When I was on disability and living in subsidized housing, I didn't get enough food stamps to buy a whole month's worth of groceries. So, around the third week of every month, I was down to eating maybe a bowl of ramen noodles once a day. To stretch it out as far as I could, I learned to make all kinds of things out of flour, oil, and milk. I made my own tortillas and bread sticks. If I had eggs too, I could make biscuits and gravy, which is actually flour, oil, and milk in two different forms. I soon realized as long as I had that much in the house, I wouldn't actually starve. Survival tip: It's cheaper to buy ingredients than it is to buy food, and put it together yourself. However, this kind of starch-based eating isn't real healthy if you're diabetic.