/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9279520
>Peanutbutter and Jelly
>White bread

Plebs.

Lentils and meat. Split peas and ham. Carrots, beef, celery, potatoes in a tomato base.

>>9279524
>>9279520
plus grilled cheese. add in scrap of whatever leftover meat you have for a melt. but honestly how to homeless people eat even?

Toast sandwich, rice, beans, frozen veggies for cooking stir fry.

I saved up about a dollar every week when I was truly broke, to buy myself a treat every month or two. Cinnamon rolls, mcdonalds, something to keep me going. Chicken is deceptively expensive for the amount of calories you get. Not that unhealthy food is the answer and its a good protein, but id say definitely replace that with stock if need be. Instant pack Ramen noodles and make cold ramen. I had a bottle of furikake and that pretty much became my go to meal till it ran out since its just egg, cheap ass greens, soy vinaigrette and ramen.

>>9279537
Absolutely vomitous

Go buy a giant bag of beans, rice, and freeze dried assorted leafy greens. Buy really cheap beef cuts to add. In my grocery store, I usually see quick fry beef for like 3 bucks.

Living cheap is not hard.

arroz
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(y gandules)

basically you can get a few days of food out of a chicken breast, plus some rice, a can of corn, and a can of pigeon peas

>>9279520
fried egg banjoe (sandwich)

Tuna / sweetcorn / mayo / salt / pepper
Honestly, I can't recommend that stuff enough. Also works great on baked potato, with baked beans and fried/boiled eggs.

Replace the tuna with chicken for a change.

>>9279520
If you have flour and eggs, you could make some fried chicken

blackened chicken also taste pretty good on a grill or skillet, no need to marinate just olive oil and spices

>>9279528
a friend of mine was a teenage runaway. she said peanut butter was your friend.

>>9282808
How long runaway? I mean I know peanut butter is super high in calories and takes forever to spoil, but how long would even a backpack full of peanut butter last if actually homeless?

>>9279520

Sandwiches and chicken aren't going to be your most cost efficient foods. Rice is going to be your go-to starch, beans and eggs are your go-to protein. Buy whatever vegetables are on sale, this time of year you can probably get corn cheap, around here I can get 8 ears of corn for a dollar.

>>9279520
The best way to eat like a king when you're broke is to learn how to make an omelette. 18 eggs are roughly 3 dollars and you can make 4-6 omelettes. Don't fall for the bullshit memes like cheese and such, look up Jacques Pepin and learn how to make a classic french omelette and you don't need stuffing. Get good and you can impress chicks with pic related

>>9283062
I'd never seen the rest of this gif before. Just the egg part. Then he goes and scoops that delicious gravy all over it. Looks good.

>>9283155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLIDS27ZJhg
he makes the whole dish takes 15 minutes

>>9279520
Oatmeal
Eggs
Ground beef
Pasta
Chicken thighs
Potatos
Rice
Bananas
Apples
Brocolli

Also, get your parents to add u to their Costco membership and eat at the food court.

>>9283211
at the costco near my house they dont care if you have a membership or not if you tell them you just want to go to the food court.

>>9282832
i dont remember but i doubt she ever had a backpack full of the stuff. i think she said a few spoonfuls before going to sleep helped.

>>9282832
>>9279528
pretty sure homeless eat well though. at least if youre a street corner beggar, you get more than enough to buy some daily fast food and drinks.

>>9279520
I'm pretty poor and on a budget as well, OP.

>Rice and soy sauce, maybe with a can of veggies
>Macaroni & Cheese (Kraft Dinner specifically)
>Spaghetti and sauce
>Oatmeal
>Bread
>Peanut butter, jam, and cheese whiz so you have some spice of life
>Cans of beans if you can afford them
>SPAM, tuna, or flakes of ham/chicken/turkey if you can afford it meat sandwiches
>Sauerkraut (only need cabbage, non-iodized salt, and a jar)

Recently made hummus, it's a little bit of an investment initially but it's very healthy and fairly affordable. This is the recipe if I remember it correctly.

>Can of chickpeas (aka garbonzo beans)
Maybe $3
>Small can of tahini (sesame seed butter basically) 1/4 cup
About $6 but you can make 4 batches with it
>Small bottle of lemon juice 1/4 cup
About $1.80 but you can make 2 batches with it
>Olive oil (I just use vegetable oil) 2 tbsp
Pretty negligible if you just use vegetable oil
>Salt 1/2 tsp
Negligible
>Pepper to preferred taste
Negligible

Also most people add garlic, either 1-2 cloves but I'm going to be just picking up garlic powder. I've also heard that jalapenos go good with it so hoping to try that out. A lot of people also use Cumin and Paprika but I've never used either.

All in all, looks like a single batch of hummus (makes perhaps around 1lb/.45kg worth) is roughly $5.50. Less than $6 at any rate. Super healthy, super delicious, I definitely think it's worth it and will be making it regularly from here on out. Once I make some sauerkraut I think that will go well with hummus and cheese sandwiches, though I find hummus to be so good that I can happily eat it as-is without anything else.

>>9279520
>What sandwiches and chicken based stuff
Chicken sandwiches

>>9284876
One recipe that I quite like is a can of flaked chicken, dump a dollop or two of mayo in straight from the jar, give it a good squirt of mustard, perhaps a dash of hotsauce, and mix the shit out of it. Then with the bread; lightly toast it, give one side cheese whiz, the other side mayo/mustard/hot sauce, and there you have it. Chicken, cheese, and hot sauce sandwiches.

I had some hotdog buns getting freezer-burnt in my freezer, but no hotdogs. What I did was thaw them out in the toaster, mayo/mustard/hot sauce on the bottoms, cheese whiz on the tops, then sliced up a can of SPAM to essentially make sort of hotdog SPAM sandwiches, as it were. Honestly, it's not bad, and certainly filling. Did a lot of walking around and sweating today so the calories, protein and salt are certainly going to good use. Now I've freed up some space in my freezer, I wonder what I'll use it for. Well, I need to de-frost it, that's for sure, so that's something I'll probably go about doing today. In fact, imma get to that now. This is such a friggin' cheap mini-fridge... but I got it for free so can't really complain.