Other Poor Folks dollar store/discount food stuffs.

strugglingtobeheard:

nudiemuse:

A short list of stuff that is super handy to have in the house when you are poor. This is stuff we find at places like Big Lots a lot.

Pancake MIx

Bisquick

Cornmeal/cornbread mix

Clearance/dollar store spices

Ramen

Boxes/bags of dry pasta

Bags of dry beans

Bags of rice

Ziploc baggies

Dry mixes for soups, pizza dough etc.

Mac n cheese

Small/medium fake tupperware.

Powder coffee creamer.

Here’s the thing. When you keep stuff like pancake mix or bisquick on hand even if you are out of food/food stamps you have SOMETHING you can eat that you probably only need water and oil or butter for.

Our strategy especially for times when my partner (he is disabled) has a hard time getting out, is we have a lot of non perishables on hand. If you have say three packs of ramen on hand, you can go to the dollar store and get stuff to add in. Canned veg, tuna, eggs, whatever.

Also those zip loc bags, if you make rice put some in said bags to take to work the next day, or to have around to snack on, or to have for breakfast. Wash and reuse bags if you need to.

Things like dollar store mac n cheese are super easy to church up and make taste good. Add in some powdered creamer if you don’t have milk, add bacon bits, add tuna, add left over packets of parmesan cheese from when you got pizza. Use the spices you got on sale or at the dollar store.

This isn’t a cooking skill as much as it is, hey this smells good and I think it would taste good lemme throw it in.

Have kids?

Make biscuits together or pancakes for dinner.

Need to feed three people and only have one can of soup?

Make rice to go with it, make biscuits, make toast. Add ramen noodles.

This is survival eating folks. This is how you eat stuff that tastes reasonably good when you only have 3 dollars to spend on food for a few days.

ALSO important if you have friends who are also poor, go in on stuff together. Pool your money or ebt and buy big bags of pasta, big bags of cheese, six pounds of meat. Check sales papers, go in when you and your friends have money and a lot of stuff is buy one get one.

Live through it so you can eat better later.

super resourceful post. i’ve also found that the dollar store is much better option to buy stuff like aluminum foil, tins, paper towel and toilet paper and tissue, stuff like cleaning supplies etc. they can often be cheap brand shit but not always and the prices tend to be cheaper than the grocery. and they sell cheap spices.