Been There, Done That

[Janice]

I think most of us have gone through hard times. When you were really out of money, what is one meal that was so cheap to make that you made it a lot?
Me.... Romain Noodles (I hope I spelled that right)


We ate them for a lot of meals.

[george_r_1961]

Frozen dinners. Still eat my share of them.

[TexasStooge]

The cheapest meals I made:

- Roman Noodles
- Frozen Dinners
- Fried Bologna Sandwiches

[Skywatch_NC]

I enjoy frozen dinners, also. Used to eat Swanson's but anymore I prefer Stouffer's.

Michael, I've grown up liking fried bologna sandwiches, too.

[HurriCat]

Mac and cheese... Tuna in mac and cheese...Hotdogs (store brand) cut-on-a-bias in mac and cheese... Polska Kielbasa (if on sale) and - mac and cheeeese.

[Skywatch_NC]

What is cut-on-a-bias?

[tropicana]

Store brand mac-and-cheese! Not even Kraft!

-justin-

[Miss Mary]

Mac and cheese
Hamburger helper
Spaghetti (no meatballs)
Canned Ravioli

Hubby's? Same as yours Janice - Ramian!!!

[tropicana]

Mac and cheese
Hamburger helper
Spaghetti (no meatballs)
Canned Ravioli

OMG! Those are all the things I eat!

[Miss Mary]

Actually we still eat 3 of them!!! So don't beat yourself up...I love plain comfort food but hubby hates Hamburger Helper. No amount of effort
on my part can conseal that product - he knows it's out of a box!

[stormtruth]

Actually we still eat 3 of them!!! So don't beat yourself up...I love plain comfort food but hubby hates Hamburger Helper. No amount of effort
on my part can conseal that product - he knows it's out of a box!

Your hubby is smart. HH should come with a warning label. Then again so should most things in the grocery store that come in boxes.

[GalvestonDuck]

What is cut-on-a-bias?

Sliced with a diagonal cut rather than cut straight up and down into medallions. It's a nicer presentation when stuff is cut like that, but it tastes the same either way.

Mac and tomato soup (poor man's Spaghetti-o's).

[HurricaneHunter914]

Roman Noodles are the easiest foods you can make.

[alicia-w]

I think they're called RAMEN noodles.

anyway, i've never been in that position, but my husband has and we always hear about vienna sausages, pork & beans, rice, peanut butter sandwiches, spam, etc.

[O Town]

Spaghetti, hog dogs, anything out of a can(soup, tuna, spaghettios, ect...), also the hamburger helper.

Never heard of anyone eating vienna sausages for dinner. But they make a tasty snack regaurdless if I have money or not.

[coriolis]

Hamburger helper is good. Sometimes we add hamburger to it.

(Sorry I stole that from National Lampoon's Vacation)

Mac 'n cheese
Mac 'n cheese with hot dogs
Mac 'n cheese with hamburger
Mac 'n cheese with leftover chile on top
Mac 'n cheese with tuna

I've made mac 'n cheese with powdered milk.

My lunch at work today: A can of store brand chicken 'n rice soup with a can of tuna.

Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.

Spaghetti noodles with oil and garlic. No sauce. This is really tasty and dirt cheap!

[Kim_in_MN]

My mother told me about being in nursing school and so broke that they would make tomato soup out of packets of ketchup and hot water.

When I was in college and working graveyard shift at a truck stop, I used to buy the 50 cent pieces out of my till when I got one from a customer. When I was really, truly broke, I usually had a stash of at least $10 that I could buy bread and peanut butter with until the next payday. I STILL have a jar with about $30 in half-dollars in it - as long as I have that I will never be broke LOL.

Lots of Mac & Cheese and raman noodles during college. I was lucky - we got a 75% discount on food at the resteraunt attached to the truck stop where I worked during our shift - I would order the stir fry, pay about $1.25 for it, and make it last three days.

Kim

[beachbum_al]

mac n cheese and hot dogs~I ate it a lot in college.

[Miss Mary]

Actually we still eat 3 of them!!! So don't beat yourself up...I love plain comfort food but hubby hates Hamburger Helper. No amount of effort
on my part can conseal that product - he knows it's out of a box!

Your hubby is smart. HH should come with a warning label. Then again so should most things in the grocery store that come in boxes.

I meant, he can tell I didn't make it from scratch! LOL

And thank goodness someone can spell Ramen! I knew the versions we were coming up didn't look quite right alicia!

[CajunMama]

Tomato soup and cheese melted. Cheese melted is a grilled cheese sandwich. My kids called it that when they were little and the name stuck.

Fried egg sandwiches.

Hamburger helper. Good thing my family likes it.

Beenie Weenies. Hotdogs in pork and beans.