I like the creamy chicken ramen, I drain half of the water, add butter, the seasoning packet, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, strips of leftover nori and a soft boiled egg. A restaurant quality meal for less than a dollar :-)
It depends how broke we are talking about. If we're talking like "just out of college and in crippling debt" broke, my go-to would be crockpot meals. I'd get extremely cheap/tough slabs of meat, cook them in the crock pot following a recipe and seasoned to taste, and just eat the same meal over and over until I have to make a new batch. My roommate did this in college. The upside is that he saved a lot of money and the apartment smelled great. The downside is that it meant all his food was the same sort of crockpot mush, and he had to eat the same meal over and over again, since crockpots cook in bulk. I also like making clam chowder.
If a crockpot isn't an option, I go to the huge packs of cheap-as-crap frozen chicken breasts (...sponsored by Tyson). I then defrost them a bit, pan fry them, and I season them however I want. I like to have it with some toasted bread and some sort of sauce. The frozen chicken usually is dry as hell, so it's important to have some sort of sauce with it. This gives you a good amount of variability, because you can season it in different ways (i.e. teriyaki sauce, standard salt and pepper, herbs if you have them). It's a little more expensive than a crockpot, but provides greater variety. If you're lazy, you can just go with the pre-breaded chicken and oven fry it, but it makes it more monotonous.
If I can afford a little more, I'd go with some mac and cheese + some sort of cheap meat. Don't go for kraft, but either get store brand, or better yet, go for a value pack of macaroni and just make some at a time. Add cheese/butter/milk after. Regarding cheap meat, typically frozen chicken works. You can go with popcorn chicken if you don't want to spend effort cooking. Ground beef is nicer, but it is more expensive. After everything is done, you can either eat it as is, or, if you're like me and want the full bachelor meal experience, add barbecue sauce as the special ingredient. Sweet Baby Ray is probably my favorite BBQ band for it still being cheap/flavorful. Add some salt/pepper, and boom, you got yourself several meals.
I resist going to ramen because of the sodium, but if I do get it, I often go for the full sealed packs, not just the cheap packs. The full sealed packs have a ton more flavor than the cheap ones + some veggies and stuff, and they're still generally only a dollar or whatnot. I find them more worth it.
I think I can finally say with confidence that I’ve had my last struggle meal, lawdwillin’, haha. But I’ll still make one from time to time til the day I die cuz I keeps it real like that. My go-to was always pancakes/waffles with the “just add water” mix, and I’d spring for some bacon and syrup. I mean, what better way to commemorate me spending the last of my money on keeping the electricity on than firing up the ol’ waffle iron, lmao.
My other favorite: Stupid Noodles, a variation on Ramen, as shown by former NFL running back Chris Johnson and his boy Pressure Dommer.
Step 1: brown the sausage Step 2: dump him Step 3: watch it calm down Step 4: listen to the noodles, *tsssshhhhh* Step 5: fry the noodles Step 6: flip him Step 7: cut him Step 8: move him Step 9: hit him wit da sawce Step 10: when him get hit wit’ him... him gone. Him over wit’. Step 11: whip him Step 12: flip him Step 13: SQUEEZE Step 14: him done Step 15: bowl him Step 16: eat him
I actually don’t even care if it didn’t taste good, I would just listen to these two dudes talk about literally anything lmao.
Mexican Rice. Just without all the extras Simply if you need to really cheap just rice, canned (Mexican Style) for every cup 1 spoonful. And if you like things really seasoned add other seasonings you like and either tomato paste with water or tomato sauce/puree. again it does make quite a few meals.
Cereal! Cheap, tasty, filling, and doesn't require cooking lol Cold cuts are good too
Now when I was in college, my struggle meal was taco bell! We lived off that dollar menu they used to have back in the day: you could get enough food to last all day for under 5 dollars! LOL
Hahaha lol your so funny.😂😂😂😂. But very true your right. This is the 4 for 4 deal they have. This is my fat cheap food to eat. Cheap college food is Ramon noodles, rice and beans, pasta and any type of noodles. I eat that to from time to time.
I never faced something like that cause I came from a wealthy family but I love Ramens, and cup noodles a way more than any other food. I can eat if a way more than any expansive meal. What’s so funny is that my classmates thought that I was lying when I said that my dad was a ceo cause I was always buying those noodles, wherever we go out. 😂
When I was deep in the struggle, I used to buy 2 packs of ground pork and then cook and eat tacos day and night because the shells, cheese, salsa, lettuce could be found at the dollar store and good old cereal and milk for breakfast, and those tiny apples you can get like 4 for a dollar. So my grocery bill was like $15 a week.
Tortilla shell and canned chicken. Neither need to be refrigerated or warmed up. Ramen noodles with sliced cheese and slim Jim's Cold Hot dog on sliced bread Garlic bread made from sliced bread, butter, and garlic powder.
Your married or does have a man... Shouldn't he be feeding you and taking good care of you, because a man's duty is to bring the food for the house and takw care of his girl...
Never really hit that point thankfully But if so I'd " taboula " Lebanese and " koshari " Egyptian they're pretty cheap and really really can fill you up
For $5.00 I can get a whole bag of leg quarters $2.00 gets me a loaf of bread and 99 cents gets me a bottle of hot sauce $2.00 gets me a bottle of vegetable oil I can eat for 4 days off $10 and it was good tried romen noodle but they never filled me up and I would be hungry asf later lol
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