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Talismom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 03:14 PM
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36. You can always dress 'em up with tastey things and make
a pretty nice meal. The only thing is, they are drenched in nasty types of oils, so I'm glad my bod was young and healthy and capable of repair when I ate them. Nowadays, I don't.
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  -I must know! What's your "poverty dish" you ate when broke? Tyler Durden  Aug-05-05 02:55 PM   #0 
  - Ramen noodles are only like $.13 per package.  Shell Beau   Aug-05-05 02:55 PM   #1 
  - This was 1974. Pre-ramen.  Tyler Durden   Aug-05-05 02:59 PM   #12 
     - Well then get some vienna sausages and potted meat!  Shell Beau   Aug-05-05 03:00 PM   #14 
     - Vienna Sausages  Syrinx   Aug-06-05 04:09 AM   #112 
        - Mmmmm! I like Vienna Sausages  Raiden   Aug-06-05 07:29 AM   #114 
     - Umm - nope - can get a whole crate/box for less than 5 cents TODAY!  TankLV   Aug-05-05 10:49 PM   #82 
     - One of my favorites, too  Demgirl   Aug-06-05 05:46 PM   #142 
     - Absolutely true.  Jamastiene   Aug-06-05 03:12 AM   #107 
  - Beans and rice  wryter2000   Aug-05-05 02:56 PM   #2 
  - ROFLMAO, same here, but it was red beans for me.....  GumboYaYa   Aug-05-05 04:10 PM   #51 
  - Heck, I eat that when my bank account is hefty!  Floogeldy   Aug-05-05 06:10 PM   #65 
  - ketchup packet soup  Spock_is_Skeptical   Aug-05-05 02:56 PM   #3 
  - Mac and cheese (off brand)  Rick Myers   Aug-05-05 02:57 PM   #4 
  - Same here  Dudley_DUright   Aug-05-05 02:58 PM   #8 
     - For "Sunday Dinner"  Jeff In Milwaukee   Aug-05-05 03:15 PM   #39 
  - Ramen and MREs  lazarus   Aug-05-05 02:57 PM   #5 
  - My son and his family ate MREs while they were stationed at  Blue State Native   Aug-06-05 10:02 AM   #127 
  - Ramen  demnan   Aug-05-05 02:58 PM   #6 
  - Ramen noodles.  skypilot   Aug-05-05 02:58 PM   #7 
  - The students in the group house I lived in used RNEs --  Talismom   Aug-05-05 03:04 PM   #22 
     - You know what's really screwy.  skypilot   Aug-05-05 03:07 PM   #26 
     - You can always dress 'em up with tastey things and make  Talismom   Aug-05-05 03:14 PM   #36 
     - Same here  Patiod   Aug-05-05 04:19 PM   #57 
     - LOL..  sendero   Aug-06-05 09:28 PM   #147 
  - Lentils & Rice  CottonBear   Aug-05-05 02:58 PM   #9 
  - another beans and rice fan here  pitohui   Aug-06-05 09:41 AM   #122 
  - Tyler.  bertha katzenengel   Aug-05-05 02:59 PM   #10 
  - Tell you this: PRIDE is definitely the deadliest sin.  Tyler Durden   Aug-05-05 03:10 PM   #30 
     - Thank you.  bertha katzenengel   Aug-05-05 04:21 PM   #60 
     - Last summer, for 16 days. Intentionally.  Bouncy Ball   Aug-05-05 10:31 PM   #75 
  - free honey and ketchup packets, like 20 or more at time.  elshiva   Aug-05-05 02:59 PM   #11 
  - I ate what I head... Knäckebread with tomato Ketchup, and  neweurope   Aug-05-05 02:59 PM   #13 
  - Rice, fried together with sliced-up Brown 'N' Serve sausages  Aristus   Aug-05-05 03:00 PM   #15 
  - hot dogs.....chicken quarters.....  jus_the_facts   Aug-05-05 03:00 PM   #16 
  - I don't know how much now but  johnnie   Aug-05-05 03:01 PM   #17 
  - potaoes  enigmatic   Aug-05-05 03:02 PM   #18 
  - Currently  XemaSab   Aug-05-05 03:02 PM   #19 
  - Ranch Style beans and rice  redqueen   Aug-05-05 03:03 PM   #20 
  - Ranch Style beans rawk!  Floogeldy   Aug-05-05 06:12 PM   #67 
     - And you can get them for so cheap.  Bouncy Ball   Aug-05-05 10:34 PM   #77 
        - Defnilly!  Floogeldy   Aug-05-05 11:02 PM   #87 
  - Tuna glop.  Lady Effingbroke   Aug-05-05 03:04 PM   #21 
  - I used to make this mixture  LisaM   Aug-05-05 03:06 PM   #23 
  - Oatmeal  Lydia Leftcoast   Aug-05-05 03:07 PM   #24 
  - Mac & Cheese & Hamberger  ronnykmarshall   Aug-05-05 03:07 PM   #25 
  - Bread and mustard  khashka   Aug-05-05 03:07 PM   #27 
  - potatoes  Lerkfish   Aug-05-05 03:08 PM   #28 
  - Potatoes, cabbage, onion, and a bit of sausage  AuntJen   Aug-05-05 03:09 PM   #29 
  - Yep, me too...  EC   Aug-05-05 04:08 PM   #50 
  - Ramen w/ egg.  Ariana Celeste   Aug-05-05 03:11 PM   #31 
  - Pancakes and the kids thought it was special  izzie   Aug-05-05 03:12 PM   #32 
  - Ramen noodles with an egg dropped in and scrambled just before serving.  mgdecombe   Aug-05-05 03:13 PM   #33 
  - Ketchup sandwiches  AngryAmish   Aug-05-05 03:13 PM   #34 
  - Ramen, Mac and Cheese, Rice-r-roni  Reverend_Smitty   Aug-05-05 03:14 PM   #35 
  - Spaghettios. Yeah!!!  Jamastiene   Aug-06-05 03:23 AM   #108 
  - This One Time, I Was Completely Broke  ribofunk   Aug-05-05 03:14 PM   #37 
  - Scrambled egg burritos...  youspeakmylanguage   Aug-05-05 03:15 PM   #38 
  - This brought back memories.lol  Finder   Aug-05-05 03:19 PM   #40 
  - Bean Burritos  Taverner   Aug-05-05 03:20 PM   #41 
  - Mom would make  jrthin   Aug-05-05 03:22 PM   #42 
  - I remember making bean sandwiches.  Sugar Smack   Aug-05-05 03:22 PM   #43 
  - Spaghetti sans meat  catmandu57   Aug-05-05 03:26 PM   #44 
  - Hot dogs  MountainLaurel   Aug-05-05 03:39 PM   #45 
  - God, this is so unhealthy..  tedoll78   Aug-05-05 03:49 PM   #46 
  - spaghetti  Cathyclysmic   Aug-05-05 03:56 PM   #47 
  - scrambled eggs and toast  48percenter   Aug-05-05 03:57 PM   #48 
  - Rice with whatever, whenever I happened to have a place to live.  hunter   Aug-05-05 03:57 PM   #49 
  - i remember you  SmokingJacket   Aug-06-05 08:45 AM   #117 
  - Condor egg omelets. But then, I've always had expensive tastes.  Mayberry Machiavelli   Aug-05-05 04:11 PM   #52 
  - Fried baloney and wild mulberries.  BiggJawn   Aug-05-05 04:12 PM   #53 
  - It took THIS LONG to get to fried baloney!!  GOPisEvil   Aug-05-05 04:20 PM   #58 
     - Well, it was a LOT cheaper 25 years ago....  BiggJawn   Aug-05-05 11:45 PM   #93 
        - Scrounging the nasty sauce packet drawer in the break room kitchen.  Bouncy Ball   Aug-06-05 12:42 AM   #101 
           - Tomato "Soup" made from hot water and ketchup....  BiggJawn   Aug-06-05 09:33 AM   #121 
  - The low point was when  Dave Reynolds   Aug-05-05 04:13 PM   #54 
  - Wow.  Bouncy Ball   Aug-05-05 10:38 PM   #80 
     - Yeah, hunger can be ignored.  Dave Reynolds   Aug-06-05 09:43 AM   #123 
  - "The White Diet"..  youthere   Aug-05-05 04:16 PM   #55 
  - beans and home made tortillias...  lady of texas   Aug-05-05 04:19 PM   #56 
  - We had a place in San Francisco  China_cat   Aug-05-05 04:20 PM   #59 
  - Red beans and rice and/or potato soup and corn bread.  BikeWriter   Aug-05-05 04:23 PM   #61 
  - Pinto beans with a slice of onion  Left_Winger   Aug-05-05 04:25 PM   #62 
  - spaghetti  KG   Aug-05-05 04:25 PM   #63 
  - i invented the spam tortilla  silverpatronus   Aug-05-05 06:05 PM   #64 
  - PB&J and cheap cereal  Democracy White   Aug-05-05 06:12 PM   #66 
  - as God is my witness, I will never eat another tuna casserole  yellowdogintexas   Aug-05-05 09:49 PM   #68 
  - Interesting. When my dad was a college student, he ate a lot of a  Mayberry Machiavelli   Aug-05-05 10:15 PM   #71 
     - I had a roommate who I swear lived on those little  Bouncy Ball   Aug-05-05 10:36 PM   #78 
  - eggs and toast; big blocks of cheese when they distributed surplus  grannylib   Aug-05-05 10:10 PM   #69 
  - Cream of Wheat for ten days. :D n/t  Ladyhawk   Aug-05-05 10:10 PM   #70 
  - Ug.  Bouncy Ball   Aug-05-05 10:37 PM   #79 
  - Kraft mac and cheese  DawgHouse   Aug-05-05 10:26 PM   #72 
  - Sounds like you really DO live like Tyler Durden!  Bouncy Ball   Aug-05-05 10:29 PM   #73 
  - Once on the day before we got a check (centuries ago)  tinfoilinfor2005   Aug-05-05 10:29 PM   #74 
  - Toasted cheese sandwiches  u4ic   Aug-05-05 10:33 PM   #76 
  - My Girlfriend Li-Ping Grew Up in China  ribofunk   Aug-05-05 10:46 PM   #81 
  - I remember seeing a special on PBS a few years back in  Bouncy Ball   Aug-06-05 12:45 AM   #103 
  - Technically not a "poverty dish", but ...  Akoto   Aug-05-05 10:52 PM   #83 
  - My single-parent Mom used to make me macaroni shells with tomato  AzDar   Aug-05-05 10:57 PM   #84 
  - On the bare ass prairies, working for nearly nothing in the 80's.  achtung_circus   Aug-05-05 11:01 PM   #85 
  - Ramen and Hunter hot dogs  ofrfxsk   Aug-05-05 11:01 PM   #86 
  - The year my grad student stipend was 3 months late.....  politicat   Aug-05-05 11:08 PM   #88 
  - I had a friend who found dented cans of creamed corn on sale  Bouncy Ball   Aug-06-05 12:41 AM   #100 
     - Resourceful.... ?  politicat   Aug-07-05 10:54 PM   #151 
  - Cream of Wheat. Three tablespoons makes a serving.  put out   Aug-05-05 11:08 PM   #89 
  - Ramen (nt)  ih8thegop   Aug-05-05 11:24 PM   #90 
  - In 1972 Kraft Mac and cheese was 5 for a $  hickman1937   Aug-05-05 11:25 PM   #91 
  - On the other hand, I met men at my workplace in the 70's and 80's  hickman1937   Aug-05-05 11:30 PM   #92 
  - Hey, I thought you were going to bed  Merrick   Aug-06-05 03:57 AM   #110 
  - Curried lentils and rice,  LeftyMom   Aug-05-05 11:47 PM   #94 
  - Spaghetti with Taco Seasoning  lizzieforkerry   Aug-05-05 11:47 PM   #95 
  - Steamed rice with soy sauce, and/or butter, hot sauce of some kind.  swag   Aug-05-05 11:49 PM   #96 
  - Steamed rice...  Bzzzz   Aug-06-05 12:16 PM   #134 
  - Beans 'n weenies,  bushwentawol   Aug-05-05 11:57 PM   #97 
  - ramen noodles, rice, and a hotdog . cheap recipe here!!!  bufffbison   Aug-06-05 12:08 AM   #98 
  - Popcorn  fortyfeetunder   Aug-06-05 12:17 AM   #99 
  - Macaroni with butter and Parmesan-in-a-can. Cup-O-Noodles.  Left Is Write   Aug-06-05 12:43 AM   #102 
  - split pea soup  AmandaRuth   Aug-06-05 01:37 AM   #104 
  - Rice with pinto beans  Jamastiene   Aug-06-05 02:08 AM   #105 
  - Ramen noodles with saltine crackers  Skittles   Aug-06-05 02:52 AM   #106 
  - Popsicles - they worked for shit. Then it was time for bed  Merrick   Aug-06-05 03:53 AM   #109 
  - Tuna and rice or just rice  xultar   Aug-06-05 07:22 AM   #113 
  - Condiment packets scammed from the breakroom..  solinvictus   Aug-06-05 04:00 AM   #111 
  - When we were kids, we used to eat  hyphenate   Aug-06-05 07:52 AM   #115 
  - Spaghetti for several reasons....  TK421   Aug-06-05 08:20 AM   #116 
  - "reduced for quick sale" -- my favorite words back then  SmokingJacket   Aug-06-05 09:07 AM   #118 
  - Lentils and rice  supernova   Aug-06-05 09:12 AM   #119 
  - Egg noodles smothered in cream of chicken condensed soup.  Liberal Veteran   Aug-06-05 09:16 AM   #120 
  - Rice with beans  flamingyouth   Aug-06-05 09:48 AM   #124 
  - Pop Tarts.  dr.zoidberg   Aug-06-05 09:52 AM   #125 
  - Potato Soup / Sardines  agates   Aug-06-05 09:53 AM   #126 
  - Pan Baked Tomato Bread- Bisquick and Ketchup.  stlsaxman   Aug-06-05 10:13 AM   #128 
  - Spinach and lentils.  NNadir   Aug-06-05 10:16 AM   #129 
  - Noodles and milk and hotdog casserole.  MrsGrumpy   Aug-06-05 10:17 AM   #130 
  - My sister ate lunch meat sandwiches  Nikia   Aug-06-05 10:22 AM   #131 
  - Ramen noodles.  mutley_r_us   Aug-06-05 10:24 AM   #132 
  - For me the old standby was the Banquet Boil-in-Bags  lpbk2713   Aug-06-05 10:43 AM   #133 
  - OMG i remeber living on thoser things foabout 3 weeks once when I  grannylib   Aug-06-05 04:57 PM   #138 
  - Fried cheap lunch meat. n/t  RebelOne   Aug-06-05 12:31 PM   #135 
  - Fried Spam and potatoes  libnnc   Aug-06-05 12:34 PM   #136 
  - My list is similar to yours, except I have to add one thing:  tenshi816   Aug-06-05 12:56 PM   #137 
  - Ketchup soup.  xmas74   Aug-06-05 05:05 PM   #139 
  - Potatoes, Eggs, Rice, Beans and Lentils, Homemade pasta,  SOteric   Aug-06-05 05:08 PM   #140 
  - Pinto beans (dried) and homemade flour tortillas....  chaska   Aug-06-05 05:45 PM   #141 
  - Meatloaf  fudge stripe cookays   Aug-06-05 06:45 PM   #143 
  - God, I hate remembering those days . . . .  fifthgendem   Aug-06-05 07:10 PM   #144 
  - mayonnaise sandwich  Joan_Alpern   Aug-06-05 08:02 PM   #145 
  - I had a few of those..  sendero   Aug-06-05 09:50 PM   #148 
     - kraft macaroni & cheese were always high on my list  Joan_Alpern   Aug-06-05 09:58 PM   #149 
  - When I was a child, I ate catsup sandwiches. With tabasco sauce to make  qnr   Aug-06-05 08:35 PM   #146 
  - Campbell's Bean and Bacon soup  dannofoot   Aug-06-05 10:29 PM   #150 
  - navy beans  steely   Aug-07-05 11:10 PM   #152 
  - rice and beans  WindRavenX   Aug-07-05 11:18 PM   #153 
  - red beans and rice  shugah   Aug-07-05 11:27 PM   #154 
  - Red beans and rice  tibbir   Aug-07-05 11:41 PM   #155 
  - fish head soup  GoddessOfGuinness   Aug-08-05 12:13 AM   #156 
 

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