Very Poor and Paleo(ish)

About once a month this thing happens. The thing that happens is my ATM receipts start showing single digits and it usually happens about 5-10 days before pay day.

Before I ate paleo I would subsist on ramen noodles and peanut butter until pay day. Now things are a little more complicated, but still possible.

So here is what I do when I can't fill my gas tank all the way, and I'm a month late on utilities.

1. Eggs. I have said before and I will say it again. Learn to like eggs. Eggs are full of protein and (BONUS) they are cheap.
2. Chicken. Right now even the least lean ground beaf is almost $5 a pound. FIVE DOLLARS A POUND! Ain't nobody got money for that. Pork is another option, but even that's out of my price range right now. Ground turkey would be the cheapest, but after an unfortunate bout of the stomach flu, I can no longer handle ground turkey. So chicken! Get the cheapest cut. It's usually bone-in thighs. If you 'em up and bake them for about 20 minutes at 400 it actually tastes really good. 
3. Pick a vegetable, any vegetable! This where variety becomes a luxury I cannot afford. So I pick a vegetable and eat a lot of it. My vegetable of choice is broccoli. Always broccoli. 

So this week I have eaten 2 dozen eggs, 7 chicken breasts, and 3 pounds of broccoli. Thank god it's almost pay day.