In college, I used to spice up my ramen by dropping in an egg and some frozen vegetables.

I used to do the exact same thing. Except without the veggies.

If I am very lucky, I will never, ever have to eat that again.

God, yes!

At my poorest (just out of college) I used to ear ramen with potatoes and onion, and a slice of cheese. I thought it was good!

Ramen, a can of tuna and a bag of frozen or rehydrated veggies was standard camping food. That and hot tang. When I've made it on the stove, I think I smell the bluet gas, it's that closely linked in my head.

I used to add canned mushrooms and water chestnuts.

The other thing with eggs, as a single person, is I find it hard to eat as many eggs as would be needed to go through a dozen-- so I just tend to do without-- and they are harder to stretch-- although I have seen a scrambled egg/spaghetti combo.

That's why I always do the egg substitute. It's just easier.

Ramen beef flavor soup is actually a comfort food for me, though I know those fried noodles and all the salt are anything but healthy. I'm trying to wean myself over to miso and Japanese onion soup instead.

Eggs do last for a surprisingly long time. Hard boiled egg is my favorite salad protein. yum!

And, yeah, how could they be shocked that it would be hard to eat on $3 a day? sheesh.

Fred, I'm so sorry about Teddy. he sounds like a sweetheart who came into your family's life when you really needed him.

One of the benefits of twins is that they can co-sleep by themselves!

My friends' twins shared a crib for several months (maybe like 5?) and it certainly cut down on the laundry at least. Then they rapidly got too big to share.

never ate ramen.

mac is not runnig a temp, so I am not taking him to the DR. yet. He seems to be feeling better.

I just went to the grocery store and thought about costs while I shopped. One of the problems with the legislative experiment is that you don't get to shop for an entire month, because you can pick up 5 lbs of hamburger (or ground turkey) for $10 which could go a long way.

The problem with that, though, is both storage and being able to budget the $10 straight off for bulk. One thing that was discussed in our local paper was that, yes, buying bulk and freezing makes sense, but that a lot of people living in poverty don't have (either because they're sharing living space with a large number of people or the space they rent doesn't provide it--and I've rented places where there wouldn't have been room for that much meat in the freezer, even if I trusted the freezer to function) storage for bulk.

In college, I ate a lot of random legume-based stews. And a fair amount of curried ramen.

One of my best friends had never even heard of ramen until I introduced him to it at like age 35.

I don't even want to think about my college and post-college eating options. I will think about it just enough to be extremely grateful that I was able to go to college and have had a series of good jobs.