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Since early November, we’ve been feeding an oatmeal breakfast to Occupy Tampa for around $5.00 per day. Here’s how:
Make 30 cups of oatmeal – 20 cups of water, 10 cups of 5 minute oatmeal, 4 tablespoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of butter, 1/2 pint of half & half; bring water & salt to a boil, add oatmeal and boil for 5 minutes, then add butter & half & half. Serve w/ plastic spoons & bowls with brown sugar & raisins. Costs are based on buying from local Costco & cooking near the Occupy Tampa site. Ten lb oatmeal (180 meals) – $7.50, 4.5 lb raisins (240 meals) - $7.75, 7 lb brown sugar (210 meals) - $8.00, 500 spoons (500 meals) - $7.50, 300 bowls (300 meals) – $7.50, lb butter (240 meals) – $2.00, qt half & half (240 meals) – $1.95 . Works out to $0.18 per bowl. Pictures tomorrow
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But . . . but . . . but boiling water takes SO-O-O long. McD’s is ever-so-much quicker; and in economic terms, think of all the bucks NOT going to McD’s, Starbucks, etc. Bwhahaha . . . you dirty, hippy occupiers are HURTING the economy. Go home, take a bath, get a job, buy a REAL breakfast. \s
In my anatomy class, I just learned that fiber helps prevent colon cancer. I had my breakfast of a bowl of 5 minute oatmeal…with walnuts and dried cranberries. I had a couple McD’s oatmeals when it first came out and they gave away free oatmeal coupons. Then someone told me it had a long list of GodknowsWhat ingredients, so I commenced to make my own. It nukes up well too!
Yeah, but the latest findings of the FDA have found that any product purchased from ‘Mickey D’s’ has a shelf life even if left un-refrigerated and in direct sunlight of at least 10,000 to 15,000 years or until the next ice age, whichever comes first.
I guess the only logical conclusion that can be reached is:
Crap in, crap out.:>))))
Awesome, Jim, I have appropriated this recipe. Real food, as I keep insisting, is cheap.
Thank you Jim, I’m so glad you are still feeding people. That’s been one of the worst consequences of the dismantling of the camps here in Oakland and other big cities. We were feeding hundreds every day. OO’s kitchen crew keeps trying to set things back up again during the day but the police continue to interfere.
EX-cellent, as Monty Burns says…
If we want to show people we support them, food is the absolute best thing, along with clothing and shelter. All of which we are doing here at FDL. This could start a trend of FDL Occupy recipes. Attention FDLers, Jim is ahead of the game here.
Recommended.
I’m writing this recipe down…a souvenir, if you will. I donated an apple pie, and later white chicken chili to Occupy Lansing, but now they’ve folded shop for the winter. Anyone have an address/POBox I can send some wool hats n mittens I am making for some cold Occupiers?