/ck/ - Food & Cooking

grow your own food

did the week's shopping early. I bought
6lbs of napa
3lbs of spinach
3lbs of Shanghai choy
3lbs of eggplants
2lbs of tomato
⅔lb of scapes
3lbs of cherries
1lb of milkfish fishballs (bakso ikan susu)
6pk frozen leek-stuffed bao
10 packets of instant noodles
4 canisters of Melita coffee
2 single litre bottles of plain seltzer
2 reusable shopping bags
for $78. Had i not gotten the coffee, it'd've been $60.
Just the produce was under $25, I think. I'll have to check the receipt.
The cherries were practically free ($5/lb), the shopping bags were actually free and they legit paid me to take the seltzer (89¢ each). I had digital coupons for $2 off per pound for the cherries, free shopping bags and 50¢ off each bottle of seltzer but the system counted these coupons twice for some reason so the cherries were $1/lb and they paid me 42¢ to take their seltzer, lol.
If anything, this and that whole foods are cheap and it's packaged foods that cost a lot.
lrn2cook
lrn2shop

>>19364080
>t. someone who doordashes 6 nights/week

grow your-
>>19364084
Beat me to it.
I only grow spices, onions, cannabis, and garlic for now, but even that was a appreciable dent in my expenditures since it takes care of most of my essential aromatics.

>>19364088
Grocery store prices are up a good 30% since the pandemic.

>>19364084
I live in a 635 sq ft apartment.

>>19364097
In fact, over 20% of Americans live in apartments.

>>19364097

>>19364095
Frozen veggies are up 150%

>>19364097
>>19364105
Unironically one of the reasons I want to finally get a house.

Been shoplifting since june 1976

>>19364117
That's not enough to sustain a person indefinitely.

>>19364095
stop being poor lmao

>>19364097

>>19364164
imagine the smell

>>19364080
Yeah well at least you don't have mean tweets anymore! Right faggot? Literally every part of our life changed after Biden got in office and all you retards question what the fuckin problem is. I wish you were all dead. All of you fucking cattle retards. I fucking hate you

>>19364197

>>19364097
Get an AeroGarden dude. Hydroponics is great for indoors

>>19364197
>Literally every part of our life changed after Biden got in office
Every part of our life changed in 2020 when the global pandemic hit you retard. No US president is powerful enough to cause that kind of chaos. You're like the faggots that blame hurricanes on the gays.

>>19364270
>No US president is powerful enough to cause that kind of chaos
if the president didn't cuck everyone with stupid mandates, then everything would be fine

>>19364197
Guess Biden is prezzie of Boganland, too, since prices also went up Down Unda.
You fucking prat.

>>19364311
Every other currency in the world is priced off a dollar standard

>>19364313
lol
lmao even
do you actually believe that? let me laugh even harder

>>19364157
What about the common strategy of using some potted produce to supplement one's purchased groceries, reducing expenditures?
Like that takes a bit more mental effort than treating it as all-or-nothing, but its perfectly viable and actually relevant for OP.

>>19364080
Raise interest rates.

>>19364313
Please read up on the history of currency basing and fiat currency.
There is no counterargument for just lying.

>>19364086
So you spent 78 dollars on like 2000 calories worth of food with 50 grams of protein and an ass load of fiber. Gotcha.

>>19364329
Fiat has no value, the dollar has value because you have to use it to buy oil, every other fiat has value because they can be traded for dollars.

Real life doesn't care about your feelings etc

>>19364377
>she actually believes this
lol

>>19364351
We already have a lot of meat in the house so i didn't need to get more. Also
>2000 calories
wut
Just the napa alone is about 500.

>>19364393
Cope seethe dilate, sorry you joined the retard team, hopefully one day you can break free from the sunk cost fallacy.

>>19364097
You got a balcony or a window sill?

>>19364086
anon unless you're running a restaurant all that shit is going to go bad before you eat it

>>19364080
have you considered not being poor?

>>19364500
>non-poor people be like

>>19364521
fucking kek

>>19364155
What happened in may and June of 76

>>19364399
How much did the meat cost? And don't fucking say you hunted it, because you said len2shop.

Consume less calories and become fit enough to spend less on medication and endure the rising temperatures.

But go ahead and continue to gorge yourself on junk food while sweating bullets with your sinuses congested. You did it to yourself.

>>19364092
DUDE

>>19364086
>2 single litre bottles of plain seltzer
What are you, a clown?

Just eat less, I have one meal a day and haven’t noticed any changes

>>19364761
>>19364861
These posts glow

>>19364874
>eating less is now government propaganda
post your waistline

>>19364885
>eating less is now government propaganda
Actually, it is. Read the news sometime dipshit.

>>19364922
Post it faggot

>>19364946
Google it faggot I'm not your maid bitch

>>19364080
>obese people looking at fruit and vegetables
Terrible cartoon

>>19364966
>please make my argument for me!
pathetic.png

>>19364755
The chicken leg quarters were 69c/lb, the pork ribs $1.49/lb, the strip steaks $7/lb, all of which were fresh but i subsequently froze. I know the chicken and ribs were 5lbs each but idr how much the steaks weighed. There were five on the tray, though. All on offer due to memorial day.
I also bought bluefish ($4/lb, which fucking fucked me since the last time i saw bluefish it was half that). We had it the day i bought it.

>>19364411
The napa is fermenting into kimchi as we speak and the other veg stay fresh long enough for us to finish it all. We eat a lot of vegetables.

>>19364857
lol
No. I use it to make "homemade" soda IE i make a flavour syrup and add the seltzer to it (the other way around and the seltzer fizzes like mad and winds up overflowing from the top of the bottle).
We already have a few cases of canned seltzer ($2 for 24 cans) but since the bottles were so cheap (as i said, i thought i was gonna pay 29¢ each but wound up having the store pay me 42¢ to take the pair of them), i figured i should get them anyway.

>>19364086
>6lbs of napa
>3lbs of Shanghai choy

You bought NINE POUNDS of cabbage for a single week. Your farts must be goddamn lethal.

>>19365252
>The napa is fermenting into kimchi as we speak
my nigga

Even if food prices have gone up say even 30% over the last few years it's not like it's a massive part of your budget to begin with unless you earn below minimum wage. So you spend $260 a month instead of $200 on groceries wow

>>19365295
Honestly? The three of us can be quite gassy, yes.

>>19364197
now i realize this is a bot

>>19365352
You're a bot(tom).

>>19364080
eradicate democrats/biden

>>19365395
See >>19364311

It sounds like you poor people just need to eat less food. You're probably fat anyway.

its cherry season right now, go find a tree for free food

...that's all I got

>>19364080
>What can we do about the high cost of food?

threaten to nuke the saudis and OPEC countries if they don't increase oil production instead of cozying up to them like a bunch of fucking pussies. pic related.

oil prices are the key to lowering the cost of food production.

Once production and logistical costs are lowered, threaten to nuke the (((multi-national corporations)) that keep food prices artificially high.

>>19364086
New digital coupon for free goyslop. It's $4 and they have me a $4 of coupon. Should I cop?

>>19365456
>>19364086
Derp. Forgot pic.
I have to go out to get some shit at Home Depot in a minute, anyway, so i might stop in to get this shit, too.

>>19364080
In the first seven days of this month I spent <$18 on food. Literal skill issue.

>>19364080
But food doesn't cause obesity
Goyslop causes it. The only way to cure it is to put a tax on any processed food like on alcohol.

>>19365422
>threaten to nuke the saudis and OPEC countries if they don't increase oil production
lmao why the fuck would that matter? the US is the top oil-producing country. maybe the US shou...you know what, nevermind, you've already proven yourself to be ignorant of geopolitics so this conversation will be useless

>>19364080
just become a breatharian, stupider boomer LOL

>>19364080
stop being poor

>>19364080
You have to go back to eating like a college student again
Pasta and ramen for every meal
Veggies and meat are out of most people's budget now,

>>19364080
Steal

>>19364521
Believable when nuggets are $7 for 6 and it's $17 for a big Mac

>>19364080
It's time to do the Maduro Diet.

>>19364080
Shoplift. The walton's fortune is not my problem.

>>19364084
It's not worth it
You end up with a shitload of vegetables all at once, way too much to ever eat

>>19364080
Have you considered going to a food bank? My family gets a ton of produce from there, so much so that they have to give stuff away to friends.

I also shop mainly at Grocery Outlet.

>>19367965
>shop mainly at Grocery Outlet
I would but their produce selection is abysmally tiny, i don't trust the meat and my family and i don't eat a lot of prepackaged food so GrossOut isn't really somewhere i can do any meaningful shopping. I'll stop in every now and and just to see if there's anything with getting. Most of the time, they're just isn't

>>19364080
LOL

>>19364097
You already live in a pod.
Next step: eat the bugs.

>>19367256
>Shoplift. The walton's fortune is not my problem.
This is the thought process of a person of color.
"I'll be fucking Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor (myself). Hey! Why is this store closing! This was the only grocery store in my town!"
"We can't afford to keep selling stuff here when everyone is stealing shit and we can't make a profit."
"Dat's RAYCISS!!!!"

>>19364080
coonass

>>19364080
That should fix it.

>>19364080
Just take it. Money is not real. I’m willing to chimp out for a greater cause.

>>19364080
The Bolsheviks did the same thing to the population 100 years ago. Makes you think huh?

>>19367274
>What is pickling

>>19368544
>kill millions
>look at the people attacking the banks
>wait 100 years...
It's almost like shit runs in cycles.

>>19364084
The Jew masters hate this

>>19364084
honestly gotten to the point where im doing this lmao
if they think im paying 2 dollars for a single red pepper theyve lost their minds

>>19364122
Why are you buying frozen vegetables you fucking fat walmart retard. buy your food and prep it properly nigger smoothbrain idiot

>>19365304
You'd be shocked how many people live paycheck to paycheck with absolutely no room for budget deviations.

>>19369034
Truefax.
A few weeks ago, the lady across the street from me and I were talking and she said she and her husband need to replace a worn out canopy in her back garden but "who just has $1000 sitting around?"
I thought "yowza, I feel poor for being in my 30s and only having a bit over $40k in savings and this broad and her husband don't have even $1k between the two of them?"
ffs, wtf were whatever the gen before gen x (but after boomers) doing with their lives if by the time they're old enough to take their pensions, they don't even have $1k in emergency funds?
She's not the only one, either. I silently judge all of the people I've talked to on my block who are of similar age and still ain't got they's shitz together.

Goddamn losers.

>>19369155
>wtf were whatever the gen before gen x (but after boomers)
There isn't one. The baby boom ended in 1964.
Breaking news: boomers are retarded. In other news: water is wet.

>>19364080
Get into dumpster diving.
Food waste is so high, that if you find the right spots in your city you can eat like a king without every have to pay a cent for food anymore.

>>19364080
Steal from large chains. Just go fucking nuts and take as much as you can get away with every time, because their pre-packaged goods are sold for staggering markups and for every single piece of produce, they fucked over farmers who chose to feed you rather than suck down corn subsidies.

>>19364177
no worse than his apartment i'd wager

>>19364270
>global pandermic caused by bioweapon released from US funded lab in China of all fucking places
>what Commander in Chief of the United States could have possibly prevented this?

>>19369011
Because I am a poor 6’4 160 lb retard. I buy fresh stuff sometimes too but frozen is cheap nutrition. Normal frozen veggies went from a dollar to 2.50 and organic went from 2.50 to 5.

>>19369198
I have heard very good things about dumpster diving, but I have also heard that food banks have plenty

>>19364080
The only things I've noticed that have become prohibitively expensive are chicken breasts, oxtail, and frozen/ processed garbage. Dark meat, fresh produce and fruits, herbs, bulk spices, and booze are most of what I get at the store and they don't seem much more expensive now relative to things like OTC pharmaceuticals and gasoline.

Blame the Saudis

>>19364256
Kek

>>19369957
It surely is the saudis fault and not the government spending trillions of tax dollars in a war at the other side of the planet.

>>19365304
>200 instead of 260
>60 dollar a month difference
>60*12 assuming prices don’t keep rising means an extra 720 a year is going to fill some corporate overlord bank account

Like 50% of the US lives paycheck to paycheck that extra money is the difference between sleeping in a car and a house

>>19370020
>Yes let's surrender the bread basket of the world to Ivan without dealing a single punch
>while we rule the planet
Only an Ivan could make such a retarded post.

>>19369946
>chicken breasts
still $2/lb in my area

>oxtail
Idk current price, but it shot up about 10 years ago and never came down

>frozen/ processed garbage
Idk. Only processed garbage we buy regularly are certain instanoodles and fishballs (fuck making our own) and neither has gone up too much.

>>19369903
Buy lotsa fresh when in season and freeze it yourself. Much cheaper that way. I have a huge bag full of 99c/lb asparagus from Easter (when it's at its cheapest), for example.
Good on you for buying veg, tho. Keep an eye on sales and consider shopping at cheaper stores like Aldi or Lidl. The frozen veg is usually of surprisingly good quality tho idk how much they're charging these days.

>>19370020
>Government spending trillions of tax dollars
Yep
>In a war at (sic) the other side of the planet
Fuck off Magomed Magomeovich Magomedov. The current inflationary crisis is from the fuckton of welfare spending during COVID and not the 75 billion we've spent on the proxy war over two years. Military and other aid to Ukraine would amount to 13.2% of the military budget in 2017 and 8.6% of the $863,000,000 budget of the DoD in 2023 and this isn't even figuring in the fact that this started in early 2022.

>>19366421
>couldn't even hunt his own brontosaurus
Nice going gurg

>>19370625
the one one left was stalked skinned butchered aged and packaged by my own right hand. i have vacuum pump i use for meat.

>>19370058
>unironically stooging for governments

>>19370069
>we've spent
You're not American and you never will be esl.

>>19368985
It's a vicious cycle, anon.

>food prices become insane
>take the initiative to grow your own food
>now you're buying seeds, gardening supplies, maybe even a few tools, etc.
>factor in the cost of water & time spent on labor (your time IS valuable, anon)
I'm not saying anyone is wrong for growing their own food, but it's hard to tell if it's worth it. It's (((their))) fault. Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

>>19370771
>you never will be esl.
Nice of you to recognize his English fluency.

>>19364885
It is certainly government propaganda of the Malthusian flavor (or lack thereof).

>>19364329
macroeconomics my nigga
dollar is the global reserve currency, which means the US exports its inflation to everyone else when they purchase the dollar to do commerce
sorry if it upsets you

>>19370058
ivan would be friends with us if not for intrajew conflict between our jews and theirs
uhh, food and cooking, mmm borscht vodka pelmeni

>>19371498
>ivan would be friends
you're retarded if you rly think that
those shitheads aren't even their own friends

>>19370058
the breadbasket was ivan's until 2014 and it didn't seem to be a problem
america has only itself to blame for starting a war with a major oil and gas producer and refusing to tap its own deposits
you can't blame other countries for doing what they want with their own resources

>>19371530
we are in fact friends with lots of duplicitous shitheads. the question is whether your strategy goals are incompatible with each other. in the case of the US (my country) and Russia, the answer is "not really"
(sorry if you live in Pooland or whatever)

uhhhhh plov halva semechki blyat

>>19364086
I wish they had deals and coupons for fresh produce here
>Hurrrr durrr we need to get rid of this before it goes bad
>No you don't get a discount, discount are for chocolate and booze

what gives me the shits is that as the cost of living skyrockets normalfags are getting into the cheap shit that I used to use for years
you cant even get trash like liver, pigs feet or tripe for cheap anymore, all that shit starts at $7 for a small piece

>>19371530
Yeah, we probably fucking could. The issue is that America is run by one tribe of Jews, and Russia is run by a different tribe, and they fucking hate eachother in that way only tribal societies can, so that's why there was a fifty year cold war and thirty years of frosty relations after that. They cooperated once because the krauts were getting uppity but once that was settled the tribes went back to infighting.

I think what we need to do is start stealing food. We need to start teaching those greedy capitalists a lesson! The lesson being that food and water should be free for all because it is a human right and we shouldn't have to contribute in a meaningful way to society to get what some might call welfare! I am Anonymous, and I will wear a Guy Fawkes mask when stealing from grocery stores! Who is with me?!

>>19371810
you won't need a Guy Fawkes getup.
wear a hoodie, a covid mask and a Yankees cap and they won't even bother trying to stop you or calling the cops.

How come you're always such a fussy young man?
Don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisin Bran
Well, don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan?
So steal it, just steal it (brr)
Don't wanna argue, I don't wanna debate
Don't wanna hear about what kinds of foods you hate (woo)
You won't get no dessert 'til you clean off your plate
So steal it, don't you tell me you're full
Just steal it (steal it), steal it (steal it)
Steal yourself an egg and eat it
Steal some more chicken, steal some more pie
It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried
Just steal it (steal it), just steal it (steal it)
Just steal it (eat it), just steal it (steal it, woo)
Your table manners are a cryin' shame
You're playin' with your food, this ain't some kind of game
Now if you starve to death you'll just have yourself to blame
So steal it, just steal it (brr)
You better listen, better do what you're told (woo)
You haven't even touched your tuna casserole (ooh)
You better chow down, or it's gonna get cold
So steal it, I don't care if you're full
Just steal it (steal it), steal it (steal it)
Open up your mouth and feed it
Steal some more yogurt, steal some more Spam
It doesn't matter if it's fresh or canned
Just steal it (steal it), steal it (steal it)
Don't you make me repeat it
Steal a banana, steal a whole bunch
It doesn't matter what you stole for lunch
Just steal it, steal it, steal it, steal it
Steal it, steal it, steal it, steal it
Steal it (steal it), steal it (steal it)
If it's getting cold, reheat it
Have a big dinner, have a light snack
If you don't like it, you can't send it back
Just steal it (ooh-hoo, steal it), steal it (steal it)
Steal yourself an egg and eat it (oh, Lord)
Steal some more chicken (ooh-hoo), steal some more pie (ooh-hoo-hoo)
It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried
Just steal it (steal it), steal it (steal it)
Don't you make me repeat it (oh, no)
Steal a banana you monkey, steal a whole bunch (ooh-hoo-hoo)
It don't matter what you stole for lunch...

>>19364080
Do most people not shop stores based on their ads?
If you don't need an item at the moment, you could find a good deal the following week.

>>19364080
I figure many who complain about food prices are the same people who don't want a Walmart in their city, blame racism for people who shoplift, and think bodegas are best things to happen to cities.

>>19364080
I pay more for gas than food at the moment. Yes, it's all expensive, but gas is stupid expensive for me because I have to drive a rather large vehicle a lot. And honestly, I'd rather pay 3x as much for food if it meant we weren't importing 11 million illegal workers every year.

>>19371980
I don't shop at Walmart because it's overpriced for what I eat (fresh fucking food). I guess if you subsist exclusively on Slopsters brand Corrugated Meat-like Food-ish Nuggets and ketchup, it might be cheaper to get that shit at Wally-World. You fucking moron.

>>19371567
I posted >>19364086.
Try to shop in the early morning on weekdays before the blue-haired bingo-playing bitties have swiped up the manager's specials. You might find discounted produce then.

they finally raised the price of these from $1.69 to $1.99

my total for a filled cart was still only fifty something dollars, most of it being 99 bananas. i grab all the big ones every time i go. they're sold by the each and it's debilitating for me to run out of bananas. i weighed them when i got home and i ended up paying $0.38/lb this time. i wish they'd just sell me a 40 pound box at a flat rate. i can ask for a box, but it takes time to wait for them to go get it, and they still charge by the each, which ends up costing more per pound because so many are tiny

i don't think i've ever fit $100 in the tiny carts there

Americans aren't fat because of food prices they're fat because of food availability. No shit people are fat when processed foods are shoved in front of their faces daily.

>>19372532
You obviously don't shop at Walmart. Veges and fruits are still half the price compared to Target and grocery stores like Kroger and Safeway stores. Meats aren't cheaper either.

Amerilards having an absolute meltdown itt lol

>>19373007
>Target
lol
I don't shop there, either, for the exact same reason.

>Kroger
Don't have any here.

>Safeway
Typically expensive af, true, but they give me some ridiculously good digital coupons on produce from time to time.

And apologies for calling you (or the other guy if you are not one and the same) a moron. That was uncalled for, but for fuck's sake,
Walmart tends to be costlier for produce in my area than other stores. $3 for a tiny-ass head of cauliflower? $2.49 for a sleeve of celery? $1/lb for yellow onion? $2/lb for tomatoes? FOHWTBS.
$2 for cauli and $1.79 for celery at Aldi, 79c/lb for yellow onion at the Chinese supermarket (across from Aldi) $1/lb for tomatoes from the green grocer at my corner.
I would mention others, but those are the only ones I'm sure the prices of right now since I went to Walmart a month ago (I got canned fish) and had my head done in by the price of produce. ACTUALLY! I remembered another: broccoli was 50c more per pound there than at the Chink store ($1.49/lb vs 99c/lb). Also, they don't have a great selection, though I was admittedly surprised that they had spiky squash. Whatever it's called. I forgot. You know the one. Green. Has spikes on it. One huge seed in the middle (so not actually a squash, but you prepare it like one). That thing.

>>19373057
>spiky squash. Whatever it's called. I forgot.
Chayote.

>>19373057
Yeah, I tend to only buy produce when it's on sale.
Aldi is great for greens.

>>19364080
Reelect Trump and you'll end Bidenflation.

>>19365588
The only cause of obesity is over-consumption.

>>19364270
Food prices were stable during covid. It was only a year after Biden was in office that food prices really started getting fucked.

>>19374125
>during covid

Yes, when a shit ton of people were getting SNAP (food stamps) and the market hadn't caught up.

The party is over now for those lazy motherfuckers who are now wishing they'd gone to work instead of sitting on their asses for two years.

>>19374077
lol no. you need someone who isn't a weak bitch with the saudis who can strong arm them into producing more oil.
Trump cannot do this. he's a pussy with the saudis

>>19374265
yeah we need someone like adolf hitler to tell those muzzies and kikes what's what.

>>19373306
>Aldi is great for greens.
Not in my experience, but if your local Aldi has good greens, I can only say that I wish mine did, too.

>>19374300
they have pretty good blue waffles