/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11699529
Remember when AUD was equal to USD? What a nightmare. Also it’d still be half that in the US

>>11699529
Noice.

>>11699529
what the fuck is streaky bacon?

>>11699529
What are the jarred pears for?

what's a country style burger

>>11699562
Sometimes I like having a bowl of pears in custard.
>>11699567
It's basically a rissole but called a burger instead. I don't know why.

>>11699529
What is a family pack of Farmer's Tasty?

>>11699577
Farmers Tasty Cheese.

>premade rissoles
>pre-sliced cheese
>canned baked beans
>cling wrapped mushrooms
>pre cooked/jarred pears x3
>"fancy" hot chocolate mix

So how much do "they" pay you to be an Australian actor?

>>11699529
You literally bought all prepackaged and premade food, no shit it's going to cost a lot, this a typical 18-25 year old who has never been told how to cook or shop.

>>11699529
Should have gone to Aldi you fucking retard

>>11699692
I prefer not having food poisoning.

>>11699529
Buy fresh pears, they taste a lot nicer, you don't need that much custard, or better yet buy custard powder and make your own.

Those burgers are dogshit and you could make them yourself for half the price.

Why buy prepackaged mushrooms and baby spinach? It's cheaper if you buy them loose and less chance of wastage.

Why organic eggs? Honey and syrup? Just get one of the other.

Brushed potatoes? Again, buy loose and unwashed.

Dark Chocochino? Are you a manchild? (Don't answer that, we already know you are)

You could cut that down $50 easily.

>>11699613
The cheese isn't presliced. It's just block cheese and in fairness to OP it's the most economical way to buy cheese.

>>11699575
>animeposter is also retarded

Not sure why everyone is hating on the mushrooms.
How else are you supposed to buy them
Where the fuck are you that you buy "loose" mushrooms.
I live literally 20 minutes from a major mushroom production facility and even here I can only get mushrooms in a carton package with cling wrap over them

>>11699552
Back bacon's obese, snaggletoothed cousin

>>11699529

>self raising flour

Bromated flour is legal in Oz? I thought eating flame retardants was strictly an American thing.

>>11699529
>2 litres of custard
Jesus slow down there porky

>>11699529

>american produced rashers
uhhhhhh

>>11699529
>organic
>blackberries
>packaged patties

Gee fucken no idea how this would be expensive.

>>11699529

Isn't minimum wage in Australia $20hr? Why are you complaining when it took less than one days work to buy this pile of shit?

>>11699562
I could see straight away OP was based and redpilled with the custard to accompany the pears.

>>11700778
Are you on crack?

>>11699529
good for you
literally no other country complains about grocery prices even if they're more expensive so stick it up your ass cunt

>>11700769
I'm American and I have no idea what a rasher is. Why are we making these and giving them all away to foreigners?

>>11700787

According to Google, minimum wage in Australia is near $19hr. So it took OP less than one days work to buy that pile of shit.

>>11700795

International trade is a good thing. I'm sure we get something in exchange, probably beef. Lots of cattle are raised in Australia.

>>11700801
Kek why the fuck would the United States need to get cattle from Australia
Ever heard of the west? Cowboys? Oklahoma, Texas? What do you think they do there?

>>11700765
>Bromated flour
It's baking soda with some salt, not bromate

>>11700804

>cowboys

Those don't exist anymore. Australia raises the most beef cattle on Earth.

>>11700805

Potassium bromate is exactly that though.

>>11700804
Grass fed beef in USA is usually either from NZ or Australia, it's harder to graze cattle year long on grass in the United States since it freezes over most places, it never freezes over in Australia so raising cattle 100% on pasture is cheaper and easier.

>>11700809
No baking soda aka bicarb soda is sodium bicarbonate.

yeah, i'm perpetually near-broke. thanks woolworths and coles. and mr chang, my landlord.

>>11700809
>cowboys don't exist anymore
Do you make a habit of talking online about things you don't know anything about? You're 100% wrong.

>>11700811
Most people don't eat grass fed beef, retard.

>>11699529
Show receipt faggot, thats more like $105 worth of food
>source: Ian Turpie

>>11700820

Yea cattle drives and yehaw buckaroo shit died a century ago. Mega commercial cattle farming is the new technique. You'd be hard pressed to find anything like that in the modern developed world. America raises more pigs than cattle though.

>>11700821
No one said they did, retard. Australia has roughly the same amount of cows, has more grazing land and has a population less than a 1/10th of the USA, we can export grass fed beef cheaper than you can produce, whether you want to believe it or not grass fed beef is rising in demand over there for whatever reason.

>>11700738
Coles and Woolies sell loose mushrooms, local green grocers sell loose mushrooms, you're just not looking hard enough faggot.

>>11699529
>Two syrups
>3 pear jars
> a second yellow milk?
>Cocoa
>Some fried crumb covered beef
>chips in the middle
there's your problem, you've got too much junk

>>11700837
The yellow milk is custard.

>>11700837
>Two syrups
One is honey
>3 pear jars
Based.
>second yellow milk
Based custard.
>Cocoa
Maybe for baking

OP is just a fucking retard for spending so much cash on so little food.
I do like his gay btw life choices.

>aussie country style burgers

>>11699529
Thats just dumb cunt shopping, today I went to Aldi and for $150 I bought:
>2 red capsicum
>2 x bunches asparagus
>1kg carrots
>4 x heads garlic
>knob ginger
>4 x corn cobs
>big bag mixed salad
>cucumber
>400G mushrooms
>4 x red onions
>5 x truss tomato
>1 x head cauliflower
>500g tofu
>1kg cottage cheese
>1kg buffalo wings
>1.8KG corned beef
>1.3kg chicken breast
>0.6kg pork loin
>4 x marinated pork chops
>4 x toilet rolls
>coffee pods
>3litre milk
>4 x cans of various beans
>1kg of fresh noodles
>4 x cans sardines
>1 jar jalepeno stuffed olives
>10x AA batteries
>250g organic butter
>1kg apples

Buy shit thats on special and unprocessed

>>11700878
>4 x toilet rolls
Just use the shower you filthy animal.
Otherwise based.

>>11699529
Why you got so many jars of pears

>>11699529
I'm in Australia and I never knew we could get American rashes of bacon here.

Also $130 dollarydoos seems a bit pricey. I'd like to see the receipt, my guess is you purchased some laundry powder and some Gillette razors to get a grocery bill up that high.

So I just did the math off the Woolworths site.
3 Jars of Sliced Pears = $11.10 @ 3.70 ea
Pauls Vanilla Custard 2kg = $4.00
Organic Free Range Eggs = $8.00
Vittoria Drinking Chocolate = $4.00
Brushed Potatoes 2kg = $5.50
Mushrooms Portobello 375g punnet = $6.90
Greens Maple Syrup 375g = $3.20
Beechworth Pure Honey 500g = $7.20
Aussie Country Style Burgers = $5.50
Pauls Milk 2L (Couldn't find 3L bottle) = $3.20
9 Grain Tip Top Plus Wholemeal 750g = $3.20
Sunrice White Rice Long Grain 2kg = $3.90
Bega Tasty Cheese 1kg = $11.00
D'orsogna Streaky Bacon 500g = $9.00
Essentials Self Raising Flour 2kg = $1.50
San Remo Spaghetti 750g = $2.90
Heinz Baked Beans 3x300g = $6.00 @ $3 ea
Woolworths Frozen Blackberries 500g = $4.00
Uncle Tobys Traditional Oats 1kg = $5.00
Bananas = $3.00
Brown Onion 1kg = $2.50
Woolworths Baby Leaf Spinach 120g = $3.00
Mccain Hash Browns 750g = $3.30

$116.90 Total

I missed whatever is in that jar behind the frozen berries, I used a cheaper milk and eggs, so that might make up the last few bucks.

It's easy to see where you overspent.

>>11700936
Wow how could you be fucked doing that

>>11700953
fuck u mate

>>11699529
>everything is expensive, name-brand shit

I have seen so many people complain that food is too expensive, and then I see their kitchen and their shelves are stocked with name brand food stuffs. You can save half of your money, get the same shit and have the quality not even be that much worse (if you know what you're buying) if you just don't buy name brand shit

>>11699552
It's bacon made only from pork belly, the bacon we get in Australia usually has the loin still attached, streaky bacon is way better.

>>11700883
Ok you got me

you shouldn't have left the mother country

>>11700972
>expensive, name brand shit
Are we looking at different pictures?

>>11699529
>brand name oats
>brand name beans
>brand name eggs
>brand name rice
>brand name pears
>brand name pasta(literally flour and water)
etc
woolworths and coles brand pasta goes for as little as 13 cents per hundred grams, a third of the price of the san remo stuff
dont complain about prices if you buy the expensive shit

all in all nice shop anon, lots of good tasty basic ingredients to cook with

>>11700995
see >>11700997

>>11700867
>>11700863
>Eating Sugar and Eggs

>>11700936
<You>

>>11701000
That doesn't really help much, all you did was say "brand name" another fifty times.

It looks like just a pile of cheap shit, like, $5 for a 9-pack of some dodgy pre-formed "burgers"? Self rising flour? That's poor people food.

>>11701039
>Self rising flour? That's poor people food.
Flour is cheap, but in terms of time and energy the real cheap thing to do is to buy bread, a loaf goes for next to nothing at a super market.
Buying flour is for people who love baking their own breads, scones, cookies etc for enjoyment
>It looks like just a pile of cheap shit
if you call premium pasta 3x the price of the baseline 'cheap shit' then sure, it goes for $0.40cents per 100g compared to $0.13cents, but op if being 'cheap'?

>>11699529
Honestly doesn't seem like a bad deal?
Thats $92.12 USD. If I remember right, Aussies earn at least twice as much as we do, even for shit unskilled jobs, and get free health care and ample government handouts. What is hourly wage for a typical high school graduate over there?
Is OP bragging, or complaining? You bought a lot of unnecessary, pricey luxury items that nobody needs, so shut the fuck up about costs. If money was an issue learn to be a more careful shopper.

>>11701098
About $19ph, university graduate is around $50ph

>>11699529
>breaded burgers
what did rooniggers mean by this?

>>11700878

Jalepeno stuffed olives are awesome this week. Try the garlic ones.

>>11701111
They're all delirious from venom and the sun.

>>11699529
That would be like $40 in the US.

>>11701131
>nearly one third the price in the USA
And one third the quality no doubt.

>>11701161
That looks like quality to you? Looks like average run of the mill groceries you'd find anywhere.

>>11699529
Aren't normal wages like 30 AUD per hour or something

>>11699529
>buy shit like packaged frozen berries
>wonders why his food is expensive
You are a moron.

>>11701222
Frozen berries are cheaper than fresh, especially this time of year.

>>11701731
>>buying berries at all this time of year

It's like you either don't understand growing seasons, or you foolishly overspend to buy things out-of-season.

>>11701739
It's like you don't understand a well rounded diet. You buy fresh stuff seasonally. Buying fresh berries now would be a foolish choice. If you want berries at this time of the year frozen are the right choice.

>>11701186
I used to work for a woolworths supermarket and the hourly wage for a 24 year old was $22 per hour in my part of the country.
Then $33 on sundays and $49 on public/bank holidays like labour days, queen's birthday, easter.

Prices vary depending on where you live, but my experience was:
>cheapest milk $1/litre
>cheapest bread $1/loaf
>steak $15/kg
>chicken breast $8/kg
>sandwich ham $14/kg
>never-frozen australian salmon fillet $20/kg
>frozen australian prawns $15/kg

For reference the minimum wage is $16/hour, but nobody gets that unless you are a labourer (pushing a wheelbarrow on a worksite, lifting shit).
Even proper furniture removalists get paid much more than that.

>>11699529
OP could do a lot better. BRAND NAME is really what drove the price up, but to be fair most of the BRAND NAME in the photo are australian owned and/or grown.

BRAND NAME:
>"""maple""" syrup
>honey
>pears
>oats
>cheese
>baked beans
>9 grain bread
>rice
>eggs
>spaghetti pasta
>bacon
>milk
>frozen potato chips/has browns
>chocolate powder
unable to confirm brand name custard and peanut butter

>portobello mushrooms
why

>>11699598
Why would you want to think of some sweaty hairy farmer while eating cheese?

>>11700863
He can't mix his own custard?

>>11699529
>frozen fresh blackberries

>>11699529
wtf? I could get that for $30 american.
>>11699543
>remember when AUD was equal to USD?
I had the impression it did used to be, now every time i hear about aud it's increasingly worthless like leafbucks are.

>>11701122
Will do brother

>>11701161
One third the quality? How could big brand lowfat milk and fucking spaghetti be "one third the quality" between countries

>>11702526
Because Australia is better than USA in every possible way duh

>>11702552
USA... More like USB XDDD!

>>11699529
Nobody gives a fuck about your shitty nation.

>>11702552
What's funny is Australians are actually retarded enough to believe this.

>>11702683
Can confirm we believe this.
Australians are generally on a high horse and believe we are better than most of the world, we are a very arrogant nation.
Most australians have never travelled either.

>>11700811
Hawaii.

>>11702828
Not a real state.

>>11699529
I AM IN MY PRIME

>>11702828
I didn't say it was impossible just not economical in the US like it is here

>>11700878
>>11699529
You are both dumb cunts.
>Woolies
>butterflied peri peri chicken x 2
>lamb roast garlic honey X 2
>frozen veggies winter mix (all the good vegetables essentialy) X 5
>24 eggs X 2
>1 X bread loaf (for the freezer)
$50 Australian all up and I'm fed twice as long and healthier than both of you fatties wooooooow

>>11699529
stop buying dumb meme food and eat rice and beans then fag

>>11704961
>>11704961
Get a load of this hero calling someone that actually buys vegetables a fattie.
>fuck off faggot

>>11704961
You are stupid

>>11700811
[citation needed]

>>11705041
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/10/04/228659915/why-most-grass-fed-beef-sold-in-u-s-comes-from-down-under

https://www.mla.com.au/news-and-events/industry-news/us-demand-for-chilled-grassfed-beef-on-the-rise/

https://www.cornucopia.org/2018/08/grass-fed-beef-bearing-the-u-s-flag-likely-comes-from-australia-or-south-america/

>>11699529
>streaky bacon

>>11705025
>>11705032
Look at this salt, I can't believe fuck wits like you live in this country. You must exist solely to drive the price of everything up by eating bad and spending a premium.

>>11705195
Seek help

>>11699711
Custard powder? CUSTARD POWDER?
Get the FUCK off this board you nigger.
It’s for people who can cook, not your wifey material bullshit.

>>11699529
>$93.07 USD

that's a pretty good haul, Op. Refilling the pantry?

>>11699529
>Self rising flour

Do Aussies really...

>>11704961
Dumb cunt

>>11705400
>>11705399
>>11705252
>>11705239
Dumb niggers.

>>11705239
Stay salty champ

>>11705448
I am not salty. I am genuinely a good person and I am concerned about you.
You need help.

>>11699529

Hey Op you're full of shit, I just recreated your order on woolworths.com.au and it was $114.20

>>11700936

It's clearly capilano honey retard

>>11705462
It's really not, you can see the beginning of the B. Good job being a retard though.Capilano doesn't have dark lettering like that, thanks again RETARD.

>>11705462
btfo nigger

>Buys milk and eggs
>Presumably already has some sugar kicking around, maybe even some vanilla essence
>Buys a carton of custard
Come on you lazy asshole.

>>11705252
Your mom got my thick custard last night if you know what I mean.

>>11701751
But it's not cost effective. Seasonality isn't just about what's fresh, it's about what's effective for farmers and thus effective for the consumer. Buy some peaches, they're beautiful right now, and support the people who grow your food.

>>11699529
>Low fat milk
>Net to a tub of chocolate powder and pre-made custard
Ayyyyyyyyyy

>>11705480
>>11705462
Rekt

>America
>Walmart

>Organic Eggs, 12 = $3.97
>Cage Free, 12 = $2.98
>Large Grade A, 12 = $1.55

>cocoa / cacao exists (especially great with stevia)

>Idaho Potatoes, 5lb. = $2.47
>Russet Potatoes, 5lb. = $1.77

>(that maple syrup is pretty cheap – $0.24/oz, whereas here it's $0.56/oz)
>honey is cheaper (there is $0.40/oz; here is $0.29/oz, but both these items are less if obtained in larger quantities)

>.5gal. milk = $1.67

>1lb. cheddar cheese = $4.22

>Bacon/oz = $0.50 vs. $0.28 – 12oz for $3.33

1lb. of flour is very small; all-purpose 5lb is $0.48/lb.; whole wheat is $0.77/lb.

>oats comparison = $0.14/oz vs. $0.06/oz

A lot of the items are frivolous options (pears, custard, beans … ), though the fruit is apparently a lot cheaper.

>Blackberries = $0.22 vs. $0.52 (though they're listed as organic)

>>11699529
>>11705797

>meanwhile

>11lb. casein = $65.98
>11lb. whey = $51.00
>1gal. flaxseed oil = $58.79 (Amazon has taxes now)
>48oz almond flour = $19.41
>54oz unrefined coconut oil = $14.96 (Walmart)
>4oz (CCNutri) stevia = $16.45
>coffee
>eggs
>cacao

>options amongst (even cold-made) frostings, creams, fudges, brownies, cookies, and cakes; and water, coffee, custard, chocolate …

>Bega tasty

my nigra

>>11699529
Would be 35€ max.
And I thought our Groceries are expensive...

>>11699529
>Bega cheese
>not buying coon

>>11699613
cling wrapped mushrooms are usually the same price as loose but I agree that picking out the best ones is a better idea

>>11700738
in America most grocery stores have loose mushrooms

>>11706789
Not true. Even the largest Krogers in the south relatively near to me doesn't have bulk mushrooms. Whole foods and the larger international groceries do, but that's it.

>>11700883
based and redpilled, been wiping with a designated towel and shower for many years.

>>11707377
You're just making shit up.

>>11699529
Any fromunda cheese

What ever happened to BI-LO lads?

>>11707833
They're all Coles now

>>11706778
It's also that you'll only buy enough for what you need, less chance of spoilage.

>>11699529
>streakey bacon
>aussie style country burgers
>farmers tasty
>brushed potatoes

im intrigued OP tell me about these food products

imagine living in that shithole desert

>>11707854
this
particularly streaky bacon

>>11700863
is this taste more like egg nog or liquid flan?

>>11707854
Tasty cheese is just a type of mild cheddar.

Aussie style country burgers isn't really a thing, it's just ground beef with like hamburger helper and a bunch of cheap herbs then breaded.

Streaky bacon is just what Americans call bacon really, normal bacon sold in Australia is British bacon, as in the loin is still attached.

Brushed potatoes are just potatoes that have been washed to remove all the soil.

>>11707867
how is streaky bacon unfamiliar to you guys?
its literally just thin bacon
its no different in taste

>>11707868
Yes liquid flan

>>11702807
31% of australians traveled overseas last year alone, compared to 24% from the US
and this is a island nation with no land borders
>Australians are generally on a high horse and believe we are better than most of the world
pic related, we literally are better then most of the world though, at least according to the U.N.

>>11707706
Ok, next time I go I'll take a pic of the mushroom section of that Kroger and start a new thread stating a retard didn't believe this was the mushroom selection at a major US grocery, faggot. You'll go down in history as downie the first.

I've been trying to cook really cheap stuff so I made a list of some of the cheapest stuff you can get here. Some of these numbers might be off its just a copy and paste.

Red lentils raw 1kg 3520cal $4.30 820 for $1
Cashews 400g 2480 $12 206 cal for $1
Peanuts 500g 2480 $5.50 450 cal for $1
Potatoes - 78 cal per 100g, 780 cal 1kg, $5 for 2kg, 2.50 per kg, 312 per $1
Milk - 650 cals per kg, 650 cal for $1
Carrots - 410 cals per kg, $2 for 2kg approx so 410 for $1

>>11699529
Shop at ALDI instead of Safeway next time you fucking dickhead

>>11699529
Not even close, that's like 70 ausbux max you fucking liar. Are you hiding your tobacco purchase or something?

>>11701161
The quality isn't lower in America. But the wages are, and they have less public services. Also America is simply a larger economy and benefits from economy of scale.

>>11708746
>>11700936
nigger

>>11706571
fuck coons and fuck jannies

$132 for a good month of staple food seems decent.
You should see the prices in New Zealand, I pay 50% more in New Zealand for meat and dairy compared to Australia (explain that shit).

>>11699529
That would be like $40 here in muttland...

>>1707854
>>1707867
You know what the real question is? Which fucking retards buy short jut bacon that's just the loin without the fucking side cut (the streaky bit) attached.

>>11708725
>Safeway
Based vic-cuck

>>11709158
woman prime minister

>>11709311
Rather a women than a castrated male being cucked by the Chinese communist party.

>>11709329
>Rather a women
Do they have schools over there?

>>11709329
not even australian but I know NZ is getting fucked in the ass by chinks just as hard as aussies are

>>11709372
It's a weird situation, we seem to have alot more Chinese people immigrating here but our government is far less corrupted by Chinese money compared to Australia.

I don't mind the Chinese too much, at least they work and pay taxes unlike the Indian and paki welfare leechs.

>>11699529
>Bagged spinach
>Non homebrand pasta
It's like you're deliberately trying to waste money

>>11700878
>Aldi
Enjoy your food poisoning nerd

>>11708746
This guy is right. I can't get calculate $100 using the normal prices for this stuff, even including the exorbitant items like cheese and overpriced instant coffee.

But I do live near a capital city. Some of the processed items might run a higher cost in rural areas.

>not getting bacon from the deli

>>11699529
should have bought
rice beans spagethi pasta peas noodles if you are a poor cunt

>>11709831
Spaghetti and pasta are just types of noodle though, moron.

>>11709735
I know over a dozen people that have been shopping at Aldi for 10 years and never heard of anyone mention food poisoning

>>11709329
I guess you'd rather pay 50% more for your shit then retard

>>11709746
It's literally been priced off the woolworths site earlier in the thread, it matches up with what OP said.

>>11699552
American bacon is streaky bacon, as everywhere else, if you don't mention streaky, the bacon you get are not the strips you are used to in the U.S.

>>11699529
>$132.13 Australian
That's US$93.26.
That would be about $50 where I live.