I remember my mom saying she doesn’t want ramen saying “i feel like it’s for poor people” then sighs and says “well, i guess thats us” ramen wasn’t that depressing until that night. We also ate it in the dark to save energy.
Remember going out with my gf at the time while i was a broke student. I had the equivalent of 10 dollars for the rest of the week until another paycheck. I didnt want her to feel bad, so i never told her how broke i was, and we went out anyway. We went to a local burger shop and i spend like 7 dollars in a meal for her. I didnt eat anything, just a few of her fries. I told her that i wasnt feeling so good, so i didnt wanna eat. The next day i went to the store and buy all the rice i could. That week i ate like two spoons of rice a day, and drank all the water i could to keep me full. Shittiest week ever.
Christmas day, no money, electricity cut off, went to neighbor's apartment to warm up some frozen dinner thing. Couldn't stay, his estranged wife was coming. Ate sitting on curb of parking lot, in the sun. Life is much better now.
I can vouch. Starving your body can cause stomach cramps and intestinal spasm. Please don't do it. My body is not confused every time I eat Late from doing this before
'Fun' story from my mom: My mother was from a poor family, and her parents were fat. Her brother was fat, and her sister was fat. She didn't want to become fat like them so she began starving herself. When she finally started eating again, all the nutrition and stuff like that from the food became fat and caused her to become overweight. She still doesn't eat much and she is now obese. She told that story as a lesson for us whenever we feel self conscious and don't want to eat anything. The good thing about it is that it makes us keep eating a decent amount of food whether we feel like it or not
@@daenaryshargett2005 that's not really how it works. Calories are still calories no matter how you look at it. Sure, there's genetic factors, but you can't get obese if you barely eat. But do make sure to eat. It's not good for your body to go hungry for too long.
Chicken patty sandwiches in the women's shelter after taking my four-month-old baby and escaping from my first husband. I ate a lot of those for three weeks until the restraining order came through and I moved in with my mom.
Boiled wheat and ketchup. For three days straight. Someone offered us food on day three and my husband assured them we were just fine. Can't believe I let him live. Fortunately, the person who offered didnt believe the idiot and delivered a box of food later in the day.
When I was a kid, like 6 or 7, I woke up super early and I didn't want to bug my parents for breakfast. So I poured half a container of Kraft Parmesan Cheese and half a bag of Oscar Meyer bacon bits into a bowl and ate it with a spoon. A sad, sorry excuse for a breakfast that 6 year old me loved, and frankly, if I wasn't hyper aware of the caloric content and lack of nutritional value, I would probably dig today.
A few months back, my family was in a 4 star hotel, and my mother ran out of dog food, so instead of going and getting more, she decided the best course of action was to buy a $32 entree of Rabbit Two Ways. For her dog. No human ever touched that meal. Saddest meal I had, probably the time I ate a bowl of potato salad with a folded pocket knife cause I couldn't find any proper utensils.
the only one that was actually depressing was the one where his mom cooked him food and then she died. that made the shittiest meals ive ever eaten seem great because at least i still have my mom. but heres some of mine: cereal with water, pasta with some random salad dressing, pop-tarts for dinner, taco shells filled with condiments (or just plain taco shells), and finally ice cream cones with no ice cream.
I was heavily abused up until a year ago, and the saddest meal I’ve ever had was stealing vegetables from my school so my three year old sister wouldn’t go to sleep hungry. I was seven at the time. I had to steal a lot. I live with my aunt now because my parents are in jail. My aunt is my mom now, and my uncle, dad, recently died. Life is hard
Mexican food after a giant family fight in which I cried in the backseat of the car, my dad threatened to leave us all on the side of the road, and later ate ice cream while both of my parents assured me my sister would feel better once they got her therapy. Fun times
I've had a few meals I remembered being sad eating: Ate steak n shake after being diagnosed with a heart defect Sneaked away and ate some leftover texas roadhouse rolls after I failed my drivers test And finally eating cherry tomatoes whilst hearing an old boyfriend explain why he'd love to propose but his parents said he shouldn't None of these are really as shitty as the videos but I know there some of the times I've gone wow...this sucks
Mine: I remember when I was nine I had Panera bread after being told I was allergic to cats (got tested for like 40 things and cats was the only one we hoped I wouldn't be allergic to) and then crying until we got home
eating a meal from your mom after being mad at her, realizing it's good, and not having the guts to tell her sorry even though she was just doing her job
One time my bf and I had the flu for two straight weeks. We couldn't hold anything down besides ginger ale and water. Halfway through we dragged our corpses to our favorite burger place and got shakes, fries, and giant burgers. We went home, grabbed buckets, and slowly ate- savoring every bite. We threw up several times throughout the meal, but the few minutes of not feeling starving really boosted our spirits. Very pathetic and depressing, but also hysterical to look back on.
3:43 my most depressing meal was microwaved jumbo marshmellows with grapes on top. I put the grapes on after microwaving. Those things really puff up, too.
Funeral food. It's customary (used to be) that when a family member died, all the neighbors would bring food to the bereaved's house. I lost a lot of family members when I was young. So yeah, having to choke down funeral food, sometimes through tears, is the worst. Not that the food was bad, but still.
I remember being confused & almost a little angry after a funeral, when everyone would gather, eat, talk & some would be laughing while relating stories about the deceased. I remember once asking my mom how anyone could stand to eat, or be happy right then. I get it now. And it's ok.
Food doesn't taste very good when you're in the process of grieving. I remember the day my grandpa died, I promised to make dinner that night while my parents were out with my uncle looking for a casket. I ate an homemade pizza I made from scratch all by myself in a dark house while crying over the fact I was never going to see my grandpa again
That actually happened just a few days ago. Because of the corona lockdown, everything in supermarkets was gone. Plus I had lost my job so my mood was in the gutter. So I went through my cupboards to see what I could eat - ended up with spaghetti + a can of crushed tomatoes. As I poured the cooked stuff onto a plate, I somehow slid and the food ended up on the walls and floor. And I just broke down - I absolutely hate wasting food, and as this was the only thing I had left it gave me no choice but to scrape it off and eat it while sobbing loudly.
Dang, this was a depressing video. I really only just realised how bad things can get for others. I’ve been fortunate enough to not have to worry about food yet, but since I’m only a 12 year old, things can and most probably will drastically change. My heart goes out to all those who are struggling. No one deserves to not be able to have a good meal, to not feel safe, to not feel loved. I don’t want to be one of those cheesy people who say, “Oh, things will get better, just have faith!” Things will get better soon, but faith isn’t enough. You need to push through it. And I mean push. I wish the best of luck to all of you 💕
Most depressing meal was when I was probably around 9, I came home from school and sat down on the floor and waited for a bit. My family had to give up my dog since my mom just had my baby sister and couldn’t care for 3 kids and a pup. I was used to coming home and sitting on the floor and my dog would sprint and jump into my lap. It was the first time that didn’t happen. My parents got me McDonald’s to cheer me up a little. I remember tears streaming down my face as I silently ate alone in a dark house, feeling really empty Things are much better now. My old dog was given to a lovely family who adored her and I adopted a great dog when I was 12. He’s my bff and a better fit in my family so I wouldn’t want to change a thing ❤️
Saltine crackers dipped in ketchup out of the break room cabinet after not having food for two days. Can’t afford to pay bills AND have food. Working full time + being a full time student doesn’t allow me time to go to the DHHR to complete a food stamps application. Life man.
You tried a food drive or youth/YA support program? There are plenty of programs that help people in your situation or your age. Reapply for ebt because even if youre working and still cant eat thats a problem.
@@jacklow9611 In the video, one of the people made it sound like that method of tuna sandwich prep was the crappy way to do it. I think that it's tasty. The other people in this thread and everyone leaving likes agree that this is the method to go with.
@@EvilPaladin11: I've worked at several restaurants, and that was basically how it was prepared in all of them, with a few additions in some places. Even national-chain sandwich shops doing their tuna salad that way. It was, perhaps the situation that the poster(s) found themselves in that made it depressing. If there were any other recipes for tuna salad that were out there, I might be tempted to try them, if they were as simple a deal as what I've already done, but outside of a few "additions" that I like, to the basic recipe, I don't think I'd want to try it. I'm somewhat adventurous with recipes, but I can't even imagine any other way of making it that would keep it edible.
A can of Campbell's Won Ton soup. It was the take from local food charity, everyone at the table (me, dad, stepmom, two sisters) each got a different can of soup, plus, stepmom made instant mashed potatoes with a can of tuna mixed in. I think what made it so depressing was that conditions were even worse at our mom's house, and seeing my dad once every two weeks was supposed to be the escape and the place where we could go to have fun and decompress. To church charity food and Kool-Aid with no sugar. OR...The time I brought Dad to Dairy Queen with my first paying job. ; there was a girl from my HS class working at Dairy Queen who I crushing on, hard. She was on the cash register on this particular day, so I was really acting like a big shot with my 16-year old self with a little money in my wallet. I ordered my food, told Dad to get whatever he wanted. He said "I'd like to have a banana split, but son I can't afford that."... Ate my burger in awkward silence with my oblivious dad eating his damn banana split like he was in banana-split-heaven.
I had to eat dollar luchables for a week because i was paying off loans and rent. It sucks, because the only place to eat on my breaks at work was in the Subway attached to the Walmart i worked for.
My aunt has worked for Wal-Mart when it was still Special K in our town. Every Wal-Mart has always had a break room you can eat in? When I was working for them I was doing overnight travel work for different super centers. They have always had break rooms.
@@Homeside301 ikr. A loaf of great value brand bread is 98 cents, a pound of uncut bologna is about $2-$3, and then a whole pack of cheap cheese is like another $2.
I feel really bad for that guy whose fiancee broke up with him "because of reasons" on Christmas Day, that person is cold. If he had some money he can just spend that time at a bar or something if they are any open. I am also highly sus though, I wonder what the "reasons" actually were. I feel like the partner's family was shopping around for a partner when they (OP and Fiancee) were courting/dating. Isn't what that poster's fiance/fiancee did stringing him along only to break up with him in the end?
I can't say I've ever had a depressing meal as in "I was so bad off this was all I had". I seem to have a talent for mashing things together to make them
In college I had BBQ flavored Vienna sausages for dinner. Just as bad as it sounds. Also ate a stick cherry chapstick once in college. Though that was actually better.
For a while I alternated between beans for a day and then rice and on the third day, beans and rice. My buddy lied and said that someone had given him a bottle of my brand of scotch, but he was a bourbon drinker, so he gave it to me. Spent several Christmases and birthdays (4 days apart) in other countries, war zones, etc... Holidays and birthdays no longer have any meaning for me.
They only have meaning if you want them to. If anything, let it be a way of saying "I made it through all that shit to be able to live another year". Maybe Uncle Iroh would have a proverb to help you.
A while back while I was grocery shopping I stumbled upon a product I hadn’t seen for years, but loved as a kid. What it essentially is, is a sauce that’s half mayonnaise and half ketchup. Mind you, individually I don’t much care for either. Anyhow, I had to buy it since I still remembered the taste from 15 years ago. A few days later I ran out of groceries but my local store didn’t work. The only thing I had in my house was that ketchup/mayonnaise blend and toast. I spent the entire day eating mayonnaise and ketchup on bread. Never felt worse about myself than that day.
My first Thanksgiving away from my family after I moved out from college. My family had moved away without telling me, and they had changed their phone number, so I couldn't even contact them, because I had no idea where they'd gone. The college dorms had shut down for the holiday, my friends had left before I found out my family wasn't coming to get me, I was completely broke, didn't have a car, had no idea what I was going to do for the two weeks school was out, and all I had was a few leftover slices of Papa John's pizza I'd ordered a few days before. I sat on the back steps of the dorm building on a completely deserted campus, shivering in the cold as I ate half a piece of the pizza, wondering how I'd survive without food, water, or shelter over the next two weeks. It was snowing. Maybe not the worst time I've ever had (I had some real doozies, mostly also due to family -- Christmas that same year was worse), but that's the one most memorable for me.
The most depressing sandwich from a gas station, with like mayo, lettuce, ham and slice of cheese. It tasted like moist cardboard and gave me 12-hour long diarrhea.
Mine was age 13 sitting down in a burger king with one small fry split between my mom and me, she told me that she couldn't afford to pay for our house anymore so I sat only eating the four soggy fries I got in my mouth before she had told me (Note: my mom wasn't a single mom, my dad stayed at the house cause he couldn't muster up the courage to see me when I found out, and my siblings were all at friends houses)
Another depressing meal: went one time to estranged family home to try and have a nice Thanksgiving meal together. Old family neighbor friends were mourning a recent death, my parents/sister just spent the evening shouting and yelling each other, so I left and got a hot dog at the gas station instead.
3:36 I hate to admit but sometimes I just give up on life for a minute and eat oatmeal without heating it up in the microwave. It was pretty much cereal since I use milk, not water I also once ate instant ramen without cooking it. This was some time last year. I just took it out of the packet and ate it like chips Yeah I'm weird ;-; ___________________ ._.
Working my way through vocational school I cried when I had to eat ramen with a spoon... there’s poor and so poor you had to use a take out spoon while staying at a roach motel to eat ramen with.
Had a massive allergic reaction working on my science project when I was 10 and ended up in the hospital over Thanksgiving. They brought me my boiled turkey dinner, I took a bite and started crying. The nurse asked what was wrong and I yelled "this fucking sucks!" at her, pushed it away and just cried. My worst Thanksgiving ever!
Usually, I feel depressed after eating a really tasty meal, but it had limited quantity, or after eating a lot of vegetables without any meat or pastas; I feel like I am missing out on something celestial. That is why I get my fill of tasty foods, and limit the vegetables. I'm fine with having irritable bowels, but having food depression is a worse hell than the physical pain. Alternatively, if I had left a friend or family member I care about in an angry state over some argument we couldn't resolve, and have my favorite meal in front of me, I can't eat it, or if I do I can never eat it again because of how sad I felt at the time. I end up remembering that feeling whenever I see and smell my favorite food. That's why the best thing I can do is eat vegetables when that happens. I can gorge on the those nasty greens while I cry my eyes out without any love loss.
When I was depressed and unemployed I'd spend most of the time at my boyfriends while he worked. I once ate tostito crumbs mixed into a can of almost expired french onion dip. We're married and both employed now and we have food on the table but that was a very low time for me.
My 26th birthday my husband was away on business and none of my family made an effort for my birthday. trying to keep a positive attitude I said I will go to the bar and have myself a few birthday drinks. when I got there and ordered my drink, I'm sitting there and realized I'm drinking on my birthday, alone... had a couple shots of vodka chase with tears
After eating instant oatmeal for a few weeks straight a good friend of mine decided, fuck it, and began eating it dry. Variety, he called it chugging the oats straight from the bag. Thanks to the gods of the jobmarket, things arent that bad anymore. 🤣
Chinese duck flavoured pot noodles: I called them “Engineering Duck” because they tasted just like Bakelite smells when it’s hot. But they were cheap! 😁
I had to work a double on Thanksgivings a few years back and asked that a plate be set aside for me. I could tell that it was the scraps of what my family had not eaten. My family goes big on food on holidays so I knew this plate of a table spoons worth of a few things was a after thought at the end of the night when everything was gone.
The nostalgia foods of my childhood taste generic now after their original recipes had changed: Twinkies, Frosted Flakes, Peter Piper Pizza, fountain drink sodas, moonpies, and fun dip. I can't find Necco Wafers locally anymore.
When living in abusive household: Dried oatmeal mixed with tuna in a can. When homeless behind McDonald's: Three fries off the garbage and slurped some tomato sauces. Stole leftover coke cups and finished it off.
I eat it very seldom, but when I do I am astounded at how good it tastes. I am well aware of how unhealthy it can be, but I totally understand how many people eat it all day every day. To me it's like a bad drug- seductive and potentially lethal.
Idk about you but every fast food place I've been to has a dollar menu. It's not that expensive unless you're intentionally going to spend $50 on crappy fast food on a drunken night lmao. It always does taste surprisingly good though. Especially them damn fresh fries.
I remember my mom made a whole bunch of Chow Mein, some for my sister and I to have for supper and the rest to take to a baby shower. She left for the baby shower and when my sister and I went to the kitchen to help ourselves, we saw the pot only had some vegetable scraps at the bottom. My mom absent mindedly took all the chow mein the party, leaving us with no food. Forced to improvise, my sister and I boiled cut up hot dogs and cooked some instant noodles. I genuinely looked forward to it but eating it was nauseating. The starchiness or something made it all so gross and my stomach felt awful for half the day... I stopped eating hot dogs and instant noodles for awhile, even if they are separate.
Can think of a few... Made pasta with veggies and cream of mushroom sauce. Wasn't appetizing as previous times I'd made it. Choked half of it down, ate the rest later. This was a week ago. Anytime I've survived on grilled cheese or quesadillas prior to grocery shopping. (Grateful I can!) I am now sick of GCs and may never eat another one. When I was prepared to somehow eat instant mac in the hospital cafeteria with a straw because it was after hours and there were no utensils around. Thankfully, a worker gave me a fork. Also, that same week I had like, a cookie and a Mrs. Mays bar for dinner because the fam didn't pick me up to go eat until late because they forgot about me. (Was there because a family member who already needed round the clock care was really sick.) Not really sad, but after I had watched Grave of the Fireflies for the first time, I'd never been so grateful to have food in my life. Scarfed down that Kraft like it was fine dining in a ten star restaurant. Edit: Forgot! A few months ago, I went on a strict low sugar/salt regime because my triglycerides were high, but somehow I was just low key starving myself or not eating enough. First time I went to a restaurant, I was shocked when I actually felt full and realized I'd been doing it really wrong. Sadly, went back to my old eating habits and don't know how I'm doing, but my health is crap anyway, so this is nothing new. Try, try again??
During one thanksgiving I wasn’t able to go visit my family so I made two turkey melt sandwiches (keeping with the theme). As I looked at them and waited for them to cool off I just thought of how depressing it was eating these by myself in my apartment.
A recipe a guy on Reddit said every college student should know. It was oatmeal with a little salt and parmesan cheese. It wasn't disgusting but it wasn't good. It was just EXTREMELY bland but if you put more salt in it it was just bland flavor with salty on top. Being a student i couldn't just throw the whole thing away so i forced myself to eat half of it. A similar recipe in BuzzFeed said to make rice with a bit more water than usual and add parmesan when ready. It was the same exact flavor.
The most depressing meal i had is probably just rice with a little soy sauce and a little fried onion. I remember that day i was alone at home when my whole family went on a trip to europe and they forgot to leave me money for food. Thankfully my mom asked her sister that also didnt join on the trio to lend me some money the next day.
Totally destitute with no money and living in an inherited house that had been abandoned for 10 years by hoarding grandmother. Risked opening an almost 20-year-old can of collard greens and ate it out of the can with my fingers. Ate lots of questionable canned food those few weeks.
As long as the cans/jars weren't leaking,bulging in strange places/not rusting, then you should be fine. Have eaten a lot of things like that, and was never hurt by eating it (My extended family canned a lot, and we often had canned food from many years past).
I used to eat bread with ketchup or with layer of yogurt and sprinkled sugar on top as a child sometimes, because those were the only foods my stepmom won’t notice I’ve eaten from while being „grounded“ to not eat for days at a time. I appreciate having food so much now!
I’ve got a sad one from my stepmom, then a happy one from myself to make watchers feel better My dad doesn’t normally take work off on holidays unless my brothers and I are at his house. Last Thanksgiving, we were at our mom’s. So while I sat out on a crisp autumn day, eating sweet bread and lemoned turkey made by my mom, laughing with her, my siblings and our stepdad about whatever, my stepmom sat alone in her office, working at the computer, on Thanksgiving day without my dad or my brothers and I and without my dad’s amazing cooking. Thankfully, she put her foot down this year and said that my dad is going to take that Thursday and Friday off since I’ll be there this year and my brothers are away in military training. I’m gonna help them cook and stuffs. Okay, happy one from me, I was in my school’s musical back in Spring and rehearsals were the absolute worst. I was always exhausted and grumpy and wanted to drop dead every night. It sucked. One night, my friend, Kat, walked me to the parking lot to wait for my brother to pick me up. He didn’t show up for an hour and then Kat had to leave, but neither of us liked the idea of me being out there alone. So she brought me back to the group, then left, and my friend Abbie brought me back to the parking lot. Turns out that Kat and I went to the wrong one and my brother had been waiting for an hour for me. I was so tired and worried he’d be mad at me for making me wait, but, as I got in the car, he just said this very gentle, “There’s some nuggies on the seat for you.” Something about the way he said it, like he could tell how upset I was, just made my day ten times better. The nuggies were kind of cold from sitting there for an hour, but damnit, those were the best nuggies I’ve ever had and that’s still one of my favorite memories. In short, my brother’s fucking amazing and I love that man.
A slice of cake with a single candle in it that I got for myself on a birthday. Also, scraps from customers' plates at a restaurant I used to work at. Damn.
One time while I was having a weird depressed moment while at a camp I made what I called Satan's Five-Grain Breakfast burrito. It was five-grain Cheerios with ketchup, yogurt, celery, cheese and scrambled eggs in a tortilla and it made me feel worse
Toast (from the store not home made) with olive oil and salt. I was super sick (gastroentheritis), my parents were out on a motorbike trip and my brother was with his girl. They left before I woke up so they didn't know I was so sick. I got the recommendation of what to eat from an online friend and I barely could chew without throwing up again, laying on bed with a really high fever and no money or energy to go to the doctor, my only company, that online friend whic I don't even know his name
Stale conchas. I was working two jobs, totalling up to 18 hours a day with a hour of travel time.I had five hours in a day and the only thing I could do in the time was sleep. All my food came from a gas station.I would buy this huge bag of conchas and just eat those until the bag ran out then buy more. The last two conchas would always be stake by the time I got to them.
First time in Amsterdam.. about 20 years ago. Arrived.. very sick from a cold that had developed on the flight from Australia, hallucinating from jetlag.. went to the local supermarket for a ready meal. I was pretty confidant in my translation skills due to having 3 years German and coming from a Dutch family.. couldn't speak Dutch for shit but I could read pretty well. Despite my confidence, instead of the Indian Butter Chicken and rice I thought I bought.. I somehow ended up with Indian Butter Fish and rice. I don't eat fish.. ever.. I sat in the Hostel kitchen, slowly spooning it into my mouth, chewing and swallowing, as I sobbed like someone had set fire to my cat infront of me.
Mine is similar to the dry oatmeal story. I always eat non-cooked top ramen soup. Oh wait that isn't a depressing meal I LOVE IT! Like no really, it tastes awesome with the beef sauce on it.
Pretending to love my mom's cabbage rolls 100s of time. Wrap cabbage leaves around hamburger meat mixed with white rice, and boil the rolls in tomato juice. Not for me. But my dad loves them (it was his mother's recipe) so I have to fake like I do too. Even if toothpicks have been left in the cabbage leaves to keep the rolls together, and I don't know it until I'm trying to cut through the toothpicks with a knife.
I don’t have any depressing meals, but it’s probably the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen with something like that to my toddler. it was literally just a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some cheese and a sugar cookie. The sugar cookie was a good idea but the rest of it was a bit random.
My most depressing meal was at the height of my eating disorder. I had a chocolate cupcake from a coworkers birthday. It was the first thing I'd eaten all day and I didnt even swallow it. I spit it into a trashcan while everyone else was in the front enjoying the celebration.
@@guestverhendery yeah same. I'm very early on in my recovery and it's still kinda hard dealing with my new "healthy body" but I know I'm happier now than I was. Honestly I would trade hunger pangs for the mental clarity I hadn't realized I lost any day, without hesitation. Also... cupcakes taste good.
I lived on rice for about a week when I was between jobs. Didn't care at all about myself, but when I ran out of cat food, I cried. Desperate, I called up a friend AA and asked for a few days' worth. She brought me a 20-lb. bag. (Later I was able to pay her back by doing a lot of pet sitting for her cat and dog, which was a pleasure. And I did start working again at a great job.)
one day i spent the entire day crying and nothing made me feel better, i had been drinking Sunny D’s, hot cheetos, and goldfish crackers in the morning. when ‘dinner’ time came my parents didn’t want to cook for me so i turned on the pan and made myself ‘toast’ i put cream cheese between those two burnt pieces of bread and it was honestly one of the best meals of my life.
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I remember my mom saying she doesn’t want ramen saying “i feel like it’s for poor people” then sighs and says “well, i guess thats us” ramen wasn’t that depressing until that night. We also ate it in the dark to save energy.
Damn that's dark
Dang, boyo, I hope you are making that money now!
Mandeep Sangar literally
@@harmony1955 LITERALLY!
I'll go in the corner now....
what is ramen
Remember going out with my gf at the time while i was a broke student. I had the equivalent of 10 dollars for the rest of the week until another paycheck. I didnt want her to feel bad, so i never told her how broke i was, and we went out anyway. We went to a local burger shop and i spend like 7 dollars in a meal for her. I didnt eat anything, just a few of her fries. I told her that i wasnt feeling so good, so i didnt wanna eat. The next day i went to the store and buy all the rice i could. That week i ate like two spoons of rice a day, and drank all the water i could to keep me full. Shittiest week ever.
Should have cook the rice
@@explosioncatsandknives7747 do you think he didn't cook the rice?
@@docaxolotl1598 yes
@@explosioncatsandknives7747 May I ask why
@@docaxolotl1598 Idk op didn't say anything also I used to eat rice raw
Christmas day, no money, electricity cut off, went to neighbor's apartment to warm up some frozen dinner thing. Couldn't stay, his estranged wife was coming. Ate sitting on curb of parking lot, in the sun. Life is much better now.
Ya, christmas no tree no presants no food! I hear you guys.!!!
@@bethheizer2886 it's very common
A great fact to people, who want to choose a diet:Not eating anything at all is not good for your body.
It's actually much much worse than eating snack food for the majority of the day.
I can vouch. Starving your body can cause stomach cramps and intestinal spasm. Please don't do it. My body is not confused every time I eat Late from doing this before
Will.J fasting is different from starving yourself.
'Fun' story from my mom: My mother was from a poor family, and her parents were fat. Her brother was fat, and her sister was fat. She didn't want to become fat like them so she began starving herself. When she finally started eating again, all the nutrition and stuff like that from the food became fat and caused her to become overweight. She still doesn't eat much and she is now obese. She told that story as a lesson for us whenever we feel self conscious and don't want to eat anything. The good thing about it is that it makes us keep eating a decent amount of food whether we feel like it or not
@@daenaryshargett2005 that's not really how it works. Calories are still calories no matter how you look at it. Sure, there's genetic factors, but you can't get obese if you barely eat. But do make sure to eat. It's not good for your body to go hungry for too long.
Chicken patty sandwiches in the women's shelter after taking my four-month-old baby and escaping from my first husband. I ate a lot of those for three weeks until the restraining order came through and I moved in with my mom.
Hope you two are doing better now. It’s good you both left that situation
I’m happy for your bravery and I’m glad you got to save yourself and your child
Hope your okay
Boiled wheat and ketchup. For three days straight. Someone offered us food on day three and my husband assured them we were just fine. Can't believe I let him live.
Fortunately, the person who offered didnt believe the idiot and delivered a box of food later in the day.
When I was a kid, like 6 or 7, I woke up super early and I didn't want to bug my parents for breakfast. So I poured half a container of Kraft Parmesan Cheese and half a bag of Oscar Meyer bacon bits into a bowl and ate it with a spoon. A sad, sorry excuse for a breakfast that 6 year old me loved, and frankly, if I wasn't hyper aware of the caloric content and lack of nutritional value, I would probably dig today.
William Caruana That is amazing. Just think of all the protein and calcium... you’d be able to go vegan for a week! (But why would you want to?)
A few months back, my family was in a 4 star hotel, and my mother ran out of dog food, so instead of going and getting more, she decided the best course of action was to buy a $32 entree of Rabbit Two Ways. For her dog. No human ever touched that meal.
Saddest meal I had, probably the time I ate a bowl of potato salad with a folded pocket knife cause I couldn't find any proper utensils.
What's wromg with letting the dog enjoy some quality food?
@@brightnesst35 If I answer this, it seems like a rabbit hole I don't feel like going down.
pun intended.
the only one that was actually depressing was the one where his mom cooked him food and then she died. that made the shittiest meals ive ever eaten seem great because at least i still have my mom. but heres some of mine: cereal with water, pasta with some random salad dressing, pop-tarts for dinner, taco shells filled with condiments (or just plain taco shells), and finally ice cream cones with no ice cream.
CEREAL WITH WATER AHAHA
Just dry cereal
Just water
I was heavily abused up until a year ago, and the saddest meal I’ve ever had was stealing vegetables from my school so my three year old sister wouldn’t go to sleep hungry. I was seven at the time. I had to steal a lot. I live with my aunt now because my parents are in jail. My aunt is my mom now, and my uncle, dad, recently died. Life is hard
Ate a can of refried beans for the day.i was starving and had caned veggys with no can opener. Had to open with a knife!
b e a n s
I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes
No chicken
That's some next-level, eastern european shit tbh... Good luck mate! o7
@Claire thanks!
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Doesn’t matter, you got *_b e a n s_*
I once lived in a trailer without power and I remember eating a barely thawed frozen pizza by the light of a kerosene heater
Mexican food after a giant family fight in which I cried in the backseat of the car, my dad threatened to leave us all on the side of the road, and later ate ice cream while both of my parents assured me my sister would feel better once they got her therapy.
Fun times
I've had a few meals I remembered being sad eating:
Ate steak n shake after being diagnosed with a heart defect
Sneaked away and ate some leftover texas roadhouse rolls after I failed my drivers test
And finally eating cherry tomatoes whilst hearing an old boyfriend explain why he'd love to propose but his parents said he shouldn't
None of these are really as shitty as the videos but I know there some of the times I've gone wow...this sucks
Mine: I remember when I was nine I had Panera bread after being told I was allergic to cats (got tested for like 40 things and cats was the only one we hoped I wouldn't be allergic to) and then crying until we got home
I had a takeaway kebab and ate it in my dark apartment, alone, on my birthday that no one bothered to call me on.
Well, Happy belated birthday!
Seriously tho, I hope this year will be better for ya
Oh my god😭 HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY
IM REALLY SORRY...🥺
Happy belated bday, we care about you❤️
eating a meal from your mom after being mad at her, realizing it's good, and not having the guts to tell her sorry even though she was just doing her job
A 7-11 hotdog I chopped up into a bowl of stale pasta, topped with chopped onion I got from the free toppings stand. Tasted like absolute struggle.
One time my bf and I had the flu for two straight weeks. We couldn't hold anything down besides ginger ale and water. Halfway through we dragged our corpses to our favorite burger place and got shakes, fries, and giant burgers. We went home, grabbed buckets, and slowly ate- savoring every bite. We threw up several times throughout the meal, but the few minutes of not feeling starving really boosted our spirits.
Very pathetic and depressing, but also hysterical to look back on.
I laughed lol
3:43 my most depressing meal was microwaved jumbo marshmellows with grapes on top.
I put the grapes on after microwaving.
Those things really puff up, too.
Eating a pizza after my mom tried to kill her self on my b day
good lord, i hope things are better for you now
Bentley Perry Me too
@BorkBork I hope things are better now for yall
My condolences
^we love you BorkBork❤
Funeral food. It's customary (used to be) that when a family member died, all the neighbors would bring food to the bereaved's house. I lost a lot of family members when I was young. So yeah, having to choke down funeral food, sometimes through tears, is the worst. Not that the food was bad, but still.
I remember being confused & almost a little angry after a funeral, when everyone would gather, eat, talk & some would be laughing while relating stories about the deceased.
I remember once asking my mom how anyone could stand to eat, or be happy right then.
I get it now. And it's ok.
Food doesn't taste very good when you're in the process of grieving. I remember the day my grandpa died, I promised to make dinner that night while my parents were out with my uncle looking for a casket. I ate an homemade pizza I made from scratch all by myself in a dark house while crying over the fact I was never going to see my grandpa again
In Romania we have traditional funeral dessert. Somehow I love it more than cake...
I just can't eat food with a body in the next room, it's done here frequently and I won't do that at a funeral home
Hotdog buns with butter and salt because there was nothing else in the house
Gaming Weirdo did u put a block of butter in the hotdog bun and sprinkle salt on it
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That actually happened just a few days ago.
Because of the corona lockdown, everything in supermarkets was gone. Plus I had lost my job so my mood was in the gutter.
So I went through my cupboards to see what I could eat - ended up with spaghetti + a can of crushed tomatoes. As I poured the cooked stuff onto a plate, I somehow slid and the food ended up on the walls and floor. And I just broke down - I absolutely hate wasting food, and as this was the only thing I had left it gave me no choice but to scrape it off and eat it while sobbing loudly.
Being so broke as a military couple that we had to eat rice in rice paper. Some real good eating there.
Gray Fox y'all are just bad with money if that's the case
You don't get free mre's?
fine asian cuisine
Dude, go to the chow hall. Or talk to your chain of command, there's no reason for you to live like that.
Hey, cake is cake 🤷♀️
oh hello
@@joe-xk8nl don't
Flagging all voltaire comments as spam. There's enough of them on random videos that they should start getting pulled.
@@bloodmoonyt1901 why?
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol oof
1:30 That’s one of the most emotional AskReddit posts I’ve ever seen.
Dang, this was a depressing video. I really only just realised how bad things can get for others. I’ve been fortunate enough to not have to worry about food yet, but since I’m only a 12 year old, things can and most probably will drastically change. My heart goes out to all those who are struggling. No one deserves to not be able to have a good meal, to not feel safe, to not feel loved.
I don’t want to be one of those cheesy people who say, “Oh, things will get better, just have faith!”
Things will get better soon, but faith isn’t enough. You need to push through it. And I mean push. I wish the best of luck to all of you 💕
As someone with suicidal ideation and thoughts, I needed to hear this. :'3. Thank you, thank you, _thank you,_ little man.
Most depressing meal was when I was probably around 9, I came home from school and sat down on the floor and waited for a bit. My family had to give up my dog since my mom just had my baby sister and couldn’t care for 3 kids and a pup. I was used to coming home and sitting on the floor and my dog would sprint and jump into my lap. It was the first time that didn’t happen. My parents got me McDonald’s to cheer me up a little. I remember tears streaming down my face as I silently ate alone in a dark house, feeling really empty
Things are much better now. My old dog was given to a lovely family who adored her and I adopted a great dog when I was 12. He’s my bff and a better fit in my family so I wouldn’t want to change a thing ❤️
Saltine crackers dipped in ketchup out of the break room cabinet after not having food for two days. Can’t afford to pay bills AND have food. Working full time + being a full time student doesn’t allow me time to go to the DHHR to complete a food stamps application. Life man.
You tried a food drive or youth/YA support program? There are plenty of programs that help people in your situation or your age. Reapply for ebt because even if youre working and still cant eat thats a problem.
Mayo and canned tuna is how my family makes the tuna for tuna sandwiches.
That's delicious. Add some onion, pickle, and if you wanna get crazy apple lmao. It's so good.
mayo and tuna is awesome though. It's good on rice, crackers, bread, and corn chips.
What's wrong with that? That's basically all you need (along with bread, of course).
@@jacklow9611 In the video, one of the people made it sound like that method of tuna sandwich prep was the crappy way to do it.
I think that it's tasty. The other people in this thread and everyone leaving likes agree that this is the method to go with.
@@EvilPaladin11: I've worked at several restaurants, and that was basically how it was prepared in all of them, with a few additions in some places. Even national-chain sandwich shops doing their tuna salad that way. It was, perhaps the situation that the poster(s) found themselves in that made it depressing.
If there were any other recipes for tuna salad that were out there, I might be tempted to try them, if they were as simple a deal as what I've already done, but outside of a few "additions" that I like, to the basic recipe, I don't think I'd want to try it. I'm somewhat adventurous with recipes, but I can't even imagine any other way of making it that would keep it edible.
A can of Campbell's Won Ton soup. It was the take from local food charity, everyone at the table (me, dad, stepmom, two sisters) each got a different can of soup, plus, stepmom made instant mashed potatoes with a can of tuna mixed in. I think what made it so depressing was that conditions were even worse at our mom's house, and seeing my dad once every two weeks was supposed to be the escape and the place where we could go to have fun and decompress. To church charity food and Kool-Aid with no sugar.
OR...The time I brought Dad to Dairy Queen with my first paying job. ; there was a girl from my HS class working at Dairy Queen who I crushing on, hard. She was on the cash register on this particular day, so I was really acting like a big shot with my 16-year old self with a little money in my wallet. I ordered my food, told Dad to get whatever he wanted. He said "I'd like to have a banana split, but son I can't afford that."... Ate my burger in awkward silence with my oblivious dad eating his damn banana split like he was in banana-split-heaven.
I had to eat dollar luchables for a week because i was paying off loans and rent. It sucks, because the only place to eat on my breaks at work was in the Subway attached to the Walmart i worked for.
My aunt has worked for Wal-Mart when it was still Special K in our town. Every Wal-Mart has always had a break room you can eat in? When I was working for them I was doing overnight travel work for different super centers. They have always had break rooms.
Why didnt you get 7 dollars of actual food for a week?
@@Homeside301 ikr. A loaf of great value brand bread is 98 cents, a pound of uncut bologna is about $2-$3, and then a whole pack of cheap cheese is like another $2.
I feel really bad for that guy whose fiancee broke up with him "because of reasons" on Christmas Day, that person is cold. If he had some money he can just spend that time at a bar or something if they are any open.
I am also highly sus though, I wonder what the "reasons" actually were. I feel like the partner's family was shopping around for a partner when they (OP and Fiancee) were courting/dating. Isn't what that poster's fiance/fiancee did stringing him along only to break up with him in the end?
I can't say I've ever had a depressing meal as in "I was so bad off this was all I had". I seem to have a talent for mashing things together to make them
I once ate a ketchup sandwich by choice as a child. Nothing else, just two pieces of bread with a packet of ketchup squirted on it.
In college I had BBQ flavored Vienna sausages for dinner. Just as bad as it sounds. Also ate a stick cherry chapstick once in college. Though that was actually better.
For a while I alternated between beans for a day and then rice and on the third day, beans and rice. My buddy lied and said that someone had given him a bottle of my brand of scotch, but he was a bourbon drinker, so he gave it to me.
Spent several Christmases and birthdays (4 days apart) in other countries, war zones, etc... Holidays and birthdays no longer have any meaning for me.
They only have meaning if you want them to. If anything, let it be a way of saying "I made it through all that shit to be able to live another year". Maybe Uncle Iroh would have a proverb to help you.
I hope life is better for you now, thanks for greating a new day, you got this
That’s rough, buddy….
A while back while I was grocery shopping I stumbled upon a product I hadn’t seen for years, but loved as a kid. What it essentially is, is a sauce that’s half mayonnaise and half ketchup. Mind you, individually I don’t much care for either. Anyhow, I had to buy it since I still remembered the taste from 15 years ago. A few days later I ran out of groceries but my local store didn’t work. The only thing I had in my house was that ketchup/mayonnaise blend and toast. I spent the entire day eating mayonnaise and ketchup on bread. Never felt worse about myself than that day.
You mean Golf Sauce? That's good stuff
Magui D not really, this one is kinda unmixed. It tastes better that way. Google “Sasso big 2”
Mayonnaise and ketchup mixed? That's basically what thousand island dressing is, without the pickle relish.
Eating alone in a cafeteria or public place always sucks. An electronic device, headphones, or earphones always help in those situations.
The meals i had when i was in jail for a day.
Uh
0:27 why I don't have family. Among other similar reasons
I’m sorry but just, _”BALONEY SANDWICH IN JAIL”_ was so sudden it made me laugh so hard 💀💀
My first Thanksgiving away from my family after I moved out from college. My family had moved away without telling me, and they had changed their phone number, so I couldn't even contact them, because I had no idea where they'd gone. The college dorms had shut down for the holiday, my friends had left before I found out my family wasn't coming to get me, I was completely broke, didn't have a car, had no idea what I was going to do for the two weeks school was out, and all I had was a few leftover slices of Papa John's pizza I'd ordered a few days before. I sat on the back steps of the dorm building on a completely deserted campus, shivering in the cold as I ate half a piece of the pizza, wondering how I'd survive without food, water, or shelter over the next two weeks. It was snowing.
Maybe not the worst time I've ever had (I had some real doozies, mostly also due to family -- Christmas that same year was worse), but that's the one most memorable for me.
Are you okay now?
Hope your in a better frame of mind bless you god gives his toughest raps for his toughest warriors
Aww I hope you're better now
God bless you... we don't live in a terrific world. I hope nothing like that ever happens again to you.
@@andreadelikat2220 Things are better now, yeah. Still have problems, but they're better.
The most depressing sandwich from a gas station, with like mayo, lettuce, ham and slice of cheese. It tasted like moist cardboard and gave me 12-hour long diarrhea.
no one I just watched an Ashens video where he and his friend were eating a dozen gas-station sandwiches. I can’t imagine how they felt the day after.
no one you've had a good life then
@@ABCEasyas-- I got pretty good idea.. 😨🤮💀
Mine was age 13 sitting down in a burger king with one small fry split between my mom and me, she told me that she couldn't afford to pay for our house anymore so I sat only eating the four soggy fries I got in my mouth before she had told me
(Note: my mom wasn't a single mom, my dad stayed at the house cause he couldn't muster up the courage to see me when I found out, and my siblings were all at friends houses)
I hope things are better now
@@hadiaafzal1072 they are thank you
Another depressing meal: went one time to estranged family home to try and have a nice Thanksgiving meal together. Old family neighbor friends were mourning a recent death, my parents/sister just spent the evening shouting and yelling each other, so I left and got a hot dog at the gas station instead.
3:36
I hate to admit but sometimes I just give up on life for a minute and eat oatmeal without heating it up in the microwave. It was pretty much cereal since I use milk, not water
I also once ate instant ramen without cooking it. This was some time last year. I just took it out of the packet and ate it like chips
Yeah
I'm weird
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12:01 was the saddest for me. "It's like the last bite but for the whole thing."
In college, I stuck to a rigid rules. If didn’t have anything that I could normally make, I thought, “Welp, time to fast.”
Once I ran out of Nutella and so I mixed hot chocolate powder and butter and ate it on toast. It was better than I imagined.
Working my way through vocational school I cried when I had to eat ramen with a spoon... there’s poor and so poor you had to use a take out spoon while staying at a roach motel to eat ramen with.
Rice and butter
Had a massive allergic reaction working on my science project when I was 10 and ended up in the hospital over Thanksgiving. They brought me my boiled turkey dinner, I took a bite and started crying. The nurse asked what was wrong and I yelled "this fucking sucks!" at her, pushed it away and just cried. My worst Thanksgiving ever!
I'm eating a bowl of ramen i bought just now at my work cuz I'm working overnights at a gas station in Florida. I'm extremely tired.
Sunne hope your shifts up by now. Get some rest friend.
@@dutch4973 3 more hours, then I'm off for 3 days. It'll be glorious
Usually, I feel depressed after eating a really tasty meal, but it had limited quantity, or after eating a lot of vegetables without any meat or pastas; I feel like I am missing out on something celestial. That is why I get my fill of tasty foods, and limit the vegetables. I'm fine with having irritable bowels, but having food depression is a worse hell than the physical pain.
Alternatively, if I had left a friend or family member I care about in an angry state over some argument we couldn't resolve, and have my favorite meal in front of me, I can't eat it, or if I do I can never eat it again because of how sad I felt at the time. I end up remembering that feeling whenever I see and smell my favorite food. That's why the best thing I can do is eat vegetables when that happens. I can gorge on the those nasty greens while I cry my eyes out without any love loss.
Do you know what's worse than a cockroach in your food? Half a cockroach....on your spoon.
When I was depressed and unemployed I'd spend most of the time at my boyfriends while he worked. I once ate tostito crumbs mixed into a can of almost expired french onion dip. We're married and both employed now and we have food on the table but that was a very low time for me.
Ramen (usually my favorite thing) after being served an eviction notice. Having to move again was so much more soul crushing.
2:42 that comment is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once
14 people don't want bad internet.
My 26th birthday my husband was away on business and none of my family made an effort for my birthday. trying to keep a positive attitude I said I will go to the bar and have myself a few birthday drinks. when I got there and ordered my drink, I'm sitting there and realized I'm drinking on my birthday, alone... had a couple shots of vodka chase with tears
Overcooked grilled cheese
Only eating toast once every three days so parents and brother could eat full meals
After eating instant oatmeal for a few weeks straight a good friend of mine decided, fuck it, and began eating it dry. Variety, he called it chugging the oats straight from the bag. Thanks to the gods of the jobmarket, things arent that bad anymore. 🤣
Chinese duck flavoured pot noodles: I called them “Engineering Duck” because they tasted just like Bakelite smells when it’s hot. But they were cheap! 😁
I had to work a double on Thanksgivings a few years back and asked that a plate be set aside for me. I could tell that it was the scraps of what my family had not eaten. My family goes big on food on holidays so I knew this plate of a table spoons worth of a few things was a after thought at the end of the night when everything was gone.
The nostalgia foods of my childhood taste generic now after their original recipes had changed: Twinkies, Frosted Flakes, Peter Piper Pizza, fountain drink sodas, moonpies, and fun dip. I can't find Necco Wafers locally anymore.
When living in abusive household: Dried oatmeal mixed with tuna in a can.
When homeless behind McDonald's: Three fries off the garbage and slurped some tomato sauces. Stole leftover coke cups and finished it off.
Literally pasta and canned vegetables because I didn’t go to the store one week
I do this alot and i do have other things to make mostly times .-.
I feel like that when i eat fast food, it's expensive and totally unhealty so i don't even eat anymore bc i know i will feel shitty lol
I eat it very seldom, but when I do I am astounded at how good it tastes. I am well aware of how unhealthy it can be, but I totally understand how many people eat it all day every day. To me it's like a bad drug- seductive and potentially lethal.
Idk about you but every fast food place I've been to has a dollar menu. It's not that expensive unless you're intentionally going to spend $50 on crappy fast food on a drunken night lmao. It always does taste surprisingly good though. Especially them damn fresh fries.
@@gamernotvalid9452 Here in Brazil is usually R$20/30 to more so it's not really worth it
I remember my mom made a whole bunch of Chow Mein, some for my sister and I to have for supper and the rest to take to a baby shower. She left for the baby shower and when my sister and I went to the kitchen to help ourselves, we saw the pot only had some vegetable scraps at the bottom. My mom absent mindedly took all the chow mein the party, leaving us with no food.
Forced to improvise, my sister and I boiled cut up hot dogs and cooked some instant noodles. I genuinely looked forward to it but eating it was nauseating. The starchiness or something made it all so gross and my stomach felt awful for half the day... I stopped eating hot dogs and instant noodles for awhile, even if they are separate.
I once ate a meal that was probably in the freezer for 5 months. It was like eating mud with gravel.
Can think of a few...
Made pasta with veggies and cream of mushroom sauce. Wasn't appetizing as previous times I'd made it. Choked half of it down, ate the rest later. This was a week ago.
Anytime I've survived on grilled cheese or quesadillas prior to grocery shopping. (Grateful I can!) I am now sick of GCs and may never eat another one.
When I was prepared to somehow eat instant mac in the hospital cafeteria with a straw because it was after hours and there were no utensils around. Thankfully, a worker gave me a fork. Also, that same week I had like, a cookie and a Mrs. Mays bar for dinner because the fam didn't pick me up to go eat until late because they forgot about me. (Was there because a family member who already needed round the clock care was really sick.)
Not really sad, but after I had watched Grave of the Fireflies for the first time, I'd never been so grateful to have food in my life. Scarfed down that Kraft like it was fine dining in a ten star restaurant.
Edit: Forgot! A few months ago, I went on a strict low sugar/salt regime because my triglycerides were high, but somehow I was just low key starving myself or not eating enough. First time I went to a restaurant, I was shocked when I actually felt full and realized I'd been doing it really wrong. Sadly, went back to my old eating habits and don't know how I'm doing, but my health is crap anyway, so this is nothing new. Try, try again??
During one thanksgiving I wasn’t able to go visit my family so I made two turkey melt sandwiches (keeping with the theme). As I looked at them and waited for them to cool off I just thought of how depressing it was eating these by myself in my apartment.
A recipe a guy on Reddit said every college student should know. It was oatmeal with a little salt and parmesan cheese. It wasn't disgusting but it wasn't good. It was just EXTREMELY bland but if you put more salt in it it was just bland flavor with salty on top. Being a student i couldn't just throw the whole thing away so i forced myself to eat half of it.
A similar recipe in BuzzFeed said to make rice with a bit more water than usual and add parmesan when ready. It was the same exact flavor.
The most depressing meal i had is probably just rice with a little soy sauce and a little fried onion. I remember that day i was alone at home when my whole family went on a trip to europe and they forgot to leave me money for food. Thankfully my mom asked her sister that also didnt join on the trio to lend me some money the next day.
A small bowl of white rice for lunch/dinner because it's all you can afford always hits different lol
Totally destitute with no money and living in an inherited house that had been abandoned for 10 years by hoarding grandmother. Risked opening an almost 20-year-old can of collard greens and ate it out of the can with my fingers. Ate lots of questionable canned food those few weeks.
As long as the cans/jars weren't leaking,bulging in strange places/not rusting, then you should be fine. Have eaten a lot of things like that, and was never hurt by eating it (My extended family canned a lot, and we often had canned food from many years past).
I used to eat bread with ketchup or with layer of yogurt and sprinkled sugar on top as a child sometimes, because those were the only foods my stepmom won’t notice I’ve eaten from while being „grounded“ to not eat for days at a time.
I appreciate having food so much now!
Boiled chicken legs (no seasoning)
I would rather starve
I’ve got a sad one from my stepmom, then a happy one from myself to make watchers feel better
My dad doesn’t normally take work off on holidays unless my brothers and I are at his house. Last Thanksgiving, we were at our mom’s. So while I sat out on a crisp autumn day, eating sweet bread and lemoned turkey made by my mom, laughing with her, my siblings and our stepdad about whatever, my stepmom sat alone in her office, working at the computer, on Thanksgiving day without my dad or my brothers and I and without my dad’s amazing cooking.
Thankfully, she put her foot down this year and said that my dad is going to take that Thursday and Friday off since I’ll be there this year and my brothers are away in military training. I’m gonna help them cook and stuffs.
Okay, happy one from me,
I was in my school’s musical back in Spring and rehearsals were the absolute worst. I was always exhausted and grumpy and wanted to drop dead every night. It sucked. One night, my friend, Kat, walked me to the parking lot to wait for my brother to pick me up. He didn’t show up for an hour and then Kat had to leave, but neither of us liked the idea of me being out there alone. So she brought me back to the group, then left, and my friend Abbie brought me back to the parking lot. Turns out that Kat and I went to the wrong one and my brother had been waiting for an hour for me. I was so tired and worried he’d be mad at me for making me wait, but, as I got in the car, he just said this very gentle, “There’s some nuggies on the seat for you.” Something about the way he said it, like he could tell how upset I was, just made my day ten times better. The nuggies were kind of cold from sitting there for an hour, but damnit, those were the best nuggies I’ve ever had and that’s still one of my favorite memories. In short, my brother’s fucking amazing and I love that man.
Bagel and toothpaste
A slice of cake with a single candle in it that I got for myself on a birthday. Also, scraps from customers' plates at a restaurant I used to work at. Damn.
One time while I was having a weird depressed moment while at a camp I made what I called Satan's Five-Grain Breakfast burrito. It was five-grain Cheerios with ketchup, yogurt, celery, cheese and scrambled eggs in a tortilla and it made me feel worse
Toast (from the store not home made) with olive oil and salt. I was super sick (gastroentheritis), my parents were out on a motorbike trip and my brother was with his girl. They left before I woke up so they didn't know I was so sick. I got the recommendation of what to eat from an online friend and I barely could chew without throwing up again, laying on bed with a really high fever and no money or energy to go to the doctor, my only company, that online friend whic I don't even know his name
Stale conchas. I was working two jobs, totalling up to 18 hours a day with a hour of travel time.I had five hours in a day and the only thing I could do in the time was sleep. All my food came from a gas station.I would buy this huge bag of conchas and just eat those until the bag ran out then buy more. The last two conchas would always be stake by the time I got to them.
First time in Amsterdam.. about 20 years ago. Arrived.. very sick from a cold that had developed on the flight from Australia, hallucinating from jetlag.. went to the local supermarket for a ready meal. I was pretty confidant in my translation skills due to having 3 years German and coming from a Dutch family.. couldn't speak Dutch for shit but I could read pretty well. Despite my confidence, instead of the Indian Butter Chicken and rice I thought I bought.. I somehow ended up with Indian Butter Fish and rice. I don't eat fish.. ever.. I sat in the Hostel kitchen, slowly spooning it into my mouth, chewing and swallowing, as I sobbed like someone had set fire to my cat infront of me.
Mine is similar to the dry oatmeal story. I always eat non-cooked top ramen soup. Oh wait that isn't a depressing meal I LOVE IT! Like no really, it tastes awesome with the beef sauce on it.
Pretending to love my mom's cabbage rolls 100s of time. Wrap cabbage leaves around hamburger meat mixed with white rice, and boil the rolls in tomato juice. Not for me. But my dad loves them (it was his mother's recipe) so I have to fake like I do too. Even if toothpicks have been left in the cabbage leaves to keep the rolls together, and I don't know it until I'm trying to cut through the toothpicks with a knife.
My mom died earlier that day and I was hundreds of miles from home I had two foot long subway subs and an entire bottle of wine.
Every meal is depressing because I put love and passion into my food yet I have no one to share it with because I live alone
I don’t have any depressing meals, but it’s probably the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen with something like that to my toddler. it was literally just a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some cheese and a sugar cookie. The sugar cookie was a good idea but the rest of it was a bit random.
Smuggling in your treat of choice, rushing to your room and locking the door and indulging....parenthood lmao (depressing for the kids if they know)
the "food" they gave you at school if your lunch account ran out.
a piece of cheese between two slices of bread and a cup of water.
My most depressing meal was at the height of my eating disorder. I had a chocolate cupcake from a coworkers birthday. It was the first thing I'd eaten all day and I didnt even swallow it. I spit it into a trashcan while everyone else was in the front enjoying the celebration.
Oliver E. Pike holy shit I used to do that too, makes me realize how much healthier I am today
@@guestverhendery yeah same. I'm very early on in my recovery and it's still kinda hard dealing with my new "healthy body" but I know I'm happier now than I was. Honestly I would trade hunger pangs for the mental clarity I hadn't realized I lost any day, without hesitation. Also... cupcakes taste good.
Oliver E. Pike cupcakes are absolutely fucking banger. keep on going, it’ll all be worth it :)
I used to make something I called spice soup. Literally just boiling water, tajin, chili powder, pepper, onion flakes, etc. Times were tough
I had to stop when the guy ate his last mother's cooking
I lived on rice for about a week when I was between jobs. Didn't care at all about myself, but when I ran out of cat food, I cried. Desperate, I called up a friend AA and asked for a few days' worth. She brought me a 20-lb. bag. (Later I was able to pay her back by doing a lot of pet sitting for her cat and dog, which was a pleasure. And I did start working again at a great job.)
one day i spent the entire day crying and nothing made me feel better, i had been drinking Sunny D’s, hot cheetos, and goldfish crackers in the morning. when ‘dinner’ time came my parents didn’t want to cook for me so i turned on the pan and made myself ‘toast’ i put cream cheese between those two burnt pieces of bread and it was honestly one of the best meals of my life.
most depressing meal I've ever eaten was a happy meal
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