/ck/ - Food & Cooking

eat them bugs

>>15075857
pleas no

>>15075792
Most canned chili is cheap and gives you fiber through beans. After a while you won't even get serious gas. That's my go to for a cheap meal. Add some cheese and chips for good measure. You might also like sour cream, but that isn't me.

canned beans
oats (probably the best money/nutrition value you can get)

>>15075951
>>15075961
>canned beans
>oats
Thanks! Idk why I haven't thought of those.

>>15075792
>$150 for a month of food
what the fuck anon you aint poor

frozen chicken and frozen or fresh veg can yield cheap and tasty stir frys that you can vary with different sauces. quick and easy to cook too. $150 might be pushing it though idk.

Maybe this will help
https://www.budgetbytes.com/

Kimchi, if you like spice. Three or four pieces mixed in to your rice makes it very tasty. It's also good in omelettes or as a sandwich/burger topping.
What do you think about oatmeal and yohgurt? Or homemade cottage cheese?
You can make your own hummous out of canned chickpeas, garlic, and oil for pretty cheap.
Last, homemade potato salad, or pasta salad, is good because you can make a couple days worth and pack it to work for lunch.

Cook your own beans--lentils, chickpeas, pinto beans, black beans, etc. Depending on where you are you can get a pound for $1-2. If you make too much, can always freeze and use for later.

Get porridge for breakfast.
Frozen vegetables and chicken. Sometimes I see mince on sale due to expiration date so you can just make a batch of meat ragout/bolognese or whatever and freeze it. Then get potatoes, eggs and sausages and make hash. Make spaguetti aglio e olio.

>>15075792
Buy a whole chicken, learn how to carve a bird, and save the bones and scraps. Boil the shit out of those, voila, chicken stock, filling and nutritious and a healthy base for literally thousands of soups, which can be made with literal scraps of veggies. Soup is good food.
https://youtu.be/6WR3kziiz7g
A single chicken carcass used to feed my family of five for a week, and I personally can stretch a single bird out for almost a month, for myself, utilizing the stock for all kinds of soups. Sometimes I just get my veggies from restaurant trash cans, I boil the shit out of them anyway.

>>15077533
>Sometimes I just get my veggies from restaurant trash cans
went from wholesome and traditional cooking to heroin hobo cooking really fast there.

>>15077533

> I just get my veggies from restaurant trash cans, I boil the shit out of them anyway.

not sure you can spend less money on food than that and stay alive

>>15077552
Restaurants throw out perfectly good shit all the time, those onion and celery ends are just as good as the rest of the damn plant. Water boils at 212, way hotter than bacteria and viruses can survive. America alone wastes millions of tons of food that our ancestors used and preserved. I make six figures in a bumfuck town where I might as well be a millionaire, but I still save every penny when I can.

>>15077575
>Nooo you can't just take advantage of free food noooo you have to pay 29.99 plus tip every time you need a heckin mealerino!
I haven't had so much as a cold in ten years. I actually tested positive for covid, with zero symptoms whatsoever. Got five of my coworkers really sick, one of them finally got home from the hospital but is on oxygen. I didn't so much as sneeze. They called me crazy, when I'd eat my hobo soups in the office while they gorged themselves on trendy hipster garbage. Who's crazy, now? I was back in the office after the mandatory two week isolation vacation, they've been fighting to breathe for months now.

>>15075792
There is a SHOCKING lack of vegetables in your diet.

Onions and carrots are cheap. Cabbage isn't much more. Celery can be a little pricier, but it's uncommon to use more than 2 ribs when cooking for one.

Carrots and cabbage can be steamed in the rice cooker, if you're lazy.

If you're less lazy, vegetable soup.

>>15075792
Gonna assume you're in the US.

You're lacking vegetables. If you don't want to dumpster dive like rich-hobo-anon says in >>15077533 (and I'm not looking down on it, food waste is a big problem around the world), I'd say go on food stamps. I pay taxes knowing that some of it will help people who can't eat nutritiously, so if you need it, go get it anonfriend. If you don't want to sign up for anything official/government-related out of fear for what someone might do with that information if they got a hold of it, for the time being you can look for weekly/bi-weekly food bank distributions in your area taking place because of COVID. You don't have to be desperate to go to those things. Nobody donates food to food banks reluctantly. They want people to be helped by it, they don't want the food to go bad at the food bank while someone needs it.

Other than that, for more meat variety, borrow someone's costco card and get a $5 rotisserie chicken that you can stretch out like in that other post. Walmarts with hot delis have slightly smaller roast chickens for $4.50 too (I just like the flavor of the Costco one more so I rec it first). These things are possibly the best value in pre-cooked food out there for how many meals they can be turned into.