First and foremost: get a good bottle of hotsauce. On the streets you end up eating a lot of shitty handouts (cheese sandwiches up the wazzoo). You'll really need it. Salt and pepper are also good to have.
A jar is peanut butter is good to have in your bag. A spoonfull in desperate times goes a long way.
Other then that I rarely carry food around if I'm in a big city, it comes and goes so easily. If I'm traveling I usually pick up a loaf of cheap wholegrain bread, a tub of hummus, some deli meat and cheese (pickles too, depending on how much money I've made). For the same price as buying one sandwich at a resturant you've got sandwiches for a couple days.
If you're planning on being on the streets a long time it's a good idea to invest in a little camp stove. Lightweight, fairly inexpensive (under $100). And a hot meal goes a long way after days and days of cheese sanwiches. Fuck, with a stove you can turn all those cheese sandwiches in to grilled cheese and wow the other homebums.
I was always wondering about this. At the end of the night, do they throw away stuff or what?
If you go to a fast-foodish place (not Mcdonnalds and big shits like that, pizza places and whatnot) they always throw shit out at the end of the night, lots of good food. You can either wait till they throw it out and look through the dumpster (it'll still be warm) or form a relationship with the workers and show up just as they're closing. Most of the time they're more then happy to hook you up.
Raw eggs(it is so fucking easy to walk into a store, open up a carton of eggs to inspect and just grab two to pocket, go to mcdonalds and get a free water cup), fruit, seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, etc are all generally either very cheap or very easy to steal and are very nutritious), dumpster diving in certain locations, nuts of all sorts are also cheap & easy as well as good for yew, and lots of nutmeg.
Also drink plenty of water and try to eat as little as you can get away with, which can be hard when you're starving. But worse then being slightly hungry all the time is having to shit balls and not being able to find a place.
Oh yeah! And honey. Honey is most excellent.
Canned tuna if you have an opener, and also peanut butter.
Caviar is very easy to steal, I used to dine on quite a bit of that. As well as lobster & crab & steak & shrimp but fuck it, if you're going to be homeless do it in style.
They have tuna in packages.
Well you can just stand outside gas stations that have pizza and what not. At the end of the day most of them give the closer the left overs. If you wait there and the closer is a nice fella you might actually get some half ways descent food but as the others said also find some apple trees or small residential gardens because you need good healthy food as well.
Fuck sitting around all day hoping for a hand out, idk about you guys but when I'm homeless I revert back to my primal hunter-gatherer instincts. Keep moving & look at every opportunity but without desperation. It's not like a bison is just going to fall in yr lap...
Grocery store theft and garbage cans are the friend of any hobo. Also shelters soup kitchens if your in America its pretty unlikely you'll die of starvation no matter the circumstance plus theres always dollar menus and if you can find a way to boil water ramen is cheap as hell.
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A jar is peanut butter is good to have in your bag. A spoonfull in desperate times goes a long way.
Other then that I rarely carry food around if I'm in a big city, it comes and goes so easily. If I'm traveling I usually pick up a loaf of cheap wholegrain bread, a tub of hummus, some deli meat and cheese (pickles too, depending on how much money I've made). For the same price as buying one sandwich at a resturant you've got sandwiches for a couple days.
If you're planning on being on the streets a long time it's a good idea to invest in a little camp stove. Lightweight, fairly inexpensive (under $100). And a hot meal goes a long way after days and days of cheese sanwiches. Fuck, with a stove you can turn all those cheese sandwiches in to grilled cheese and wow the other homebums.
If you go to a fast-foodish place (not Mcdonnalds and big shits like that, pizza places and whatnot) they always throw shit out at the end of the night, lots of good food. You can either wait till they throw it out and look through the dumpster (it'll still be warm) or form a relationship with the workers and show up just as they're closing. Most of the time they're more then happy to hook you up.
Also drink plenty of water and try to eat as little as you can get away with, which can be hard when you're starving. But worse then being slightly hungry all the time is having to shit balls and not being able to find a place.
Oh yeah! And honey. Honey is most excellent.
Canned tuna if you have an opener, and also peanut butter.
Caviar is very easy to steal, I used to dine on quite a bit of that. As well as lobster & crab & steak & shrimp but fuck it, if you're going to be homeless do it in style.
Well you can just stand outside gas stations that have pizza and what not. At the end of the day most of them give the closer the left overs. If you wait there and the closer is a nice fella you might actually get some half ways descent food but as the others said also find some apple trees or small residential gardens because you need good healthy food as well.