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what's your favorite, most irredeemable poverty food?

>enriched white bread + yellow mustard sandwich

>> No.5611180

Sketti n butter

>> No.5611188

>>5611172
An apple

>> No.5611192

Fried spam with mayo on white bread. It's as white trash as you can get but surprisingly good.

>> No.5611196

Egg and rice. One of best meals of my childhood. Alternatively fried bologna sandwiches

>> No.5611197

>>5611172
>Box of macaroni and cheese
>Can of chili

Chili mac leftovers for days

>> No.5611200

>>5611172
instant ramen.

for the price, honestly it doesn't taste BAD and makes me full. I know how terrible it is though. sometimes I just want a bowl, usually I eat it to counter the exuberantly expensive meal I had prior to making ramen.

>> No.5611209

My grandma lived in a senior home in San Francisco, and she would get a food box. I recall enjoying the shit out of government cheese.

>> No.5611224

I realized one day I didn't have anythin to eat but flour and butter. I made chapati and ate it with butter.

Also I occasionally eat pasta with only oil, salt & pepper, and dried spices.

>> No.5611225
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>>5611188
if you dip it in chunky peanut butter, baby, that's a meal right there

>>5611197
hmm i've heard much of this chili mac but have shied away from it. what makes it good?

>>5611209
gubment cheese! i don't know why that has such a negative connotation, it's purty good

>>5611200
since adding things to ramen, i've never been able to enjoy plain noodles and seasoning... i like adding PB to beef ramen for cheap protein

>>5611196
sometimes i worry about getting sick of repeat meals, but i could never get tired of egg'n'rice

>>5611192
this is some WWII shit right here

>>5611180
adding cracked pepper and hard cheese to that is a delicacy in rome, i reckon. also the fav. food of picky children...

>> No.5611237
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5611237

i'm seeking instant culinary gratification after sipping on lemonade+everclear—what is some dirt-poor, satisfying slop that i can whip up?

>> No.5611240

>>5611197
... That actually sounds pretty good.

>> No.5611248

>10 lb bag of rice for $5
>1 bottle of stir fry sauce for $4
>Food for 2 weeks

>> No.5611250

>>5611248

How can you have a "stir fry sauce" in a bottle? Authentic stir fry requires a wok and very high temperatures.

>> No.5611251

>>5611248

I called this the jap soldier diet, but apparently even they had more nutrients.

>> No.5611252

>>5611240
smells and taste like dog food though.

>> No.5611255

black beans, lime juice, cilantro, jalapeno, and a small amount of ham

>> No.5611256

>>5611250

I've got the wok and high temperatures, the sauce is basically just a thicker version of soy sauce

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buttered noodles with a sprinkle of parsley
buttered tortillas
egg in a hole
pasta roni
pizza dough is also cheap as fuck

>> No.5611300

White rice with cream of chicken, white rice with tuna and black pepper, homemade no flavor added mashed potatoes with shredded cheese on top, box Mac n' cheese with cut up hotdogs.

>> No.5611301
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A favorite of mine when I was in middle school:

One piece of white bread
Dump a few spoonfuls of sugar on it
Fold in half
Eat.

>mfw I weigh 135 lbs as a grown adult

>> No.5611337

Op you're like my mustard soul mate. Try toast with a bit of butter, mustard, salt and pepper.

>> No.5611354

>>5611172
Toast with HP sauce

>> No.5611374

Microwave burrito with shredded cheese and tapitiin in top

>> No.5611379

>>5611288
what happens when you take off the mask

>> No.5611388

>>5611237
I don't think Mishima would approve of your habits.

>> No.5611402

>>5611379
face covered in jizz

>> No.5611413

>buy tortillas
>buy some soft cheese
>make quesadillas
I wish I had a rice cooker so I can cover cooked rice in the cheese and have more filling quesadillas.

>> No.5611414

>>5611413
You do know that you can cook rice on the stove, right?

>> No.5611430

>>5611172

just recently i was at the point where the only food i had was my staples. so i tried to make some homemade tortillas but they kinda just turned into flat biscuits and i ate that with ketchup.

and a few years before would have to be hot dogs with whatever instant potatoes/noodles my mom was kind enough to give me

>> No.5611441

>>5611172
White bread + cold sliced Treet (never liked it cooked/fried)
White bread + sliced ice cream
White bread + ketchup
White bread + sliced government cheese (American "cheese") + government butter grilled cheese
Powdered Strawberry Quik + Vanilla Ice cream (stir it in and make it smooth, was pretty awesome)
Homemade Kool-aid + Jell-O Popsicles (fucking awesome)

I normally ate this stuff over at my cousins' houses who were rather poor. Liked some of it and started eating it at my house. I haven't had any of that for probably 20+ years now.

>>5611200
Ramen in the packets is best because you can use it with so many things and never need the flavor packet. I buy a couple flats of it from time to time and basically use it like you would any pasta, though usually only with Asian-style cuisine.

>>5611225
>gubment cheese! i don't know why that has such a negative connotation, it's purty good

Because it meant that you were poor/on welfare and back then that was a point for ridicule. It also ranged in taste from region to region because it was made from several different types of cheese. So, it may have been terrible in one place and pretty tasty in another; as well as what decade it was made in.

>> No.5611446

>>5611414
But it takes forever to make and it doesn't take more than five minutes to make a couple of quesadillas

>> No.5611457
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>>5611446
I use a Pyrex double boiler for my rice (googled pic related). It does a really nice job of making rice without ever burning it. I cook the whole grain stuff from Lundberg so it takes a lot longer than plain polished white rice. I may have to refill the water, in the bottom a couple of times, with the Lundberg rices.

>> No.5611464

>>5611197
I'll make up a box of Kraft mac and cheese and throw in a can of either tuna or chicken. Tastes like delicious poverty.

Sometimes it's what I'm in the mood for even if I have far better quality options available.

>> No.5611469

>>5611446
>it takes forever to make
The stove top and microwave cook rice like 4 times faster than rice cookers.

>> No.5611478

>>5611172
L-LUNCHABLES

>> No.5611525

>>5611469
Although with a rice cooker I can cook the rice over night and eat over the course of the day.

>> No.5611568

Ok poverty food is my fortay haha grew up on this shit. Also pretty much live off of it now.
Steamed rice with soy sauce and hot sauce
Steamed rice with two fried eggs
Hot dogs/ for breakfast I'll slice them up with some eggs
Ramen with egg lemon hot sauce or hot Cheetos
Also chips and a drink when I really just don't got shit
Bean and cheese burritos I can just go on faggets

>> No.5612003

peanut butter with a spoon.
mmm...

>> No.5612010

Butter sandwich

>> No.5612027

mayo sammich

>> No.5612028

Corned beef hash.

>Three giant cans of corned beef from Costco for $8.99
>Onions and potatoes
>Nine meals

>> No.5612029

>>5611172
ketchup soup

>> No.5612115

>>5612029
i don't.. want to know?

>> No.5612120

Rice, lightly salted.

When its cooked well its godly.

>> No.5612125

cheap vodka. Mix it with lemon juice sugar and water. Also those thai kitchen rice noodle packs? I buy the garlic and vegetable ones and mix it with egg and really cheap frozen veggies and i feel really nice and full. Never doubt how full hot broth makes you feel.

>> No.5612128

Also i buy cheap cans of black beans and always bulk buy rice. Have a giant plate of well seasoned beans and rice and tell me you feel poor...i ate that shit before i was poor it stuffs you.

>> No.5612129
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Actual poverty food reporting in. Serve with fried up onion and tomato if you can get it (and you've got the internet so you probably can).

>> No.5612137

>>5612115
Since you ask, take a leftover ketchup packet and put it in some hot water, mix.
BEHOLD... the glory of ketchup soup.

>> No.5612178

>>5611172
Tortilla + butter

Hell, no, tortilla and margarine. No, french toast with margarine, shitty knockoff log cabin, in a pan rubbed with habanero. Hell, anything sweet+savory in a pan rubbed with habanero

>> No.5612196

1. go into fastfood restaurant
2. steal a bunch of ketchup packs
3. go back home and mix your ketchup with water
4. heat until soup

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I frequently ate these canned pies white at college, they honestly aren't that bad

>> No.5612248

>>5611379
for you

>> No.5612269

beans and franks are pretty good.

>> No.5612276

>>5611446
That's why you make a cup or two at a time, then you have leftover rice for days. It's the same if you cook a whole pound of pinto beans. Soak overnight, then cook them all day in the slow cooker. Once they're done make the rice, then eat like a cook and put the rice and beans in the fridge for your quesadillas/burritos/lunch bowls for the rest of the week.
That's how you poorfag efficiently. That and giant $15 bottles of liquor.

Made one of my main poor meals a few days ago, I'm going to have to half the recipe because we never finish it all.
>half an onion diced and cooked in butter, 6 tbsp
>add 6 tbsp flour. stir constantly till mixed.
>turn off heat, add 3 cups milk
>turn heat back on med high stir constantly
>once mixture starts to thicken add 2 small cans or one big can of tuna.
>seas with salt/pepper/lemon pepper/whatever you're into
Serve over toast. It's basically tuna gravy, but we called it tuna on toast. Top with shredded cheese for a touch of class.

>> No.5612280

>>5612196
You're not stealing them, you're liberating them for a higher purpose.

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5612593

Is a toast sandwich poverty food?

>> No.5612605

>>5611196
I eat egg and rice everyday. Add white corn to rice... pro-fit caps

>> No.5612606

>>5612003

Thats not poverty, thats being fat

>> No.5612653

Beans, rice, egg
/thread

>> No.5612767

Dirt cookies.

>> No.5612776

>>5612593

>trying to keep this meme alive

>> No.5612811

>>5612653
Thats smart poverty food. The dumb ones eat ramen noodles and hotdogs all the time.

>> No.5612847

>>5612776
Umadbrit?

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> Fried Spam
> Corn
> Mac and cheese
Mix that shit up
2good.

>> No.5613036

I don't get why people add hot dogs to eggs or Mac n cheese. It just makes the whole thing taste like gross hot dog water.
The only time I eat a hot dog the flavor is masked by mustard or chili.
I'd much rather put tuna and lemon pepper in my mac n chee. As far as eggs go just a little cheese on top of scrambled ones is enough, if you need to have meat on them all you do is fry up a little lunch meat ham and dice it up.

Then everything doesn't taste like it came from 7-11

>> No.5613041

>>5613036

It's pretty much a matter of personal preference I think. The idea of adding hot dogs to mac and cheese doesn't sound appealing to me. But the idea of putting canned tuna in there makes we want to retch. It's all a matter of your preferences.

>> No.5613042

>>5611172
beer

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>>5613030
>>5613030
Mah nigga.

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when i was in 2nd grade, my father went on the Atkins diet and i decided it would be cool to do what he was doing.

>mfw lunch at basketball camp was two, cold hot dogs (without buns)

>> No.5614002

>>5613781
Did that shit even work? I'm pretty sure it was bullshit.

>> No.5614035

>>5614002
um, i'm still skinnyfat so... no? i think the only thing it succeeds at is giving one a coronary in 5 years' time.

>> No.5614039

I love how Mobb Deep claims to come from the hood but they eat "A1 sauce sauce sandwiches, we was children"

last time I checked a bottle of A1 was around 5 bucks and a loaf of bread was a buck if you got store brand

>> No.5614563

>>5614002

It was basically just a goofy version of a low-carb diet or even ketosis, which yes, do work, but you need to know what you're doing from a nutritional standpoint.

>> No.5614571

I don't feel bad about a ketchup soup if I'm fuck all poor, I just remember what my grandfather went through during WW II and what he had to eat and it puts things right into perspective.

>> No.5614579

>>5611172
beans/lentils

>> No.5614591

>>5614039
wow mang, you're hard, I have to step back to take in all of brilliance all at once

Billy Joel "The Entertainer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3-JdCrd71Y

>> No.5614612

>>5611225
>adding cracked pepper and hard cheese to that is a delicacy in rome, i reckon.
It's also surprisingly difficult to do right, to make sure the cheese doesn't chunk up and get all glumpy

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irredeemable

that word makes me ponder

still, lentils

>> No.5614625

>>5614612
i believe the goal isn't to melt the cheese (as i said, it's usually hard, like a parm or asiago) but to provide a flavor/texture to the soft(er) pasta.

>> No.5614627

>>5614624
irredeemable in the eyes of god, anon. ponder your ultimate concern.

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>>5611172
>chicken pieces (scraps from deli)
>sale pasta
>mayo
>pepper
>canned meat (pic related)
>celery
Dumped into a huge pot, slow cooked over 12 hours. Lasted family all week.

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>>5612767

>> No.5615225

Stir-fried pickled mustard greens with tuna (chaa jrok spey tuna). Usually with an egg in it, too. With rice.
Costs about $1,69 for the whole thing (49¢ for the mustards, 39¢ for the tuna, 11¢ for the egg, about 10¢ for other ingredients [oil, chili, ginger, garlic, seasonings] and 60¢ for the rice.
This makes enough to feed four people, less than 43¢ per serving. Om nom nom.

>> No.5615295

Chicken goujons. They're even less chicken than usual, but the breadcrumbs hide the horror. Super super super cheap

>> No.5616181

Mustard sandwiches
Salt sandwiches
Black pepper sandwiches
Sugar and cinnamon and margarine sandwiches
Pasta with butter and salt
Popsicle instead of breakfast
A cookie and a cup of diet soda instead of breakfast
One time my mom was bad off enough that lunch was a spoonful of peanutbutter, this only lasted like a week though
Cereal for lunch and dinner
Canned hominy with margarine
Beans

Now I eat cheaply because I live right near a Chinatown, so I go there and get all this fresh veg and fruit for pennies. Cabbage is cheapest, so I eat a lot of that, and a lot of tunafish with mustard.