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FOOD/ECONOMY
Cheap Eats for Hard Times
From a cheap and easy broad
Author’s note: The following piece originally appeared in my Substack, Sherry Raw.
Our home boasts a huge laundry room. And in it, shelving filled with enough canned tuna, mackerel, salmon, and sardines to sink even the Gorton’s Fisherman’s vessel. There’s also pasta, canned beans up the wazoo, canned tomatoes, and a myriad of other shelf-stable items, along with food for our kitties. Too, there’s a fridge where we store. perishables that don’t fit into our main refrigerator.
I’m not a hoarder, but someone who has no problem throwing together a healthy meal from the shit I have on hand, and when a food that’s in my rotation goes on sale, I buy it, even if I already have it. Because…what if, you know?
Oh, shit. I’m a hoarder.
And, I’m not a gourmet cook who can tell you how to cook the world’s best Bolognese in your Insta-Pot.
I sold mine because it scared me.
But, I am pretty decent at “making do.” That sounds so grim, but these are grim days so pardon me If I slip on occasion and let my despair at this country’s evisceration by traitors and fascists seep through. ’Cause I’m rattled. And the shit’s getting bleaker by the day so we need to be primed and…
