenient, but even cheaper dried beans are fine too but you have to soak for 24h and then boil them first). But either way, seriously cheap, loaded with protein and fiber, and delicious:
Rinse beans and dump into a large dry pan on high heat. Move them around until they have mostly dried up and just barely start sticking to the pan. Then add oil - just once or twice around the pan is plenty - and some salt. Then let them fry in that little bit of oil. Move them with a spoon every so often to keep from sticking too much.
After about 15 min you have these golden brown crunchy and slightly salty little things. They’re great, and go with everything as a side dish.
Here my favourites:
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cook rice, add a canned tuna, shred a boiled egg (optional) into it and some ketchup and you got yourself a banger.
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Mix 1 can of corn, 1 spoon of corn flour, 1 egg, and milk (enough to almost cover the corn), season it with salt and pepper and blend it till homogenous. Add some shredded cheese to it. Put it into a pyrex with oil and bake it for like 30 mins or till it’s golden brown on 220°C.
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Roast 1 or half an onion (depends on the size) in a pan. Add Corned beef to the pan and break it down. Add your left over rice stirr it a little and enjoy it.
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shredd some patatoes (about 300g for each egg you use), add half an onion, add some shredded cheese, add some beaten eggs and season it to taste (salt, pepper) Put it in a pyrex and bake it for 30 mins or till golden brown on 220°C. Alternatively fry it on low heat in a pan. Make sure you can put a lid on that pan (I prefer the baked version as turning that thing in the pan is usually difficult).
Saving this one, they seem like good “I just need food quick” meals as well as being cheap
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Rice + blackbeans + whatever is around + a tortilla = poverty burritos
Also, potatoes in many forms.
All forms of potatoes are whats gonna get me through this next great depression.
Gardening is awesome. Just had some home made mashed potatoes with chives I grew.
I’m growing a good bit of food this year! Mostly herbs but I also have 5 jalapenos and 9 tomato plants. I do have 80 onion sets but I didn’t plant them yet because Idk where to do it. Now I think it might be too late for those.
Herbs are great and easy to grow.
Struggle broke or struggle sad?
Broke.
*stuggle
I didn’t realize it until now…
Beans and rice are so healthy and cheap, with so many variations. It’s always beans and rice for me.
A can of chili over some cooked rice, add a little salt and extra hot sauce. This was my broke young adult fancy meal.
Was considering saying the same. What are some of your favorite ways? I like refried if I have them, with cheese and cayenne.
Just had refried beans (just cumin & salt) today in breakfast burritos (eggs, potatoes, beans, onion, cilantro, cheese, salsa - we only eat once or twice a day on weekends and cook better stuff) and yeah pintos are one of my favorites.
Channa masala
Black beans on yellow rice is my kids’ favorite, they love black beans.
Red beans (cooked from dry with whatever veg we have) and long grain white rice with hot sauce like Tabasco.
I really like pintos on brown rice with tahini sauce but nobody else in my household likes it.
Chopped raw sweet onion on all of them.
Fry ground pork and break them into small pieces (like 1/2 cm diameter). Add minced garlic (and onion optional), salt, and Maggi seasoning.
Eat with rice, butter, and fried egg (optional). To make it more nutritional, add some sort of vegetable. I like stir fried spinach with garlic and fish sauce.
Tip; use some kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) instead of maggi.
Indomie bbq chicken flavor.
Spam fried rice, cheap, tasty, full of protein.
Used to be rice with a fried egg. In my family we call it Ghibli rice. Nowadays I just bake my own wholemeal bread and that’s the cheapest eats there is. So cheap you can afford the nice butter!
