/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19881200
froot spread

>>19881206
>froot

tuna

>>19881209
do Peruvians really??

>>19881212
premium bean tuna

froot mix (in juice)
great choice :)

>>19881217
I got canned salmon from the food pantry once. Made spicy salmon rolls out of it

>>19881221
oh no

>>19881222
i got a can of salmon too, doesn't even have beans in it. i used to work for OBI seafoods doing quality control though i can only imagine what kind of abuse this fish endured up to canning

>wild Alaska Pink Salmon, caught and chewed by Kodiak seals

tomato sauce
everything in food pantries is low sodium, it is good that they are worried about us indigent's cardiac health

>>19881262
traditional pasta sauce
*proudly made in USA

pumpkin

>>19881271
>china
at least it's probably actually pumpkin

>>19881262
I have an Ollie's near me that sells the San Marzano tomatoes for .89¢ a can. I buy minimum of 4 everytime I go.
One can of that, hand squished, 4T. butter, garlic and can parm makes a perfect, simple sauce for a half package of pasta.
You might try to explore the wonderful world of thin crust pizza using either the dollar store thin crust shells, or Olive oil brushed tortillas.
Looks like a decent haul.

>>19881277
>checked
Yeah, I'd give that one back. You will NEVER catch me eating any kind of produce/fruit/vegetable from China.
Their soil is so fucking contaminated.
Makes me kinda sad too, since I used to LOVE polar brand shit.
It's great that you read labels, anon. The world food supply is SO FUCKED.

>>19881265
>high fructose corn syrup
>soybean oil
Just like mamma mia used to make *sniff*

>>19881200
>tfw you donate over a thousand dollars of food to a food pantry over a 10-year period but when you find yourself in hard times they make you fill out a 20 page questionnaire then claim you made too much money last year to qualify for free food
Motherfucker I wasn't hungry then.

>>19881296
I lived with an old Chinese guy once.
I bought some of that Laoganma or whatever, chilli oil.
He got angry and threw it in the trash and said "NEVER eat food produced in China!"
So I figured, he knows best.
Made in China? Trashcanned

OP are you actually poor or you just want free food?

I'm disabled and there was no food at a food bank, I was doing pretty rough, dropped a lot of pounds
Evidently east indians had been taking it all for their families...I saw a family of maybe 5 or 6 east indian kids and they're all leaving with giant bags of stuff. I waited in a line and got told there was nothing left. Had to go to a church for food.
Doing better now, I have a laptop and I do some work online staying in low income housing, but its getting really hard since I can't walk and I live alone.
I'm honestly considering just lying down and not getting up. I can't really do this anymore. sorry about my blog.

>>19881324
canada by the way. don't come to canada. I was friends with a veteran and he froze to death two years ago due to no vacancy in homeless shelters and most places got locked down due to covid.

>>19881324
Wtf man is there no welfare system where you live? I hope you get help

>>19881324
You can increase joy and meaning in life by being of service to others.
Maybe you can volunteer to help out at the food bank, or church.
Helping others, helps you.

>>19881314
were you applying for food stamps or just a food pantry card? i dont qualify for food stamps because i dont have enough car notes and biracial toddlers but the food pantry dgaf they just want to unload all of this carcinogenic fodder grade slop that processors donate for tax writeoffs. most of the people who use it are here on papers or just undocumented.

>>19881332
I was on a waiting list for almost a year, now I get $1030 a month but that doesn't even barely cover the "low income housing". I want to move out of the city, I don't mind living countryside, but they haven't given me a transfer application for my benefits so I'd get nothing.
>>19881334
yeah that'd be the ideal world but if I went to the food bank I'd just be handing out tin cans to more east indians. toronto has completely fallen, i'm not trying to be racist or something, but they get all of the food now.
https://tnc.news/2023/08/08/food-bank-reports-95-of-users-not-born-in-canada/

>>19881341
Wtf happened to Canada. Fucking Tradeu.
No other help organisations that can help?

>>19881341
It doesn't matter who you are helping.
Even feeding ducks at the park helps your soul.
The universe rewards you, when you give.

>>19881320
i have assets, but i'm on a budget since i dont really have income right now. i'm a full-time student and work only three days to covers my rent and bills. i dont like to spend money if i'm not saving money.

>>19881350
half this province is on welfare at this point
>>19881351
that's true

>>19881351
actually the universe rewards you when you ask

>>19881282
looks good bro. i lived with a russian guy for a while who would make pizza out of whatever, like a person might just throw some shit on a sandwich. completely changed my perception of pizza to a fifteen minute 'fuck it, what's for dinner' option

>>19881319
>Made in China? Trashcanned
Yeah, as much as I hate to waste food, this option is best for everybody.

>>19881368
>i lived with a russian guy for a while who would make pizza out of whatever
kinda funny how locked into regional reality tunnels we get, isn't it?
What's the strangest but edible pidzer combo Sergei cooked up for ya? I could see some decent, but unorthadox combos:
>Reuben pizza: white sauce(olive oil and garlic,) corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, Thousand Island dressing spiraled on after baking
It could work. After all, wasn't pizza originally just a way to use up leftovers/dough back when there were big woodfired community bread ovens that would get fired off a couple times a week maybe?

>>19881200
how often can you visit that food pantry? looks a every week or 2 one.

>>19881200
where you at? my pantry in WA state has a lot of the same stuff.

>>19882016
great lakes region. if you check the fine print on the back of the can, a lot of these products come from big name processing companies like dole, del monte, bird's eye and red gold but are packaged and distributed strictly for donation. that's why you'll never see most of these brands in stores. if you check the distributor on these and the very low low generics like you'll see at dollar stores like chestnut hill or clover valley, you'll find they often come from the same places.

>>19881454
nothing remarkably inventive, just whatever on pizza. ham and cheddar cheese with thinly sliced gherkins was one, pickled mushrooms with bacon and tomatoes was another, chicken with roasted potatoes and greenbeans, queso fresco with scrambled egg and caramelized onion. the base was always the same, a couple of spoons of tomato paste thinned with water, a little salt, granulated garlic and dried thyme on a basic yeast pizza crust. he was also really good at making bread.

>>19881200
>went to the food bank today. let's see what's good
holy crap! when I was a kid and we got a food box it only had beans rice, and a bunch of canned food.

>>19881296
>It's great that you read labels, anon. The world food supply is SO FUCKED.
how do you feel about 'climate change'?

>>19881296
China probably has a higher life expectancy than where you're from

>>19882322
i get a bunch of trader joe's shit that has to get off the shelves, shit's cash

>>19881324
I hope things get better for you bro. What sort of work do you do/would like to do?

>>19881340
I didn't even know that you had to apply for a food pantry card. Like just give Me food because I'm having trouble making ends meet. I applied for the card and they ran my taxes for 2022 and said I made too much. Bitch I have a mortgage

>>19881238
>doesn't even have beans in it
does canned salmon usually have beans in it?

>>19881319
why did you live with an old chinese guy?

>>19883815
Don't judge

>>19883785
apply was the wrong word, here you just have to fill out a form and they give you a card. there's no application process, they just keep their patrons on file so randos dont bumrush the place and they can keep track of your visits (the indian liquor store by my apartment has suspiciously pantry looking cans in their grocery section for $3/apice). most pantries limit a person to two visits per month per pantry, i think you can visit other pantries if you want to. the form just asks for your name and address, if you work (nothing about income or hours), how many people you're feeding and if you need further assistance like help finding housing or a job. then they hand you a card and you grab your food

>>19883819
well, I AM judging you for not living with him anymore. He was clearly based.

>>19883785
there are so many different pantireis with so many different policies, i skip any ran by a church handing out low-quality bulk-bought staples and try and find the no-questions-asked places that just redistribute random shit that the grocery stores couldnt sell