The Ghetto Gourmet Returns
Eating on $20 a Week in Harm City
© 2018 James LaFond
OCT/5/18
Below is my receipt transcript from my first crackpot supply run, each item retailing at $1:
Chicken tamales, 15 oz can
Lima beans, 15 oz can
Southgate chili, 15 oz can
Luncheon loaf [generic spam], 12 oz can
Chicken super meal [big bowl of ramen noodles]
Dried pinto beans, 24 oz bag
Pepper jack cheese, 6 oz
White cheddar cheese, 6 oz
Kippered snacks, 5 oz canned fish
Smoked sausage, 3 large links
Coconut water 2 16 oz cans
Mocha latte [an impulse buy born of weakness], 12 oz bottle
Cold allergy tabs, 36 tablets
Gas relief [necessitated by the bean diet], 36 tablets
Nasal spray
$16.00
Dollar Tree, Baltimore County 9/24/18 13:40
This is a little light as I still have sunflower seeds, raisins and peanuts left from my train trip.
orphan nation
logic of force
night city
into leviathan’s maw
under the god of things
by the wine dark sea
songs of aryas
let the world fend for itself
ranger?
hate
fiction anthology one
fanatic
the fighting edge
winter of a fighting life
the sunset saga complete
the year the world took the z-pill
menthol rampage
predation
the greatest lie ever sold
time & cosmos
all-power-fighting
your trojan whorse
uncle satan
sons of aryas
dark, distant futures
son of a lesser god
wife—
the lesser angels of our nature
solo boxing
book of nightmares
sorcerer!
masculine axis
when you're food
the greatest boxer
advent america
the gods of boxing
song of the secret gardener
honor among men
on the overton railroad
triumph
beasts of aryas
the combat space
on combat
taboo you
within leviathan’s craw
america the brutal
logic of steel
fate
thriving in bad places
broken dance
blue eyed daughter of zeus
the first boxers
z-pill forever
barbarism versus civilization
cracker-boy
So, no grains for this Khan, huh?
The beans are humiliating enough.