What was the food you ate when you were at your lowest/poorest? I'm not talking on a routine basis...

A few dishes.

Pasta with ketchup
Rice with pepper
And a chip butty. Not because I wanted one though, but because all I had was cheap bread and frozen chips.

i used to eat ramen and banquet breakfast sausages and generic american cheese slices and flour tortillas

then i figured out you can eat a lot better at shelters and missions and go to food banks

i pity the fools who sit at home counting out change from their sofa so they can pick up food at dollar tree

Pinto beans cooked over Sterno. Yep. That was a low, bad time in my life.

Polenta, rice, bread, tea, mate, noodles, soups and stews of whatever we had at home.

Potato soup -
One potato, diced, cooked with a lot of water and a bouillon cube.

At my lowest / poorest I stole groceries.

Not proud. Thankfully I got my shit together.

you're posting on Veeky Forums and you're in your 70s?

I used to routinely steal money out of fountains to buy dollar menu items, or put on church clothes, carry an empty briefcase into a hotel with continental breakfast and help myself to breakfast, packing as many pieces of fruit and yogurts into said briefcase then leave.

A auditor (desk clerk) will be too afraid to challenge whether or not you're actually a guest, and will never bother you while doing this. Rotate the hotels in your town, limit visits to once every 2 weeks, each, tops. Works 100% of the time.

I had plain oatmeal for breakfast and 15 bean soup and rice for dinner every day for about 3, it wasn't awful.
Months before hand a bought 25 pounds of rice, 20 pounds of oatmeal and a ton of bags of dried beans with flavor packets for I want to say like 60 bucks total from Sam's club and also . I still had a bunch of rice left over after too.

in college I stole about half my groceries, measured in dollar value.

I would buy the large cheap items like bread, and steal the small expensive items like cheese, spices, butter, etc stuffed in my big coat.
I didn't buy large expensive items because they weren't stealable.

I've never been so broke I had to eat something like the things in this thread, I'd rather shoplift than deprive myself of proper nutrition

spaghetti sauce

buddy comes over, ''user, can I have some chili?''

''its not chili, its spaghetti sauce''

''oh''

Are you my grandpa?

Literally flour and water, cooked into shitty biscuits or crackers.

Unless you count eating/drinking straight condiments and seasonings because I had no actual food after eating the flour and water and eating spoons of straight sugar.

...

I once lived on biscuits made from plain white wheat flour and water, mixed into a dough and baked for 10 minutes.

It tastes exactly like you think it would.

im going back to my spaghetti sauce

Mayo bread.

saltine crackers, whiskey, hamburger helper mixed with plain noodles

Are you poor because of the drinking or are you just lucky enough to still have whiskey lying around?

both

In my rock bottom, mostly pic related for lunch. No breakfast or dinner. For a year or so. Blame that for my current poor health.

It was cheap because the local chinese BBQ shop sells them cheap or give them free for poor people.

Hungriest I've been was when I was thru hiking the Appalachian Trail. Basically ran out of food a couple of days early, and the last night before I could get to town I laid in my tent eating jelly from the bottle, then dug an empty packet of chicken Ramen noodles out of my trash bag and ate the leftover crumbs/powder.

When I immigrated to Europe I ate a lot of plain rice with soy sauce when I was unemployed, but was never really destitute.

Wonder bread dipped in powdered milk. That was everynight for a few weeks. While I was working at a goddamn string factory no less during unholy hours of the night.

Still miss that job thou ;_;

Your life sounds interesting.

*emigrated

Rice and mustard.

I ate Gravy sandwiches because Gravy packets were on sale for like 10 cents so i got hundreds of em

Ahh, when you started getting welfare dosh, aka: refugee benefit. Are you one pf those people that left because of Trump?

Refugee advocate:

>so what brought you here, war, famine, human rights violations?

You:

>HE SAID MEAN STUFF AND HURT MY FEELINGS, NOT MY PRESIDENT REEEEEEEEEEE REEEEEEEEE R-R-REEEEEEEEE!!!

Refugee advocate:

>application approved, lol fugg grumpf welcome to Yurop.

Lol, no

Enjoy the rest of high school

Getting kicked out for that would be embarassing as hell

Rice/pasta with store-brand margarine. Not bad honestly.

You sure that actually happened?

i tried making a soup from flour, maple syrup and water since those were the only things available

Not an argument Jamal.

I don't live in a third world hellhole, so even if my mom had 6 kids with 4 different men (who all left her), we never went out of food.

I think I had to eat only buttered toast one morning, but that was it.

Cock, I ate fucking cock for about an entire year.. it was the only way to put actual food on my table for me and my mentally challenged Gran ma ma. I ate all type of cock in a Taco Bell parking lot. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do user. Not proud of my cock eating days but I would do it again in a second if need be. Same Taco Bell and everything.

Here's the thing, let's say they accuse an actual guest of something like this, the amount of shit they'd have to hear from their supervisor, corporate and potentially lawyers if the guest was offended enough to consider his civil rights violated.

No wagecuck is going to risk their job to stop someone from eating eggs, bacon, fruit and cereal they're more than likely going to throw away anyway. I did it for all 4 years of college and never got caught.

You should try it one hungry morning, you have to look/smell/act professional and don't forget the briefcase or AT LEAST a messenger bag to stow your goods away.

Rice and beans make for a pretty healthy diet though. Not that it doesn't taste bad but still

I was addicted to sugar for some time as a teen and basically ate anything in the house that had some sugar when I ran out of sweets. Like baking ingrediants for example.

Okay Tucker

youtube.com/watch?v=Q_rTmHGIA_s

It is a really good idea. And in the extremely unlikely event you were challenged, they aren't going to have you arrested. They'll just escort you to the door. I can see where if you were dressed like a professional they wouldn't even give you a second glance.

cooked simple pasta and just ground pepper over it. No sauce, or anything else. Just bland noodles that irritate your throat and breathways.

Don't most people usually come from their rooms to go eat breakfast? It'd be a little suspicious if you just strolled in the front doors then into the dining area. "Oh don't mind me, just out for my morning suitcase jog."

One time I didn't have lettuce so I made a salad out of nothing but croutons and caesar dressing

Sugar and water with a few drops of almond aroma.
Pasta and nothing (anchovies paste or simply salt and pepper)
Bake bread and eat bread and nothing
Fried slices of bread
Beer

My bet is if you look the part, they won't be paying any attention to you at all.

>front doors

There are other ways into a hotel, through the pool for instance, and absolutely no one eats in their bathrobe or pajamas in a public setting that can afford to stay in nicer hotels. Lrn2con.

>>>>beer

wonder why you were poor shitstain

some leftover mysli and the remains of a salt/herb mix

Beer costs 0.64 euro for one liter where I live

Exactly. They're always on their phone when not helping a guest anyway, the one and only time I was approached by a hotel employee while doing this, they asked if I wad enjoying my breakfast and if I needed a complimentary shuttle to the shopping district downtown. I politely declined and went on my way.

Regardless if this was a way to attempt to do a soft reading on me I never went back to that specific courtyard marriot.

When I was a kid, after my father left, we were dead broke.
One season, a friend of my mother's squash garden grew like crazy. It basically took over the entire yard.

So one day he came by our house with several giant boxes of squash.
We ate basically nothing but squash for 3 weeks.

We did experiment a lot, and it got pretty inventive at times. Squash soups and stews, squash burgers, squash casseroles...

Aw man I did that as well. What a low point. Living like an animal. Dealing with my alcohol issues has never put me in such a blind, ravenous state.

My absolute cheapest was White Rice cooked on the stove, during the last 7 minutes of cooking I'd just drop a whole egg on top which would just Steam it on top.

And some soy sauce and that was my meal.

I still eat lazily like that at times. I just had a whole container of Baby Arugula, with Beef Jerky as a topping and Chipotle Mustard as the dressing. It taste ok.

many hotels ask for your roomnumber, i agree that its not a bad idea, but the time you have to invest to make this work seems pretty silly if you could just work for 1 hour and buy breakfast for multiple days. its kinda a niche idea for absolutely shameless people that arent allowed to work, yet still manage to look and dress unsuspicious enough

When I was a kid I had margarine spread on bread toasted over an open flame, with linden tea drank from a jar.

I still have that breakfast every once in a while when I remember about it. It tastes great.

Damn, I could really go for some linden tea right now.

Pasta and barbecue sauce. It was all I had in the kitchen and I didn't have any money.

The first time i was desperate for food a soldier gave me a case of mre's. They were all the cheese and vegetable omelet one...fuck.
That was even worse then the year i spent living out of a tent and trying to work and i was eating pika and ground squirrels i caught in dead fall traps.

>deadfall trap

Christ, if you can set an effective deadfall you'll never starve. Add in a few snares, and you'll live like a king.

I actually ate pretty good when I was at my poorest. I was living out during a time of potato surplus crop nationwide. Shit was like 80 cents for a 5lbs bag. The guy I worked for had a small chicken coop and would like me collect and keep all the eggs if I fed and watered the chickens and cleaned the coop. The bar down the road put out a free sampler/appetizer spread every weekday during happy hour. I got loads of free condiments from green valley and 7-11. And at the time Arizona Charlie's had the .49 cent breakfast buffet from like 2am to 6am.

I was dirt poor, no car and could barely make rent but I ate pretty damn good.

bologna sandwiches. sometimes w/ condiment.

Last semester I had $7 in my bank account for a week. We were almost out of food. The only thing we had was a 30 rack of mgd someone gave us for free, some tortillas, and shredded cheese. Me and my roommate ate quesadillas and drank mgd for 4 days straight. Not awful, but some of the worst shits I've had in the past year.

So, almost enough to buy an entire kilogram of rice (~3600 calories).

Had no money at all.
Ate a 2 year old box of saltines and wormy peaches from a neighbors tree for about a week before I broke down and asked my grandfather for a small loan.

Saltine porridge. I took a bunch load of those crackers in a pot full of water with a pinch of sea salt and a dash of black pepper and a tsp of butter and olive oil. I threw in a Slim Jim I found and made a sort of paste. It was edible enough to get me through 2 days.

mayonaise inside a stale hot dog bun that had freezerburn and for dessert peanut butter licked off of a spoon

That actually sounds pretty damn good.

panda express dumpster food that i had to fight raccoons for

Probably that mustard sandwhich

Baked beans and spaghetti for about a week. I've had it pretty easy

get the fuck out of the thread; literally no one in your life likes you

>Mustard sandwich with cold cut bacon
>kd
>hamburger helper
Grew up with this stuff and I thought mummy bought this because I liked it. Turns out money was tight. Now were still in the same position but now I'm a piece of shit uneducated neet. sorry mom

>kd
Canadian?

You need to supply an argument to get one in return, Cleetus.

I lost my temporary home where I work abroad and am about to eat a can of tuna without cutlery in a guestroom of my boss.

sucks

Grits
>salt
>sugar

Not a very tasty meal but it will fill you up.

My mom was working a lot and my dad was always out of work on contracted work
It wasn't the poorest we've been, but it was the worst I've eaten

There were only a couple boxes of pancake mix in the house. Tons of condiments and no real ingredients (at least none I knew how to use), so I just ate pancakes every day for like a week. Sometimes my mom brought home deli sandwiches, the kind that you'd find in an office party setting

I can't really eat pancakes anymore, which is fine because I've always preferred waffles better

Sadness?

Bag of off-brand white bread
a small tub of off-brand vegetable oil spread.

breaded porkchops were all my family ate for dinner when we had just moved out of the country and were tight on money and i guess they were pretty cheap

The seeds that settled at the bottom of the juice in a pickle jar.

>all these poorfags

Literal plebians.

Not as bad some here but i had to eat canned pea soup for 2 weeks.
It really helps to have a panic stash of food.

Why not just have a panic stash of money?

Should always have a stash of long lasting food and water. Money won't mean shit in time of crisis.

I did have money too but had to use it.
Food stash is also good when power is out or other bad times come

During my poorest summer of my life while in college I ate nothing. That's right nothing, for the whole ~2 months of summer break

All i did was drink a couple litres of tapwater a day thats it. By the end, i could barely keep my balance and had to practically crawl to western union to pick up my September money transfer (i only got them during active school months)

15-Bean Soup. Cajun style.

With ingredients, onion, sausage, green pepper, diced tomato, it comes to only about $6 for a big chili pot. Will last me and the wife about a week if push comes to shove.

Rinsed canned beans. Id dump some spices in the can and enjoy

Even if you are really poor, you should be able to afford food, unless you have absolutely no source of income.

What's cutting into most peoples food budget is alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, etc.
Also poor people are usually stupid so when they get a dollar or two they'll spend it on a McD's burger or something.