Ramen noodle and an egg. Twice a day for like 6 months last year. That's cheap eating. Less than 25c a meal
my dad used to make garlic bread for spaghetti night with white bread, butter and garlic salt...also, white rice, peas & a bone in chicken thigh...beef stroganof, and pot roast - from the examples i suppose these are refined poor dinners...can't forget meatloaf, and the staple, hotdogs & baked beans...tuna caserole with the crispy onion things on top, eck think i was lucky to have those things in retrospect
White bread, spread w/ margarine and sprinkled w/ sugar (lived on this when I was a kid because my mom was too wasted to buy food...yes, I had malnutrition). Spoonful of peanut butter.
Cream of chicken soup poured over white toast...more people? Add water. We used to have left over casserole. My mom would take the leftovers from the week and put it in a casserole dish and sprinkle it with cheese.
I remember my mom getting "assistance" and having to eat powdered scrambled eggs, powdered milk, Spam and those huge blocks of Government cheese. When I went out on my own after high school, I usually had a large sack of potatoes and would fry, bake or boil them. A commercial-sized tub of plain yogurt. Cereal and milk. Bologna sandwiches. Ramen was much later. Paydays would allow me to go to McD's and get 2 cheeseburgers for 99 cents.
I lived with my sister for a while and she would make mac & cheese (generic brand) all the time...there was always a huge plastic tub of it in the fridge. To this day, I find mac & cheese disgusting and will not eat it (well, maybe, if all the ingredients were premium and included some sort of sausage) Of course, spaghetti with jarred tomato sauce and green can "parmesan" dust (also generic) was another staple that I would never eat again, unless I was starving.
