/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5740732
cheaps cuts of meat with veg on the side

Always look for ingredients that are cheap per pound. It's easy to plan if you think each meal persist of one staple (pasta, rice, potato, couscous), one main dish (meat, beans, stew), and something green (frozen vegetables, pickles, or just a simple salad).

I'd personally recommend making alot of stews, like atleast once a week, and freezing it for later use.

>>5740737
>>5740739

Cheers for the advice anons, also out of curiosity is making your own soup worth it nutrition wise than just getting it out of a tin?

>>5740742
I'm not entirely sure of the nutrition content of canned soups, but I'm fairly comfident a home made one will have better value per pound spend. A simple soup doesn't need more than 5 pounds worth of vegtetables and some pre made broth, and you'll have more than 10 cans worth of pre made soup, that not to mention tastes better.

>>5740737

>chicken breasts

buy whole chickens or gtfo. ton of meat on them, cheap as fuck, you can make stock with them, super frugal

buy whatever the fuck you want

cook whatever the fuck you want

it's 200 fucking quid

that is over £5 a day

allrecipes.com

£200/month is more than enough if you don't eat out more than once or twice.

Potatoes, rice, pasta, eggs are all easy and cheap things to cook. Pork belly is cheap and very flavourful, you can fry, roast or stew it and its all good. I enjoy salmon regularly on a similar budget, 1 starch 1 meat/fish 1 veg meals are the simplest thing.

You can make a large pot of bolognese sauce on a weekend and then freeze into portions, it's tasty and reheats well in the microwave.

>>5740742
Probably. You can use fresh onions, leeks, potatoes etc in your soups, a sprinkle of crumbled bacon on top for texture and you're good to go.

>>5740753

Yeah, and you can't get chicken breast for $2 a pound anymore. You can get thighs for $1 a pound though, that's what i get.

>200 quid a month
>budget
all you need to be able to do is cook, 200 quid a month will buy you whatever you want

£200 on food a month is not a budget

you do not need to plan

Rice and lentils everyday, chicken thigh on Sundays.

Save the extra money to move to a better country lel

>>5740732
Perhaps OP is referring to £200/month by eating both lunch and dinner at home; that is more than enough but if you eat at the University for lunch it is not that much.

Food is cheap generally and you won't be making any substancial dishes if you just cook for yourself. The main things to have are:
>pasta
>rice
>cheap meat such as hamburgers, sausages and chicken breasts
>buy some vegetables such as carrots and onions every week to keep them fresh;

Recipes: hamburger/chicken breast with rice, stews, stir fried vegetables, anything.

Basically you just need to learn a few basics and improvise for the rest.

>>5741265
>stews
how do I stew

I'm afraid of undercooking meat

>>5741321

stews are the safest possible thing you could do in terms of cooking your meat

the lowest setting on your hob is not gonna hold water below 50-60C.

>200/month for one person
>need help budgeting

Try living on 100/month for two people you coddled fuck.

>>5741321
>how do I stew

Cut meat into cubes. Season with salt and pepper. Dust with flour. Brown the meat on all sides in the bottom of your pot. don't worry about cooking it through--that will happen later. For now, just get a good sear on all surfaces.

Remove meat and set aside temporarily. Sweat down your veggies in the pot for about 10 minutes. Put the meat back in. Pour in some stock or booze. Simmer until the meat is tender.

For chicken: chicken stock or white wine. Takes about an hour and a half to cook.

For pork: cider or chicken stock or white wine. Takes about 2-2.5 hours.

For beef: red wine or beef stock or dark beer. Takes about 2.5-3 hours or so.

>>I'm afraid of undercooking meat
Why? You can cut into the meat and clearly see if it's cooked or not. An in the case of a stew, it's the very defintion of "overcooked"--you're simmering it for so long that's fall-apart tender.

>>5741346
>Sweat down your veggies
what

>Pour in some stock or booze.
It works to just have booze as the liquid?

>>5741334

No you're right I have been somewhat coddled, I come from a relatively middle class family and I don't know how to budget my food correctly and so I've come here for advice, there's no need to be so passive aggressive about it to a guy who admitedly hasn't lived in the "real world" yet you fuck.

>>5741369
Go fuck yourself, kid.

>>5741367

to sweat vegetables means to cook them fairly slowly, so they don't colour that much but they break down. basically just fry them in a little oil and stir every now and then.

there are braises that just use booze but i generally prefer using both. it does 'work' but it can be overpowering if you don't temper it somewhat.

>~$300
If I had that budget, I'd be eating like a king in freedomland.

What's with your food prices, my fellow bong?

>>5741367
>what

Sweat. It's a cooking method. Google it.

>It works to just have booze as the liquid?
Yes, assuming you use one that matches well with the meat you chose. See the suggested list posted above.

>>5741382

Well I'm going to Bristol which is fairly expensive also the £200 isn't just on food, it's just what I have left after rent so it will have to cover things like clothes as well, but mainly I'm planning to use it for food as I don't drink alcohol or smoke.

>>5741390
>so it will have to cover things like clothes as well
Do normies really have to account for clothes in their budgets? Are you using them as fuel or something?

>>5741403
It's not really socially acceptable to wear the same stuff for 4 years. I've noticed that after buying no new cloth as all during my uni years.

>>5741390
You can do min of £20 a week for food.

>>5741415
It is if they're plain clothes.

Also, don't waste money because of cheap social acceptance, turbonorm.

>>5741390
I go to Bath which is practically next door, £200 is more than enough provided you don't have expensive tastes in clothes. Keep an eye out for discounts, you can get meat really cheap at times. Get your clothing in charity shops as well.

>>5741459

Cheers anon, I'll take the advice on board.

>>5741390
I'm a second year at Bristol, what halls are you in?
If you don't drink or smoke you'll have no problem feeding yourself for £200 a month

>>5741469

I had to get a place at Cherry Court as my campus doesn't have any halls. But it's still through Unite so it's technically a campus.

I'm so glad that I'm rich and don't need to budget anything at all ever.

>>5741415
>It's not really socially acceptable to wear the same stuff for 4 years.

>>5741390
>>5741469
Bristol friends! Second year here, I was in Winkworth house last year, it was pretty shit but we had a cute cat that wondered around.

>>5741481
Is that a UWE hall? I'm at UoB so I don't know much about them
>>5741555
Is that one of the Unite ones? I think I've heard of it vaguely but I've no clue where it is or anthing

>>5741603
It's uni owned, but it's a really small one there were hardly any of us. It's just off park street, over the road from College Green. Where were you?

>>5741603

Yeah it's a UWE one, it's in the city center.

>>5741617
that sounds pretty cool honestly, college green is one of my favourite places in Bristol. I was in Durdham, not going to miss it at all
>>5741622
Do you have all your lectures at Frenchay? That's quite a way out isn't it?

>>5741636

No I'm at the Bower Ashton campus

>>5741636
I had a lot of friends in Durdham, can't remember what block they were off the top of my head, sadly, but I DO remember that one girl who used to yell in the quad a lot. Good times. What're you studying?

>>5741640
Oh that's a bit more of a manageable distance. What do you study?
>>5741641
Oh god yeah she was not popular by the end of the year, although to be honest I think by uni standards someone shouting for 5 minutes every week or so isn't too bad. Biochemistry, you?

>>5741658
Not as bad as UH, I guess, but I've only met like 2 people who lived there and they were BOTH arseholes. Oh god, sciences, I do Spanish and Portuguese; currently saving up every penny I have to pay for the year abroad.

>>5740732
top ramen noodles

>>5741658

Drama and acting, the ultimate ambition is to one day own my own theatre company and the course specializes in creating your own theatre but it's also a good chance for me to network I think.

>>5741415
this is the stupidest thing I've heard today. Clothes are roughly the same for 80+ years (shirt, T-shirt, jeans, suits,etc.), with minor exceptions like sweatpants (that never were fashionable in the first place).
So unless they have holes or oil stains, they are fine.
Even then, jeans are now sold pre-worn out and full of holes (for some reason)

>>5741664
Yeah I know a couple of nice people from there but both of them hated their flats and wanted to get out ASAP. I'd take sciences over languages any day, couldn't ever get my head round them. Do you get any financial help from the uni? Seems harsh they make you pay for it all
>>5741670
Nice one, not my cup of tea but it seems like you've got it all worked out!

>>5741684
Yeah I do, but a lot of it is paid retroactively, so I basically need the money before I go out there. It would seem that the housing stereotypes are pretty much true, I spent a night or two staying with a friend in Badock and all her hallmates mentioned going to Motion and dropping pretty much every single time. Night of the Stoke Bishop Ball we came back and one of them had had a really bad drop, it wasn't pretty.