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

a reply to: Atsbhct

Sounds. Like Jjuk. a kind of porridge

never had wendys chili but everyone ravves about it.

Is it year round?

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Cucumber sandwiches a reply to: Atsbhct

originally posted by: lSkrewloosel
Cucumber sandwiches a reply to: Atsbhct

Even watercress sandwiches are great... add egg and mayo for a more fulfilling experience!

Sometimes the simplest sandwiches are the best.

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Government Cheese is a 5 lbs block of American cheese you used to get in your food stamps box. Yep, there was an actual box. And I don’t care what you do, no grilled cheese sandwich tastes better than ones made with that cheese no matter how poor tasting bread you use.

Bacon, noodle & cabbage. Fry bacon while boiling egg noodles. Cut cabbage in half and slice into pieces as wide as cooked noodles and sauté in the bacon grease.

Sliced potatoes. Slice potato crosswise but not all the way through. Fan the potato out and for 20 minutes bake in pan brushed with oil and a little salt and pepper. Getting fancy is having a mustard sauce thinned with apple cider vinegar and Worcestershire sauce and an optional dash of Tabasco for heat.

As kids raw cabbage and raw turnips were common “all day” snacks. Special treats were rice pudding or bread pudding and everyone’s very rare favorite...frosting made from lard (bacon grease) between graham crackers.

We ate fruits and vegetables growing up because we were surrounded by gardens and fruit trees. Everything was free for the taking because the adults that owned them told us so and set down the guidelines of leaving some for them and only take what you can eat. And then they always added to leave them out of it if you didn’t finish your supper.

As a grown up, quite a number of times I mixed up the dough to make pan fried bread and make a stack for the day. Peanut butter melts like real butter on fresh pan fried bread sandwiches.

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And I don’t care what you do, no grilled cheese sandwich tastes better than ones made with that cheese no matter how poor tasting bread you use.

Yeah, I ate some government cheese as a child. It wasn't bad.
I think it was the butt of many jokes because of the stigma attached to it.
When was a child, all the schools got government cheese through the Dept of Agriculture.

French toast.
Over here they used to make this for dinner when there was nothing else. Translated it was called "Lost bread" or "Won bread" and it was made with old leftover slices. I still eat it as dinner, never as breakfast.

Same goes for Bread-pudding... typical thing to make with leftovers

Also the sliced bacon/cabbage mix with mushed potatoes (mentioned before)

I still make all kinds of stews with frozen leftovers and everyone loves them!
I basically never throw out food. If it can be frozen then it will be used somehow

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Sorry about the slow turnaround but my plate
right now runneth over. Thanks for sharing that,
and if I ever mellowed out I'd a never made it 2 70.