Homeless Recipes For People That Have Nothing

[Liberalman]

Society does not seem to care about the homeless people that live on the streets, the various governments will allocate pocket change to their budgets and religious organization will help the poor only if they take Jesus into their hearts and their help is not that much either.

The homeless live and sleep in the streets, under bridges and on heated sidewalk grates. They beg to get money.

The homeless persons grocery store is garbage cans and dumpster this is where the term dumpster diving comes from.

Restaurant dumpsters are good but you have to be there from the time they throw out the garbage and before the garbage trucks come to take it away. Sometimes there are maggots on the food and since they eat this on the TV show Survivor then it’s OK to eat.

Here is a nice meal.

Go through the garbage a find a partially eaten hamburger and some stale bread.
Look for some vegetables and a can.
Go to a public washroom and fill the can with hot water and soak your food this will clean it a little then drain and enjoy.

This will taste like crap but when you have eaten for a while I hear it taste good.

If you have any homeless recipes then add it.

 

[Dreadful Nonsense]

sigh....I know

 

[damngrumpy]

With the way our society is today no one notices anything until misfortune touches them.
There are so many homeless that really should be in institutions, as they suffer a whole range of mental problems. There are others who do not have the skills to do the jobs that are available, then come the working poor, who even though they have several part time jobs they don't make enough to pay the rent. There are those who are caught up in the cycle of drugs and liquor, that need assistance before they can be helped. Somehow society sees these people as throw aways.
Our governments have been treating the symptoms of the problems rather than the problem itself and it is time that changed, although I believe we are several years away from a consensous on conventional wisdom.

 

[Dreadful Nonsense]

With the way our society is today no one notices anything until misfortune touches them.
There are so many homeless that really should be in institutions, as they suffer a whole range of mental problems. There are others who do not have the skills to do the jobs that are available, then come the working poor, who even though they have several part time jobs they don't make enough to pay the rent. There are those who are caught up in the cycle of drugs and liquor, that need assistance before they can be helped. Somehow society sees these people as throw aways.
Our governments have been treating the symptoms of the problems rather than the problem itself and it is time that changed, although I believe we are several years away from a consensous on conventional wisdom.

All valid points...But you don't see them as throw aways do you?
so our society is not completly a loss cause.
It's a monumental problem and each individual has their own set of unique circamstance.
There are a lot of holes to pigion hole these people with.

 

[Zzarchov]

Well, Drugs and Liquer are really their own fault, that I have no sympathy for. If you want to sober up more than you want to be stoned, its not too terribley hard to do so, MANY, MANY people do.

Many more are at least able to keep themselves sober enough to work and pay rent.

I mean , being homeless homeless is pretty hard to do unless you try (through pride or a preference for being drunk/stoned to reality). It is so damn easy to "upgrade" to the working poor. At this point there is nothing more you can do to help the homless in many areas without infantalising them. They are adults too (and if they aren't then yes, infantalise them) and have the same requirements of personal responsiblity of the rest of us, meaning they can't be helped unless they want help.

The working poor however are another matter. That does require attention.

 

[echojava]

homeless and working poor of canada

Canada has such a great problem with homelessness and the working poor. I beleive it is necessary for the Canadian government to stop rationalizing and holding forums and making statistical reports and to start actually acting upon their plans to stop poverty. Our society is in a terrible condition and we are truly in a third world like state. Take off the blinders and see that there are many suffering people on the streets of Canada, and the numbers are steadily increasing. A question as well, at what point in Canadian history did poverty and homelessness become so widespread? can anyone shed some light on that matter?

 

[Unforgiven]

I don't think you know much about addiction then. Addiction is different for everyone and while someone can quit smoking using nothing more than their own will power, for others there is no way they can quit without major intervention on their behalf. Drugs are the same for the most part with the level of addiction ranging between mental addiction to physical addiciton as well as various degrees in strength of addiction.

Alcohol is a drug and thus no different.

Often there is a root cause of the addiction which is usually some unadressed painful emotion or trauma the person has undergone. Once that has been sorted out it's not as difficult as all that to get the addiction under control and eventually control it so well that is doesn't interfere with the addicts life in any negative way.

Our society and government have been brainwashed into accepting that an addiction is weakness. More so that it should be dealt with through punishment. Equate that with healing from some illness. Have a heart attack and the government will dump your but in jail after the surgery, have a few of the imates kick the **** out of you, make it so that you can't work at any job that pays well enough to support you and gives you the lecture that should you return to the hospital with another heart attack, there will be no second chance for you. Here's a bag of Big Macs now get the **** out.

People run into stumbling blocks through out their life. Sometimes people just need a hand with their stuff so that they can get back in the swing of things. Once we get over the idea that some clever dick might come along and take advantage of our generosity, we can help solve a lot of the problems that people face.

Once you help someone develop their pride and teach them how to be an upstanding citizen, they don't often take undue advantage of generosity and good will.

Well, Drugs and Liquer are really their own fault, that I have no sympathy for. If you want to sober up more than you want to be stoned, its not too terribley hard to do so, MANY, MANY people do.

Many more are at least able to keep themselves sober enough to work and pay rent.

I mean , being homeless homeless is pretty hard to do unless you try (through pride or a preference for being drunk/stoned to reality). It is so damn easy to "upgrade" to the working poor. At this point there is nothing more you can do to help the homless in many areas without infantalising them. They are adults too (and if they aren't then yes, infantalise them) and have the same requirements of personal responsiblity of the rest of us, meaning they can't be helped unless they want help.

The working poor however are another matter. That does require attention.