/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16550743
Fried eggs. Easy, cheap, and filling. Omelettes are also good but those are more difficult and you have to pay for the other ingredients.

Instant ramen

>>16550743
As someone that can't be fucked to cook most of the time, I largely subsist off microwaved potatoes with butter, eggs, milk, spaghetti with onions/garlic/ground meat, bread, pickled herring, salad kits, and grocery store roast chickens

>>16550743
I think this is a succotash, but idk

2 cans black beans
1 can corn
1 can tomatoes or 1 tomato, chopped
chopped red onion(amount depending on personal taste)
1 bell pepper
1 jalapeno pepper if you choose
garlic
salt, pepper, chili powder, cilantro, cumin, and/or any other seasoning of your choosing
olive oil


heat olive oil in large pan(you can find cheap ones at thrift stores if you don't have one yet)
add in onion, garlic and bell pepper, season with salt and pepper, and other seasonings
sautee until onions are translucent
add in canned goods, rinsed of course and jalapeno
add about a 1/4 cup of water
stir occasionally for 10-15 minutes until beans are relatively soft
take off heat, garnish with cilantro


I'm not an expert cook by any sense, but I love this shit. The most expensive ingredient here will probably be the bottle of olive oil if you don't have any yet. That, and the bottles of seasonings. Once you have them though, they'll last for multiple, multiple meals.

It's really good on its own with sour cream and hot sauce and can be used as a dip for tortilla chips if you want.

>>16550743
This is what I do
I'll cook one big meal every few days. This will be my "central meal", the thing I build stuff around. I'll have it for lunch every day, kinda thing. This one big meal will be something pretty cheap, like a ham, or a roast chicken, or a coq au vin, or Chinese dumplings.
Then, I cook up random bullshit to fill in the gaps. Macaroni cheese, pasta sauces, and fry ups in particular.

Speaking of which, I absolutely fucking recommend improvised fry ups. Just get eggs, tomatoes (tinned or fresh), mushrooms, black pudding, beans, bacon, sausages, cottage cheese, stuff like that. You can just throw them together however. Flavour it with garlic and spices and herbs. It takes literally ten minutes to make a fry up and it fills you the fuck up and the ingredients are all cheap.

Baked beans on toast with a fried egg on top

>>16550743
>TORTILLA
>CHEESE
>MICROWAVE
>30 SECONDS

>>16550743
peanut butter. chicken breasts, pasta.
If you have to have snacks, go for nuts and seeds, they're more filling for less $$ and healthier.

Toast sandwiches are fucking delicious as long as the bread and butter are both decent quality. It's just buttered bread with more interesting texture and I unironically eat them at least twice a week.

>>16550743
Learn to make rice, how to make fried rice, etc. If you can buy canned/frozen veg you have a great snack/meal, and you can use something simple and long-lasting like bacon as a fat source tk fry the rice as well as as a protein

>>16550743
Potatoes, lived off of these when I moved states after highschool.

>>16550743
>Share your recipes and tips for me who is trying to not starve and at the same time don't eat Macdonald's shitty burgers
$20 for a rice cooker,
$30 for a gallon of soy sauce,
$200 for a koku worth of rice.
Starving is out of question for a year, you have the calories and the means to make them conveniently available at all times.

Bulk buy spaghetti/pasta, learn how to make basic sauces that should last for a few portions. Worst comes to worst make aglio e olio.

>>16550743
Meal prep, or are you opting out of a mini fridge?

ALRIGHT SHITTY AMERICAN DOGS. BUCKLE FUCK UP, THIS SLAV HERE LIVE ON ~40$ A MONTH FOR FOOD FOR 2 YEARS STRAIGHT

PREREQUISITES:
>FAMILY IN THE VILLAGE, IF NOT DO STEAL
>ALL TOOL AVAILABLE ALREADY
>>b-but what if I don't ha-
HAMMER + STOLEN ROADSIDE SHEET METAL + SHARP ROCK MAKE PAN/WOK/POT FUCK YOU. BOIL WATER IN ONCE TO KILL TETANUS.

FOOD:
>YOU ONLY NEED 2000 CALORIES PER DAY, EAT IN 1 MEAL FORGET ALL OTHER MEAL EAT 1 PER DAY IF YOU EAT MORE WHEN STUDENT AND NOT WORKING YOU TURN INTO FAT FUCK

>BUY BIGGEST AMOUNT POSSIBLE FOR FIRST PURCHASE TO GET SCALE DISCOUNT

>20KG SACK OF RICE CHEAPEST AVAILABLE (USE SURPLUS INTO NEXT MONTH, RATION)
>2 POTATO FOR 1 DAY FOOD RATION 62 IN 1 MONTH, SURPLUS INTO NEXT MONTH DEPEND OF SIZE OF SACK. AGAIN CHEAPEST
>CHEAPEST BEAN CAN YOU CAN FIND 1/4 CAN PER DAY INTO FOOD RATION
>APPLE FOR VITAMIN AND ALCOHOL, PICK UP FROM APPLE TREES IN YOUR AREA SHIT IS FREE. IF WANT TO KNOW HOW MAKE APPLE ALCOHOL FUCK YOU USE YANDEX
>AS MUCH SHIT AS YOU CAN FORAGE, NO MATTER WHAT EAT IF CAN EAT DO EAT.

HOW COOK:
>THROW RICE INTO POT AND BOIL UNTIL READY
>THROW POTATOS INTO SECOND POT AND BOIL UNTIL READY
>THROW SHIT ALL TOGETHER INTO BIG POT AND MIX WITH BEAN AND APPLE AND FOUND SHIT WHEN FORAGING UNTIL GOOD MIX DONE
>EAT

HERE A MORE SOPHISTICATED RECIPE I LIKED TO MAKE

INGERIDIENT OF:

>PIGEON EGGS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN FIND
>MUSHROOMS FROM FOREST NEAR TOWN, DRIED, LAWS FORBID COLLECTION BECAUSE CHERNOBYL RADIATION BUT NOT GIVE FUCK, LIVE THEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIVE LATER
>CARROTS I STOLE FROM FARMERS IN NIGHT AND CARROT FROM FAMILY IN VILLAGE
>POTATO STOLEN AND FROM VILLAGE
>BLACK PEPPER I SHOPLIFTED WHEN BUYING RICE AND POTATO AND BEANS
>RICE
>BEANS
>CANNED PAPRYKA (RARE TREAT)

HOW OF:
>CUT INTO PIECES AND THROW VEGETABLE SHIT AND MUSHROOM ALL ONTO BAKING SHEET
>ADD WATER FOR RICE TO BOIL
>BREAK EGGS ONTO
>SEASON WITH BLACK PEPPER AND SALT IF HAVE
>MIX WELL
>PUT IN OVEN IF NOT HAVE OVEN GO OUTSIDE AND MAKE A BIG FIRE, TAKE TRASHCAN, PUT HORIZONTAL, THROW TRASH OUT OF IT, PUT IN YOUR METAL SHEET WITH FOOD ON IT AND CLOSE LID, PUT ON BIG FIRE YOU MAKE AND WAIT UNTIL DONE
>TAKE FOOD OUT OF TRASHCAN AND ENJOY KINGS MEAL

>Plain chips
>Crush them up and add just a lil water
>Mix with chedder cheese
>Nuke it till cheese melt
>Add Ranch or Blu cheese and hot sauce

>>16550743
Macaroni
Egg
Cheese
Boil and drain Mac, toss boiled Mac and everything else into frying pan

>>16550776
eggs are expensive as fuck, get them from your babushka if possible

>>16552883
>>16552976
epic posts

Tomato sandwiches.
Sliced tomato between two layers of lightly toasted bread, with butter and mayonnaise if you're feeling posh.

Cook pasta in one pot.
Meanwhile cook mussels in another (takes 3 minutes).
In a pan gently heat olive oil, garlic, chili.
Add mussels, dried basil, black pepper, pasta.

>>16550743
Noodles+frozen cream spinach

a big bag of rice
a box of eggs
a jar of furikake

Ham & mustard sandwich

>>16550743
chicken leg quarters are 59 cents a pound. Make them in the crock pot with whatever vegetables you find on sale. Feel free to toss a can of cream of mushroom soup in there.

Scramble 3 eggs, chop up any combination of:
>green onion
>mushroom
>lunch meat
>bell pepper
>jalapeno
>basically whatever else you want broccoli or whatever
and add just a little bit of mayonnaise (I know, just trust me, like a tablespoon) and add cheese if you have it, put it in a baking dish and put it in the oven.

rice and beans

Peanut butter is a cheap and easy way to have something sweet and potentially healthy

go to a surplus food store and stock up on cheap protein/breakfast bars for snacks (make sure they're like 15 cents a bar max)

>>16550820
sounds perfect. how's your health?

>500 grams of pasta/rice
>500-700 grams of meat/other protein
>can of tomato sauce/curry sauce/pesto/whatever sauce
>whatever vegetables you want
>spices
>1 liter of vegetable, beef or chicken stock from cubes

>get large saucepan
>fry meat
>pour in sauce
>pour in pasta, mix
>pour in stock, mix
>let it simmer until the pasta/rice is done
Easy to cook and you can easily make big batches.

>>16550743
i like tuna in the soft packs with a small bag of fritos crushed in.

>>16550743
Dorm Room "Chili"
>1 can of Kidney Beans
>1 can of Black Beans
>1 can of Diced Tomatoes
>1lb of Ground Meat
Season the meat with salt and pepper, then brown it in a pot. Dump in the tomatoes, kidney beans, and black beans then bring it to a boil. Let it boil for 30 mins, stirring occasionally and adding water to keep it from drying out. Add salt, pepper, and other seasonings/condiments to taste. Serve over rice, it also works as a good base to add whatever vegetables you want to it and I would recommend something with crunch or can survive the heat like carrots, celery, broccoli, or onions at the end.

Ramen and beer

Rice/Tuna/Cheese sandwiches

A favourite of mine:

rice, mixed with vegetable of your choice(I like corn and/or peas), Curry + other seasonings, optimally some butter or oil, and a protein of your choice. I often mix in canned tuna, but sometimes I also just do meatballs, pieces of chicken.

It's easy to make a ton of and just save. Takes like 20 min max to make a sXJN0Aolid 5 servings.

>>16550743
Get a crockpot and make a weeks meals, anything you dont eat in the week, freeze and save for later
>cheapo chicken taco
chicken breast, jar of verde the least name brand you can find, rice for filler, chicken tacos for a week for 10 dollars
>bierock sloppa
Hot sausage, cabbage, sauerkraut, onions, garlic powder, allspice, salt, pepper, put it on toast, or get some biscuit dough, or just eat it as is, use as much cabbage as you can stomach, it's cheap as hell
>chicken curry
Chicken thighs, potatoes, carrots, onions, Curry base, chicken stock, eat straight or over rice, Curry is so heavy that one bowl could satisfy you for two meals
>beer and ramen
Get the cheapest, highest alcohol content beer you can stomach, and drink before eat, it wont taste good but you wont want to kill yourself for living off of it
>become the eggman
Eggs are cheap and filling, make sure you have enough supporting ingredients and you could make eggs for every meal and never get tired of them, if you have a fried egg for breakfast make sure that you don't have it for dinner too, make a scramble or an omelette or something

Student here. How the fuck do people manage to starve on a student budget?

Similar to your pic OP but hear me out: stale bread can be turned into usable bread with the simple use of cheese slices. Warm it up enough for them to start melting and voila. Combine with some meat and boom dinner served. Just don't do it if the bread is gone crumbly and seems more like a cracker. Works great in a microwave too.

Also man up and make tuna pasta-literally just pasta where you add tuna from a tuna can and mix the thing. Add some olive oil too ffs, and if you aren't in some God forsaken northern land go pilfer some rosmarino from overgrown plants that grow out of private gardens. Or in the wild. Just wash it under tap water and then cut it up in small pieces and add it to the pasta, use your nails it makes it better truss me bruv.

>>16555817
Alcohol, falling for the ramen meme or overpriced accommodation.

>>16550743
Pancakes are underappreciated, flour and milk can stretch out the relatively expensive eggs and eggs themselves contain literally everything you need to survive given that they're basically the primordial soup of a chicken. You scale up production too, it takes the same amount of time to make batter for one day as it does to make it for a week so just freeze some, use ice cube trays and eat pancakes throughout the week for basically no effort.

I live with my parents so whatever my mom makes

>>16550770
>more difficult
The only difference between fried egg and an omelette is stirring the egg before it solidifies.

>>16556851
>tuna pasta
My nigger. I used to do this

>>16550743
>at the same time don't eat Macdonald's shitty burgers
>student
That's okay, you couldn't afford it

I think you can afford £25 a week.
I rushed putting this together so I’m sure it can be optimised.

>>16552013
This, I make fried rice with peas and scrambled eggs when I'm feeling lazy. Stir fry is great too because you can add some nutritious vegetables like bok choy and peppers which don't take long to chop, or bean sprouts which you don't have to chop at all. You can also use Chinese sausage for protein.

Just make sure that all your ingredients are actually easy to prepare. My dumb ass used to make fried rice thinking it would be quick and easy no matter what, but I'd choose pork tenderloin for the meat and it'd take me 30 fucking minutes to chop it all into little strips.

>>16556979
S O D I U M

>>16555817
how does he get out of there without knocking over the cans?

>>16552883
>NO MATTER WHAT EAT IF CAN EAT DO EAT.
Based and raccoon pilled

England isn't Europe. It's Europe's cousin with special needs.

Hot dogs.
Buy cheapest hot dog.
Buy cheapest bread.
Boil or sautee, I prefer boiled and unburnt(shitty cook of a college kid what's new?)
Cheapest condiments.

>>16556910
and flipping it
and waiting for the mushrooms to cook
it's not that it's hard, but first thing in the morning sometimes you can't be bothered

Those cheap frozen bags of vegetables at the store that you can just microwave

>>16550743
learn to stir fry and shop at the shittest looking grocery stores. You can live a week off $20.

>>16558136
rice and potato are some of the cheapest calories you can find if you're legitimately starving. Chicken is stupidly cheap (big rotisserie chickens) if you want protein, and frozen veg can be pretty cheap. you can eat like a legitimate human with those 4 things and some seasoning.

>>16555455
>a sXJN0Aolid 5 servings

Captcha moment

I currently live in a studio apartment that I've slowly been building up to have a nice kitchen. Also trying to have an herb garden in mason jars. So far it works.

>go to goodwill regularly and found white square-ish gibson plates which makes me enjoy plating my food more, plus some good glass bowls for things like whisking
>found 4 thick square glass cups. I now put water in them and place whatever herbs I need for my basic meal I'm eating the entire week (learning to cook so I cook the same thing a lot) and sit them on my counter. I change the water out every other day or so. currently I have chives, terragon, green onions, and just garlic without water

Essentials:
>eggs & butter & bacon
you can make this into scrambled eggs or a nice omlette. Bacon is also very versatile. Fry it or slice it and work from there. Get a mason jar and save the bacon fat and see where that goes.
>olive oil
this will be one of the most used things
>mushrooms
Simple to prep. Just slice them and put them in a hot pan with olive oil already in it and they sautee. You can add it to omlettes, burgers, pasta, etc.
>oatmeal & bananas & honey & cinnamon
this will replace cereal entirely. it also tastes so much better. I'm lucky in that I picked up a breville 870xl years ago for a good price. The hot water spout is almost instant when you turn it on and oatmeal is done. Use hot water. The honey makes it not like saw dust with glue.
>chicken breast
look up 'flavcity chicken breast' on youtube. he has a great video on how to prep a good chicken breast quickly.

for dinner I've been doing Gordon Ramsay's leek & mushroom pasta but replacing leek with green onion and adding in slices of my cooked chicken breast at the end.

buy your kitchen tools on a per need basis so you know exactly what you have and what you need.

kind of a ramble but establish a kitchen space you want to be in and one that is organized. Walmart & Kroger have removable sticky adhesive hooks that I use for my tools.

I do a wholesome bowl of pasta with onion, carrot, can of tomato, quarter cup of lentils, salt, pepper, chilli, knob of butter and cheese if you've got some.

Srs get into lentils mate. Super cheap.

>>16557531
He doesn't. He just knocks over the cans.

>>16554485
Not him but I do the same, just remove ground beef and I use the oven on potatoes.
Health is okay.

>>16550743
2 slices of bread, canned tuna and Mayo

>>16552883
>>16552976
Actually good advice. Based.

>box of pasta-roni
>canned chicken
>use about half of the water from the canned chicken where the pasta-roni calls for water instead of just doing straight water
>mash chicken up in the can a bit, add when shit starts to boil and it's mostly back to normal chicken texture by the time it's all done
needs butter and milk, and the pasta-roni/chicken will run you 4-5 bucks so it's not like, brokeass broke cooking, but it's fairly cheap, super easy, and reasonably filling for a meal.
one of my favorite depression meals cause the effort-to-tastiness ratio is pretty high.
just remember to drink water with it, canned chicken is salty as fuck

>>16559088
also white people rice can be pretty good if you just need carbs to stop your stomach growling
"white people rice" cause apparently it was a meme going around social media that white people love rice with butter and salt
>cook rice on stovetop
>mix spices in before it boils so that shit can just simmer in, garlic/onion/pepper and whatever else you feel like
>put in bowl, add some salt and butter, call it good

>>16558013
trick for omelete, get a pan that can go in the oven. fry bottom and grill the top, easiest omelete ever.

Rice and beans

if you want to make a simple pasta for one, get some cherry tomatoes, slather them in olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic and onion powder, and throw them in the oven at 200 C/gas mark 6 for 30 mins. by the time they're done, they should be easily smushed into a sauce due to how soft they are. feel free to add other stuff like meatballs or fresh basil at this stage, then just boil up your pasta and throw it in with the sauce.

>>16550743
capn crunch berries you peon

>>16550743
Pasta and beans is my go to in hard times, then throw anything cheap you find in with it to change it up.

>>16559128
>get a pan that can go in the oven. fry bottom and grill the top,

Or you can learn to flip an omelette instead of being incompetent.

>>16556979
>all that canned veg
just buy like 3 different varieties of frozen veg mixes for like £1.50 each

>>16550743
Butter, jam and bread makes a fairly decent dinner.

>>16550743
Spaghetti with tomato sauce, make a batch of sauce and you can eat for months on pennies.

>>16550743
meal prep is the best thing. take the weekend and make a large-enough batch of some food for the whole week. i liked stuff like pasta, rice, soups,e tc.

>>16550743
my favorite meal from college

1. Brown some ground beef or sausage slices or something
2. Fry a diced vegetable or two in the same pan
3. Pour a can of baked beans on top and stir