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What's your favorite poverty meal that you still eat regardless of where you are financially?

Ski season food- Nacho Doritos and salami

Sugar cubes- Don't drink coffee, but scarfed a lotta cubed sugar on late night shifts.

The meal I can't eat any longer...a free one!

I'd hear teammates talking about going off campus to eat after practice. Scrounged their dining hall tickets. Mashed & gravy over mystery meat. Good times.
 
Spamsilog: Slices of Spam, Sinangag (fried rice) and fried eggs. A popular Filipino breakfast combo. Also can be served with a side dish of fresh tomatoes or cucumber. You can switch out the spam with any sun dried or fried fish. Cheap Eats!
 
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Slow Goat said:
Storebought foods? That’s rich folk eatin’.....

Grew up in farm country and ate mostly what I could hunt; squirrel, rabbit, dove, quail and pheasant. Filled the garage-freezer in season and hoped my miner dad could buy a half-steer in the spring to get thru summer so we weren’t eating catfish and crappie 5 times a week.

This was ‘70s before the corporate farms started plowing under the hedgerows that much of the game lived in.

Also know what raccoon and muskrat taste like. Not great times, haven’t been poor in a long time.
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Sounds a lot healthier than everyone else’s storebought crap. The right spices can make anything taste good.
 
Roger Rocket said:
Spamsilog: Slices of Spam, Sinangag (fried rice) and fried eggs. A popular Filipino breakfast combo. Also can be served with a side dish of fresh tomatoes or cucumber. You can switch out the spam with any sun dried or fried fish. Cheap Eats!
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I order spamsilog often, but I prefer the longsilog. Not sure which is cheaper, I never make it at home, only when eating out, which is of course not cheap.
 
I have a pretty long list.

Box Mac n Cheese, I will sometimes add tuna or other meats as well as other cheeses.

Canned Chili.

And not super poverty level but still very cheap, Pork shoulder steaks, cooked on a cast iron skillet with some spices and usually a bit of butter to make it not stick. I use the same skillet to quickly cook frozen veggies, green beans, stir fry mixes, etc. Costco pork is really cheap and it makes for a very filling meal.

Connected to the cheap costco meat, smoking up a pork butt for pulled pork is great, just one of them will last a long while as leftovers and can go with a lot of things (including the aforementioned mac n cheese)

generally pasta is cheap and easy.

tacos, quesadillas, tostadas, etc are all pretty cheap and easy...
 
Lentil soup. Mercimek requires lentils, a touch of flour and some oil at its most basic.
 
Ham hocks and beans: on day four it becomes bean butter applied bread for sandwiches or saltines as a snack.
 
I'm a single dude who prefers to spend my money on motorcycles instead of food. So thanks for the ideas everyone! :laughing
 
Robert R1 said:
Taco bell once a year or so.
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lol, that brings me back. We used to go to the WSU employee credit union ATM because it would dispense a $5 bill and then go to the Taco Bell in the student union.

Didn't want to pull out a whole $20 and end up spending it all. :laughing
 
NorCalAthlete said:
Eating out - even fast food like McDonald’s - was a treat once in a rare while.
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I remember coming to the US in 1966 from a Boarding School is Sussex.

There we were fed liver that was hard and you couldn't even bend it, and milk that had solidified cream in the bottle as they had been left in the sun among other delicacies.

The biggest treat was "drippings sandwiches" at tea which was the fat scraped out of the pans and spread on toast.

We used to dig horseradish root out of the ground to snack on.

When I got to the States and tired Pizza, KFC and TV Dinners I thought it was Michelin star quality! :laughing

But today, I still love love rice and beans/meatloaf/mac and cheese/Shepherd's Pie/Bangers and Mash etc. as part of the menu during a month along with the meat and produce CSAs we get of higher quality/cost food.
 
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