An entire box of saltine crackers.

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I was doing a 3 day hike/campout in the mountains one time a storm came up at night and downpoured like hell. it got down to nearly freezing and raining violently. I was pretty well setup with a hammock and tarp but couldn't actually cook any food (gas stove lost all its pressure in such cold conditions, also would have risked getting soaked if i got out of the hammock) so I put my instant ramen noodles in cold water and let them soak an hour or so, then mixed in the flavour packet and ate the shit cold and basically uncooked.

>>21611017
every single meal I was served in high school

>>21611059
I used to bring a salami and mustard for lunch

mom left me home alone as a kid for multiple days and I ate a multiple year expired can of green beans for dinner

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Years ago, when I was a poor-ass university student, all I had to eat in my tiny apartment was a bag of uncooked white rice and a few eggs. I decided I'd make "rice and eggs" just like in my favourite Japanese animes, so I loaded up both into a crock pot and left them for an hour. I was expecting some sort of simple, flavourful meal that tasted like a warm, comforting breakfast.

What came out was the most miserable, black-grey gruel imaginable. It had all clumped together during the cooking process, so I had to break chunks of it off like I was chiselling cement. It left a "skin" on the inside of the pot that never came off, even after multiple washings. It tasted saltier than actual salt crystals, somehow "dirty", and went down like I was swallowing driveway gravel.

There was an absolute ton of it, and I had to eat it all. The crock pot seemed tainted by the memory after that, so I just ended up throwing it away.

I thought about death a lot, that year.

>>21611048
why didn't you eat add the seasoning to the ramen block and eat it dry? cold soaked noodles sound vile

When I was first learning to make my own food I mistook tomato sauce for salsa and put it on nachos and because I was raised to never waste food I forced myself to eat nachos with cold marinara sauce.

>>21611078
mogs me. although, I just remembered that there was always someone selling chik fil a biscuits in the morning so it wasn’t totally hopeless

>>21611048
That sounds so fucking comfy
It's one of those bad situations that suck in the moment but become nice memories

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This one time I wanted to bake pot brownies, but I didn't have any corn syrup so I just tried making them without it. The batter didn't set at all, even after an hour in the oven, so I just took it out, poured it into a bowl, and ate runny, lukewarm chocolate/weed chunk pudding with a spoon. Went on the worst trip of my life for like six hours, woke up at 4:00AM with a headache. FML

>>21611126
I wasted a half oz making some brownies on 4/20 because my sister convinced me we didn’t have to make butter and just throw the weed in the batter. I knew that wasn’t correct but did it anyways for some reason, the brownies tasted like shit and didn’t get me even a little bit high

Frozen wholemeal buns that were thawed in the microwave and dry and tough with honey and powdered beef stock dissolved in boiling water.

>>21611088
Easily fixable. Cover in cheese and put it in the oven.

>>21611017
Pointed at (what I thought was) steak from a buffet line in Spain.
Was traveling, hadn't had a decent meal in forever, so with it ordered "dos cervazes", which is about the only Spanish I speak.
I have never been so disappointed as when I took that first bite and it turned out to be liver.

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>>21611017
Probably one of the many Thanksgivings that I've spent at home alone, sucking down Boston Market. And now Boston Market doesn't even exist so I'll have to eat whatever the grocery store can cook up.

>>21611048
You didn't have any nuts or energy bars or something?
Anyway that's not that depressing because you were on an adventure. It'd be depressing if you had to eat that because you couldn't afford hot water or were homeless

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used to travel for work. lots of lonely hotel meals but whenever I got little caesars it added that extra touch of sadness

When I was 19 my dad killed himself. My mam died when I was very young, never knew her.

I was in University at the time in Ireland (he lived in England) and I was absolutely shellshocked. Earliest flight I could get wasn't until the following morning. I got a chinese takeaway which gave me the shits. I spent hours shitting and crying on the toilet all evening.

Was like 8 years ago so I suppose there's sort of a grim humour to the image, but dad-suicide-chicken-and-shite was probably the worst, aye

>grandma just started to go senile
>we're all supposed to meet at her house for lunch
>she proudly presents a feast of Finnish crisp bread and cream cheese
>interrogates anyone who isn't actively eating it whether they've had enough to eat, whether they're feeling sick, what's wrong, why aren't they eating
>everyone has to pretend it's delicious and satisfying because getting anything else out of her overflowing pantry would be rude

I don't know about most depressing overall, but the most depressing in recent memory.
I'm on vacation (alone) and I was having dinner (alone) when for some reason it really struck me that everybody else at the restaurant was enjoying their meal with other people that they cared about while I was all by myself, like I always am. And not only that, but that they probably usually enjoy their meals with people that they care about who also care about them, while I'm eating alone >99% of the time.

>>21611017
A single slice of unbuttered toast. For dinner. For the second day in a row.

>>21611017
>>21612182
I was in a hotel for work during thanksgiving 2020, at the height of covid panic, 6000 miles from any friends or family, but it was a fancy one with a fridge and tiny electric stove, so I found a grocery store and made a micro thanksgiving dinner: A half turkey breast, carrots roasted with the drippings, a single mashed potato, boxed gravy and stuffing, plus a cheap bottle of white wine and pre-made pumpkin pie for desert. Eaten by myself, on paper plates and plastic cutlery, sitting on a hotel bed. Almost didn't get to have the wine because I didn't have a bottle opener with me, and neither did the hotel. Thank god for dollar stores open every day of the year.

It tasted alright, so it was less "depressing" and more "what the fuck am I doing with my life?"

>>21611017
A wish cheeseburger.
>plain white bread
>mayo
>ketchup
>slice of cheese
I wish I had a burger.

>>21612424
Actually I just remembered:
>ran out groceries like 2 months ago
>find 8 packages of expired kraft mac and cheese I forgot about
>5 more days until direct deposit hits
>gottadowhatyagottadoson.jpg
>4 boxes have dec 2024 expiration date
>4 boxes have feb 2025 expiration date
>toss the 2024 boxes
>eat first 2025 box
>cheese came out a little wet and slimy but no mold or anything
>i guess it's fine
>eat 2nd box, no problem
>a day later go to take a shit
>literally blow my entire asshole out
>asshole is sore and painful
>hurts to sit down
>hurts to cough
>hurts to laugh
>after 2 days asshole feels fine
>wellokthen.jpg
>have 2 more boxes
>go to take a shit
>ABSOLUTELY BLOW MY ENTIRE FUCKING ASSHOLE OUT AGAIN
>as soon as the turd shoots out my asshole (it torpedo out of my asshole fast as fuck) I have balls of sweat on my forehead and I want to throw myself off the toilet
>feels like I got fucking anally reamed by god himself
>asshole is sore for at least 3 days this time
>direct deposit hit but I can barely even walk to go get groceries
>muster up the strength to finally go downstairs to the store and grab breakfast at least
>asshole finally feels better after 4-5 days
I don't know if it was because it was expired or if it was because I wasn't eating literally anything else but my asshole has never been that sore before in my life. I genuinely don't know how gays do it because I legit had to sit on a fucking donut for 3 days. The first shit wasn't as bad and the pain went away after like half a day but that 2nd shit completely tore my asshole...I thought I was bleeding or something I legit was going to check in the hospital if my asshole didn't feel better by that 4th or 5th day but luckily I started feeling better. And I haven't had a shit like that since...I will never eat any expired dairy shit ever again, Jesus Christ.

>>21611017
I was in a town in Wales. I was shitfaced. It was on that cusp of time where the takeaways were shut, but the cafés were yet to open, about half 4 in the morning. I saw a battered burger on the pavement with a footprint in half of it. I picked it up and ate it.

>>21611084
> just like in my favourite Japanese animes
> thought about death a lot, that year.

Should have thought harder

>>21612466
You're so cool for hating anime anon let me suck your duck

>>21612443
Damn, Wales. How depressing

>>21611017
I dated a girl going to culinary school once
She had only been there for 3 months but thought she was Gordon Ramsay
Every time I would go to cook some simple recipe handed down through the family, she would insist on making "changes" that usually just straight up ruined the dishes
By far the worst was what she did to my potatoes & hotdogs
>No need to bake the potatoes if you boil them beforehand, that's double-cooking
>Why do you need vegetable oil? That'll ignite in the oven (at 325F...no, it won't, but she didn't care)
>You should fry the hot dogs rather than bake them
>You need to strain out the oil, oil should never go on potatoes unless they're being fried
>Just prepare & strain the sugar/vinegar/onions/fried hot dogs beforehand and then deal with the potatoes
I was left with boiled potatoes and a strainer with solidified sugar, onions, and hot dogs fried to a crisp
I could only get a few of the onions and hot dogs out of the strainer. It was fucking disgusting. I had to throw away my strainer, it was so stuck on.
She never admitted any fault
I should have dumped her on the spot but I stupidly kept trying to make things work for another month

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>>21612235
>>interrogates anyone who isn't actively eating it whether they've had enough to eat, whether they're feeling sick, what's wrong, why aren't they eating
>>everyone has to pretend it's delicious and satisfying because getting anything else out of her overflowing pantry would be rude

>>21611017
The breakfast your mom made for me last week.

>>21611017
Hobo pizza
>tortilla
>tomato paste
>marble cheese
>microwave for 20 seconds
It's pretty good.

>>21612497
Triple shot of vodka for £1.50, mushrooms galore in the mountains, middle bacon everywhere, loose students

Nothing. As in literally nothing.
I looked and realized I had no food. Then I checked my accounts and realized I had no money and I couldn't even buy some food.

That was a bad moment.

>>21612577
>amerishart has to skip one meal and remembers it forever

>>21612577
Anyone in this situation just go to a food pantry or food bank
Also you can get free food from Hare Krishna temples if you have the spiritual constitution to dine with cultists

I had no food once except for a box of chocolate cake mix. I poured the cake mix powder in a bowl and ate it with a spoon.

>>21611017
One time when I was a kid I stir fried a bunch of tortillas. Just that, tortillas in a wok with some soysauce and oil. It was terrible.

Well there's depressing because of the food and depressing because of the circumstances.

For depressing circumstances, probably Christmas a few years back. I had covid, had to cancel my plans to meet friends for dinner, and was too weak to cook, so I just ordered some asian slop and let the lonliness wash over me.

For depressing food, on the Kungsleden in Sweden, which has huts on it which are supplied and staffed, and they often have a little shop you can buy supplies at. But this was at end of the season, so there wasn't much left. I had to hack together a late lunch out of tortillas and canned pineapple. I fried the pineapple in a cast iron pan and tried to toast the tortillas, but it was still pretty soggy and bland and totally unsatisfying. Ate it with a view of a majestic mountain range and crytal clear lake, but that didn't make it taste any better.

I feel like all of them have been pretty bad for the past 6 years

>>21612487
> You're so cool for hating anime anon

Not hating on anime, hating on you. Go pist somewhere else about your depressing teen angst weeb years or get a life.

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Not sure if depressing. More funny.
Thanksgiving 2020, during covid. I lived far away from people and wasn't vaxxed and just didn't feel like doing anything. I don't have much family to begin with. I took some mushrooms and tripped alone and had an excellent time. I cooked myself a little Thanksgiving dinner. Once I was done I put it on the table and it just looked so "bare" or simple or sad or something that I thought it was hilarious and I took a picture. It was like cute / pathetic. A true wa la bone appetite moment.
Still the best Thanksgiving I ever had.

>>21611017
a grocery store birthday cake my mom bought me with my name misspelled (4 letter name btw).

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>>21611084
The heat of the rice cooks the egg.

>>21611017
Jailhouse slop in the drunk tank. Ate it through tears. Still working on the self hatred from that one. Then again I'm off the sobriety wagon again so really every single meal now is my most depressing meal.

mental ward food it was steamed some form of meat, overcooked greenbeans that were sour tasting and stale bread????

A cigarette a miller a prepacked can of tuna salad and some peanut butter.

>>21611017
just came back from a weekend trip and forgot to buy shit the week before
all i had was homemade applesauce and oats, works surprisingly well together

>>21611017
pasta with butter, nothing else

>>21612749
You misunderstood the assignment you stupid asshole. Thanks for posting entirely off topic you dumb cocksucker.
>>21612807
>>21612814
Grim

>>21612566
If you used a pan instead of a microwave, melted the cheese first while toasting the tortilla, then thinned the tomato paste with a little water to make it closer to sauce before adding it, that just sounds like a kickass snack.

>>21611017
11 years ago I got fired from my job at Chipotle and was walking home because I didn't have a car after a DUI. I of course was drinking while walking the ~3 miles back to my apartment. A car happened to splash some gutter water on me (I don't think it was intentional) but I had to walk home in February in ohio wet and exhausted and cold as fuck. I got back to my apartment and after a hot shower to thaw myself got some top ramen and just kinda forgot why I would want to eat. Very surreal feeling because I'm not suicidal but I remember feeling very clearly that I could just stop eating anything and die.

>>21612937
why did you get fired

>>21612978
Got a new area manager who wanted to hire people he has worked with before

>>21612799
happy birthday Saen!

>>21611084
Such stupidity from adults that watch cartoons is not unsurprising

>>21612749
based

>>21612807
I hope happiness, prosperity, and good health comes your way

>>21611017
Toast and mustard

>>21611017
Nothing

A monster and a bag of gummie worms

>>21613451
Did you wash it all down with some pro-lax?

>>21612241
Hope u find sum companions anon

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>>21611017
I ordered on Doordash:
3 filet o fish
2 big macs
2 double cheeseburgers

I accidently ordered it twice so the driver just brought it all. I ate it all in one sitting.
I feel so ashamed, it was like 3 years ago.
More recently I ordered a 6 pack of crumbl cookies twice in one week

>>21613454
No, caffeine already does that for me.

>>21612208
>>21612182
living alone in hotels eating fast food is my fucking dream. I'm sick of living in the same place for 30 years cooking my own food every day.

>>21612443
Kek

>>21611017
I was a college student, living with a few friends in a rented apartment.
I was hungry one night so I decided to make oats with powder milk. Then i decided to mix a dollop of jam in it. It was bad. Something about it caused me really bad heartburn

Also around the same time, i made some chai tea, then tried to dissolve in a bunch of crackers in it. I got to a gruel like consistency, then i ate it. Heartburn was otherworldly. It was literally just milk, tea and crackers. No idea why it hurt so much

>>21611017
microwaved bacon and precooked microwaved rice

>>21611017
I turned 30 during the "fifteen days to flatten the curve". I had chicken leg quarters, steamed cauliflower, and a generic ice cream cake, all by myself.

>>21611202
I've gotten really high off of brownies made with that method. Grind the weed and use it as flour. It's not as efficient but it will in the course of baking mix with fats and decarboxylate and eating it will get you high. Maybe you didn't have enough.

>>21612208
That soda is warm. Super sweet and warm. Gross.

>>21612930
lol, do you hate mushrooms or something? You have a bad attitude.

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Airport pizza has to be up there. It's when it's the best option in your terminal and you don't have time to go to a better place in a whole other terminal.

>>21613>>21613052
388
I'm gonna hit a meeting tonight thanks to this post. Maybe even make myself some grilled chicken salad. Thanks /ck/, bro. Love ya buddy

>>21611017
Several years ago Christmas. Was going through a messy divorce and drinking like a fish. Gotten a DUI a week before, because constantly drunk and hoping to die. Made a chicken, some sides and things to try and feel like Christmas. Ate a little bit of it and lost appetite because I realized no one else was going to be here to eat with me and I was all alone and drunk. Didnt even put up my tree that year because exwife had my kid with her.
Then drank myself to sleep, hoping Id die before I woke up.

>>21613052
Was meant for>>21613388

Goddamn I need to clean myself up.

On topic: honorable mention was a hospital meal of some protein juice box after a surgery where they cut my stomach a new route to save my life. Puked three of them in a row before they agreed to put me back on IV sustenance

>>21611084
did you not have internet access or something?
how could you think that would work out?
or are weebs just naturally delusional?
if you've ever made an egg you should damn well know throwing it into something for an hour wouldn't work out well

>>21612183
>you didn’t have ant nuts?
Just the ones in my trousers

>>21613927
That fact ur still here is inspiring anon, hope ur in a good place

>>21611017
Yesterday I ate a handful of peanuts for dinner
That was a close contender by default since I'm assuming "air" isn't an option for this question

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Boutta be this potato that just exploded because I am a colossal fuckup

I have several
First:
One time, me mate was watching the house of a guy who fled the country cause of reasons. We were in his apartment doing some chores and the girl dug up some Lidl chicken nuggets at the bottom of the freezer. She decided to deepfry them so we could eat them with ketchup as a meal. I think they were 1 year past date, but she didnt check. After 5 minutes I felt sick and threw up a bit in the toilet but didnt say anything to them to keep my cool. Then, I decided to talk a walk for fresh air and I encountered a woman who was walking her dog. As I walked towards her, I vomitted like a stream of assload out of my mouth, but it was al shiny red cause of the ketchup so for a second, she and I thought I threw up a gallon of blood. The whole sidewalk was red. She panicked and asked if I needed medical assistance but I just walked ahead, I felt releaved. She had to pull the dog back too cause he wanted to start sniffing and licking the red pavement slop. Terrible evening.

Another, but for two older folks.
One day, as kids, we were playing footy in the streets and one of our friends had worms in his ass. You know, the white ones. As we played footy, he got an itchy ass, and when the ball got into the garden of an elderly couple who were always complaining about us and threatening us with the police. So he decided to get the ball from their garden, but they were eating soup in front of their window and didnt allow us to get in their garden. So he walked up to the window, they notice him standing there, about to get furious. He sticks his finger up his ass and diggs up several white worms from his own ass. He shows them swirling at the top of his finger, while they are still eating their soup, he then squeeshed the worms on their window, splattering them and drawing a greazy line of splatted death asshole worms, from left to right. We ran so hard after that. Grossed out. I think that was their most depressing soup ever

>>21614508
Man I picked up a potato earlier and it popped

Like audibly and grossly
Pop

It was rotten

>>21611017
about 6 years ago, I made a pasta but forgot the sauce so I used spinach, butter and olive oil as the "sauce" all downed with 6 tumblers of vodka and arak
around the same time I drank 5 beers and ate gas station tacquitos at 2am

I thankfully don't drink heavily anymore. Unemployment and isolation drives men insane.

Another one
One time I had a real stressful period at home, so work was getting on my nerves. Every lunch break, I would go out, just to grab a bite somewhere just to avoid colleagues. One time, i got in a bar/bistro, it was all dark, and there was no one there but I had to eat something and order something to be back for lunchbreak was over. So the waiter/owner was kinda surprised he had a customer at that hour or the day. My dumb ass ordered a carpaccio sandwich. As I looked around I noticed alot of spiderwebs and dust and thought wtf did I get myself into?
So after some panicking in the kitchen the guy comes back with a sandwich and serves it to me. Keep in mind the inside or the bar was still dark then, no lights were on, only sunlight which came in thru some windows. I looked at the meat and it was all grey and off color and just looked really strange. So the owner sat at the bar and I ate the sides of the sandwich and when he looked the other way I tucked the biggest part of the sandwich with all the meat into the side of a plant, next to the window. I paid and left. Bar went out of business a week or two later.

One time I was in Auschwitz as a visitor, with a hangover. We hadnt had breakfast, but there was a restaurant. It didnt open until 9:00 so I waited. They only served something like borsjt soup, it was terrible. So outside the camp was a hotdog vendor, who looked so horribly messy I just ordered a bread with mustard. My breakfast at Auschwitz was soggy bread with mustard while all grieving old folks were watching and busloads of jews rode by

Ate at Denny’s once, still get kind of sad mopey just thinking about it

>>21614596

Your friend needs medical and psychiatric help

I worked with a guy who kept a grocery bag of wonderbread, processed cheese and sliced pre packaged deli ham in the fridge, sometimes he would forget to put it back in after lunch, but that's all he ate every fucking day, he'd grab his depressing bag of processed food, shuffle over to a table, slap together a shitty sandwich and eat like half a bag of chips, and then go back to work where he would be sluggish and lethargic for the next two hours.

I think he's dead now.

One day I was at a gamer friends house where he lived with his obese girlfriend. When it was dinner time she snubbed us and she ate a deepfried egg and candy for dinner. That was for dinner, a silo of Haribo candy. She ate most of it. That was one of the strangest experience ever. She told me she did it quite often when she didnt felt like cooking. Just ate candy for dinner. She worked at a pet asylum

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Not me, but one of my friends used to eat Rainbow Chips Ahoy dunked in strawberry Kool-Aid on a nightly basis. He had apparently been doing this since childhood, seven days a week, and didn't see it as unusual. He only stopped once he got a type II diabetes diagnosis at age 30.

binge ate
threw up
was manic so convinced myself I didn't deserve to eat people food ever again because I kept wasting it
ate some of the vomit as self-punishment/under the logic that I had already consumed the calories in the vomit so it was a free meal
burned my mouth and throat eating my vomit and vomited again

Eventually Ill eat a shotgun barrel , Im sure that counts

Thought I ran out of beer, but then I found a full one, ended up being full of days old piss because I pissed in it.

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>Used to have a roommate
>He brought his gf to our room
>They fucked in his room
>They have a break between each fuck session, and they always take a break in the kitchen
>Had to use the time when they were fucking to quickly grab a few can of sardeenz from my cupboard in the kitchen and ate it in my room
>cold deenz with Lays' onion and sour cream was my dinner that day

>>21611048
just depressing that you brought fucking instant ramen as hiking/camping food

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Munched on ice cubes to take my mind of the hunger in college.

>>21611017
I think I ate horse in the army.

>>21611017
Cockmeat sandwich
t. Abdul

half can of beer and a tabasco slim jim

>>21611017
I got dragged to an all-you-can-eat buffet once. Everything was mediocre at best and gross at worst.
I don't get the quantity over quality ideals of fatasses I guess. I'd have rather spent more for less food.

>>21614580
>>21614596
Kill yourself, you stupid piece of garbage.

>>21614642
This, take the wormpill and don't be a meat puppet

>>21614596
No, we don't know about having worms in your ass. What 3rd world shithole do you hail from? If ever the police actually should have been called over some soccer playing bastards it's you guys. What the FUCK??

The fact that your parents let you play with some kid with fucking dog worms in his ass tells us a lot about you streetshitters. You need to keep your foul tales to yourself.

>>21611017
in mexican culture our "struggle meal" is tortillas with table salt as the filling :(

>Amerimutts only eat ultra processed goyslop so they never get any ass worms.
This is a normal occurrence in regular countries.

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It's no wonder why /ck/'s one of the most neurotic boards. All of you fuckers have worms piloting your brain

>>21615242
Must be from the monosodium glutamate, it literally colonizes your brain with worms. Just look at the tranime watching troonami fiends.

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>>21615232

No, assworms are not typical in "regular" countries. Pretending like it's some common thing everyone just goes through and the Americans are odd for not suffering these worms of the ass is bullshit. But you can continue to delude yourself.
Only the filthiest nations would put up with something like that. And only the dumbest people would "share" their assworms with the neighbors.
>These are the worms from my ass. I know them well. I'll gather some right now, getting poop on my fingers because that's totally cool - just playin' footy! Now I'll hold up my poopy assworms and squash them on your windowsill and go back to playing with my friends on the dirty, assworm streets of some hellhole that now has internet

I don't like sharing this forum with such deplorable and shameless dirtbags.

>>21614646
I don't see an issue with this method. You just thought he used crappy ingredients. That's it? It's more like you just didn't like the guy so things he did made you irrationally upset. It's quite transparent. He must of outshone you at that job.

>>21615231
Dang. Is the salt to make the 'illa palatable or because you need salt to not die?

>>21611017
The only one I can remember is the first meal I made for myself my first week of college. It was 15 years ago so I don't remember exactly what I had but it was quickly obvious to me that I had no idea what I was doing and had been spoiled by my mother all my life. Being thousands of miles away from home and not knowing when I'd be able to taste familiar cooking again hit me hard and made me realize how I'd taken all of that for granted all that time. Humbling shit, I ate exclusively cereal and cafeteria meals for most of my first semester.

>>21615342
What's 'illa? Is there something wrong with you?

>>21611084
this reminds me of the time a friend tried to cook a yogurt cake he'd improvised by shoving it in the microwave. Cake came out like a hard dense brick, we threw it off the roof and it barely got dented.

Back when I had no money I had an egg salad sandwich out of a vending machine, free burnt motor oil coffee from the waiting room of a doctor's office (I just wandered in, didn't have an appointment), and half a box of Charleston Chews from the previous winter that were so hard and stale I couldn't chew so I just swallowed them like pills. Being more or less homeless was pretty interesting. Lot of watery shits.

A ham and cheese sandwich with thick, nearly burnt bread our mom made for me and my brother once, she made them in the middle of an angry rant about dad when they were in the brink of divorce and just threw them on the table. The sandwich broke one of my wisdom teeth and it had to be removed.

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>>21615470
I dunno, salt vampire, is there?

>>21611084
i am certain that a crock pot can make rice since it's just low-boiling for a while which is exactly what crock pots do. putting the eggs in at first is stupid but shouldn't create concrete, and saltier than salt means you dumped a retarded amount of salt in there. so what are you leaving out of this story?

>>21611088
>because I was raised to never waste food I forced myself to eat nachos with cold marinara sauce
you are somehow saying this like it's a bad thing when it's actually good on multiple levels. eating your fails is a critical part of learning to cook

>>21611083
Most depressing meal ITT but what can anybody say about it? Why did she leave for multiple days, just on drugs or off with chad or what?

>>21613531
You can just go to a hotel for a couple days and order takeout, anon. They don't want you to know this but you don't actually have to have a reason to do this, you can just go to a hotel the next town over and doordash slop for a couple days to your room if you want.

>>21612345
this is not at all depressing. it's a little bit wagie-core but you were in a nice place, for work which implies a good job as well and you made yourself a decent dinner with limited equipment. honestly sounds kind of fun, i like creative cooking like that

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>>21612566
How about gas station nachos?
>chips
>process dairy product (does not melt)
>cheapest "beef jerky" imaginable (rubber pucks)
>microwaved
This was christmas dinner btw, I was alone because my roommates were all back home with their families etc.

>>21615587
The reason is its a ridiculous waste of money

>>21615587
I don't want to pay for the room and I want it to be in some random city or town. I want to feel like the hotel room is my home. Like it's my bastion.

>>21612216
I'm sorry anon. I hope you're doing alright.

>>21615585
she was off doing who knows what with her boyfriend. that's actually how I learned to cook was her leaving me alone with barely any food and I had to find a way to survive off of a bag of potatoes and some flour. And I remember I asked my dad if he could take me to Walmart for food (she had custody of me) and I used 80 dollars that I'd saved up for an entire year to buy myself food. actually one of the worst memories of my life is my dad not even offering to buy food for me.

>>21613527
post hand, lardass

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The night I was released from jail I got two McChickens and ate them by myself in my apartment while watching GitS on Toonami at like 1AM. The meal itself wasn't so depressing but the feeling of having just got out of jail and coming back alone to an empty shitty apartment coupled with the somber mood of Ghost in the Shell, that meal stands out as the saddest one I can remember having.
Probably the only other sad meal I can remember is being unable to eat more than a couple spoonfulls of beef stroganoff as a kid sitting in the backyard because my parents were destroying the inside of the house yelling and screaming at each other.

I microwaved some chicken wings after the freezer went out. They were terrible, I don't care what it said on the box they were not microwavable.

>>21612708
>Well there's depressing because of the food and depressing because of the circumstances
This
>circumstances
The meal three days after my grandfather died, didn't eat for three days
>food
I was an athlete in college with zero time to spare. I was training thrice a day in the summer heat while managing studies and had no fucking time to cook, eat snd digest. I still needed something to fuel my training so I mixed Oral Rehydration Solution in milk and added a few ice cubes.

>>21615602
Same reason why I learnt to cook. I was so disgusted with my whore mom that I just couldn't swallow anything she made.

>>21611017
i've drank a bottle of sriracha for nutrients

God this thread is fucking hilarious. Thanks everyone.
I've had so many horrible depressing meals its hard to count. A funny one off the top of my head was making spaghetti then the apartment fire alarm went off but i just drained the spaghetti so i just went outside and sat on the cold lawn eating spaghetti out of the pot. Depressing at the time, funny memory now

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>>21611017
Sauceless lasagna, dad was drunk.

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when I started highschool my journey there took like an hour and a half, so there wasn't time to pack a lunch unless I woke up before 6am. we were too poor for school dinners, but my mom was too prideful to have me get free lunches, so instead she'd buy me packs of aldi sausage rolls to take in. they were dry, hard, and the meat inside was grey and bizarrely chewy. by halfway through the year I gave up on lunch

>>21611017
everything i picked out of the garbage in the cafeteria as a child. only did it when the hunger was more unbearable than the reticule. the good news is my mom always had cigarettes tho

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Mine is not that bad, but when I was like 13, and completely new to cooking, I was cooking my first spaghetti + tomato sauce unsupervised.
I've put the tomato sauce in a pot, then set the stove to the absolute maximum.
It quickly started to bubble and splash, so I put the lid on it to not make the kitchen dirty.
I wasn't sure when it would be finished, so I let it coock for a while. I didn't stir it either.
Later I decide it's probably finished by now and stir it, and some completely black mass appears in the sauce. I stir more and there's just black stuff everywhere in the sauce. The whole bottom layer of the sauce got completely burned.
I showed my mom and she said "well what did you expect would happen?" and I said "well, it's a liquid, how the fuck can it burn??"
I still ate it and it tasted fucking disgusting kek

>>21611048
>cold and basically uncooked
all instant ramen has already been fried before packaging don't worry

>>21615776
There's no such thing as a free lunch, haven't you learned anything anon? Your poor mom was correct.

>>21615776
>highschool
>mom
What the FUCK is this?

>>21611041
that's not a meal. That's a light snack

>>21615581
i'm not retarded. Your retarded

>>21616008
Actually he's right. Your story doesn't check out. You're a charlatan

>>21615585
>chad

KYS, incel schizo.

>>21615611
Broken homes (literally in your case) seem to produce a lot of 4chan chuds and weebs. Checks out.

>>21615777
*Ridicule

lol, you at least could have paid attention in class. But I guess that's hard when you had a single mom not up to the task and you're hungry.

Damn, some of you had it fucking ROUGH. No wonder you're so bitter and angry.

>>21615793
You actually spoke to your mother like that? You were a little dirtbag.

>>21611017
when I was a kid my mum would buy a couple packs of sliced ham and a loaf of bread at the start of the week, so I by the end of the week I was eating stale bread and kinda shitty ham sandwiches with nothing else in em with my dog

>>21612216
I giggled at first, but I'm sorry about this happened to you.

its called Baint Stew.

base is quinoa, freezedried refried beans, about a pound of "cheddar" that has been carried in a backpack in the sun while hiking for a week (everything following suffers the same treatment). maybe tuna pouches, maybe an onion, maybe a zucchini, maybe some precooked sysco bacon, maybe some taco seasoning powder, maybe some soy sauce. cooked with water that tasted like plastic over a fire in a dirty pot until thick, wrapped in a torilla. seasoned heavily with literal fucking dirt. all of our food had dirt in it. everything tasted like dirt.

this was a staple food at a wilderness therapy camp i spent 6 months in, and another wilderness therapy camp i spent another 4 months in. we werent allowed to curse, so "baint" was a substitution for "shit" or "fuck". this was literally the slop we would eat at the end of the week before we got fresh food delivered into the middle of nowhere by some assholes in a truck who threw shit out of the bed into the mud for us to pick up. it was leftovers, but they had been carried in backpacks by children for a week in the desert before being burnt to fuck over a fire to attempt to kill any foodborne illness. the staff brought their own food and didnt offer any assistance in cooking, because they knew they would get sick from this vile shit we were forced to eat because there was nothing else to eat.

second nature cascades and second nature uintahs committed crimes against children and the people incolved should be prosecuted.

https://files.catbox.moe/q4ebxm.mp4

>>21616038
She beat me a lot before I turned out like that

>>21616087
I can see why

>>21615602
Damn anon. Hope you're doing better now.

>>21616111
It was because I have diagnosed ADHD and my parents said I should not take medication because "drugs are bad", so I had to live with unfiltered ADHD my whole life, which of course made my life and that of the people around me pretty shitty

>>21615651
I've been mentally older than my mom since I was a teenager so I mostly just felt sorry for her that she acted that way as an adult with kids

>>21616166
I'm doing better than my parents ever did but that bar is extremely low

Mine was probably one of the many KFC meals i ate at the first semester of college, the restaurant was right in front of my place and walking by it witgout gling in was a test of willpower i had to go through multiple times a day sometimes

Fast forward to the end of the semester, exam season, no time for anything plus im doing badly. i was returning from a failed test and my willpower didn't have any steam left in it so i went in despite my concious screaming at me not to all the way to paying. I remeber chewing on a burger i wasted too much money while it was dark and cold outside the restaurant with nobody else there besides me and the workers, i was eating there for the seventh day in a row.

I did think about suicide then a little

>>21615602
Absolutely brutal, thanks for posting

>>21611126
amerilards are literally incapable of making food with no corn syrup

>>21616032
If you read the follow up she literally was out with her boyfriend, so you may want to pick a different time to insult me for implying she may have been out with a handsome young man during that story

>>21616034
Broken homes don't just produce 4chan chuds and weebs or people you don't like. Spend time in any internet space of terminally online weirdos and you'll find many of them come from broken homes. It isn't exactly surprising people from broken homes latch on to internet communties.

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>valentines day
>had to get gf something nice for dinner
>just started new job and couldn't afford going out until the new pay cycle started
>worked nights anyways so most spots would be closed
>went to grocery store for cheap meal ideas before shift started
>flowers too
>wound up getting box of these since we ate them together as a poverty meal when we both got laid off during covid
>add some chicken breasts and pesto along with a cheap wine, easy sex
>get home and put everything up, set flowers out so she sees them when she gets off work
>get home after work
>gf not there, told me she had to see her dad since he recently got divorced and isn't used to living alone since she moved out
>feelsbad.jpg
>she left a nice handwritten message on the flowers, real cute sweet nothings
>fall asleep alone
>wake up
>go to work
>get home
>gf still not there
>call her, says she's helping him box up for a move
>check with her dad if he needs help
>she never saw her dad
I just microwaved picrel and ate it by hand while drinking wine from the bottle until I passed out
haven't had it since

>>21617172
This is a lie

>>21612208
Ive always wanted that kind of job.
I have some nomadic spirit to me.

>>21617172
So she dumped you without actually dumping you? Just left and used her dad as an excuse?

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I was at a hotel in Flagstaff so I could drive to the Grand Canyon. So, I went to a "Japanese" restaurant close by. It wasn't awful. I got chicken tempura and some sushi rolls. The fucking salad was just lettuce and three carrot slices. I should've gotten the miso soup.

>>21617222
not that anon, but the lengths women will go to just to not be confrontational is astounding. Looking back on my ex, there must have been 20 things about my existence that pissed her off, but it was nothing but 'love yous' till she found someone else to keep her bed warm. She was upset I didnt want to remain friends afterwards too.

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>>21615602
>she was off doing who knows what with her boyfriend.
>I asked my dad if he could take me to Walmart for food (she had custody of me) and I used 80 dollars that I'd saved up for an entire year to buy myself food. actually one of the worst memories of my life is my dad not even offering to buy food for me.
I'm such a pussy for thinking my life was hard holy shit

>>21611017
Anything with you.

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Maybe not the most depressing I've ever had, but it stands out. I blew like $700 visiting Reno as a college kid trying to impress this girl by taking her to a major concert there. I flew out and everything, and a series of terrible shit happened, so she abandons me in an alleyway after our cab ride with some other dudes at like 1 AM. Then my "friend" brings me into this diner in the same alleyway.

This place served a burger called an "Awful Awful," that he claimed was amazing. The upstairs toilet was overflowing, toilet water was cascading down the stairs, and I had to piss so bad that I walked upstairs through it, and they were still serving food, ruining my shoes. I ate this burger in this shithole wondering where my money went, where my girl went, and that's when actual shit started coming down the stairs. They didn't stop serving food. I picked up my feet and kept eating.

The place is now closed. Fuck Reno.

>>21615170
When I'm car camping for a few days I bring instant ramen, sesame seeds, chives, and red pepper flakes in the spice bullet, and a hard boiled egg in the cooler. Shit is _lovely_ for dinner.

>>21613809
You should at least add it in the melted butter first.

There was a long stretch of time when I had no car, barely any money, on and off alcy, and relied on EBT to buy enough food to survive. I'd take these long walks to the Meximart, get cheap produce and meat, other essentials, load up a backpack and full grocery bag on my EBT and schlep it all back through the hood.

Honestly, it was nice to get the exercise and pick out perfect mangoes for .50 cents cheaper than big stores, but everything about the circumstances I endured would've been soul crushing for most people. All I know is anyone trying to get groceries and have a normal life without a car can get so royally fucked by proximity. Maybe not these days as much with Uber and deliveries, but back in 2015, yeah.

>>21611017
On a road trip I was a picky kid and there was really nothing to choose from except empty carbs. There's this mountain valley town along one of the highways with this beautiful vista you're surrounded by mountains that are miles away from this plateau. All they had was a pizza hut and this was shortly after that chain had completely sold out. I went to order the personal size pizza while my dad was exhausted from driving for a week. All I remember was sitting alone in this dingy washed up pizza hut watching this squat tortilla human slather pizzas in oil and thinking how I could help these people escape this disgusting place. Then realizing I had just wasted my dads money. It was one of the most disgusting pizzas I'd ever eaten and I had to try really hard not to throw up. That was one of the first times in my life that the world seemed truly depressing seeing a bunch of foreign 40-50yo south americans extruding barely edible filth no pride no smiles surrounded by misery in such a beautiful place in our country.

>>21616076
That's pretty fucked. No wonder you guys hate the world so much. The couple of times I've actually been hungry were situations purely of my design; getting stranded off looking for drugs and stuff. At any time I could have made a phone call and had money wired to me or a car sent to pick me up from multiple friends and relatives had I felt like embarrassing myself. Never been without everything I wanted or needed. I can't imagine our parents fighting or divorcing or not doting on us constantly and being supportive in every way.
I'll try to keep that in mind when judging some of you on this forum. And I'll call my folks and thank them for always being there and giving me everything I needed to make it in this harsh world.

>>21611017
whatever i ate last

>>21616175
Damn. You could have had free adderall pep pills and been able to pay attention in class and maybe make valedictorian even. But your folks rejected your doctor's sound medical advice and concluded: Drugs are bad.
That's pretty fucked, anon.
I hope you don't follow in their footsteps doubting doctors like so many other people who hang out online in places like this.

>>21617135
I've never once purchased corn syrup for cooking with. And most brownie recipes, especially weedy ones, don't call for it.
That was an anomaly and you needn't believe Americans commonly use it. Sure, it's in cheap factory garbage foods and soda, but we don't actually "make food" with corn syrup at home or in restaurants.

>>21617138
'chad' used on these forums usually means some mythical huge-chin having tan "alpha" who fucks all the 10s and the 9s and the 8s and everyone's wife and gf on the side.

So the schizo is the "pilled", terminally-online virgin claiming that this 'chad' is active in every town and he alone is the reason none of you can find a mate.
If you just meant some guy banging anon's mom, perhaps that's not the same thing. I just don't want your lunatic /r9k/ bullshit on this board. The entire way people who usually post about 'chad' see the world is warped and baseless. Obviously you're not one of those assholes though, so my mistake.

>>21617172
Incomplete story. Was she leaving you? What happened?

>>21617300
You can always remember you have terrible taste in media and you're an anime weeb when you should not be.

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>>21616076
What about the extra comfort after a week of adventure? Did they not live up to the brochure your parents were sold on?

>>21611048
Oh boy this brings back a memory. Long story short, a bear got all our food and we had to hike out for three days on nothing but giant squirt bottles of off brand liquid margarine.
>"Parkay Squeeze"

>>21617306
Yeah that's reno alright. Add the smell of stale cigarette smoke and 50 year old carpet to your mental image of this while reading

>>21617398
Yep that's exactly what happened. And why I'm on bad terms with my parents (after constant fights that indirectly resulted from the untreated ADHD).
Anyway, I did manage to turn it around eventually. When I turned like 20, I decided to go back to school, and tryhard. Basically studied all day every day, stopped gaming as much, and maybe it's also relevant that I started drinking coffee daily (which is a stimulant that can help with ADHD). After all this effort, I did actually become a valedictorian, then went to get my bachelor degree, then my master's, both in engineering. Probably gave myself burnout from studymaxxing for 7 years, but worth it.
1 year ago I suddenly remembered "wait, when I was like 6, I got diagnose with ADHD. Maybe I should get that looked into". So since about a year I'm getting my free adderall pills, and everything is much better with them. They have some side effects like sweating, but it's worth it because I feel a lot less stressed / anxious with them and I can actually lock in and get stuff done.
Anyway, all that to say, my parents were pretty retarded when I was a kid and I don't feel surprised at all that there was a lot of tension between us

>>21617409
Sometimes a reaction image is just a reaction image.

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>>21615602
Your mom did all that shit and the depressing part was your dad not giving you any money? He doesn't dislike you because of you, he hates you because you're an extention of his worst mistake. Which would be your mother. He doesn't see you, he sees her.

>>21614580
>>21614596
End yourself, vermin.

>>21611083
Sorry to hear that, man.

>>21615776
You are a Brit and use "mom"? Disgusting.

>>21612844
Should’ve stopped after the miller

>>21615602
That's sad anon. I'm sorry.