/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.8464162]

Hey /ck/. My college cafeteria sucks so next year instead of getting a meal plan my folks are going to send me 50 bucks a week for grocery shopping, which is cheaper anyway.

Let's assume I have a full kitchen. How can I make 50 dollars go far enough for a week, but also keep a relatively healthy varied diet? I figure a decent chunk of it will go towards bread, peanut butter and jelly (or maybe nutella) but for dinners I don't want to be doing the same thing every night.

Pic unrelated, just one of the only food images in my folder.

[Anonymous No.8464174]

>>8464162
$50 a week for one person is MORE THAN PLENTY if you actually cook for yourself and pay attention to what you're purchasing at the grocery

[Anonymous No.8464180]

>>8464162

rice
beans
ground chicken/turkey
multivitamins
fish oil

then the rest on booze

[Anonymous No.8464191]

>>8464180
>multivitamins
>fish oil

*Shark cartilage
*Snake oil

[Anonymous No.8464203]

>>8464162
>how can i make $50 last a week
you could nearly eat out for every meal and make that last a week.

[Anonymous No.8464225]

>>8464174
Okay, so how? What should I get / cook?
>>8464180
I figured rice, beans, and chicken would be up there.

[Anonymous No.8464232]

>>8464191
The multivitamins are because rice, beans and ground turkey aren't going to give you enough of micronutrients that youn eed.

[Anonymous No.8464233]

If you learn to cook, you'll be drinking most of that money

[Anonymous No.8464237]

>>8464203
Define "eat out." Maybe McDonalds has cheap enough food to let you live on $50 a week, but everywhere else would be too expensive.

[Anonymous No.8464240]

>>8464232
The point being multivitamins are expensive useless garbage

Eat some bread

[Anonymous No.8464251]

>>8464162
I eat fairly well on $50/month, you pampered little fuck. Must be nice having parents who spoil you. I really hope life slaps you in the face, hard. You have no idea what hardship is, you worthless entitled piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.8464252]

>>8464203

Eat out where, anon, at fucking 7-11? I feel like eating that many Big Bites that fast could be dangerous.

[Anonymous No.8464255]

>>8464251
Instead of verbally abusing someone who seems to be genuinely seeking help, maybe you could share your grocery list? Take a photo of your last receipt, for example?

[Anonymous No.8464257]

>>8464240
be retarded elsewhere

[Anonymous No.8464260]

>>8464251
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.8464264]

>>8464257
Lol. Enjoy wasting money on shit that doesn't even work. Retard.

[Anonymous No.8464265]

>>8464251
>i had it bad so anyone who has it better is dumb

Shit spawns from shit. Have you improved yourself beyond the means of your upbringing? At this point if you're poor it's your own fault.

[Anonymous No.8464266]

>>8464251
I don't remember saying anything about hardship. But yes it is nice being upper middle class. I don't see how I'm being entitled.

Why don't you stop being so bitter and tell me how I could eat on 50 bucks a month? I'd love to do it for cheaper so more money could stay in my parents' pockets.

If you think I'm spoiled you should see some of the people I grew up with.

[Anonymous No.8464267]

>>8464240
Bread, rice, beans and ground turkey. That sounds like a well balanced diet that will only result in a good bill of health.

[Anonymous No.8464270]

>>8464264

enjoy worrying about wasting money you poor sack of shit

[Anonymous No.8464273]

>>8464267
And clearly the solution to that is a steady supply of pills containing literally nothing

[Anonymous No.8464277]

>>8464273
>Pill made out of vitamins
>containing nothing

link me your clickbait article that makes you so confident about this dummy

[Anonymous No.8464278]

>>8464273
Multivitamins may contain things that normal people don't need because they get it in their food, but the point is that the proposed diet was deficient in certain vitamins. It's one thing to say that multivitamins are superfluous. Saying that they contain "nothing" is just wrong.

[Anonymous No.8464280]

>>8464270
The OP is specifically about working on a budget. Wasting money on two different overpriced retard baits is counterintuitive to that exact goal of money management

You stupid fuck lol. enjoy bankruptcy after that timeshare. Im sure the fish oil will help!

[Anonymous No.8464282]

>>8464251
lol somebodys angry and jealous because their life sucks

lifes not fair. disgusting, horrible people get exactly what they want everyday while the best, nicest, most empathetic people get shat on.

instead of getting angry on an anime imageboard why dont you just accept shit works like this no matter what, and use that bottled up rage to get smarter, get rich and shove those entitled fucks' silver spoons up their asshole.

[Anonymous No.8464285]

>>8464277
>>8464278
Lol id honestly love to know how much you retards spend on that shit. You are both in complete damage control mode

[Anonymous No.8464292]

>>8464280
>>8464285

The term "full on autism" seems appropriate here

[Anonymous No.8464302]

>>8464292
Why? Because youre mad youre a literal fucking retard that shoots 50 dollar snake oil up his nuts thinking it does anything?

Fucking dumb loser lol

[Anonymous No.8464305]

>>8464285

How much do you think multivitamins cost? Even on amazon a bottle of 250 costs $20. That's 8 cents a day to ensure that you get the necessary vitamins and minerals. How fucking poor are you?

[Anonymous No.8464307]

>>8464285
I spend nothing on multivitamins. But if I were to go on an eating budget of just rice and hamburger meat (fuck eating beans, I work with people and can't be farting all day), then I absolutely would take a multivitamin.

If you want me to do your homework for you, Amazon sells Centrum for $12.89 per bottle of 200. Let's say you take two per day (I don't know the intended dosage), the bottle would last you a little over three months, costing about 13 cents per day.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003G4BP5G/

Wow. What a decadent excess and waste of good money for the lame goal of not developing a vitamin deficiency.

[Anonymous No.8464315]

>>8464237
>>8464252
pizza, a $10 pie should be like 2-3 meals

[Anonymous No.8464317]

Salad. Is there a farmer's market near you? Salad is cheap and healthy. Add whatever you can get fresh. Salad is also an excellent panty remover when you invite a girl over for dinner. Learn to make crepes and you're gold.

Cento tuna in 3 oz cans makes a simple meal replacement. Then there's ramen. And vegetables. And eggs. Keep it simple and never buy prepared food, too expensive. Except maybe canned soup.

Toast
Eggs
Tuna
Soup
Salad
PBJ
Ramen
Vegetables

You have a rice cooker? Kind of expensive but definitely worth it.

You have a grill by any chance?

[Anonymous No.8464320]

>>8464315
But you're eating out, so it's only one meal.

[Anonymous No.8464325]

For starters, presuming you have a fridge/freezer

If your grocery store has a section of discounted meat, pick up some bulk. With management, that can last you more than a week. That's something to keep in mind. Some items might be extra expensive from the get go, but will last you a long time. Things like spices, flour, cooking oil.

-Meat: I use country style ribs when they're on sale
-Tortillas: make sure they're big ones
-Bag of shredded cheese

Take a rib or two, depending on how large they are. Slice into relatively thin chunks, but not TOO thin. Salt and pepper are all you need to season. Put the meat onto a frying pan over medium high heat (a five or six on a numbered dial) and cook them until done. If you have a separate flat skillet, get that heating on medium low (a four, maybe. If you only have the one, wipe up as much grease as you can and adjust the heat) and fill a tortilla with cheese, the meat, and anything else you want (sometimes I cook rice and lentils to put in as well) roll into a burrito and put on the skillet. Toast until both sides have browned and gotten crunchy, and the cheese has had time to melt

Way I do it, I end up with two burritos per rib. If you got sour cream, hot sauce, or rice, you can accompany them with that

[Anonymous No.8464331]

>>8464255
>>8464260
>>8464265
>>8464266
>>8464282
Okay, well OP start's by saying his university cafeteria is *SO* bad he just cant stand it anymore! AWWW, poor widdle baby! Are you homesick?
Then he continues to say hes stressed about having only $50 a week (from his parents, not work) to eat, and MOST of that is going to peanut butter and bread. I'll bet you never thought about shopping anywhere other than Whole Foods.
And now all of you faggots are jumping to his defense when I call him out on absolute bullshit? Jesus fucking Christ.

[Anonymous No.8464337]

>>8464325
>discounted meat, pick up some bulk.

This sounds like a bad idea. I've had to throw out full price meat I bought from the grocery store because it smelled foul when I opened it up and went to cook it.

>ribs
You do know that OP is on a budget, right?

[Anonymous No.8464344]

>>8464331
You're really fucking autistic. No-one cares how tough you have it or what you think of this other guy. You can't even get upvotes on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.8464352]

>>8464251
this
I feed myself and two kids on $50/week

[Anonymous No.8464353]

>>8464317
Thanks for being the first to give a real answer. I don't have a rice cooker or grill, just a stove, oven, and a microwave. That said I may dip into my own funds to get other stuff if it's a worthwhile investment for better meals.

Canned tuna is one of the few things I never really got a taste for, but I could try if it's a good budget meal.

[Anonymous No.8464360]

>>8464331
you sound like a jaded poor person lashing out at others who are better off. you should work harder and get a better job

[Anonymous No.8464361]

>>8464307
Again you're literally spending money on nothing

Nothing

You fucking moron lmao

[Anonymous No.8464363]

>>8464331
I don't understand why that caused you to become so emotional. Are you a cafeteria worker who makes low quality food but who takes a lot of pride in his work? Why would you care if he eats at his school cafeteria? Do you think he's lying about the quality? If so, why do you think that? Is your experience with college cafeterias that the food is good quality and bargain priced?

Don't knock bread and peanut butter. They have lots of Calories for a pretty low price.

I see his thread as a positive thing. He has realized that there's a problem: that his only options, school cafeteria or his own lack of common sense, suck. And he's striving to improve himself to solve the problem. Only a truly depraved sociopath would see this as some sort of personal insult and use the opportunity to insult the guy.

[Anonymous No.8464369]

>>8464305
DId you miss the part where multivitamins didnt work? How dumb are you?

Very. Clearly.

[Anonymous No.8464372]

>>8464361
nothing?
nothing between your ears you dumb fuck

how do you not understand this concept

[Anonymous No.8464377]

>>8464251
>>8464352

Funny thing is that I've NEVER seen a person making a claim like this in one of these threads actually produce proof of their claims. Easy to say that you live on $50 a month. Not so easy to actually do it.

[Anonymous No.8464378]

>>8464251

>$200 a month
>entitled

Dude is so poor he thinks lower middle class is the 1%

[Anonymous No.8464380]

>>8464372
Apparently your Asperger's prevents you from not understanding basic linguistic cues.

[Anonymous No.8464381]

>>8464369
>>8464361

I am a medical doctor. I am. A. Medical doctor. I'm a medical doctor. A doctor. A medical doctor.

See? If I say something over and over, it becomes true eventually, too.

As a medical doctor, my opinion is worth more than yours, and I say you're wrong.

There, that's the end of the discussion.

[Anonymous No.8464383]

As
>>8464331 (unhelpfully) said

A loaf of bread and peanut butter is a functional option. Not something to eat every day, but a very simple and quick option

Even better if your store has a mark down section where they put bread that's about to go past the sell date

You can make bannocks as well

-flour 3 cups of whatever, honestly. I use oat flour but you'd probably be best served with regular white or maybe whole wheat if you care to spend slightly more
-Salt: not a great deal, you'll have to trial and error it until you know how much suits your tastes
-Oil: just a regular eating spoon or that or two
-baking powder: Two spoonfuls

Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl. Add the oil. Add water little by little until you've just got a dough going. Knead it until it's firmed up enough to not fall apart in your hands. Heat up a frying pan (about a four and a half) and when it's ready, either shape the dough into a disk and lay it in the pan, or put into a ball and press out. Cover the pan with foil or whatever is available. Let it cook until you can lift it up and the bottom has browned and has something of a crust. Flip to the other side and let that cook. Jabbing it with a knife or toothpick is a way to test, or you can cut into it directly to see the insides. Once it's cooked, take out and wrap in the foil you covered it with or put into a bag while it cools. This will make it softer than it is right off the pan.

It's not sliced bread, but it's versatile and I like the taste

[Anonymous No.8464396]

>>8464381
Get help from an actual medical doctor you stupid aspie

Id also recommend you substitute multivitamins with actual nutritious food to cope with your vitamin and mental deficiencies

[Anonymous No.8464400]

>>8464381
Are you okay?

[Anonymous No.8464402]

>>8464331
My parents are helping pay for my college. My cafeteria has given me food poisoning before and we found doing this would be cheaper than a meal plan.
I'm not really stressed about it, I just want to know how I can spend it best. Also by "decent chunk" I meant probably around 10 dollars for bread, peanut butter and jelly, I don't know. You're putting words in my mouth m8. I'm gonna go off on a limb and assume you're shitposting but god damn if not you need to get rid of some of that negativity.

>>8464325
>>8464383
Hey thanks for the tips, I'll be using both of these in the future.

[Anonymous No.8464405]

>>8464337
Use your judgement, obviously. Don't pick up something that's actually ancient or looks suspect. But unless your luck/the store is just consistently shit, you'll have good meat more often than bad.

-Rice: buy mexican stuff, it's probably the cheapest non-shit stuff
-Lentils: green ones I guess. Also mexican
-Stock cubes: another one of those investments

Two cups rice, one third cup lentils. Rinse the stuff if you care to. Get a saucepan, fill with two cups water for each cup rice, and another for the lentils. Bring the water to a boil, add the stock cube and let it dissolve. Add the rice and lentils, bring down to a simmering heat. Stir around and let the nigga cook until you can taste a spoonful and it's done.

Goes good with lots of shit. Quantity is enough for at least two meals.

[Anonymous No.8464407]

>>8464396
>with actual nutritious food
The problem here is that you haven't actually read the thread. Maybe you spotted a lone post about "multivitamins" because you have a crawler set up to do auto-searches of the archive every 2 minutes and send you an alert to your phone whenever somebody mentions them on /ck/. Go back and read the OP, taking special care to search for reference to when he says "50 bucks a week." Now go to any grocery store and buy enough healthy foods to last you maybe a day and take a look how much money you have left.

[Anonymous No.8464416]

>>8464407
Dude you seem like you have a vitamin deficiency

Id recommend to stop wasting money on worthless multivitamins and buy some actual food

[Anonymous No.8464429]

>>8464400
Don't you get annoyed when people badger you with the same non-argument over and over? That kind of shit annoys the crap out of me.

>>8464191
>>8464240
>>8464264
>>8464273
>>8464280
>>8464285
>>8464302
>>8464361
>>8464369
>>8464380
>>8464396
>>8464416

Every goddamn post this asshole made has been a repeat of his first one.

[Anonymous No.8464431]

>>8464429
Jesus Christ dude are you just upset youve wasted thousands on multivitamins?

[Anonymous No.8464436]

One more to add to the list: >>8464431

[Anonymous No.8464437]

>>8464429
He's not wrong. Multivitamins do not work.

[Anonymous No.8464438]

>>8464429
Stop jerking him off. He's loving it

[Anonymous No.8464441]

>>8464437
>He

I totally believe you're a different person.

[Anonymous No.8464443]

>>8464436
Multivitamins

[Anonymous No.8464445]

>>8464315
And at 3 meals/day that gets you 5 days of eating every week. And even if you stretched those pizzas to 7 days, you'd still have no money for anything else.

[Anonymous No.8464446]

>>8464441
Just multivitamin my shit up senpai

[Anonymous No.8464453]

>>8464251

OP didn't really imply he was facing hardship, if anything he seemed grateful

[Anonymous No.8464454]

This is why autists should be granted access to the internet

[Anonymous No.8464461]

This is why autists shouldn't be granted access to the internet

[Anonymous No.8464465]

>>8464454
>This is why autists should be granted access to the internet

Like you?

[Anonymous No.8464467]

>>8464461
Agreed

All they do is just buy thousands worth in multivitamins like the idiots they are

[Anonymous No.8464472]

>>8464453
Bullshit.
He sounded pissed off that peanut butter and jelly would consume most of his budget, and was all upset his cheap-ass parents weren't providing more.
Grateful, my ass. He bitched about eating at the cafeteria, then bitched again about being on a more than reasonable budget. What really fucks me off is all you assholes defending this person for being a pampered crybaby faggot. What the hell happened to this site?

[Anonymous No.8464475]

>>8464437
So if you're vitamin deficient and you take a multivitamin, are you telling me that your body won't absorb the vitamins you need?

[Anonymous No.8464482]

>>8464467
friendless
autist
virgin
shut in
NEET
family hates you
nobody respects you
strangers avoid you

I'm betting 8/8

[Anonymous No.8464483]

>>8464472

at no point in the OP does he bitch about the budget, there is nothing wrong with bitching about the cafeteria

>What really fucks me off is all you assholes defending this person for being a pampered crybaby faggot. What the hell happened to this site?

The majority of posters here are most likely upper middle class

[Anonymous No.8464487]

>>8464482
Projecting hardcore because his life went to tatters after spending thousands on multivitamins thinking theyd worj

[Anonymous No.8464489]

>>8464475
Multivitamins do not work. This is all that is meant. I can't possibly imagine why you're all sperging about this.

[Anonymous No.8464491]

>>8464472
Youre a poor angry loser. Get a job then once you get enough money see a psychiatrist

[Anonymous No.8464493]

>>8464489
Define "do not work". Please, explain to me why people with deficiencies do not actually require supplement.

[Anonymous No.8464496]

>>8464472

You're projecting your poorness onto others. You seem to think that because you struggle that somehow makes you better than others, when it really means to opposite. You're poor because you lack the means (ie. intelligence) to improve your situation. You're a drain on society.

[Anonymous No.8464497]

>>8464472

[Anonymous No.8464500]

>>8464162
-Head of romain lettuce is about 1$ can last u a week
-Onions to go with the salad 1$ will last a week
-Parmasean cheese.. a little container of that is 5$ but can last 2 weeks(i put it on my salad as well) and its high in protein
-There r frozen tyson drumsticks(like 13 in a bag) that r pretty lean 5$. also pretty big suckers too
-30 egg, egg cartons..like 5$? lasts me usually a week or 2
-u can get a loaf of bread for ~$1.20 if its store brand
Thats pretty much what i get on the same budget every week, the rest of the money gets spent on sales, cravings, booze and cheap fast foods when i get bored/drunk/lazy, here some others u can get:
-Rice is dirt cheap
-Pasta is dirt cheap
-Veggies r usually cheap, some arent
-Havent had frozen meals in awhile but i remem some seldom sales that sold them for 1$ per meal

Pnut butter and jelly ill grossly assume is around 10$, u still would have left over money to spend; chicken is just the cheapest with sales @ 1$ a pound.
Just spend a lot of time browsing and taking ur time, i love doing this personally xD

[Anonymous No.8464501]

>>8464493
Not all supplements are multivitamins. Multivitamins do not work as vitamin supplements. Its really that simple to comprehend. Does this upset you?

[Anonymous No.8464503]

>>8464493
>define "do not work"

You fucking morons are too much

[Anonymous No.8464504]

>>8464501

>continues to give non answers

8/8 it is then

[Anonymous No.8464506]

>>8464174
>at the grocery

Oh America, please learn English

[Anonymous No.8464507]

>>8464504
I literally gave you a flat out answer. They do not work as vitamin supplements. They do nothing on the levels of vitamins in your body. This is not the same as even an individual supplement of something like Vitamin D. Please keep up.

[Anonymous No.8464508]

>>8464507
Lmao dont even bother

these fucking autistic retards are just in denial they're buying snake oil

[Anonymous No.8464510]

>>8464504
>he actually wastes his degrading bank account on multivitamins

[Anonymous No.8464512]

>>8464489
D O N O T W O R K
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[Anonymous No.8464519]

Jesus Christ, instead of clogging this thread up arguing about vitamins, why don't you just answer OP's question?

For $50 bucks a week, I would get:

-Rice
-Pasta
-Canned beans
-Canned pasta sauce
-Eggs
-Milk
-Cheese
-Some veggies (to stir-fry, make salads)
-Chicken breast
-If you can stand eating it, get some oatmeal for breakfast. Healthy and super cheap.
-Bread
-Peanut Butter
-A couple packs of ramen or mac and cheese to keep around for when you don't feel like actually cooking.
-You can get a frozen pizza for like $3 when they're on sale, much cheaper than delivery. If you like frozen pizza, maybe get a few of those.

And of course the first week you'll need some oil/butter and seasonings.

[Anonymous No.8464521]

>>8464519
Are you actually recommending a well balanced diet that isn't dependent on overpriced schlock with no medical evidence supporting its benefits?

Are you kidding me?

[Anonymous No.8464524]

>>8464162
Make a bunch of joes special. Ground beef, frozen spinach, garlic, eggs and mushrooms. Healthy and delicious. Filling. Get egg roll wraps and make little pastries out of it.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/joes-special-105866

[Anonymous No.8464526]

>>8464519
Vitamin shill detected, gas the kikes RACE WAR NOW!

[Anonymous No.8464539]

CAnned sardines and saltines

[Anonymous No.8464541]

>>8464264
>>8464273
>>8464369
>>8464437
>>8464489
>>8464501
>>8464507

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-13-72

>Although MVM supplement formulations vary widely in number of nutrients; dose of each; and the type, form, or source of vitamins and minerals, as a whole they are often instrumental in filling nutritional gaps, including in populations where the food supply is relatively bountiful and balanced

I feel like you just read an article at some point that said "you don't NEED multivitamins" and your autism just took off running with it

[Anonymous No.8464548]

>>8464541
Thank (((You))) for CORRECTING THE RECORD

[Anonymous No.8464554]

>>8464541
You are literally reading a Pfizer funded study that can't even conclusively say whether or not multivitamins can even show demonstrable effects on nutritional deficiencies

I can actually tell you just looked up on Google "MULTIVITAMINS PLEASE FUCKING WORK" and found this garbage that didn't even read and your autism and stupidity just ran with it

Reevaluate your entire fucking life bud lmao

[Anonymous No.8464559]

>>8464554

8/8

[Anonymous No.8464562]

>>8464429
He's right though, multivitamins are a scam. If you are terrified about vitamins buys some fruits, vegetables, or liver, with $50 a week for one person you should be more than able to add some fruits and vegetables to your diet.
>20 lbs of rice ($9) (divide by like 5 since its enough for like 5 weeks)
>20 lbs of beans ($15) (divide by like 5 since its enough for like 5 weeks)
>2.5 lbs Ground Turkey ($4)
>0.75 L of Vodka ($14)
Only $27 to spend on fruits and vegetables per week. How horrifying. Clearly OP can't afford fruits and vegetables. Not a single apple or jug of orange juice.

[Anonymous No.8464566]

>>8464559
>he literally cherrypicked a non-sequitir from the middle of a Pfizer study to justify him spending THOUSANDS on multivitamins

[Anonymous No.8464567]

>>8464559
That study proved nothing. Stop shitposting.

[Anonymous No.8464570]

>>8464567
EIGHT OUT OF EIGHT TIMMY. EIGHT OUT OF EIGHT

[Anonymous No.8464572]

>>8464554
kek.

'Murrican corporations with your best interest at heart, everybody!

[Anonymous No.8464579]

>>8464570
Alright. You baited me. Good one.

[Anonymous No.8464582]

>>8464567

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/nutrition-vitamins-11/help-vitamin-supplement?page=2

first sentence -

>Beyond filling in gaps...

It's time to kill yourself

[Anonymous No.8464585]

>>8464582
Sorry. Not an argument. Good bait though

[Anonymous No.8464594]

>>8464582
>my pharmaceutical study didn't work, maybe this blog post will!!!!

[Anonymous No.8464595]

>>8464585
>posted multiple links to articles proving my point
>"bait"

it is you who is baiting me, timmy

[Anonymous No.8464600]

Sorry OP

We tried

[Anonymous No.8464605]

>>8464595
I could post a link to a goatse website, that doesnt mean multivitamins work

[Anonymous No.8464609]

>>8464605
goat.cx went down years ago, that doesn't mean that you're not a faggot

[Anonymous No.8464614]

>>8464180
Ground chicken sounds nasty

[Anonymous No.8464615]

>>8464251
kys you bitter prick

[Anonymous No.8464629]

>>8464315
If you're a 110 lbs womanlet it is yeah.

[Anonymous No.8464635]

>>8464614
Ground chicken is delicious. I lived off that shit when I was poor.

Ground chicken/turkey
Rice
Beans
Apples
Tangerines
Maybe some old school shreeded wheat (the big ol' ones not the frosted shit)
Maybe pork chops or chicken thighs when they're on sale

Regardless buy a 6 slice convection oven if you want to eat like a king and cook for college girls if you want to get into stuffing their bird

[Anonymous No.8464647]

>>8464162
50 bucks a week?
I have to make 50 last two to three weeks

[Anonymous No.8464657]

>>8464600
It's okay, I got some valuable info. I still know nothing about multivitamins but you win some you lose some.
>>8464647
So how did I make it last that much longer?

[Anonymous No.8464765]

this take some practice, and a real knife, but buying and breaking down whole chickens will be a lot cheaper than buying the individual parts

[Anonymous No.8464792]

>>8464657
I go to school close to where theres a lot of farmland so I can buy chicken thighs, drumsticks, and pork very cheap from the local grocery store.
It gets very boring

[Anonymous No.8464844]

>>8464174
This. 50 dollars a week isn't hard at all.

Just think about what you're going to want to make and work out purchases from there, OP. Buying groceries isn't hard, as long as you do some planning and know what staples you need. Seriously, if you know what you want to cook, you should know what you need to buy. Just don't be an idiot and do things like purchase a bunch of expensive single portions of things and waste money on completely unnecessary shit like bottled water.

[Anonymous No.8465196]

>>8464251

Haha you stupid fucking faggot. Fuck you. It sounds like you had shitty parents, shit role models, never went to school and now you think you're better than everyone else because you can slave away at some shit job and everyone with a seemingly better life than you is a yuppie, pampered, spoiled something, etc. Kys.

[Anonymous No.8465206]

>>8464162
Look up Irish recipes
realize how cheap potatoes, other veggies and most meats involved are
realize how 50$ a week is easy mode

[Anonymous No.8465241]

>>8464162
I'm really sorry anon. $50 doesn't go very far. It is roughly half of what an adult human needs to spend, on average. Fact.
https://www.cnpp.usda.gov/sites/default/files/CostofFoodNov2016.pdf
There's something called the high cost of being poor...and it's based on sizes that befit a single person costing more for convenience. Gallon of milk vs 1/2 gallon, is one example.
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/the-high-price-of-being-poor/

I spend about $120/wk on myself, and I eat some meals out. It seems like I spend $80-100 at a time, but I shop a little more frequently than once a week, too, and I supplement outside the grocery with an occasional wal-mart stock up, some pharmacy items for the household... I'm not cooking beans and rice with fatty smoked meat daily, but I'm eating a variety per my mood, and about 10% convenience or what I consider indulgences, like whatever brand of yogurt or coffee, a ny strip for dinner, but it won't be prime, and it'll be on sale, like most of my cart, I'll grab 4 of the BOGO if it's part of my usual pantry items.

What you spend on the cafeteria is about what you really would pay for yourself, plus only 10%, trust me. How bad is the cafeteria? No prime rib night? Or are you just not into salads, soups, processed chicken patties? So, do you want the freedom to do your own thing, costing you precious study time? Getting your meals down to $10/day or less is based on Costco membership, buying bulk meat, vegetables in bags an individual doesn't consume well, freezing items without expense of ziplocs, access to hispanic groceries for some of the produce. A good herb garden...

[Anonymous No.8465254]

>>8465241

This. I live in a major city and on food alone I spend about $170ish/week. I eat out once a week with friends so that's about $30-40ish but I like to eat well. Lean meats/fish, good vegetables fruits, free range eggs are fucking bullshit expensive here. Luckily I have a great job in the oil industry and make over $500,000/year not including the bonus. Feels great to be an executive who is better than all the poorfags.

[Anonymous No.8465256]

>>8465241

you didn't even look at your article. 120/wk is abut twice the suggested price of their most liberal meal plan.

>There's something called the high cost of being poor...and it's based on sizes that befit a single person costing more for convenience.

Buy stuff that either keeps for a long time or you eat regularly.

[Anonymous No.8465260]

>>8465256

>Liberal

Fucking conservative shits always bringing politics into food WTF I hate Trump now

[Anonymous No.8465280]

VITAJEWS

[Anonymous No.8465283]

>>8464232

And you are going to buy a 10$-20$ bottle of 30 pills full of oxide bullshit that your body cannot utilize for more than 20%.

Buy vegs and fruits and drop the booze instead.

[Anonymous No.8465290]

>>8465254
>>8465241
What fucking cities do you guys live in holy fuck that's horrible

I'm in Denver and I'm a fat fuck who snacks all the time and eat at 7/11's on my lunch break, and still I'd have to be extravagant to spend more than seventy dollars at the grocery store

[Anonymous No.8465297]

Fuck, food is expensive in the "developed" world.
I can live on 30$ a week while hitting the gym hard 4 times a week and getting all kinds of gains.

[Anonymous No.8465301]

$50 a week is doable, but it would be very close and this is if you know how to cook and you buy for the month not the week.

Every dollar will count and you will have to have a plan. You are going to need to buy things in bulk sizes and if you could do it from Costco or Sams club you could save some money.

Assuming you could pull this off, you would spend a lot of time cooking and a lot of time cleaning dishes.

[Anonymous No.8465309]

>>8465256
You seem to be missing critical thinking skills, and/or never shopped for yourself, noob.

What people spend in that chart is based on an average.
A single person spend nearly the same amount of two people.
A family of four spends a little bit more than two people. Barely more.

But when you divide a 4 person grocery bill in fourths, you come up with a DIFFERENT number than a single person can shop to achieve. How dumb are you? Have you never bought 2lb jars of peanut butter that went bad? Have you never bought a 15lb bag of potatoes that went bad? Yea, it costs more to buy smaller sizes. I guess it's not common sense to understand that, but it's true. And, the average household salary of a Costco member? Guess what, it's rich people. $150k and up. Rich people also shop at 4-5 stores, have a nice pantry, a deep freezer, a group of people keeping their food fresh by eating it often, and not slipping into the closest store to their dorm and no where else.

[Anonymous No.8465313]

>>8465283
>Drop the booze

Look m8, you took the joke too far

[Anonymous No.8465391]

>>8464162
Spices
Salt n Peppa, cumin, garlic and onion powders, maybe some curry powder too
-Get some chicken breasts, toss em in a Tupperware with the above + olive oil, leave in fridge overnight. Bake at 350 until internal temp of 165 Fahrenheit
-Easy tacos - ground beef cooked with cumin, garlic and onion, salt
-Green beans - boil for 5 minutes, remove from pot immediately, toss in olive oil and salt and pepper. Smooth poops
-If you have money, get a slow cooker. Apply pork butt and a can of root beer, maybe add some brown sugar
-Slow cookers/crockpots are just miracle workers in general, honestly

My favorite breakfast back when I used to work mornings like a normal person was a wrap stuffed with diced baked chicken, bacon, and chopped green beans, topped with sriracha

[Anonymous No.8465964]

Pad shit out with lentils and beans - I love little black lentils in ragu for example, good for bulk but great for flavour too. At least two beans in chili, chickpeas are good. dried is cheaper but also invariably better than canned in terms of texture (just soak and drain kidney beans, it's a toxin issue).
on day two of big cooks just freeze it in portions, otherwise on day 4 or 5 of the big pot of chili you won't want to have it for months.
On the whole I minimise the amount of meat I eat but generally buy better, supermarket shit grosses me out, I treat myself from the butcher.

[Anonymous No.8465975]

>>8464162
I live on benifits as i lost my job due to an injury, and my food budjet i set for me and my SO is 200€ a month and 50€ extra for sweets and junk food.
But keep in mind we drink icetea all day which we buy from the 200.
Prices may vary in the states, but try and start with things that dont require so many ingeredients and then when your pantry is full with various things you can try new stuff. A good idea is to start with something like cottage pie, and then trying to find some other recipes that have similair ingredients. And in the next week you can find recipes which use some of the stuff you bought last week, and buy some new spices/dry goods.
I moved out around 2 years ago and since roughly a year i have been cooking fresh and my pantry is pretty well stocked.
Probably not a huge help but whatever.

[Anonymous No.8466003]

>>8464232
>The multivitamins are because rice, beans and ground turkey aren't going to give you enough of micronutrients that youn eed.
Neither are multivitamins with bioavailability <10%.

[Anonymous No.8466025]

>>8464562
>apple or jug of orange juice.
Recommending fruits and veggies is fine, but apples are good for nothing except fiber and orange juice is also not worth it for viramin c. Dark greens and berries are better for micros.

[Anonymous No.8466033]

Hey guys. Enriched soy milk and cheerios have all macros and micros except vitamin C. I did this for 4 months as my only meals and it is not expensive except I may have gone insane. I spent all saved money on vodka, which kept me sane.

I cry a lot.

Someone hug me, I hate myself.

[Anonymous No.8466052]

>>8464317
>rice cooker
>20 dollars
>expensive

[Anonymous No.8466058]

>>8465241
>$50 doesn't go very far. It is roughly half of what an adult human needs to spend, on average. Fact.
>people are actually this retarded

[Anonymous No.8466061]

I spend about $50 a week and eat pretty well, but I don't really see how people are spending much less than that though unless they're eating like it's the great depression.

4lbs of various meats - $20
orange juice and milk - $5
rice or pasta - $3
eggs - $2
onions - $2
other vegetables - $4
fruit - $4

that leaves $10 for other ingredients like a pack of bacon or a block of cheese. if you want snacks or any fast food you'll probably go over budget. I always see people claim you can get meat for $1/lb but I've only ever seen that when turkey is on sale after thanksgiving. the cheapest meat I can buy is whole chicken for $3/lb, and beef is $6-8/lb.

[Anonymous No.8466075]

>>8464251
>>8464331
Autism.

[Anonymous No.8466104]

>>8464519
Any tips on how to do pasta?

I can do pasta and add canned sauce, but I'd like to try smething different, probably something at its not that hard adn can be done in under 1 hour.

[Anonymous No.8466144]

>>8466075
Thanks for the diagnosis, doctor!

Can I have my prescription now? Whats my prognosis?

[Anonymous No.8466188]

>>8466104

Start with simple cream sauces.

Get a pot of light cream, three quarters of a pound of mushrooms, a head of garlic, a stick of butter, a good drinking white wine and a packet of bacon (or pancetta).

Fry bacon on low heat in pan large enough to eventually contain all the food.

Once bacon has become crispy, remove from pan.

Add butter (or oil) and dump in as much of the head of garlic as you want (the whole head will leave things tasting garlicky, about a quarter of the head will barely be noticeable as garlic)

Put the pasta on to cook by your preferred method (I am assuming about 12 minutes here)

As soon as the butter is melted, add the mushrooms and keep them moving in the pan. They will absorb all of the bacon fat and butter, and will produce liquid of their own after a short while.

Once the pan no longer has liquid in the bottom, sautee the mushrooms for a further minute, then remove to a bowl.

Turn the heat all the way up on the pan and throw in a quarter cup of wine, scraping the bottom of the pan to lift any delicious fond the mushrooms failed to take with them.

Once the wine has reduced by half, throw in the pot of cream. Stir until it's beginning to bubble, then toss in the mushrooms.

Keep stirring until the sauce is as thick as you want it.

The pasta should be about done now; drain the pasta (keep half a cup of the pasta water) and add the drained pasta to the sauce. If the sauce is too thick, or doesn't seem to be coating nicely, add a little of the pasta water at a time until you get the desired consistency.

Top with the bacon, add a little black pepper, serve the wine and watch the college girl's inhibitions vanish.

[Anonymous No.8466210]

>>8466188
Thanks, this seems go and easy enough for me.

Can you substitute the wine for something else? Booze is sold by a government monopoly here and it is super expensive.

Also, what typ of cream should I get? By light cream you mean something that is mostly liquid and low fat?

[Anonymous No.8466212]

>>8464162
What the fuck, My weekly budget is 25 a week and I eat like a king

[Anonymous No.8466227]

>>8466104
>pasta

Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce <-- do web search

also:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pasta-puttanesca-242590

There are a lot of pasta sauces to make.

[Anonymous No.8466289]

>>8466210

Wine can be substituted for a light stock (clear vegetable or chicken stock) or even water, it's there to lift the fond (the browned-on crust of flavourful juices) from the bottom of the pan.
Light cream is cream with ~20% to 25% fat

[Anonymous No.8466310]

>>8466212
an african king? that's $3.57 a day. if you spend 40% of that on lunch and breakfast that leaves $2.14 for dinner. if you put half of that towards meat that means you need to be buying it for $2 a lb to get a decent amount of it.

[Anonymous No.8466881]

>>8466052
A rice cooker that doesn't make shit rice will cost you 30-50$

[Anonymous No.8466949]

Here you go OP - https://youtu.be/MNctsEFp7Zs

GOT TO EAT BIG TO GET BIG

[Anonymous No.8466954]

>>8464162
You might wanna save that money. If you're asking 4chan for advice I don't think any amount of book learning will get you anywhere.

[Anonymous No.8467391]

>>8464251
Hardship is earned. Do better in life you fucking pussy.

[Anonymous No.8467411]

>>8464352
Your kids should be taken away from you.

[Anonymous No.8467421]

>>8464162
are you staying in residence for more than one year?
follow up: why?
it's not just the meal plans that they are jewing you on

[Anonymous No.8467422]

>>8467411
You wouldn't say that if he was a minority on welfare, you would be commending him for trying and saying how awful it is he doesn't get more free money.

Don't worry, Trump will fix that. The welfare leeches will learn the meaning of root hog or die.

TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TURMP

[Anonymous No.8467443]

>>8464285
Why, I spend on average $17/year. That's not so bad. And on certain places (like my whole fucking country), you actually NEED the fucking vitamins since you will have deficiencies because of environmental factors.

[Anonymous No.8467488]

>>8464331
>OP is currently paying for a shitty overpriced cafeteria meal plan
>decides to better his life and save money
>"OP is an entitled rich brat"

Kill yourself poor faggot.

[Anonymous No.8467502]

>>8466104
Look up Gennaro Contaldo + Pasta on youtube. All his pasta dishes are super simple and easy to make. Try out a few of his recipes and see what you like. Once you know the basics of how to make pasta it becomes super easy to modify the recipes to your own liking.

[Anonymous No.8468111]

>>8464162
Get a job, faggot.
Support yourself

[Anonymous No.8468203]

>>8465283
good one buddy

[Anonymous No.8468479]

>>8464352
You shouldnt be on your computer lazing around if you have two kids and only $50 for food a week. You shouldnt have kids. They wont dream high if you're a lazy fuck.

[Anonymous No.8468933]

>>8467422
>Don't worry, Trump will fix that.
people this dense actually exist

[Anonymous No.8469033]

>>8468933
>believing what you read on 4chan is sincere

[Anonymous No.8469069]

>>8464506
if you're not american then why would you assume every other poster is american?

[Anonymous No.8469947]

>>8464251
nice

[Anonymous No.8470670]

>>8464162
you will get sick of this plan after 3 days and it will take up so much time you will start to slack on your coursework, bail on it while you can.

[Anonymous No.8471804]

>Rice
>Oil
>Chicken breast

I lived a year off of that and didn't have any issues
if you are worried about micro-nutrients put some potatoes in there and you will be fine

any left over money can be spent on special dinners you want.

[Anonymous No.8471860]

>>8464162

I would advise you to head to Aldi

[Anonymous No.8472204]

Totinos pizza
Casserole
Crock pot shit like beans salsa and chicken
Pasta, pasta, pasta

[Anonymous No.8472312]

10kg rice $10

2kg potatoes $4
1kg onion $2

1kg black or red beans $4

Cumin, pepper, salt, coriander (dried and ground), paprika $10

500g Ground beef $10

Large dozen Eggs $5

1kg Bananas $2

250gm frozen spinach $1

1kg carrots $1.50

> Total: 49.50
You're not going to eat 10kg of rice in one week, or 2kg of beans, or 1kg of onion. So this will carry you on to next week to buy even more variety nice ingredients plus buy yourself a 50c candy bar.

[Anonymous No.8472359]

>>8464162

Is that a sandwich?

[Anonymous No.8472532]

>>8472312
>1lb of ground beef
>$10
Ground beef from whole foods cost fucking 6 bucks a pound for organic shit
Where are you buying beef from?

[Anonymous No.8472620]

>>8472532
No shit. Walmart in the midsouth has 80/20 ground beef in 5 lb rolls for $2.18/lb. Christ, Whole Foods is cheaper than what he quoted.