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OP - some fast food places, or mom&pop restaurants will "give away" leftover food pretty cheap, before closing the store.
That will give you a chance to have warm meal few days in a week.
Buy few plastic containers with lid, it will come handy.
Canned soup...doesn't really need to be heated up if you get the ready-to-serve kind.
Canned refried beans, too.
Buy a bag of protein powder and one of those cups with the blending ball, and make protein drinks. You just have to have a way to wash it out right afterwards because protein powder is hard to get out of cups.
The Dollar Tree or 99 Cents Only are good places to get cans of soup or the little tuna fish kits.
Agree - last time we drove across the country, we brought canned ready-to-eat soups, canned pasta (ravioli, mostly), and some shelf-stable foods to reduce our food costs. We stayed in hotels that offered continental breakfasts, so we could have something better in the morning, and carried off a piece of fruit or some small thing for a later snack.
Canned foods that can be eaten cold:
Ready-to-eat soups
Canned pasta
Tuna salad - the individual cans that come with crackers
Corned beef hash
Canned fruit
Canned vegetables
I'd also recommend fruits like oranges and apples. They don't spoil too quickly, though as the temperature rises, you'll have to moderate how long you keep them in the car. Bananas won't last long before they overripen. Convenience stores do carry individual servings of cut fruit, individual cheese sticks, single bagels and individual cream cheese, etc.
Of course, dry foods like crackers can be a handy staple. Just add something fresh like cheese, or you can keep peanut butter in the car. A small jar of jelly can be used up before it gets moldy.
You can buy enough fresh foods for a day (or for overnight, so you can have something for breakfast) and use ice in a Styrofoam cooler to keep them cool.
I'm looking for some good ideas on what to eat while "half homeless".
Peanut butter sandwiches
Bananas
Cereal
Oatmeal
For drinking, water is fine, because it is for the most part what I currently drink. I also often have wheat grass smoothies.
I will not have a fridge, but maybe I will try out a cooler with ice; not sure how much ice cost.
I'm not that concerned about "healthy foods". I'm fairly certain I will be eating fast food, but really want to avoid it for most days of the week.
You could probably get a decently-priced portable 1 or 2-burner stove and a tea kettle at Wal-Mart, and plug the portable stove into your car or a publicly available outlet (at a park for instance). There are a lot of different kinds of instant foods you could get there really cheap also (if you'd like a cheap, but hot meal). If you want/need any vitamins, Wal-Mart has children's vitamins much cheaper than adult vitamin supplements (there isn't much of a difference really).
Check out the local food pantry to save a little money. See what churches and NPOs offer free hot meals. For example, one of the local churches offers a free hot dinner every Wednesday, while another non-profit has free lunch almost every day of the year. See if the evening or night manager of the local quick stop will let you sweep the lot and take out some trash for a couple hotdogs or a sandwich. Good luck to you.
I like to discuss on such topics where people like to chat about health diet because only having food is not only the life source of human body but we should know how much and when to eat. According to me fruits like bananas, apples are best for "half homeless".
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