Can you eat cheap if you resort to oatmeal or rice with fermented pickles?

[jennifer_bloom]

I want to save money cause I have a lot of things I want to save for.

[DryGermanGuy]

Save money by cooking yourself and eliminating restaurant visits and take-out food. Eliminate sugar water and buy mineral water by the crate. Buy the main ingredients (rice, pasta, potatoes) in bulk.

[Kryzo]

Eat soup. It is cheaper.

[DJB72]

Eat cheaper by buying an air rifle and hunting rabbit, duck, goose, pigeon and other small game or buy a 3006 hunting rifle and take down an elk or other large herbivore or two.

Add to the table by learning to fish and recognise wild garlic, safe fungi, and grow your own seasonal vegetables, dry them and store for off season or learn how the Victorian era gardens provided fresh peaches and melons for the Christmas table from the garden.

Living cheap is actually very easy. In fact you don't need a job to eat like a king, just to pay the mortgage - but you can do that by selling the surplus crop each month or having a gourmet restaurant on site.

But don't tell the bankers or political leaders. The second they learn we don't need them they'll start a war somewhere and draft all the able bodied men who were self sufficient first.

What? Me? Cynical?

Bet your ass...

[Wise4myage]

That sounds disgusting.