Whats the most broke & hungry you've ever been?

fonecrusher1 · 07-08-2010 02:47PM #1

When i was in australia a few years ago i experienced a few days of literally having no money. Its a long story as to why i ended up in such a predicament (the usual story). I was staying in a hostel & it was the most miserable few days of my life i'd say. I'd never experienced being painfully hungry before.

Some guy told me about a redcross food van that used to pass nearby so i managed to get some grub off them for the last 2 days. Oh the shame.

Ever been broke & hungry?

karlog · 07-08-2010 03:13PM

When i was young i remember staying with my cousins down the country. F*ckers were so stingy i'd swear they were rationing food. One day for dinner i was only given a sausage and some mash. One damn sausage! and only a bowl of cereal earlier in the day. I had to ring my mother crying to pick me up because i was so hungry and depressed. She picked me up after a heated argument with my aunt over the phone and bought me a huge sandwich in the local shop. I was never so happy eating food ever.

FearDark · 07-08-2010 03:16PM

Most Mondays.

After spending all my money on drugs, aclcohol and grade "D" prostitutes at the weekend I have to go two days before recieving my job seekers benefit. During these two days I usually live on cups of tea with no milk, those crushed custard creams at the end of the packet and plain pasta. By the second day I generally dont eat because I cant stomach the plain pasta.

Leeg17 · 07-08-2010 03:20PM

You don't like Mondays, n told me why!

up for anything · 07-08-2010 03:28PM

Years ago sitting in Vancouver airport waiting for standby flight. We even stood in the ladies talking about how starving and tired we were hoping some one would give us a few dollars but no luck. Arrived back in Toronto to my friend's mother and the Four Seasons hotel and room service. Penury to luxury.

In Germany, again years ago, had no money or food and 3 days to go till pay day. Got up at some unearthly hour of the morning to go and give blood and got paid something like 54 marks for it which was the equivalent of IR£13.00 at the time. Spent most of it in a cake shop across from the blood centre which had the most delicious cream cakes ever and then starved for the next two days.

Lots of other times. These days, mostly broke but never hungry.

Hank_Jones · 07-08-2010 03:30PM

karlog wrote: »

When i was young i remember staying with my cousins down the country. F*ckers were so stingy i'd swear they were rationing food. One day for dinner i was only given a sausage and some mash. One damn sausage! and only a bowl of cereal earlier in the day. I had to ring my mother crying to pick me up because i was so hungry and depressed. She picked me up after a heated argument with my aunt over the phone and bought me a huge sandwich in the local shop. I was never so happy eating food ever.

This wasn't in Cavan, was it?

NothingMan · 07-08-2010 03:32PM

Interrailing on my tod when I was 20. Ran outta cash on a Friday and couldn't remember my credit card pin cos I was only using it online. Had to wait til the Monday to get cash transferred.

Lived off a horrible bad of pretzels I bought 3 cities back and water from public fountains.

Had a steak breakfast on the Monday though. mmm.

GHOST MGG2 · 07-08-2010 03:35PM

losing my job in the early part of the 80s and living in a hellhole bedsit on the south circular road...and only having enough money to buy a batch loaf..but not the butter..to last me for a week..sigh those were tough times.so evertime i eat a slice of batch bread it brings a tear to my eye..literally!

07-08-2010 03:38PM

Once in college I had to live of only weetabix and milk from Wednesday till the following Monday.. I had a few euro that I spend on milk and that was it.

One of the guys did it for the laugh with me but I had to cause all lines of credit were gone.. By Monday, people were asking me if I was sick because I was so pale.

KeithM89_old · 07-08-2010 03:40PM

Parents went away for 2 weeks, left me 'enough' money to last but spent it on drink and had a big house party. Ended up eating in my nannys for a whole week and told her i had lost the money

strokemyclover · 07-08-2010 03:45PM

"Dancing away my hunger pain...
Stompin' my feet so my stomach won't hurt
I'm kinda like Jebus, but not in a sacreligious way..."

catbear · 07-08-2010 03:45PM

Porridge got me through college, I haven't eaten porridge since.

mink_man · 07-08-2010 03:46PM

when I was in the canteen with a broken leg.

BrokenArrows · 07-08-2010 03:48PM

i spent a week living on noodles and bread before i had to catch a flight back to ireland.

I was never so happy to get an inflight meal.

fonecrusher1 · 07-08-2010 03:50PM

mink_man wrote: »

when I was in the canteen with a broken leg.

Dear god thats sh!t.

mink_man · 07-08-2010 03:52PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Dear god thats sh!t.

very bad, i know..

Motley Crue · 07-08-2010 03:59PM

On holiday once. Didn't budget right and all my money was gone by the middle of the holiday. Unluckily, I was in London, although luckily I was able to get free breakfast in the Hostel in which I was staying - and I managed to raise money by selling some CD's I had with me in a second hand music store. So I didn't go too long without it.

Duggy747 · 07-08-2010 04:09PM

I had no money for an entire week and a half once that I had to scrounge around the place for change until I had enough to buy a piece of solid food.

There was nothing in the house to eat except a box of Saxo Stuffing, which I ate. I didn't feel right for a while after that. :pac:

I then found an old jar full of coins deep inside a press, opened it up and got about €8 out of it. I went to Tesco and bought the cheapest, most disgusting but edible crap I could afford.

Stay away from the Tesco value white pudding..........*shudders*

I'm also down to my last €10 since Tuesday and it's gotta last me until next Tuesday.................here we go again!

FunkZ · 07-08-2010 04:22PM

About two months ago I had no food in the house EXCEPT Bryan Lynches Taco Mayonaisse. But luckily I had three euro fifty cent, I went to Tescos and bought chicken dippers and onion rings. Survived on it for 3 ****ing days till I got paid on the Thursday!

questionmark? · 07-08-2010 04:28PM

I remember back in my college days money was always tight and just about ran out at one stage. Survived on 13cent packs of tesco value noddles for nearly two weeks and treated myself to a sliced pan one day(tesco value and tasted of just salt):(

It was about four years before i ate any noddles again!

some_dose · 07-08-2010 04:30PM

FunkZ wrote: »

About two months ago I had no food in the house EXCEPT Bryan Lynches Taco Mayonaisse. But luckily I had three euro fifty cent, I went to Tescos and bought chicken dippers and onion rings. Survived on it for 3 ****ing days till I got paid on the Thursday!

But luckily I had three euro fifty cent

three euro fifty cent

three fifty

You're not the Lough Ness Monster are you?

catbear · 07-08-2010 07:14PM

This thread is bringing back memories.

There were three of us sharing a flat in Rathmines, everyone was broke one monday and no one was getting any cash until thursday. We had no sugar so we went without. When thursday came we had become unaccustomed to sugar in tea and cereal and twenty years later still can't take it.

So something good came out of a chronic shortage.

Morrisseys quiff · 07-08-2010 07:25PM

I remember losing €50 one day when in college. It was all the money I had in the world and I had to spend the week surviving on a bag of porridge and a back up supply of koka noodles that were in the house. After maybe 3 days of it, I just stopped eating until I was f***ing starving because I was so sick of porridge and noodles.

I still get upset thinking about losing that fifty.

DerekDGoldfish · 07-08-2010 08:28PM

When I was in college once I was smashed and wasnt getting paid for a few days I had €5 to do me for the week, I went to the canteen to buy a plate of chips which would be my only food for the day, while in the que I noticed €50 on the ground picked it up and for the rest of the week I had fillet steak for dinner

skepticalone · 07-08-2010 08:43PM

in the early nineties, i remember having 14 pence left, was living with boyfriend on the south circular road , he was a student at uni so we had feck all money and survived on love , i needed 15 pence to buy a tiny packet of milk with a straw, had to go to mr pips across the road and ask him if i could owe him a penny ....fooker said no !!!!!! thankfully twas a long time ago now, i often remember it tho, 20 years and 3 kids later .

vicecreamsundae · 07-08-2010 08:48PM

i've never been that broke/hungry for an extended period of time... but a week ago i was hungover and starving in the bus eireann depot in dublin,about to get on a four hour bus, with exactly 3.95 in change and a craving for some soup which was 4euro. decided to suck in my pride and ask the guy if i could get some soup even though i only had 3.95 [it was the cheapest thing they had, sandwiches etc were all 4.50] and he said no

the rejection was horrible. I felt like Oliver Twist!
pfft, and if i had just asked for the soup and handed over the 3.95 he wouldnt even have noticed -certainly wouldnt have come running after me for the 5c! that's what you get for being honest, sigh!

Overheal · 07-08-2010 08:51PM

college; 5 days on one 2 euro bag of popcorn kernels

Great way to lose weight if you can stand the diarrhea from malnourishment.

elchupanebrey · 07-08-2010 08:51PM

skepticalone wrote: »

in the early nineties, i remember having 14 pence left, was living with boyfriend on the south circular road , he was a student at uni so we had feck all money and survived on love , i needed 15 pence to buy a tiny packet of milk with a straw, had to go to mr pips across the road and ask him if i could owe him a penny ....fooker said no !!!!!! thankfully twas a long time ago now, i often remember it tho, 20 years and 3 kids later .

This wins, couldn't even afford a place to live.

rcdk1 · 07-08-2010 09:04PM

questionmark? wrote: »

It was about four years before i ate any noddles again!

Thankfully I've never experienced real hunger but when I was on a J1, I did celebrate the day the Stop N' Shop started selling 6 packets of instant noodles for a dollar instead of 5. I dined well that night!

Voltex · 07-08-2010 09:12PM

as a student in England I was always smashed...but luckily I found digs with a aul lad who delivered frozen meals into Strangeways Prison....I got the left overs....a foil tray with a bullet proof sausage...some form of re-constituted potato and a beans.
I also played the aul ones in the college canteen the poor "oirish lad" line and got myself a couple free slices of toast in the mornings.
When I look back god only knows how I survived it.

pinkheels88 · 07-08-2010 09:14PM

J1 in San Franciso two summers ago. NEVER want to feel that level of starvation ever again! No diet like a J1. Literally lived off a $1 dollar double choc muffin from Walgreens every day for at least 3 weeks, once a week had a $2 double cheeseburger from McDonalds, and that was on a good day! :eek::(

Whats the most broke & hungry you've ever been?

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