/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I like to catch and eat other people now

beans rice and illegal fishing

Now here is a very related picture. These small bags of pre cooked chicken are pricey and you don't get much. My strategy is to strip down a rotisserie chicken and put it in 3 medium zip lock bags. 3 times the chicken for the price and they freeze really well. Only downfall is stripping it with your hands it ends up being more shredded, but still good. Makes great Spanish rice.

Also if you are feeling adventurous you can use the leftover fat and bones to make a stew or soup. I made a soup by adding chicken stock to it and it tasted great. Only downfall is all the bones. I just picked them out of my bowl, but you could just strain them out.

>>17976586
my mom buys all my food :)

>>17976586
>he pays for his food instead of just mooching off other people
Cringe.
>>17976612
Holy based

>>17976612
life is so comfy, bros. i can ask my mom to make me a sandwich whenever i want to

Next the price of boneless chicken breast are just getting crazy. I highly suggest buying thighs and drumsticks. Thighs especially are more tasty then breasts and are almost half the price for double the meat. Not sure about wings, but given it is lumped in this package, I bet they are also cheap as hell.

>>17976612
>>17976617
I moved out last year. My mom used to buy my food. It will happen to you!

These 2 pound bags of noodles are fairly cheap for the price. Might want a food scale. I need to get one again myself. After all the best way to save on food is to eat less and buy stuff with long expiration dates.

>>17976586
I dumped my wife, took custody of our baby, put it up for abortion, killed the dog, cancelled my electricity plan. These lifestyle savings should be enough to cover inflated non-discretionary expenses while also having a bit left over to take advantages of opportunities in a depressed stock market.

>>17976599
Based

I'm reasonably wealthy so I just deal with it.

Free tendies from work, saved at the end of the night right before they get thrown out
I brought them into this world, I can take them out again

>>17976745
It seems everyone here has so much money now. Makes me depressed.

I grow and freeze a bunch of fruit and berries, and eat it with my breakfast oatmeal just about every day of the year.

>>17976586
I'll keep living off rice, vegetables and protein.

>>17976645
I once did this at 3am and she happily obliged. Love mom
Captcha:M0M4X

>>17976756
Yeah, I earn so much money and have three wives (two technically not official, of course) who are constantly looking for new teen girls for us to have group sex with. It all just kind of fell into place when I was 24.

>>17976754
bro my work lets me make whatever for free once a shift, save for steaks or lob tails
but my dumb ass tries to just either get out quicker or cant be bothered to cook myself something lmao
i do steal some chili in the morning when i open though

>>17976647
I moved out 3 years ago and my mom still buys my food. She doesn't drive so I get her to buy her groceries and just put mine in the cart along hers.

>Bone-in chicken, raw beans and rice, raw vegetables and mushrooms are all untouched so far in my grocery
>All the retard food has skyrocketed in price, especially the ingredients for meme inflation/depression/hoosier stews people are posting about online
Just cook more.
Butter and Oils are more expensive, but I can still make a big-ass 8lb pot of chicken and mushroom risotto for $11.

>>17976586
I'm going auschwitz mode

fasting. I only eat 2.5 times a week
t. NEETo

>>17976586
I need to lose 40lbs, but I can get fat for cheap with flour, rice, beans, pasta... So, chances are that nothing will change but I will eat out less.

>>17976586
a cucumber in NZ is $6.50 at the moment. its not in season but still, highest its ever been. a cucumber. for comparison a 200g ribeye steak costs the same. so fuck cucumbers i just eat steaks now

>>17976586
>>17976592
/thread

>>17977327
you should start growing cucumbers then, anon.
you could own all the sheep.

>>17977438
i dont have a garden because land is so expensive here

>>17977439
you could ask a local farmer if he would be willing to go into business with you.

>>17977327
What are your pickle prices? I like cucumber in my salad but they go bad so quickly I just put pickles in there now.

>>17976586
Lentils and a slow but dedicated growth of a spice rack. Get your basic indian spices down and you can mix and match different lentil types with spices, onions, garlic and ginger.

Boom, different recipes each time. The vid below is kinda cringy as hell, but the steps do cover the basics of making your spice mix interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4zVQxPJmnY

>>17977327
You could have talked watermelon for big laughs.

>>17977476
it all ends up tasting the same

Whenever I go grocery shopping I use the self-checkout and I always 'forget' to scan a couple of things. The trick here is to always make it seem plausible that you actually forgot to scan it. If you get randomly checked you can also just say that the things you didn't scan are getting paid with a separate card. Also, for fruits and vegetables that I have to weigh myself I just put my phone on the scale and print a price tag that never exceeds 1 euro.

>>17977439
Cucumbers can and usually ate grown vertically. They're very space efficient. Big nitrogen hogs though

>>17977940
This.
>"forgetting" to scan something at the bottom of the cart
>having multiple of the same items and only one of them magically scans
>punching in regular fruits and vegetables instead of organic
If we gotta do everything ourselves then we might as well get our money's worth.

>>17976586
Food is so cheap to begin with that it's bizarre people need strategies
My breakfast costs 60 cents AUD
My dinner is maybe $5, including 100-200g of meat

>>17977303
bruh

>>17978134
No it's all good. I'm a heckin' chonker. I have fat to burn.

>>17976586
get a part time job at a grocery store and just walk out with whatever food i want (people just assume i paid for it)

>>17976586
>be me, good looking
>go on dates
>insist on picking them up
>eat a meal and get one to go, sometimes dessert too
>leave before the check comes
>block them

>>17979714
incredibly based

not being poor

Grow my own, steal things and got a rich gf

>>17978058
Post recipe and what store you shop from, I'll know if you're lying

>>17977940
>>17978018
Do you're self checkouts not have weight sensors?

>>17976586
only one option... anorexia is coming back into style

>>17977297
she cute, what her name?

>>17981267
They're disabled because they freak out for no better reason than the weight shifting slightly and that upsets honest customers.

>>17976586
I'm gonna buy another 20 kg of flour before wheat prices skyrocket.

>>17981320
you're late

>>17977257

lol chili was always my breakfast when i was opening on sunday mornings hungover as fuck

The price of food is going up, but it has nothing to do with inflation. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

>>17981336
this is just the start of it

>>17976592
fpbp
/thread

>>17976661
>Kosher Salt

>>17977883
How to avoid starvation, Bros??

>>17981320
Ukraine gone, now India has also stopped exporting wheat.. what now?

>>17981336
holy.
glad i stocked some as soon as it gone down

every time things go up in price, other things go down
so what's down in price these days?

>>17976592
do you eat them fresh?

>>17978747
"heckin chonker"? stop the baby speak dude what the fuck

>>17976586
Work harder and ask for more money to account for my higher skill level over last year and hyperinflation

>>17976586
Eating less, a lot less. I've been off fast food for at least a month or two. So broke I can only eat a can of soup a day.

>>17976754
t. Father nugget

>>17976592
as usual, fpbp

>>17981898
Nothing. Everything is up as people switch from a popular thing to a less popular thing, driving demand and price up for the less popular thing..

I'm just going to spend more time learning how to process my own foods. Which is why I came here to begin with many years ago. I've gotten okay at it and intend to get even better. My goal is to make very healthy meals that I love.

>>17976645
tfw have to make the sandwiches for my mom but she still pays for all the ingredients

>>17976612
I work full time, my mom doesn't work and I have a brother who works but all his money goes towards college.
I just give her the money and somehow our family of three eats like kings without breaking 500 bucks a month. I can't imagine people who move out without knowing mom's grocery tricks and cooking.

>>17976586
Cancel foreign aid to Israel.

Davidduke.com

>>17976586
It's pretty easy.
I just eat poorly and less.
I supplement the difference through vitamins, nutritional supplements, and accelerating alcoholism.

>>17985664
where is your dad?

i have like 2.5k in excess ebt
becuse i go to the foodbank before i shop....

but now the foodbank is starting to run dry. day-old bread selection went wayyyyyy down, theyre no longer handing out those pre-made lunches and sandwiches from the grocery stores. theyre no longer handing out tons of excess meat.... hmmmm

2 of the 3 local pizza places stopped sliding pizza out the backdoor after closing

>>17976611
Cook your own chicken, you'll save even more money.

>>17976586
buy meat in bulk at the end of the month when its on sale and freeze it
learn to enjoy beans and rice
if it tastes bad just keep adding salt
steal shit when ever possible

>>17976586
Less Meat
More reliance on whey powder as a cheap source of protein.
More legumes in my diet
Stop buying kefir, make my own
Diminished takeout frequency
Better leftover management to avoid wastage.
Cooking new meals with previous leftovers whenever it makes sense.
Switched supermarkets from the one that caters middle-upper segment to the lower-middle and middle ones.
Buy grains in bulk.
Visit street markets more often (there is a good one near where I live open 6 days a week).

We pooled together with a bunch of friends for a pig couple. They got 6 little ones, we shared one suckling pig. We take turns feeding the other 5 on leftovers mostly. Top tier meat for a bargain price.

We've planted old apple, pear and prune tree varieties and sell those at premium rates.

Plus we've got our own veg garden with sorrel, edible flowers, a little greenhouse with old tomato varieties. All things well considered these make more money than they cost.

>>17976661
mirin how uniformly seasoned that cast iron looks

>>17976661
>Flavacol
I want to try this stuff so bad, but I don't want the dyes in my diet. From what I can tell, they only sell the color free version in 4 lb tubs, and I don't want to purchase a giant thing of artificially flavored salt only to find out that I don't really like the taste anyway.

>>17976670
>put it up for abortion
My fucking sides

I recommend shoplifting, shrink accounts for like 3% of total profit loss and shoplifting is barely a percent in that equation. Its pretty easy with self checkouts, just grab a bag of the fruits and Veggies you need and run them through as bananas. Cloth bags are also good for slipping some bigger items in here and there because "whoops maybe you forgot about it".

>>17987453
>, just grab a bag of the fruits and Veggies you need and run them through as bananas
i keep forgetting you can trick the scale by weighing barcode items as fruit or veg.

i wonder if entering bananas would trigger an alarm/notice? seems like bananas would be the go-to for discounters.

>>17987487
I don't think it would, again shoplifting accounts for so little loss that they kind of don't care. I would still stick with loose fruit though so it looks more natural.

>>17976586
I work in a Krispy Kreme and get free donuts and coffee. Sometimes I eat donuts when I can't affors a meal.

>>17977940
Yeah any items that could conceivably not normally be bagged just stay in the cart. Ill just play stupid and act like i forgot if confronted.

>>17976754
at my restaurant, if you sent something back, or you asked me to take your plate, i'd at least have a bite if not save it for later. not soups or salads, only the fried food and shellfish. the girls found me doing it and started saving me food from their shifts, didn't go grocery shopping for over two years

>>17981280
the human holocaust

I've decided to continue having a well-paying job, good credit, and plenty of savings while being mildly inconvenienced by the rising cost of living.