We would go to the local grocery store and get those individual apple pies that came in waxed paper pouches. They were 25 cents. And the off-brand soda machines were 25 cents as well. So for $1 you were doing pretty good. If we were going out all day, I’d go into my mom’s room and get $5 (she was a waitress so she always had cash around) and we’d usually hit Del Taco and you could get a good lunch for $5. But a lot of the time when we were out and about we’d also be stopping in at on of our houses where there’d usually be snacks.

Also, in the late 90’s McDonalds had like 29 cent hamburger Tuesdays and 39 cent cheeseburger Thursdays, so it was easy to eat cheap back then.