Anonymous wrote:I'm rich bitch and I don't go a year without my annual dinner of beans and franks. I've graduated from Campbell's Pork and Beans and any old hot dog to Bush's Vegetarian Baked Beans and Nathan's hot dogs but it will always be my favorite meal; even when I'm CEO.

And with a real Pepsi!

Rich Bitch too

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Everyone. Everyone knows beans and rice is a staple in many places in the world. Glad you get such a giggle at enjoying the simple things in life, even at $500K.

The difference of course being that you can damn well afford to eat anything else that strikes your fancy, too.

Clearly I read the question differently than you did, as I was expecting responses akin to Spam, Cheese Whiz, Ramen, Hungry Man dinners. Not sure why you're so bitchy, though.

Maybe you read it differently, but you come off as as smug and clueless in your OP and as a complete bitch in your second post. Too bad $500k HHI can't buy you some perspective and empathy.

I'm far from clueless. I already pointed out that I read this differently. You're completely lacking in common sense if you can draw the conclusion that this means I have no perspective or empathy.

Not sure why I'm arguing with a bunch of idiots though--lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas and all that.

Actually kind of an interesting question if you take truly poor out of the equation...a lot of the foods being mentioned here were staples when I was growing up in a lower-middle class household - gallon ice cream, two liter botttles of grape/orange/cream soda, ramen noodles, frozen/rotisserie chicken...

Exactly what income level do you all consider to be poor around here? Where I'm from the median household income is $41,000.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Are you a complete moron? What are the staples of indigenous people in Latin America? rice and beans. India? Lentils/ beans and rice.

Why do you think they are staples, cheap and together rice and beans form a complete protein.

Maybe you need to get out of your sheltered $500k HHI world and see how others live before you say stupid things.

I've actually lived in India. Have you?

Just because you've lived wealthy in multiple countries doesn't mean you understand anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Are you a complete moron? What are the staples of indigenous people in Latin America? rice and beans. India? Lentils/ beans and rice.

Why do you think they are staples, cheap and together rice and beans form a complete protein.

Maybe you need to get out of your sheltered $500k HHI world and see how others live before you say stupid things.

I've actually lived in India. Have you?

And yet you still managed to make light of what millions (billions??) of poor people around the world are forced to eat to keep from starving? Bravo.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Everyone. Everyone knows beans and rice is a staple in many places in the world. Glad you get such a giggle at enjoying the simple things in life, even at $500K.

The difference of course being that you can damn well afford to eat anything else that strikes your fancy, too.

Clearly I read the question differently than you did, as I was expecting responses akin to Spam, Cheese Whiz, Ramen, Hungry Man dinners. Not sure why you're so bitchy, though.

Why am I so "bitchy"? Your appalling attitude, for one. It sure is worth a giggle that many families have to rely on beans and rice and here you are, slumming it! Who knew?! And your reply? The condescension drips. La di da! The poors eat such junk!

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Are you a complete moron? What are the staples of indigenous people in Latin America? rice and beans. India? Lentils/ beans and rice.

Why do you think they are staples, cheap and together rice and beans form a complete protein.

Maybe you need to get out of your sheltered $500k HHI world and see how others live before you say stupid things.

I've actually lived in India. Have you?

I grew up a poor and ate way better than most poors now. My mom could not afford the sodas, mac-n-cheese boxes, and hamburger helper.

We ate baked chicken, baked potato, and steamed broccoli all.the.time for dinner. Next of course came the chicken noodle soup made from the carcass.

Lots of PB&J for lunch, popcorn for snacks, and oatmeal for breakfast. We ate much healthier as a poor than as a rich now.

Anonymous wrote:Canned vegetables. Ramen noodles. Two liter bottles of off brand soda.

That's more like a college student's diet or young single guy's diet.

This whole thread is a bit depressing. I have witnessed real poverty all over the world (and as a PP said - right here in America too!) and it is depressing that this is amusing to anyone. I have met farmers who were grateful to have been taught to rotate crops so that they were able to provide something other than potatoes all year long for their families. And when I say provided potatoes, it means keep whatever little was left over after selling what they could to have some kind of income.

Poor food means a little watered down gruel because the poor starving kids could not digest much more than that.

Poor food means breastfeeding your children until they are 5 or six because it is the most nutrition they will get in the day otherwise.

Poor food means programs in sub-Saharan Africa that provide families with a chicken so the kids can have an egg every so often.

I could go on and on, but it would probably be wasted on such an insensitive group.

Also - for all of you who consider yourself so well-mannered and worldly, this is just tasteless.

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Anonymous wrote:Beans and rice

Hunh?

Our HHI is $500k, and this is one of my kids' favorite meals. Black beans and rice. Who knew it was poor food??

Everyone. Everyone knows beans and rice is a staple in many places in the world. Glad you get such a giggle at enjoying the simple things in life, even at $500K.

The difference of course being that you can damn well afford to eat anything else that strikes your fancy, too.

Clearly I read the question differently than you did, as I was expecting responses akin to Spam, Cheese Whiz, Ramen, Hungry Man dinners. Not sure why you're so bitchy, though.

Maybe you read it differently, but you come off as as smug and clueless in your OP and as a complete bitch in your second post. Too bad $500k HHI can't buy you some perspective and empathy.

Vienna sausages. The ice cream that comes in a large plastic bucket (if you get ice cream at all).

I'm rich bitch and I don't go a year without my annual dinner of beans and franks. I've graduated from Campbell's Pork and Beans and any old hot dog to Bush's Vegetarian Baked Beans and Nathan's hot dogs but it will always be my favorite meal; even when I'm CEO.

Anonymous wrote:I don't eat any of the foods mentioned.I'm poor and I eat salads(2 for $3 at Safeway),asparagus when 99cents,mashed potatoes with ground beef,spaghetti with tomato sauce and ground beef,Raisin brand cereal,kefir, yogurt,Muenster cheese, anything pickled,broiled chicken,steaks,porkchops,boiled potatoes with different gravy and salad on side,potato/rice salad,jello,all fruits and veggies, make pancakes.
Didn't grow up on tv dinners or even drinking soda.Pepsi in stores signaled a special day-maybe an election day.
I do drink milk, coffee, clubsoda,water or apple juice mixed with water.
Had fruit punch the other day-horribly sweet drink.
Affordable junk food? All that yellow-brownish food that is breaded and fried and in frozen aisle.Yikes!

I may be coming from a different POV, but it seems to me that you eat within a budget, but not poor. The fact that you can afford various animal protein and fruit and vegs indicates that you are diet is ok. There is a difference between really not getting enough nutritionally and having to keep within a budget.