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Skanky budget foods that rock your world

the other day i had a day off so went to the local leisure centre for a swim and a sauna - first time in years - a real shock to the system!

After, I felt compelled to quickly undo any health benefits by picking up a can of (sainsburys) beans 'n meatfree hotdogs, along with a particularly oily and flakey jamaican patty - the memory still tastes good three days later!
 
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When I did my wrist in, I couldn't mash potatoes for about three years or so, so I got by with instant mash (although with a big fat blob of butter and preferably a dollop of grainy mustard).

And sometimes I liked the macaroni cheese ready meals from the fridges as comfort food stodge, but then one day I realised you could buy tins for about a third or a quarter of the price, so acquired a tinned macaroni cheese habit.

Beans and veggies sausages! Yum! Reminds me of childhood, but I ate the meat versions back then. When I was last home in the UK, I noticed that Asda had just started doing a veggie version and I bought four cans.

Every year, around September time, I get cravings for beef and tomato pot noodles. It's that time of year, reminds me of student welcome packs, reminds me that I haven't had one for months, so I just have to satisfy the urge.

Every now and then I have a veggie fake pork pie from Holland & Barrett, because it reminds me of weekends at my grandparents as a child, when we used to have a picnic-type afternoon tea, with slices of pork pie, sandwiches, and freshly baked scones and stuff. Like the chutney idea. Will try that next time.

I think that's about it. :o
 
Love the way people are just naming my regular diet as their 'skanky' alternatives. Guess your all to busy dining on fillet steak and caviar inbetween poor peoples food:mad:
 
Thora said:
Tinned macaroni cheese mixed together with baked beans is amazing :cool:
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Ooh, get you, fancy gourmet cooking! :p

Not sure whether I'll be able to bring myself to try mixing up one of the tins of macaroni cheese with the beans and veggie sausage I have sitting in my cupboard back home... can't decide whether that sounds worth a try or yucky. :confused:

:D
 
DotCommunist said:
Love the way people are just naming my regular diet as their 'skanky' alternatives. Guess your all to busy dining on fillet steak and caviar inbetween poor peoples food:mad:
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It's not necessarily that it's "poor people's food" that makes it skanky, to my mind the skankiness is derived from the products not being made from fresh ingredients, they're extremely heavily processed and laden with chemical additives and flavourings and e-numbers and gawd knows what.

Or is my understanding of the skankiness scale up there on the fail scale? :confused:
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
It's not necessarily that it's "poor people's food" that makes it skanky, to my mind the skankiness is derived from the products not being made from fresh ingredients, they're extremely heavily processed and laden with chemical additives and flavourings and e-numbers and gawd knows what.

Or is my understanding of the skankiness scale up there on the fail scale? :confused:
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Serious hat says they has been a slight reversal in modern times. In the past the poor ate fresh from their own gardens and natural whereas the richer ate food from new agricultural processes. This has shifted to m/c wanting 'organic' produce and free range stuff where the w/c work in the production of (some of em) and eat of the battery farmed, insecticided products that were and are the product of a burgeoning m/c who no longer want any part of the disgusting livestock and farming practises they are indirectly responsible for.

But thats me being a bit heavy tbf, we all enjoy a pack of the supernoodles, surely?
 
Second day rowies from a local baker - 60p for a packet of six. :)

If you are really lucky ,they may also have a packet of their excellent pancakes on the same deal.

Another one is leftover pasta (usually shells/twists or macaroni), tossed-up in a pan with a little olive oil & tomato ketchup & black pepper. Truly cheap, skanky & nice - esp with a pie! :o :)
 
pogofish said:
Second day rowies from a local baker - 60p for a packet of six. :)

If you are really lucky ,they may also have a packet of their excellent pancakes on the same deal.

Another one is leftover pasta (usually shells/macaroni), tossed-up in a pan with a little olive oil & tomato ketchup & black pepper. Truly cheap, skanky & nice - esp with a pie! :o :)
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Mmmm, we lived off pasta and ketchup, rice and ketchup and ketchup sandwiches when we were kids.
 
keybored said:
All cheap sausages are grim... or so I thought till I got some of those trays of 6 (1lb) from Asda, for a quid a tray. They were fucking lush, something like 85% pork. Free range pork no less :eek:
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99p! I'm normally a veggie/vegan, BUT! My freezer is now full. :):)
 
Do like some skanky stuff
Used to buy a lot of value range stuff
Not so much now but have never moved from value tuna and value noodles

Also this thread (cheers poster) has made me really want waffles
 
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