/ck/ - Food & Cooking

rice, beans, potatoes, vitamin pills

>>4179513
vodka and a razor

shot gun shells and a hammer

quick oats, canned stuff, and OPs pic related.

>>4179515
Cook them by adding hot water from the kettle?
>>4179529
Quick oats, good thinking.

Would you guys spend precious dollars on anything to season oats, beans, rice, ramen, etc., or just bask in the vacuity of being horribly poor?

fuck that's easy.

3 chickens $12
a couple pounds of rice $1
a couple pounds of beans $2
2 dozen eggs $2
package of chicken bullion cubes $2

Cut up chickens. Each one will be 5 portions: 2 beasts, 2 leg quarters, and the misc. meat off the carcass. You will cook this in your boiling water + bullion. That's 1 serving of meat per day, plus you drink the soup you boiled it in.

Your other meals will be rice and/or beans plus 1 egg each.

>>4179547
not OP, but are you talking from experience when you suggest he cooks beans/rise/eggs/chicken with nothing but an electric kettle?

OP - I'd try and score some sugar packets from wherever you can to make oats nicer.

bread, peanut butter, and cans of tuna

>>4179547
Would you just store the soup in the kettle? Imagine no knife, either -- would you just tear the chicken up with a fork?
>>4179557
OP here, wondering myself. I suppose you could throw them in the kettle and constantly turn it back on or something. It'd be a bitch to clean tho -- the kettle's not really designed for much but boiling water.

I can't see just adding boiling water to rice, etc. turning out well. Maybe boiling eggs in the kettle tho -- I could see that working.
>>4179566
Aye, bread and peanutbutter are awesome and fairly filling. I wonder if the price:food ratio on bread/peanutbutter is worth it. Hrm.

Tuna is a great idea.

>>4179513
Fish (assume on coast where cheap), eggs, fresh veg, butter, lemons. Dried rice/mung noodles (only needs rehydration).

Poached fish w/ hollendaise/ber inase, boiled veg, ceviche, summer rolls.

12 packs of ramen are just a couple dollars at my work.
I usually cook 2 packs at a time. Eating 4 packs daily.
4 packs daily x14 days
56 packs of ramen are needed

So i'd need about 5 of those 12 packs.
Probably coming to a bit over $12-15 (tax and all included)

I've done it before.
It sucks ass, and by the second week you want to kill yourself because of the ramen farts, but eh.
Its totally possible.

>>4179583
I think you can get a few loaves of bread for under 10/7$, maybe even cheaper if you get fresh baked but they don't tend to last as long.

Peanut butter is around $4, and is fairly filling and nutritious

Tuna is affordable and nutritious

It is very plain, you'll probably get sick of it, but you can be full and not feel like too much shit if you get that stuff.

Maybe if you have some left over funds, you can get some cans of beans, and eat them with the tuna?

>>4179585
The process I know of for hollandaise requires a stove for consistent heat over a double boiler... how?

28 sachets of condensed soup.

>>4179585
Instant dashi and miso for soup.
Boiled eggs.
A pile of insulating foam and a blowtorch. Sous vide steak.

Homemade mayo, blanched kholrabe or cabbage slaw.

>>4179611

Put bowl on electric kettle.

>>4179513
rice, beans, potatoes, beer.

Also all kinds of raw/vegan shit.

Rice, dry beans, potato, eggs toward the end, and some canned vienna sausage. The last one is cheap ($0.50 for 5 oz/350 kcal), comes packaged in chicken stock which can flavor the rice and beans and is a decent enough source of fat and protein for two weeks.

>>4179639
>go outside and eat the grass off the sidewalk

bread, peanut butter, jelly, rice, eggs, and ramen.

Softboiled eggs and instant noodles/soup.

Mashed pertaters.
>>4179669
Thats not a bad idea. Foraging veg/fruit saves money. Ivee done it before, p good yields.

I steal some food, buy some food.

>>4179513

I go to the dollar store and buy a few packs of ramen, a few boxes of cookies, bunch of canned stuff they have, bread, baked beans, etc.

It's not a hard challenge, but you need access to a dollar store.

>>4179706

If you're skinny, bang for the buck, you're better off with ramen and cookies. Ramen is typically 350 kcal/pack and cookies come up to about 1250 kcal/box.

If you're fat, well you needn't worry about such things.

>>4179540
maybe a good soy sauce that had a decent protein content

You could steam a egg custard in the kettle actually, some sesame oil and scallions and thats p good too.

A big bag of oats, some canned beans and some salt and pepper. Oats for breakfast and lunch, beans for dinner. All dirt cheap. Salt and pepper to make it seem less boring.

>>4179557

I've never done it with an electric kettle but I have done it with nothing but a rice cooker. It's not ideal, but if you can get water boiling hot then you can cook food with it.

>>4179583
>Would you just store the soup in the kettle?

No, you'd prepare it and then eat it right away.

>Imagine no knife, either -- would you just tear the chicken up with a fork?

No, you find yourself a knife or other cutting device. I don't believe for a second that OP has no access to a knife or scissors. Surely there is one somewhere he can borrow. Even an art knife or a pocketknife would work. If for some reason OP can't find a knife then he can find something made of glass, break it, and then have something to cut with. Or, he can find a piece of thin metal like the lid to a can. If it's not sharp enough it can be sharpened with a rock or any piece of concrete. It's not hard to get a cutting device.

>>4179513
I don't know about America but in the UK all tinned food is edible straight from the tin so if you don't mind it cold and tinned stuff. Beans are cheap and filling while ebing good for you and taste nice. For the kettle you can buy instant soups and noodles. Do you have access to a thermos flask? You can make rice and noodles with it by putting dried rice and boiling hot water and closing it. You do it the night before for breakfast or 4 or so hours before any meal at the earliest. You could add spices or vegetables to flavour and cook with the rice too, hell an instant soup sachet put in there will be better than white rice plain. Something I have heard about but have not tried would be to put pasta or noodles or eggs in their shell into the kettle to cook, like I said I don't know if it would work and I personally wouldn't try it but it is a suggestion. You can buy many fruits and vegetables. Good luck in your frugal living my American friend.

>>4180020
Not everything, things like kidney beans and chickpeas come in tins in an almost-raw form. You need to cook them or they're indigestible.

(saging because my post is pedantry, not because of the thread)

>>4180020
>I don't know how canning works

Top Ramen - 42 packets at 25 cents per ($10.50)
10lb Watermelon - 40 cents per pound ($4.00)
Loaf of Bread - $2.50
4 cans of tuna - 75 cents per can ($3.00)

For a grand total of $20.

You're going to fucking hate Ramen by the end of it though.

Are we able to go shopping everyday, or does it all have to be bought in one trip?

Because it's going to be the lack of storage that gets you more than anything.

>>4179513
Buy whole rotisserie chicken from supermarket for 7$, ramen, vegetables, and sauerkraut.

eat chicken, when done use bones to make soup with vegetables.

finish sauerkraut in one day, shit everywhere

>>4180149
I love me some sauerkraut

>>4180037
What? no they don't. All food in tins is cooked here and edible right out of the tin. I have garnished some dishes with kidney beans from a tin for a start.

>>4180050
I know you don't but I don't know why you would make such a post. Everything is cooked at 300 degrees during the canning process. Can you please stop shitposting and help op?

>>4179596
>I've done it before.It sucks ass, and by the second week you want to kill yourself because of the ramen farts, but eh.
>>4180072
>You're going to fucking hate Ramen by the end of it though.

Yeah -- I've been eating almost nothing but ramen for the past two months. Kind of just looking for ideas, and there are a lot of good ones in here. Thanks, everyone. Shopping trip tonight.

Ramen is inevitable, but at least I'll be able to mix it up a bit now.
>>4179849
Good point -- a pocket knife is available!
>>4180074
Shopping every day is a possibility, but you have to factor travel costs into the $20 (unless somewhere within walking distance).

Nuts. Dried fruit. Quick oats. Bread, peanut butter. Bananas will be nice while they last. Honey.

I'd probably buy those instant soba things but I'd hate myself for doing so.

Lots of tea. Canned no-heat meats, hot dogs, dried meats.

>All these people not reading that you have no stove, refridgerator

There's a lot of great ideas in here...if you were allowed to have a stove or a fridge.

>>4180163

Make sure to drink a lot of water if you're eating that much ramen. All that salt is terrible for you if you're not getting enough water to go with it.

>>4180191
As much as I'd like to chance my diet to beans+rice, I'm having difficulty figuring out how to cook them with just an electric kettle and a bowl.

A lot of good ideas in this thread. I'll try to figure something out!
>>4180178
Hot dogs would be amazing, but I don't think I can get away with no refrigeration. Canned meats, on the other hand... hope I can find some cheap!

Thanks again, everyone.

>>4180408
Canned sausages tend to offer more mass and less unhealthy things (namely saturated fats and sodium) than hot dogs, even though the unit prices tend to be roughly equivalent. (On deep discount, hot dogs tend to win out by a penny or two per ounce.) You'd actually do yourself a favor going for canned over refrigerated. Still plenty of calories for cheap but you also feel fuller which--trust me--is equally important no matter how much rice you're using to stuff your belly. Protein and fats are what let that satiety persist after the carbs are digested away.

I'd post some example numbers in a quick rundown I made but the pic isn't on this computer.

40 packs of ramen (as a base), a few dozen eggs (for cheap protein) a few bags of carrots (for vitamins and flavor). ramen with sliced up hardboiled egg and sliced up carrot (cooked with the ramen to soften it and flavor the broth), twice a day.

soup and premade rice

whatever can be cooked by soaking in hot water or broth.

rice? couscous? some legumes? ramen? or you could just.. eat stuff that doesn't need cooking or refrigeration
>nutella sandwich every day

i would buy a big bag of quinoa, some tempeh (or meat) and some veggies.
maybe some kind of soy sauce

>>4180496
cook everything with steam or hot water

Rice, lentils, peanut butter, soya sauce, tuna

it won't be a fun two weeks, but it'll do

>>4183110
Good job necromancing your thread, OP. Now you can talk about being poor for another day.

>>4183116
I'm not OP, I just like to go through all the pages!

>>4183119
Get a job.

>>4183124
Suck a dick.

>>4179513
bread and jerky, anything else I need I'll shoplift

>>4179513

A gun and a bullet. If my life is that shitty, if I own no kitchen appliances, if I only have twenty american units, it's time to go. Bang.

>>4179513
ICH..I..BAN
NUMBER 1

>>4185138
you can't buy a gun for 20 bucks, dogg.

>>4185182

Good thing I already have one. I'll spend my 20 on Evan Williams and a pack of Reds, and 'borrow' the bullet from a friend.

split the money.
buy onions and shit amounts of bovril. mix them both in a crappy soup. voila you have survived 2 weeks

>>4179513
I would go do something for more money

>>4185138
Congrats, you killed yourself over having what 60% of Americans live their entire lives and raise families off of and 80% of the world population would find this amazingly rich.

>>4185285

1) Bullshit.
2) Fuqdat.

>>4179583
>and constantly turn it back on or something.

You can stop a kettle shutting off by opening the lid.

My retarded housemates boiled the kettle dry doing that not long ago and the element was black.

Don't put soup or chicken in the kettle. It will burn onto the element. You could steam things if you were inventive.

Otherwise I'd just go for pasta + rice. If the water cools too much to continue them cooking, swap out the water for freshly boiled water.

>>4180408
>beans+rice, I'm having difficulty figuring out how to cook them with just an electric kettle and a bowl.

You can steam rice remember. Find a way to suspend rice over the kettle. (Something simple like a sieve sitting on top of the kettle).

Or just put it in the bowl with boiling water and change the water when it stops cooking.

You'll eventually need a sieve to get it out anyway so you may as well just buy one. I don't know what it's like in America but here in the UK you can get cheap kitchen equipment from supermarkets (a plastic sieve from Tesco would be around 30p or something.)

Also you could warm up tinned foods by sticking the tin straight into freshly boiled water and letting it heat up before opening the tin.

Go to the local grocery and buy$3,81 Store-brand bread, 3 loaves, 20slices eachttp://www.shoprite.com/pd/ShopRite/Enrhed-Bread-Round-Top-White/22-oz/0411901918
$3,38 Store-brand PB, 2 jars, 15 servings eachttp://www.shoprite.com/pd/ShopRite/Peat-Butter-Creamy/18-oz/041190006748
$2,99 Smuckers strawberry jelly, 32 servinghttp://www.shoprite.com/pd/Smuckers/Jamtrawberry/32-oz/051500001639
Sell kettle on Craigslist for $6
Use the remaining $15,82 to have all-you-can-eat lunch at the $6 lunch buffet twice during that two-week period (the $6 special is on Tuesdays), paying 8% tax and 20% tip each time, and load up on vegetables, ginger-and-scallion-steamed flounder and other stuff
Without a cooktop and in this cold weather, I would be unable to cook. Were it warmer, I would buy stuff and cook outdoors on one of the public grills in the park (yes: public grills), but this would be my course of action in the dead of winter with the options OP gave me.

$5 of rice and beans, 5$ fresh veggies, $2 assorted ramen noodles, $3 quick oats, $3 eggs, $2 on some bulk candy to help not go insane.

-Start each morning with some oatmeal, and maybe throw in a hard-boiled egg or two (putting eggs in the kettle to hard-boil them). Immediately after breakfast, get the rice and beans with some vegetables soaking in the kettle.

For lunch, stew the stuff together in the kettle.

For dinner, have ramen with any lunch leftovers, maybe more eggs if peckish, and enjoy some candy before bed.

This was actually kinda tough, OP.

Ramen, tuna, bread and carrots.
And of course, steal what I can. I usually sneak expensive spice from supermarkets when I don't feel like paying more than $6 for them.

>>4185640
see
>>4185329

gonna have to be a little more inventive.