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- cyberdash, on 03/28/2008, -0/+39For anybody who is about to count, the picture does in fact contain exactly 99 cents.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -3/+26When I was poor as hell, living on my own and had absolute no cash I would scruonge together 4 bucks and buy spaghetti noodles, a generic jar of spaghetti sauce and the cheapest thing of ground beef they had.
I'd eat spaghetti and meatballs everyday for lunch for $4.
Hard to beat the cost to flavor ratio of that.
I'd also buy some generic tortillas, the big bulk can of refried beans, a bottle of hot sauce and some brown rice and eat burritos all week and that would cost a little less then 5 bucks also.
Eating cheap as hell is easy...or was. That was a few years ago. - bxblox, on 03/28/2008, -7/+25Inaccurate title... buried.
- BingoPower, on 03/28/2008, -0/+18"Disparate nibbling yielded several polite, neutral comments. My guests stared off into the mid-distance as if in the throes of Art Appreciation"
If I cooked and my friends did that *****, they'd be ***** out, pretentious *****. - i4ybrid, on 03/28/2008, -1/+17Quite the misleading title...you know how to eat on 99 cents a day? Eat two potatoes and salt. Or straight up ramen it every meal. You'll probably die eventually, so I guess you wouldn't be able to call the thing "surviving on 99 cents"
- ronin688, on 03/28/2008, -1/+17for 18 seconds.......
- brufleth, on 03/28/2008, -0/+13Got some carbohydrates and some protein. While certainly not a balanced diet it could definitely keep you alive for quite a while. You can do a lot worse for the money.
- hollyminkowski, on 03/28/2008, -2/+15You could sleep on a steam grate and eat a white castle.
- TonySki, on 03/28/2008, -0/+11dollar store food is awesome. amazing what you find there compared to the prices at k-mart (***** walmart)
- laughandsing, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9Why does everyone seem to have a problem with cheap food. Some food I have gotten at discount stores is of the same quality or better than in more expensive stores. You can always search for sales and make really good food. And it isnt always bad for you. I dont see why someone would want to pay more for the same thing. It doesnt make sense
- WilliamDavis, on 03/28/2008, -1/+10This guy is boring. He should get a job boiling chicken bones or something.
- hendriks, on 03/28/2008, -0/+9Everything is cheap if your time is free.
- MacEnvy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+8A lot of people in this country live on much worse (or much less) than that. It's still better than Ramen for every meal. You've clearly never been poor.
- ShadyG, on 03/28/2008, -0/+7Yes, it turns out lots of things are very inexpensive if you just steal them.
- MacEnvy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+7A whole week old? Why, they must have had to transcribe it from stone tablets!
- punchinelli, on 03/28/2008, -1/+8This article provided no value whatsoever. It had no conclusion and no real ending. It doesn't even tell you how to survive on 99 cents in New York City. Buried like a bomb shelter!
- urbanight23, on 03/28/2008, -0/+7This is actually kind of silly. Sure the ingredients are 99 cents a piece, but the meals add up to much more than that. I live in central NJ, prices are lower, but fairly close to NYC. My wife and I shop at wegmans which is by no means a thrift type store. By buying fresh in season food, and almost nothing preprepared, we spend less than 5 dollars per person per DAY for ALL groceries (including things like soap, toothpaste, etc). So this person goes to a 99cent store, eats like crap, and still spends more on food than I do. Way to go!
- Takteek, on 03/28/2008, -1/+7With items from a 99 cent store? I doubt it.
- IOIOIOIOIOIOIOI, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6Interesting, but is the steam grate REALLY necessary on a diet of white castle?
- allemande, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6Sure, of course you can live off eating cheap food, and to be honest i'm the kind of person who believes that going out to eat and spending more than 10$ on a full meal is just ridiculous (and to be honest, 10$ is a little much), but i'm not talking about fast food, im talking about real food. Yes, they exist, places that prepare real food for cheap. It's not that easy finding them though, generally the most obvious places to go and eat are the expensive ones. You got to get up, get to know the area you live in, walk around, try, and find all those small hidden restaurants or food places that make delicious food for a lot less $.
I'm not saying that it's difficult to eat less, it's just easier to spend a lot of money, and anyone who lives alone and has to go out grocery shopping and cook for themselves and has the slightest idea of what general health is will know and agree that buying and living off fresh food and vegetables has, sorrowfully, a higher price. - theaceoffire, on 03/28/2008, -2/+8It made cents to me.
- Scottievm, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6Good luck finding one cent anything in NYC.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5Yeah. I was ridiculously poor. Working my ass off 50 hr/wk, then having to stretch 10 bucks out to eat for the week was normal for me at the time.
Getting excited when you think "***** yes! Generic bulk cereal is cheap as hell!" then a minute later realizing "*****. Milk is too expensive." Kinda sucks. - saigumi, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5Ok, so, the guy learned to make gormet-esce meals on the cheap. Wow... what a bit of trop he is.
Growing up, I knew nothing but cheap food. Hell, I still can serve a meal for 4 for a little over a $1.00! Ok, you could just say "Buy Ramen" but that isn't healthy. I'm talking a full nutritional meal here.
Mac + Cheese - $0.25 for the noname stuff.
Can of Cream of Mushroom Soup - $0.25
Can of Tuna - $0.50
Milk + Butter (You only use a little of both), so about $0.25. Milk has been skyrocketing recently, though.
You now have Tuna Noodle Caserole at a cost of a little of a quarter per person. - inactive, on 03/28/2008, -3/+8...or buy 99 pieces of one cent gum and blow your brains out.
- ChrisSennRox, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4"Do you know that organic food contains between 30% and 50% more vitamins and trace elements on average than the food produced with fertilizers and over kinds of poisons that make such a food carcinogenic devoid of nutrients."
do you have a source for this claim? - inactive, on 03/28/2008, -8/+12Too...much...smugness...can't...take it!
Honestly...this is one crappy article, I thought I'd be reading about how you can create a gourmet meal out of 99 cents crap but ended up having to vomit over the misleading title, and the piss poor excuse of what this journalist calls "Writing" - SKick, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4I don't know... A cheap bag of pinto beans, and a bag of potatoes can go for quite a while on very little money. And the possibilities of potatoes extend from mashed to french fried.
- NikRDC, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4This is an interesting article, but you've chosen a very misleading title so I haven't buried it but many people have and probably will.
- inactive, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4Rainman? is that you?
- BuddyDoQ, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4Indeed, I also would have accepted: "Oatmeal Creme Pies, they taste like good."
- Arvin, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4Soylent Green 99¢
Soylent Red 79¢ - appletoapple, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3I love to cook, and I love a bargain, so I thought this article was great. I often shop at Aldi's (a chain grocer). Though while not a 99 cent store, is a great place to find bargains. You can even get gourmet items like imported chocolates, wine and cheeses at low prices. Plus, they always have beautiful fresh roses in stock for $2.99 a half dozen.
- jake1986, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3I guess this might have something to do with prices being lower in podunk Mississippi, but my groceries end up being about $2.00 per person per day including everything.
- hollyminkowski, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3I don't know from healthy but it would be rough on the people around him...pheww
[thunderous flatus alert] - g33b33, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3buried. inaccurate title.
- ISIfunded911, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3There is one big problem that most people ignore about the effects of an unbalanced diet: the brain suffers. Watch this fascinating conference by Russell Blaylock, M.D., which draws on hundred on studies to explain how much industrial food influences our behaviors:
http://www.livevideo.com/video/ConspiracyCentral/1 ...
Scary! You won't look at the food in the supermarket the same way after that! - RickyBarnes1960, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4Always, when I do my shopping, I'm looking to feed my body - not the egos of the people around me. I shop at dollar stores, thrift stores, Half-Price books, you name it to maximize on the dollar. On the subject of feeding egos, I think we've far too long fed the egos of the large corporations who wish to charge us whatever the hell they want to for what amounts usually to useless crap. These people will be out of business when the bulk of available consumers actually thinks first before opening their wallets. We can survive and survive very happily on far less than most of us do - me included.
- leonwehttam, on 03/28/2008, -2/+5FTA "particularly young Debbie’s Oatmeal Creme Pies, whose velvety filling so perfectly captures an imagined marriage between buttercream frosting and Noxzema."
i think i threw up a little in my mouth..... - Gutterpunk, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Glad to see that you devote every waking moment of your time to finding a cure to aids! Amazing that you find time to post anything...
- arcsbite, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2hardly a full nutritional meal though
- Spirckle, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Hmmm. nobody was thinking about ego until you mentioned it.
- DavX, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Your friend is an *****..
- diggopolous, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2It was a typo - let it slide. they meant feeding other people Eggo's not egos.
- diggopolous, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2et tu ....too....much....snarkiness.....must.....visit....gawker
- Jektal, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2It's just the writer's attempt at sensationalism.
Oatmeal Creme Pies are actually quite tasty, just not gourmet-level like this ***** and his friends seemed to expect from everything. - diggopolous, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Listen you F'ing BUM and tell this to you little cowardy friend - The next time he tries to mix it up with us "yorkies" there are certain parts of the city where I advise him not to do the dine and dash. We are - quite contrary to the rep - quite a friendly trusting bunch of citizens- most
of the bad rep comes from transplants from elsewhere "trying to mix it up with us Yorkies" by
thinking being rude is what "yorkies" do. BTW I also advise you to avoid a slap in the face and not call anyone here "yorkies" on your next visit. - lordsandwich, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2There's one next to the Empire State Building, and another somewhere between Penn Station and Port Authority.
- laughandsing, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2My jugdement is on the basis of taste and caloric intake. Depending on which food it actually is. I am not convinced that organic food is completely better for you. Unless you are researching each companies definition of organic. But I guess if you do have the money to spend on all organic products its worth it. But those of us trying to make ends meet will have to deal with the other products on the market.
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