being young and broke sucks

NateS · #1 03-03-2011, 03:54 AM

from first-hard experience...

food or gas?

hover · #2 03-03-2011, 03:57 AM

neither is good for you. kraft dinner is more filling and less salty. sure, it requires more ingredients, but...

i_got_a_mohawk · #3 03-03-2011, 04:04 AM

You have a car, you ain't that broke

TortillaChip520 · #4 03-03-2011, 04:13 AM

Dude. Broke @$$ 18 year old college student here.
Step one: 2 Loaves of garlic bread - $4
Step two: Mozzarella cheese - $4
Step three: Tomato sauce - $3
Step four: Pepperonis - $3
Step five: ??????
Step six: Profit (a.k.a. pizza bread)

Your initial cost will be fourteen bucks, but you can make 4 pizza breads, making it $3.50 a meal (if you eat a whole half a loaf, which is HUGE).

i_got_a_mohawk · #5 03-03-2011, 04:16 AM

Chicken, beef or pork + veg + noodles or rice = awesome cheap stirfry

which can be done pretty cheap!

machine gewehr · #6 03-03-2011, 04:22 AM

Buy gas,steal food,hit the floor.

When you have money,go back and apologize and pay them.

I'm full of good advices today...

Simo98 · #7 03-03-2011, 04:22 AM

Potatoes!

fenderhutz · #8 03-03-2011, 04:47 AM

Buy a 4 dollar giant bag of cheap mixed veggies (or veg all in the can). Only use half of the Ramen flavor pack and add a half teaspoon salted butter product. Turns Ramen into a less salty veggie filled meal.

Jonyak · #9 03-03-2011, 06:29 AM

You might find, when you are old and not so broke, you will look back on those days of being young and broke, and miss them.

Relic · #10 03-03-2011, 06:30 AM

Ramen is great and dollar stores rock. Just sayin

Phalex · #11 03-03-2011, 06:39 AM

Rice and beans man, rice and beans......

Skitch it! · #12 03-03-2011, 06:43 AM

Good time to go vegetarian for a bit I've found in the past, stews and stuff you can use over 2 days, sardines/nuts for protein, thrift stores, bartering etc.

Put your reflective experience into improving your bass playing, and maybe start teaching a few students? Paying gigs etc, make that instrument your salvation, put the time in ; )

jugglingfreak · #13 03-03-2011, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Skitch it!

Good time to go vegetarian for a bit

I've been there. Back when I was young and my mom and dad had gotten divorced. My mom and I were BROKE..

I was a forced vegetarian for about 6 months..

The stew idea is good, as well as rice and beans. Another trick, make rice, but use half the amount of water and make up the other half with chicken broth. Add some mushrooms if desired.

Rice with stewed tomatoes on top is good too.

And Ramen is always a good cheap stand by. Which is why I don't eat it anymore.. I had my fill of Ramen back then too.

And, just for the record, being broke sucks. Young or old..

Diogenes · #14 03-03-2011, 08:11 AM

I'm older and financially secure but have very fond memories of being young and broke.

Mac and Cheese is just plain crap don't wast money and time on it... at least Ramen is a decent cheap filler. However, nothing beats real food.

As a young student in the city I was able to get free vegetables from the dumpsters of grocery stores. Yes it sounds horrible but I'm not talking about rotten produce tossed on top of the filth in a dumpster. The produce that some grocery stores throw out is usually still days away from being rotten and is sealed in bags. Know who they are and their schedule or even talk to them about when they throw the stuff out. I'd get home, weed out the unacceptable stuff, clean the good, throw it in a pot and make a stew that could last me for days. I'd fill my belly with nutritious food instead of a bunch of crap.

The same applies to bakeries and other such stores... a lot of good but unsellable food is thrown out.

It's down to honing a city boy's survival skills.

WilliamJames · #15 03-03-2011, 08:12 AM

Beans, you can get 3 or 4 meals for under a dollar that are not damned ramen and are good for you. Split pea soup is a winner and lentils too. Rice, add anything to it. A pound of dried beans is 75 cents to a dollar fifty. Learn how to cook a little, you will save a ton.

If you cannot boil water just buy canned cooked beans, add canned tomatoes with spices or veggies = 2 meals for a buck fifty.

That powdered cheese stuff is bad for you, so is ramen. For very little more, you can make a good meal. If you learn to cut coupons and shop right, you can make a great meal. If you fail completely, try the local food pantry. I have done it many times. I guarantee there are several places in your town distributing day old bread. If you go without bread, you are just lazy.

mkandolf · #16 03-03-2011, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonyak

You might find, when you are old and broke, you will look back on those days of being young and broke, and miss them.

- fixed

BassJunkie · #17 03-03-2011, 08:21 AM

Eat a 3/4 cup of oatmeal in the morning and you'll be full for the first 5 hours of your day. Unless you're burning a ton of calories doing something else, in which case you should lower the action on your bass.

Diogenes · #18 03-03-2011, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by BassJunkie

Eat a 3/4 cup of oatmeal in the morning and you'll be full for the first 5 hours of your day. Unless you're burning a ton of calories doing something else, in which case you should lower the action on your bass.

FTW! LOL!

UncleFluffy · #19 03-03-2011, 08:36 AM

From the top of my head. All of these I've done when broke:

Rice + Beans

Bean soup w/ one slice of bacon cut fine into it

Turkey burgers (cheap frozen ground turkey cut 50/50 with oatmeal, add 1/2 a beef cube for flavour)

Finely chopped fried onion + spices mixed in with mashed potatoes into patties then fried a second time

$5 Rotisserie chicken + whatever veg you can find that is on special, stretch the meat across 4 meals, use the carcass to make stock for soup and/or boosting your rice.

Keep your eye out for specials, learn when places near you mark stuff down.

Rebecky · #20 03-03-2011, 08:37 AM

Over here the supermarkets sell 14p tins of spaghetti in tomato sauce. Get a loaf of bread, some cheese if you're feeling fancy... I have half a tin and two slices of bread for each meal so for a 70p loaf of bread (medium slice, I assume about 20 slices in a loaf?) by my maths that's £1.40 for 10 meals!

But it is horribly full of salt and other bad things so I wouldn't eat that all week! Those big bags of frozon veg are a good idea, I've also seen frozen stir-fry vegetables for pretty cheap, throw them with some of those nasty cheap noodles and you can't go far wrong.

I've seen some dirt cheap curry sauces too... I used to buy this 8p tinned curry sauce which was enough for 4 servings. Get some cheap rice, frozen stir fry veg, quorn chicken if I'm feeling fancy... Sorted! Not particuarly tasty though.

Those microwave meals some people live on are a total rip off and are really unhealthy, I don't get it...