/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10548591]

I never knew how to cook because I grew up under this advice from my parents:
Its cheaper to just eat out then it is it spend the time, collect ingredients you'll only use once, and have a meal turn out unedible.
Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.10548608]

>>10548591
You were raised by retards

[Anonymous No.10548613]

>>10548591
Kind of boring thread, OP.

[Anonymous No.10548622]

>>10548613
its better than soy and frogposting

[Anonymous No.10548634]

>>10548622
It's not.

[Anonymous No.10548653]

If you don't have the competency required to make a meal then yeah at that point you might as well eat out, not like you're going to be able to come close to replicating restaurant quality food otherwise. Bad advice though, because that's how you end up fat and diabetic at age 30

[Anonymous No.10548664]

>>10548591
What's forcing you to only use the ingredients once?

[Anonymous No.10548675]

>>10548634
damn op btfo

[Anonymous No.10548685]

>>10548653
Fat diabetic and broke, of course

[Anonymous No.10549086]

>>10548591
I don't give a fuck about whatever it is OP's on about, but this picture cracks me up every time.

[Anonymous No.10549098]

>>10548653
Apparently OP doesn't even have the competency required to differentiate between 'than' and 'then'.

[Anonymous No.10549453]

>>10548591
holy fuck you have bad parents.
At least my mom just said she was tired or something so i learned to cook myself, but like,
holy fuck bud its not even cheaper,
some parents should not have their children jesus fuck how much do you weigh

[Anonymous No.10549482]

>>10548591
You were raised by lazy boom booms.

[Anonymous No.10549486]

>>10548591
Then your parents were too lazy to invest time or energy to learn how to cook decent food.
Don't be like your parents.

[Anonymous No.10549582]

>>10549453
im 180
>>10549098
i actually had to think about it and i guess i picked the wrong one
>>10549486
i usually get by eating canned food, ramen, and sandwiches. All I know how to cook is eggs and rice. Fresh vegetables are expensive. if anyone has any simples recipes that will fill me up id be grateful and willing to learb

[Anonymous No.10549632]

>>10549582
>Fresh vegetables are expensive
Frozen vegetables mixes are a pretty good, cheaper alternative for making something like a stir fry. If you can cook eggs and rice already, youre pretty much halfway to making good stir fry. You could try starting there

[Anonymous No.10549640]

Its only cheaper in the short-run, you will pay eventually for eating cheap junk food through expensive medical procedures incurred by your poor dietary habits

[Anonymous No.10549648]

>>10548591
>Its cheaper to just eat out then it is it spend the time
you're parents are lazy retards, and you're missing out on one of the more enjoyable aspects of life.

it's not too late anon, start cooking today!

[Anonymous No.10549672]

>>10548608
/thread

[Anonymous No.10549678]

>>10549582
if you buy something like this, and follow this recipe:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/222658/frozen-vegetable-stir-fry/
And add rice at the end with a little more soy sauce. Add a fried or scrambled egg too if you want.
If you learn to cook chicken in a pan, you can add sliced up chicken to the recipe and make it even better

[Anonymous No.10549700]

>>10548591
>spend the time
Negligible difference between driving to restaurant or drive in or to cook something up for weekday body fueling
>collect ingredients you'll only use once
But you'll eat at least twice a day every day lest you starve? I don't get this point.
>have a meal turn out unedible
This doesn't even make a valid argument since being able to cook passable meal is basic life skills like staying afloat or knowing how to wipe your ass proper.

Bet your parent's time and effort wasn't all that valuable if they were that dumb.

[Anonymous No.10549726]

>>10549582
Get familiar with dried legumes like beans, chickpeas, lentils. Soak them overnight in double the water, then boil for hours until tender. Get a pressure cooker. Now combine the indredients above with cheap cuts of meat, such as beef ribs, neck, shoulder, beef and chicken liver, chicken legs, thighs, etc. Take out the bones if youre fancy.

Olive oil, garlic, rosemary, thyme, citrus peels for mediterranean

Sesame/peanut oil, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, chilies for 'asian'

Serve on rice

Want to save tons of money? Prep meals and freeze, only cook rice fresh.

Fresh vegetables/salads add variety to these macros.

[Anonymous No.10549772]

>>10548591
>collect ingredients you'll only use once
That's not even true most of the time.

Get a package of chicken breasts. Cook up a couple of pieces. Eat one with dinner and save the other for a chicken sandwich the next day for lunch. Cook up another couple of pieces from the package you bought to make quesadillas and/or tacos. Cook up the last few pieces, shred it and put it into a soup, which you would get multiple servings from. Even if you devote the whole package for one dish, you'll get multiple servings from it.

[Anonymous No.10549891]

Sure, if you're worried about food cost (lul poor) it makes sense to cook cheap meals at home, but if you're like me and have plenty of money to buy whatever you want, it really isn't more expensive to eat out than to cook at home. Especially if you get take-out on your way home from work, so you don't have to pay for transportation or tips for loser server cucks.

P.S. Enjoy your shitty frozen vegetables and ramen poorfags lol

[Anonymous No.10550034]

>>10548591
>Its cheaper to just eat out then it is it spend the time, collect ingredients you'll only use once, and have a meal turn out unedible.
Has no one ever heard of rice and beans? I mean it's simple but still tasty and cheap as fuck. You cheapest meal out is probably a McDouble with water, but you can make burgers at home for a few bucks.

[Anonymous No.10550080]

>>10550034
You can’t eat only rice and beans

[Anonymous No.10550084]

>>10550080
So add in some spinach or zucchini and ground beef.

[Anonymous No.10550142]

>>10550080
>You can’t eat only rice and beans
Sure 'bout that? Tell it to Pedro and Miguel and see what you get.

[Anonymous No.10550153]

>>10548591
>Its cheaper to just eat out then it is it spend the time, collect ingredients you'll only use once, and have a meal turn out unedible.
Weird, I am the exact opposite. When I see prices of meals in restaurants I think "This price for that? I can cook something similar at home for much less." It is because I am stingy that I rarely eat out.

[Anonymous No.10550179]

>>10549582
One of the most important things about eating on the cheap, especially with fresh vegetables, is knowing where you can buy things for the best prices. I can go to the closest grocery store and pay twice as much for meat as one a little further away. At my old place, I could drive an extra five minutes, skip the pricey grocery stores next to a college campus, and get a huge spread of fresh vegetables for under $10.

And yes, frozen vegetables are great, too.
>>10548591
>have a meal turn out unedible.
This is one of the most miserable, self-defeating things I've ever read. To just say you might as well not cook because you're going to fuck it up, guaranteed, what the fuck? Why?

[Anonymous No.10550185]

>>10550080
watch me you dumb nigger

[Anonymous No.10550903]

>>10548591
>get $5 of ingredients
>cook the food
>make enough for 2-3 meals worth
>eat one portion and freeze the other 2
>repeat until you have a freezer full of frozen leftovers so you dont have to cook for a couple of weeks.

[Anonymous No.10550915]

>>10548591
Your parents are retarded and they have passed that trait on to you.

[Anonymous No.10550930]

>>10548608
>The only type of dancing they know how to do at a wedding is snapping their fingers.
kek

[Anonymous No.10552028]

>>10550930
Imagine snapping your fingers and all those little cuties coming running into your bedroom. I'd be ejaculating in seconds.
Uguuuuuuuuuuuu

It'd be all the sex you can eat fuck me id get fat as an American if you know what I'm saying MUH DICK