Skanky budget foods that rock your world

[pogofish]

I remember once dumping half a pan of mixed-up smash & dehydrated peas into a pool in a fast-flowing mountain stream outside a Highland bothy. It went straight to the bottom & stayed there.

Three days later, we cam back past that bothy & it was still sitting there.

A few months later, I was back to that bothy & lo, the daud of peasy-smash was still there, in a solid-looking lump at the bottom of the pool, seemingly undamaged by all the water that was flowing round it.

I have not been back that way since, in fact I have avoided it out of shame - I fully expect that if I ever go back, I will find it still sitting there, fossilised into part of the Grampians!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

The 30-year-old twinkie:

"We wanted to see what the shelf life of a Twinkie was," said Bennatti. "The idea was to see how long it would take to go bad."

The Twinkie stayed on top of the board through his career -- joined in later years by a Fig Newton -- and occasionally inspired new food experiments. Bennatti estimates the ever-yellow Twinkie is about 30-years-old.

"It's rather brittle, but if you dusted it off, it's probably still edible," Bennatti said. "It never spoiled."

http://cdn.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/08/12/twinkietest.DTL

 

[Badgers]

Been a while since I posted it

Should be posted weekly really
Food is not that 'budget' but guess that 'skany' is a fair description

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

This is why you're fat:

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

 

[Sweet FA]

These noodles are the food of the gods - crack an egg in while they're boiling. They sell them in various shops around the university here, catering for all the Korean students.

 

[Xanadu]

These noodles are the food of the gods - crack an egg in while they're boiling. They sell them in various shops around the university here, catering for all the Korean students.

Ah, those are my favourite pot noodles!

 

[Pingu]

aldi pot snack

just like pot noodles were before they took all the msg goodness out of them

 

[Voley]

This is why you're fat:

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com

Jesus!

 

[Chz]

Aye, Nong Shim noodles are the bestest. And at 50p or less, they still qualify as a skanky budget food even if they are more expensive than other noodles.

 

[Mation]

Tinned macaroni cheese mixed together with baked beans is amazing

Packet macaroni cheese mixed together with marrowfat peas is amazing

 

[ringo]

Packet macaroni cheese mixed together with marrowfat peas is amazing

Dribbles.

I actually read that as pocket macaroni cheese for a mo........

 

[Chester Copperpot]

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

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

 

[Part 2]

9p noodles (asda), tin of mackerel and hot pepper sauce, made like a soup. I eat it about 3 times a week at work. Plenty of times people have said "Mmmm that smells/looks really nice"

Mackerel seems to have gone up in price a lot though, 3 for a quid last year, struggle to get a tin for less then 50p now. Suppose I should go for sardines but they're usually a bit mushy.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

My favorite cheap meal is some instant brown rice with some chili beans and a slice of cheese on top.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

instant brown rice

Wha? Explain please, I can't quite get my head round that. I don't think that innovation has yet reached our shores.

 

[Zachor]

For me that screams out to be mixed with grated cheddar cheese. mmmm!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Wha? Explain please, I can't quite get my head round that. I don't think that innovation has yet reached our shores.

http://www.minuterice.com/en-US/products/92/BrownRice.aspx

It actually takes about 10 minutes, but it's better than the 40 minutes the stuff usually takes. I throw it in the microwave for about 7 minutes and it turns out fine.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Beef and tomato pot noodles, had one earlier in fact I rarely buy junk food but when I do I like to go all out. Today I have eaten said pot noodle, a snickers and some doritos dipped in hot salsa sauce.

 

[ska invita]

Mmmm, we lived off pasta and ketchup, rice and ketchup and ketchup sandwiches when we were kids.

a mate of mine used to tell us how his mum used to make ketchup soup when times were bad

 

[FridgeMagnet]

9p noodles (asda), tin of mackerel and hot pepper sauce, made like a soup. I eat it about 3 times a week at work. Plenty of times people have said "Mmmm that smells/looks really nice"

Mackerel seems to have gone up in price a lot though, 3 for a quid last year, struggle to get a tin for less then 50p now. Suppose I should go for sardines but they're usually a bit mushy.

Bloody hell, where do you get tinned mackerel for that price? I do that a lot and I've always paid over a quid a tin, which kind of moves it out of the budget meal range.

 

[Ceej]

Tin of mixed beans in chilli sauce (78p) from Sainsburys and pasta...bit of cheese on top if you have it - yum.

 

[19sixtysix]

This. Tunnocks are good.

Can't you tell I like the occasional Tunnock:

Caramel logs, mmm!

More tunnocks-related imagery than you might ever possibly need here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/tunnocks_time/pool/

Love the little charactures made out of the produce!

Try http://www.tunnocks.co.uk/

 

[ajk]

I used to quite enjoy a Shoprite frozen doner. When I was sober.

 

[purplex]

I used to quite enjoy a Shoprite frozen doner. When I was sober.

In a similar vein microwave all-day breakfasts from iceland are cheap and lush*

 

[purplex]

Fray Bentos pies

Uruguayan excellence

 

[rollinder]

processed cheese slices. plastic heaven.

^ this plus buttered value white bread - either toasted or untoasted, 10-20 seconds in microwave + ketchup = mmmm
or similar with added processef sliced "meat" in a toastabag.

Rustler burgers - Feasters are too gristley/chewie for me.

Four for a £1 sausage rolls/mince pies.

 

[Badgers]

 

[rollinder]

^ made of real goblins, those are.

I used to live off those All day breakfast/Full monty 'meals' in a tin uke: at the memory of rubbery mushrooms.

Tinned meatballs in gravy were a big part of my childhood, I very ocasionally buy them.

Tescos own brand frozen / microwave doner kebabs complete with meat that looks like sliced dog food (in the five meals for £4 range)

 

[Pip]

^ made of real goblins, those are.

I used to live off those All day breakfast/Full monty 'meals' in a tin uke: at the memory of rubbery mushrooms.

Tinned meatballs in gravy were a big part of my childhood, I very ocasionally buy them.

Tescos own brand frozen / microwave doner kebabs complete with meat that looks like sliced dog food (in the five meals for £4 range)

Me and my ex used to buy that shit and dare each other to eat it. I can boast of having erm, enjoyed frozen doners, breakfast in a can, £1 roast dinners and frozen breakfasts