/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17727667

>>17687379
Better.
>>17687253
Intentional, fuck them.

>>17190512
Here, have the color corrected version.

>>16528160
Colour corrected

>>16438224

>>16270262
Did the same thing and now I cook and clean for my spouse full-time. You'll find your own way anon. Shit gets better.

not gonna lie MREs and mess hall cooking in the military seem comfy as fuck

>>14496639
this makes me hungry

>>14490019
>ywn have dinner with your pals

Fuck I need to stop looking at these threads during my fasts

>>13659563
I don't know the exchange rate, but let me tell you how I have learned to have a varied, nutritious, and tasty diet on far less than $50 a week USD.

Rice is your best friend. If you get some neutral white rice, you can flavor it any way you want. With a small investment in soy or teriyaki as well as some eggs and vegetables to sautee, it's a meal in and of itself. People will shill sesame oil, but Avocado oil is the way to go for your fat, as I'm imagining butter is pricey down there.

In addition to rice, you should be hitting up farmer's markets, if you have them. In my town in the US (admittedly a relatively remote place with lots of farms nearby), I can get a full outfit of farm-fresh and tasty vegetables for under $20 for the week. I can get a bag of full-size carrots, a few peppers (of bell or spicy varieties), a few heads of broccoli, corn. amish-made butter and cheese, half a pound of portobello and shitake mushrooms, a bag of celery, onions aplenty, garlic, and a bag of potatoes for around $20 bucks. I realize that's pretty spoiled, but no person really needs that much produce in a week.

If you want to eat on the cheap, you should get used to shitty cuts of meat. Pork tenderloion (usually five bucks here in the states for a packaged kind that is perfectly serviceable), chuck steak (for stew, fajitas, stroganov, roasts), or any kind of lean meant (I understand NZ to have lots of sheep, IDK how cheap veal is in Oceania), and just cook it low and slow and baste it in sauce.Crudite (raw veggies with a dressing dip) makes for an excellent snack that is filling and nearly calorie-neutral.

You can do it, anon. Good on you for trying to be responsible.