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two questions
I want to buy groceries next week for my family but i'm not sure what to buy
there's 5 of us (parents, me, two brothers) and we eat basically everything
we grew up middle class in London so we always had blue cheese, pate, nice bread etc but now that we're in /lockdown/ I don't think i'll be able to buy similar stuff

Basically if you were shopping right now and your family wasn't fussy, what would you get for a week?

Second question (sorry for the r.eddit spacing but it's a long post)
I'm making fried chicken tomorrow, what's the easiest way to do it? Do I HAVE to deep fry it? Don't really want to waste a lot of oil
Thanks lads

>> No.13927609

>>13927605
I suppose asking your family what they want from the store is out of the question

>> No.13927612

>>13927609
it's a present

>> No.13927621

Just save the leftover oil when deep frying, the oil gets better the more you use it. Over the past few months I have made fried chicken, tater tots, fried oreos, and various fried pastries all out of the same oil.

>> No.13927643

also what's some stuff I can buy to make iced coffee taste better (that isn't sugar)

>> No.13927675

>>13927605
Beer.

>> No.13927681

>>13927643
powdered cinnamon or powdered cardamom

>> No.13927695

>Jes>1u39s chr27i6st21 I hope you're not actually feeding anyone else that tainted, old oil that's had a million different things fried in it. That's sick.

>> No.13928478

bump

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13928510

>>13927605
>middle class
>blue cheese, pate, nice bread
Just a reminder, no matter how shit things get, we still live in comfortable times

>> No.13928555

If you're going inside the store, you should be shopping for at least two weeks at time, so you're not asymptomatically spreading. But don't hoard a bunch of beans or anything you're not guaranteed to want to eat soon. That can disrupt things for those of us who eat beans every day.

>> No.13928646

>>13927605
If you don’t want to deep fry it just follow a recipe like this, making sure there’s spices in it and oven roast it
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/269059/crispy-garlic-breadcrumb-chicken/
For me though the spices would be thyme, basil, celery salt and maybe something else similar

>> No.13928655

>>13928555
>two weeks at a time for a family of five
lmao this is ridiculous, going to the shops every 3-5 days is fine, it doesn’t have to be foolproof

>> No.13928684

>>13927605
I won't answer your first, but for the second, you don't HAVE to deep fry, but it's definitely going to taste better than baking it. You wouldn't waste any oil since you can just filter any crumbs out and store the oil for use later on.

>> No.13930292

Buy meats for 2 weeks then improvise. Or buy breakfast stuff and cook one big meal a day. Here's a one week menu I just made:

Turkey club sandwich on good bread. Pickle. Potato chips.

Chicken quesadillas with salsa and sour cream and a salad.

Meatball subs

French dip sandwich with onion rings

Beef and brocolli stir fry with rice

Caesar salad topped with 2 frozen chicken patties cut into strips + bread.

Frozen burritos with salsa and yellow rice mix.

Hamburgers and frozen french fries

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes

Mosticcoli and sausage

Salted Bone-in Chicken breasts (roast at 375-400 for a little under an hour) brocolli and frozen mac n cheese

Roast chicken thighs and drumsticks with boiled red potatoes and spring mix with thinly sliced red onion vinaigrette.

>> No.13930308

>>13928555
Who eats beans everyday?

>> No.13930327

>>13927605
L O N D O N
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>> No.13930364

For breakfast make french toast pancakes toast and eggs. Buy coffeecake or breakfast bars or donuts or cereal. Make everyone a big breakfast or let them eat donuts and cereal and frozen orange juice (cheaper) and coffee or tea.

You're going to be exhausted cooking for 5 every day, so make breakfast then have chips/cookies and pizza rolls and hot dogs and bread and american cheese (grilled cheese) and canned tuna/mayo (tuna sandwich) canned soups frozen burritos chef boyardee ramen and pb and j for lunch- self serve

Then cook a simple dinner like in the above post.

To make it cheaper make hamburger 4 ways: meatloaf, meatballs & spaghetti, american tacos, lasagna hamburger helper or plain hamburgers

You can buy a lot of potaoes cheap and make fried potatoes with onion, mashed potatoes, hash browns, boiled potato, vinegar potato salad, baked potato.

Brocolli, salad mix and carrots are cheap veggies

Betty crocker makes $1 muffin mix and brownie mix, just add oil and water.

So buy meats on sale + as much bacon as you can afford.

Cheap pancake muffin and brownie mix eggs and oil. Frozen juice coffee tea and cheap soda. Gingerale is good- everybody likes.

Frozen biscuits and cheap lunch foods (above)

Potatoes spaghetti for starch and cheap veggies (above)

>> No.13930394

Carrots and potatoes will last 2 weeks without spoiling. Use salad mix and brocolli the first 3 to 5 days. Second week use frozen peas, frozen corn or frozen brocolli or carrots or sweet potato puree.

>> No.13930404

>>13927609
> "lol I don't know, anything's fine"
> *come back*
> "anon why'd you buy X, I don't like X"

any and every time

>> No.13930406

>>13927621
>the oil gets better the more you use it
No it does not

>> No.13930439

>>13930404
Everyone likes breakfast and it feels luxurious even though it's cheap. So cook pancakes eggs bacon with juice and tea or coffee every other day and make someone else clean up, or let the fuckers make cereal/grab a cheap pastry/cook their own breakfast.

Buy cheap lunch foods they can heat up in a microwave or fry/heat up in a single pan on stove. Fuck 'em.

Then for dinner buy cheap meats, cheap starches, cheap veggies and mix n match.

If they don't like it they can screw off. :)

I cooked for 5 every day for 5 years on a limited budget and this is how to do it without losing your mind or wearing yourself out trying to please insatiable & implacable family. :)

Tacos, hamburgers and frozen fries/chips, spaghetti and frozen meatballs are you friend.

>> No.13930805

Thanks for the shopping ideas /ck/
Buying breakfast stuff + pasta and other basics that I can spice up seems like a good idea
As for the fried chicken i'm still looking for recipes, does anyone have one they really like?

>> No.13931650

>>13927605
I am quite certain you will still be able to find those things. I haven't noticed any kind of shortage. Try going to smaller shops, too. Support local businesses.

>> No.13931708

>>13927605
>I don't think i'll be able to buy similar stuff

Are things really that bad in the UK? I'm in Canada and am cooking fancier meals than usual because I've got so much free time.

>> No.13932084

poopy fachyner

>> No.13933927

>>13930308
People old enough to drink with BMIs lower than their age in years.

>> No.13935655

>>13933927
took me a while