What did you eat today?

[AteAlien]

I have changed my eating habits drastically. My crock pot full of beans is now my very best friend.

I ride only my scooter. Don't drive no car (Melanie reference there).

How has the change in oil and food prices REALLY affected you to this point?

It has affected me dramatically.

So. What did you eat today?

[mikelgb]

1. nothing yet

just coffee

[Lucinda]

2. Toast so far.

:)
Love my crock pot.
I don't drive, but we do have a small car.
We're planning on building a new house and I'm working to make it as green and energy efficent as possible.

[gateley]

3. I've got to get a crock pot.

My staples are eggs, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, oatmeal, and very little fruit and vegetables because of the cost.

I used to do fruit and vegetable juicing daily. Not any more.

[winter999]

4. Just tomatoes.

[weezy2736]

6. And you're still living? Absolutely amazing...

[ThomWV]

5. Some peas plucked off the vine while I was walking through the garden

But otherwise I only eat once a day.

[cliffordu]

7. Oatmeal. Later homemade stew and cornbread.

I haven't owned a car for the last 6 years.....

Actually, I have owned a car for 6 years of the last 40.....

I heart bicycles.

[DevonRex]

8. Nothing yet.

[malaise]

9. Toasted rye bread with sliced tomatoes

a banana and fresh orange juice and lots of coffee.

[grilled onions]

10. The Garbonzos Are Cooking....

Homemade bean salad for lunch. Shopping lists are strictly enforced. At the same time we watch closely when we are running low. No two trips a week to pick up a few things. I have purchased "green bags" to keep produce in which will allow buying ahead a few items yet will not spoil in a weeks time.
We have a patio garden--lettuce,spinach,bell peppers,tomatoes all are growing in what used to be home to flowers. WHile they may not look as pretty as flowers the bounty we are already harvesting is a pretty site on the kitchen table.

[anniebelle]

11. Having been a vegetarian all my life, the price of veggies

is quite disturbing. And fruit, forget about it! Luckily we have a garden in our back yard, just a small plot, but we have growing right now -- squashes, yellow and zucchini, tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, lettuce, okra, cucumbers, asparagus (which is a perennial vegetable) and all kinds of herbs. We have a very small back yard with raised beds and we do the French intensive method, so you really get a lot of production from one bed, and no pesticides or fake fertilizer. We also have blueberries and blackberries, and fruit trees. I hope to see this trend more and more, especially considering every time you open the newspaper, there's something poisonous in our food chain, now tomatoes.

[AteAlien]

14. That is great

I started a garden myself, but it burned up when I had to be away for a few days without being able to water. Just a little time, and small effort, can create something beautiful and you can share with your neighbors what you are not able to eat yourself!

Way to go.

[slackmaster]

18. Come to the Dark Side, anniebelle!

[ThomWV]

28. Mmmmmmm ...

I had to eat so much of that shit when I was a kid, fucking Velvita cheese too.

[Breeze54]

12. I haven't eaten since yesterday morning.... I had coffee so far today.

It was so hot and humid the last four days and yesterday was the worst at (felt like 110F),
I just wasn't hungry but I've been very thirsty and still am. I am starting to feel hungry,
sort of, but not much. In answer to your other questions; I buy small amts of gas and don't
drive my small car very much. I hadn't been eating/buying any meat until a huge sale last
week and I now have 10 chickens in my freezer but I have been eating more rice and vegetables.
I am buying less food and only what's on sale, mostly. I have cut the use of my big TV and use
less lights and dryer/dishwasher/oven usage. Thinking.... I have my own grocery bags. ;)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. Fried egg on an English muffin. 2 cups of tea with a little 1/2 and 1/2 and honey.

Now drinking water.

I'm having left over Chinese dumplings for lunch.

[Warpy]

15. Not as poorly as I ate two years ago.

Whole wheat English muffin and yogurt for breakfast. Brown rice with something or other when it finishes cooking. Apple for supper. Gallons of tea.

[Sundoggy]

16. Food prices don't affect me in the slightest

All I consume is coffee, and it's free where I work.

[slackmaster]

17. Two slices of toasted locally-baked sourdough bread, with avocado and a little prosciutto ham

And half a grapefruit.

It was delicious.

[Speck Tater]

19. I have not changed my diet or lifestyle.

Of course I'm a peak-oil proponent and adopted a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity several years ago.

I already eat low on the food chain, avoiding any manufactured factory foods like fast-food, frozen diners, prepared boxed or canned diners. I buy basic staples in bulk and make my own food from scratch. Plus I grow a lot of my own veggies.

So I haven't needed to make any changes at all.

Eaten so far today (10:45 AM): 1 bowl of bulk generic oatmeal, some fresh fruit, and a cup of bulk generic tea.

[AteAlien]

21. I used to eat fast food stuff all the time

The truth is, now, I can't. Not for any reasons other than I get home and throw it up. I don't ever throw up food that I make, but I can not eat food from a fast food place anymore without throwing up. I don't know how much of it is psychological, and how much is that it is just plain shit food.

[Speck Tater]

33. I drove past a McDonalds yesterday

and for the briefest microsecond, had an urge to stop in and grab a Big Mac. As quickly as the urge appeared, my mind reacted to the urge with complete revulsion. Before I retired, when I went out for lunch from work, I used to practically live on Big Macs, but now I can't even imagine eating one of those things. Still, old habits die hard.

[Blaze Diem]

20. Frosted Flakes.

coffee, coffee,coffee, & thaw something from the freezer to grill for dinner tonite.
Have fresh yellow squash for the grill also.
Eating habits that have changed are definately the abscense of morning coffee at Racetrack or 7-11, & when I shop for groceries it fewer of what I used to buy in produce..what I bought as one lb or two is now down to one half lb, depends on price and whats in my wallet.

Have definately eliminated extras and use store brand names if cheaper, and don't eat out like we used to either.
Canned goods are chosen now over fresh for longevity and extended or multi-use purposes.

Yes it has changed.

[azmouse]

22. Only a bowl of cereal.

It's not lunchtime yet but I usually eat leftovers from the previous night's dinner for lunch. Today it's hotdogs.

I'm driving much less and only go to the grocery store when I really need something. And then I look to see what is on sale and plan meals around that. My husband and I are fairly well off and we're feeling the need to cut back and look for bargains. I don't know how people earning low wages can survive right now.

[LSK]

23. O'Soy yogurt for breakfast and chicken and beans for lunch at the cafe at work

[Skidmore]

24. A cup of coffee and three donut holes.

Dinner tonight will be leftovers from last night--chuck steak simmered in mushroom gravy and potatoes on the side with a little lettuce and tomato salad. Oh, I forgot my multivitamin. Does that count as food yet?

[AteAlien]

25. dinner sounds good!

and yes, vitamins are now a food group

[loyalsister]

26. Oatmeal

with cinnamon and sugar

[SergeyDovlatov]

27. a pear and a glass of water.

[BonnieJW]

29. I became a vegeterian in April.

My oldest daughter and I decided to do it, not only because of cost savings but also because of the terrible way in which industrial farming treats animals. My husband is still a carnivore, but it's not too costly buying meat for one. My protein is fish and dairy. I also consume lots of beans in my salad and I love them. Another cheap and delicious way to eat is by making large pots of soup.

[closeupready]

30. Curried egg salad sandwich with sliced tomatoes and mushrooms, and an apple

for dessert. :)

But yes, I have pared back substantially on food - for example, instead of Indian basmati, I buy a big cheap bag of plain old grocery store rice. I'm parsimonious with 1/2 and 1/2 and other stuff.

[Ravy]

31. Alien.

Tasted like chicken.

[AteAlien]

32. that is FUNNY! nt

[otherlander]

34. Grape juice and buttered toast

Pancakes and more grape juice
Iced tea and a cookie
A peach

[Carnea]

35. A pudding nt

[devilgrrl]

36. I haven't eaten anything yet.

and I'm looking into a scooter

[dweller]

37. Yogurt,, juice and coffee

lunch: half a sandwich


dp

[pollo poco]

38. our neighbors are OG farmers

We write them a check in the spring to help get them started, then eat the produce they deliver with OG beans and grains, our own homegrown herbs & locally raised meat and dairy.

No hormones, dyes, preservatives, antibiotics, extra packaging or fast food. No slave labor. No concentrated Animal farming operations. Ever.

The crock pot is our friend, too. It is quick & easy to put food on your family this way :)

I consider my food dollars to be the only vote regularly counted in this country. That and my big vote for a Prius a few years back. I'm not sure how that one turned out, but I think we were part of a message sent and received on some level. Now we vote by driving it as little and as slowly as possible! But I DO wish I had a scooter.

The change in oil and food prices has not been too bad for us (yet!), in part because we believed Jimmy Carter 25 years ago (you may recall, he was flogged out of office for suggesting that we might want to plan for an oil shortage), and have been paying attention ever since. This problem was totally predicted. We have gradually weaned ourselves off of the American Crap Diet in preparation for this event. It took a while, but pays big dividends. Real Food is actually less expensive than Corporate Foodstuff. Especially if you are actually looking for nutrition. And in case you are wondering- we are not well to do, so the choice for OG broccoli instead of Kraft macaroni and cheese has been a very real economic decision. Very solid.

Since almost all of our food comes from within ten miles of our home, the price of transporting Argentine pears doesn't affect us much. Nor does the skyrocketing cost of petrochemical fertilizers and sprayed petrochemical poisons.

By the way- living this way is easy to do. All you have to give up is the mythology that one can avoid the work of making food. Seriously- whoever told us we could get out of that (I suspect it was the TeeVee) did not have our best interests in mind. It is a universally held belief that we have "no time" to cook. But we have plenty of time for obesity, diabetes, and other food related illness? Not smart.

Every time you take a bite of Real Food, you are taking a strong, radical stand for progressive values. You are building the earth, rather than tearing it down. You are supporting real farm families. You are depriving large corporations, while hopefully robbing the medical industry of the opportunity to exploit your totally preventable diet related illnesses. And so much more.

If you (like me) seriously disagree with every part of this industrio-military culture, it is hard to imagine a greater bargain in grassroots activism than refusing to eat their mass-produced, poisonous, Slave Chow® crap. Your progressive dollars work fivefold when you don't participate in the sickness that is the modern industrial food system. It's real change. Much more radical than sending your money to distracting political campaigns. If everyone stops eating crap, we will shut them and their earth hating industry down.

[Doityourself]

39. Protein shake & banana for breakfast...protein bar for mid morn snack &

vegetarian sloppy joe for lunch!

[Evoman]

40. Lots.

Morning: Cantaloupe, Oatmeal, Roasted chicken, coffee.

Lunch: Roasted chicken, tomatoes (raw with olive oil), raw red bell pepper, orange, and some strawberries. Water to drink.

I changed my diet quite a bit too. I don't drink anything other than water (sometimes coffee and tea), and sometimes milk (in something like oatmeal). I cut out pop and fruit juice.

All the fruit I eat is raw. All the vegetable I eat are raw or steamed (except beans, which I cook). I eat a lot of roasted chicken and fish. Almost no grain or bread other than oatmeal and bran.

It's a pretty awesome "diet". I lost some weight, without losing too much muscle mass.

[Clark2008]

41. Watching my carbs (trying to lose the last of these stubborn

baby pounds - why is it harder - and longer - to lose when you're older).

So, therefore, I've had:
Breakfast:
Two slices of turkey bacon
A boiled egg
Slice of Cheese

For lunch:
A beef balogna and cheese wrapped in lettuce
A cheese stick
Celery and cucumbers

A handful of sunflower seeds just now for a snack

Lots and lots of water

[BlooInBloo]

42. Waiting a couple more hours, then it's off to Kentucy Fried Chicken! woot!

[Vinca]

43. French toast for breakfast from homemade bread,

yogurt and fruit for lunch with homemade yogurt, leftover enchiladas for supper with homemade tortillas and a salad of fresh greens from my garden. (Okay, okay, okay. I'm no saint. A diet Coke and some buttery, microwaved popcorn as a snack.)

[bryant69]

44. I ate Chicken Tiki Masala left overs from Saturday

It hasn't hurt me that bad yet, but I am cutting back on how much meat I use; I might ahve used two breasts or 4 thighs, this time I used one breast, and cut it up more finely.

Probably healthier too.

Bryant
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[trashcanistanista]

45. One starbucks mocha frappucino

drink for breakfast. Leftover chicken fried rice, beef and brocoli and sweet and sour chicken from last night. One diet coke. The Chinese food was $18.00 and I will get four meals out of it. I have some chocolate covered raisens for snacks and some rocky road ice cream in the refrigerator for tonight. I will have a bananna later and a water and another diet coke. I'm working outside today so I will probably pick some things from the garden and eat as I work. I eat all day long, pretty much non-stop.

[Sheets of Easter]

46. A footlong Subway Club on wheat.

For $5, it's a bargain, and not too bad nutrition-wise.

being that my spouse just had gastric bypass in March, my eating habits have changed as a result, moreso than the rising cost of food.

[Ilsa]

47. egg whites, coffee, decaf tea, Quorn chik patty sandwich w/ tomatoes. nt

[HughBeaumont]

48. A fucking tomato-less sub.

Most sub shops have stopped serving tomatoes.

A world without tomatoes is like a world without females.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

49. My business is doing well now, so I haven't had to change...yet

I ate worse early this winter, when I was really scraping by. Such is the life of the self-employed.

Today I had a bowl of whole-grain rice cereal sprinkled with granola with organic milk, plus a large cup of coffee.

For lunch, I had a cabbage and carrot salad and some organic, no-nitrite hot dogs.

Dinner will be veggies in creamy pesto sauce.

[marions ghost]

50. seems like most people responding here

cook from scratch or eat raw food. I can't grow veggies but going to the farmers market every week where they don't use a lot of chemicals & you more or less know where it comes from. Not real cheap, but sometimes there are bargains and things you don't find in stores.

I eat a lot of broccoli, cabbage, leafy greens, onions, garlic, fennel, mushrooms, apples, berries, rice, beans, oats, almonds, the occasional fish or chicken or eggs, but hardly any beef or dairy. Although I like stuff like bacon and sausage, haven't really ever eaten them much ever since I read about nitrites many years ago. I think of them as nostalgia food from when I was a kid.

I'd like to be a vegetarian but am not very scientific about food so I'm not sure I could balance it. My vegetarian niece subsists on pizza and macaroni in order to avoid meat. I couldn't make it on that diet. It's hard to be a vegetarian in this country.

Food isn't where I'm cutting costs--working on power usage and unnecessary driving. Also non-food items.
But it seems like crawling uphill, as this society is so geared to heavy consumption. You get sucked into it.

[TCJ70]

51. Subway. Eat Fresh.

[Indenturedebtor]

52. Bunch of almonds, two cups of joe, and 4 smokes ;)

Tonight I'll have 4 beers (or so), and some sort of homemade entree.

[mdmc]

53. I've gone from spending 100 bucks at Shoprite / 20 at ALDI

To spending 100 bucks at ALDI, and 20 at Shoprite.

www.aldi.com

[Swamp Rat]

54. Crawfish, shrimp, alligator, a bunch of different vegetables, and soda made with cane sugar.

and cashew nuts and a mocha. :9

My car is broke, so I ride a bike and walk.

[fed-up]

55. coffee-I eat real food every other day-can't afford food and gas to try to earn $$

I am pulling weeds at BF's farm to make money-can do about 2 hours in a 12 hour day

arm is going numb and tingling-but can't tell him or I will lose that small task

selling crap at parking lot sale is not working as no-one is out driving around

life is pretty sucky right now

[noamnety]

56. A cup of coffee from yesterday's pot

a cup of thawed ice cream (I tried making my own with a french press, rice milk and coffee - and it froze too hard, I couldn't scoop it. So I thawed it in the fridge and drank it as sort of an iced coffee.)

a bowl of hot malted cereal for breakfast.

a leftover hamburger bun with a bit of melted cheese for lunch.

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dinner will be a rare splurge, welcoming the husband back from a business trip: marinated flank steak which I almost didn't buy because of the cost, but I hardly spent anything on food while he was away. A salad, and baked potatoes. And for dessert, a strawberry rhubarb pie with berries and rhubarb that I just picked from our garden a few minutes ago.

Like others, I've stepped up the gardening substantially this year. I already had a small orchard I planted about a decade ago, and asparagus, rhubarb and various berries that keep coming back. This year, I redid the rest of the garden, which in previous years got to be an embarrassment of weeds. I've got a bunch of all the normal stuff plus for the first time horseradish, yacon, potatoes, jerusalem artichokes, amaranth, and a higher number of winter squashes to get me through the winter.

[Dorian Gray]

57. I've eaten well today...

My friend took me to my favorite Mexican restaurant for lunch, so I had fish tacos. (It was a belated birthday lunch, so not the norm.) And for breakfast, I had coffee, banana and Gnu bar.

Dinner? Something small.

[Snarkturian Clone]

58. I'm lucky because there's a Sav-A-Lot near my house.

Even though Whole Fools is closer, I've always been a cheapskate and have eaten Sav-a-lot stuff. Their prices on things like eggs and meat are 1/3 that of the regular supermarket and 1/5 Whole Fools price.

Find one near your house and go there. http://sav-a-lot.com

On another thread someone thought that their town was too chi-chi to have a Sav-A-Lot, and sure enough, I found one right near them, so check it out.

I could do a commericial for that fucking place.

[nashville_brook]

59. coffay...strawberry tea... and a fruit smoothie.

will have leftover mexican beans/meat/pico tonite in a "taco" salad.

[gullwing300]

60. OJ for breakfast, turkey sammich for lunch, t-bones thawing for dindin.

:D