/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5439899
rice+salt
bread+butter

>>5439899
beans nigga

>poor
>butter
Bitch, butter is too expensive.

corn tortillas
canned beans
frozen corn
cans of enchilada sauce
a tiny bit of cheese topping

you can make a huge casserole dish of food with those cheap ingredients. add rice to add even more bulk.

Dry bulk beans, AP flour, salt, and cooking oil ($50 will get you enough to last quite a while). A few bucks a week for dark leafy greens, onions, and garlic. Limes occasionally, squeezed over the beans. Half gallon of whole milk once a week. I lived on that for a while when I was a student. Of course I destroyed my budget with the monthly bottle of shitty $12 south american malbec but mental health is important too.

>>5439913

Depends on how you buy it and how good you are at rationing.


> tfw I knew they would question my power level over the butter

chicken ramen cup of noodle, peanut butter, sriracha sauce, with shredded colby jack cheese

Bean burritos - refried beans on a flour tortilla, taco sauce, chopped onions, fold over.

Bean tostadas (see picture) - fry a corn tortilla flat instead of like a taco shell, add a layer of refried beans (regular beans mushed into a paste can work, too), taco sauce, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, thinly sliced lettuce with chopped cilantro.

Bean sandwich -- fresh cooked beans in a slow cooker, lightly mushed into a thick paste, spread on a whole wheat bun, add mustard, onions, and lettuce. add some chopped cilantro if you have it.

Country potatoes - slice potatoes in 1/4 rounds and boil. remove before done and crumbly. saute onions sliced and separated into rings in oil or butter in a skillet. remove onions, layer potato rounds flat, salt and pepper, lay onions on top. fry gently to nearly, but not quite crisp, gently turning when necessary. try not to break the potato rounds.

Field peas -- water in cooking pot maybe inch deep, add field peas, salt, and pepper, simmer for 45 minutes. if you have bacon or sausage (not breakfast sausage and italian sausage), brown cut to chunks, and add to pot the last ten minutes or so of cooking. eat with mashed potatoes.

okra patties/fritters -- slice okra into 1/4 inch or less slices, make thick batter (thicker than you would for pancakes) with flour, water, salt, and baking powder. pour 1/4 to 1/3 cup batter into a pan with hot vegetable shortening and fry until golden brown.

>>5439937

For breakfast, an egg or two cooked however you wish with either toast or a flour tortilla.

A dozen eggs should be around $1.80 to $2.40 in much of the US making it 15 to 20 cents an eggs. Should be able to have a nice breakfast for about 50 cents.

>>5439937
>field peas
>okra

I thought we were talking about poverty diet, not heritage localvore #100milediet fancy hipster shit.

>>5439937

When eating cheap it is important to buy ingredients that can be used for a number of different recipes. This is particularly important when trying to save money because you are more likely to use all of the ingredient and don't have to throw some away.

Since a head of lettuce is more versatile and less expensive than alfalfa sprouts and will last longer without going bad, lettuce instead of alfalfa sprouts on the bean sandwich is preferred for this reason. If economy is not as important, then I would prefer alfalfa sprouts on the bean sandwich.

>>5439948

Don't get them at Whole Foods.

If you can grow them yourself, both are very affordable. For that matter, if you are on a poverty diet, growing whatever you can yourself is recommended.

If not, they are still generally less expensive in parts of the country than many alternatives.

So, yes, field peas and okra are quite good for an economical diet, at least in my part of the country.

Pictured: okra patties

I'm on a tight fucking budget, and a couple times a month i make this amazing pasta, its purty cheap and i'll reiterate, its fucking delicious.

Bow tie Pasta ($1.50)
3 lemons ($1.00)
1 red onion (<$1.00)
3 jalepenos ($0.30)
1 stick butter ($0.30)

Slice the onion very thin and saute on medium high heat until slices start to be translucent.

Slice jalepenos thinly, add to onions, sautee for one minute.

Zest and juice the lemons (time consuming), add to onion and jalepenos.

add stick of butter.

let your sauce cook for 1 minute and remove from heat.

Stir in your pasta and eat that shit up. so fucking good.

(should like like pic, but with bow-tie pasta...or whatever you wish).

>>5439953

I don't even think whole foods has field peas. They might be available at the farmer's market seasonally where I live, but they would definitely not be cheap. Dry is another matter.

Okra is a little easier to get for cheap at indian grocery stores.

>>5439932
I would have called you out on the cheese.

>>5439957
Nah, parmesan is goat povo cheese.
Small amounts yeild concentrated flavour, and it can be bought cheaply by the wedge.

>>5439905
potatos are cheaper than rice there. Butter is expensive by weight compared to oil

>>5439929
>but mental health is important too.
So why do you purposely fry your brain ?

>>5439956

Around here, many grocery stores don't even fresh okra because they figure anyone who wants it already grows their own.

One day I was at the local grocery store and was talking to the mother of someone I went to school with. I mentioned that I wished that the store carried okra. She gave me a surprised look and told me that I was supposed to grow my own.

A couple of days later, she left a bag of okra at my office for me. Maybe about 2 or 3 pounds. A day or two later, her oldest son's wife dropped off another bag of okra with another 2 or 3 pounds. Someone else also dropped off a bag of okra -- I think it was the wife of the owner of the grocery store. I suddenly had so much okra that there was no possible way I could eat it all before it went bad.

Picture: more okra patties

>recepies
>barley
>catastrophicly
>parasean

I can smell the poor.

>>5439959

I'm thinking you're probably mr. #localvore with magical time portal to a 19th century food market.

How many kopecks does your #local cheesemonger want for a wedge of parmigiano-reggiano? Where I live it's around $18/lb for bottom of the barrel mediocre stuff. A meal's worth of flavor costs $2-3 at least.

>>5439961
huehuehue
ebin str8 edge man :^)

rice and milk

1.5 cups milk
3.5 tbsp butter
1/3 cups of rice
grated cheese, salt

boil milk, pour rice. add butter and salt halfway through cooking. add grated cheese once done.

serves 1.

;_;

>>5439964
>I'm thinking you're probably mr. #localvore with magical time portal to a 19th century food market.
You forgot to chuck a 'hipster' in there for good measure.
>parmigiano-reggiano
No, but I can get domestic Australian stuff from the Italian grocers for between 12 and 18 dollaridoos a kilo depending on who is on the counter and how generous they are feeling. It needs a bit of time to ripen, but it's not terrible.

>>5439970
>negotiating the prices of your groceries

Confirmed for time portal owner

Speaking of cheese:

>>5439937

Note that I didn't mention cheese at all here even though the picture of the bean tostada does clearly have some cheese on it.

I don't eat cheese. I don't know if I'm allergic to it or it just gets to me, but eating just a little bit of cheese can make me puke my guts out.

So if you want cheese on your bean burrito, bean tostada, or bean sandwich, go ahead and add it, but it isn't necessary.

I honestly have no idea how expensive cheese is. I've only ever bought it a couple of times and that was strictly for use in mouse traps.

>>5439971
The cheese is cheap already, being bought by them in bulk and in wheels, and I don't have to negotiate, I often get a discount. One of the many benefits of
a) shopping at smaller places
b) not being a cunt

>>5439974

Cool, so I guess the trick to feasting like an emperor on $2 a day is:

1. Having an entire field of crops growing on your property that you own, and
2. Having a grocery store owner that you're friends with because you're a well connected local property owner, so he chucks you a discount on expensive wheels of fine cheese that just happen to be made locally

Got it. I'm glad /ck/ is here to help the poor, I don't know what they would do otherwise.

>>5439978
>1. Having an entire field of crops growing on your property that you own,

If you live in the right climate, it doesn't take much room to grow more okra than you know what to do with.

>>5439953
>For that matter, if you are on a poverty diet, growing whatever you can yourself is recommended.

This is completely retarded advice. Growing your own is almost always less cost effective and efficient. Growing any significant amount of food to replace your trips to the grocery store requires so much time, set up costs, and risk that it makes no sense for a poor person to do.

>>5439980

When I was in college, I knew people who would plant decently productive gardens in empty lots or in friends back yards.

I've also known people who would plant a few choice plants on an apartment balcony.

>>5439985
>This is completely retarded advice. Growing your own is almost always less cost effective and efficient. Growing any significant amount of food to replace your trips to the grocery store requires so much time, set up costs, and risk that it makes no sense for a poor person to do.

Are you saying that this poor person is so busy working at one or more full time jobs that he doesn't have time to garden?

>>5439899
stupid crazy uninformed place to be ... folks are always willing to lend a hand never a need to live like this in terms of food ... shit if you have internet you have no complaints to begin with instead you have mixed up priorities

get a will work for food sign stand on a street corner or suffer easy

>>5439992
>implying it's reasonable to live without internet in 2014

I'd be out of a job if I didn't have internet, and it's highly unlikely I could get a new one that wasn't below subsistence level.

I could get by without a phone more easily.

Go back to the nursing home, grandpa.

>>5439989
Maybe, and even if they aren't, it's so hard to break even vs. just buying food that it's just not worth it. Gardening is not an effective way to eat, it's a hobby or a full time job. Neither is right for a poor person who needs to eat.

How is someone living week to week going to fund the start up and maintenance costs of a garden extensive enough to partially feed even one human?

>>5440002
>Gardening is not an effective way to eat, it's a hobby or a full time job. Neither is right for a poor person who needs to eat.

So they can go on welfare and watch tv all day, right?

In a pinch, one could buy enough used tools at garage sales for about the cost of three or four cans of beans.

Contact your local minister and mention that you would like to try raising your own food and he could probably find you the tools you need for free and probably some packets of seeds as well.

Full time job? Not hardly. I've never known anyone who spent that much time gardening unless they had all the time in the world and loved to garden.

During the depression, some of my relatives would likely have starved to death if it weren't for gardens.

ITT: a 90 year old man gives advice on how to live frugally in a rural 1930s frontier town somewhere in the Australian outback, and why we don't need the newfangled telegraph

>>5440002
You can't have gardened before. It's almost no effort outside of harvest time. And a lot of plants will grow anywhere. It requires as much effort as feeding my cat. On a side note chicken require almost no effort either and can live in a surprisely small area.

>>5439978
>b) not being a cunt
Advice you need to take to heart it seems. I get so many bloody discounts and freebies, at the uni cafeteria that I don't even go to all that often, from the already cheap market gardener's stall, all from just being friendly to people Wouldn't think it would be such a difficult concept to grasp.
>local
No, not local, domestic. It's relatively cheap compared to what the real deal would cost. It's relatively cheap compared to the ziploc bag stuff
It's only expensive

>a well connected local property owner
Where did you pull that from? Bloody whingeing bastard you are.

>>5440010
>>5440002
>>5439985
>>5439978
>>5439964
Sheltered suburbanite basement dwelling doesn't except any activity that requires patience, for thought, unnecessary human interaction, or going outside.

>>5440005
>So they can go on welfare and watch tv all day, right?

What?

Why are you assuming this person is just sitting around all day and wishing for a cheap food source?

If you aren't working and can't afford food, the answer is never "grow your own food," it's "find some work." Buying a few rudimentary tools and some seeds is not going to produce a garden that can yield anything significant, it would be a waste of time.

Working will always be a more efficient way to get food than growing it. Telling someone in 2014 that growing food is a decent way to get nutrition is 100% moronic. This isn't the great depression, we get our food differently. There's people in Chile with massive farming operations and low wages which will grow more food with less inputs, making it smarter to spend time getting money to buy cheap food than it is growing food. Besides, how likely is it that someone who can't afford food will have a yard large enough to grow anything? They probably live in an apartment.


Unless you are already a full time farmer, relying on what you grow so you can eat is nothing but a good way to starve.

>>5440019
>basement

My bedroom window is about 160 feet above street level, but thanks for trying.

Also, sheltered rural dirtfarming doesn't require any activity except watching your slaves tend to your crops.

>>5440010
>socially retarded troglodyte complains about simple human interaction

>>5439985
>Growing your own is almost always less cost effective and efficient.
You can't grow everything yourself, but there's a ton of things you can grow practically for free that will supplement your diet.

>>5440022

You work manual labor, in a job for which communication is seen as a luxury, and you're telling me about being a troglodyte?

>>5440019

When was a kid, our annual family garden was a couple of acres and it didn't take a full time job to maintain. It did help that to prepare the garden, we used a tractor and we had an irrigation well just to the side so we had plenty of water. We not only grew enough for our family, but also for my grandparents. Any neighbors who needed garden vegetables we welcome, too.

In general, an hour a day in the evening when it was cool was often enough even for that large a garden.

For a small city garden, a garden trowel would be enough for someone who was motivated, but a shovel would be quite useful as well.

>>5440027
I'm a student, quit trying your hardest to make every thread on /ck/ a whirlpool of shitposting.

>>5440023
>there's a ton of things you can grow practically for free that will supplement your diet

Anything which takes little time and little money to grow is not going to substantially and consistently supplement your diet. Getting a few heads of lettuce and a few tomatoes for even an hours worth of work and $1.00 really doesn't impact someone's overall food situation.

To get a result which actually gives you consistent nutritional benefits will dent your wallet more than just buying the food every time, unless you live in the 1930's when food was far more expensive and commercial farming operations were far less efficient. It's not realistic for someone who's poor to say "just grow it," you're dreaming if you think it is.

the guy who is arguing against growing your own food is winning this thread.

>>5440036
>I'm a student

So you've never been in the real world then. Things are getting clearer now.

>>5440039
>Anything which takes little time and little money to grow is not going to substantially and consistently supplement your diet. Getting a few heads of lettuce and a few tomatoes for even an hours worth of work and $1.00 really doesn't impact someone's overall food situation.
I see you have never grown a thing in your life.

>>5440050
I worked for three years out of school. Are you so socially inept that simple friendliness directed towards the grocer is an alien concept? Are you an irl sociopath?

>>5440059

What the fuck are you even talking about? In the real, 2014 world, smiling at a grocer doesn't get you a 50% discount on fine cheese.

Whatever drugs kids are doing these days must be pretty amazing.

>>5440057
Actually when my grandparents were alive I spent my summers helping them farm in the most rudimentary, cheapest conditions possible. Hand tools only, even the grass was cut with a scythe. It worked for them because they had free labor (kids and grandkids), tons of fertile and free land, and all the water and TIME they could need. I can tell you it is not efficient for one person to grow anything substantial enough to make a significant impact on their diet unless that's all they do with their life.

I see you grew 6 tomatoes and had a neighbor who lived on a commune with 3 chickens and now think you are a self sufficient #locavore and that poor people growing their own food is #emancipation.

Get real, the economics of food production these days makes buying food more efficient than growing it will ever be. Especially for your average poor person who lives in an apartment, has never grown anything, and has at least a part time job.

>>5440070
>self sufficient
>supplement = entirely self sufficient
Really?

>>5440070
>Get real, the economics of food production these days makes buying food more efficient than growing it will ever be. Especially for your average poor person who lives in an apartment, has never grown anything, and has at least a part time job.

So before going to work for four hours at minimum wage at the local MacDonald's, it isn't worth their time to do some gardening? I guess those video games are more important.

>>5440089
>I guess those video games are more important.

You're losing the argument and not being very graceful about it. I suggest you quit now before you make a complete ass of yourself.

>>5440090
Different anon. Your saying 20-30 minutes a day when your poor enough to live on rice and is inefficient? You're not going to find another job to fill in those empty hours and a quarter acre or even less will provide a lot of luxury foods like tomatoes and green beans and pepper s and herbs.

>>5440090

How can I be losing an argument when I'm arguing against those who think that it is better for poor people to pay high prices for cans of crap than to spend a little bit of their time growing some of their own food?

>>5440101
>quarter acre or even less
>any land at all

Not likely, no. Poverty foodstamp mcdonalds tier people would be lucky to have laundry in their complex, let alone 16 acres of fertile delta farmland or whatever you think of as normal.

Why would someone who owns an estate work at mcdonalds anyway?

>>5440103

What does minimum wage buy you these days? Three or four cans of beans for an hour of work?

Is this country gone so far down the tubes that everyone thinks their free time is worth hundreds of dollars an hour?

>>5440107
>canned beans

I live next to a very poor neighborhood and I never, EVER, EVER see those people buying canned beans. It's always bulk dry beans. Always. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>5440106
I've gotten a nice supplement put of a 14 by 4 foot plot when I lived in the middle of my state biggest city. That and some pots I picked up for free during the large trash dump day(a poverty holiday here) I got enough that I had to get into canning.

Honestly? Hamburger helper boxes are a dollar a piece. You could go cheaper by going to places like Save a Lot and actually buying the dirt cheap spaghetti sauce and noodles.

>but I was poor!

You had money to buy butter.

Bulk rice, bulk dried beans, and restaurant sized cans of veggies. And dude, try food pantries! Go to any city and you'll find tons. Hell, even my middle of nowhere shithole of a town has a church that doubles as a food pantry.

http://feedingamerica.org/need-help.aspx

Now go. Suck in your pride and get some free food.

>>5440127
Are you in Norway or something. How is butter not dirt cheap?

rice, peas, pepper.

beans are rather light in calories I wouldn't recomend them for a poorfag that will need it as major sustainment. Go for potatoes, rice, semola/pasta. lentils aren't that expensive as far as I remember, same for fresh vegetable of the season if you live in a place were you can buy directly to farmers instead of supermarkets. (seriously, around there 10 kg of apples or salad is only worth like 5 euros. Supermarkets are major scam for fresh products)

>>5440212
Beans are high in protein and fiber and all kinds of other good nutrients. you pair them with other cheap things like rice to add more calories and because it tastes good.

>>5440197

Butter is inexpensive on an absolute scale. But the amount of food/nutrition you get for your money is horrible.

Think of it like those cheap burgers on the value menu at a fast food place. Sure, $1 is not much money. But there's not $1 worth of food in that burger.

>>5439929
>wasting money on shit alcohol

For $12 you can get a fifth of Everclear and mix it with whatever the fuck you want. As long as you aren't stricken by temptation that shit should last you three months minimum.

Boil pasta
Cook onion
Add large tin of tuna
Add sour cream
Add salt to taste
Add tuna/cream mix to pasta

I used to make ships biscuit because flour is cheap.

I would try and make it better by spicing it and if I had it at the time butter to soften it up. Thyme and chilli with seasalt was my favourite

>>5440319
>three months for a fifth of grain
lmao wat
weekend
maybe

>poor
>wasting money on alcohol

R u srs?

>>5440312
You got to think of it as a large portion of the meal. You have to rearrange your perspective. Think of it as a seasoning.

>>5440332
It's the spice of life. As long as I had 6$ by the end of the week I always got a 40 and a burger. Mental health is very important.

>>5440319
Or I could just huff paint thinner but let's recall this was for mental health not feeding a chemical dependency.

>>5439899
Sweet potato mash -
Roast a whole sweet potato and mash it, add parsley, chili, and bacon if you can afford it

Thai noodle stir fry

Boil spaghetti noodles as directed.

Mix third cup peanut butter soy sauce and honey (add corn starch if you have it, rice vinegar too if it's in your cabinet)

(If you have a cheap protein, cook now) fry chopped onion until translucent, add thawed bag of frozen veggies. Add drained noodles.

Pour sauce into pan and toss to coat. Great meal with ingredients you likely already have.

.50 cents for the half pack of noodles used, a dollar for the veggies. The sauce is a dollar of ingredients used. Onion is dirt cheap. Makes enough for you to stuff your face 3+ meals.

I eat like a poor person most of the time, which leaves plenty in my food budget for food and wine splurges whenever I want.

Here are some favorite day to day meals:

- black eyed peas and chard in oil, garlic and lemon with a hunk of bread

- chickpeas and spinach in oil, garlic, cumin and paprika with a hunk of bread

- dal over rice with a vegetable curry and greens cooked with ginger and hot pepper

- Chinese rice cakes with cabbage and mushrooms in a toban djan sauce

- mushrooms and tofu in oyster sauce served over bok choy dressed in salt and toasted sesame oil with rice

- pasta cooked with cauliflower, seasoned with olive oil, garlic and salt

- Moroccan workman's breakfast: fava bean puree seasoned with garlic, cumin and parsley, with bread and cucumber salad

- watercress soup with a side of lentil and carrot salad

- split pea soup with a hunk of bread

- kale and white kidney beans with pasta in olive oil and garlic

- vegetable fried rice noodles with tofu, seasoned with soy sauce and curry powder

- noodles in spicy tahini sauce with cucumbers and chopped peanuts

>>5439899
Anything involving basic bread, beans, potatoes or rice is really cheap.

Big advise, find three dollars a week to buy a new bottle of spices. Go to your local grocer, ask the butcher about the stuff they throw out generally, like the heart. Full of flavor and probably sold to you cheap. In my area, pork is 2 bucks a lb, while ground beef is closer to 5. I buy 3lb pork and 1 if beef and mix them then freeze. Cheaper beef and I think it's even better like this for burgers and chili

>>5440120
What state do you live in? louisana? maine? try finding a cheap/pretty much free plot of land in new york city, or even rochestser new york.

>>5440067

just because wherever you live is a wasteland of mcdonalds and velveeta, doesnt make it so for others. you can get a "50% discount on fine cheese" by moving out of suburban (insert flyover state here)

>>5440328
what are you, 16?

Do you need to get completely hammered to have a fun time with alcohol?

Dandelion leaves.
Whatever I can get from my neighbours.

>>5440596
oh for some reason i saw fifth as pint because thats how much you'll get for 12 dollars
everclear is expensive
and a pint is definitely only good for a weekend
a 750? ehh i guess if you were some sort of boring dick it could last a month

this thread is hilarious, it's like the epitome of /ck/, the shitposting and arguing in here is almost perfect.

Anyway, when I was super poor, like taking change out of the couch poor, I would make a big batch of fried rice, a few vegetables in there and eat that for about 4 days. Rice is really cheap, I already had the oil and some kind of sauce to stir fry it, vegetables were like 2 bucks.
Also, spaghetti and sauce from the dollar store. Yeah, the fucking dollar store. The pasta was a dollar for a good sized box, and the can of sauce was normally 2 bucks, but dented it was 1 dollar. Cha ching. I cried on the inside while buying it too.

>>5440419
Saved man thanks

>>5439899
beans and rice is what i've always heard.

>>5440642
My pleasure. I learned to cook because I was poor as shit (starving artist), but loved food. I take pride in keeping the food cost of most of my meals well under a dollar. That way when I feel like having an expensive bottle of wine and/or a posh dinner out I have the dough for it, and then some. Everything on that list is delicious as fuck, vegetarian/vegan friendly and super cheap. Eat like that most of the time and you'll have more money in your pocket and less fat around your middle.

I guarantee it.

>>5440596
>Do you need to get completely hammered to have a fun time with alcohol?

A bottle of any hard liquor will generally last me at least three years.

My go to meals

Beans & rice
Egg and rice
Rice and rice

Also best advice that was given to me on poorfaggin your way through hunger: walk around your neighborhood and find houses with fruit trees. Most people dont want to pick their own fruit for whatever fucking reason and are willing to let you do it if you just ask. Or just hop a wall and steal a couple. I have access to free lemons, avocados, grapefruit, and pomegranates thanks to this. Also start an herb garden.

>>5440586

That's odd, because I live in the capital of the world and I don't get a discount for that. Are you by any chance a pretty girl? Because I've dated your type and you always seem oblivious to *why* everyone (read: straight males) are so damm nice to you. Hint: it's not your personality.

>>5440496
I do live in Maine but when I was hipstering it up in Brooklyn I got two gardens going. One in an empty lot that I convinced the hasitic jewelry land lords to use and one on my bedbug infested apartment buildings roof.

>>5439970
hipster confirmed.... i hate hipsters.

>>5440131
>http://feedingamerica.org/need-help.aspx
Seconding this, before I got my current job I was only sporadically getting money through private cooking and dinner parties and often found myself broke, and food banks can have some good stuff sometimes.

Shit last time I went there like 6 months ago they had giant bags of beans and rice and even a bunch of junk food.

ALSO seconding/thirding/etc beans and rice. You can get a bag of dry beans for a buck, a huge bag of rice for 5 bucks, and 2 ham hocks for 2.50. Cook it up in the crock pot and you have rice and beans for 5 days. The rice will last you through like 5 bags of beans.

>>5440740
> pretty girl
> 4chan
> /chipotle/ board...

>>5439899
Poorfag college student reporting in

>live off beans and rice, thats basically it.
>occasionally buy a few boneless chicken breasts but thats very rare
>when ramen goes on sale for .25 a packet i buy about 5 bucks worth and thats my meals for about a week
>tfw you hope the degree will help not have to do this
>tfw you know it wont.

Whatever happened to crashing weddings and whatever seminars are listed in the local paper?

>>5439899
rice and beans. its all in how you season them.

>>5441059
How do you season them? I'm a big fan of black beans and rice, but I usually only have leftover Taco Bell hot sauce packets to season them with (beyond pepper).

>>5439899
>be at airport
>flip through a National Geographic magazine and land upon a woman from africa with a dirty spoon eating red beans and rice from a clay pot. I then realized I was poor. The red beans and rice looked yummy too.

My $5 dinner tonight is tuna broccoli hamburger helper.
>$2 for 2 cans of tuna
>$1 for the box of hamburger helper
>$1 for cheap cheap margarine
>$1 for the amount of milk it called for

And this is producing so much I'll probably eat it for lunch/dinner tomorrow and maybe some the next day.

>>5441061
I do mine with oregano, bay leaves, black pepper, few cloves of garlic and a seasoning called Sazon Goya you can get in the mexican food aisle at your market for like a buck a box.

The smoked hamhocks really add a ton of flavor.

Also you should use the water from the beans to cook the rice, makes the rice a nice pretty brown color and flavor.

When I was poor, one time I ran out of food and there was none left for a week. So I ate packing peanuts, the biodegradable kind, not the styrofoam kind. They're made of puffed rice. I had a packet of off brand macaroni and cheese powder and put that on top. It filled my stomach just enough to get by for that week.

>>5441273

why would you have to do that if you can just go outside and ask the first person you see for a dollar or some spare change... then the next person...etc.

I mean i hear stories like this from people that tell me "I used to eat packing peanuts, but at least i never lowered myself to asking for change!"

well at least i used to ask for change instead of eating packing material.

Sorry to pick on you just using you as an example. Why didn't you just borrow money or ask some spare change? Or fucking steal it... just walk inside a supermarket and eat the salad bar chicken wings.....

What is /ck/'s favourite rice and beans recipe?

I like lima beans with tomato puree and cayenne.

potato, onion + protein hash. I prefer to add bell pepper and sausage or kielbasa, but depending on what meal it is and the other ingredients, I'll add eggs, black beans and apples. Makes for a good oversized breakfast or late night binge and as a result, good drunkfood.

Variations: sausage + apple, add hard cider or whiskey while cooking

Breakfast: your choice of breakfast meat, add eggs and cheddar with 1-3 minutes left to cook

precook potato and beans if you're adding them.set cast iron on med-high heat. add fat, I use lard or canola oil, and ingredients. don't be afraid to crowd the pan. cook to your preference .

Oven roasted Lamb Shoulder in lentils. Its fancy, cheap, and rich, but I totally forget the temps, amounts, and time

prepared shoulders in casserole dish, surround with red potatoes, whole onions, and lentils. lentils expand a lot so judge yourself how much to put in. pour in enough liquid to cover lentils twice-trice over. I prefer a mixture of worcesthire, vinegar, and red wine. a tart juice will do in place of a wine, but you'll have to add other things to compensate for the high sugar level. Add more liquid as needed while cooking constantly. Should be close to fork tender when its done cooking

I had a friend whose mother took off and left the father and him to themselves... Anyway, the father fell into depression, and took up drinking and rarely ate outside of work. I ran into him at the grocery store and he had a cart load of dry roasted peanuts. to this day I still picture them mainlining handfuls of peanuts for sustenance in between guzzzles of cheap beer.

>>5439913

Churn your own. Do you have access to a cow?

>>5440039

Potatoes give many calories and are as easy as fuck to grow.

Just throw them in the ground and forget about them for 6 months or so.

>>5441342
I like cuban black beans. Really simple with a sofrito, cumin, oregano and a bit of vinegar. A fried egg on top and it's perfect but if you have any meat to go with it, nothing better.

>>5441312
I was in an extremely poor area of Philadelphia. Everyone was as badly off as me, or at least close. Honestly, I wanted to just dumpster dive, but the person who was housing me at the time wouldn't allow me to do that or go to a food pantry. I valued the roof over my head more than putting food in my stomach, so I complied. Like I said, I got paid the next week and it was no longer an issue.

>>5439954
I'm not broke but this sounds really good. Thanks anon

Stir-fried Water Spinach. Cheap, delicious, and filling meal if served with rice.

1 bundle of water spinach ($ 0.25)
1 small oyster sauce (cheapest is around a buck at most)
Garlic
Black Pepper

Finely chop garlic and saute in a pan over medium-low heat until brown. Add the water spinach and stir for about 20~30 seconds. Add oyster sauce (add according to your taste) and saute for another 10~15 seconds. Add pepper to taste and serve. Best served with steamed rice.

>>5442128
Don't cheap out on the garlic!

>>5442133
I don't. I just got that image from google since I didn't take a picture of what I ate earlier. But yeah, still depends on your taste if you want more/less garlic.

>>5442061
No food pantry? What a weird restriction.

>>5442061
You were shacked up with some weirdos.

>>5442128
I wish spinach were cheap where I come from... I really do. My desperation meals consist of mostly potatos, onions and eggs. Cabbage is cheap in summer.

the cheapest meals I used to make were simply pasta and sauce


I'd buy a 3kg bag of pasta for £3, use 100g per meal so 10p per meal. And buy a little pack of store brand pasta sauce for 80p, it would serve for two meals. So I was spending 50p per meal. Cheap as fuck but it wasn't enough and I missed protein

ITT: Pasta and Mexican food

growing up my parents struggled, but often my mom would get out this huge pan, use it like a pie chart and have a section for already cooked red beans, lentils, frozen spinich, canned tomatoes, corn/peas, sauteed onions, and tvp. sprinkle a little cayenne, some black pepper, some shredded jack cheese and whatever else, garlic or what was available. she also made a big pot of brown rice. you would go in a line and scoop however much you wanted from each section, plus it only took one pan.

we also ate curry a lot. buy the paste from mae ploy or some shit, make rice, broccli, carrots, chicken, lentils all together- super fuckin cheap.

miso soup was popular, because nori, tofu, and common veggies are insanely cheal in bulk. especially from ethnic markets.add some miso paste to it. We would eat pasta often, home made pasta sauce, pasta bought in bulk, or alternately tossed with vetetables, spices, and olive oil. Hummus is super cheap to make, and its a very filling meal- garbonzo beans in the huge cans, olive oil, spices, etc. served with bakery day old bread.

Basically buy rice, beans, and canned goods in mass quantities- from either costo, winco if you're in the nw usa, ethnic stores, or grocery stores that sell to restraunts so the food is in large quantities. Make rice for every meal, salad in replacement of rice. Drink tea or water, very little sugar- if you want a tea easy on your tastebuds go for some herbal teas like peppermint, or something like a roibus red tea. Buy things like miso and curry paste/fish paste. If you need energy during the day or a snack, go with chia seeds. humans could basically live off chia, water, and salt, they've got everything.
My mom managed to feed a family of five on like 200$ a month or less, making mostly what I've writtten about..oh yeah oatmeal and rice pourriage/millet or meuseli and honey with milk for breakfast... never went hungry, never was bored with the food.

>>5439973
Peanut butter works better than cheese, they can't just knock it off and they seem to go for it more.
I've heard packing peanuts work well too (they go for it as nesting material), but I figure the things will just blow off at the slightest breeze.

>>5440010

>i came