canned pineapples suck

I hate being poor and in an unfortunate and difficult situation....

would you like to know the contents of my refrigerator/kitchen area??
-easy mac singles [i think there is 1 left in there]
-loaf of bread [but no lunch meat]
-hot dog buns [but no hot dogs]
-ketcup, mustard, mayonaisse, ranch [but NOTHING to put them on]
-salsa
-chocolate pudding [gross]
-so much popcorn i could start my own movie theater [richards mom keeps givin em to us... and i haaaate popcorn]
-and those god awful pineapples....

hey, at least now i know what it feels like to be a college student.. ahah

ah well, it could be a hell of a lot worse... and i know it'll all be better by the end of the year at the absolute latest....

here's to getting excited about going grocery shopping!

 

I have no money, no gas, no beer, only thing in my fridge is lactaid milk and yogurt for my son. Trust me, being poor gives you heart

 

oh yeah, i forgot the beer

i think everyone should have to do the whole, moving out on your own, being poor thing.. it makes you appreciate the little things a lot more

i may be really really hungry, but honestly i couldnt be any happier

 

well in the big scheme thats all that really matters so YAY FOR YOU!!!!

 

Very true!

 

oh god grocery shopping is the highlight of my -however long i wait to get foods-

 

cant you get ramen noodles? those are so cheap. and imo they're great.
you can get those real cheap frozen pizzas (totinos) and those frozen burritos.
those are always cheap.

at one point when i didnt have any money to afford groceries, i went to my moms house and took a bunch of her change out of her bucket(she saves all her silver change and puts it in her room)when she was at work. i felt bad.

 

I freakin adore canned pineapple!!! Perhaps, I'm way to keen on the poor man's food, afterall I've been choking it down for basically my entire life

 

seriously that truly is the only thing that matters


i love canned pineapple and popcorn, you can live off canned pineapple and popcorn!!

 

While all the college kid shit is tasty and cheap...

Vegetables are pretty goddamn cheap as well. And bulk/dried things.


You have to live like an old mama, like me, if you really want to get along. :H

Throw out the Easy Mac, for the love of Twain. :uhoh2:

 

My fridge contains (estimate):

2 dozen beers, a bottle of hotsauce, a bottle of ranch, bottle of bbq sauce, and probably some old vegetables that have gone bad. My freezer has about 40 pounds of Buffalo.

Dunno. Cooking food that doesn't absolutely suck isn't all that hard. I mean fuck, pasta all you have to do is boil water, heat up sauce, cook some meet, and throw in some vegetables. Way better than fucking KD.

But I've eaten a lot of KD.

 

ewww those totinos pizzas are so gross!!!


but yeah, i went and got some more food.. life is a lot better now

 

by the end of the month, i always just eat omlette... tis cheap and easy to make... as is soup actaully

 

Y'all need to learn how to cook.

 

cooking good meals costs money.

 

It depends on your perspective or definition of good...

But if you learn to buy wholesale/bulk, freeze things, and don't worry about being too picky, it's not that hard to cook cheap meals.

The cheapest way to purchase meats is to just get a quarter shoulder or half... depending on what it is. Buffalo meat has less fat content than venicin or even fish, yet it's cheaper than either when purchased in an annual or bi-annual quantity (even when factoring most hunting/fishing expenditures) and is usually free range and organic, if you know how to buy it. We often go to the comissary in Hampton, VA (Langley Air Force Base) with friends in the military and go grocery shopping there, and try to keep a limit on any Wal-Mart purchases. I do like to go to Trader's Joe's to look at all the good quality merchandise and get their water/noodles, and some breakfast stuff, but there's usually yuppies talking on their bluetooth headsets in there and it gets annoying. Whenever I have constant jobs, I usually just go grocery shopping for myself, as it cuts down expenses on things that my parents think I need but don't...

Otherwise, back to meats... with commercial stuff, all you're doing is paying ridiculous prices for all the growth hormones used in most commercial livestock circles, but most people think it's too complicated or don't see a way around this and that's just how it goes. Yet, you're just paying to keep their processes consistant and for innefficiencies in large scale factory-farming, so I choose to support local family farmers. There are a few certain quakers around here who I like to buy from. Technically, it should always be cheaper to purchase organic things. There's less overhead.... yet, there's a bunch of other little contributing factors that most folks don't really get to see, in most cases... and between the fiddle-faddle, it gets jacked up because people want health food. You couldn't even find green tea ten years ago and most people didn't know about it unless they had cancer or some disease/illness and got into it... or were just into that.

I lived in an RV on a farm and was basically a farmhand for the first 13 years of my life... While my parents (my dad often working 16 hours and still does) both had full-time jobs and I had to go to school. We never had time for ourselves, so we got out of there, though it had remained in my family for a 150+ years. You have no idea how difficult it was to part that place. The plantation house was built in 1775 (I was obsessed with the mule hair and mud walls/square handsmithed nails) and was hit by cannonballs in the revolutionary and civil war... and the fields were estimated to be cleared around the 1400s-1500s by the Powhatan tribe as adjacent land to Chief Powhatan's Werowicomico compound. The college of William & Mary loved to come there and excavate and do archaelogical digs, and eventually, they found several bodies buried with powderhorns and things in this little cleared area in the woods, which became part of a garden.

In fact, the little trail leading into the place was so old and narrow, that it was almost five feet deep from erosion/wear and became a river during heavy rains. Hurricane Floyd of '99 washed the road out and we had to get out of the place with an old fuel truck for the tractor etc., so we had another road properly built.

 

When I want to eat I strip naked and go into the woods and kill myself something.


With my teeth


No but seriously, kill your own food it's free!

 

Yeah... that really is true if you know how to do it minimally...

But, generally, you end up spending more on fishing/hunting gear and bait, if you've done it enough and accounted and averaged it, than if you just went out and bought meats wholesale... or even not.

I tell you this, it's alot cheaper to get four or five fresh speckled trout fillets from the fishhouse I work for than it is to buy a half dozen bloodworms, these days.

And you never really catch much with squid anyway... unless you're at the right place at the right time, fishing for trout, or you cut it into pinky sized strips with a fluke hook. Otherwise, around here, the sharks and skate/rays tend to get it...

And... hunting gear is expensive as shit, but I've always been into both. At one point, we only had a .300 magnum winchester sportster (my dad bought it in Alaska for hunting mountain goats and bears, as it's impossible to live in Alaska and not have at least a .300-.450) and a Browning DB 20 gauge (low power waterfowl gun) and it was buck season... so, guess which one I picked? You could take down a squirrel with that gun and you'd never find it.

 

i'm in college.
i feel your pain.
i can barely support my nicotine addiction!
pot/lsd/alcohol before food.
lol, it's a priority =]

 

Just don't make the pot/lsd a pointless vice like the other two. People tend to do that too much these days and get carried away with everything else going on around them. People view things so vaguely narrow and don't have enough angles to view things, these days... Some technological progression and advancement takes the creativity and charachter out of people.

As for nicotine, I smoke a dozen or two cigars per month, but I figure I'll quit that sometime... as I don't really like tobacco, I just like cigars after I quit smoking blunts so much. Nicotine makes me sick.