“In my day food was day old bread from the A& P with some cheese”
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Yup, a person’s gotta go through the macaroni & cheese and peanut butter sandwich days as s/he starts out in life.
My Weekly grocery trip during the college years (and several after!) was a loaf of the cheapest bread, a Lb. of butter, several cans of Dark Red Kidney beans, and a jar of Peanut Butter.
I had better things to spend my spare cash on in those days than food, like booze and women. Priorities, doncha know.