[BrentCrude]

I think everyone here has been there especially when they were really young and naive when it came to blowing money on gambling where they dipped into their food budget.Whether it be at home or on a Vegas trip or a trip to a race track,when you ran out of $$$the last day,you got pretty creative.Hell,some of the best things I ever ate in my life were things I ate in race track parking lots where I concocted recipes out of canned and boxed food and cooked them up on a hibachi pot.Someone should put out a recipe book called,The broke gamblers desperation dinner recipe book or something to that affect.I'll bet everyone has a recipe that created dishes out of thin air that tasted good when they went broke gambling.They could do a half hour weekly show on the food channel on this subject.hehe!

In the Vegas of old you could go the last day of your trip and eat gobs of free or almost free shrimp cocktails you would get with coupons.

The pits would be having to eat something like pork&beans or plain white rice or some bulk filler food every day for a long period of time.

If anyone is familiar with the Hmong race of people,they gather by the hundreds along shores of some really poluted inner city lakes like in Minneapolis and they don't catch and release anything they catch fishing.If they catch minnows they eat them.These are the same people I used to see parked at the race tracks leaving their kids in the car in 95 degrees where the track PA announcer would have to locate the parents.Hell,the kids seemed happy being in the car but it was the do gooders that thought they were being abused.

[SportNut]

:d :d

[compaqDikk]

we resort to dine and dash when we can't pay the man

well, we still tip 34% thought. fukk the cracker barrels of the world. they jack the prices up due to gas costs then skimp on the portions

[jjgold]

Plenty of times for me when I just eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to save money to gamble or just do not have funds to buy higher quality foods.

[michael777]

i used to eat mac and cheese almost everynight

[fiveteamer]

depressing thread

[ms61853]

I can remember those days back when I was single. Like eating the cheap boxes of macaroni and cheese and making it with extra margarine as a substitute for the milk because I didn't have enough money to buy it.

[thezbar]

Macaroni and cheese seems to be the choice of tap out gambling waiting the next stake. Many moons ago thank goodness.

[rake922]

Anyone ever improvise on diet and food budget to use the money to gamble with?

[Tchocky]

I don't have a food budget. I got laid off a couple of months ago so I'm pretty self-conscious about spending money. I don't eat out much as I used to and don't spend a lot on food.

[Deuce]

pb and j every night

[swede96]

Originally Posted by compaqDikk

we resort to dine and dash when we can't pay the man

well, we still tip 34% thought. fukk the cracker barrels of the world. they jack the prices up due to gas costs then skimp on the portions

You stupid prick. Your server has to pay for that, you know.

[BrentCrude]

Not that it's as cheap as it was a couple years back but mac and cheese of the club or generic brands could have been bought back then for 6 boxes for a buck.All you need is a spoon of cheap margarine and whala,a gourmet lunch.Every gambler should have invested in about 6 24 box cases of the stuff to have for emergencies.The stuff would store for a decade in a dry space.

[ms61853]

I remember, too, back then that Winn Dixie often had cheap picnic ham on sale for 59 cents a pound. Very salty and fatty, but not too bad when fried and eaten on a sandwich made with bread bought at the thrift store.

[compaqDikk]

going on a losing streak is good if you need to lose weight from too much posting. usually too stressted to eat and fukk buying food as its the last thing on your mind

also helps fight heart disease and diabetes

starving is a good motivation to help you from being a shittt caper

[frostno98]

cup noodles, or the .99 cents Mac Donald's menu.

[Charlotte]

I go to applebees every night, also subway twice a day. I right now have very little money but it adds up, I would say that my credit card is about 12k right now with half of that simply from food.