/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11978100
Rice and whatevers on sale. Also food banks.

>>11978100
scan steaks as bananas at the self checkout

Have you people never heard of food banks?

>>11978100
Fuck off. We have this thread every single fucking day and $50 a week is probably the highest budget I've seen in a long time. You could literally live off of Taco Bell and buy a Switch at the end of the year.

>>11978100
dude I spend $50 in two weeks, it's not difficult.

>>11978101
>>11978105
I am an Amerifag. Explain.

>>11978119
What do you buy?

>>11978100
Rice, some kind of bean (I prefer lentils), chicken, and little cans of the no salt added tomato sauce. If you don't eat massive portions like a big fatass those will all go a long way.

>>11978127
We have them in America, dipshit. When people donate food, where do you think it goes?

>>11978100
7mcchickens a day, 8 on Sunday

>>11978127
U ain't boy, so stop lyin'. Oatmeal, butter, pork, dukes, a1, hienze57, woschestier, onions, taters, 2 dozen eggs and some dollar tree jew salt, sugar, pepper grinder lol, cookies. You are set for the month.

Rice and beans you degenerate poorfag.

>>11978138
who the fuck donates food. How do I get this donated food? Anyone can go to food bank?

>>11978187
>Anyone can go to food bank?
Yes. If you have a need, go. Nobody in America should go hungry. Google your local food bank.

>>11978100
>$50 a week for food
This is fucking baby work
Rice, beans, chicken breasts, potatoes, milk, cereal, and I guarantee that's all under $40
I've survived on much less

>>11978210
Also to add on to this, go to a dollar store. Theres so much fucking food there for a $1. like >>11978200
said nobody should go hungry here. If you starve in America it's your own fucking fault

>>11978100
7 hot and ready pizzas and a cheap bottle of vodka

>>11978225
Or 40 Totino's...

Bulk purchases of Flour, with decent-sized purchases of salt, yeast, eggs, and sugar will yield an astounding amount of bread, even if you have to work it by hand.
If you live in the right regions of the US, and some regions of Europe suffering infestation, Crawfish season is nearly upon us. Virtually all US states have no restrictions on crawfish trapping, and European states just like to track you for no reason in particular. You can easily collect a pound of edible shellfish per day per trap.

>>11978100
I'd fucking kill to have $50 a week for food.
Rice, beans, onions, garlic, whatever else.
>>11978127
You're an urbanite. It disgusts me that I have to refer to you as the same nationality as myself.

>>11978100
Well in Las Vegas I go to the Mexican store called La Bonita, and I can buy literally $50 worth of meat and produce for 2 people for over 1 week. I don't even buy rice, pasta, juice, soda, chips, or anything packaged. I only buy fresh stuff and can fill up my entire kitchen counter with in season stuff that lasts longer than any shitty grocery chain.

>>11978298
Hey Vegas bro, I get my water at a Mexican market too since it's $10 for 4x32 bottles

how long can this last you /ck?

>>11978332
maybe 3 days. I would be hungry all the time though.

>>11978332
Some of those items are extremely overpriced... $4 for eggs. $5 for six bananas. $3.50 for iceberg lettuce. $15 for 2.8lb of chicken (wtf?)

$50.00/week = $7.00/day. Get 7 things from the McDonald's or Taco Bell dollar menu every day. You're welcome.

I spend at least $150- $300 USD a week on food between groceries and going to restaurants, so if I only had $50 to spend I would but $50 of shitty junk and shoot it to ideally die.

>>11978100
I'd use that $50 to buy the ingredients to make meth, then I'd cook and sell that meth and use the profits to buy food that isn't shit

>>11978340
Coles is Australian, Australian food is far more expensive than American """food""""

>>11978355
>eat 7 small fries a day
T-thanks Anon, thanks McDonald’s.

>>11978369
Do you really know how? Can you really do it with $50?

>>11978379
Making meth isn't much more difficult or expensive than making a cake anon
>pseudo-ephedrine
>lye
>muriatric acid
>red phosphorous
>iodine
>naphtha
>hydrogen peroxide
>sulfuric acid
>pH strips
>various PVC piping and Pyrex glassware

>>11978100
>Buy nothing but multivitamins and beans
>only spend $15-20 a month
>buy a top-tier gaming pc with the $2000 I have left at the end of the year

>>11978392
Wouldn't have the slightest idea where to obtain any of that

>>11978413
You can get everything on that list from Walmart

>$50 a week for food
So that's what, $200 a month? I spend less than that.

>>11978420
Where? I don't remember any random chemical aisle at walmart

>>11978100
I survive on $25/week and eat like a king

>>11978434
Nigerian king, to be exact.

>>11978429
Just ask an employee where the meth lab aisle is, duh

>>11978100
>how do you survive on only 200 dollars a month
>is it even possible
Pretty easy if you're a single person. Milk, oats, eggs, off-brand ceral, and stuff like that doesn't cost much. I'm sure people have told you about rice and means. That's pretty much inedible without vegetable fiber just because you won't shit right. Grab iceburg lettuce because it's dirt cheap and has flavor despite what people say, plus it will be refreshing when mixing when mixed with carbs.

Oh wait, it's 200? Buy some inexpensive meat too. You can afford 6 oz a day I would assume. Probably a ton fucking more if you're going on the diet I gave you.

>2lb ground turkey breast $5.99 each
>pasta: 4lb/$3 store brand (based Publix)
>sauce: 2/$5
>dumpling soup mix $4
>potatoes $1.29/lb
>onions $1.29/lb
>carrots $1/lb
>bananas $.69c/lb
>frozen pizza $4-6
>snack foods $5
>bread $2-3 per loaf
>candy bar/rolling papers/soda/tic tacs at the checkout counter $1-2
wa la
turkey bolognese, dumpling and vegetable soup, pizza, and snacks for days

just buy avacados and siracha until you run out of money

>>11978104
that’s bananas anon

>>11978130
not same guy but flour (for bread, grab eggs if you want to make pasta), some legumes/grains/potatoes, and basic meats will go a long way for basic-but-still-tasty, and leave you with money for buying higher quality ingredients (like cheese, better meat, etc) and veggies (like tomatoes for a sauce).

If you get a handle on working with those it will open up your creativity and skills. It’s not hard to make anything you want if you can bake bread, make pasta, cook meat just right and whip up some sauces or stocks (you can make a stock if you save the water from boiling meat). So i buy those and whatever else i want to make specific meals, whatever sounds good. Curry sounds good right now.

>>11978100
I live off 50 bucks per two weeks almost every single week of the year.
Usually its shit like
>ramens
>curries
>bolognese
>cream sauces
>tortillas
and mostly with chicken or mince

I end up spending ~45 a week and tend to have stuff spill over for the next week. $50 budget is easy if you don't mind preparing your own food.

>>11978187
>who the fuck donates food
Stores with unsold product that's still edible but past shelf-date, or didn't sell well. Also churches.

>>11978100
10 lbs chicken thighs $10
5 lbs potatoes $3
Bag of onions $2
Rice $1
2 lbs ground beef $8
1/2lbs Cheese $2
Potato buns $3
Most vegetables are between 1-2 dollars a pound, your choice $6
Thats around $35 and could probably be stretched to two weeks, use the last 15 for spices you may be missing or to be lazy and get fast food

I eat every other day to lose weight which essentially halves my shopping bill, I stay under $50 a week no problem and still have a nice steak once or twice each week. Once you get into the groove of it, fasting every other day becomes a total nonissue that you don't even notice, and I say that a a binge eating foodaholic

>>11978100
>not knowing about eggs+bread+noodles.
>not knowing how to make your own bread
>not owning chickens that literally give you free eggs in exchange for homemade bread.


This is pretty embaressing if I say so myself /ck/

Make unyeasted for the birds, yeasted for yourself.

All you have to do is buy milk/spices/sugar/yeast/flour/butter and you are set 5ever.

Pancakes/waffles/cakes/muffins/bread/stuffing/soups/stews/ are all available in this, and you'll literally have an infinite supply as long as you continue to purchase your basics which would be under 20 a week.

Also, free meat/stock every so often when the birds keel over.

>>11978533
The longest I've ever fasted was five days, on the third day I woke up and my body felt really great, like I had been bloated my entire life and was suddenly empty. I want to do it again sometime but the hunger is hard to deal with.

Are these threads a joke?i spend 50 per week and eat ribeye steak almost everyday.

>>11978100
>pasta
>jar sauce
>cheese

make pasta
pour sauce
grate cheese

WIth this you can survive on like $15 p/w and personally it doesnt get boring to eat. You literally have $30 left over for takeout and shit

>>11978542
I hate fasting but once I start doing it regularly I also feel really good. I found my sweet spot to be 40 hours, that's right when I start obsessively thinking about food, plus it makes it so my feeding time isn't the same window each time I break it which helps a lot for some reason. So if anyone were were going to do it consecutively for any reason I wouldn't go by some random plan found online you should find your own window that works best.

>>11978296
This. I scrape by on a bit less than 50.

What? You can easily survive on 50$ a month. I survive in 25(€) a week and I eat pretty healthy.
Eggs, Pasta, Fruits, Rice, Canned shit.

Well you cant afford a steak, ever or a burger but 50$ is a lot of money for food

50$? At first I thouhght that is for a month. Usually I spend less.
2 chiken (4 kg) 7$
800 g pasta 1$
1.8 kg buckwheat 1.5$
800 g oatmeal 1 $
2 loaf of bread 1$
200 g of butter 2$
1 kg of fruit 1$
total:14.5$
Calories: near 18000 kkal or 2500 kkal/day

>>11978678
>kg/g
useless
into the trash your post goes

>>11978100
I would pay a committee $40 to work out an action plan on how to survive on a weekly food budget of $50. Then I would die of starvation and not worry about the decline in stockmarket value because I've already moved on.

>>11978681
Lol

>>11978118
no you couldnt. so youd eat taco bell like 3 times in a month and then just fast to get the switch? how much are these toys?

>>11978695
>toys
The Nintendo switch is a computer in a revolutionary form factor.

>>11978100
I make these with 4x the single serving size which is why the quantities are weird. For $50 you should be able to get through two weeks on recipes like this, with a little money left over for fresh fruit and fish, which are both nutritionally important.

>dahl and rice with frozen vegetables
1/4 cup rice (brown for fibre)
1/4 cup red lentils
2tsp canola oil (muh omega balance)
1/4tsp chili flakes
1/2tsp turmeric
1tsp cumin
1 clove garlic (can use less)
salt

- put brown rice on to cook in rice cooker/microwave/stove, however you like it
- put oil and garlic in a pan and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, add spices and cook for 1 more minute, remove from heat
- wash lentils and add to saucepan along with a cup of water, cook for 20 minutes
- put rice in bowl and pour dahl over

worked it out once and it's $0.70 a serving if you average out the ingredients over time

>chickpea and broccoli salad
prepare your chickpeas from dried beans in bulk and use them in multiple recipes. also, use the lemon zest in things

1/2 can of chickpeas (slightly more than 1/3 cup dried)
1/2 cup frozen broccoli
1/4 of a red onion (normal onion or garlic will also work)
1/8th of a lemon's juice
2tsp olive oil
parsley if you can grow it or get it cheap, any other leafy green if you can't
salt and pepper to taste

- cook broccoli according to packet
- cut up into edible pieces
- chop up parsley finely
- put everything in a bowl and stir it

costs about $0.80 a serving, maybe less idk

>>11978100
Rice and beans

>>11978714
If you like brown rice you should try farro. It tastes even better and is healthier.

>>11978722
Unfortunately it's about five times the price of brown rice, so it doesn't really work as a staple if you're poverty-stricken.

4 Rotisserie chickens at $10 each
5 loaves of bread $1 each
A jar of mayo for $5
Basically how I lived in university when I got too lazy to cook for myself.

>>11978100
>50$ a week for food alone
I live off less than 25$ a week for food.

>>11978100
Rice, beans, chicken thighs/drumsticks, onions, carrots, garlic, oranges, eggs, butter, wine and bread

That will easily allow me to survive the week. Fat from the chicken will allow me cook what i want and i have what i need for flavor and energy.
Breakfast - fried egg and toast.
Mix up the rice either with beans, fried with the veggies, cooked with the chicken.
Chicken can be done many ways, id probably do a fricassee reducing some onions in butter searing the chicken, deglazing and covering.
Oranges cause you need fruit.

$50 is a comfortable budget for a week. Its more than $200 per month.

>>11978695
>no you couldnt
Lurk more.

>>11978100
lol this thread again. there needs to be a copypasta for this shit so we can /thread the obvious bait threads.
>$50
>per week
>how would you survive
lmao
5 pounds of chicken thigh or breast
5 pounds of beef mince
$30 left for all the other shit
bag of potato
bag of rice
bag of onions
two loaves of bread
peanut butter
butter/margarine
sunflower oil
smoked paprika
dried oregano
a few large cans of diced tomato
24 count of eggs
cheapest largest box of corn flakes or rice bubbles
frozen peas
frozen corn
toilet paper
beef & chicken bullion/stock cubes
a couple coconut cream cans
block of cheddar cheese (not that american yellow shit)
box of pasta

That's still probably barely $50 (and if it's not, there's obvious shit to leave out to reduce cost, the cheese, coconut cream & pasta to start with) and half of that is going to last more than a week. I spend the equivalent of $25 USD per week and I live in Australia where everything is fucking stupidly expensive.

>>11978100
50 pounds of imitation crab.

>>11978100
>$50 a week

so you have a normal budget then.

Ramen from the Asian market that's less than a euro for dinner every day of the week, one box if cereal for breakfast and for lunch I have around 40 to spend over the week.

>>11978100
you could eat 50 mcchickens

>>11978104
Self checkout machines weigh what you're buying and will suck your dick if they detect anything off.

i could survive on the food in my house for months and not spend a dime

>>11978100
I'd spend $11 or $12 of it on a 12 pack of chicken breasts for the week and spend the remaining $38 on dmt

>>11978100
I fucking wish I had $50 a week for food.

>>11978429
It's hardware and shit. You find the acid in other products.

>>11978100
Is this a meme? How much does food cost in America? £30 for a week in England is plenty of food

>>11979115
maybe if you're a stick doing nothing all day and living on 2300 calories a day

>>11978163
Turns out that's about 2500 calories a day which if you live a healthy lifestyle ain't that bad I mean it will catch up with you eventually but egh... do this.

>>11978100
>potatoes - $3
>rice - $3
>carrots - $2
>onions - $2
>garlic - $3
>canned tomato sauce and diced tomatoes - $3
>pasta - $2
>coffee - $7
the other $25 on a mix of chicken, pork, sausage and prolly ground beef.
$50 a week is easy mode.

>>11978100
I actually currently budget $50 a week for food, so this is a straightforward question.

>Chicken thighs or leg quarters for $1/lb
Buying 4 of these typically costs between $3.80 and $4.20, let's round up to five bucks post taxes.
>Total: $5.00
Alright now the international farmers market sells rice 50c per pound. Let's grab eight pounds of dry rice for another five bucks post tax.
>Total:$8
Now chicken and rice is cool, and you won't eat 8lbs of dry rice in a week, but we're assuming your kitchen is empty. You're going to need some roughage to go with that. We've got several options here. Let's go for the bulk first: a five pound bag of assorted frozen veggies runs us 6.54 after taxes.
>Total: $14.54
And while we're here, let's pick up a head of cabbage to split later into the week.
>Total: $15.14
Buy a bag of flour; it's useful for filling meals, turning drippings into gravy, and making breakfasts. That'll be $2.99 for a bag that'll last you a month in my kitchen.
>Total: $18.13
Now you're not going to want chicken and veg every single day, but that's fine. If you want to consume some animal product all week, I've got you covered. Farmer's market sells shrimp at $6.99/lb, pick up a pound of 'em. They sell them with the heads still on, this is good (more on that later).
>Total: $25.12
Now we're going to need some stock. Pick up a box or can of your preferred stuff.
>Total: $27.12
And potatoes. A five pound bag will cut it. If you want optimal cross-meal compatibility, go for russets, you can always dice or cube'em smaller for other things, but it's a bitch trying to make a dozen baby red baked potatoes or some shit.
>Total: $30.12
Buy seasonings. Salt's a buck, pepper $2. With anything beyond that, shoot for things that are on sale; I got a bogo on seven spice and paprika that's done well enough for me for $7, adding ten bucks in all to the total.
>Total: $40.12
Pick up your auxiliary items, you know the stuff that backs up your kitchen. -cont. next post

God I hate these threads. All this bare minimum shit and people actually proud of it

>>11979176
Stewed tomatoes, veggie oil, milk, and eggs should wrap up your list and bring you to $50.

When preparing your shrimp, keep the shells and make a broth of it. Week is going to be:
>cabbage pancakes w/eggs for breakfast
>veggie stir fry with rice for lunch
>Seafood stew/Chicken &mashed potatoes with homemade gravy for dinner.

Tired of pancakes, fry so potatoes, want to swap out the rice with shrimp and veggie stir fry, go ahead. Want rice instead of chicken with your mashed potatoes? Okay. Want to reduce and save the gravy for your breakfast potatoes? Cool, etc.

>>11978100
>50 entire dollars for just a week
Where do you live? You can eat like a king

>>11978355

>taxes don't exist

this is the most tiresome meme of all

18 large eggs. $1.78
3 lbs breakfast sausage. $11.64
96 oz pancake mix. $6.93
8 oz shredded cheese. $2.38
Quart of milk $1.96
This initial buy costs $24.69 but look up "sheet pan breakfast sandwich" to use these. You should have enough pancake mix for two batches and yield enough sandwiches for 2 weeks, effectively making breakfast cost $10.62/week.
10 lbs potatoes. Make hash browns, dice and fry them, bake them, mash them, turn them into any side. Assuming you do actually go through 10 lbs in a week, then $4.94.
12 oz. hot sauce $0.88
Head of lettuce. Honestly fuck lettuce, feel free to skip this $1.50
Choice tomatoes. Assuming 1 roma makes 2 sandwiches then $1.54.
Choice buns. I prefer bolios since they're the same shape as chicken breasts. Since they're never going to be packed in a convenient number let's just say $3 per week.
Provlone cheese. Also inconvenient packing. $2.22 for almost two weeks, so let's say $1.30/week
5 lbs chicken breast. If you go cheap this should cost at most $12. Use half now and freeze for next week, $6.00 per week.
Adapt these to http://tinyurl com /y2vtbgpv and lunch comes out to $13.56. Use those potatoes to make chips or fries.
5 lbs bread flour. $4.08
4 oz yeast. $4.58
Malt barley syrup or brown rice syrup. In the case that these are too expensive or dificult to find, substitute with sugar. $3.69 for 21 oz.
Make pizza dough with 1lb flour, 1.5 tsp yeast, 1 Tbsp syrup, 10 oz warm water. Makes 4 crusts so repeat. $2.55/week
2 lbs medium sized tomatoes. ~$4. Slice one in a bowl and mix with a dash of red pepper flakes, a few cloves of minced garlic $.5/week, pinch of salt, drizzle olive oil, marinate for 15 minutes then roast/grill, whatever it takes to cook them and make them soft enough to blend into sauce.
1.5 ounce shredded mozzarella $2.97/week
.5 oz grated parmesan $1.75/week
Bake at your oven's highest setting for 7 minutes and you have nightly dinner for $11.27

Wa-la. My diet only costs $40.39 per week

>>11978100
White rice, beans, and low grade salsa. Its macro compliant and you can eat it every day for 20$ a week.

>>11978100
For $50 you could eat banquet tv dinners for every meal and 2 snacks every day of the week and still have money left over to buy 10 2 liter bottles of soda to wash down the shame of not being able to manage your life.

>>11979133
2500 calories a day is not enough to live on.... unless you're a woman

>>11978100
>tfw Asian
>live in Asian shithole
>tfw spend like 40 USD a month on food
>tfw new job provides lunch so now need to spend 20 USD on food a month

>>11979342
Okay then get a McDouble, McChicken, and small fries, as well as a beefy Frito burrito, mini quesadilla, and some cinnamon twists you stupid asshole who needs everything spelled out to the letter, fuck you

$53 with some unnecessary spending

buy 4 little Caesars 8 dollar large pizzas - 32 dollars

each pizza lasts 4 meals so that's 16 meals which would cover lunch and dinner for a week. Buy whatever else for breakfast like rice and shit for a couple bucks.

>>11978100
50 for a week is fucking easy as fucking shit.
Rice, pasta, potatoes cost fuck all, then you've just got to get the shit to make it not boring.

>>11978100
You can literally eat anything you want for $20 a week just by shopping at Aldi

>>11979627
I literally just got back from Aldi.
Got a litre of vodka, 2 bottles of some Lilt rip-off, and an energy drink... barely broke £15.
I've also got the Grim Reaper sausages in my fridge from there (apparently they're fucking spicy as fuck as they're made with Carolina Reaper chillis).

>>11978100
Two Crunchwrap Supremes each weekday, one on both Saturday and Sunday. Also, I overestimated the price so I can probably afford at least one more.

>>11979040
Put steak on scan area I input code for bananas. It says "put item in bagging area" put it in bag. Pay and walk out.

>>11978100
You can eat very well on $50 a week without even limiting yourself

>>11978722
Based and redpilled. I actually fucking hate brown rice, but I love farro.

>>11978540

you need to feed chickens protein to get protein. your bread theory is retarded but you can get free protein for them by making a maggot generator (nasty as fuck cause you use rotting meat for flys) or breed mealworms (low startup and makes tons of protein

50 dollars worth of limes

>>11978337
you're one fat bastard

>>11978100
50 items from the $1 McDonalds menu

>>11979735
this but unironically

>>11979686
Couldn't you in theory use rotting anything to get flies, or we talking about purity control of protein to protein?

>>11979865
e.g.

I mix milk and unwanted breads in a one way entry container, harvest free maggots for protein.

>>11978100
Gfuffi

>>11979705
>limes
that's like four limes, can't do it

>>11978373
This is weird. I thought an American dollar was worth two Australian dollars. But some of your grocery items are on par with American prices. Like 4 onions for $2.09. A can of kidney beans for about $1. Milk for $2. If Oz dollars are worth less than American dollars, then these items are cheaper than America, but that doesn't make sense...

>>11978100
Literally just eat rice based meals

>>11978100
lol. fucking amateurs.

>Buy bulk 10-20 lbs of rice, probably 15-20 bucks
>Buy rest beans
>Left over for toppings such as sauces

Fucking ez mode dude. Yes its plain but you asked for budget not delicious.

>>11979176
>>11979199
this is cool and all anon but why are you talking to yourself like youre the host on some cooking show

>>11978733
>rotisserie chicken for $10
Where.

>>11978100
mcdonalds and wine gums

$25 hunting license, $20 worth of rounds, $5 worth of power or granolla bars, you should be good to go if you don't suck.

>>11978100
i cant go to the grocery store without spending 50 dollars and it feels like i got nothing. its insane. making a decent meal that is not poverty tier trash i usually spend $60 per night cooking for 3 people. better off going out to eat, no headache of clean up after.

>>11981642
do you throw the ammo at the game?

>>11981662
Only a dumbass would throw it.

>>11979040
>place your BANANAS in the bagging area
fucking snitch self check out machines

>>11978703
made me chuckle.

with 75$ a week you feed a family of 3

>>11981678
They usually have a volume button

>>11978100
72 pork cutlets and two pounds of rice

>>11978392
LMAO

I just bought a weeks worth of food for $13.

>>11978234
40 Totinos? KEK!

>>11978100
>1 dolar = 3,77 of my country's currency
>188,5
>average meal in a cheap restaurant costs like 10
Yeah, easily

I think the right answer is beans

Is that hard for some people? I spend 200 a month for two people. I get a 5lb tube of beef, a pack of chicken, like 48 eggs for 3 dollars, rice, pinto beans, 3lb of clementines, 4 pounds of grapefruit, tortillas, bread, pepperoni, like 3 lb of mixed shredded cheese 2 lb of mozz, 5 things of spaghetti sauce, lasagna noodles, spaghetti noodles, pizza dough, 3 lb of Italian sausage, huge bag of frozen breakfast sausage, huge bag of frozen biscuits amd various vegetables as needed throughout the month. It isn't difficult at all. I could probably eat healthier and cheaper if I had more time.

>>11981830
i mute the fuck out of it every time. every fucking time. yes i'll take my organic fruits at reggie price.

Look up Big on a Budget Challenge from bodybuilding.com

>>11978100
Considering i live off of 50$ canadian a week, yes its possible.

>>11979199
Wait... You can make broth with just shrimp shells??

>>11978100
>50$ a week for food, is it even possible?
It's pretty much my budget, so it's totally possible

>>11979342
No sales tax in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon, fyi.

>>11978100
Of course it's possible dumb bitch.

>>11978100
At my poorest I was living off about $2/day for food, supposedly closer to $3 today. Staples, bought in bulk. It took a while on a diet of a lot of boring food like noodles, eggs, and cheap vegetables (mostly cabbage, onions, potatoes, carrots) with broth. It doesn't sound bad, but it takes work and when your options are limited by price to a few of those ingredients, sometimes for weeks on end, it does still suck. Not as bad as ramen every day or something like that, though. Save all meat trimmings, use the fat, bone, and connective tissues for basic broth. Once I had enough saved up to buy in bulk, I started that. 20lb bags of flour, cheap butter in bulk to freeze, large bags of legumes, things like that. Bulk grocers are great for that sort of stuff, too.

>>11982586
Im canadaNEET so even less than that.

>>11978100
Here in Poland 50$ a week you could be eating lika a king. 50$ rounds up to 190zł (our shit currency) and I was once in a situation where I had to live with half of that amount for a month. Our groceries are cheap as fuck doe so it was possible. 1KG of chicken is like 3$, instant ramen costs 0.3$, rice and potatoes both around 0,8$ for 1kg. Our sallary suck though in most cases.

You should start by buying in bulk; rice, flour, and other grains have a wide number of uses and have a long shelf-life. Canned vegetables don't taste great but prepare them right and you're fine until you can move up to frozen. Protein is the biggest money sink and cheap meat can be concerning depending on where you live, so best to buy things like whole chicken instead of cuts or go with beans and tofu until you have some financial leeway.

Also broths and stocks will be your best friend. You can really get your money's worth out stuff by boiling it down and making soups.

>>11982626
Yes, best shrimp stock is from shrimp itself
>Fry the shells you got off about 1lb shrimp in olive oil till they turn dark red, almost mahogany
>Add a few quarts of water
>add salt liberally, bring to boil, them simmer for 30 mins

Add it to gumbo, it’s dope

Shopping at the Giant Eagle supermarket near me; doing the whole routine:

StarKist Chunk Light Tuna in Water 0.69 each (7)
Yams 0.80 each (7)
Avocado 1.00 each (7)
Bananas 0.25 each (4)

Generic Salted Butter 16 oz 3.29 (1) *lasts weeks
Generic ketchup 24 oz 1.29 (1) *lasts months
Garlic Powder 3oz 1.99 (1) *lasts months
Italian Seasoning 1.25 oz 1.59 (1) *lasts months
*following week re-up on other misc items

Paper Towels: 1.00 (1)
Angel Soft TP 4 pack 2.75 (1)
Close Up Toofpaste 1.00 (1)
Generic Shampoo: 1.00 (1)
Irish Spring Soap 3 pack: 2.49 (1)
Generic Lotion: 4.99 (1)
Arm and Hammer Deodorant: 2.29 (1)

42.13 plus tax
May not be glamorous but I'm healthy, fed and clean as a mugggg

>>11978100
This has to be bait... For $200 a month you can eat like a king

>How would you survive?

pretty easily desu

>>11978429
You ever seen that scene in Breaking Bad where Walt meets those two meth cooks in a hardware store with a cart full of match boxes and other random shit?

>>11978100
>how do you survive
git gud
when I was broke I had my daily food cost down to $1.50 a day. totally rounded diet of meat, vegetables, carbs, beans and rice.

>>11979176
thighs is a shit purchase because you lose most of hte weight to bones which you throw out anyway.

>>11978100
$15 pot roast with vegetables will feed me for 2-3 days, and 2 boxes of pasta and homemade sauce for $6 will feed me another 2 days. $5 for specialty drinks when water is getting boring as fuck. You have $24 to play around with for 2 days

I usually buy a $20 bag of jasmine rice that's like 10lb every couple weeks, eat that for lunch most days, spiced up with maybe chicken thighs or breasts. Breakfast I usually just do something simple like pancakes (you can get, if you're really retarded, those awful add water jug mixes for like $3 that makes a full serving or two), eggs are cheap, milk is cheap, really $50 is a lot, I lived off of $20 for an exceptionally long period and despite not being the healthiest thing for me I basically just lived off of the dollar menu at mcdonalds.

>>11978100
Seriously? $50 is pretty reasonable. It's not a "buy whatever the fuck you want" budget, but it's not "rice and beans every meal" level either.

My monthly food budget for a family of 4 is $1250. That's ~$75 per week per person. I buy whatever I want and don't try hard to save money at all. And that budget includes eating out, alcohol, and non-food stuff I buy at the grocery store like cleaning supplies, toiletries, and OTC medication.

If you can't eat on $50/week you're doing something really wrong.

>>11978100
For a single person, that's plenty.

>>11983489
You don't eat chicken bones?

>>11978100
Bread
Rice
Beans
Minced meat/chicken
Potatoes
Vegetables
Oat meal
Milk
Flour

>Breakfast
Oat meal

>Lunch
Bread with cheese, grilled cheese sandwich etc.

>Dinner
Nasi goreng, burritos, marinated chicken with home made fries, stuff like that.

Eating cheap is easy af. Just only buy ingredients, not ready made shit.

Bad of potatoes is $3. Box of rice is like $2? There, now you're already guaranteed to not starve. Carton of eggs for $2-3? Frozen veggie bags. Easy. Whole chicken? Thats 2-3 meals for one. Bag of whole or baby carrots is $2-3. Bananas are like 40-50 cents a pound. Dried pasta usually around that price. Hell you could buy premade shit for $1-2. Do you just think all food is seafood and steak?

>>11983307
dude just get a 24 pack of irish spring soap for like 6$

>nobody posted the gwyneth platrow tweet

I would buy exactly the same shit I already buy.

Was OP trying to say $50 per MONTH?

I already only spend about $35 per week on food, and I get all my protons in and everything

>>11985154
this. $200/mo is quite a bit of food if you're not wasting it by buying shit like nuts and other luxury foods.

>>11978100
My me and my GFs budget for food is 400 a month ... and we always go under budget it's not hard. That's breakfast, lunches, dinner, and the odd take out meal, maybe twice a month. That's in Canadaland as well.

Wtf do people buy with their grocery money?

>>11978100
Big bag of rice, eat for months

>>11983281
Will try that thank you

>>11978366
Nobody will die after a week with even no food at all, especially not on this board. $50 is easy mode

>>11978100
Buy 6 5 for $1 packages of Ramen. That's 30x2 servings, more than enough for a week :D Now you can spend the other :money: on :pill:s.

>>11985165
So basically anything that doesn't come in a package is out. Also, lol at OP, he's obviously a food stamp fag getting $198 a month.

>>11985154
>protons in and everything
What?

>>11985652
COME ON

just dont eat

>>11978100
Three limes.

>>11985652
probably a phone poster trying to say "protein"

>>11985652
>>11985812
He's saying energy. Nutrients. But he's referencing Protoss protons from Starcraft.

>>11978100
youre kidding, right?

>>11978100
I spend about $20 a week on food.
I just eat chicken (5 lbs for $10), rice ($20 for 10 kg), and protein powder ($45 for 11 lbs).

I spend more on alcohol and coffee, but those are optional.

it's really easy
>10 pack bone in, skin on chicken thighs
>rice
>canned beans
>canned tomatoes (crushed, paste, sauce)
>onions, carrots, potatoes, garlic, jalapenos
>pancake mix, just add water
>syrup
>pasta
>bananas

u might need to buy oil and seasonings once a month

>>11978695
>>11978118
>>11978914


$50 / 7 days / 3 meals a day = $2.38 for a meal. 5 Layer Beefy Burrito is 500 Kcal for $2.11 (including tax), so 1500 Kcal a day. Scrapin' by.

(2.38 - 2.11) * 365 = $98.55 left at the end of the year. Not enough for a Switch.

Does anyone think before they post?

>>11986744
You eat 3 meals a day. You save nearly $300.

>>11978127
Catholic church a few minutes away has to literally compete with other food banks in the area. Just give sign in and get a box of food every week. God, poorfags can be so fucking retarded

>$50 a week
that's double of what I spend on food, just stop being a fatass chugging on McNuggets and corn syrup

>>11978100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfmRhfuI8g

>>11986765
What?

>>11978100
That's not even hard. Memes aside, you could get 7 McChickens per day, which is far more calories than anyone needs.
You have to try to go hungry in America, even our poor people are fat.

>>11986744
Nigga, the beefy Frito burrito is $1 for 500 calories.

>>11978100
Beans and rice for the win.

>>11978100
That's easy.

Eggs. You can buy two dozen eggs for 3 to 4 bucks. That's 3 eggs for breakfast (filling, avoids carbs, good for high protein diet).

2 bucks for a loaf of bread. 2 loaves a week, allows for a slice of toast with breakfast, and a sandwich for lunch.

We're at, what, 8 bucks?
ok. moving on.
Bananas. 49 cents for a bunch, usually. One or two with breakfast, or lunch, or as a snack. That's a buck for a bunch.
so, 9 bucks.

a gallon of milk (useful for cooking, or a glass with breakfast). That's between 2 and 3 bucks. Let's call it 2. We're at $11

cheap lunch meat. We're talking 2 to 4 dollars a pound. Turkey, ham or bologna. If bologna, you can get that at under 2 a pound. For argument sake, we'll figure 4 a pound meat. Two pounds of it. 8 bucks. That is MORE than enough for one sandwich a day at lunch.
We're at $19
A head of lettuce, 2 tomatoes, and a condiment should cost between 5 to 8 bucks. We'll call that 7. We're at $26.
A single pack of american cheese slices. We aren't living fancy here, we're just living. Go storebrand, not craft. Call it $3 for a standard 16 slices. That's two slices per sandwich, with ;eft overs. We're at $29.

Dinner is chicken or pork. Boneless/skinless chicken breasts, or pork chops, can regularly be found at 1.99 a pound. 4 pounds means you can make a whole 8oz for dinner, with extra.
that 8 more. We're at $37.

A bag of rice. you can get 5 pounds of white rice for like 3 bucks. A quarter cup of rice for dinner every night, and that $3 bag will last well more than just one week. We're at 40 bucks.

salt, pepper, seasonings, other condiments, etc? They all extend beyond one week, so bought once, and they don't count into next week.

>>11987063
for beverage?
for $5 you can buy the 4c brand flavored tea drink mix. Makes 28 quarts (7 gallons). Make at full strength, and that's a gallon a day.
Make at half strength and add a shot of lemon juice (flavor enhancer) into the beverage, and that's 14 gallons. That 5 bucks (plus $2 for lemon juice) gives you a gallon of flavored beverage a day.

Sides are easy. Pasta is cheap. Pasta sauce (go prego) is cheap.
Look for ads. Maybe ground beef is on sale for 1.99 a pound this week. Or italian sausage is. Maybe bell peppers at 99 cents a pound. Onions are cheap and great to have. Frozen green beans, or mixed bags of frozen peas and carrots are cheap, and offer a veggie side.

I'm gonna be blunt:
When my ass was 300 pounds, I had to live off food stamps for 4 months after i got laid off, and was in between jobs.
My SNAP was $189 a month.
And I never needed to find another money source. I made ends meet, I kept myself fed, and usually had roll-over money from one month into the next, by sticking to careful purchasing choices.

Lastly? Your freezer is your friend. Chicken on sale for 1.69 a pound one week? That 30 cents a pound makes a difference, when you're buying 4 to 6 pounds a week. Buy 4 weeks worth, and fill your freezer!
Make too much taco meat with the ground beef you got on sale? Cooked taco meat WILL freeze, and is fine to thaw and reuse.

Want meatballs? Bread crumbs, eggs, seasoning and ground beef can work out to a MUCH cheaper meatball that the $6 for an 8oz bag in frozen, that will probably taste like shit. You don't even need to know how to cook. Just follow a youtube video.

>>11987067
My point is simple. I laid out a survivable, and filling, daily meal plan, that works out to 40 bucks a week. That will give you some stuff to roll over into the next week, or allow you to save to buy extra stuff. You will not starve. If nothing else, it gets boring, but... well, you can see how to change things up.
It comes down to reigning in expectations.
You will not be eating $12.99 a pound deli ham. You'll be eating BarS brand 1.09 a pound bologna (or the 4/lb deli ham in my example).
You will not be eating $4.99 a loaf, artisan multigrain bread. You'll be eating 99 cents a load white sandwich bread (or $2 storebrand wheat bread)
You will not be drinking fresh squeezed orange juice.
You will not be eating basmati rice.
You will not be eating steak.

All that said, there is more than enough options out there. The big thing is?
cook for yourself.
anything premade costs more.

>>11978100
my mom might spend $50 for 3 people a week usually less i'd literally be unable to not feed myself for $50 a week
you can get 5lbs of ground beef for $15-18 and 5 bags of hamburger buns for $1 each and make 20 quarter pound burgers and eat 1 a day that's $20-23 right there
pop is 80 fucking cents a 2 liter so even if you bought 7 for a full week and chugged 1 a day that's still 5.60 for all the drinks you'd need
ketchup in a huge bottle would be maybe $3 and last for weeks after
pack of cheese is $3 and you can fold the cheese in half to distribute it better along the patty
and that's not even fucking cost efficient and you spent under $35 bucks

>>11978163
based mcchicken poster

>>11978100
Step 1: Cheerios
Step 2: milk
The end

>>11981517
I work in a deli and will typically mark them down to 4.50ish in the last hour my deli is open. This is a kroger brand chain.

The basic ones only go for 8 anyway.

>>11978314
Another Vegas bro, I spend like 70 a week feeding a family of four. We typically only eat meat at dinner, but beyond that our pantry is usually overstockrd. The premise of this thread is dumb.

That's about what me and my roommate spend on groceries and we eat pretty good
Ground beef, chicken thighs, keilbasa for meats usually
Rice, pasta, potatoes, and homemade bread for starch
Onions, carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants for veg
Milk, eggs, butter
occasionally pizza rolls for when we're too lazy to cook
That's our standard grocery list. Just don't get a bunch of premade shit and you'll be fine. Find discount meats if you can, works good if you go in early in the morning when they're marking everything down. It's still good, just freeze it when you get home and thaw when you want it.

>>11986744
My go-to order is a 5 layer burrito and two fritos burritos (the 5 layer and a fritos for dinner, and the other fritos for breakfast). According to your own numbers that would leave me with $368.65 at the end of the year. I didn't account for tax on the fritos burritos, but that's still enough to get a Switch and a AAA game.

>>11978100
A subway footlong every day

>>11978100
50 is plenty for a week, idiot, 3 meals a day is just a fucking construct. You can go a long time without food.

>>11979441
Unless you work construction 2500 calories is fine. How fat are you?

$50 dollars a week is a lot for food. Are you sure you're a poorfag? Budget better OP.

>>11979645
Gonna test this tomorrow

>>11986744
$50 for 7 days = $7.14 a day
3 meals a day = $2.38 a meal
Highest sales tax rate = 10%
Lowest sales tax rate = 2.9% (let's say 3%)
Average tax rate is around 6.5% (this may not be accurate but whatever)

Beefy Fritos Burrito - $1 and 440 calories
Add avocado ranch sauce - $0.30 and 80 calories (most cost effective item on the menu for calories/cost without going over budget)
Add onions (free), grill it (free) and sauce packets (free) whenever to change up the flavor
This brings your total to $2.14 (after tax) for 520 calories
1560 calories a day for $6.42 a day, so you have a surplus of $0.72 a day
You will have $262.80 saved, and the Nintendo Switch is $299.99
However, there's a possibility there might be enough to get the Switch on sale, secondhand, etc.

>>11987935
If you really wanted the Switch, you would need an additional $37.19 to afford it.
You could skip out on 16 meals, or one meal a week for 16 weeks.
You could fast for 5 days and skip one meal the next day, or one day a week for 5 weeks and then one meal.
Alternatively, you could sell your plasma and not skip any meals.

>>11978100
Wtf 50 is easy. You can even buy meat and fruit with this budget

Soylent is 1.74 per 500 calories. So just drink Soylent. 2000 calories a day for 7 dollars. Basically works out exactly with perfect nutrition and no prep. Fuck outta here with your shitty rice and beans meme you dirty pajeets

I get 192 a month on ebt cause im unemployed loser, i eat like a king pretty much get whatever i feel like.

>>11978138
>americans claim they're capitalist
>they're actually tree-hugging commies
In Russia if you're going hungry you just fucking die because the government doesn't give a shit. Now that's capitalism.

>10.5# hamburger - $31.50
>24 hamburger buns - $6
>24 pack of American cheese slices - $4
>7 tomatoes - $3.50
>2 gallons of whole milk - $5

I'd make a half pound cheeseburgers with tomato slices for every meal. I'd enjoy them with a 12oz glass of milk. I'd use the 3 extra hamburger buns and slices of cheese to make grilled cheeses if I'm especially hungry at any time during the week.

>>11988461
This comes out to 750 calories, 44g carbs, 34g fat, 65g protein per meal.
Or, 2250 calories, 132g carbs, 102g fat, 195g protein per day.

>>11988457
>Charity is the same as communism.

>>11978100
Buy a pack of 30 that green curry ramen noodles on amazon for 17 bucks, then buy a 5kg pack of dried Japanese seaweed on amazon for 15 bucks. Spend the rest on two packs of 8 frozen chicken breasts and a carton of eggs.

Boil a frozen chicken breast for 15 min, then hardboil an egg, throw the ramen noodles into a different pan and add the flavouring sachets. When cooked add the shredded chicken breastfeeding and boiled egg cut in half, then add some seaweed , stir it in until it hydrates.

>>11980294

Australian dollar is about .70c USD

>>11988457
Starving to death is just Russian tradition.

>>11988502
>add the shredded chicken breastfeeding
I love you phone poster

>>11978100
tritip from stater bros like 2 bucks a lb.
5gallons of water for $1.50
Bag of greens for cheap

>>11978100
is this supposed to be hard?
i'd prolly eat a couple of pasta dishes with some sort of protein + vegetables, a soup of some sort along with a some dishes with potatoes in some way.
tl;dr every meal would have some sort of carb and protein source

>>11978314
Thats such s waste. Just get a 5 gallon jug and find a place you can fill it like Publix for $1.25. You dont even need a water cooler, I just pour it straight from counter

>>11979350
Very informative and helpful posts. Thank anon, been meaning to try out those "breakfast pancakes" like bodybuilders do, sound pretty cost effective

>€40
>Its possible to get ham/ox liver for €3/kg
>Survive on 10kg meat a week
I expected nothing less

>>11978100
2-3 costco chickens
rice
beans
cans of vegetables
spices

I've lived on $35. Child's play

I think i spend like €30 a week on food. Maybe i can bring that number down. Shits not cheap here though.

1kg chicken filet = €8
1kg ground beef = €6

It used to be almost half that. I remember buying chicken filet for €3.50 a kilo.

Make fucking tacos and plant a garden if you have space and you're not a fucking retard.

>>11978100
1 word:
Beans

>thinking you cant survive on $50 a week

The absolute state of amerifats
Its called buying actual food and not going to mcdonalds every day

>>11987584
Why the fuck would you have sausages with milk? Dip them in BBQ sauce or something instead

>>11985487

>>11978100
fast; if you're already skin and bones, supplement with olive oil and/or butter; some saw you can half-and-half it for sth like a mayo consistency, but i hate olive oil, and the good stuff is expensive too;

pig (goose is like triple price but sooo much tastier and palatable) lard if you can stomach it- protip, mix in spices- for me it's salt, summer savory and pepper and just spoon it till its more homogeneous than it isn't

vitamins you don't need for short term fasting (1-2w), unless your usual diet is reeeeally lacking. few first-worlders should be. salt should be your main supplement, but even that isn't too necessary unless you sweat crazily; the body can recycle a lot of miconutrients

me- in germany, and on lowcarb; but i've given less than 50 euro/dollar for the past month, for example


found a caffeine seller again, so my biggest expense of a pound of coffee every few days is now gone, 1kg is gonna last me for >1.5y and it's at least a good 100 time cheap $/1g caffeine

>>11978100
>learn to cook
>buy ingredients for food
50 bucks a week is enough for two people. stop being a useless degenerate and learn some life skills.

>>11978100
$50 isn't bad at all.
That's like 5 trips to McDonalds if your combo meal is $11 or so. You're bound to find quarters and carryover change

>>11978100
>rice
>beans
>fresh veggies
>chick peas
>couscous
>cheap meats
>sardines
i can buy enough of this for €, the rest goes to drugs or alcohol

>>11992521
>25 euro
numlock was on

You could easily live off $50 a week,

>>11978429
pseudo-ephedrine from the pharmacy
lye from a drain cleaner that's lye based
muriatic acid is sold by the gallon for cleaning concrete
red phosphorous from match strike pads
Might have to go to walgreens or something to get iodine as a tincture
naphtha in this context is just camp fuel
hydrogen peroxide at the HBA section
sulfuric acid can be had by different drain cleaners
pH strips are available at some stores
My walmart doesn't have pvc, so you may have to buy that at a hardware store. Pyrex is available at walmart

Happy cooking, my friend. Read the instructions well and don't be a retard or you'll kill yourself.

how much is a rack of bone-in ribeyes from costco?

>>11979176
>Farmer's market sells shrimp at $6.99/lb
Depends on your area. I live in Southern Louisiana, so I get shrimp for around $2-3/lbs directly from trawlers (much to their dismay. the prices are abysmal these days), but I went to Orange Beach last year and they were $15/lbs. If I drive 30 miles North, they cost around your price. A friend of mine went to some Northeastern state and they were $33/lbs.

>>11978130
Just get 2 loaves of bread and a jar of peanut butter. A multipack of crisps and like 2 gallons of milk maybe some calorie dense biscuits if theres change.
Shit should be cheap as hell, that or pasta and a fat jar of mayonnaise.

$50 a week is plenty.
Dry Beans
Rice
Onions
Brussles Sprouts
Carrots
Sweet/Potatoes
Rosemary (buy a plant if you're able to keep it alive)
Eggs
Sauerkraut or another type of pickle
Spice box from indian store (chana masala box mix goes nice with most things; it's $2.00 for a lot)
Old fashioned rolled oats
Oat or almond milk
raw cashews

Live on roasted veggies, when they're all roasted break an egg or 2 in the pan and broil for 3 minutes. Oatmeal with toasted cashews or nut butter in the morning. You can do overnight oats with the oat/almond milk. Add fruit if you have any. You can make brussles sprouts curry quite easily. Also you can learn to make roti or tortillas or whatever, they're really quite easy. Once you can make one successfully, make a week's worth of the dough and keep it in the fridge. Roll out a roti when you're eating. Egg curry is a thing too and it's easy and delicious. Simple rice and beans done right can also be delicious. Just always start your meals with onions in oil and season the onions. Taste as you go, the onions will be strong but once you add everything else it will be more mild. You can blend raw cashews with water to make cashew cream, which is a better base for rich veggie stews and curries than dairy cream is.

You can easily live on $20 / week if you plan right you autistic retard.

>>11978100
>$50 a week
>$200 a month
Jesus christ how fat are you

>>11978100
I have to live with maximally 34 $ (30,1 €)/ week for food in germany

Shit dude, thats nothin. I've had to live off of $15 a month because food stamps wouldn't give my husband and I jack shit. We needed food stamps because at that time we lived with some roommates who ran up all the bills so we'd spend all our money paying for shit. We made it by buying $1 packs of hot dogs and $1 bread loafs from dollar general, and only eating once a day

>>11994170
Also, ramen packs. Lots of ramen, hot dogs in bread, and cheap damaged cans of ravioli and beefaroni

>>11978100
pasta, canned tomato, garlic, onions, rice, eggs, soy sauce, spices. and vegetables. Dude 50$ a week is on easy mode

>>11978105
>has 50$ a week to eat
>foodbank
that's such a selfish and douchebag move to do. People have less than that a week to eat

>>11978100
Jesus man just get a big bag of rice and a few big bags of beans, a few onions, maybe some peppers, some eggs, some hot sauce. You now have enough food for a week for like $20

>>11978100
8 pounds of ribeye

>>11987848
This. You can get by with just 1 meal a day, as long as you keep yourself busy and aren't sitting around on your ass all day. The more you sit around, the hungrier you get.

>vending machine at work has snacks and soda for $0.25 each
>eat 2 bags of hot cheetos/takis and 2 dr. peppers (900 calories) a day
>live on $5 of food a week
Beat that, /ck/.

>>11994476
did your iq decline due to having 1 meal a day? do you know how kcal / energy consumption works?

>>11994488
That shit makes minimal difference, do you think our ancestors had three meals a day every day? They still invented mathematics, tools, strategies and buildings even if they didn’t get three meals a day. Those 2000+kcal will digest throughout the day like a batterie in a phone. It’s grazing that fucking makes you dumber, constantly teasing satiation makes your body burn less calories over time to feel satisfied.

Beans, rice, corn, squash.

>>11994486
What is it like being a skeleton?

>>11978733
kek, I remember doing the same for my first few weeks at uni until I finally got fed up and started buying fresh food

>>11978100
eat nothing but potatoes like always

carbs:rice, oatmeal, potatoes, whole pasta
fats:avocado, peanut butter, cheese/milk
protein: chicken, turkey, lean meat

being poor was the best thing ever for my health

>>11995972
oh fuck also eggs

>>11978100
I live in the third world so that's pretty much my food budget already.

>>11978100
Rice and 3 pounds of whatever cheap meat they're giving a deal at at the grocery. Buy 1 pound of rice, and eat the rice with the meat for dinner, and eat it with a can of beans for lunch. A pack of beans is like, what, 5 dollars? You can get a pound of chicken for like 3 dollars, right? So you should be spending 9+5+ a pound of rice. That's like 15-17 dollars.

If you really need some flavor just buy some salt and pepper, maybe some oil or butter

If you still need breakfast just buy some bread, jelly and fruits. If you need to spend more than 15 dollars on bread jelly and fruit your a fucking moron.

Just focus the rest of the money on not eating the same shit for the whole week, maybe buy a pack of ramen noodles, or some macoroni and cheese to replace the rice for the weekend. Or buy some canned vegetables to eat dinner

>>11979350
High quality post

>>11995770
Potatoes, cabbage, onion, and enough butter to shit them out. Grab some sausage, eggs, pork, etc from time to time so you don't end up as brain dead as Brits.

This is easily just 20USD a week.

Just bought 6kg/13.2lbs of chicken filet and 60 eggs for €30/$34.

Possibly the cheapest i'll ever get in my country.

>>11996171
Enjoy your rock hard stool and scurvy

>>11996230
What do you mean? Thanks i guess.

>>11978100
people spend more than $30-40/week on fucking food?

>>11996342
>Be me
>at rich friends birthday
>his aunt is talking, suddenly takes my ear's attention when i hear her say:Yes we spend 500 euro on groceries a month. But it's two of us, so the costs are justified.


My guess is certain people just don't buy the non-branded products because it's beneath them? I don't know. It's crazy.

>>11996230
That wouldn’t happen eating nothing but meat has some issues especially since meat is not all the same. But! as far as I know, nobody who has ate nothing but meat has ever gotten scurvy.

>>11996242
>>11996413
Now I’m no botanist, but I don’t think chicken has any vitamin c.

>>11996442
But i don't llan on solely eating chicken and eggs. I also got some beef, and i eat my veggies every day.

>>11996508
The thread is about eating food for a week under $50. When you said you spent that much on chicken and eggs, it seemed like that’s all you would eat that week

>>11978100
All your basic nutrition covered protein, fiber, healthy fats, and antioxidants with plenty of leftovers for the next week. Any smart person buys shelf stable foods in large quantities so you'd be able to spend in a month affording you money to buy luxury foods. This is from Publix and it would cost even less at budget stores.

>>11978105
What interest rates do they offer.

>>11978540

>>11978100

If you find sales it is quite easy. These are prices in the midwest United States as of 05 March 2019. As far as tax, some states realize that food is a necessity and do not tax them.

20 lbs rice
4.8lbs red lentils
7 lbs bone in chicken legs and quarters
5 pizzas
24 frozen battered fish fillets
2 lbs carrots
3 lbs onions

total cost $36.51

This leaves $13.49 for tax and the per pound veggies and fruits or doubling up on anything in the pic.

>>11997991
in addition, I know you could get way more by avoiding the frozen stuff and probably stretch it to 2 or even 3 weeks. But this is doing the budget without suffering boredom and not eating the same bowl of rice and chicken everyday.

Is it worth getting the rice at the Asian markets instead of a bulk grocery store? I heard something about how they have way less regulations like talc on the rice and it’s not checked for animals

>>11978100
Rice, Beans and canned tomatoes.
Canned meat and spaghetti.

Super cheap and you can use it in a million of variations

>>11996515
Gonna gubble it down the entire month, so basiclly devided by 4 it's €7.50 a week, only need a week worth of veggies and potatoes and rice, yoghurt, peanut butter, bread (around €18) = €25.50 a week.

Yeah i'm doing fine, eating meat 3 Times a week

>>11978733

>>11978163
Math isn't right even if this is bant. Mcchickens aren't even $1 anymore, only cheeseburgers and the other two burgers are plus you still have to pay tax. You can do 6 and 7 on Sunday though.

>>11985154
is avas demon still a thing

>>11978100

lot's of bacon and eggs, with lettuce, tomatoes and bell peppers and a 750ml bottle of 100% pomegranate juice. Also I wouldn't eat for 2 days.

>>11978100
try a month fag.

>>11986744
>Fast food as source of energy

>>11978100
I could buy 3 chickens: roast 1, fridge 1, freeze 1. Eat 1 every 2-3 days for lunch and dinner. Use the change for a bag of potatoes, carrots, a few onions, either celery or spinach, and rice. Rotate some chuck beef in there, swap potatoes and rice around. Should still be enough left over for some tortillas if I wanna make some tacos.

>>11978100
https://youtu.be/-8pC1l_FegM

you can make a ton of varieties of pasta sauce for like $6 that tastes pretty good. just need a couple cans of tomatoes, some garlic, spices you probably have, and then your choice of anything extra like onions or meat or whatever. freeze and you'll get 6 meals or so.

HEY EVERYBODY

I'm not OP but a lot of the images posted so far have been really helpful to me! Please keep 'em coming, any good cheap recipe ideas like mac n cheese with broccoli and stuff like that is awesome

>>11978100
*Laughs in slavic*

>>11999981
adding back onto this with my pleb-tier baby mode pasta sauce:
>either finely dice or mash a couple cloves of garlic
>add to stock pot with a bit of oil (olive/vegetable) on medium heat
>simmer until golden brown
>add 3 cans tomato paste, then fill cans with water and add that. stir until smooth
>simmer for 30 minutes or so on medium-low
>add 3 cans whole peeled tomatoes (some italian style thing, i use Tottorosso brand). cans of diced tomatoes work well enough if peeled isn't available.
>either dice or blend them first depending on how thick you want it.
>add red pepper flakes, onion powder, salt, bit of sugar, and stir
>simmer on low for 4-6 hours, stirring occasionally.
>add whatever the fuck else you want. want actual onions? ground beef? meatballs? other spices? go for it. adjust to taste.
combine with your favorite/cheapest pasta and once you're done just put it in containers/bags and freeze. the sauce costs a whopping $6.06 here assuming you have garlic already.

>>11978104
I work in a major US grocery chain & we have just upgraded our self checkout to use external cameras & AI to check out what you actually swipe & weigh. We have been catching tons of people since we put this in. You should hear the excuses.

>>11979017
I could eat 50 McChickens

a dozen eggs and veggies
thats like 10-15 bucks

>>11978100
A $5 Taco Bell box and a 40 of Steel Reserve every day.

>>12000173
put steaks in those green bags used for vegetables. if caught just say it was leaking.

>>11978100
>How would you survive? Is it even possible?
How is $50 a week not an extravagant expenditure?

>>11978127
It's like food libraries

>>12000747
Are you supposed to regurgitate it back or something

>>12000487

Mah nigga