Broke Food.
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Re: Broke Food.
1) Spaghetti with tuna. At one of the discount food stores (like Aldi or Trader Vic's or Shop n' Save) a pound of spaghetti costs about $1.00 where I live. A bottle of sauce about $2.00 and a small can of tuna can be purchased for about $.78. Total cost = about $4.00 and you can eat on it about 2 or 3 times.
2) Peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter is high in protein and delivers pretty good nutritional bang for the buck.
3) Eggs At the discount stores I mention above a dozen grade A Large eggs sells for about $.38 - I'm serious. The price vacillates over the course of a month from about $1.30/doz to as low as $.36/doz. I assume this is to clear the shelves for the incoming eggs. When they are low I buy 6 dozen at a time and hard boil two dozen at a go. I am doing some body building and have 4 egg whites each morning before going to the gym. So 2 dozen lasts me about a week. By the time I need more the sale is back on.
4) Oat meal - Oat meal is very nutritious and also very filling as well as quite cheap. I have a bowl of this with no flavorings like sugar or butter every morning when I get back from the gym and I don't feel hungry at all till about mid afternoon. A half cup of dry oats swells up to make a fairly large serving and there are a LOT of 1/2 cups in one of those tubular containers.
5) Rice - Rice is fairly cheap and can be made quite palatable with spices. I like mine spicy hot with several types of dry peppers (black, red, cayenne) and a spice called "Sate" and a pat of margarine.
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I always find it funny when the news talks about how expensive it is for poor people to eat "real" foods instead of everything off the dollar menus from the fast food places. Even chicken can be found cheap enough if you price it down to individual meals. The Aldis here sells boneless breasts for $1.69/lb. I'll shoot for a half pound breast in a meal, making it 85 cents...that sure beats $1 for a 1/8pound "burger: off McD's extra value menu.DATo wrote: โ26 Aug 2018, 00:08 I have never been that broke in my life, but to answer your question here are a few ideas for consideration.
1) Spaghetti with tuna. At one of the discount food stores (like Aldi or Trader Vic's or Shop n' Save) a pound of spaghetti costs about $1.00 where I live. A bottle of sauce about $2.00 and a small can of tuna can be purchased for about $.78. Total cost = about $4.00 and you can eat on it about 2 or 3 times.
2) Peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter is high in protein and delivers pretty good nutritional bang for the buck.
3) Eggs At the discount stores I mention above a dozen grade A Large eggs sells for about $.38 - I'm serious. The price vacillates over the course of a month from about $1.30/doz to as low as $.36/doz. I assume this is to clear the shelves for the incoming eggs. When they are low I buy 6 dozen at a time and hard boil two dozen at a go. I am doing some body building and have 4 egg whites each morning before going to the gym. So 2 dozen lasts me about a week. By the time I need more the sale is back on.
4) Oat meal - Oat meal is very nutritious and also very filling as well as quite cheap. I have a bowl of this with no flavorings like sugar or butter every morning when I get back from the gym and I don't feel hungry at all till about mid afternoon. A half cup of dry oats swells up to make a fairly large serving and there are a LOT of 1/2 cups in one of those tubular containers.
5) Rice - Rice is fairly cheap and can be made quite palatable with spices. I like mine spicy hot with several types of dry peppers (black, red, cayenne) and a spice called "Sate" and a pat of margarine.
For the past month or so, Aldis has been selling milk at $1.88/gal...a gallon!
I love Aldis. $1 for a bag of onions. 79 cents for a bag of carrots. I forget if the red potatoes are 2.49 or 3.49 for 5lbs...and the sad part is, their produce holds up a lot better than what I've gotten from higher end retailers around here.
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