There are consultancy that still provide free training with free food and accomodation if you are willing to come to their place. Online you always have to pay money and they are not that serous for you because they already made some money out of you. If you go and stay in their guest house, it means they have made investment in you and will try hard to place you.

Few Consultancies: VST (Edison/NJ) Free food and accommodation

                                NSIT (OldBridge/NJ) Free accomodation

                                ExcelTech(Virginia) Free accommodation

                                IT America (Edison,nj) Free food and accommodation

                                Agama (Fremont ,CA) Free food and accomodation

                                BetaSoft (Fremont,CA) Free food and accomodation

Go for it..leave that gas station job...before you lose the energy and passion to do something in your life and then you realize..you were at the same cash register you were 15 years ago making same money with no savings and valuable time lost