I would get kicked out of Texas!!!

Ill abstain from the experiment, then. Nearly had the parcel all ready!

i love recipes that are written 2 parts this, 4 pinches of that, with a spinkle of......

I would get kicked out of Texas!!!

???? I thought you already had been! (Unless, of course, you've decided to bring the gift of "Lone Stardom" to your northern neighbors and appropriated their territory?)

IG, thank Aunt Josie for her indulgence. Now, all I need is a waiver signed by at least three partners in the Cardiology Center that attends to me, and I'll have a shot at getting the "shredded suet" past bride!

Just a couple of meals for those in need - one is a frozen macaroni dinner with brown gravy on top after you heat the macaroni. Have had it last few nights and low cost about $1.98 if you can get the gravy from someone. What I have been also doing when I get home late is just open a can of tuna and put it on slices of cheese. On crackers is better but ran out of them. These meals can be sustaining tho and that is what is important.

Tom

I've also had the good fortune of walking home and near to a Chinese rest. we used to go to and stopped in to ask for a glass of water and if it's later in the evening then they might offer you some of the prepared means that are left I've seen people looking in the dumpster out back when I get there but that is something you do not want to dig out tho. I just go in and ask for a glass of water and you would be suprised. I did add some worcesterhire sauce to some of the meal and it was really good! So you can still eat and sustain on a very slim budget. am tired of hot dogs tho no matter what there is acailable to add.

Tom

On Tom's line of thought, there's all kinds of things you can do to top ramen as well. At 20 cents a package... it's insanely cheap and easy to do. Ramen with hot sauce is a go to meal if I don't have the kids and don't want to spend real money on dinner.

A much healthier and even cheaper option is rice

A really healthy option when you are broke are eggs. They are one of the most nutritious foods you can buy and one of the cheapest. They are not empty calories. If I were broke, I would buy a stick of REAL butter [not the fake poison] and a dozen eggs and make fried eggs or scrambled. Eggs are very filling and the addition of butter should keep a person full for several hours.

Whole brown rice with all the vitemans is good

My rule of thumb is to always shop the OUTSIDE of the grocery store. Buy fresh meats, vegetables, eggs, cream and only go inside to pick up nuts. The vast majority of the food inside is junk food.

I agree. Brown rice at least has some nutritional value.

Oh yeah eggs are good too, with like she said, the real butter
The other stuff is poison
Everything in moderation.
Well not everything

The thing is. You can eat healthy without eating out of dumpsters. I don't understand why poor people te garbage and get fat when they can eat rice and beans very cheaply

I learned that from my ex wife. Shop the perimeter.

Fake butter made it into my fridge (former) one time.......somehow it managed to be relocated in the trash.

Oh yeah, brown rice, the good stuff, is chuck full of good stuff, but to much carbs ya know is, too much carbs.
Most of the stuff that advertised might be worthless, they gotta cutcorners to pay for the advertising ya know, lol

Brown rice is only "the good stuff" in comparison to white rice, which has no nutrients to speak of. Brown rice is not especially nutrient-dense. It's main value is carbohydrate, which isn't particularly useful to the body. There are many foods that are very low in carbohydrates and higher in vitamins than brown rice.

Starchy foods like brown rice, wholewheat bread, wholewheat pasta and potatoes are stodgy and filling. Being filled up by them is a nice feeling, and it has its value on cold winter nights (like we are having tonight), but they are not efficient suppliers of nutrition. We can live easily without them and find much less starchy foods to provide vitamins and minerals.

My skinny family can eat those things, but I have to stay off them altogether.

Yes indeed, can get a box of 60 for $6 where I'm at.

And here is the worst thing about starches: they spike your blood sugar and when your blood sugar crashes [what goes up must come down!] your brain signals that it is time to eat again because it wants something to bring the blood sugar up again. People who eat alot of carbs are tired and hungry most of the time because of what they do to their blood sugar levels. It saps their energy and keeps them hungry.

On the other hand, eating healthy fats and proteins leads to steady blood sugar levels and keeps the person full for a much longer period of time.

So even though a potato or pasta or rice seem cheaper, they are really more expensive because they don't keep a person full and they provide very little nutrition at all.

If I am broke, I am going for the stuff that is a) most nutritious and b) keeps me fullest the longest. That would be EGGS, BUTTER, cheap cuts of beef, chicken, avocadoes and nuts.