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      The crazy part to me is that it’s specifically the Lunchables made for schools.

      Really makes me feel like Sisco or Bon Appetit (industrial prison complex companies) are the ones producing the food, just like they do for prisons.

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    I feel so attacked. I just got done eating one, and it wasn’t even name brand. To be fair I’m having to live out of a motel with only a microwave and limited money

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      Also living that nice limited money life? Sometimes i feel like McGyver coming up with alternative ways of doing some things.

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        We’re doing our best lol. If anyone has any tips for cheap microwaveable food I’m all ears

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          If you’ve got potatoes you just need a masher, some salt, some oil/butter, some water/milk, and a bowl. Gotta eyeball the consistency to figure out how much you need of the liquid, the rest is for taste. Cheap as hell but it’ll get you fat. Peeling is optional.

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      Hand can opener and canned beans/peas. Already cooked, come in their own serving container. Just need a utensil and a can opener.

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        I am by no means above eating out of a can. Soup has gotten me by pretty well. Frozen dinners seem to make me hungrier. Thanks for the tip!

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      Been there a few times. Car, too. If you can afford it, they sell hot plates/plug in coolers at Walmart. But my suggestion is a deep fryer. Not the square one, the round one. If you take the basket out, it’s essentially just a large pot. You can do anything in it you’d do in a skillet, but can also boil water or make soup. They’re invaluable in those situations. Depending on the size of the hotel mini fridge, you can normally get a thing of chicken leg quarters in it. That and some veggies and you can make a million different meals. Hit me up if you want any advice, I’ve seriously been down that road, and it’s not easy, but there are some tips and tricks that make a lot more bearable.

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        Thank you, this is good stuff. The fridge is pretty fucking small, and they seem to have a strict absolutely no cooking in the room rule. They have outdoor grills, but then I have to get charcoal and learn how with out ruining the food. Can’t spare any. I’m so sick of moving or I’d try to find a slightly better motel

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          Most places have that same rule. I just ignore it and do my best to never cook anything too fragrant. Cookint in the bathroom with the fan on helps, too. I’ve also cooked in my car, but that requires a pretty beefy inverter and uses gasoline. Might be able to get away with running a drop cord but that’s a case by case.

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            Man, you really make shit work. I really do appreciate all of this advice. I’ll have to put some more thought into it, but the real hope is to find a new place, so I don’t wanna invest too much. Also, the bathroom fan is broken. This place is pretty cheap lol

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              Had to. Lol. I’ve lived in my car and I’m hotels a few times. To be honest, car is easier if you’re alone. Cheaper, too, most days.

              I really hope you find something decent

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      Pizza it’s amazing, cold pizza is still a pizza, that makes it amazing, but is still an inferior kind of amazing that hot pizza.

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        Morning cold pizza that you can just eat straight out of the fridge is ambrosia. It’s like a third of your problems for the day have been solved.

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    The idea is sound, make something easy to pick up for your kid for lunch. The execution isn’t so great. For how much they charge, an entrepreneur should get on this making actual good lunches that are healthy but kids will still want to eat.

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    No joke last night I went for a late night snack. I pulled out some hard salami, aged Swiss, and some nice crackers. I realized this bastard charcuterie was just a luxury Lunchables.

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      I disagree. Your hasty charcuterie was just that. And I bet it was delicious.

      Lunchables, on the other hand, are the cheap charcuterie knockoff devised by people who lost their tastebuds decades ago to excessive chainsmoking and the kind of world-weary ennui specific to only the most misanthropic millionaires. Their lack of any sense of smell is only eclipsed by their tenuous grasp on what’s left of their zeal for life; a kind of self-hating spiral that not even the most debauchery-packed weekend in Vegas could ever hope to recover. No, these cretins are not people, they are the mere shadows, the faintest of pencil outlines of human beings. Lunchables are the best effort of these people attempting to emulate what they vaguely recall a meal actually is.

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    The lunchables seems like a dystopian food stuff created by a team of psychopaths.

    What if we made all of the food crappy, added extra preservatives and maybe a little bit of lead?

    The Romans added led to their drinks it must have been delicious or something! ~Kraft food scientists probably

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    Don’t lynch me but… I have to confess that I liked them that way. The greasy & salty pepperoni, the stale crackers, the mushy cheese, all of it. I’m not a picky eater. You could serve me garbage and I’d say you’re a great cook.

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      And it beats the never ending stream of sandwiches. Pbj and co only get you through so many years.

      Lunchables and dunkaroos anyday

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        One of my kids would love having a ham and cheese every day, and whenever I send something different, they complain. Some really like what they like.

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            I’m not that old, but it’s going on for 5 years or so now. We call it a “monte cristo,” but really it’s a ham and cheese fried in egg batter w/ jam and mayo inside. I do switch it up sometimes, but not by request, only because I feel bad, and if I’m making something else for my other kids, I’ll just send the same thing with all of them. I ask what they want on weekends when I have more time to make lunch, and it’s usually the same thing (or leftover pizza or mac 'n cheese if that’s an option).

            My brother did closer to that. He had chicken patty sandwiches all through high school, a lot of middle school, and probably college. He’d throw a patty into the microwave for 1-2 min, put it on bread, then go to school. I think it was PB&J most of the time before that. When he was single, he would get double stacks from Burger King instead almost every day for lunch because they cost like $1 each and there was one near work.

            Some people really value simplicity and routine. I’m kind of like that, but instead of making the same thing every time, I grab whatever is easiest. That means a lot of PB (no J) sandwiches and lots of leftovers.