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Posted: 10/16/2021 10:50:01 PM EDT
Lived poor as as kid, Kraft single cheese sandwiches were the best.

What was your poor peep food?

Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:51:46 PM EDT
[#1]
Salmon patties or black eyed peas and cornbread.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:51:56 PM EDT
[#2]
Ramen and Kraft Dinner Macaroni
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:52:47 PM EDT
[#3]
Powdered mike. Powdered eggs
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:52:57 PM EDT
[#4]
"I'm just and poor and stupid as you are"


Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:53:01 PM EDT
[#5]
Mashed potatoes with white gravy and a hamburger patty.  I still love this meal.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:53:09 PM EDT
[#6]
F*cking onion and okra "soup" or popcorn. I still won't touch either.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:53:28 PM EDT
[#7]
White trash casserole

2 cans of tuna
2 boxes cheapest mac and cheese
Some crackers

Now do whatever the fuck you feel like with that shit.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:53:29 PM EDT
[#8]
Chipped beef on toast.

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Never again.

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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:53:33 PM EDT
[#9]
Ice soup.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:53:41 PM EDT
[#10]
No name brand tuna and cereal among other items.

Some of my extended family ate government cheese, powdered milk, etc.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:54:46 PM EDT
[#11]
Tuna casserole

Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:55:09 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:55:30 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:55:45 PM EDT
[#14]
White bread, yellow mustard, and chopped onions. Like a hamburger without the meat.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:55:45 PM EDT
[#15]
Pot pies or Tony's pizza. Those open faced cheese sandwiches were around also.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:55:54 PM EDT
[#16]
I curse the degenerate that thought up hamburger helper. Had to eat that crap as a poor kid and often went hungry as I couldn't stand the smell of that shit.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:56:16 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:56:27 PM EDT
[#18]
Cornbread, Hominy , Beans.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:56:31 PM EDT
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No name brand tuna and cereal among other items.

Some of my extended family ate government cheese, powdered milk, etc.
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BEST f*cking grilled cheese sammiches, right there!!!!!!!!
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:56:31 PM EDT
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I curse the degenerate that thought up hamburger helper. Had to eat that crap as a poor kid and often went hungry as I couldn't stand the smell of that shit.
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You got hamburger helper?

Braggart.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:56:44 PM EDT
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White bread, yellow mustard, and chopped onions. Like a hamburger without the meat.
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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:56:51 PM EDT
[#22]
Anyone remember the government peanut butter that came in cans with the white label with a peanut on it? That shit ripped the fuck out of the bread, I couldn't figure it out.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:57:15 PM EDT
[#23]
“Sh!t on a shingle” hamburger gravy on toast. When it was real bad, ramen noodles.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:57:15 PM EDT
[#24]
Fried rabbit

My dad's friend raised them, and we got them uber-cheap. I ate a shitload of fried rabbit in gravy with rice


Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:57:15 PM EDT
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Powdered milk. Powdered eggs
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This. Never liked the cheese though.  
Lots of spaghetti & ramen.  nyc schools gave poor kids lunch. Even in the summer. So I had that.

Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:57:44 PM EDT
[#26]
4 for 1.00 Mac and cheese, ramen, potato’s. 4 for a 1.00 frozen stuff. Burritos, pot pies, etc.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:59:12 PM EDT
[#27]
Cheese-wiz on store brand white bread...

Could eat for a week for 2 bucks
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:59:13 PM EDT
[#28]
Bisquick pancakes for dinner
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:59:29 PM EDT
[#29]
Red beans, rice and cornbread.
Still good stuff.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 10:59:45 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:00:17 PM EDT
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White trash casserole

2 cans of tuna
2 boxes cheapest mac and cheese
Some crackers

Now do whatever the fuck you feel like with that shit.
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Throw some crushed potato chips on top and remember to get the top crusted rock hard,    that meal was a marathon ,clean your plate or go to bed.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:02:06 PM EDT
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Shit on a shingle. I can still taste the salt.
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This!
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:02:39 PM EDT
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Powdered mike. Powdered eggs
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Poor Mike.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:04:12 PM EDT
[#34]
Those cheeeeeaap frozen burritos that were all tortilla with like a tablespoon of chili diarrhea in the middle.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:04:16 PM EDT
[#35]
Nothing in particular, but I do remember Pathmark's brand....

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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:04:31 PM EDT
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Red beans, rice and cornbread.
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.    Also lotsa greens , black eyed peas , squirrel , and pecans . Never felt we was eating poor . Still eat all of it now
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:04:40 PM EDT
[#37]
Can of corned beef hash on a piece of toast, split it with your brother.

Sometimes we'd even get a fried egg on the top.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:04:43 PM EDT
[#38]
I would’ve given my left nut for that cheese on my fat laden cheap ham sandwich.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:05:09 PM EDT
[#39]
You guys got food? Shiiiiiiieeeetttt
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:06:03 PM EDT
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That stuff ain’t that cheap.  But I’m going to make it for breakfast in the morning.  Except with biscuits.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:06:28 PM EDT
[#41]
Bread sandwiches for days. I feel like I probably have altered dna from the insane amount of proccessed food I have consumed in my short life. I ate (and continue to eat) dogshit food for my entire childhood.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:06:54 PM EDT
[#42]
Potato soup.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:07:05 PM EDT
[#43]
Sloppy Joe

Steak-ums

Beans and franks
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:08:54 PM EDT
[#44]
Salmon pie. It was just mashed potatoes with a can of salmon tossed in and baked in a pie. Salmon was cheap back then.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:09:20 PM EDT
[#45]
Grew up eating shreaded potatoes 1 onion and 1 egg with flower made into pancakes deep fried my wop mom called them Belines
made them for my kids after a divorce 20 years ago
Now when they visit they beg for them
Thanks momma

Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:10:20 PM EDT
[#46]
Poor kids are just as good as white kids.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:11:11 PM EDT
[#47]
Deer lots of deer.  Don't care to ever eat another one.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:11:41 PM EDT
[#48]
Fried egg sandwiches.
Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:11:58 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 10/16/2021 11:12:15 PM EDT
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A nice cup of snow coffee would make it a complete meal.
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