/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6056656
>poor
>hipster
>stupid faggot

Convincing arguments I'm sure.

I'm betting your mother never taught you how to shop properly. You also probably don't supplement your diet with home grown/raised things either. To ad hominem, I bet you are a consumer whore too.

>>6057307
It is really easy. I buy ingredients instead of per-prepared meals. Simply doing that cuts a great deal of cost. Baking your own loaves of really is the way to go. All the alcohol I drink I've made myself. All the foods I eat are packed with nutrition. I don't use white flour or eat white rice for instance. My breads are full of nuts, fruits, and seeds. Ice cream is homemade from actual cream. All these things are really dense and very filling. I can eat only a little bit and feel really full, unlike most all pre-packaged meals that are designed to be as cheap as possible and make you crave eating/buying more.

A few things I have a garden for and I have chickens. So, eggs, chicken meat, pumpkins, corn, potatoes, squash, salad greens, herbs, etc are all grown at home. I have a few fruit trees and maple trees for sugaring. Though, most of those things are pretty cheap from the stores too, I grow heirloom varieties. I have hot pepper plants over wintering right next to me.

When I shop, I always buy in bulk. I have very large home canning equipment for both water bath canning and pressure canning. So, I am able to make tons of sauces, soups, stews, etc and can them for later. I can take full advantage of bulk buying that way. While the pressure canners can be expensive, water bath canning of high acid foods is really cheap. I don't do lacto-fermenting since I don't like the flavor, but it is also a super cheap way of making lots of food and preserving it. I also have a food dehydrator I use to process and store massive amounts of fruits and vegetables.

One of the biggest thing you can do is to learn meal planning.

>>5697528
I've been thin and skinny before and always needed lots of food. Way more than what I need now with this new diet. I just feel more satisfied when I eat now. When eating the foods like those I listed of course.

Found one of those images I was talking about.

>>5504295
2nding brown rice. Even very expensive rice brown rices can be a meal saver simply because they give you more complete nutrition to help curb your appetite.

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>>5072655
>I have $40 to eat on for the next 10 days.

I haven't been shopping for 3 weeks. The last time I went shopping I bought several bags of rice, beans, and a 3lbs box of bacon end pieces and some ham pieces that were incorrectly sliced from the butcher at the deli in the local grocery store. I also got some collard greens, carrots, seasonings, BBQ sauce, and dark brown sugar. I bought some other stuff, I can't begin to remember, but the total was just at $75. I've been eating like a king for 3 weeks and it has been awesome.

Learn to make stews, chilis, and soups. Get a crock pot. I have a mix of beans (black beans, blackeye peas, large white lima, pinto, and red kidney) right now soaking in water since yesterday. Once they have soaked for 24 hours, I'll rinse them again, chop up 2 small slices of ham and 3 slices of bacon, brown the meat, and chop up some collard greens (the last of the those, keep in the crisper at 33F). I'll toss that stuff in the pot plus a bottle of smokey BBQ sauce, some brown sugar, chili powder, crushed red pepper, whole chopped up red onion, a fresh pressed garlic clove, salt, black pepper, cumin, water, and oregano. The pot holds about 2 gallons I think and it will be full. It'll get set on high for about 6-7 hours then set on low overnight.

The beans will be ready in the morning and I'll eat them with homemade cornbread for the next two days at least. I have the option of making the same thing and pressure canning it for much later. If I did that, I wouldn't cook them on low overnight nor use the crock pot. I'd make a massive batch in my giant stock pot, cook them for the first few hours then pressure can them in pint jars. One turn of stuff that size is enough for 40 pints (5 gallons). At 1/2 cup servings that is 160 servings of food. At 1 cup servings that's 80 servings of food.

I have about 200 pints and quarts of stews, chili, salsa, and soups on the self right now.

Theres one more somewhere out there, it's an inforgraphic based around tomatoes, rice and potatoes.

good luck and godspeed OP

>>5040184
Food, once it is cooked, that can be used in various dishes is nice. Beans and rice are good with all sorts of dishes. Sauces like spaghetti, salsa, etc can be made in such a way that they can be used for several things. There are tips in this image for what you can do with some leftovers that are actually pretty delicious and help keep you from getting bored.

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>>4970970
$150/mo is like $75/week. That's my max $$$ for food and I only reach that when I buy junk foods, have friends over, etc. Normally, I spend like $25 per week. Sometimes I skip a week and don't get groceries.

>>4904235
Dry Rice
Dry Beans
Bacon End Pieces
Flour
Eggs
Bag of Carrots
Bag of Onions
Bag of Potatoes (preferably Yukon Gold for best flavor)
Salt
Sugar
Baking Powder
Yeast

That's pretty much all you need to have tons of meals for a rather long time for pretty cheap.

>>4891395
I spent $38 in the past 2 weeks on shopping. Mostly on stuff I didn't get last month or just ran out of; exotic spices & herbs I can't grow, flour, pet food, pepperoni, ammo for hunting (biggest expense). I've spent about $100 all this month shopping and gasoline and only about $20 of that is on actual food I eat.

I get most of my food via farming, trading farm good, foraging, and hunting.

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>>4778403
This might have some tips you haven't thought of yet.

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>>4687979
>live on a budget,
>My weekly food budget is about $80.

Jesus, do you only eat name brand shit and eat out?

-bulk buying
-bulk making of batches of food and preserving it in the freezer and canning it
-being creative with leftovers
-growing/raising your own foods in bulk
-shopping frugally of course

Those are the biggest things.

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