[quote name='JSweeney']Since he's a pastamancer, making boring spaghetti with the dry noodles he can summon provides a decent number of adventures and stats for a cheap, cheap price (3 adventures and three tomatos)
For drinks, what I've been using is monkeywrenches, screwdrivers and vodka martinis, since you can usually find mall stores selling vodka and rum for 100, and the rest of the fixin's are cheap as well, and they give reasonable amounts of adventures and stats for pretty cheap (200 per).[/quote]
As an addition to this, make sure to keep the dirty hippy costume around (filthy dread sack and filthy courderoys, and use the little drop down, as it makes it so much easier when you want to go to a shop you need a costume to visit)
having access to the dirty hippy store makes a number of the items you need to get cheaper.... tomatos, oranges, olives, herbs are all about 30+ meat cheaper than you could get them from the mall, making it even cheaper to eat a good diet far earlier in the game.
Remember... even though Mysticism is your main stat, Moxie tends to be what keeps you alive, since it makes you harder to hit.
Delicious noodles (herbs and dry noodle) and vodka martinis (vodka+olive) help build this skill.