Salty crackers dipped on garlic cheese,,,,,you can't get lower than that, esp if your lazy ass CAN cook
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ZombieKitten said:

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

priceless!

RenHoek said:

bless their little cotton socks

ZombieKitten said:

I am SO gonna do that to my girls right now...


*OH giiiirrrllsss... Dinners ready!!*

RenHoek said:

you have to make it exciting! like for my kids if I tell them this is what Ben 10 eats in the RV on road trips, their eyes practically glow!

ZombieKitten said:

Hmmm :Hmm2:

I wonder if My Little Ponies consider bread & butter a treat...

RenHoek said:

come on daddy you can DO this!!!!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I felt the same way when mom would have some extra money and bring home Sonic or something.

There were times we would come home from church or wherever, and there would be a huge box on the front porch full of food. Stuff like pasta, Stove Top (which I LURVED), bread, milk, canned goods. And the note would just say "Love, Jesus". I have a hunch who brought it over, but I never knew. One time some lady from church showed up on a Saturday afternoon, as we're mowing the yard and doing stuff, and she brought like 4 bags of groceries. Just out of the blue. We did have help, but it wasn't a weekly or even monthly thing. Overall, it was hard.

But did loves me some Stove Top!

RenHoek said:

this is what my mom would do when I wouldn't get anything green


This is what Michael eats so he can moonwalk better





I was inhaling those greens after that

bboy87 said:

he does?!?!?!
give me some broccoli!!!

ZombieKitten said:

what does a guy have to eat to do the splits like Prince????

RenHoek said:

the other kind of mushrooms....

bboy87 said:

they numb pain, eh?

ZombieKitten said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I remember eating Ramen noodles on Ritz crackers AND I remeber making one of my moms ex-friend eat that shit too but he deserved.

BUT I was a kid...didn't know any better. Y'all on the other hand were grown ass people doing this.

Leftover rice. Fried rice

luv4u said:

Okay in general that's gross.

When I 1st moved to Albany, NY, I used to order out a lot the first couple of months, just from being busy w/ a new job and no car to get to the store. I would order chinese food that would last me for a couple of days. I realized that if I steamed that fried rice the next day, it was like new. Never tasted gross. Oddly I had a rice steamer/cooker given to me by a friend when I first moved here. Sesame chicken didn't fare so well.

ernestsewell said:

my sister got the worst food poisoning from not properly heating up brown rice she had cooked (and stored in fridge) 3 days before.

i live across the street from a 24hour taco shop...

all i know is the next time my kids complain about whatever i have decided to make for dinner, im going to hand them a copy of this thread to read maybe that will change their mind!!!

thanks guys, these are funny stories - and, i feel a lil left out that i have never been that fucked up to eat some of the stuff you guys are talkin about lol....

nakedpianoplayer said:

keep handy a basket of condiment sachets for really desperate times, and remind them that sometimes that is all a homeless person might find in a day

ZombieKitten said:

Indeed.

ZombieKitten said:

Ever been so bad off you tried to make condiment soup?

ernestsewell said:

I think I have tried to make tomato soup with ketchup and water

PunkMistress said:

*scribble*scribble*

That one's goin in my recipe book.

I remember a particularly trying time in college when I discovered the joy of chicken backs. 34 cents a pound. They were esentially soup making bones with just a sliver of succulent meat on them, but for 34 cents,it was a blessing in disguise.

When I was little, i read a wonderful story about a traveler who went from town to town feeding villagers on a special magic soup he could make out of only 3 rocks. this is a story that always nspired me even in the leanest of times

I've always been one to keep a hella amount of spices, dried herbs, oil and vinegars around in bulk, so that even if all I have is one potato, I'm going to find a way to turn that potato OUT.

I remember holiday week with my college roomates with no money between us . In the fridge we had:

milk
1 can Carnation milk
2 eggs
1 potato
2 carrots
1 bell pepper
2 banannas
rice
1 white onion
2 tomatoes
2 pound package of chicken backs for 68 cents
1 package ramen noodles
crackers
about an inch of apple juice

Since we always had oil, vinegar, spices, this is what I came up with to feed 3 people once a day:

Meal 1. Curried chicken backs and rice

Meal 2. homemade tortilla bread (like roti bread, flour & water) with smashed garlicky curried potato and shredded carrot, chopped onion, and l. The side salad for the three of us was a thinly sliced tomato divided on three saucers with 1 divied onion slice, 1/4 chopped pepper, and dressng made from oil, vinegar, and 1 tbsp. of the apple juice

Meal 3. Ramen Noodle cakes (chopped ramen noodles flour, egg white, ginger,1 inch of shredded carrot, LOTSA dried herbs), dipped in soy sauce

Meal 4. Tomato soup made from blended chicken boullion cube, 1 tomato, handful of crackers & a little milk (the crackers make the soup thicker) & rice pudding for dessert (I can't stand rice pudding to this day)

Meal 5. Bananna pancakes with fake ice cream we made by freezing the rest of the Carnation in a ziplock with some vanilla. We didn't have syrup I so I boiled down the half cup of apple juice with butter and sugar

Meal 6. Chicken &Dumplings (chicken soup from boullion cube, with handful of leftover potato, the other 1/4 bell pepper chicken backs, and homemade flour dumplings inside)

Meal 7. Egg fried rice with last of the shredded carrot, onion, last half of bell pepper and whatever chicken slivers were left. I stretched the egg by mixing it with water, a little milk and a pinch of flour and baking poweder to fluff it up and make it look like there was more egg than was actually there...

That week we drank water or made iced tea from some leftover teabags we had. and squirted fake lemon juice from that plastic lemon in it to give it some flavor....

It was more than three stones to make magic soup, but I'm still proud that I could get three mouths fed while we were killing ourselves to get through school
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A common "drunk munchie" for me is pretzels and ketchup

Pretzel sticks dipped in chocolate cake frosting.

an entire bottle of worcester sauce, sipped from a teaspoon

TitWankSymphonyInGMINOR said:

WTF??? That's just...I don't know.

But I can't talk...
As a child, I used to drink entire packets of Soy Sauce.