Sometimes I take chicken that has to be cooked and I know it's not going to be eaten I boil the shit out of it and then take out the bones ... add a can of creamed corn or two or put a can of corn or two in the blender, milk, salt, pepper, sugar to taste (should be sweet and salty)and bacon if I've got it (add all the grease) ... chicken corn chowder. Yum. There's no recipe, you just cook it all and taste it as you go.

SaltWaterTaffy  Wrote:

Sometimes I take chicken that has to be cooked and I know it's not going to be eaten I boil the shit out of it and then take out the bones ... add a can of creamed corn or two or put a can of corn or two in the blender, milk, salt, pepper, sugar to taste (should be sweet and salty)and bacon if I've got it (add all the grease) ... chicken corn chowder. Yum. There's no recipe, you just cook it all and taste it as you go.

My Mom does that actually. Thick soups really. Kinda like meat smoothies lol.

BottomLine  Wrote:

I eat a banana and glass of milk for breakfast...

at lunch I take a 20 cents. juice with me from home to a local spot and have two tostadas for two bucks...lots of leetuce on them

at home I eat mostly cheese sandwiches if i get hungry...

dinner is chex with corn pops....

it doesn`t change....

sometimes i may feel frisky and get a hamburger with fries....

on a weekend...

That cereal is no good for you. Though at least it is fortified a lot better than a lot of other grains, like pasta.

cheese is garbage in the States. and I bet you have those on white bread too. No good.

my sandwiches are made with white corn tortillas....

the cheese is made by a friend of mine (monterey jack)....i got him into organic...and he`s making his cheese all natural....

i don`t eat bread....try to keep the gluten count on stanby as much as possible....

Our staple is refired beans....

my town is 20 minutes from the ocean and seafood is always fresh...

I eat chilled seafood cocktails sometimes...they are really good!

shrimp season starts next week....

you can get a pound of good size shrimp for about five bucks...

I like the food here....

future is doomed?  Wrote:

Hey Jack,

I just spent $61 at the grocery store and I probably have enough food to last my wife, two kids, and I for about a week and a half, maybe two weeks. I shopped at food 4 less and got mostly fruit/vegetables, some bread, milk, snacks, sauce, etc. I do have some things at my house that I didn't need to buy such as meat, cheese, and pasta.

I say 1.5-2 weeks or so because we have been surviving on about $150 in groceries every month lately. Rice, beans, and eggs are good/cheap foods that are healthy.

You must live in a good area. I had some stuff still, but things were getting thin. Nothing to really make a meal out of. A few random cans of stuff. Was getting hard to put a meal together.

Which is why I just went in to pick up a few things. Wound up blowing half my budget this month just trying to pick up some things to go with the things I had.

It's rigged to cost about the same.

Buying cheap toxic groceries.

Buying value menu fast food.

You can make healthy food that's cheap, but it takes time. Beans and lentils etc, gotta set up a rotation.

But I can't say I felt a lot healthier eating that stuff. It's not really healthy until you add the fresh flavors (ingredients) that make it taste good.



Taco Bueno bean burritos make me feel like crap immediately, and for a few hours.

Home made ones give you rickets or berry berry after a few months.



Add tomatoes, onions, cilantro, etc, that pot of beans starts getting expensive.

Somebody (JIB?) mentioned stretching ground beef for tacos, etc. Best way IMO is to pre-cook some red rice and blend with ground beef, add a bit of garlic, onion, and bovril if desired. Beef will go 2-3 times as far and still have the same taste and texture. Red rice is expensive, but very cheap as a meat stretcher - try it!