/ck/ - Food & Cooking

pasta, potatos and rice

>>6992374

Beans, don't forget the beans for protein.

Look up third world recipes, where meat is a luxury. You'll find tasty, inexpensive meal ideas.

>>6992387

well I guess so. But Beans make u fart more and we're not going full vegan. I like to mix a couple of chopped sausages with my pasta.

>>6992398
chicken can be cheap sometimes, get the cuts that are on sale.

>>6992371
Fancy pizza is truly the poorest food put there when you make it yourself, plus its RUSTIC. You can get chicken the cheapest. Go to the nearest asian foods store and freeze some weird cheap food you find. Somen or egg noodles are healthy, cheap and fast. Mexican food amd asian food are both incredibly efficient. I go out in my backyard and harvest the natural cactus which I cook and juice. I'm in Uni too but I spend less than 70 bucks a week on food. Make friends, make friends with family friends of friends. Mooch subtly without them knowing.

>>6992374
>>6992387

Yeah, eggs and peanut butter as well. Produce in season can be pretty cheap and filling as well.

no fridge
>rice, dried beans, potatoes, onions, oatmeal, peanut butter, canned fish, canned vegetables, canned fruit
if you have a fridge
>frozen vegetables, frozen fruit, fresh fruit in season, fresh vegetables in season, milk, eggs

If you must have red meat, learn how to prepare cheaper, tougher cuts of meat.
>beef chuck and shanks for stews
>marinated hanger steaks
>skirt steak where thin cuts are needed

store leftovers properly to further extend your budget

>>6992394
If you have an ethnic supermarket near you, you can get cheap food

If you can get a part time job at a place where you get food for free can be a workable option

Meat tends to be one of the more expensive types of food, obviously.

Learn to buy and cook whatever type of meat is on sale. Sounds like a no-brainer in some ways, but there's something to be said for being able to take whatever cut is available on sale and make something out of it.

You also should sate that meat craving by using pieces of meat as part of another dish. That way you still get the taste of some meat but the majority of the food can be comprised of cheaper ingredients.

>>6992371
Eggs
Peanut butter
Beans

-For baking-
Flour
Sugar
Crisco
Cornmeal

Learn to cook cheaper meats, as well - for example, if you want to eat chicken then you should start with a whole chicken (where I live, whole chickens are $1/lb., compared to twice that for leg quarters and thrice that for boneless skinless breasts) and use the bones to make stock. Pork or beef? Buy ribs and use the bones to make stock. Want sausage? Grind that shit yourself; debone a bone-in pork butt (saving the bone for soup or stock), spice it up and put it through a ~$10 antique food grinder.

>>6992371
>I absolutly adore red meat but I can never afford it
Learn to cook vegetarian food really well. The best vegetarian food can be found along a line from South Italy, through the Middle East and into India. Also anyplace where Buddhism is a major religion. Learn a bunch of cheap, easy, tasty dishes from these places and have them be your day to day diet.

Do this right and you'll be eating well for pretty fucking cheap. With the money you save you should be able to splurge on a really nice piece of meat every now and then, which you'll enjoy that much more because it will be a treat.

>>6992387
>Beans, don't forget the beans for protein.
Grains have a lot of protein too; oatmeal, pasta, bread etc. have maybe a quarter of the protein density of meat, but they still provide more than enough protein for normal dietary needs. There's protein in all fruits and vegetables, for that matter, but with much lower density than grains/nuts/seeds.

>>6994068
/fit/ here, this anon is full of crap.

No, there is not any considerable amount of protein in grains and fruits. Carbs are not protein, you culinary nigger.

Learn to use seasonings so you don't get sick of all your cheap ingredients. Salt, pepper, granulated garlic, chili powder, ground cumin, cilantro, and lemon/lime juice will cover just about every case you'll run into. At least, it does for my tastes.

>>6996310
I think you should take your uncouth, testosterone-overloaded attitude back to /fit/.

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>>6996420
best cheap food is rice and beans combo. also try turkey thigh. its cheap and tastes beefy.

>>6996310
Anyone else ever cringe when you see people identify themselves with another board?

>>6994068

kek, retarded

>>6996482
only if it's /a/.

>>6996482
/ck/, /n/, and /trv/ here. No not really fam tbh

I'm not poor, but I shop as though I were.

The odd thing, however, is that I eat a more varied, nutritious, colourful and tasty diet than any one else I know. Knowing how to cook will do that for ya, I guess.

For example, yesterday, I had coffee with milk and a slice of strawberry rhubarb pie at breakfast, buckwheat, sautéed tenderstem broccoli, two crab patties, bread and a salad at lunch and a barley-and-mixed-vegetable cassolette (basically a ratatouille except the veg is cut in a different way and with barley added), a salad and some cheese and bread at dinner.

Today, I'll have coffee with milk and toasted müesli with yogurt and dried apples at breakfast, porkloaf with paprika gravy, garlic mash and a salad at lunch and a mushroom-heavy japchae with omelette strips, spinach, red peppers, lots of sliced garlic and dressed with hurikake at dinner.

>>6992442
>I'm so retarded that I think $70 weekly on food for a single person is something to brag about!!
lol
I spend about half that and can assure you that I eat better than you do.

>>6992374
Sounds like a good way to get fat

>what do other poor eaters out there do?
Most poor people waste too much money on food because they don't know how to cook so they buy canned pasta and jarred sauces that taste like toenail dicks and cost two-to-three times more than a superior, homemade product can cost.

>what's the secret of budget shopping?
Sales, manager's specials, stocking up/bulk purchasing, using the freezer effectively, knowing where to shop and what to buy there, when to buy costlier ingredients and where to use them, planning around special offers rather than around predestined meal schedules, couponing and knowing when to buy something rather than making it.