/ck/ - Food & Cooking

lentils, beans
bulk skim milk powder

Idk where you live but tripe here in italy doesn't cost shit

>>12153748
Don't skip breakfast it slows down your metabolism. Try eating something light and healthy like a single egg or a banana

>>12153748
Rice + beans.
Add veggies and cheap meats to add flavor and additional nutrition.

Speghetti
Crock pot stews

>>12153748
Literally only muscle meat thats on sale.
Its expensive to actually eat good but you can just try homesteading animals then you can eat the organs (factory farmed organs are full of bs from their grain diet)

>>12153748
>>12153762
This, just have a serving size of high fiber cereal like fiberone with not plant milk if you can for the protein.

Also invest in a few decent spices or mixes. Helps when you don't have a variety of different food to be able to dress it up differently. Also coconut milk is a great way to stay saited.

>>12153748
>extremely cheap/high in protein to stay in shape
Doesn't exist unless you can get skinless chicken breast at a big discount. Anything cheap with protein is going to have fat and/or carbs along with it. Protein is the most expensive of the major types (carbs, fat, protein, sodium, sugar) of food to produce.
As long as you eating a cheap basic diet you're unlikely to start having to worry about gaining weight. If you do, then start going to a gym to do lifting for muscle or running to burn off carbs. You can track your stuff on something like myfitnesspal if you really want to be sure.
As for the rest, I'll give the same advice I give the other 15 million threads that have been done every week from poor people asking what to get.
Meat - Chicken Drumsticks & Wings. If you can afford it, beef mince.
Vegetables - Onion. Potato. Canned Tomato
Fruit - Apple, Oranges & Banana
Other - Rice. Pasta. Bread. Margarine/Butter. Peanut Butter. Eggs. Milk. Salt. Pepper. Smoked Paprika. Dried Oregano/Basil.
Use the eggs, bread & peanut butter for breakfast & lunch.
Eat 250g to 300g of meat at dinner.
>I refuse to take handouts for food from the gov so disregard that idea to alleviate this problem
No-one cares. Unless it's hard to access you're throwing money away by being prideful.

If you're seriously poor and having trouble actually just getting nutrients & calories at all, buy a 400ml (roughly 16 fluid ounces) can of coconut cream every 2nd or 3rd day. Throw the can into a blender and add fruits to make a smoothie, or ice cubes & instant coffee to make a frappe type thing and drink it. It'll give you an immense shot of calories via fat, along with a decent amount of carbs & protein without being too packed with salt & sugar (just check the ingredients/nutritional info though, avoid lite because they usually chuck salt & sugar into it). It's not 'healthy' but it's better than starvation.

>>12153933
Weird advice considering coconut cream is shit in terms of calories/nutrition per dollar.

>>12153748
Rice. Beans. Frozen vegetables. Make a double portion every night and save some for tomorrow's lunch.
Complete nutrition for under 2 bucks a day.
Best of luck.

>>12153967
>Weird advice considering coconut cream is shit in terms of calories/nutrition per dollar.
I'd imagine that depends entirely on where you shop. In my area it's far from bad. It's not the best thing you could buy, but it's cheap and it's high cal.

Agreed on the rice & beans.

>>12153874
No land for that currently, will be in an apartment.

>>12153933
Good advice senpai

>>12153758
Sure tastes like it though

>>12153755

>skim

>>12153748
organ meats, brown rice, rye bread, buckwheat, any kind of dark carbs really, any vegetable and fruit that are in season

>>12153967
>Weird advice considering coconut cream is shit in terms of calories/nutrition per dollar.
Where are you that it's not cheap? Where I am a 16floz can is roughly the equivalent of 60 cents US. I'd have to buy $4 USD worth of chicken breast and the coconut cream would still have about 25% more calories. It's also easy to use, if you got a rice cooker you can dump the can with some rice and bam, coconut rice. Or do the smoothie/frappe blender thing, you could blend it with some milk & ice cubes and banana and freeze it to make something similar to ice cream. It's not super super cheap like beans but it'll do the job.

From all the ideas here I think I can handle dinner very well.

Any good ideas for lunch which is healthy?

>>12154118
peanut butter sandwich (or 2) is the ultimate cheap lunch.
alternative: 2 to 4 boiled eggs, perhaps on toast or in a sandwich. if you have a rice cooker (or don't mind microwaved rice) you could have eggs + rice.
if you can get a bulk chunk canned tuna that would be viable on bread although it's probably not going to be very cheap and you don't really want it all the time anyway.
_if_ your budget can stretch AND you don't have problems storing it, I always say the best lunch is to make a second serving of your dinner the night before and eat that for lunch.
If you're at home and budge stretches then 250g (half a pound roughly) of 80/20 mince beef, mix it with some breadcrumbs and spices/salt/pepper and make rissoles/burgers (oven baked or frypan). On a bed of rice if you feel like it.

>>12154163
Never heard of a rissole but will look into that

bump for more ideas

Chicken thighs
Chicken hearts
Chicken liver

Barley.
Make stock / soup from veggies and throw a some barley in it. Filling, healthy, and cheap.
Not too much protein, but you can have barley and beans (tastes ass probably) due to barley being much more healthy then rice.

Eggs in bulk is the obvious answer. Eat 10 eggs a day for your protein fix.

>>12153762
>falling for the breakfast meme

>>12153748
get over yourself and go to the food bank

Are potatoes bad? They are cheap as fuck, easy to Cook and fucking Delicious.

>>12155147

>>12153748
Ful medames can be pretty cheap to make and it's high in protein. Hardboiled eggs, cooked lentils or beans, onions, spices, oil, and vinegar. The spices, oil, and vinegar should be pretty cheap if you get plain distilled vinegar and vegetable oil, and just salt and cumin will make it taste pretty good.

Peanut butter sandwiches will be high in calories and protein, and it's cheap. Same thing with cheese sandwiches.

Cabbage is also really cheap and nutritious.

Chickpeas
Onions
Potatoes
Turnips

>>12155171
>Ful medames
Never heard of that and I will certainly try it.

>>12153748
Peanut Butter is pretty goat in general as a poverty food.

Potatoes are great if only because there's a good chance that you can grow them yourself regardless of where you are and you can almost live off of them exclusively.

That said if you can afford a gun and a few hunting tags then going out and finding a deer/other wildlife and bringing it home can set you on meat for quite a while for way cheaper than you could buy the shit.

>>12153991
If you're mostly interested in the protein, skim milk powder is relatively economical. Might be cheaper than whey per gram of protein depending on your country.

>>12155021
This
Pearl barley,lard and salt are your staples
pick nettles and dandelion leafs for greens and trap pigeons for protein

>>12155323
Oh, as an add on to hunting, fishing can be in the same boat.

I'm not the first to ask, but why isn't one of these threads stickied by now? we get these people several times a day.

>>12155147
Without potatoes there wouldn't be many Russian's left, ultimate poverty food.

>>12155169
Skinny people don't have to worry about GI.

>>12155147
if you like them eat them, health gurus tend to forget the human animal has adapted to live it very different environments and what might spike blood sugars in one person might be fine for another. Also your body will gravitate to things its needs, just be aware of pitfalls like pure sugar.

>>12153748
Chicken liver has a crapload of vitamins and iron.

>>12156200
Nasty

Chicken thighs near me are like $1.49 / lbs.

And for filler, get rice, beans (dry if you're REALLY trying to save every cent), some veggies like frozen broccoli, carrots and peas and one or two sauces.

Usually for sauces, I get pace picante sauce for the above ingredients.

Ramen noodles are awesome as long as you put in other things like veggies and meat if you want. You can even make a soup out of the ingredients you got.

Also ask /fit/ for any tips on bulking cheap. They're gurus on high calorie , low $$$ meals

>>12157227
>he doesn't eat organ meats
Coward.

>>12157386

fit, student-tier but needs gains:

eggs
lentils + rice (need both combined for all EAAs)
various chicken, based on what is on sale, even those $5-7 rotisserie chickens (costco is best)
whateverthefuck veggies

Ramen is for people who don't lift but are still student-tier or Asian. The noodles are not filled with protein and the meal is just a carbohydrate mess. If I wanted carbs all day and didn't care about body composition I would just eat oatmeal all day.

>>12153748
Stop being a bitch and get your handouts.

America should restart that government cheese program again.

>>12155420
Outside of some fruit I've basically cut sugar out of my life save for my weekend ice cream bowl. It's amazing how weight falls off when you eat a balanced diet and drink water.

>>12155334

My point is that whole milk powder is a superior value.

>>12157799
What can be substituted for rice for white people? Can I use barley, split peas and bread (on the side) instead with the lentils?

>>12158685
What does powdered milk even taste like I I've never had it. Did you use it just to simulate milk?

>>12158685
I can get 25 kg of skim milk powder with 33% protein for 100 Euro, 25 kg of whole milk powder with 25% protein costs 150 Euros. Bad deal for less protein and some expensive fat.

Skim milk powder is a by-product of a luxury ingredient, cream, so you get a discount.

>>12153748
Walmart sells bacon scraps at $7 for 3lbs

>>12154044
Where the fuck do live? In US rocky mountains, coconut cream is $4 USD a can.

bone broth w/ bones from whole chickens, or you wings after you roast them. beef bones are cheap and can usually be purchased in the freezer section or a smaller butcher who has scrap

>>12153748

How to make great rice&beans dishes? Any good recipes? I'm great with pasta, thanks to my Italian gf, but rice and beans is something I want to learn since it's also dirt cheap and healthy enough.

Also, lentlis. pls halp

>>12153748
Lunch: Eggs and rice with hot sauce, frozen veggies
Dinner: Lentil stew with carrots, onions, red wine vinegar
Learn to bake your own bread, can make 3-4 loaves with 30 mins of work a week and keep the rest in the freezer

>I refuse to take handouts for food from the gov
Why, you're going to be paying for some nigger's welfare for the rest of your life if you ever get out of the hole so why not take it now while you're down? You can spend food stamps at farmer's markets where I live for some very tasty and fresh food.

>>12159321
Rice, we do have that here.

>>12155323
You can make a potato box out of discarded pallets and stuff if you have the time and access to tools.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRKls2LLMqU-uK2csT6FOKw

>>12153748
Frozen vegs and cheap yeararound vegs, soy milk skins, eggs, buckwheat.

>>12159665

I stand corrected. I was basing that upon fresh milk invariably being the same price for whole as skim over here in burgerland.

>>12158685
Try saying so the first time, you smug cunt.

>>12160011
Niggah non fresh eggs taste like the debil

>>12162474

>expecting reading comprehension
>on 4chins

Yeah, serves me right I guess ^_^

>>12160962
Milk in the refrigerated section is a loss leader. In the fridge wall there will be at least one brand that has skim, 2%, whole, and sometimes D-fortified purposefully sold at one super-lowball price point to get people in the store shopping for everything else on their grocery lists.

t. not the euro but a grocery wagie

>>12163223

Interesting, thank you. I've been a retail wagie -- hell, who hasn't at one point or another -- but never grocery, so this is all new information to me.

Poor people can't be healthy, sorry.

Actually found a good video by Boris the slav meme guy on YouTube that has his poverty tier list