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What's your favorite poverty meal that you still eat regardless of where you are financially?

I don't understand why pizza joint parmesan in little packs doesn't mold. What the heck do they add to it because the real thing surely does in the frig...Maybe it's not even cheez.
 
Back to the original question:

Rice, beans and hot sauce.

Cheap, available, easy. Lived on that for the entire summer of 1972 waiting for poverty to ease during the OPEC oil embargo. Then I worked as a commercial artist in a corporate studio and still didn't make enough to get much past beans and rice. Chicken became a big deal in the shared house I was in. Almost fifty years later beans, rice and a roasted chicken thigh and a bottle od Crystal sauce satisfies.
 
This thread inspired me and I made ramen with spam and an egg last night.

It was delicious, especially now that I can afford a cabinet full of cooking spices. :laughing
 
The McD's cheeseburger and fries posted:

520 calories, 18g protein, 23g fat, 61g carbs.

The macros are shit, but when you are poor and you can get 500 calories for TWO DOLLARS you do what you can.
 
Or two of their double cheeseburgers for $3. Lotta effin sodium though, better be sweatin.
 
TylerW said:
I had a garbage plate last night.

Because I can.:teeth
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Top ramen and add a can of Pork & Beans!
 
My single mom would makes creamed eggs on toast for us 5 girls sometimes. I always thought it was really fancy, especially when she’d sprinkle some paprika on top before serving it to us. I think my older sisters knew what was up. The milk, bread and eggs probably came from the county. My mom used to let us pick what we wanted for dinner on our birthdays. My sisters always went for steak or pork chops. I chose the creamed eggs on toast one year and my sisters were pissed :laughing
 
yodaisgod said:
I know developing nation poverty being born in the Philippines.
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funny im making adobo and rice tonight and for like 11 bucks i got 7 pounds of chicken thighs and drums. Should last me and the mrs for at least 5 days. How is meat so cheap?

Maybe i'll half the chicken and also make a curry with it. half adobo half curry.

roughly 2 dollars per person dinners
 
R3DS!X said:
funny im making adobo and rice tonight and for like 11 bucks i got 7 pounds of chicken thighs and drums. Should last me and the mrs for at least 5 days. How is meat so cheap?

Maybe i'll half the chicken and also make a curry with it. half adobo half curry.

roughly 2 dollars per person dinners
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We are so lucky here in the US. I believe that the US person spends less of his/her budget on food as a percentage, than any other place in the world.
 
mrmarklin said:
We are so lucky here in the US. I believe that the US person spends less of his/her budget on food as a percentage, than any other place in the world.
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For sure. Most Americans don't realize.
 
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