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

Morrisseys quiff · 07-08-2010 09:33PM

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

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

Y'bastard, that was probably mine.

teddy_303 · 07-08-2010 10:00PM

Was so smashed before, my friend and I had to make do with a tin of peas with a scabby bit of garlic butter to try and mask the sh1tty taste of the horrible little feckers. Yuck! It made the day we had sweet & sour sausages seem like luxury. Charactor building stuff!

Ricardo G · 07-08-2010 10:05PM

Was working in London heathrow 11 years ago and was let go, lost my accommodation as i had no money, had no money so could'nt eat !! Gospel truth i slept in a phonebox for 3 nights and to cure the hunger i ate red sauce from McDonalds packets !! NOW BEAT THAT:D

Corkfeen · 07-08-2010 10:24PM

Money situations grand but haven't eaten in over 2 weeks and am hooked up to a drip. ****ing starving, what i'd do for a burger.:D

teddy_303 · 07-08-2010 10:26PM

Ricardo G wrote: »

Was working in London heathrow 11 years ago and was let go, lost my accommodation as i had no money, had no money so could'nt eat !! Gospel truth i slept in a phonebox for 3 nights and to cure the hunger i ate red sauce from McDonalds packets !! NOW BEAT THAT:D

Kudos to you brother.

Another time in London we had just moved into a squat, didn't have sh1t, about £2 to do 2 of us for two days. No pot to p1ss in, let alone cook. We got some cheap pasta, and had to cook it in the kettle by turning it on, allowing it to cool a bit, then boiling again and again till cooked. Slapped a cheap tin of tomatoes on top and, viola! Lost alot of weight that time. Boot camp would have been positively placial in comparison..

ElaElaElano · 07-08-2010 10:27PM

Second week in Manchester, was waiting for a cheque to clear (took two weeks for some stupid reason) and so I had £5 for the week- it was January and minus 15 degrees, and the house I was renting had pay as you go heating, so I said, fúck it, I can starve but not freeze to death...it was so bad that when you breathed out you'd get about five seconds of thick fog! So, went over to the newsagents, got a £5 gas top up, got back, swiped the card- what happened? £4.70 in arrears from the last cúnt who lived there who didn't pay up (the prepay thing only got installed before I moved in, all very odd actually) taken straight away, and the 30p lasted about half an hour.

So I went back to the newsagents, bought 50 penny sweets and a bread roll and lived off it for the week, whilst trying to not die from the cold by wearing literally every t-shirt I owned layer after layer and lying in bed the whole time.

Hardcore, man.

Dionysus · 07-08-2010 10:34PM

My 'low' was, I suppose, living on tins of beans and going to bed early as I hadn't the energy to stay awake and I just kept wishing for time to pass faster and to fall asleep quicker. It was an experience the minutiae of which I could never, ever have imagined.

I was on here last year asking about walking the Camino de Santiago so last month I walked the entire Camino Francés - all 800km of it - part of the Camino de Santiago. For one week I was living on €8 per day, that is @ €3 per day for food/everything aside from the hostel. I survived by eating fruit and nuts for the entire week and instead of buying water I filled up at the pumps along the camino. This was a really invigorating experience. I was brimming with energy by the end of it and drank more water than I ever would have done. Definitely learnt from it that there's a load of material shít in my life that is not necessary. Every (or at least most of them) cloud has a silver lining.

kylith · 07-08-2010 11:25PM

Lived in a house a while back and couldn't afford the heating. We'd get a bale of bricquettes and split each one into three so they'd last a bit longer. We'd also burn single sheets of newspaper. I ate pretty much nothing but Koka noodles and cans of Heinz Mac n Cheese that my mother sent. Thankfully that changed to tinned ravioli after I fed her the Mac n Cheese; it's horrible stuff. I don't know what it tastes of, but it's not cheese.

Rick Deckard · 08-08-2010 12:37AM

myself and the wife years ago traveled around oz. One night after the club, we were in the common room chatting, and a lad came out of his room STARVING. He asked us could he borrow some food, but we were going shopping the next day, so had nothing to give him, bar the end of a boil in the bag rice.

He nearly took my hand off, no sign of anything to have with it, so he used ketchup..

poor bastard..

SV · 08-08-2010 12:40AM

Once had to make do with a round steak..

ugh.

Rick Deckard · 08-08-2010 12:42AM

oh, and another time, i was only bout 10/11, was down in my cousins gaff playing. That summer was a scorcher, and we were gasping.. he went in to get us drinks and his ma booted him back out to the sound of "i told you not to come in till bed time, use the hose"

Bitch.

We went up to my gaff and my ma gave us mr. freezes.. good times.

JONJO THE MISER · 08-08-2010 12:43AM

Jaysus lads ive been in this position a few times, when i was in Aus there last year i had actually no money for 6 days and i mean no money to buy food or anything, for 6 days i survived on water a packet of peanuts and some sweets i had, i slept most of the time to take the hunger off me, u do nothing else but dream of food and you only care about eating all other troubles mean nothing and you realise that half the troubles you had before mean nothing you just want to eat.

DerekDGoldfish · 08-08-2010 01:34AM

****ing hell a lot of people have gone ages with no food/very little food.
I remember when I had a crazy bad migrane once and I counldnt keep anything down for 3 days by the end of it I was a complete unsufferable prick I can only imagine how much of a prick someone woulc be after six days with only peanuts

Kasabian · 08-08-2010 01:39AM

I often went hungry when I was young, the joys of having an alcoholic parent. Money for food was secondary. Never underestimate the evil of alcoholism.

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:10AM

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.

You were right to ring your mother about it and get far away from there some people are really so mean and misrible i bet you will allways rember that sandwich and i reckon you never went back to your cousin's place again.:eek::eek::eek:

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:17AM

Keithm89 wrote: »

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

Thats decieteful i bet all your mates that were at the party wouldent of looked after ya if ya dident have your nanny's to go to:eek::eek::eek:

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:20AM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

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.

why dident ya go fishing and snare some rabbitts ya could of had some fishey rabbit stew:D:D:D

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:24AM

Duggy747 wrote: »

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!

get the hat out and sing a few songs on Grafton st ya'll make a fortune;););)

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:27AM

Morrisseys quiff wrote: »

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.

I found that 50euro want it back:D:D:D

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:29AM

Morrisseys quiff wrote: »

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.

I fount that 50euro want it back:D:D:D

Kasabian · 08-08-2010 02:31AM

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

I fount that 50euro want it back:D:D:D

Your post cout will have doubled on this thread alone if you can stay awake :pac:

Careful sunrise doesn't creep up on you

Superbus · 08-08-2010 02:33AM

Calm down Vamp!

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:35AM

vicecreamsundae wrote: »

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!

If he had of given you the soup when you were finished you could of gone up and said to him please sir can i have some more the misrible git he was anyway what goes round comes round anyway.:mad::mad::mad:

ynotdu · 08-08-2010 02:53AM

My honest answer to this= one egg in fridge,not even bread to put it in,but no gas for cooker.
Two bar mini electric fire plugged in with a frying pan on top waiting three hours for the heat to transfer to bottom of pan and about another hour for the 1 single egg to lose its e-coli.
Oh the joys of Independence!!!!

Still We are ALL spoiled [EMAIL="B@stards"]B@stards[/EMAIL] compared to these guys!;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:57AM

Kasabian wrote: »

Your post cout will have doubled on this thread alone if you can stay awake :pac:

Careful sunrise doesn't creep up on you

YEA HAVE TO GET BACK INTO THE COFFIN SOON:D:D:D

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 02:59AM

Superbus wrote: »

Calm down Vamp!

I need some TLC:D

vampire of kilmainham · 08-08-2010 03:01AM

ynotdu wrote: »

My honest answer to this= one egg in fridge,not even bread to put it in,but no gas for cooker.
Two bar mini electric fire plugged in with a frying pan on top waiting three hours for the heat to transfer to bottom of pan and about another hour for the 1 single egg to lose its e-coli.
Oh the joys of Independence!!!!

Still We are ALL spoiled B@stards compared to these guys!;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

TRY IT WITH A CANDLE.:eek::eek::eek:

JupiterKid · 08-08-2010 03:01AM

Summer of '95 on my J1 in San Francisco. I'd been working in a pretty good job but we all got laid off for 10 days and I didn't budget very well back then.

For a week I lived on cheap tins of butter beans and refried beans from my local Walgreens. I never want to see a butter bean for as long as I live.:(

Ah the folly of youth!!

ynotdu · 08-08-2010 03:04AM

vampire of kilmainham wrote: »

TRY IT WITH A CANDLE.:eek::eek::eek:

Candle?????? That would be a Luxury:)

KaiserMc · 08-08-2010 03:05AM

Was working in London years ago and had feck all money after losing my job,hadn't eaten in about a day a half ..had two oxo cubes and and 1 parsnip in the house..so decided to make a veggie soup out of it. sliced up the parsnip put it in the pot added water and the cubes, 20 minutes later for some reason the oxo and the water jellified , turned into this brown like glue substance with bits of parsnip in it...the taste was fecking mank ..totally unedible even for the starving.
In hindsight I should of just made soup out of the oxo.

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

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