To this day I keep a box of Kraft mac n cheese around. No milk or butter? Use mayo. Add tuna back then or hot dogs.
Always kept tortillas. Heat and butter. Rosarita refried beans were cheap.
Vienna weenies in the can.
We had lots of pinto beans and fried potatoes in the 60s.
Ever since I was 14 I have worked mostly in places that had food. Restaurant, pizza delivery, grocery stores and lots of hotels.
I would not eat anything that had the tiniest speck on mayo on it. It’s disgusting.
I won’t forget my first month of penniless college. My scholarship funds hadn’t come in by the time I had to register and buy my books. I begrudgingly took a $250 loan from my parents until the scholarship funds were in. As soon as they had, I paid every penny back. I didn’t want their help.
Which meant that I survived on nearly nothing for a month. Like we both said, mustard or mayonnaise sandwiches IF we had bread. Sometimes I would have dried beef slices just to make sure I got my protein.
All I had for cooking was a Hotpot and an electric frypan. By the end of my first quarter, my mom told me that I should write a cookbook for college kids: “Cooking meals for one or two in a Hotpot.”
I made lots of amazing and delicious meals on that electric fry pan though. Lots. Steak Diane, Beef stroganoff, and chicken cacciatore were among my boyfriend (now husband’s) favorites.
The hotpot faded after 20 years, but that electric frypan, which I purchased with Green Stamps, is still going strong. They don’t make small appliances like they used to.