As ski bum we try to live as cheap as possible, saving on living and especially food. This is how we do it.
What is your secret recipe?
http://youtu.be/76026uALN-0
Printable View
As ski bum we try to live as cheap as possible, saving on living and especially food. This is how we do it.
What is your secret recipe?
http://youtu.be/76026uALN-0
Hey everyone, we are ski bums. You know, the bums that can afford $1000+ worth of ski equipment, video recording devices, computers to edit said video, craft beer. Did I mention my outerwear costs more than my ski equipment? But we are totally hardcore because we eat processed crap food because we spent all our money on other shit. How core and bummy are we?
My roomates clean giant super high end vacation rentals, we eat the finest food and wash it down with craft beer/top shelf booze. At 1000 plus a night you don't buy the shitty bacon. I haven't bought groceries in months. As a matter of fact I got a ham cooking off as we speak. Thank you Texas!
Edit-Not just any old ham either, but a special order ham from New Braunfels smokehouse in Texas. There was also a cryo of smoked turkey that was fucking delicious!
I ski every day. Work two jobs. Own my own reliable vehicle, an apartment by myself with my dog. I eat like a king, take showers, and even get laid on occasion.
You're doing it wrong.
dropped a few words to show how it's done as an adult.Quote:
Originally Posted by regct
they are doing it way wrong.
b
You guys need to move the "kitchen" closer to the toilet so you can better multi task. I bet you could shit, cook, and eat without ever getting up.
100lbs rice, 50 lbs of beans, 50 lbs of flour and a pinch of salt will feed you for a year!!!!!
Answer used to be ketchup packages plus hot water for tomato soup. You guys look a little soft for that.
Cat food and a bagel.
OP, Have you never noticed that other mammals do not eat where they shit?
Bwahahaha!Quote:
Originally Posted by telebobski
For the record the real deal dirt bag ski bum still lives. I may not be one any longer but I have been before.
I have spent whole winters skiing on skis I pulled from a dumpster. I used to get food from my night shift at my work in a restaurant. Free coffee in the morning from a hotel lobby and maybe a danish from time to time. We would poach hot tubs at slope side resorts and travel only by foot and thumb. Saltines and hot sauce from ski area cafeterias was lunch. I even did a little hucking and photo whoring for some extra $ or gear. The beans, tomato soup, and potatoes does sound pretty good. We all don't spend thousands on gear or not always anyhow. Ski bums are passionate people and tend to make due with whatever we can to ski powder.
That being said.........listen to telebobski and don't shit where you eat!
What a fucking JONG. Want to ski a bit better, smell better, maybe even get up into a chick every now and then? Then don't let your gut live out of a can. Learn to cook in the bulk section. Lentils, rice, beans, maybe some meat every now and then. Find the spot in town for cheap veggies. Dank veggie burritos, and maybe some eggplant parmigiana for when you want to impress that snow bunny. Spend a little more time thinking and less time letting Kraft think for you.
You may even become better at your job, if you're into that kind of thing.
i ski atleast 60 70 days a year and definitely get laid on occasion. I also manage to work less than 4 days a week during the winter, which allows for epic day trips/missions etc
BAGEL! We don't need no stinking BAGEL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hott Butt Mud
I eat out a few nights, sushi, noodles, mussel night at Zino's, a little thai food….
When in Colorado I like to grill those big fat bone -in NY's you can get and some veggies, salsa and a few tortilla's.
I do carry a thermos and bring lunch on the mountain though!
I skied 70 days last year and earned a masters degree which was basically a full time job. Just saying.
A true ski bum would be getting stoned every night while fixing/waxing the boards.....not studying....
Um, no it's not if you skied 70 days. Wait until you actually get a "full time job" and get back to us.Quote:
Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey
And, to answer the OP, rice and beans.
The Ski Bum’s Guide
2nd edition
By Darren R. Romar and Steven A. Steinberg
http://www.skibumsguide.com/ski_bum2.htm
unlike most ski bums these guys have broken omerta to reveal some of the secrets of ski bum economics!!!! food is perhaps the most important area of a successful ski bum career!!! you cannot ski every day of the season over a lifetime with a shitty diet!!!!
these ski bum posts always draw alot of interest. ski bums hold a position in american culture much like the one filled by cowboys!!! lots of legendary and mythic themes!!! for the average normal skier it is not uncommon to loosely grasp the goal of one day becoming a ski bum. in the end we each define this term for ourselves!!! putting aside all of the cliches and humor surrounding ski bum life for a moment i would offer that at some basic level a ski bum is a simply spiritual individual engaged in a profound physical activity. tribe up!!! gather round!!! in a healthy family we each support the others dreams!!!
skiin almost every day isn't that hard
nor is doing it w/ a "full time job"
more skill ya haz
less bummin ya need to do.
Don't forget the ramein noodles or canned tuna.
I think I'm on pace for about a 60-70 day season this year, depending on how spring shapes up and how quickly I shift gears back to biking. It's not unreasonable for a person working full-time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Eh, I got 50+ all through law school and in a full time lawyer job for years, could have hit 70 if I was truly dedicated. Only thing that stopped me was having a kid. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benny Profane
Really. A lawyer? As I said, a real job.
Touche...
ski bums are like the french on holiday: they prefer to be the only one in the crowd!!!!!!!!!!
in the old days it was chili/mac
i would eat out of a dumpster before i would cook where i shit...
lemme tell ya bout my dumpster route!!!!!!!
funny, back in the moonlight days (RIP), we would take peoples' bowls from the dish tubs in the lodge and get free refills. and probly free viruses.
man, ketchup soup is old school. its all about the pizza sauce and heavy cream- aka tomato soup. also, succotash (kidney beans and creamed corn) is less than a two dollar meal, and unless youre a whale, two 15 oz cans is definitely enough. even if the only thing you ate from 9 to 5 was blunt roaches and half-eaten hot dogs the family before you left in the lodge.
Tacos. I can eat em every day. If you cook up a good batch of meat you have food for a few days.
Avocado's, not exactly cheap but a couple of those and some corn chips with hot sauce works pretty good.
I have mexican food almost daily in some form or another, it's my favorite.
Casadias, the Mexican version of the toasted cheese sandwich.
Tuna sandwiches, nutella, pastaroni, ramen/cuppa noodles. Lived in a van and a truck for a few winters. All I needed was some hot water and I could have a gourmet meal. Then I started working in restaurants and getting free meals. That's the ticket.
What makes it different from the American grilled cheese?Quote:
Originally Posted by scottyb
I ate ramen noodles and penut butter sandwiches exclusively for almost two years, I can barely get that stuff in my mouth any longer! But it did get us by for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by shredgnar
Ramen noodles with a bit of peanut butter, cock sauce, and assorted veggies is a good poor mans pad thai.
We used to pick up our clients from a cafe and our boss told us that the cafe requested to please ask the guides to stop taking the patrons half-eaten leftover food on our way out the door - I wasn't going to let that toast and bacon just sit there.Quote:
Originally Posted by totaliboard
Quote:
Originally Posted by regct
Doesn't that make the dog angry?
Paleo combined with the 100mile/hr diet
Attachment 147970
And yea, at least get a composting toilet (5 gallon oilpail and some dry sawdust) outside the kitchen door...
Water. It's what's for lunch.
We were poor teenagers going to races in the late sixties-early seventies. One friend who worked at the cheese/sausage shop would take the garbage (boxes) out at the end of the day. One of us would be there to pickup the box of sausages and cheeses. All we had to do was bring the bread and crackers. Good road food....high fat and protein.
Winner in this thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaisingArizona