I had an idea for a cooking show. $10 college meals. Each week, a college student would show the limited items he has in his cupboard, and with $10, I would make a meal that would integrate those items, and feed four.
Comes from the lean times, when I had ramen noodles, ketsup, black olives, etc, and $10 in my pocket, and four days until payday.
This sounds a little like the British show Ready, Steady, Cook where ordinary people would be given a small amount of money to buy grocery items and then returned to the set to cook it with celebrity chefs. Good show, well-produced like all British cook shows.
Every soldier in the field docters up MRE’s and makes new creations of them, so I had this idea for the MRE cookbook.
Alas, It’s already been done.
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