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Posted: 8/25/2016 1:09:51 AM EDT

Made this up for dinner. A drizzle of sriracha and you're gtg.

Takes me back to my childhood. Anyone else still enjoy poor/childhood meals? Bologna sammiches? Ramen?

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:11:59 AM EDT

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That is a quesadilla, essentially. My six year old had about a 4-month period where that was all he wanted to eat.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:13:36 AM EDT

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Try a toasted flour tortilla with cream cheese.

My South America nanny use to make them for me. Mmmmm mm

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:15:20 AM EDT

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cinnamon toast

dad would occasionally eat leftover rice with milk and sugar, old FDR economy trick
from his childhood

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:17:28 AM EDT

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We put them in a toaster oven with jalapeno jack cheese.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:21:13 AM EDT

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I did that too!

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:24:57 AM EDT

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Toast some white sandwich bread then add butter and sugar

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:26:20 AM EDT

[#7]

Fried egg with the yolk broken and cooked on white bread with mayo and salt/pepper

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:27:36 AM EDT

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Breast milk when I was a baby. Boogers when I was a toddler. PB&J the remainder of my childhood.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:28:41 AM EDT

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Toast with Karo syrup.
Poor mans waffles.

Life was tight there for a while for my folks, but I think it taught me more than having it all would have.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:29:03 AM EDT

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Throw a bunch of random canned foods and chicken in a crock pot, return 10 hours later.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:29:31 AM EDT

[#11]

Chop some green onion and tomato up and roll that dude up, even better

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:32:00 AM EDT

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Tuna sandwiches (Tuna, chopped olives, mayo, bread)
Bagged soup mixes (throw leftover meat/veggies in)

Camp burritos: (Canned refried beans, Canned spicy Nacho Cheese, Canned shredded chicken or roast beef, Cheap tortillas)
That makes four big ass burritos that don't require refrigeration before cooking.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:38:59 AM EDT

[#13]

Store brand shells and cheese. Can wolf chili.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:52:35 AM EDT

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Microwaved tortillas taste funny. Cook them on the griddle

Rice and Bean burritos for dinner were common in my house growing up.

When things weren't as tight sometimes they had meat in them

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:55:10 AM EDT

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Pasta with jelly

Beans and hot dogs

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:55:23 AM EDT

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Bread and bologna; bread, butter and sugar; pintto beans and corn bread,; potato soup; mayonaisse sandwches; sliced cheese sandwiches.

ETA: boiled cabbage only, egg salad sandwiches, popcorn, there's more, letme remember.

ETA2: you kids gnaw onthose (pork chop) bones, they're good!

ETA3 PBJ; babnanas and PB; peanut butterand mayo, peanut butter. Poor food abounds with an air force seargent and 5 kids.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:56:32 AM EDT

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Mac and cheese with hotdogs cut up and mixed in.....

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:57:06 AM EDT

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If you have a gas stove and a pair of tongs, you can heat tortillas on the stove burner. Only takes a few seconds a side.

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:00:14 AM EDT

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tomato soup and noodles.

boil water, add noodles, cook 'till almost done, drain most of the water (no rinse), add can of tomato soup, add enough water to make it "soupy", heat until soup is hot.

love ramen still, or mac an cheese (well, velveeta shells and cheese anyway).

my mom made something we called "the basic casserole" and i want to say it was hamburger, noodles, ketchup. now that i'm thinking of it i need to get what it exactly was because that sounds good right now!

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:02:02 AM EDT

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dad would occasionally eat leftover rice with milk and sugar, old FDR economy trick
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I did that too!

i remember having this at school as dessert! i always had a feeling it was whatever rice was left over from the previous days or something with a ton of sugar and cinnamon added. but i loved it!

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:04:29 AM EDT

[#21]

Alphabet pasta with ketchup

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:05:41 AM EDT

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Also this.

Minus tongs.

No reason to microwave tortillas.

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:05:45 AM EDT

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Why wouldn't you fold it in half, and put some picante sauce on top?

For a change, I'd put some of those buddig brand shaved deli meats in there, then eat it with a smear if mayo and mustard.

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:10:33 AM EDT

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Tortilla and cheese fried in butter in a cast iron skillet, we didn't have a microwave.

Cinnamon and sugar toast.

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:11:01 AM EDT

[#25]

Leftover rice with hot green tea poured over it. Often a lunch -- Ochazuke

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:26:51 AM EDT

[#26]

Potted meat, rag bologna, hoop cheese, gov cheese ect ect....

Posted: 8/25/2016 3:12:22 AM EDT

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Tried that as a kid from watching the TV show Family Affair ( I think ) .

Posted: 8/25/2016 3:32:10 AM EDT

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Hamburgers. We fed out 100 head of beef every year. Beef was free. I starting cooking 2 hamburgers for a snack when I was 11.

Posted: 8/25/2016 3:32:22 AM EDT

[#29]

Peanut butter (no jelly) sandwiches, with maple syrup mixed into the peanut butter.

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:26:14 AM EDT

[#30]

Pizza bread, in the oven, White bread, tomato sauce, cheese. We thought that we had it pretty good.

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:44:25 AM EDT

[#31]

Gruel

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:48:56 AM EDT

[#32]

Fill a bowl with warm water. Throw crackers into it. Add some salt, pepper, and hot sauce. Eat.

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:58:52 AM EDT

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slice of bread, ketchup, slice of american cheese, microwaved. pizza...

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:03:09 AM EDT

[#34]

top ramen and instead of putting the spice pack in, cook it plain, then add ketchup, enough to coat all the noodles really well.

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:05:01 AM EDT

[#35]

Chili (without beans) and Rice...

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:09:26 AM EDT

[#36]

I throw a tortilla in the microwave, sprinkle some cheese on it.. Melt/roll it up and continue on with my day. Great to go snack.

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:14:08 AM EDT

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I throw a tortilla in the microwave, sprinkle some cheese on it.. Melt/roll it up and continue on with my day. Great to go snack.

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Yeah I roll mine up too, OP is weird.

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:36:20 AM EDT

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Made this up for dinner. A drizzle of sriracha and you're gtg.

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Takes me back to my childhood. Anyone else still enjoy poor/childhood meals? Bologna sammiches? Ramen?

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A girl I used to know always made that as her drunk food. I remember it tasting pretty good at the time. Damn it, now I'm hungry!

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:50:27 AM EDT

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Bake tater tots, lay 'em in a casserole dish, add a layer of cheap, cooked hamburger meat. Sprinkle generously with .gov cheese, cook at 350F for 10 minutes.

Wife calls it "Trailer Trash Casserole", but my kids loved it growing up.

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:51:51 AM EDT

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Posted: 8/25/2016 5:52:04 AM EDT

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Pizza bread, in the oven, White bread, tomato sauce, cheese. We thought that we had it pretty good.

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This. My mom did it with English muffins once, and it ended up so good we didn't know it was poor food.

Anybody else do fried baloney? I grew up with it, and I've never met anybody else who's ever had it. Fried baloney sandwiches were awesome growing up.

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:56:11 AM EDT

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These:

Posted: 8/25/2016 6:02:45 AM EDT

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About 4 of those cheap steamer hot dogs. sliced really thin and microwaved for a few minutes until chewy. Then dipped in ketchup.

Posted: 8/25/2016 6:03:26 AM EDT

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Poor times: Beans and Chile and Tortillas

Poorer Times: Beans and Tortillas

Poorest times: Beans

Also for lunch it was Mustard and white bread sometimes.

Occasionally we got to get Hardee's hamburgers. 10 for $1. We would get twenty of them and put our own lettuce with Commodity Cheese. Only occasionally though.

Posted: 8/25/2016 6:06:26 AM EDT

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This. My mom did it with English muffins once, and it ended up so good we didn't know it was poor food.

Anybody else do fried baloney? I grew up with it, and I've never met anybody else who's ever had it. Fried baloney sandwiches were awesome growing up.

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Pizza bread, in the oven, White bread, tomato sauce, cheese. We thought that we had it pretty good.

This. My mom did it with English muffins once, and it ended up so good we didn't know it was poor food.

Anybody else do fried baloney? I grew up with it, and I've never met anybody else who's ever had it. Fried baloney sandwiches were awesome growing up.

Heck yeah. Put a few slices of American cheese in between the baloney. Good eating right there. Then grille the bread. Heart attack heaven.

Posted: 8/25/2016 6:07:16 AM EDT

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blue gill

Posted: 8/25/2016 6:20:29 AM EDT

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Anybody else do fried baloney? I grew up with it, and I've never met anybody else who's ever had it. Fried baloney sandwiches were awesome growing up.

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We did it. I still do it for breakfast on occasion.

Posted: 8/25/2016 6:26:55 AM EDT

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We did it. I still do it for breakfast on occasion.

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Anybody else do fried baloney? I grew up with it, and I've never met anybody else who's ever had it. Fried baloney sandwiches were awesome growing up.

We did it. I still do it for breakfast on occasion.

Fried baloney wrapped in a heated corn tortilla was one of my go to after school meals.