I didn't know times where THIS BAD!!

[Taylortractornut]

I call ceap on the salad bar. My dads wife has a sister and a brother in law both have money, when they go out to eat they look on the kids menu and order and split it. Also they will buy outfits from Belks wear them a few times wit hthe tags hidden and return them. It make my freakin blood boil to look at them lol. I was shocked at the mexican place when thay wanted to order on kids meal they told them a kid was 12 and under and no sharing. THis is like the cheapest place to heat here to. On the was to dinner they will eat snacks or when they get home. I like to enjoy myself when I go out to eat lol.

It also aggravates me when folks eat at a buffet and will pile u;p a plate and eat one ting off it and leave it. I had a customer that worked at a Ryans and she set up a deal to take all the scraps from each shift. She had drums and a a barrel lift on her truck. Each day she brought home enough to feed 20 hogs. The worst thing I remember was an old lady I used to work for used to dumpster dive for food. The bad thing was when she died she had 2.8 million dollars in her bank account. Used to give me the red butt when I would have a loader over at her place clearing and she would complain about the prices lol.

 

[eepete]

Our Fire Department had finished a dinner fund raiser. We made packaged meals of 1/2 of a chicken cooked BBQ style, potato salad, beans, and a roll. We had about 60 of them left. Called a homeless shelter in our county in a fairly well off town. That shelter gets a lot of food from the local restaurants. They said don't bother to bring the food down, no one would eat it, they are used to better food.

Called the shelter at the next county over, they were glad to take the food and were very happy that lunch the next day would be soooo good.

The challenge is to help the sorts of folks Egon mentioned- those who are where they are by bad luck or a few bad choices. I wish I knew how to weed out the cheapskates and those having trouble due to their stubbornness, mooching or reluctance to change.

But there are those truly in need so you have to help and accept a certain amount of abuse. I wish I had even some of the answers for all this...

Pete

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Frankly, I would rather eat the beans and rice/corn bread than the salad bar.

Me too. :thumbsup:

 

[300UGUY]

When I lived in S. FLA seeing people, almost always the elderly, loading up with buffet food to take home was very common. They were not poor. They were just cheap. You would really see this in the winter when the Snow Birds arrived. They were not poor since they could afford two homes. One in S. Florida and another one up Nawth. They were very cheap.

As they would say, "They were just getting what the paid for."

The story about the salad bar I call cheap not poor. If you are poor you do not go to Wendy's to eat. You go buy a pound of beans for less than a dollar. Get some onions, a bit of this and that, with maybe a bit of meat for seasoning for a couple more dollars. And then buy some rice or corn meal. For the price of the salad bar you can feed a family of four for a couple of days.

Frankly, I would rather eat the beans and rice/corn bread than the salad bar.

We actually eat beans 3-4 days a week. Amazing to me how many dishes can be made from a pot of beans. Add cheddar cheese and you have one dish. Maybe throw in some hot sauce and it is kinda Tex Mex. Put in a good Parmigiano or Mozzarella and olive oil you got Italian. Take the above and put it over rice you have that many more dishes. Put it over pasta and you have even more. :licking::licking::licking::licking:

Cheap. Good. Healthy. Homemade. And easy to eat all week. Make a big pot on Sunday and eat all week. :thumbsup:

If one can afford meat, cheap sausage, even bits of bacon, or left over ham from the holidays. What is even better is putting in chunks of smoked pork loin. YUMMY. I always wait for the loin to go on sale. Buy the biggest one I can since we will eat off of it for two weeks or so. Then if we have any left overs it goes into the beans. :licking:

Later,
Dan

My dad has lived in S Florida for 20+ years. He always jokes about "tin can tourists". Some of these folks have 500K motor homes, and pretty much make a game out of seeing how cheap they can live in Florida. The locals say there's nothing cheaper than a tin can tourist.

 

[Taylortractornut]

With all this talk of rice and beans I bet yall are fun to take long carrides with lol. I was born in South carolina and lived there a year or so. I contribute my liking of rice and beans to the fact that the folks in Bamberg where I was born ot ate rice and beans 33 meals a day.

 

[jinman]

Hot rice in a bowl with a butter pattie, sugar, and a little milk makes a dandy hot breakfast cereal. Top it with a sprinkling of cinnamon and you have a tasty treat; very good with a toasted English muffin.:licking:

 

[Taylortractornut]

Its threatening an ice storm here. My gloom and Doom weather addicted MIL says we would be inrouble with no power. Told the wife as long as the Ashley has wood in it and I got a several pounds of dried beans and rice and beer we would befine.

 

[Bird]

Hot rice in a bowl with a butter pattie, sugar, and a little milk makes a dandy hot breakfast cereal. Top it with a sprinkling of cinnamon and you have a tasty treat; very good with a toasted English muffin.:licking:

I cannot remember us ever having rice as a vegetable or potato substitute when I was a kid. Butter, sugar, and milk as a breakfast cereal was the only way I can remember us having rice, except that Mother always cooked plenty (family of 7) and had leftover rice that she made into a rice pudding for dessert that night.

 

[mjarrels]

Never liked rice... Back in the Philippines now and inlaws still try to get me to eat rice four times a day. Don't like it and never will. They just won't learn to not push rice on me every day.

mark

 

[MossRoad]

My experience says that the poor in America are by choice. Old saying is that if you want to starve an American, "hide their food stamps under their work boots".

mark

There's a load of street people here in South Bend, Indiana. Many of them have mental problems, low I.Q. or both. No choice there. More like luck of the draw...