/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10667212
for me, it's a mcchicken w/ vark, deenz, and lovage

>rice, beans, and frozen chicken
this sounds actually real good

>>10667212

I'm sick and white rice & hardboiled eggs are all I can stomach

>>10667212

potato and onion hash

cant afford meat

>>10667212
Spam and rice, my dude.

>>10667228
Show's over folks, we've found 4chins' Top Memer.

>>10667251
name brand spam isn't even that cheap

>>10667212
tinned tuna, some celery stalks, and a potato are my meal for the day. :(

>>10667212
kraft mac and cheese and canned tuna
someone please kill me

I spent all my money on alcohol and only had €35 for half a month
I spent half of it on cleaning supplies and now all i have to eat is half a sack of potatoes and a head of iceberg lettuce

>that 26 year old boomer that can afford chicken but still thinks he's poor
fuck outta here bougie bitch

>>10667240
hope you feel better anon

>>10667240
get well anon if i was there with you id give you a hug.

>>10667212
I'm a poorfag but I'm eating chilli. Pesto pasta for lunch too.

So you can afford chicken? Must be nice.

Shit pic but it's the 100 grams of summer truffles I just bought.

Shaved about 15 grams of it over some roasted sweet potatoes served with a ribeye steak and steamed broccoli with a garlic and butter sauce.

Tomorrow I'll make truffle rissoto with saffron panna cotta.

>>10667452
>can't even be jealous because I don't know what truffles taste like
6/10

>>10667452
i wasn't going to say anything, but you're forgetting something. pic related

>>10667457
It's good but you're not missing much. It's just moatly indulgent.

>>10667459
I've honestly never heard of this. I'll buy some soon.

>>10667212
you don't need the chicken

>travel to the the south of spain
>friend has 5 dollars total
>my bank account gets locked due to fraud, bank says "oh just go to our office in new york to get it settled"
>have about 100 euros between 2 people left for 2 months, rent is paid for the first already

It's actually going better than expected. Alternating red beans/rice and tomato pasta, a lot cheaper here than in the US. Thinking of making some gazpacho or chickpea stew soon to mix it up. Any good cheap Spanish recipes?

>>10667488
Lovage tastes like snail's cum, avoid.

>>10667696
>lovage tastes like snail's cum
many will be deceived
i believe god said that

>>10667212
lrn2cook dumdum

>>10667212

Reporting in. Stuffing myself on croutons, crackers and 10 packs of ranch dressing I stole from the supermarket salad bar. Wallah a meal fit for a kang

>>10667407

This actually sounds great dude. Do you add mushrooms in your pesto pasta?

>>10667212
I work at a fast food pizza buffet and I'm barely scraping by. I've eaten so much left over pizza I could puke, but at least I'm not starving.

>>10667212
>rice, ground beef, soy sauce, and a chopped onion
iktfb
but its bulking season and between this meal and milk and a few carrots per day i am gonna make it

>>10667813
Nah, just pesto, pasta, green beans & potatoes, but I don't see why you couldn't add anything you wanted to it.

>>10667212
>waahhhh I have to cook and eat reasonably healthy food instead of paying $12/meal for fast food burgers like all the cool kids
You'll thank yourself later, honestly.

>>10667212
I've had $-0.21 in my bank account for about 3 weeks. There's barely anything in my fridge or cupboard that isn't expired useless. On the bright side, I have a gallon jug of water. Plus I was able to salvage flour, salt, oil, baking soda, and powdered sugar. For the past few days i've been making pancakes and topping them with butter and powdered sugar.

I'm praying one of the places I applied to calls me back. I just want to buy some food pls

>>10668767
Wtf just ask your mom for some money to buy rice and banana or something

I actually eat chicken and rice every night, healthy boi

>>10668767
I've had $0.45 in my bank for like 3 months now. I've been living off free food from my local church. Lately nothing but bread and cabbage. I got lucky the other day and scored a few cans of green beans. Felt like a king for a day. I did recycling the other day with plans to buy food but ended up spending the $20 I got on alcohol. At least we are alive right?

>>10668993
yeah man. you're def worse off than me, good luck with everything. and holy shit thanks for mentioning recycling because i just remembered i got a few trash bags full of empty bottles stored away.

>>10669009
Everything will work out man. I got pretty lucky cashing in my aluminum cans and even found some more on my way to cash them in. Haven't had electricity for awhile now so I've been making little fires outside to heat up my can foods whenever I get lucky and enjoy a hot meal by the fire. It's comfy. Life is alright.

>>10667212
thats better than what i have

ive been living off a dumpster dived pallet of red sauce for months, and tonight salvaged some bread off the ground. one of them was whole. also there was a can of duck confit just a block away. i dont know why people throw out so much food but fuck it, it's good for me

>>10668993
iktf bro, right down to the alcohol
thankfully im at least starting a new Military Contract™ so hopefully i can catch up on rent soon and afford to buy real food and shit

>>10669039
>and even found some more on my way to cash them in.
in addition to so much food waste, it bewilders me that people dont return their cans

i regularly find beer bottles on the street in recycling areas, clearly not some drunk who was just too lazy to bring it home but neatly arranged six-packs next to their tied up cardboard and bags of shredded paper and nice little city-provided compost bin. i just take them shits and return them. i never see actual hobos do this shit so i dont feel bad about taking their gig, i think they literally only beg and probably are also on welfare or something. fuck hobos. they dont even try

>>10669061
A few years back when I wa in a similarly tough situation I realized people actually put all there recycling out in the street on Thursday nights in neighborhoods around here for the trash guys to take in the morn. Is drive around with a friend and copleyly fill his car and trunk with as much as we could. We'd usually come out with $100 or more some nights.

>>10669079
i've considered looking up the schedules but meh, i'm not that desperate. especially now that i have a contract and should start making bank again

>>10667810
>wallah
>not voila
I think we've stumbled on why you're poor, retard.

>literally starving
>spend money on alcohol instead of food
what the fuck is wrong with you people?

>>10667327
A classic.

>>10667289
But the generic brands are like 88¢

>>10667340
At least your house will be clean

>>10667212
I for one, friend, do not know your struggle.
>Got fired three weeks ago, haven't applied anywhere.
>Was seriously considering buying a 1.25lb lobster tail for dinner a few days ago.

>>10667676
what spices do you have to work with? onions, garlic, potato, tomato, bay leaf, with garbanzo and rice would be nice. id recommend some turmeric and serrano peppers (or any spicy pepper). if you could get any chicken legs, searing some and boiling with everything would flavor it very welll. or perhaps see if you could get some bones free from an butcher shop, they flavor up broth very well and are generally just tossed

>>10667212
Get some tortillas and mash the beans up with some refried beans for fajitas. It's a change of pace and hopefully you have spices.

>>10667289
>>10667251

>Being able to afford name-brand canned meats like Spam

Slow your roll there, Mr. Rockefeller. Some of us can't even afford Spam. Gotta stick with my cans of Skunch like a real budget-conscious king.

1 Costco Rotisserie Chicken, Spices, 1 Costco Flour Tortilla, 1 Costco Mexican 3 Cheese; shred the chicken and make chicken cheese taco for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Actually lasted me a week w/ moderation, or if I indulge a little bit, then 3 or 4 days.

>>10669908
>poor
>buys pre-cooked chicken like a dupe.
Buy your own whole chicken and cook it yourself. And that is why I have no worries but have been unemployed for three weeks.

>>10669919

Rotisserie chicken is great bang for your buck and there's nothing wrong with buying them. They are $4.99 each regardless of weight so make sure to pick the biggest one you see. Look up "Loss-Leader," its a business term. Costco's loss-leaders are the rotisserie chicken and food court hotdog.

>>10667212
I made some borsch the other day. Cabbage, potato, beets, turnip, carrot, onion. Water, salt. Beef shank if you're nasty.

I had two bowls and the rest grew bacteria on it cuz I didn't refrigerate it.

>>10667212
>frozen chicken
why didn't you warm it up?

Not poor but I want to start saving a bit of money and at the moment I’m spending loads unnecessarily on food

Can you give me any poor person tips?

>>10669936
My man

>>10670003
#1 Buy ingredients, not prepared food. You are paying for the preparation effort, which you can do for free.

#2 Only buy shit THAT YOU WILL COOK in the next 48-72 hours. I have wasted so much money on shit "i plan to" cook but never do and then throw out.

>>10670003
>>10670020
Not poor, but raised by poor people. :)

>>10670003
Think about the food you will cook for the meal. Buy only those ingredients.

And skip snacks. If you have a proper meal. You wouldn't need chips and soda

>>10669852

>>10667810
>>10668767
>>10668993
Kek, in an age where food is cheap and plentiful with dense calories causing an obesity epidemic there are people who live like this.

>>10670550
>Think about the food you will cook for the meal. Buy only those ingredients.
this is wrong and total false economy and the person recommending it is probably a "1/3 pound is less than 1/4 pound" 56%er. buy in bulk to save on price/kg/l/serving and learn to mix it up by using different spices or cooking methods.

>And skip snacks. If you have a proper meal. You wouldn't need chips and soda
this is somewhat true but even then chips arent expensive. just ration them a little. though its also good to have cheaper but similar tasting snacks like making some garlic bread or homemade chips or something once in a while

>>10669093
>Being this new

>>10667452
its weird that things that look like literally fresh turds some members of our large tribe consider to be tasty

Can we for once be useful and post some budget but nutritious recipes?
Contribooting
>https://www.themediterraneandish.com/greek-green-beans-fasolakia/

couldn't find artichoke or broad beans anywhere in 3 different supermarkets :(

>>10669298
They wouldn't be struggling if they weren't alcoholics.

>>10670973
>tip sirloin roast 10 lbs
>Round sirloin roast 3 lbs
>smoke both for 3 hours
>recook through the week in stroganoff, stew, rouix, and sandwiches

Damn that's hard. A good off set smoker is $99.99 at HD. Buy bulk charcoal on sale.

Alternatively cuckout and get a stupid slow cooker

>>10671452
>A good off set smoker is $99.99 at HD
No. A barely serviceable shit smoker is $99.99 at HD.

>>10671463
Describe barely servicable

>>10671477
Thin, lightweight metal. Flimsy construction. Small size.

You can expect uneven temperatures and plenty of leaks thanks to the thin, ill-fitting metal. The firebox will probably burn out after one or two seasons of frequent use.

>>10670601
What do you consider cheap? Also get your keks elsewhere faggot

>>10671492
Granted but I personally doubt the OP is willing to go out, buy a dumped waterheater, buy harbor freight drill press and grinder with necessary safety equipment, and invest the time to figure it all out his damn self.

There exist heat and flame retardant fabric and call at I'D. Just sayin'

>>10671516
Calk at HD*

I wonder sometimes if people are a bit masochistic about poverty food and almost get a kick out of being all 'ohh man fried woodlice AGAIN us poorfags rite?' If at any point in your life you've had enough money to buy some spices and condiments then you can eat tasty food made out of the absolute cheapest staples. It what most of humanity does every day, what you're feeling is relative deprivation because the people around you are gorging on first-world prolefeed in nice attractive packaging.

>>10671516
Fair enough, but the term "good" is still misplaced in your description of a HD $99 smoker.

>>dumpted waterheater
Also thin and fucking flimsy. An old propane tank is what you want.

>>10667240
Looks like an uncircumcised dick

I grew up poor, am an alcoholic, didn't finish high school, and was a fuck up for most of my life.

I now have the perfect job, don't drink, great house in a great neighborhood, and have the perfect wife.

All because I stopped being a faggot.

I don't feel sorry for you poor fucks. Grow up and get your shit together.

>>10673071
>stopped being a faggot
You can’t hide what’s inside, anon.

how do you eat well but cheap, /ck/?

For me, it's the Kroger Beef Tenderloin and asparagus