Struggle meals
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What, no one likes Top Ramen with an egg anymore? I guess ppl are sick of it after their broke college days!! I still like it for lazy days.2
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What, no one likes Top Ramen with an egg anymore? I guess ppl are sick of it after their broke college days!! I still like it for lazy days.
My husband and son both prefer it. They get a bit fancy buying the Shin Red and Shin Black varieties as well as some of the more unique flavors of ramen packets.
But yeah, kinda got tired of it from my college days.2 -
😫 @ people mentioning Costco and Dairy Queen!
When I was a kid my mom sent me to Food Circus with a crumpled $2 dollar bill and lint covered change to procure ingredients for dinner and told me to "make it work"
Wow, Mom. Too bad we can't eat your Newports. 🙄4 -
chuckle_bunny wrote: »😫 @ people mentioning Costco and Dairy Queen!
When I was a kid my mom sent me to Food Circus with a crumpled $2 dollar bill and lint covered change to procure ingredients for dinner and told me to "make it work"
Wow, Mom. Too bad we can't eat your Newports. 🙄
When I was a kid, I could walk into a convenience store with just a five dollar bill and walk out with a six pack of beer, a fist full of candy bars, a bag a pretzels and several snack cakes.
Now, they have cameras everywhere.
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When I was a kid and we were really poor my favorite struggle meal was chili-mac: boxed mac n cheese mixed with a can of chili.
Or sometimes my mom would bring home airplane meals when she cooked for a company that catered for the airlines. They were terrible but I loved them. So many weird preservatives.
For a special treat, step-dad C made fried baloney sandwiches with government cheese. The baloney was sliced fresh off a giant loaf hunted down at the poor store.
Canned tuna and cream of mushroom soup with peas over rice was pretty dang good, too.5 -
Porridge. Can be made with water or milk. Excellent on cold mornings x3
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aChuisle_moChroi wrote: »When I was a kid and we were really poor my favorite struggle meal was chili-mac: boxed mac n cheese mixed with a can of chili.
Or sometimes my mom would bring home airplane meals when she cooked for a company that catered for the airlines. They were terrible but I loved them. So many weird preservatives.
For a special treat, step-dad C made fried baloney sandwiches with government cheese. The baloney was sliced fresh off a giant loaf hunted down at the poor store.
Canned tuna and cream of mushroom soup with peas over rice was pretty dang good, too.
Wait, we did this, too. The giant hunk of baloney loaf was a thing my granddad always did and my dad adopted and adhered to. Fried baloney sandwiches are delicious, alternately, being a latchkey kid, my cousin and I would take the pre-sliced baloney my grandma always bought, put cheese in the center and then microwave it for a few seconds to make a "baloney bowl". Sounds gross, but was actually warm and delicious.
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I may have misunderstood what you meant by struggle meals. I thought you meant quick/lazy/comfort food because stress
My favorite cheap meals are black beans and rice, oatmeal, grilled cheese sammies with tomato soup, and mac n cheese
None of which i buy at costco 😌2 -
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Motorsheen wrote: »
ONLY THE OATMEAL2 -
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I may have misunderstood what you meant by struggle meals. I thought you meant quick/lazy/comfort food because stress
I wasn't 100% sure either.
Quick/lazy meal = bag salad with some kind of protein that doesn't need to be cooked tossed in
Cheap/comfort meal = cream of wheat or instant oatmeal and toast0 -
Are we talking struggle as in keeping costs down? In college I was all about the beans. Beans and rice...12 bean soup with ham, bean burritos, 3 bean chili with ground beef, etc...
Also, potatoes...potato soups, baked potatoes, ground beef and potatoes...
Various pasta dishes, eggs, oats...anything cheap.1 -
KosmosKitten wrote: »
- Chicken sandwich from Whataburger
- Onion rings and chili dogs from DQ
- Mac n' cheese with hot dogs
- A sleeve of Ritz crackers
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch or some kid cereal with a ton of marshmallows in it
- Sushi (my favorite place is a five minute drive from home)
- Quesadilla with beans and cheese (and hot sauce, of course)
- Grilled cheese sandwich and canned soup
Mac and cheese w/hot dogs is still one of my faves!1 -
I may have misunderstood what you meant by struggle meals. I thought you meant quick/lazy/comfort food because stress
My favorite cheap meals are black beans and rice, oatmeal, grilled cheese sammies with tomato soup, and mac n cheese
None of which i buy at costco 😌
That too! I actually forgot I made this thread last night in a medicine induced haze. I was craving cheap cheesy tuna helper at the time.1 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Are we talking struggle as in keeping costs down? In college I was all about the beans. Beans and rice...12 bean soup with ham, bean burritos, 3 bean chili with ground beef, etc...
Also, potatoes...potato soups, baked potatoes, ground beef and potatoes...
Various pasta dishes, eggs, oats...anything cheap.
Struggle meals to me mean anything made on the cheap, but some are great no matter the cost!
Anyone still eat S.O.S ??1 -
All I know is somewhere in between paying the overdue utility bill or putting some lunch in your belly is a compromise everyone in the struggle has had to make, and that compromise is Ragu meat sauce on top of an empty toilet paper tube. 😧2
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couple packages of some hunny mussey sauce from mcdonalds spread on some toast2
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