/ck/ - Food & Cooking

how many limes did you buy, brother?

Eventually you build up a pantry of things you can draw from and it gets cheaper per meal. If you cook consistently you won't have to buy new spices, oil, etc. every time.

>>15418889
>bottle of sunflower oil
>salt
>pepper
>smoked paprika
>dried oregano
>air fryer and large saucepan with a lid
that is enough to cook pretty much anything worth making.

>>15418906
I've got a few bottles of oil and a handful of spices but I still end up spending bucks on a single person meal. How the fuck am I supposed to stop eating at mcdick's every night when pretty much any kind of protein from the meat counter is going to be at least $10 for enough to satisfy me

>>15418889
Chicken Breasts, I sous vide 4 for the week, take them out and season as I want, for one meal I'll make orange chicken, the next maybe a chicken bean burrito.
Skies the limit, just have an imagination

>>15418889
Buy stuff in bulk, wait for sales.

Goddamn you're a goof.

>>15418915
>How the fuck am I supposed to stop eating at mcdick's every night when pretty much any kind of protein from the meat counter is going to be at least $10 for enough to satisfy me
Depends where you are in the country I guess, but a burger patty at McDonald's is maybe 1/8 pound of the lowest quality ground beef, so unless you can't get a pound of ground beef cheaper than $8/lb you'd be better off just buying the meat and making it yourself.

>>15418915
You make a shit ton of a dish at a time and eat left overs for the next few days, that's how.

>>15418889
Honestly it's expensive when you first start, I attribute it a lot to initially stocking up your kitchen with essentials that you like to use compared to bullshit that you buy and never use. For example, I bought soy sauce and sesame oil for dumplings once and haven't touched them since, that shit was like $10, compared to butter, garlic, or flour, which goes real quick in my kitchen. Once you stock up on the stuff you like (condiments, spices, seasoning, sundries) it all gets a little cheaper.
Also, it's tough to know what kind of food costs what exactly, and how much you should be paying for it. For example, boneless skinless breast is maybe double the price of split rib chicken breast, put in a little extra work for the savings. Other things may be not understanding what's cheap, a can of tomatoes, ground beef, and some assorted produce can feed you for a couple days is relatively cheap, compared to making something like a 5 cheese macaroni and cheese, which may seem cheap, but when you get to the checkout, only then do you realize how expensive those cheeses were.
Of course, try to get things while they are on sale (they are often versatile cuts like beef chuck, round, chicken quarters, pork chops, you can do a lot with those), and if you ever feel like treating yourself, wait for the expensive stuff to go on sale. Over New Year's I got a nice CAB porterhouse for 6.99 a pound and a 5 lb bag of potatoes for a dollar, made some steak and fries and it was awesome. I know you say you're not good at planning, but that's exactly how they get you, come into the grocery store with a specific list so you don't impulse buy (my brother does this shit all the time). You should at least make a short list on your phone to look at, but paper is better if you place it in the cart, constantly reminds you of what you're there for.

>>15418889
>I'm not autistic enough
>wtf why does home cooking cost 30 bucks a meal?

oh I don't know that that's your issue, friend...

>>15418952
For $10-$15 I can get my calories for the day at mcdonalds. In my area ground beef seems to sit in that ~$7.99/lb range, pork and chicken isn't much better unless it's about to go bad and goes on manager special. I figure I'm gonna need at least a pound to make sure I don't go to bed starving, and then however many more bucks to add some more substance to the meal like potatoes or bread and I'm getting less calories per dollar

>>15418959
As for recipes, when I started out, I felt the need to buy everything exactly as it was stated in the recipe, but you don't need to do that shit, learn to substitute things in recipes. It's hard if you're starting, but as you become a more competent cook, you'll learn how to substitute obscure bullshit in some recipes for things that you actually have on hand. One time I wanted to make ribs, but I had no brown sugar or onion powder, so I just caramelized some onions and marinated the ribs with those and some other seasonings, they came out great. Eventually, you may not even need to go to the grocery store more than once a week if you have enough stuff and get creative with it (and it should all be things you like if you've stocked up on the ingredients you enjoy, I always have pasta around). Lastly, buy generic! Generic stuff is so much cheaper than branded, and I really taste no difference. If there is a difference, I'm obviously not an educated enough taster to pick it out, so I just generic shit, if it's a recipe you like, it'll be good regardless of the brand. There may be some cases where this doesn't apply (specialty recipes), but in most cases, I've found it to hold true.

>>15418977
vegetables are cheap and keep you full longer. why are you trying to get full on the most expensive produce you can buy (meat)? obviously every meal is going to be expensive if you primarily fill up on the most expensive stuff.

>>15418915
Keep eating mcChickens every day you dumb fuck.

>>15418993
I was raised on a meat and potatoes kind of diet but apparently prices have changed
>>15418995
I need almost 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight, you literally cannot beat mcdoubles in terms of price/calories

>>15419005
If beef is $8/lb near you, how much is a mcdouble? Are you in Alaska or something?

>>15419010
california. I can get a handful of burgers and a drink and a few orders of fries for however much it would cost me to get a pound and a half of ground beef

>>15419005
Chuck, round, and ground beef are all very cheap and extremely versatile for meats, potatoes are also dirt cheap and very versatile, just get a nice pantry full of supplies you like so you can dress them up. Dark meat chicken as well, all of these can be cooked low and slow with minimal oversight, since you said you don't feel like cooking at midnight. Braising recipes are mostly inactive time

>>15419022
Shit didn't see your post about beef being $8/lb. where are you shopping, specifically? Whole foods, campus grocer?

>>15419005
keep eating your mcdoubles bro, I am not going to spoon feed you 7 day meal plans here.
Figure it out or die with a chicken nugget in your mouth, your choice.

>>15418915
>pretty much any kind of protein from the meat counter is going to be at least $10 for enough to satisfy me
oh you're one of "those" people.
those "people".
man stick to your whoppers if you don't want to change

>>15419005
overfed shitass manchild loser, ngmi.

>>15419026
stater brothers mostly. there's an albertsons nearby but it's expensive as fuck compared to staters
>>15419029
>>15419033
let me work my way up to salads for dinner, grandpa

>>15418940
based and shaquille pilled

>>15419019
>pound and a half of ground meat
so just buy that and make 5 times the burgers you nonce

>>15419036
Not quite sure what their prices are like, I'm on the east coast. Are there any stop and shops or shoprites? Is the store in an upscale area, that could possibly be why. I'd go out of your way to go to a little more of a shitty area to shop, saves on prices because the poor niggers need to be able to eat, just don't relax. If there's really nothing cheaper, I guess that's just another reason to get the fuck out of california

>>15419037
Hey, he's the reason I sous vide lol.

>>15419056
I live in a kinda shitty area but it just seems like everything is fucking expensive no matter where I go short of hitting up food4less where there's flies buzzing around the produce and meat counter. I do wanna fuck around with braising stuff like cheaper cuts tho, I have an allclad 3qt saute pan which would be perfect for that
>>15419043
every time I try to buy less than a pound of meat it never seems like enough after cooking and eating it.

>>15419071
eat something else bsides meat fatass, supplement your meal with filling vegetables or starch like rice.

>>15419071
Yeah sounds tough, I guess that's California though. Braising is definitely the best way to go for the cheapest food (it originated as a method to make shitty tough cuts of meat edible after all). Good luck anon, shopping for food gets easier the more you do it

how much meat do you guys buy per week? do y'all really live off rice and zucchini?

>>15419104
For reference, 4oz of meat is a serving

>>15419109
what the fuck

>>15419104
vegetables wont kill you fatass, people have been stretching limited meat in soups and stews and various other ways for thousands of years, figure it out.

>>15419005
Buy a smoker and cook cheap bulk meat like butt for around 16 hours. You can eat that for a week and season/ sauce/ garnish it different ways like chicken anon said to add variety to your meal.

Also don't go to the store planning specific meals. Meat sales usually rotate/ are seasonal and you should base your meals around that. Grocery adds are free and can literally cut your costs in half. Sometimes they even have good steak or lobster on the front page and you can give yourself a nice little treat.

>>15418889
You need to invest some money into cooking meals, but you can start out cheap. Salt, pepper, and garlic powder or some kind of seasoning blend can go a long way for simple meals.
If you live near a Sprouts, they have spices you can buy in custom quantities if you want to do things like make Indian curry without having to buy $100 worth of spices. You can literally buy one piece of whole allspice or 1 tsp of ground ginger if that’s what you need. They do the same with tea, grains, beans, nuts, snacks, and candy. You can buy just one cup of cornmeal to make cornbread or for breading fish instead of buying a 1 pound bag. And the prices aren’t jacked up. The unit price on them is good.
When I get something like sesame oil or balsamic vinegar, I buy the smallest bottle since it may take me a long time to get through it.
When I buy something like cantaloupe, I end up incorporating it into everything. Salsa? Add in cantaloupe. Salad? Shave off some thin slices to mix in. That way the $4 for that cantaloupe stretches across the week and makes creative and interesting meals other than just a container of cut fruit.
When cooking for yourself don’t just use up an entire can of beans or entire onion all at once. Recipes are usually meant for 4-6 people plus don’t necessarily take into account other things you’re eating at the meal like bread or a vegetable side. So you can often get away with using a third of a can of whatever and a quarter or less of an onion depending on size.
Use plastic wrap to tightly cover the leftover items and the next meal you can make something completely new.
Buy your meat from the butcher counter so that you can ask for an exact portion of each protein you’d like for the next several meals. You don’t need a 3 pound pack of chicken if you don’t intend on eating chicken every meal for a week. 4-6 ounces of meat or fish is a typical portion, so even a one pound pack means you’ll need to find several uses for it.

>>15418977
Lol a pound of ground beef mixed in with vegetables and some pasta sauce will serve 4-5 people you fat fuck.

>>15419104
1,5-2kg and only if I'm not having fish this week, usually skip the meat for at least one day. Used to eat less, but shitty ass job takes up my will to be creative in the kitchen

>>15419147
I'm 6'2" and 185lbs you turbonigger, I usually only have the time and the appetite/energy to eat once a day and I'm not trying to look like some scandinavian twink

>>15419160
Pad it out with carbs then. Roast potatoes, rice, pasta. You're such a faggot

Also I keep hearing anons saying shit about a big initial spice purchase
Nigga you can buy bottles of powders all the spices you need at the dollar store
And before anyone argues with me and says $4 onion/garlic powder or paprika is better, let me just tell you that they are wrong and you shouldn't listen to them.

>>15419160
>i don't want to look gay so i'll be fat

>>15419160
I'm 6'0" and 190lbs, I dont need that much food, you are fat and making excuses, first you say food is too expensive, then you say you'll only eat meat, learn to cook, read some recipes, use vegetables and starches.

>>15419167
thank you
>>15419173
>>15419177
kys manlet fatties, I don't care what your dietician says you can't eat. I get home from work after eating fuck all during the day and I want some substance to my meal and to not lose weight and enter lanklet territory

>>15419189
you asked us why food is so expensive, we explained and you are the idiot who thinks he needs 1kg of meat every meal to survive, you aren't a bodybuilder, god you are such an annoying faggot

>>15418889
Here's an easy as hell way to do this sort of nonsense. Make stews and soups. Stews are 75% vegetables and your choice of starch, likely potatoes or pasta. If you're making them with no potatoes, make them on the side in whatever way you like because potatoes are legit the best starch. They're filling as shit, you can make them in so many different ways, and you can make leftovers and use those leftovers in so many different ways. Soups and stews are exceedingly cheap, last forever, any idiot can do them because they're so low-maintenance, and they're tasty and if you know what to add it'll improve. And, importantly, you can make use of really cheap cuts of meat. Chicken thighs and drumsticks, for instance, are really cheap and works great in stews.

>>15419189
>I get home from work after eating fuck all during the day
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>>15418906
this.
there are upfront costs to cooking for yourself, including spices and oil/butter, but eventually when you have your shit together you only buy proteins and vegetables from the store

>>15418912
>meme fryer
Use an oven like an adult and leave the Easy-Bake for the kids

>cheap affordable bulky foods
learn to cook italian. italian and italian american recipes were litterally made for poor fucks who wanted to use whatever bullshit they had in their pantry and mix it with pasta. do you have 1 shitty egg and a slice of old ham ? make carbonara. do you have very little meat but some stale bread and a few herbs ? crush the stale bread to make breadcrumbs and make spaghetti and meatballs. fuck, you're a broke ass nigger and you only have a slice of dried cheese and pepper ? you make cacio e pepe.

Making a sunday gravy is very economical, as you can pretty much use it for an entire week, its minced meat so who the fuck cares what meat you use + you're using celery and carrot as fillings to basically save money on meat. also passata is way cheaper than fresh tomatos or canned ones.

also, basic pasta like aglio e olio doesnt cost shit as its basically a clove of garlic and a drizzle of olive oil.

also make bread, since a dough can either be frozen or just conserved for a week in the fridge with the taste and the crunch only improving. dry yeast is cheap af. you can make pizza by throwing some of that sauce you made on the bread. or infuse some garlic in olive oil and brush those on the dough to make garlic breadsticks.

flour lasts pretty long, pasta lasts fucking forever. which basically means you can just wait or hunt for the next best deal and buy a metric fuckton of both.

You honestly sound like a full on retard or an undercover alien who has no idea how earth works.

Are you seriously saying there's no cheap as regular old stores anywhere nearby? You can't find a fucking walmart? I absolutely refuse to believe that $8/lb ground beef is the best deal available to you even in shithole california. I saw you mention you can't buy less than a pound of ground beef at a good price? Have you ever thought about maybe buying more for a better price and then just not eating all of it in one sitting you fat fucking dipshit? Normal fucking hunan beings keep food in these things called fridges until they're ready to cook or eat it, you can buy more than a single meal worth of shit at a time and then just keep it in there until you're ready to use it.

Or you can go back to McDonald's and shove your fucking head in the fryer to save the rest of us from ever running into your dumb ass in person, Jesus christ.

>>15419189
Wagie wagie back to cagie

I invite anyone to come up with a meal that's 1280+ calories with 42+ grams of complete protein for $1.09 or less. Until then, I'll continue to spend 10 minutes of my day 4 times a week abusing fast food coupons instead of wasting hours shopping and cooking.

>>15419266
eat at work, have breakfast, make snacks

- make a list
- don't shop while hungry
- stocking your pantry is a relatively high upfront cost but saves money on subsequent trips

>>15419384
Just suck dick behind a gas station, it can even cost negative money and it'll taste better than BK so win/win for you low IQ faggot schizoid who doesn't understand how food works.

>>15419384
enjoy your heart disease and scurvy

>>15418989
A lot of what you say is true, but you also sound like a douche.

>>15419384
How are you getting all of that for $1?

-learn how grocery stores work
-learn how to cook
-literally stop sucking dick for 10 seconds
-get a job that pays more than "back alley crack whore"
-move out of california
-jump in front of a train

>>15419409
Restroom handies, fast food workers are depressed and lonely and the food is literally worthless so they'll just give it away for a tugger.

So a lot of people in here are giving you tips that come straight from /fit/ or from their faggy imaginations.

Here's how you eat good when you're poor.

Staples are most important. Meat, pasta, potatoes, rice, etc. Add in some frozen veggies and you're golden.

First off, buy big batches of things, and freeze them. When they have 4 pounds of chicken on sale for $.99 a pound, buy that. When rice is marked down, buy five pounds of it. Beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers, things like that... will season your food for cheap.

Make big batches of food but not so big that you can't eat it all before it goes bad. If you make too much, freeze it in a form that is palatable. For example, turn beans and rice into a burrito, freeze it and take it to work, etc.

You can eat for like a dollar a day if you plan right, and if you put in the work to cook.

>>15419394
Sorry, I only suck my husband's dick these days!

>>15419398
My BMI is 19 and my total cholesterol is 100mg/dL. Last year, you were able to get orange juice instead of chocolate milk, but it's an upcharge starting in 2021. For now, I'm relying on <$0.02 multivitamins every other day.

>>15419409
Pic related.

>>15418889
first step is deleting all of the frog pictures on your computer and admitting you have been a raging cocksucking faggot up until this moment of clarity

>>15419311
quality post, can i use the olive oil on my hair and become a greaser?

>>15419408
I am a douche

>>15419071
root vegetables are the diet of based men. supplement your diet with some of those, but still eat primarily meat. it will fill you easy

>>15418952
A McDonalds patty is 1/10 of a pound, except ovbiously the quarter pounder.

>>15419223
he probably has a high intensity job, whu cant you people just answer the man's questions instead of assuming what satiates him

>>15419005
>>>>>>>>>"Need almost 3000 calories a day to maintain my weight"
Are you 7 feet tall or 7 feet wide? I highly doubt you need 3000 fucking calories to maintain weight.

>>15419311
You make a sauce out of minced meat?

>>15419160
What the fuck is that supposed to mean tubby?

The value comes from meals that make multiple portions. Try a pot of chicken soup. Dirt cheap.

>>15419872
Those numbers are for fat lazy deskjob fuckers whose daily "exercise" is walking from their cubicle to their car.

>>15419160
Nobody eats half a kilo of beef at once you goddamn wanker

>>15418889
Stop buying meme shit. As long as you have potatoes, flour, onions, eggs, garlic, tomatoes, slat and pepper and some tea bags and milk you're set.

If you live alone or cook for one you don't save any money cooking for yourself. For example:
>$5 foot longs at Subway
>I'll save money and make my own sandwiches
>buy: bread, cheese, meat, lettuce, tomatoes, mustard
>comes out to be about $20
>make a sandwich on Monday
>make a sandwich on Tuesday
>don't feel like having yet another sandwich on Wednesday
>lettuce has now wilted
>throw out left over lettuce
>make sandwich on Thursday without lettuce
>don't feel like another sandwich on Friday
>by Saturday the bread has gone bad
>do cost analysis
>would have been cheaper ordering sandwiches

If I didn't mind eating the same sandwich every single day, and if I never got sick of it, I would be able to eat all the ingredients I bought before they went bad. But even if I did that I only would have saved $2 or $3.

>>15420421
If you live alone you just have to change to eating things that last a long time or be frozen.

>>15418912
>air fryer

Buy a dutch oven. It's the best tool in the kitchen.

Just tell the retard to buy bulk beans and bulk rice he is clearly just here to meme and doesnt wanna learn or eat a varied diet.

>>15418915
Costco chickens
Costco ground beef
Pork chops (gross, I know but cheap)
Sack of rice
Potatoes
Onions

>>15418977
>$8/lb ground beef

What in the fuck? That's ny strip prices. Ground beef should be $4/lb or less. Chuck roasts should be $4-5/lb. What are you a fucking leaf?

>>15420421

Did you know you can buy day old jimmy johns bread for a nickel?

>>15420443
What are you talking about? Pork chops are delicious with a little Montreal seasoning, some potatoes and green beans. Personally I love au gratin, but they're a little more effort than I'm usually willing to spend.

>>15418889
Meatloaf, green beans and mashed tators. Like 10$ and will feeed you for like 3 days

>>15420421
you have no idea how to store your food or combine ingredients
and in what fucking world are those ingredient that much?

>>15418889
What are you buying? Red Meat and cheeses can be more expensive but standard ingredients like onions, garlic, oil, flour, etc... are all really cheap. You probably made an expensive recipe. Making a huge pot of French onion soup costs me like $15 and that’s only because the wine I want to use is $10. It’s also good with Belgian beer instead of wine

>>15420457
You're so fucking wrong it's absurd. Pork is the worst meat. You have to smoke it to make it good.

>>15418912
you forgot garlic powder

>>15420915
you've been filtered hard m8

You are going to use the spices and oil again. You need to build a pantry of noodles, rice, beans, canned tomatoes, etc. When you want to prep a meal, maybe you just need to get some fresh meat or veg, but you will have most of the staples on hand. So if you have absolutely nothing to start with, that first meal will seem like it costs a lot, but cost per meal will decrease the more often you cook.

PS also second dollar store for basic spices/dried herbs like oregano and basil.

>>15420421
If your lettuce is "wilted" to the point of needing to be tossed out after 3 days you're either too retarded to use a fridge, too retarded to be shopping and caring for yourself, making shit up, or all of the above.

If you don't want to eat a sandwich every day, consider learning how to make more than one thing that uses lettuce. Non-autistic people recognize that food items can be prepared in many different combinations to create different meals. If your tism is too strong to figure out how to combine things in different ways to create variety, consider researching meal recipes and setting up a spreadsheet that reminds you how to not be a useless cumrag of a stupid bitch. You can even eat out once in a while, I promise I won't tell.

Is this what happens to people whose parents feed them nothing but McDonald's and cum for their entire childhood?

>>15418912
>air fryer
This is the most retarded fad I have seen since the george foreman meme grills.

Let's try to sum up the ways in which OP is a retarded faggot.

-lives in California
-brags about being a fatfuck who apparently needs to scarf a pound of greased meat every night at midnight to hide his shame
-apparently autistic enough to religiously clip coupons to get double his money's worth of tasteless shit from burger king but can't figure out how to find ground beef for less than $8/lb at a grocery store
-hasn't killed himself yet
-unaware that foods can be combined and prepared in more than one way to create meals
-unable to comprehend the proper function and use of refrigeration
-doesn't understand the concept of leftovers or buying more than a single meal's worth of ingredients at a time without immediately consuming them
-thinks it costs $20+ dollars to buy less than a week's worth of sandwich ingredients
-still hasn't killed himself
-literally can't stop sucking dick

Did I miss anything?

>>15419005
mcdoubles are shit bro. Shit quality meat. Sugary sauce. Shitty cheap bread. You are paying over 10 dollars for some shit thay cost mcdonalds cents to produce. Don't be a retard, buy whole quality ingredients for a nutritional meal your body will thank you for it. Meat has minerals, fats and proteins that are optimal for you unlike mcdonald's over processed meat flavored soy patties. The problem you have is that you don't know how to shop smart to get the most of your money. A loaf of good bread will cost you 5 bucks on the get go, but that will provide an ingredient for several meals. Same goes with a block of cheese and many other things. Think long term when grocery shopping instead of just today's dinner.

>>15421196
Based average IQ human with basic survival instincts poster. How do you do it anon? Absolutely in awe of this lad.

>>15421209
Its simple anon, don't be autistic about everything. Embrace simplicity, your mind will thank you for it. I had to learn that lesson the hard way.

>>15419104
An average week for me Id cook one chicken or duck, and some sort of pork or beef product.
This does not including the stock I make from the leftover meat or the massive amount of eggs my family of 4 go through. Beans and rice with or without meat at least once a week. Lots of fresh veggies in the summer. Mostly root vegetables this time of year. I bake something good at least once a week to.
I spend 200$ish a month at grocery store.

>>15419104
I buy whatever the fuck I want based on what I'm in the mood to eat, and also buy literally anything I think I'll use that's a good price and can be stored in bulk or frozen.

I don't live below the poverty line because I'm not a retard incapable of getting an above minimum wage job, but even when I was first living on my own with a shitty retail job I just bought whatever was cheap or on sale and then figured out what I wanted to make with it when the time came.

A lack of autism solves most of life's problems.

>>15418889
Step 1: Write a full weekly menu

Step 2: Refine that menu so that you use the same ingredients you need multiple times.

Step 3: Go to Aldi or Food 4 Less.

Step 4: Get a week's worth of food for $17.

>>15421303
You forgot step 5 where he literally drowns himself in homeless semen to end it all.

>>15418889
You build up a pantry and skills to stretch any ingredient further for cheap

>>15421303
Yeah. I'm good with this.

Also, you don't need to make fancy shit every night. The effort required and the time needed will wear you down over time.

>>15418906
This. I spend 65$ at the grocery store for this week, and that will take care of the following dinner menu, + oatmeal for breakfast daily and nuts with cheese or hummus and celery for lunch (at work). This isn't even eating very budget-minded, I buy kinda expensive cheese and meat.


Tu - Zucchini and Peppa Pasta

Wed - Salmon, Brussel Sprouts, Baked Shallots?

Th - Sausage, Peas, Boiled Red Potatoes

Fri - Miso Soup, Fish Balls, Mushroom, Wakamae

Saturday - Hungarian Mushroom Soup with Sprouts

Make a menu. It really helps you not overspend.

>>15418958
This is the correct answer. If you're cooking 3 times a day you're doing something horribly wrong. Yesterday I just put my favorite YouTube videos on, made 3 portions of Lamb Souvlaki and 2 portions of Crispy fried beef, it took me a couple hours because I cook very slowly and lethargically but it can be done in half the time if you're really going for it. Bingo, you've made 5 meals in an hour. Like another anon said, eventually you will have a drawer full of spices and oils and your meals become cheaper and cheaper

>>15418915
>when pretty much any kind of protein from the meat counter is going to be at least $10 for enough to satisfy me
How the fuck do you require several kilograms of chicken to satisfy you?

>>15419456
You will wonder how you got cancer by 40 and suffer tooth breakage and thinning hair.
So i guess enjoy your highly processed and dangerous meals.

>>15420915
Sounds like someone sucks dick at cooking pork.

>>15419311
https://www.youtube.com/user/OrsaraRecipes

I recommend this guy for a lot of those easy italian recipes

>>15420376
>VGH I need an entire pound of ground beef per day to work my MANLY construction job!
No you don't you dumb fucking faggot, people have been working the fields for thousands of years on a diet of bread + peas or beans, you're just retarded. Literally learn how to eat, you stupid faggot.

>>15420915
If you suck at cooking pork I habe the simplest best method to east it. Fry it. Any variation of fried pork will be savory as fuck.

>>15418889
>chicken 5 bucks
>making soup out of it that will last days 5 bucks

>>15421801
I'm truly loving all the bullying going down in this thread. I love to see all the excuses being broken down. I just want OP to admit he is a maladjusted manchild who can't wipe his own ass.

>>15418977
What the fuck... Normal people don't eat a pound of meat for a meal

>>15421706
Thank you for this. I just checked him out and he earned a sub from me. Recipes look good

>>15422035
It's always nice to see /ck/ come together to tell an insufferable retard to kill himself. Warms my heart.

>>15418899
Answer the question OP, how many?

>>15421195
Open and shut case

>>15419104
I'll usually buy a pound of poultry per week and a pound of sausages. Occasionally fish or hunt. Like the majority of the world, most of my diet is grains and vegetables

>>15419160
What the fuck... You're skinny fat aren't you?

>>15419005
3000 calories to maintain your fat ass?

>>15422216
He's 4'8" and larping, dude's a hambeast guaranteed.

>>15422125
the joy of community

>>15420421
How about eating things that have actual substance you fucking amerifat mongoloid

>>15420421
Amen. And of course faggots will tell you just to freeze shit or mix it into some concoction but then you're just eating old food you're tired of in a different shape.

I swear, half of the people or more on this board don't even like food. Cooking as a single person sucks.

>>15418889
Eat oily rice with eggs if you just care about price/calories ratio. Not even from North America, but I can't imagine a place where McDonalds can beat that for price.

>>15421362
Not OP, but making a weekly meal plan sounds horrible and rigid. Do you not ever have a day or two in a week where tacos sound good that night, even though you had soup on the menu? Do you not have friends that invite you out or over for dinner?

And I just say this as a single guy. I totally get if you have a significant other or family or something, but that also means you rarely get stuck trashing stuff.

Maybe it's just a case of being an only child whose parents never enforced the "this is what we're having for dinner and you'll like it" mindset, but any time I try to buckle down and shop for a week or two weeks, I just end up throwing half of it out.

>>15419153
Pretty reasonable.
>>15419189
Why the fuck are retards who subsist on fast food coming to a board about food and cooking? Seriously, why are you here? Go be lazy and gluttonous somewhere else.

>>15419160
>>15422386
Two eggs have the same amount of protein than a full big mac, just saying.

>>15422490
>Why the fuck are retards who subsist on fast food coming to a board about food and cooking?
You said it yourself mate, FOOD a and cooking. Fast food is still food. Have a problem with it? Beg Hiroshimoot to make you a special board just for cooking.

>>15420400
If them small bodied salarymen can eat a pound of beef, then why can’t a real man who burns 2000 calories a day do it?

>>15420421
>>15422334
You're worried about not wanting to eat the same thing within a few days when your alternative is fast food, the culinary equivalent to sameface? It doesn't take much brainpower to figure out how to plan and rotate meals, but somehow it manages to escape you. By God you people are absolute fucking morons and you deserve all of the health problems your shitty diets will yield further down the line.

>>15422550
I don't substitute for fast food all that often, but I eat from restaurants frequently. I also only eat once a day so the cost is negligible.

>>15420421
Sorry pal, but I’m gonna have to take the doctors advice on this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8zOlpPUDCg

>>15422505
>Spend entire life shoving fistfuls of the same five varieties of processed crap into ham hole
>Feel the need to discuss said processed crap with fellow spergs on an anime forum
Why?

>Oil
>Salt
>Pepper
>Chicken Thighs ($0.99/lb)
>Root vegetables
>Rice
>Beans

>>15420421
What kind of bread are you buying that goes bad in under a week wtf

>>15422616
I mostly just come here to look at food pictures and build up an appetite, because my body struggles to send me signals that it needs food. I don't care if that's a 14 hour meal crafted by only the finest the culinary world has to offer, or a McChicken made by someone with Down Syndrome.

It's also fun watching you fucks rage every time someone even remotely suggests they don't home cook every single meal or stretch out every dollar they can like the Great Depression.

>>15422661
He’s one of them hipster dipster faggots that shops at whole foods and ‘artisanal craft’ specialty food stores.

>>15421362
I eat oatmeal everyday and it has saved me so much money.

you can get like 15 lbs of food for $30

>>15422697
>It's also fun watching you fucks rage every time someone even remotely suggests they don't home cook every single meal
Eating out is fine. Eating fast food or takeout for every meal is shameful and will surely destroy your health when you're older. And you will deserve it, you smug tub of lard.

>>15422752
I cook, but mostly only on the weekends when I have the time, and normally only after picking up whatever I'm making from the store that day. Not fat, either.

>>15422709
more like GOATmeal, am I right?
lately I've been hooked on the McDick's breakfast, it's a habit although I don't go overboard (3 bucks' worth, including the coffee) but I've spent years on a daily morning oatmeal habit, and it's the right way to be. Hearty, tasty, cheap, zero-effort instant warm breakfast. I tell you I was looking GOOD eating that oatmeal, too.

>>15422709
I eat oatmeal for breakfast every day too. I mix in a bunch of peanut butter

>>15422697
There's a difference between not home cooking every meal and "I eat exclusively McDonald's because there's no better value to stuff my disgusting face with at 1am when I eat my single meal of the day to get my 3000 calories to maintain my manly shapeless blob of a disgusting corpse that I inhabit"

>>15422847
GO OFF, KING

>>15422697
Having to look at pictures of food to have an apetite sounds like bullshit.
Also, you are the one asking how to make cheap homemade food.

>>15422904
Well, it's not bullshit. I easily go 2-3 days without eating. And no, I'm not asking for any help, I'm not OP.

>>15422925
I'm almost never hungry since I started intermitent fasting, that doesn't mean I have to mentalize myself before being able to eat, that's retarded.

>>15418889
I hope you starve to death, you stupid fucking fatass.

>No energy to cook
>Food is too e-e-expensive
>Muh McDonald's burgers

Plenty of advice in the thread that you're too stubborn (or probably stupid) to understand. Please, keep making more excuses you no-life sack of goo.

Eating pigshit is even cheaper than McDiabetes OP, why don't you go munch on that.

>>15418912
>>15419304
>>15420431
>>15421175
It's just a countertop convection oven. No need to get aggressive over marketing semantics.

>>15419408
You sound like a cunt

>>15419019
>handful of burgers and a drink and a few orders of fries for however much it would cost me to get a pound and a half of ground beef
You seem to be comparing dissimilar products.
They're using frozen beef, probably 73/27.
Once you find the tubes and chubs of 73/27 or 80/20, then the pricing comes back to reasonable.
My meat dealer, admittedly flyover, has 80/20 for $2/lb right now.
Add a $1.29 pack of buns and $1 worth of potatoes, and I come out ahead to cook.

>>15418889
>what's the secret?
Making batches of stuff and mixing up ingredients rather than having to buy recipe-specific shit all the time

Sometimes Safeway has ridiculous coupons.

>>15418915
>How the fuck am I supposed to stop eating at mcdick's every night when pretty much any kind of protein from the meat counter is going to be at least $10 for enough to satisfy me
you can get mcdicks quality sausage for about $2/lb
i go through about a lb of meat every five days or so. how much meat do you eat?

have you considered learning to cook mexican beans and spanish rice? it comes out very poorly at first but you get better at it.

>>15419104
usually buy about a lb a week and probably consume another lb/week from eating out or going to a bbq

>>15419385
>eat at work, have breakfast, make snacks
i used to eat pocket trailmix, granola and bread while doing construction and then load my truck with scrapmetal during lunch break

>>15423650
>Sometimes Safeway has ridiculous coupons.
whaaat? i thought coupons were only for processed packaged garbage.

safeway around me charges wholefoods prices. i go to grocery outlet, winco and the foodbank

>>15418889
Keep it simple.
Cook a roast on Sunday, big of pork loin should be on sale lately.
Bag of potatoes. Several types of veggies, feel free to just buy frozen veggie mixes.
Rest of week, consider a bean soup w/ ham. A BLT night or some other sandwich. Some nice homemade biscuits or quick bread with your meals or leftovers.
Hams will be on sale closer to Easter. Look around, is it thighs? pork chops? What's the deal this week? Get 2 of them, freeze one.

With experience you'll know what to make when you see certain things on sale. Ooo, when I see mushrooms on sale, makes me inspired me to get cubed steaks and make some chicken fried steaks with lots of onions and mushrooms, and pan gravy, bag of egg noodles, maybe some frozen peas to steam.
Eventually you'll have some of your favorite meals under your belt, and you'll start stocking the ingredients for recipes when they are cheaper.
I think maybe you'll save like 25% across the board to buy ahead for your pantry the things you enjoy. You'll also alternate your shopping between 3-4 stores and just figure out which stores are best for what kinds of sales.

How many limes OP you fat fuck

>>15419104
>about 2 kilos of chicken thighs
>1 kilo of 20% mince
>2 kilo of 5% mince
But as >>15421270 said it depends on what im feeling

>>15422068
Nice! I love him. He's got a heart of gold above all else.

>>15423702
whyd you stop?

>>15418915
A whole chicken costs me less than five dollars USD here. If eating a whole chicken doesnt' satisfy you, kill yourself.

>>15418889
OH HEY ANOTHER SHITTY FROGPOST

>HAHAHA THIS COOKING THING IS HARD! HOW DO I DO BASIC TASK, GREENTEXT GREENTEXT

Kill yourself unironically.

>>15422216
yes, and I work a shitty warehouse job with lots of heavy lifting and then I work out a few times a week. not trying to be a fatass again but I'm not trying to starve myself on a weak ass diet meant for people who work at a desk all day and can survive on three square snacks a day

>>15424200
>yes, and I excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses excuses

>>15424312
don't worry my guy I'm taking notes here, this thread has a plethora of useful suggestions

You have to figure out items you can use for as many recipes as possible, depending on what you like to eat. Ground beef, chicken breast or thighs, eggs, lettuce, tomato, onion, and cheddar or american cheese are used in so many different recipes and none are expensive

>>15424200
okay cram in two frozen bean and rice burritos into your diet. takes about an hour to meal prep 20 of them

wrap in parchment paper
microwave for three minutes and toast an additional minute if your job allows you to have a toaster.
add in some cheap chickin or something if you need.

or you know, just scale up your meals.
instead of 12of of pocket food, have 20oz of pocket food

>>15419168
>And before anyone argues with me and says $4 onion/garlic powder or paprika is better, let me just tell you that they are wrong and you shouldn't listen to them.
or the fact that if you cant cook for shit, its not gonna make much a difference anyways

and if you insist you need tons of meat, cook up a bunch of cheaper meat. does it all need to be ribeye steak? if so, then i guess work more so you have more money for that shit.

>>15424113
>whyd you stop?
i stopped working.
then later i got a job where i was not allowed to eat on the floor.

>>15418915
Cost-wise:
Beef/lamb > Pork > Chicken

Certain cuts of beef are especially expensive.
Some cuts of pork are more expensive.
Chicken, especially if it's a whole chicken or something like a pack of thighs/drumsticks, is pretty cheap.

I want to like chicken because it's cheap but why the god damned fuck is it always so gooey and nasty in the package? Even stuff that was just packed looks like someone smeared it with astroglide, how are you supposed to cook that shit when you can't even towel it dry?

>>15421431
What's your lamb souvlaki recipe? I love lamb, but it's always hard to find good ones. I just did Jamie Oliver's sticky lamb chops the other day, but chops are expensive as fuck, at least where I am.

>>15420056
I mean the bolognese sauce, which is technically a meat sauce. If it's not tomato-y enough to your tastes, you could possibly add a quarter of tomato puree to turn it into an actual tomato and meat sauce. It goes really well with some mozzarella. Granted, it's not the OPTIMAL way to make a pizza, but if you had one big pot of meat sauce that you had to get rid off that'd be one way to do so.

>>15421706
Yeah, Vincenzo's plate is not too bad either, but he sticks so much to the classics it's bordering on autism. Then again, it's always nice to know the classics well if you want to change them a little.

>>15419630
I know you're kidding but olive oil on hair helps a lot with dandruff

>>15422661
litterally any normal bread out of America that isn't stuffed with hormones that turns you into an emotional tranny after three bites

>>15422396
Yeah it happens. But I try to stay maybe all but 1 day in line. I agree, sometimes I really do not feel like eating but honestly that happens less now. But desu its not that bad imo. My current rotation is working very well as a single guy.

>>15420421
I used to be like you until i invested in a freezer.
Start buying frozen or freezable shit, and learn to cook with that. Lots of greens can be frozen and lose little to no flavor. Instead of buying tomatoes, buy canned tomatoes in order to use them in sauces. Meat can easily be frozen too.

When you'll start stocking your fucking pantry with things that don't go bad, then you'll start making some real savings.

I used to spend every last dime on fucking fast food like the fat fuck I am, as a result i couldn't save more than 300 bucks a month. I can now save 800 since I buy most of my shit at the beginning of the month and just eat off whatever is in my pantry. If you fancy something fresh, just buy it the day before or right after work so you can make it that night.

Also have some condiments at home so you don't feel like eating the same gay shit every day. Cumin, Paprika (both smoked and non smoked), coriander powder, and curcuma/turmeric for a natural healthy coloring are incredible flavor boosters. You don't need to put a metric fuckton like indians do, just enough so you can feel a different flavor.

>>15418889
Getting into any style of cooking is expensive. Like my go to is bean burritos for an easy meal. 30 tortillas, 12 cans of black beans, 2lbs of cheese, some cumin, butter, hot sauce, and lime juice would not be cheap up front, but thats at least 12 meals for me.

>>15424994
Idk what kind of chicken you're buying but it's entirely possible to pat them dry

>>15418912
>red food coloring
>meme fryer
These are not necessary.

>>15424320
The best one I've seen so far was to kill yourself, make sure you write that one down.

>>15425788
how to get non slimy chicken

>>15419454
Op doesnt want a balanced meal to keep him full though, he wants to eat piles of meat like the fatass he is

>>15418915
how much do you weigh lol

>>15424747
what about your break?

Grocery stores can start fucking you. They know how much it costs for a restaurant meal. They know how many ingredients it takes for a meal. So they price accordingly. You can be paying the same or a premium for a home cooked meal simply because the grocery store is fucking you. Restaurants go through suppliers and buy bulk. It's more competitive. Whereas the grocery store knows they got you by the balls have built a monopoly and will fuck you. You're nobody and will be treated accordingly. Unless you have a "business account" or Trust fund. You're a nobody in this world and will never be allowed to achieve anything. That's the real glass ceiling. The one they dont want you to think about. How they consider you a goyim, peasant class or cattle and will treat you accordingly.

>>15427663
lmao this nigga shops at whole foods

>>15427756
nah. I personally shop at the equivalent of a piggly wiggly. But I remember a time when there where at least 3 competing grocers. I guess im lucky to have groceries at all. Some places Safeway or king sooper is your only options and others, I guess you get your groceries from a dollar store or Pharmacy like California. I usually road trip through there and always stop at all the fruit and vegetable stands in the middle of farm lands. Its the silver lining there.

>>15419019
This is such bull though, I live in San Diego and a pound of ground beef at a vons isn't going to be more than 6 bucks on average, vegetables are plentiful in California, including potatoes for cheap as fuck.

>>15419408
Wtf anon said his paragraph so nicely, what are you on about

>>15427947
I don't live in a run down ghetto so there's at least 5 different grocery stores within a 5 minutes drive, more if I feel like going a little bit further.

Try getting a half decent job and moving somewhere that's not absolute shit.

>>15428048
Being polite is a douche move desu

>>15427663
This is the dumbest thing I've read today. Grocery stores are in competition with other grocery stores, not restaurants. If one chain was jacking up their prices to restaurant levels, all others would undercut them and put them out of business. Grocery stores stay in business by being either high volume (Kroger), marketing towards high-end health (Whole Foods), or being strictly local/ regional (farmers' markets).

>>15426658
>what about your break?
idk what youre talking about but when i would eat durng my lunchbreak, i would make.
-homemade frozen burritos in microwave, then toasted for a minute
-lean cuisines for $1.50 or less
-weird packaged stuff from groceryoutlet like a 2lb tray of mashed parsnips for 50c
-chips, hummus, hempseed, pepper dip or salsa
-bread sandwich with mustard
-cold pesto pasta
-soup heated up in a cup
-coldcuts sandwich
-half of the $15 sandwich my coworkers didnt eat

>>15418915
there is no reason to eat meat more than 2 times a week you retarded amerifat

>>15421175
What about the Johnsonville Sizzling Sausage Grill?

I know this exact feeling. Fairly worried about it too since I'll be living alone soon. Will have to figure out how to live alone without spending 50 bucks for a 2 person meal.
Been looking for cookbooks but most suited for cheap seem like memes.

>>15428935
>there is no reason to eat meat more than 2 times a week you retarded amerifat
reason to eat meat more than 2x a week: meat taste good.

>>15418977
so eat mcdonalds. everyone told you what to do and you dont want to do it, so just keep doing what youre doing. we dont care.

>>15428935
enjoy your malnourishment

>>15418889
>work odd hours
Set some time aside a couple of hours you know you will have and make a big pot of something. Soups, chili, chicken and dumplings are all good, especially during the winter. The leftovers keep for a couple of days, and just need reheating - serve it up with bread, toast or crackers. French onion soup is great. So is minestrone. Both are cheap.

>>15418915
Just buy a rotisserie chicken and you'll have at the least 2 days worth of meat for less than that.

>>15418889
The thing about cooking is that you have to factor in leftover potential. Make meals that will have leftovers that last a few days.

>>15418915
>any kind of protein from the meat counter is going to be at least $10 for enough to satisfy me
That's 5lbs (2.2kg) of chicken breast. If it takes that much food to feel full, then you've got bigger problems than your food finances.

>>15425010
I'm a Britbong and recently my mum started doing some Joe Wicks workout stuff. I wasn't really interested until I saw his recipies. Almost all of them are "Serves 1" which I love because I find it much easier to multiply than divide when cooking multiple meals at once. There are a lot of varied recipies, he has soups, casseroles, fried food, low carb, high carb. Some are really simple like this souvlaki one, just throw the meat and spices in a bowl, mix, do the same for the salad in a separate bowl, cook the meat, and that's about it you're done

>>15419168
The Sprouts garlic powder is way better and stronger than any other one I've bought before. But if you're struggling to shell out a few extra dollars then dollar store is perfectly fine to start out with.

>>15424994
Try rinsing the chicken and removing the gooey part then patting it dry. Sometimes there is a membrane thing on packaged chicken and some brands have the chicken completely smooth. The higher the quality, the less you deal with that. I only buy organic chicken after too many issues with gross cheap chicken. Or you can ask for the chicken from the butcher counter, so you know it hasn't been sitting out on the floor too long.

>>15418889
Go to market on saturday buy 1 whole chicken for 20$- organic chickens have thicker, stronger bones for what we want.
Saturday Roast chicken with lemon zest, rosemary, onion S&P. Combine with rice and greens for a nice plate of food. set bones and drippings aside
Sunday have some leftover chicken and greens and sweet potatoes
Monday make some chicken fried rice with soy sauce, ginger, rice peas , carrots, butter and oil
Tuesday make bone broth with bones and dripping and a hearty chicken soup with carrots, thyme, sage, rosemary, celery, and maybe some potatoes
Wednesday make groundbeef rice recipe
Thursday make Hodgepodge
Friday go to mcdonalds...
what am I talking about again?

>>15419104
Meat is a special treat for me generally. I had some shrimp last weekend amd before that I had some moose a bit after Thanksgiving.

>>15418889
wtf I spend that much to feed me and my boyfriend for almost a week

>>15418889
literally just buy pork it's cheap as shit

>>15428987
What I did today:
New items:
>4 lb whole chicken - $5
>1 can pinto beans - $1
>1 jalapeño - $0.12
Already had from previous use:
>2/3 c long grain white rice - $0.40
>1/2 bunch cilantro - $0.13
>1/2 lime - $0.13
>6 street taco tortillas - $0.50
>1/6 large onion - $0.15
>1/8 cup salsa - $0.36
>"paleo" spice mix - maybe $0.10?
>salt - negligible
I simmered the whole chicken but only shredded one thigh and one leg for tacos. I removed the rest of the meat from the bones to use for other meals then returned the bones and skin back to the pot. I'll get bone broth/stock and chicken fat from that instead of spending like $7 on chicken bone broth or $2 on shitty chicken broth and who knows how much to buy specialty chicken fat/schmaltz. Half of the rice and beans that were prepared went into the fridge for another use. All that made a meal for two of 3 "loaded" street tacos each plus a little extra rice and beans on the plates. I'll get another full meal out of more chicken and the leftover rice and beans. Then I'll definitely make chicken salad with homemade mayo which is just one egg yolk and 3/4-1 cup canola/vegetable oil. I'm just going to add in stuff from the fridge and pantry like apple, onion, and pistachios plus salt and pepper. I think there will be a little extra chicken for soup using the stock since I make one meal at a time (but often make things like extra rice so I can use it for something else later), so that $5 of chicken will make 3-4 meals. I think that's pretty successful for stretching food, and I'm not even on a tight budget. I find making too much of one meal ends up going to waste since I don't want to eat chicken tacos for the next 6 meals or chili for a week straight. So I find a way to use what I buy to make many meals.