Three dollars a day?

[lizbud]

Ever eat mustard sandwiches? How about mashed potato sandwiches?

Not bad, if you're hungry enough.

[Medusa]

How about mashed potato sandwiches?

Ugh! My mother ate that and onion sandwiches w/butter, too. I gag just thinking about it.

[lizbud]

Ugh! My mother ate that and onion sandwiches w/butter, too. I gag just thinking about it.

Well, I must admit I never eaten mashed potato sandwiches, but I did eat the mustard ones & I've also tried an onion sandwich, when my Mom wasn't looking.

[Medusa]

Well, I must admit I never eaten mashed potato sandwiches, but I did eat the mustard ones & I've also tried an onion sandwich, when my Mom wasn't looking.

Did you like them? As a child, I ate lettuce sandwiches but only because we had no money for meat. (Once in a while we'd have surplus Spam and my mother would pack it in my school lunch. It smelled so bad!) Lettuce and mayo on white bread. Now there's a nutritious meal.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Doesn't nutrition matter? You know...fruit, vegetables? Healthy stuff?

Perhaps one wouldn't starve on $101 a month, but I question how healthy they could eat.

[Medusa]

Doesn't nutrition matter? You know...fruit, vegetables? Healthy stuff?

Perhaps one wouldn't starve on $101 a month, but I question how healthy they could eat.

And there's the rub. Fruits and veggies are expensive. Just a couple of ears of corn costs $1, at least here in OH. If you have to feed a family, especially w/kids, it's got to be tough. I'm sure that's why so many low income people are overweight. They eat too many carbohydrates to feel full and comforted but their diet lacks good nutrition.

[Karen]

And there's the rub. Fruits and veggies are expensive. Just a couple of ears of corn costs $1, at least here in OH. If you have to feed a family, especially w/kids, it's got to be tough. I'm sure that's why so many low income people are overweight. They eat too many carbohydrates to feel full and comforted but their diet lacks good nutrition.

The key is looking for what vegies are in season, and buying and storing a lot while they are cheap. This time of year, apples are plentiful - but try buying them in, say, March, and you'll spend a lot more. Also canned or frozen veggies can be good (tomatoes canned, not peas!) and less expensive.

[RICHARD]

Ever eat mustard sandwiches? How about mashed potato sandwiches?

Not bad, if you're hungry enough.

Lol, potato chip and catsup sandwiches rock.....and I have a kitchen filled with food!

Laura,

If you ever need a roomie!

Karen,

You hit on a very vital point- CANNING.

I wish I had the knowledge and the patience to can food. Being on my own it's not really a viable option for me. I'd love to do sauces and pickles, but by the time I'd get around to eating all the stuff?

I saw BEAUTUFUL tomatoes today, three pounds for a dollar! Cukes looked good, so did the onions and bell peppers.

Canned fruits and veggies are not the best option, but in a pinch they will do.

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I had a roomie that went crazy over a Hobo Stew that I put together.

Fried hamburger, tomato sauce, canned veggies and some S and P, garlic and spices.

You would have thought I had cooked steak and lobster. 3 dollars a day is really challenging but it can be done.

Medusa,

I saw an artichoke for 2.99 at one store.

[Hellow]

I like eating Potato Chips and Ketchup, never ate a sandwich of the two before though. Soup is probably the best food you can buy for cheap, homemade can be cheaper than canned.

[DJFyrewolf36]

I've eaten for far less a day and granted it wasn't the best fare but it WAS food.
Anyone ever make tomato soup out of kechup packets and spices?

[Karen]

Lol, potato chip and catsup sandwiches rock.....and I have a kitchen filled with food!

Laura,

If you ever need a roomie!

Karen,

You hit on a very vital point- CANNING.

I wish I had the knowledge and the patience to can food. Being on my own it's not really a viable option for me. I'd love to do sauces and pickles, but by the time I'd get around to eating all the stuff?

But that's the glory of it - you have enough for yourself, and enough to give to friends! (You DO have friends, right?) Though you are in California - which feeds the rest of the country much of its produce, so I am sure you can get stuff cheaper year-round than we in states that have months of time when nothing grows but the snow piles! I don't can anymore, but did as a kid - jellies and jams were the most fun, but pickles were cool, too! Now, sadly, I am allergic to cucumbers, so no pickles for Karen.

It's not hard to do, really - you just need to have the right supplies, and a high tolerance for heat and steam!

[sparks19]

if you have a farmers market near you... You can get good vegetables for less than a dollar for two or three (Like green peppers... at the local farmers market we can get them for .50 a piece of three for a dollar)

or you could get some seeds (even from the vegetables themselves rather than packets) get some potting soil and a tupperware dish and GROW some vegetables.

[RICHARD]

(You DO have friends, right?) !

LOL, I do have the Edster!

I watched my G-MA can and loved it.

Cah lee fuh nee Ah has nifty produce. I can jump into my car and go to Palmdale for fruits or Oxnard for tons of other stuff.

There are some roadside stands that you can shop at but they prices are a little bit steep!

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Tomato soup from k-packs?

NO, but I have been so broke I was PO......I couldn't afford the "OR"!

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[Edwina's Secretary]

Though you are in California - which feeds the rest of the country much of its produce, so I am sure you can get stuff cheaper year-round than we in states that have months of time when nothing grows but the snow piles!

Oddly Karen, produce is more expensive here. As is wine...which is produced in the state as well. I was rather shocked when we moved here at the high prices of groceries.

[Karen]

Oddly Karen, produce is more expensive here. As is wine...which is produced in the state as well. I was rather shocked when we moved here at the high prices of groceries.

Well that's just weird! We get told all the time by environmentalists how we should "buy local" because the cost of transport is built into the cost of food trucked from far away ... To which I say - "Yeah, try finding green vegetables grown "locally" in Massachusetts in February ..." but you'd think when they are only transported a few miles, they'd be far less expensive ...