Until I find another job, I have to live on my savings for the next few weeks. It’s not as hard for me as it is for other people, because I lived on barely any money while I was in both undergraduate college and graduate school. I drank nothing but water and cheap coffee while eating macaroni and cheese, pancakes, fried eggs, ramen noodles, and rice with beans. If you have the will to get through the roughest parts, it’s possible to endure. Luckily I am not as poor as I was back then, so I can eat better food as long as I only buy meat when it’s on sale at the store. You can go to discount grocery stores and purchase cheap canned meat and vegetables as well. This is one of my favorite ways to make chilli. I get a can of every kind of beans and I mix them with tomatoes, tomato sauce, and my secret blend of seasonings. If I’m careful about what I get at the dispensary, I can still enjoy cannabis on a daily basis. Instead of spending a lot of cash on expensive concentrate and jars of cannabis flower buds, I get pre-ground cannabis flowers. It’s a mixture of shake and legitimate flower buds that have been ground up in a consistency ready for rolling joints and blunts. Some people scoff at the ground flower from the cannabis dispensary, but it has given me the chance to continue using marijuana in a period of time when I’m on the edge of poverty. The cannabis dispensary sells a quarter of an ounce of the ground flower buds for just $25. If you get four of them, you can get an ounce of marijuana flower buds pre-ground for only $100. This is an unbelievable price for cannabis and easily the most economical one in the state.