What're the lulziest "recipes" you've seen for "family meal"-type slop?

That's a nice word for what me and my friends term "ghetto" food. I think the worst I've seen is Spaghetti-o Surprise

1 can spaghettios

4 cut up hotdogs

1 sleeve Ritz crackers

can of cheese soup

you know what to do.

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The most jaw dropping one i must say is "cracker salad". That's truly unreal.

I am a stay at home so I have more time to cook and prepare true hot meals.

Maybe if I was a full time working mom and wasn't financially stable, them maybe I would be making a "lulzy" meal.

Even then I don't think eating healthy is that expensive. Whole wheat pasta and bread cost almost the same as the white stuff. Nothing wrong with frozen veggies. They also have sodium free soup and broths.

Answering this really late, but wanted to chime in and say that my husband made me make him Tater Tot Casserole (we actually call it "White Trash Casserole") for his birthday dinner. I have no idea whyyy he chose it, but. it's a mixture of ground beef, onion, cream of mushroom soup, frozen corn, ketchup, and worcestershire topped with tater tots and cheese and baked. Then my husband slathers it in ketchup.

(I had a salad, and then a slice of his homemade birthday cheesecake.)

Someone I know makes some sort of concoction with boxed mac and cheese, cream of mush. soup, tuna and peas. Topped with french fried onions.

*vom*

I also wanted to say that it really isn't that difficult to eat healthily when you don't have much money. We're poor, and we really don't spend much more with decent menu planning.

We buy stuff in season and/or locally. And I'm not cooking gourmet here. Just not sh!t from a can. There is some middle ground.

There's nothing wrong with frozen veggies either. They're just as healthy (arguably healthier) than fresh.

And it's way cheap to make homemade pizza. Much less sodium and crap than the frozen stuff. If the parents are both working, hell, they can freeze homemade pizzas, and other homemade entrees on the weekends or days off.

I'm poor...I know how this sh!t goes down.

Wait, wait, wait. Goulash is made with canned tomatoes? That's one step healthier than my mom's equivalent...tomato soup instead of stewed tomatoes. The "added veggie" was an onion. And it was accompanied with mashed potatoes swimming in butter. Potatoes are a veggie!

Did any of your moms make hamburg and french fries at least once a week for supper? That is, fried, ground beef over a pile of fries. Yes, this was an actual meal. No side dishes or flavours, for that matter, other than fat.

And then there was her "Chinese food", which was a package of ground beef (seeing a trend here?), a can of bean sprouts, and a can of those crunchy noodle things you get on some chicken dishes at chinese restaurants...throw all of those into a roast pan with loads of soy sauce, and bake the **** out of everything. Serve...with french fries, of course.

I'm seriously surprised I'm not overweight or battling high blood pressure. Shockingly, my father has already had a heart attack, before age 50.

I can't quite compete with your examples, but we have a few comfort foods, courtesy of our parents, that are pretty "lulzy."

Tonight we're having hamburger strogonoff over rehydrated potato flakes, thanks to my husband's ridiculously stressful day. A pound of ground beef, a package of beefy onion soup mix, a can of cream of mushroom soup, half a pint of sour cream, and, of course, the rehydrated potato flakes. If I were to dump in a can of mixed veggies instead of having a salad, we'd have what, apparently, he grew up in the midwest calling a "hot dish."

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-hotdish.htm

Chili pinwheels also occasionally make an acceptable lunch: home made biscuit dough filled with canned chili, prepared like cinnamon rolls. Apparently, this only works as comfort food when it's made with canned chili because the one time I made them with my homemade chili, they just didn't have the desired comforting effect and were classified as "not bad but not something I want to eat again."

Lol. This reminds me of the time I tried to make something kinda like that. I put frozen veggies, boiled chicken, and multigrain pasta and mixed it all up with some tomato-y stuff. The recipe said to use tomato juice and chicken broth of which I made all natural. I burned it... but reguardless it was a disaster meal... It made me hate cooking. Now I'm having to force myself to cook stuff. Tonight for example, I started a roast with potatoes, carrots, celery, and onion in the oven for 3-4 hours... can't really mess that up!

My little one is still on a food strike...

I don't think I can beat the rice puree or Spaghetti-o surprise. Ugh.

One of my mother's 'slop' recipes was canned cream of mushroom soup and canned tuna, heated up and spooned over toasted white bread. I remember actually liking it as a kid. (Kids are weird.)

I don't have the time or energy to make gourmet meals every night, but even a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a bowl of cereal would be better than some of this stuff. ;-)

My husband is would gag at the thought of me making something like this. He doesn't like any thrown together casserole or meal in one type thing. I will about once a week prepare Kraft mac and cheese to go along with chicken and string beans...but that's a "boxy" as it gets in our house. If I sat a plate of chopped up hot dogs mixed with mac and cheese, my husband would think an alien had overtaken my body. If we are going to eat something that unhealthy...it is because we have gone out for Mexican night.

* I think the question earlier today with the hot dog chunks mixed with mac & cheese took the cake for me. I will consider myself very fortunate to have never eaten that combo.

*I guess I will also consider myself very lucky to be able to afford healthier, tastier alternatives like veggies with every meal. Though, I know for a fact that if money was extremely tight, I would have a large garden in my back yard...canning and freezing what we didn't eat fresh for the cold months. As it is I have a small one now...and I love it.

Um ... The rice and broccoli sound OK. But if I were to make that recipe, I would throw out the cream of mushroom junk and the broth. Replace them with a little velveeta and pepper to kinda glue the rice and broccoli together :) And I would serve them beside a chicken breast and some ketchup.

My kid's dad and I had a traveling job when I got pregnant. We stayed with a lady who helped raise him while we looked for a better job. One day she was kind enough to ask what I like to eat. I told her that I had a craving for a taco salad. She told me that she makes real good salads!

A few hours later I walked in the kitchen to see her mixing together:

2 pounds of ground meat

2 pounds of off-brand Velveeta

ketchup

taco seasoning

and a HUGE bag of nacho cheese flavored Doritos!

She cooked it for a while and plopped this gooey mess of soggy chips covered in meat and cheese on my plate. It was so gross!

Soon after, I learned that for many people, "salad" is a fancy word for pouring cheese and/or mayonnaise on food that would have been recognizable.

When we were kids we would eat butter sandwiches. It was plain bread, spread some cold butter on it, and sprinkle sugar on top. Talk about unhealthy. I have no idea why we ate that or who came up with it but just the thought of it makes me sick now.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and as a kid my husband has peanut butter and miracle whip sandwiches. The sad part is he really likes them and still eats them. I gag when I see the knife in the sink that he's dipped in to both. lol