/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Kraft dinner
Rice

poor feels guy.
every since /r9k/ turned pepe into a smug douchebag I have nothing but disdain for him.

>>6082593
Fuck /r9k/ of today. I used to go there before Sigourney deleted it. We were gentlemen before rowboats.

OP, bix noodles AKA ramen

Rice beans and lentils.
The holy trinity of poorfag food.
Box noodles are expensive as fuck compared to the above, it's food meant for lazy people, not poor people.

Just making a friendly reminder to forage, fish, hunt, and grow food if possible where you live.

pelmeni

>>6082572
Don't eat garbage like hotdogs all the time, what kind of time do you have to prepare meals? You can make decent food for cheap as long as you are willing to put some effort in.

>>6082572
rice
beans
lentils
cheap produce that lasts such as onions and potatoes
buying a whole chicken and saving the bones for stock

Everyone suggests rice and beans, but nobody wants to actually live on that.

Potatoes and eggs. Now we're talking. Same deal as rice and beans: carbs and protein. The only difference is that it's far more edible. Eggs are going to be a little more expensive than beans, but potatoes should be comparable to rice.

Think of all the different ways you can cook potatoes and eggs with just water and oil.

Eggs in water
>poached, hard boiled, soft boiled
Eggs in oil
>fried, scrambled, omelette

Potatoes in water
>mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes, potato gruel
Potatoes in oil
>hashbrowns/latkes, french fries, home fries
Potatoes in the oven
>roast potatoes, twice-baked potatoes, baked potatoes, potato skins, au gratin

Of course, many of these are going to suck without some cheese, cream, and butter. But once you buy those, you're REALLY in business.

If you go the rice and beans route, I suggest getting some limes, onion, hot sauce, and cilantro. That should make it edible without adding too much to your budget. Good spices to have: salt, pepper, cumin, chili pepper

Once you get this down, all you need to do is check flyers for meat and vegetable sells. Find what works, and serve it with your potatoes or rice.

>>6082654

What type of beans are good?

Would chili be inexpensive? Or is that pushing the budget

>>6082800

Whats the healthiest way to cook and consume a potato?

>>6082796

What are some decent meals?

Time isn't an issue

Learn to cook Asian/Indian food. They have a ton of recipes that primarily use vegetables, starches, and legumes. You can make seriously tasty (and even protein-rich) meals out of stuff like lentils, rice, beans, potatoes, eggplant, tofu, etc. It's dirt cheap, flavorful, and healthy.

Buy your ingredients (PARTICULARLY YOUR SPICES) from bulk bins where they are much cheaper.

>>6082814

I like you

>>6082823

I'm an Indian, I'll look up some basic oriental cuisins once I become a master bean and egg/potato chef

>>6082855

To be clear, when I said Indian food, I meant Indian food, not Native American food.

>>6082860

Yeah I know, what goes well with rice?

>Native American

>>6082572
https://archive.org/stream/twentyfivecentdi00corsrich#page/n3/mode/2up

Juliet Corson has you covered

Chili over rice.
Bean casserole
Eggs (versatile)
Potatoes (You can actually survive on these wholly if you had to)
Chicken leg quarters and drumsticks are usually dirt cheap as well.
Chunky soup
Grits or polenta
Spices, spices, spices make everything better.

Bachelor frog here
>eggs (you can get six meals out of a dozen) make egg salad, scrambled, whatever
>lunchmeat from the lunchmeat section
>Hot dogs
>soup
>stove top mac n chiz
>Apples, seasonal fruit
>bacon on sale
>generic bread
>Etc

>>6083584
oh and potatoes ofc. you can make mashed potatoes, hashbrowns and other things. I like to cut them up in half circles and brown them with some onion. Sausage like kielbasa is pretty cheap so I just cook the sausage with a bell pepper and and it to the potatoes

>>6082593
>poor feels guy
>doesn't even remember wojack's name

>>6082572
let's talk about stuff that's gonna keep you full and still give you some of what you need
>canned tuna
>canned chicken (not the disgusting whole kind)
>rice
>sack of taters
>splurge on some cheese
>bread
>mayo
>eggs
>frozen veggies
>hot doggies
>margarine instead of butter
>veggie stock or chicken stock
>sack of apples or cuties
try to avoid canned stuff, you can pay $2 for a can of campell's chunky which is 1 meal, or you can pay $2 for a bag of birdseye veggies that you can get 2-3 meals out of
if you go to costco i would suggest trying to buy a big sack of whatever meat you like
maybe pick up some seasonings when you can
you can experiment with different combinations

>>6083598
There is one who will always remember.

>>6082572
Tuna cans.

>>6083442