@Mama_Cakes I had to give you a GQ just because of your topic choices!
When I was an undergrad and too poor to even explain, my GF and I would have baked beans on toast as a regular dinner. Her British mother introduced her to the dish as a breakfast item when she was a kid.
@jca When I was a kid, my best friend and I would make butter and sugar sandwiches to tide us over and could never figure out how our Mom’s knew (we completely failed to assess the amount of sugar we had left on the counter top).
I have also eaten food that was marginally safe for human consumption and survived.
The best, however, was probably squirrel. If you are Appalachian, squirrel is not unfamiliar as a dinner item. My Mom (a southerner) and my Dad (Appalachian) had their most lively argument after my Dad had bagged some squirrel and my Mom threw out the hearts (my great-granddad’s favorite). Then there was the time Dad bagged some rabbit and some live shot apparently blew the door off the oven—we went out for burgers . . .