Originally Posted By Kimrue Have you ever been stuck in the house with no food and came up with some desperate concoction that you later were like...uh, gross, I must've been STARVING!!! please tell!
Originally Posted By Mr X Would rotten soybeans count? Oh, wait...those are a delicacy where I live. *wretch* Yeah, I've done that.
Originally Posted By Ursula I am laughing at this thread as I just made cookie dough out of brown sugar, white sugar, water, flour, and a smat of Crisco.
Originally Posted By DlandDug In grad school, my roommate and I often were completely out of food between paychecks. The worst thing, hands down, we ever had for dinner was a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese dinner. I know, I know-- what's so bad about that? Well, the meal is supposed to be made with milk and butter. We had no milk; we had no butter. So we used water and Crisco. I still cannot eat instant mac and cheese to this day...
Originally Posted By Kimrue When I was younger I went on vacation to Myrtle beach with a bunch of friends. We were definately on a budget so we ended up eating tortillas wrapped up with cheese and salsa EVERY SINGLE DAY...it was good the first couple of days but I still will never forget eating this all day so we can go out and blow our money on a nice dinner and drinks. When I'm hungry for a sweet and have no food in the house I toast some bread and put butter sugar and cinnamon on it...it's pretty yummy but just so ghetto. When my kids were sick and once again didn't make it to the supermarket, I ate crackers with peanut butter for dinner....yuk.
Originally Posted By trailsend Well, I've mixed peanut butter and jelly, stirred it up and yummy a quick sugar fix. (Now you can buy it this way) I've also mixed peanut butter and syrup, stir it up and also a quick sugar fix.
Originally Posted By Mrs 2oon I grew up with cinnamon and sugar toast. 2oonlet1 makes it all the time for herself. Also...I love peanut butter and crackers. Years ago when I was a teenager I ate peanut butter and jelly on graham crackers. It didn't taste bad but I had a miserable stomach ache from it. I haven't had it since.
Originally Posted By Ursula ^ HA! When I worked at Knott's. I made something like $5 an hour or the like. I had a used car (no payments!) and still lived at home, but I had to put gas in the car and a girl needs beer money. So, in the employee cafeteria, they had crackers, butter, and KBF jam and jelly and water for free, so I ate that for whatever meal I had to work around. For four years.
Originally Posted By wendebird >>When I'm hungry for a sweet and have no food in the house I toast some bread and put butter sugar and cinnamon on it...it's pretty yummy but just so ghetto.<< lol, my kids put cinnamon sugar on their toast whenever I make toast. I keep the mixture in one of those little shaker thingies. I'm so phat, now I'm ghetto too!
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter I put myself through college. There were times when the pickins' were slim. On one memorable evening, the night before pay day, my roommate and I (we were in an apartment--no dorm meal plan) pooled all of our food to make dinner. The menu? A package of frozen squash, some green beans, and a little bit of instant mashed potatoes. And I can clearly remember laughing up a storm and having a ball preparing and eating our. . . um. . . feast. I can also clearly recall the feeling of elation when my college grocery budget allowed for the purchase of a magazine maybe once every two or three months. Seriously, it was a joyous occasion. There's a lot to be said for being poor. I truly have some very happy memories from those times. But dang, that squash was nasty!
Originally Posted By Ursula Hahahahahha! I was thinking, um, "frozen" squash...must be something we don't have a lot of here. I remember the college dinner: whatever pasta that was on sale and a bit of smashed garlic! (nothing else, of course, and it was heaven in a bowl!)
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Cinammon, sugar and butter toasted since I was a baby, had no clue it was ghetto either. As a young single person, I once had to make soup out of the top ramen seasoning and water for about a week, yuck yuck yuck.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 White bread with mayo and sugar sprinkled on it. Yes, sugar. Is that ghetto too?
Originally Posted By Kimrue <<I didn't realize that cinnamon & sugar toast was ghetto.>> When you're eating it because you have nothing else to eat in the house, THAT is what makes it ghetto....If you have a great fruit salad and maybe some quiche, that's one thing, but if you're eating it instead of cake....you need to go shopping...LOL
Originally Posted By Kimrue see this is the thing, none of these things by themselves are "disgusting" it's the fact that they are either A. being eaten out of "desperation" like no other food in the house. or B. eaten in quantities because they are cheap foods and person consuming is on a budget....I in no way shape or form am trying to put down "cinnamon toast" nor peanut butter or crackers etc. I'm sure those offended by remarks are part of the "churro empire" and are loyal to the sugar/cinnamon combo. Please do not take my comments as blasphemous or insulting. My sincere apologies to my fellow cinnamon toast lovers...Cinnamon toast is yummy for breakfast, just don't make it for your loved one's "birthday cake" that's all I'm saying...please let's continue on with no further tention about cinnamon toast as it is making me uncomfortable and I'm afraid the churro nuts are going to come after me...
Originally Posted By Kimrue <<White bread with mayo and sugar sprinkled on it. Yes, sugar. Is that ghetto too?>> white bread+mayo+sugar=ghetto food
