/ck/ - Food & Cooking

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Check the booru. There are some poorfag infographics there.

>http://ck.booru.org/

Also, slow your roll and don't bump. We're a slow board and this is one of the slowest times of the day. Consider bumping when your thread is on page 8.

$100 is plenty to feed yourself for a month, dont panic

buy rice, pasta, and potatoes
a decent selection of vegetables that you eat (if you dont know what you eat you can buy frozen bags of individual portions of a mix of peas, carrots, broccoli, corn etc)
(frozen if you wanna save pennies) beef chuck, chicken and sausage
either stuff to make your own sauces (onion, garlic, canned tomatoes are good for making pasta sauce and casserole bases and chilis, seasonings (to save you needing to buy a spice rack, you can buy what look like salt grinders that have whatever you need in) or jars of sauces

ramen isnt actually worth how much it costs, you could buy actual noodles for about the same price
ramen isnt a meal, its a snack, its basic carbohydrate and you can burn through that stupid fast

focus on eating protein because it keeps you fuller longer

youre not screwed
i feed three people in the uk for about $140 a month

>>4341754
Ok I'll slow down, thanks for the link!

>>4341764
Thank you anon, I'm composing a simple shopping list right now. Do you also happen to know for how long it is appropriate to stash up on raw goods? Once every week? Once every month? The corridor I live in has a shared kitchen with plenty of pantry and fridge space, but the space we get in the freezer is a joke, about the size of a shoe box. I have no car for big hauls but a fairly big store is within walking distance.

Yep, you ain't screwed.

To add something to >>4341764, some of the most commonly used and useful dry goods to acquire: salt, black pepper - either whole corns to grind, or coarsely pre-ground -, cayenne, basil, oregano, curry powder wheat flour, bread crumbs, beef and chicken stock cubes or powder.

You won't need much else in terms of dry goods for your first month, and most of this stuff will actually outlast the month, so you can build your pantry and spice rack perioidically.

Also, unashamedly scour sales on protein sources. Learn to enjoy eggs in as many ways as possible, but actively search for deals on ground meat, chicken, sausages and salmon, tilapia or pollack. If you have a vegetable base built in your freezer already, look for occasional fresh veggie deals to supplement it.

Also, learn to love soup, and to bake bread.

>>4341865 continued:

Here's a hobo soup base.

1 tbsp cooking oil,
2 onions,
2 carrots,
small piece of turnip,
small piece of parsnip,
small piece of root celery,
1 cup of peas,

OR - all of the above replaced with premade frozen root vegetable mix, about 1.5 pounds of it, if you can get it cheaper.

5 potatoes,
water,
3 tbsp tomato puree,
2 tsp dried basil,
1 tsp salt,
1/2 tsp black pepper,
1 beef stock cube.

Finally, optional components - half a pound of ground beef, diced sausage, chicken strips, bacon, ham, or even fish. Seasonal vegetables on sale, such as beans, shredded cabbage, diced beets, spring onion, mushrooms, and whatever else you can catch. The purpose of the soup base above is to function as a take-all soup base for seasonal ingredients, possible to create on the fly with minimal investments and effort and very little time.

Peel and mince your onions, and dice the other vegetables to a homogenous size. Pour the oil into your kettle, heat it up, and add the onions first. Sautee stirring until slightly translucent, then add the tomato puree and potential non-fish protein component, and brown. Follow with the vegetables prepared earlier, stir well, and sautee, stirring again occasionally. While that's going on, dice your potatoes to bite size, and add to the mix, then cover the entirety of it with water, and bring to boil. When it boils, add stock cube, salt and spices, and boil for 30 minutes. Remove from heat, taste, adjust seasoning very carefully - if it's too thin, add another stock cube, if you want heat, add cayenne. Serve with bread.

If you have fish, add it after the soup's boiled for 20 minutes. 10 minutes is enough for thawed fish to cook. Also consider using fish stock cubes for fish soup. For other seasonal vegetables, add them along with the others. The soup will also keep in the fridge for up to 5 days or so, and is fames for its habit of improving after each consecutive heating.

>>4341795
Hmm... well, in that case, I'd say you might be better served by acquiring ingredients fresh and keeping only already cooked, leftover food packaged away in the freezer. And make a habit of deciding adamantly on a recipe before buying ingredients, and then buying only what you absolutely need, and what keeps well. Root vegetables, potatoes and dry goods keep infamously well, while meat, fish and fowl will have to be cooked within a relatively short time of purchasing, and then consumed within up to 3-5 days from cooking, with some exceptions such as bacon and sausages.

>>4341865
>>4341883
>>4341890
Thank you guys, h-here i go then...

$100 is a lot of money if you're just feeding one person. Buy big bags of rice/lentils/beans/potatoes/etc and they'll feed you forever.

Also, learn to bake bread. It's incredibly cost effective, and actually stupidly easy if you use a method like Lahey's slow rise cast iron pot breads.

>>4342042
And it's fun. Baking has that whole "I can do stuff with my hands" feeling, stronger than just cooking.

And finally, it is mindbendingly delicious. As the bread bakes, the delicious smell fills the kitchen thoroughly, and when you take your bread out of the oven, take a slice or split a roll, and just spread a bit of butter on it and let it melt a bit before biting into it... OOOOOOH YYEEEEAAAHH.

>>4342066

Turned out a bit more expensive than I hoped due to all the basic spices and stuff that you use over a long time. Got plenty of stuff for baking bread and making varied meals though so I should be fine for some time. Biggest problem now- I realized I'm missing some basic kitchenware and the knifes my family gave me are literally useless. Thank you guys, I suppose this thread has outlived its purpose.

>>4342596
When lacking, improvise. I've fried bacon and eggs on a trench shovel.

>>4341683
>>ramen
>>cheap
not really. if youre lazy its good but its not cheaper than the ingredients to make the noodles yourself.

>>4343863
>rapeseed oil

>>4343917

A Canadian engineered crop, perhaps so named as a testament to their rapey nature.

>>4343863
>>4344435
Sceak, please fuck off. If you have to get pills to survive your cooking, it isn't something you want to shove on young, unsuspecting college students.