Things you've eat because you've been skint and hungry.......

[kidcreoleandthecoconuts]

I was thinking about this as I tucked into my leftover lamb hotpot for my breakfast this morning what a 'studenty' thing I was doing. And then thought about all the things I used to eat at that time because I was skint/lazy.

Cold baked beans out of the tin after a night out.
Jacket potato and marmite
Dry bread
Pasta and ketchup

As a child my DP used to eat brown sauce sandwiches and raw potatoes out of a nearby field when there was no food in the house.

A bowl of frozen veg & gravy

Just plain mince

Lidl pasty for dinner (bleugh)

toast with shop bought garlic butter

still eat it now when have pmt

Oooh ladyofWaffle - that is my all time favourite comfort food big bowl of frozen peas and beans slowing thawing out in a soup of instant (made with granuels stuff) gravy. I shudder when I think about the salt/fat content a bowlful of gravy would contain!!

for about three weeks we lived off tuna, tinned tomatoes and pasta, three meals a day. The smell of tuna now makes me want to vomit!

A 'feast' of value chocolate digestives & value lemonade

baked potato with tinned sweetcorn, no marg

dry bread

pasta with brown sauce

pasta and mayo (surprisingly nice)

chips and eggs, endless chips and eggs

as a student in catered halls except for lunch we used to steal 2 slices of bread from breakfast and I lived on them and cuppa soups for lunches for 2 years

pasta with salad cream
brown sauce sarnies
mashed spuds & gravy

Stale digestives mixed with powdered milk and boiling water into a kind of porridge.

porridge oats with curry powder

spoonful of jam for pudding

Pasta with ketchup, mayo and oregano was a staple when I was a student.

Dry baked potatoes

gravy and chips

Half eaten Mcdonalds meals swiped from the tables (10 years ago when I was living on the streets)

Food from supermarket skips - we still do this from time to time actually, when there is something nice in there.

ooh ladywaffle, I still do that (frozen veg and gravy)

When I was a student I once spent a couple of weeks eating and drinking nothing but a pint of milk at mid-day as I was so broke!

mum would make a big pot of vegetable soup and we would have that for lunch and tea for up to 3 days with value bread or we could have chips and beans for tea.

AnarchyAunt I have friends who never buy food, they grow their own veg and live on throwaways from M&S and waitrose, it's sickening what gets binned.

They have a far better diet than anyone I know, for free!

Dp would live off Egg and Chips if he could, it was a staple of his diet after he would finish work at Tesco at midnight when he was a student.

My friends and i once burn her oven and microwave down and her parents were away, we ate a packet of stuffing made up with boiling kettle water.

At home we never had much food so everyday for munch we had slae bread with a scraping of value jam on it.

My sisters and i used to eat cups of toast and Gravy.

I still drink Bovril or stock now with some toast to dip in..........

Also mashed up dry weatabix mixed in with marge and sugar. (when mum wasn't looking)

Me and one of the foster children we were looking after got stoned and made a huge bowl of water icing and ate it plain, we were very sick afterwards.

DWP - it is quite horrifying, I don't think people realise exactly how much is thrown out! M&S skips are always fab because they don't reduce food as it nears its sell-by-date. So it just gets chucked

Never done skips but i am always raiding the reduced to clear!

My mate used to buy KFC and pick all the crispy coating off, i used to live off of that when i was on the streets.

cold poatoes and milk with a bit of salt - old Irish thing from my grandad. My flat mate was horrified but we had nothing else.

When I first worked in London I was endlessly skint and would often go home on Friday knowing I had no food until Monday lunchtime. I used to go out to dinner with some really bleur men just so they would feed me

I I am always checking the reduced shelves - regularly fill up the freezer with stuff from there.

torn up stale bread with an oxo cube crumbled on it and boiling water poured over the top. Still have it now. So yummy!!!