/ck/ - Food & Cooking

about $230-250 a month.

>>14562885
and you fuckers have the gall to give us shit about our food, jesus christ

>>14562885
Do Americans really?

>>14562885
that's a real sloppa. what am i even looking at?

>>14562885

>>14562885
I probably spend... $60-100/wk at the grocery store. and eat out maybe 2-3 times? for another $50. so $110-160/week.

>>14562885
How do you afford to spend over $600 a month on food and not have a place where you can cook?

>>14562885
What happens to your kitchen?

>>14562885
That blows, but good job at keeping your food bill that low. For me, based on what I usually spend at the grocery and how long it lasts between trips, I'd say $10 or less per day.

>>14562885
I bring leftovers 2 days a week and eat out the other three. I keep it on a strict $5 per day the days I eat out

daily
can of deens $1
knorr side $1

weekly
bananas $2
apples $2

monthly
30 pack keystone $18
vitamin supplement 60 count $10

>>14563256
how the fuck are you paying the same amount of apples as you are for bananas? Where i live, banana's are 77cents a pound. The CHEAPEST apples(gala) are like $2 a pound.

>>14563256
Good goy. You'll make it into the ethnosestate.

>>14563269
Not the guy you are responding to but I live in Orchard country and I can buy 6 bananas for two dollars at the cheapest place in town or I can just drive to pretty much any orchard in the area and see what is fruiting. In apple season I pay one dollar to pick as many as many as it takes to fill a bushel. That should be about 25lbs for one dollar. If I am feeling particularly adventurous that year I will pick several bushels and make cider.

>>14563269
i should have mentioned that the $2 was for 2 bunches of bananas and the apples are 3lb bag

$200 a month shopping usually, for two people - so $25 a week a person?
How the fuck am I going to feed a family it sounds like so much shopping

>>14563304
It actually gets cheaper per person to feed a family the more of you there are.

>>14562885
>I'm going out to eat every day. I spend $20-25.
>on a 30 day month, you're spending $600 on shoddy food at the lowest, and at the highest you're spending $750
Goodness gracious, you're paying more in food than I do in rent. Get yourself a kitchen.
I spend $50 a month for daily needs and $50 a month for hanging out with friends/business lunches/booze acquisition, really. The latter has died out significantly in the past few months, so I've some money saved up because I don't drink that often when I'm alone. I do cook most of my meals, though, and my breakfast is slim to say the least.

>>14562885

what the FUCK is that sl0p 0f shit

>>14562937
came to say this kek

>>14562937
>>14563351
some gross looking coleslaw

>>14562885
Around £4 a day.

>>14563304
Shop big for less perishable things at the start of the month, shop small every week for vegetables and fruits (if you've a farmer's market, going there is a matter of necessity).

>>14562885
I have a kitchen and thats about what I spend in a week on groceries.

>>14562885
About $5-7.

>>14563269
cardenas mexican grocer
bananas $0.53/lb
apples (fuji) $0.50/lb

>>14563091
>>14563098
I'm a NEET mooching off of my family. The kitchen here is too terrible to use.

I eat out everyday but it's like $7 because i don't order $25 meals for myself like a fatass and look for deals

>>14562885
maybe 200 a month

>>14562885
nice sloppashit

>>14563537
$7 is less than one burger/sandwich/burrito here.

>>14562885
Hey mod, you banned me for racism after simply pointing out that Chinese are cruel to animals? Go fuck yourself you stupid goddamned NIGGER, I’ll show you real racism if you want

>>14563584
i saw that lol
jannies are chinks

Papa Sloppa

>>14563269
how can you make an apples to bananas comparison

>>14563565
$7 here in Canada is 5 burritos or 5 tacos at taco bell, and either a burger combo or 2 burgers.

>>14562885
Depend were you live it's probably worth getting a bar fridge in your room and making sandwiches out of cold cuts and cheese and fill the rest with fruit and yoghurt you can take to work.
Then buy bags of nuts and jars of honey and peanut butter.
Bar fridges are like $150 new to $20 second hand.

Around $7/day, including bottled water.
If I'm feeling fancy, might go up to $10.

Bottled water because no running water (trucker).
And to anon who goes for takeout; geez, get a toaster oven and a hotplate and invest the 8 minutes a meal in prep time.

>>14564263
I can't use a hotplate without a sink. I've been planning on opening up my window, so I can crawl through it to access the faucet outside to wash dishes, but I'm a bit slow with things. I am very reluctant to open the door to my room, and I only go out for fast food when I know I won't risk an encounter.

>>14563534
Get a toaster oven

I dont know daily but my groceries are usually $30 to $60 a week depending on what I need to buy.

>>14564358
Oh honey.
You could just clean the damn kitchen.
And they make disposable foil pans nowdays.

>>14562885
With the wife and kids, regular grocery bill for the week comes out to about $200. Thank you based Costco.

I stock up on powdered milk, ramen, dried fruits and veggies, and other long shelf life foods. I also have a garden, orange tree, fig tree, and raise guineas so I end up spending less than a dollar a day on food unless I decide to treat myself to some Zaxby's. Get gud faggots.

>>14563269
Who said he's buying the same amount of both relative to pound and price you brainlet.

>>14564358
You'd be better off dead. There's not a single reason for you to still be alive.

>>14564451
How do you cook your guineas?

>>14564500
Anyway you would chickens, I'm talking about guinea hens not guinea pigs. Guineas are much more resilient and hatch more eggs than chickens, they also eat all the ticks and kill snakes. The only down side is how annoying they are.

it varies wildly
i can a lot of food and am a bit of a prepper so i can go weeks spending nothing
but i also like to splurge like i bought a $300 steak not too long ago

>>14564463
I think my childhood OCD diagnosis holds true. I refuse to wash dishes in this filthy sink. It cannot be cleaned, because the other people in this house will take it over.

I've been planning on removing the screen door to my room for over a month now, but I've had to vacuum first. There's a dresser in front of my window with some things on it. I have to remove the things before disassembling the window and climbing out. But I can't remove the things off of the dresser until the small rug underneath my bed is vacuumed, which I cannot vacuum until I have a clean main rug to place it on top of. The main rug is no good right now, because I moved a nightstand over it. The nightstand was formerly (Chuck's) located next to a wall with peeling, water damaged paint that may or may not contain lead. I believe there are lead particles on my rug. The lead particles have been there for probably about 2 weeks now.

Once I vacuum the lead particles off of my main rug, I can move the small rug under my bed on to the main rug, and vacuum it. Then, I can store the items on my dresser under my bed, on the clean small rug. Then, I must sneak a hammer outside my room so I can pry loose the screen door from the outside. I should probably trim the hedge next to my window, too. Then I can disassemble the window from the inside.
Once this is done, it is time to buy these things off of Amazon:
>electric camp grill (the "hot plate")
>nontoxic nonstick pan
>steel pot
>nontoxic silicone spatula (and the other kind of spatula for eggs)
>a food-safe garden hose
>a 1-to-2 food safe hose connector (in case the other people of this house want to use the faucet)
>a food-safe faucet
This way, I can route the output of the faucet next to my window; fill the steel pot; heat the steel pot on the camp griddle (after bringing it through the window); bring the warm pot of water back outside; and clean my dishes with complete control. Only then can I cook my own food.

>>14564587
You take amphetamines don't you?

>>14564707
I don't take any drugs.

I spend about $12 a day at local markets.

>>14564720
Weed?

>>14564857
I don't take ANY drugs.

I'm going to bed now. My money will run out in a couple of months.

>>14562885
I make lunch, but I'm still spending $25 a day.
I could probably half the grocery cost If I cut out the chips and energy drinks, getting that down to $20 a day. But I won't.
Despite what the politicians would tell you, saving $5 a day won't buy you a house unless you do it for 320 years and live in the outer suburbs.

>>14562885
less than a dollar

>>14565288
Are you an african child?

>>14563349
You have shockingly low rent.
$50 will only cover food for a month if you eat nothing but bread and water.
$50 is enough to visit a restaurant once a month, but is only enough for a pub visit every two months. Or one bottle of low end whisky.
The cost of living where you're at sounds chill as fuck.

>>14563772
Expensive to run.

>>14565301
much better, im a stinky neet

>>14565323
break it down for me champ, i'm always willing to learn new was to pinch a penny

>>14565451
a pack of ramen and about 80-120 ounces of water, wa la

>>14565509
for reference, these cost about a $1.50

>>14565451
So basically my parents don't love me or give a shit about my well being, so they let me live with them well into adult hood. I don't work, I eat all day, play video games, and smoke weed/drink. I am extremely self-centered to the point of sociopathy. This life style causes Mee to be perpetually depressed, but instead of taking some initiative I blame my problems on everyone else, particularly my parents. I'm human garbage, but I'm addicted to decadence so I do nothing about it. I'm completely apathetic to everything, and severely mentally and physically ill. I'm the embodiment of all things bad about humanity. I and others like me need to be culled to improve the rest of humanity, but I guess society just isn't smart enough yet.

>>14565525
but thats just my gay theory

>>14565530
Oh I forgot to say that I am so delusional about the state of my life, that I often lash out when someone points out my faults.

>>14562885
you can cut that down to 3 dollars a day if you just go to mcdonalds instead

>>14565533
..and then everyone clapped

>>14562927
no

>>14565537

>>14565525
wew lad i just wanted your item list

>>14565575
sent

>>14565575
Mom buys the groceries and I only have money when I steal it from her purse, that's how I keep my budget low.

>>14565608
nice i hope you eventually escape this cycle of torment

>>14565620
I won't, I'm too delusional to admit that any of it's my fault. I'll keep making excuses and blaming others until I die from a heart attack in my early 30's.

>>14565678
still an escape

>>14563269
Why would you have either when watermelon is 30c/kilo

>>14565317
Not an issue unless you're paying Aussie/Kiwi electricity prices

>>14565715
Found the porch monkey.

>>14562885
Not living the best atm. I spend between 30-50 euro on food a week, depending on sales and if I feel like I've deserved a fast food meal on weekends. Maintaining that budget is tough and I kept failing hard when I started living on my own, but it's fine now.

>>14562885
>I don't have a kitchen.
Nigga what.
buy an air fryer

>>14562885
What the actual fuck

>>14565747
god I wish I could get a tray like this

>>14565317
How expensive you think a fridge is to run for a year like $100 maximum.
You will save that in less than 2 weeks.

>>14564873
I think you probably should

>>14562885
I have spent 7$ on food this month

>>14562885
maybe about $18 per day for two people, we cook at home and eat out 2-3 times per year, we don't budget food tightly we just eat the same things in rotation more or less. $18 seems really high to me I now feel compelled to change this even though it's affordable for us.

>>14562885
I don't cook either, so most of my food is awful fast food, but I'm still only spending around $10 a day

>>14562923
honestly, that looks delicious

>>14564587
this is a 10/10 post
unexpectedly exhilarating thread

>>14562885
Honestly around 750usd a month, some months I've spent 1000usd on restaurant dining alone.

We generally go out twice a week and to an "expensive" (over $100 per person) restaurant twice a month.

30 euros per week on average but that also includes non food shit like soap, paper, etc.

>>14562885
idk about daily. Grocery bill is between 100 and 200. Go shopping once every 1 or 2 weeks.
So generally for 2.5 people I spend 300-400 bucks a month.
I never go out. Have not eaten a strangers cooking since 2019
This month I've spent 100 on groceries. The garden is giving lots of squash, melons, and tomatoes atm so we are doing good on produce in that regard. I want to eventually master growing potatoes, onions, and garlic.

some of you could mortgage a house in the country and rent it out for the price you pay for food.

modern amerifats certainly will be a hot topic for future historians.

>>14562885
around 8$ + soda and sweets around 5$ so i would say 13$ a day

but in my poorest times i was eating for 3$ a day (homemade rice with chicken and vegetables every day)

>>14562885
I spent $36 on the ingredients for last night's dinner. It was a good dinner.

>>14566437
Kek. Shhh. Don't tell them. Many urbanite coasties could actually afford to buy a house in the Ozarks and rent it out to pay the mortgage til they are ready to retire, but they get filtered because they can't stand the idea of living by people who disagree with them politically. They claim to love democracy but are actually quite intolerant people, but that's ok. More for me.

>>14564587

>>14565274 320 years is 540k

The reason why my kitchen cannot be used is because the sink doesn't drain. It is an old house, and the drain pipe is routed out under the front yard. Because the sink won't drain, the people here use plastic basins. These basins are almost always full of dirty dishes and rancid water. I could deal with either of those, but not both at the same time.
I can't even fill up a glass of water, because the bottom of the glass would submerge in the rancid dishwater. I have tried tilting the glass to fit it in between the faucet and basins, but this doesn't work, as water spills over, invalidating the water-gathering attempt. If rancid dishwater from the basins splashes back in to my drinking glass, I dump it out and start over. In the past, back when I was trying to work with the kitchen, took me several attempts to get a glass of water every time I was thirsty.
The sink is an even greater pain when trying to wash pots and pans, as they barely fit.

>>14567851

What country is this, your choice of vocabulary is interesting

>>14564587
I find my grandmothers cleaning habits to be quite disgusting, but that doesn't stop me from keeping my own sponge (that isn't caked with grease like all of hers) and clean everything before and after I use it.

>>14568092
USA, west coast

probably 500-600 a month
so what's that come out to? about 20 bucks a day yeah sounds about right

>>14568092
there's nothing remotely interesting or odd about the words used in that post
ESL shoo shoo

>>14562885
i get grocery every 2 weeks and it's around 100 dollars, i can go cheaper but i buy a lot of snacks

Probably like 200 a week for me, my wife and two kids. My wife buys tons more than we need.

In addition to being unable to prepare food (until I vacuum my floor), I have taken the Sv3rig3 pill. I used to eat lots of melted bread on cheese, and home-made deli sandwiches (using prepackaged meat), fish sticks, and sugar-filled energy bars. Now, I eat none of those. I stick to eating meat-based fast food (burgers, steak burritos, Greek Chicken). If I knew of a good butcher, I would eat raw veal liver.

>>14562885
Not a whole lot since I fast and I'm on a strict diet. Perhaps $100-$125 for groceries.

>>14568221

Where did you originally come from before moving to the West Coast
>>14568250
>’Inflexible’ in that context
faggot

>>14568535
I've always been here.

>>14568549

How would you classify your intellectual ability in contrast to an average person of your age group, starting from say middle school?

>>14568562
I used to be smart, now I'm dumb.

>>14568567

No, you’re too normal-sounding

Picture of window and garden faucet with timestamp, please

>>14568592
What are you getting at?

>>14564522
>how annoying they are
This is an understatement...they are like the Hell's Angels of the poultry world. 300 pounds,(21 stone,) of attitude in a 2-4 pound,(quarter stone,) package.
Maybe this is what makes them so tasty?
That and dark breast meat.

>>14565747
UH...

>>14562885
probably around 5 dollars, I've been working on doing more meal prep and using rice and frozen veg which is cutting down on costs.

>>14562885
$4-6 depending on how poor i'm feeling that day. I have to live on $45/week. 2 meals a day:
1) free kid's meal with purchase of $1 from burger king, usually that with 8 nugs to bring it up to the price threshold
2) taco bell value menu, though since taco bell cancelled a bunch of the shit i used to get it's been pretty sparse
3) 2 mcdoubles for $3 + a free large fries

>>14563733
underrated

>>14564587
Looks like a plan

I ate roughly $3.83 worth of food today. It was a pretty average day.
Tomorrow, I plan to eat roughly $3.26 worth of food.
Sunday, I plan to eat roughly $2.81 worth of food.
So that's an average of about $3.30 per day. I eat an average of about $3.30 worth of food per day. Why do you ask?

I'm horrifically afraid of someone else taking over. I don't leave my room unless I know no one will speak to me. Speaking to me is taking over my mind. If someone speaks to me, I ignore them. I make no eye contact. If someone stands in the way, I keep walking.

>>14562885
Including alcohol about $8/d

Between about $50 and 100 AUD a week. Including buying dinner on a Friday night.

If you spend over $220 on food a month you're a certified nigger. Learn how to cook and stop stuffing your face.

>>14566123
looks like maggots in shitty 1000 Island dressing.

>>14568535
He doesnt use "inflexible" in this post.

>>14562885
I read somewhere that the average American spends $300 a month on food.

>>14563256
This guy fucks.

>>14562885
It converts to around $7 burger dollars a day.

>>14562937
I think it's the notorious American "Sloppy Joe"

>>14563565
That's literally 10 macca burgs

I spend maybe $70 a week and never go out.
The reason is that I spend an awful lot on obscure foreign ingredients and condiments in a 30/70 ratio.

Eating healthy food is the benchmark, if you're not eating healthy food how little you spend is just a subtraction from your personal health.Westeners suffer from chronic obesity, diabetes, poor digestive health, high blood pressure, micro-nutrient deficiencies across the board, acid reflex etc etc.

To eat really cheap:
Use eggs, tofu and beans to make up 80% of your protein requirement
prioritize vegetables with high fiber/cost and nutritional value
Source micro-nutrients in preserved foods
$1 of chicken bones, $1 of legumes and 4$ of vegetables makes 10 serves of soup which fills most of your nutritional needs.

why did this thread attract all the mentally ill people

We need to work out an "iron diet" for each country /ck/
The cheapest balanced diet achievable in countries of posters- then make an info-graphic.

>>14571331
While $20 worth of $1 burgers would meet the average persons calorie and protein needs, that person would rapidly suffer from the salt, sugar, and dense fats.
They would become diabeetus
I was homeless, trust me.
Just buy $1 of flour and make flatbread or buy $1 of rolled oats or wheat brick cereal.
You will get a lot more good carbs and actually safe money.
>>14571321
carbs, protein, oils, fiber.
Why not go full eastern European and add white cheese and pickles and make a home run?
>>14571174
It's to do with the definition of food, Americans consume a staggering amount of commercial beverages.
While they are not expensive, it's a direct addition and it's in many cases constant.
I know so many families who drink a 2L soda with dinner every night and always get a "meal" of fast food with a soda- and then several coffees.
>>14569117
post breakdown

>>14571903
how did you get out of being homeless?

>>14565309
I'm in Cincinnati, Ohio. 2 Bedroom Apartment. $50 covers food for a month pretty easily for me, dude, at least because I live alone. I cook most of my meals, and I don't tend to overdrink. Generally $50 is enough for me to do 3 nights out, 2 if both are a trip to the pub. I don't actually buy bread that much, I tend to eat primarily pasta (basically a dollar a pound), rice (even less) or potatoes (slightly more). For breakfast I just have an apple most of the time. Leftovers and meals that are part leftover part something else are common. Meat, I don't really buy steaks. The closest I do is buy some pork loin when it's cheap, most of the time I eat fish or chicken. Vegetables I revolve around onion, carrots, celery, tomato, lettuce. I don't do anything special, really. I just don't really go over any lines.

>>14571958
a two bedroom apartment in my area would cost more than 2k a month
I'm renting a bedroom in a sharehouse and still spend more on rent than you do

>>14571975
Normally it would be $1000, but due to a variety of things the landlady decided to lower it to $650 for the time being. Rent in the Midwest is cheap, especially where I am. Then again I'm just an university student, so I'm not in some perfect dwelling.

>>14571915
>>14571915
I got bailed out by my family.
you can work your way out- but I never met anyone who did.
Lie about your address on a job application, buy clothes with false credit from a department store and return them after the interview, live in a car and take the train every day to get there so you co-workers don't find out, shower in a gym.
Great, try that kind of discipline when you're a junkie.
People aren't born homeless.

But if you ever meet someone who's homeless and looking for work that guy is a unicorn and you ought to give him a go.
I live in a share house and work in a department store with other people who live in share houses.
They have been working their for their whole lives- and I can pretend I did too and nobody will ever know

Eating properly is the thing that separated me from the other junkies, while I made many questionable decisions I attempted to brush my teeth sometimes, buy good food when I could, bathe and exercise when I had leisure.
Three years later I walk out with no HIV, no TB, no damaged liver- I have some cavities.
If I never took drugs and became homeless things would have been a lot better, don't take drugs.

>>14571323
retard

>>14562885
Every day I eat:
2 bananas 0.35
1 cup frozen berries 1.00
1 cup milk 0.25
1 6 oz ham steak 1.50
3 eggs 0.30
2 slices of multigrain bread 0.35
1/8 stick of butter 0.10
So that's like 4 bucks for 1200-1300 calories over 2 meals. Then I also eat X which can be a wide range from 10-25 dollars but usually on the lower end. Let's say 20 dollars a day.

>>14563534
where does your family eat? if everyone in your senpai is spending 600$/month maybe just eat ramen for a few months and buy a kitchen

>>14572308
honestly this is a quarter of the population of w*stern countries.

Eastern Europe taught me where it's at.
>Alcoholic level
Loaf of bread, piece of salami, random fresh vegetable- $2.50
>poorfag level
Loaf of bread, 2 boiled eggs, random vegetable, random meat -$2.50
>functional level
loaf of bread, white cheese, pickle, boiled egg, some meat, some vegetable -$2.50
>Indian dalit level
Rice, dried beans, boiled vegetable (fiberous)-$1
>indian functional level
Rice, dried legumes, boiled vegetable, lime pickle, some vegetable $1.50
>western homeless level
Rolled oats, pre-grated cheese -$.50
>western poorfag level
Rolled oats, McDonald $1 hamburger, multivites $1.50
>westernfag functional level
Rolled oats/wheat bricks, penut butter, Mcdonanlds hamburger, multivites, raw vegetables $2.00
>Asian junkie
Rice, random greens, local soya bean product -$.50
>Asian poorfag
Rice, random vegetable, random green, random bean product, fish $.75
>Asian functional
>rice, fried egg, oil, stir fried veg, random meat, random pickle, random bean, random fruit, random fish $1.50.

In most places you can get rice, flour and dried beans cheap as fuck.
On top of that you either have eggs, green beans, and tofu for protien
you will have vegetables in some countries, in the west it's on you to grow or steal.
Micros are pickles, canned fish/fresh fish, commercial supplements.
It's on you to pick smart

>Lived on nothing but subway footlongs for a whole year
$6-$7 a day, only had 1 a day and nothing else. After 6 months people were telling me I looked great, after another 6 months people were worried I was anorexic. University mealplan was so horrible I never ate there, but I lived on campus so I was forced to pay for it. I had a scholarship but the mealplan wasn't covered by it, basically meaning that I made my parents pay full tuition for my horrible 1-year only stay. Biggest regret in my life because I've never made my parents spend so much money (meal plan was about $1500-$2000 a semester, school with my scholarship was about $1500) on literally nothing.

>>14562885
around $100 a month, lot of rice, beans, spinach, nuts and some fats for calories and multivitamins

>>14565747
theres a small chinese food place near me that would pack trays like that and they only cost $8.
meanwhile, going to a chain like panda express, for about the same price you get like a sprinkle of rice and a tiny bit of whatever item you picked.

>>14564587
What the fuck lmao

>>14562885
i blow the whole load in one day and never go out the rest of the month.

Buying rice and noodles, canned stuff ,and a big amount of meat for a whole month of cooking.

i kind of eat tea and drink lots of water to only eat one a day to save.
No idea how much i paid tho since it been like 20 days ago and threw the ticket

>>14562885
Good days, ~20$
Bad days.. ~60$

I used to live super cheap on oatmeal and chicken rice every day, but now I make way more money on a farm ore draining job, so when I'm at home i just sleep or pass the time until i'm going to.

~$120 on groceries every 2 weeks. Order food/eat out when I cook everything. Probably $20-$30 a day (for two people) when we haven't gone food shopping. We actually budgeted earlier this year and we spend about $350 on food a month, not including little snacks and shit we might pick up while we are out. We live in New Jersey

>>14562885
$5-6 a day. i eat at home

>>14567851
Fix the sink. If you can't fix it yourself because you're renting, then ramp up pressure on your landlord to fix it. Most states require rental residential property to meet certain minimum standards which usually includes functional plumbing in the kitchen, and I have no doubt a liberal paradise like CA would have strict laws on that. Ask your landlord nicely and if he refuses, then do your research and go back to him citing the law and asking nicely again. Third time have a lawyer send him a letter - a lot of lawyers will do this on the cheap, on the condition that they get to represent you if you do end up taking legal action. This is usually where people back down, though - seeing the lawyer's letter is a clear shot across the bow and signals that you're serious.

>>14573498
This is an old family house. I'm told the sink has been broken for a long time.

>>14565747
This is probably just a "Fill up the box" buffet where they dont weigh the box so people take advantage of it. No business would do it this way.

With the speed I move at, I don't think I'm going to have my cooking setup done by the end of this month. It might take my many months.

bump

>>14562885
What happened to your hamburger sandwich, OP?

Another day, another $20.

>>14575208
The glass panes wouldn't be set up like that if it were true.

In any event, a gigantic pile of rice, chicken, and vegetables is pretty much my ideal meal.