/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14695492
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>>14695492
>>toaster oven
This is what you'll use for every damn thing. Buy some of the trays and baking dishes meant for it. I'm sure there are cookbooks as well. It's a toaster, broiler, and oven for a single person.

Your budget is CRAP. I couldn't eat on less than $400/mo

>>14695492
This seems like the kind of thing you should've planned before you moved into a cabin. My usual recommendation is pork chops, they're cheap and easy as fuck. You can grill some thick onion slices to go with them.

Frosted flakes & sliced bananas in milk.

You say cabin.
I'm hoping that means you also have a fireplace.
Start looking at dutch ovens (the enthusiasts may call them camp ovens); they're designed to turn fire into cooking heat.

I hope you scored some potatoes; It's harvest time, I can usually source 50lbs for around $10. They'll keep until spring with some basic cellar management, and a baked potato a day is much preferred to starvation. (You'll want 150lbs if they're on sale and you can store them.)

You'll also want to enhance your cold storage capacity when you can. Full size fridge plus a deep freeze. This is assuming that "cabin" isn't a euphemism for a permanently parked camper trailer, and also that you can afford the power budget.
Oatmeal, dry beans, salt, plant a garden next spring.

>>14695527
1 man
$400/mo on food alone

500 lb trust fund kiddie detected.

>>14695527
>couldn't eat on less than $400/mo
This is highly region specific.
He did say cabin; if he's within 500 miles of Chicago or Kansas City, meat is much less expensive here.
$150/mo is workable (but maybe subsistence sloppa); $200/mo is pretty decent.

>>14695492
if you can afford it and you have the electricity for it you should buy an air fryer. one of those will cook far better than everything in your list.
If you can't already then also something that you can boil a decent pot of water and use a frypan on, like an electric stove.
also a 2 or 4 slice bread toaster.
$5 a day. Should be doable.
>breakfast
2 to 4 pieces of toast with margarine/butter and a topping like peanut butter, jam, tomato slices, honey
>lunch
sandwiches with above toppings and things like canned tuna, spam and so on.
if you can boil eggs you can have those as well, either on the bread or on their own.
since you have a microwave you can do rice, just get a large microwave safe bowl, throw in 3 cups of water per cup of rice, bang it on for 9 minutes on high, stir then go another 2 minutes and they should be done.
>dinner
chicken pieces and turning ground beef into burgers will be the two main meals here due to your budget. If you don't have anything that can cook those properly then just keep eating sandwiches & microwave meals until you can afford the right tools to cook.
ramen/noodles are also another dinner you can have with just a microwave.

>>14695492
breakfast: milky fruit oats
oats, sunflower seeds, apples, milk (optional), cinnamon

lunch: coleslaw and boiled potatoes and meat option
meat of choice, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, oil, yogurt, salt, nutritional yeast

Dinner: charcuterie
smoked meats, salami, cheese (aged and brined), pickled vegetables, sauerkraut, kimchi

You can literally eat this all year round and for very little money. Get a hot plate and a pot so you can boil things.

>>14695492
Idk where your cabin is or how long you'll be there but I would get some produce to eat, thats also easy to plant. Ie: corn, tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini, potatoes. Set up some simple snares. Invest in cast iron if you can have a fire. Ect

>>14695594
>I'm hoping that means you also have a fireplace.
I intend to install one in the near future, but as of now I am on baseboard electric heat. My cabin was built by the previous owner to grow weed in, but since it's more up to code than his own house I'm going to winter in it while I renovate the house. If I had a fireplace, hot water would not be an issue.

>potatoes
These are cheap around here and definitely on my list.

>>14696197
I have heard good things about air fryers. I'll look into that.

Onions, pickled. If you have an EBT card, buy some produce bearing plants next spring.

>>14696548
>fireplace.
>I intend to install one
A neat pile of concrete blocks can be arranged into an outdoor hearth for dutch oven cooking. Some might even arrange for a metal water barrel to catch some of the heat of the fire, for cleaning purposes.

It sounds like you may be doing physical labor for much of the day; a crockpot is inexpensive and will happily simmer your foods unattended. Potato, onion, carrot, celery, and a Knorr stock cube comes out pretty good. The toaster oven can probably bake small breads; a crockpot can do some no-knead soft crust breads; a dutch oven can definitely make breads. Wheat flour + time is probably more budget friendly than wonderbread, and sourdough is probably a workable option.

>>14697779
if you wish, you could use two Knorr® stock cubes. The choice is yours, there is no real recipe

>>14695492
People have already said the easy answers (potatoes, vegetables, eggs, cheap cuts of meat). If your toaster oven can hit 400-425 then roasting vegetables is very easy and taste good. Just cut them into bite size and drizzle some olive oil and salt and pepper (plus any seasoning you want)

Another option that's very cheap in the long run would be to get some flour and make you're own stuff from scratch. Simple pasta (just roll flat and slice into strips), flat bread, biscuits, roux to make sauces

If you had a way to boil stuff making soup/stew is the ultimate cheap food as you can utilize any scraps from to make stock and you can make soup from anything. Basically lets you stretch the value of any ingredients you're already getting