My Top 5 Recession Foods
1) Oatmeal – Not only is it my son’s favorite food, bu for about $2 a week I can feed breakfast to my whole family, and have a snack at work. Throw in $1.50 for some raisins if you have a fancy palette.
2) Pancakes – The just-add-water variety is the cheapest (and still edible) but Bisquick won’t break the bank. Mixed with some cheap syrup and you have enough carbs to get you through a week.
3) Spaghetti – Cheap, healthy, and versatile. Hunts makes 30 different sauces for a dollar.
4) Corn on the Cob – A wise man said, “Corn-on-the-cob should be called ‘corn.’ Everything else is corn-off-the-cob.” That has no relevance here. But 5-6 for $1 does.
5) Wendy’s Crispy Chicken Sandwich – Hands down the best 99 cents I’ve spent since you could get M&M’s 3 for $1 at 7 Eleven. McD’s, Burger King, and KFC all bow before Dave Thomas’ posthumous mastery of the mystery chicken sandwich.
Hon. Mention) Peanut Butter & Jelly – Usually cheap and always satisfying. This one just missed the list because my wife insists we get fancy jelly, which defeats the purpose.
Charles Jones is the Lead Web Designer at Dallas Theological Seminary, where he’ll begin working toward a Master of Arts in Christian Education this fall. He’s earned a bachelor’s degree in Youth and Family Minsitry from Abilene Christian University, where he met his wife, Alex. He has a one-year-old son and the couple is expecting their second child in August. They moved to Dallas late last year, and are trying to relearn how to live in the big city after nearly 9 years in exile. Aside from design, coding, and getting smacked around in Halo 3, Charles is interested in photography, economics, and kitschy sci-fi TV from the nineties. Xbox Live: Elmo McElroy 