Poverty Food

[DnD]

Share cheap and easy recipes for teh Starving Student in all of us :P

Sometimes I make Aros Cubanos, which is spanish for Cuban Rice, I guess. My brother brought this recipe home from Spain.

some cooked rice,
a couple fried eggs
some pasta sauce.

Scoop cooked rice on plate, drape fried egg over rice like so, and pour over with warmed pasta sauce. Voila! A healthy and cheap meal that can fill you up. It can be a bit plain but if you do the sauce up with some onions garlic and celery, it's actually pretty good.


Anybody else got any recipes?

[KACK]

what kind of rice do you use?

[Nazkyn]

Haricots sur le toast -

Ingredients -

2 slices of bread (white works best)
X grams of margerine/butter
1 tin of beans

Open tin of beans upside-down and pour into microwaveable dish, cook on full power for 3 minutes in a 650 watt oven, 2 and a half in a 750 watt and 2 in an 850 watt accordingly. Whilst the beans are heating up, pop your 2 slices of bread under the grill until golden, remove, and then butter. Wait until the microwave pings and then remove the dish with a tea towel (very important) and pour beans over bread. Oh, and remember a plate.

[Jacx]

Haricots sur le toast -

Ingredients -

2 slices of bread (white works best)
x grams of margerine/butter
1 tin of beans

Open tin of beans upside-down and pour into microwaveable dish, cook on full power for 3 minutes in a 650 watt oven, 2 and a half in a 750 watt and 2 in an 850 watt accordingly. Whilst the beans are heating up, pop your 2 slices of bread under the grill until golden, remove, and then butter. Wait until the microwave pings and then remove the dish with a tea towel (very important) and pour beans over bread. Oh and remember a plate.

Food of Kings

[Nazkyn]

Food of Kings

That or toasties ;)

[Dymond]

Top Ramen.. Make it as usual.. Drain the extra water and mix in an egg or two while the noodles are still hot.

[KACK]

Top Ramen.. Make it as usual.. Drain the extra water and mix in an egg or two while the noodles are still hot.

i did that thursday then got a fever

[the squid of despair]

Haricots sur le toast -

Ingredients -

2 slices of bread (white works best)
X grams of margerine/butter
1 tin of beans

Open tin of beans upside-down and pour into microwaveable dish, cook on full power for 3 minutes in a 650 watt oven, 2 and a half in a 750 watt and 2 in an 850 watt accordingly. Whilst the beans are heating up, pop your 2 slices of bread under the grill until golden, remove, and then butter. Wait until the microwave pings and then remove the dish with a tea towel (very important) and pour beans over bread. Oh, and remember a plate.

What kind of beans?

[the squid of despair]

What kind of beans?


...

[Nazkyn]

Baked beans. I dunno what cheapo stores you have over there but i'm sure you could pick some tins up for the equivalent of 12p in Canadian cents (Y)

[Spork!!!]

potatoes. rice is also cheap and filling, but hungry again an hour later and only carb and fibre, very little vitamins or minerals, unlike ther humble spud (with skin) which provides almost everything and fills the belly for much longer.

Also, as a starving student (long ago...) I found the beef pieces from the pet food supplier were 1/2 the price of similar meat from the butcher and made perfectly good stews.

Poverty Pizza is bread (can use stale) lightly toasted one side, then "raw" side spread with tomato paste and cover with cheese. Sprinkle some oregano. If the budget allows, a couple slices of hot salami, then grill until cheese melts.

[Tca]

potato

mash er up and wrap ham or devon around it

cheap and effective :D

[Nazkyn]

Oh... and that brings me to another point to save cash, Cam :)

Instead of smoking majijuana, you can smoke oregano! it tastes almost the same.

[KACK]

this is something my made for me when i was young.

you need 2 slices of bread. put a slice of cheese on one of the breads then put some salsa on it. i like hot salsa so thats what i put on. put the other peice of bread on top of the salsa. grill it and eat it hot.

[the squid of despair]

Haricots sur le toast -

Ingredients -

2 slices of bread (white works best)
X grams of margerine/butter
1 tin of beans

Open tin of beans upside-down and pour into microwaveable dish, cook on full power for 3 minutes in a 650 watt oven, 2 and a half in a 750 watt and 2 in an 850 watt accordingly. Whilst the beans are heating up, pop your 2 slices of bread under the grill until golden, remove, and then butter. Wait until the microwave pings and then remove the dish with a tea towel (very important) and pour beans over bread. Oh, and remember a plate.

I've recently tried this. Delicious!

[Santo]

I've recently tried this. Delicious!


homeless now?? :unsure:

[Nazkyn]

homeless now?? :unsure:

Oi! Beans on toast is a British icon and could be referred to as a delicacy on this little island... although I agree that we Brits eat like homeless people (Y)

I can imagine beans on toast being a popular choice in 'soup kitchens' across the nation.

[Tca]

Oi! Beans on toast is a British icon and could be referred to as a delicacy on this little island... although I agree that we Brits eat like homeless people (Y)

I can imagine beans on toast being a popular choice in 'soup kitchens' across the nation.

beans on toast is popular here too

not just among homeless people

as they usually spend their hard earned cents on goon......

[Spork!!!]

Sheep.
easy to catch, slaughter and butcher. Free ones probably not an option if there aren't any farms nearby...

[TraPStaR]

learn to buy things cheaply at markets and do some prep work yourselfves and not have to eat cheap, but like kings...

poor in college i learned to buy chicken in a 8 pack of the breast and tenderloin($5.99), all you need to do it cut away the breast and tenderloin, then cook how you like it... then freeze what you dont use.

Also at markets you can pick up many veggies and cheaper meats to make some great meals... normally around my area they are saturday AM's early...

also save the fat, skin and bones from the chicken and buy some egg noodles and boil the stuff all together... just add some starch to thicken the cheap brother!

hope this helps a few of you fellas!

[Nazkyn]

beans on toast is popular here too

not just among homeless people

as they usually spend their hard earned cents on goon......

You basically are a Brit though! :eng:

[Q80Thug]

1x instant noodles in a bowl (sea food flavour)
1x canned tuna slices (or your over the counter tuna can)
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add boiling water to noodles
wait 4 mins
top with tuna
wait additional 2 mins
enjoy :D

[Spork!!!]

Asian food.
Rice is cheap. Veg. are cheap if you buy from the right place or even grow your own, and although beef and lamb are costly, and even the humble chicken may be too expensive, the traditional meat, red and white, is common practically everywhere. woof/meow:P

[fukinguy]

Here's an oldie but goodie! My ma used to call it shit on a shingle.

1/2 a loaf of white bread (toast it)
1x can of spinich
1x can of creme of mushroom soup
2x Hard Boiled Eggs

Drain spinich and put in a medium pan on medium heat. Add creme of mushroom until desired thickness. The more soup, the less thick it will be. Heat it up until hot. Put two pieces of bread on a plate. Shovel the cremed spinich on it. Mash the Hard boiled eggs up and sprinkle the top. Feeds 4 to 5 people.

[Zeus]

Here's an oldie but goodie! My ma used to call it shit on a shingle.

1/2 a loaf of white bread (toast it)
1x can of spinich
1x can of creme of mushroom soup
2x Hard Boiled Eggs

Drain spinich and put in a medium pan on medium heat. Add creme of mushroom until desired thickness. The more soup, the less thick it will be. Heat it up until hot. Put two pieces of bread on a plate. Shovel the cremed spinich on it. Mash the Hard boiled eggs up and sprinkle the top. Feeds 4 to 5 people.


Ive seen this done with reconstituted dried chipped beef aswell.

[fukinguy]

Do they put the dried chipped beef in instead of spinich, or with the spinich?