Plain tortilla + a bit of cheese + chopped tomatoes, microwave it for a few seconds (enough to melt the cheese a bit but not to make the tomatoes mushy) = budget foodgasm for me. So simple yet so good. Or couscous with tomatoes, cheese and basil. Similarly simple, similarly delicious.
I remember finding wild scallions. I was so excited. I found food. So I picked a bunch of scallions and put them in the fridge —so there was food in the fridge (scallions). Not so much a meal, I guess, but I was 7.
Now, when I was 18, living on my own, my struggle meal was bagels. Bagel sandwiches, dry toasted bagels, plain bagels-—every now and then (when my soon to be mother-in-law took pity on us and bought us cream cheese) bagels with cream cheese. You see, the local bagel shop donated their day old bagels to the local head start (where on of us worked) and we were allowed to have whatever breads the parents didn’t take (usually amounted to garbage bags full of bagels). We ate a lot of bagels.
Cereal is hella expensive and not a struggle meal. Switch it out for white corn porridge.
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Also, both peanut butter and jelly on bread? Nuh-uh fam, choose.
Sure as heck wasn't any of these. Regular food was spaghetti and ketchup with toast, porridge was our it's-tough-right-now-kids-dinner and for struggling times we had fill-up-at-school.
Now, when I was 18, living on my own, my struggle meal was bagels. Bagel sandwiches, dry toasted bagels, plain bagels-—every now and then (when my soon to be mother-in-law took pity on us and bought us cream cheese) bagels with cream cheese. You see, the local bagel shop donated their day old bagels to the local head start (where on of us worked) and we were allowed to have whatever breads the parents didn’t take (usually amounted to garbage bags full of bagels). We ate a lot of bagels.
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Also, both peanut butter and jelly on bread? Nuh-uh fam, choose.