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Eat food that you can buy at supermarket delis. Oftentimes they will sell things like potato wedges, chicken strips etc etc and you can get away with a decent meal for 3 bucks. When I go grocery shopping I will usually snag a couple to make it not too miserable.
Good luck being half homeless. Hope you can get back on your feet quickly.
Fruits like apples, bananas, oranges etc
Tuna fish and get mayo in packets from subway, Safeway, or similar deli's. They also have starkist to-go packs that come with relish and crackers for about $1.25
Retried beans, pork and beans, canned chili (cold from the can should be ok)
Apple sauce or fruit snack packs like mandarin oranges from the dollar store
Canned corn
Hard salami and crackers
Chips
Granola bars
Good luck
Second the grocery delis. Hot food at a decent price. You can also do sandwiches. At the convenience stores/fast food places, ask for mayo/mustard packets. Get just enough lunch meat/cheese for one sandwich. Or get subs from your deli with soup. Get a small syrofoam cooler for leftovrrs/storing lunchmeat.
UHT milk stays fresh relatively long after it's opened compared to fresh milk.
Find yourself a park with barbeque facilities and set up a small camp stove to cook things like pasta on. In fact, if there are any state parks near where you'll be, camping in them is very cheap and you'll be much more comfortable, even if you don't camp every night or even most nights it will make a difference.
this would be a good show on the food network channel...- cooking in your car.
seems like most folks on here shop at whole foods... and some say its cheaper...
I wouldn't recommend whole foods.... unless you can get their produce culls,,
and that's not a bad idea,,,you can go to a grocery store manager,,,ask them ,,if you collected carriages in the parking lot, could you have their produce and bakery culls.... I bet you could actually do this..
I assume any cooking would be done outside the car on a picnic bench using a small portable Coleman type camp fuel stove.something like this one. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...7L._SY300_.jpg
What to eat? mostly stuff from a can or premade super market stuff.
Not sure what kind of car you got but if you can sell it or trade it a full size van would be much more comfortable to live in.
Something like this http://invimg.autofunds.com/ChromeSt...s/2002/337.jpg
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.
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canned beans were a big favorite of mine when i was in a similar position earlier in life.
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