What's a "Poor Person" Food That You Still Eat?

originally posted by: Atsbhct

originally posted by: putnam6
Fried Bologna sandwiches, field peas, black-eyed peas or crowder peas cornbread, and a slab of onion. Hell, I'll eat Ramen noodles all the time I just use my homemade broth and add loads of stuff.

I do this too. Ramen is impossible to get here, but chicken feet and pig feet are dirt cheap, so we just make tonkotsu broth now and pick up the imported $1.00 noodles instead of the 33 cents noodles. Livin' large!

Where are you at? that you can't find Ramen. That's pretty much how I got started eating it, cause it was everywhere and dirt cheap.

a reply to: Atsbhct

Brinta...(Dutch breakfast)

It's a 100% wholegrain wheat which you mix with milk (and sugar, optional). It was introduced in my country right after WWII for a starving nation to gain strength quickly. It stands for Breakfast Instant Tarwe.( tarwe being wheat in Dutch).

I still eat it ever morning and I couldn't start my day any better.

a reply to: AccessDenied

God, I loved fried balogna as a kid. Super crispy like poor mans bacon. It's actually borderline spendy for the "good" balogna here now. You can only buy a big ...tube? Roll? Lol. of it and it's about $40.00.

a reply to: Atsbhct

Spam! Spam musubi. Spam and eggs, spam grilled cheese. It used to be the cheapest canned meat you could buy. Now, it's like $7 a can!

Soup beans, fried potatoes with chopped onions, hot chow chow, and cornbread. Great with a tall glass of ice tea.

originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Atsbhct

Spam! Spam musubi. Spam and eggs, spam grilled cheese. It used to be the cheapest canned meat you could buy. Now, it's like $7 a can!

Spam here too! Yes pretty soon it will be rich people food!

a reply to: putnam6

No, I mean fresh ramen or a ramen restaurant. I'm in rural Nova Scotia and up until a few years ago all you could find here was Mr.Noodles. They're awful.

Fried hamburger steak with onions. A personal favourite.

a reply to: Atsbhct

a reply to: JAGStorm

Name brand Spam is crazy expensive here. I've never actually eaten it. There's a rip off brand called... and this is very original... Kam. 😂 My grandmother liked making sandwiches with it.

you were all rich folk. Boxed mac and cheese. Kraft if you can afford it.

Ramen (the super cheap kind) on a cold day.

originally posted by: Athetos
Fried hamburger steak with onions. A personal favourite.

a reply to: Atsbhct

If you put that on bread and put gravy on it, serve it with fries and a piece of battered fish, we call that an "old fashioned regular" for some reason.

originally posted by: network dude
you were all rich folk. Boxed mac and cheese. Kraft if you can afford it.

Ramen (the super cheap kind) on a cold day.

Yep, and if you were lucky, a not buttered, but margarined piece of wonder style bread.

a reply to: Atsbhct

I am a big fan of Korean ramen. Sure it's the 'top of the line' supermarket ramen compared to the college stuff like Maruchan but you can geta pack of 5 servings at the actual store for like 6 or 7 bucks
asianmart.com...

I love spicy.

Even cheaper is lil smokies: www.walmart.com... about 4 servings for 5 bucks.

Even cheaper, good ol rice and beans! Can't beat that and it costs less than a dollar to make!

originally posted by: keukendeur
a reply to: Atsbhct

Brinta...(Dutch breakfast)

It's a 100% wholegrain wheat which you mix with milk (and sugar, optional). It was introduced in my country right after WWII for a starving nation to gain strength quickly. It stands for Breakfast Instant Tarwe.( tarwe being wheat in Dutch).

I still eat it ever morning and I couldn't start my day any better.

Sounds like Cream of Wheat and yea I ate that a lot on cold winter mornings and it is still a staple breakfast for me.

a reply to: chris_stibrany

I love the Shin ramen when I can get it. The noodles are so good!

Yes, rice and beans. Beans arent beans here like they are in other places. When I discovered the Mr. Money Mustache blog in college I lived on rice and beans with cheese and it saved me a ton of money.

originally posted by: Atsbhct
a reply to: putnam6

No, I mean fresh ramen or a ramen restaurant. I'm in rural Nova Scotia and up until a few years ago all you could find here was Mr.Noodles. They're awful.

I understand, it's funny we got a few places here but I prefer my own most of the time.

I too enjoy instant ramen from time to time, aka crackhead soup.

Not often, but sometimes I have a depression era favorite, ‘coffee soup. You take stale bread and break it up in a bowl, sprinkle it with milk and sugar, then pour hot coffee over it. It is a pretty good breakfast.

a reply to: putnam6

My husband loves Cream of Wheat. Me, I grew up on Shredded Wheat, or, ugh, still have nightmares about these, giant bags of "Puffed Wheat", which was basically like eating a bowl of packing peanuts.

originally posted by: butcherguy
I too enjoy instant ramen from time to time, aka crackhead soup.

Not often, but sometimes I have a depression era favorite, ‘coffee soup. You take stale bread and break it up in a bowl, sprinkle it with milk and sugar, then pour hot coffee over it. It is a pretty good breakfast.

Hahahaha. My grandfather called that "A hobo breakfast", but he said that houswives would give it to hobos back in the day and pour their cup of tea over it so they wouldn't take the mug with them.

Hay now that sounds like a nice deluxe plate. I do usually enjoy it on a thick piece of toast that I fried in the burger drippings then turn the drilling’s to gravy after the onions are done. Man just thinking about it has got me hungry. Gunna be tomorrow’s dinner I think.

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