/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11933336]

Poverty cooking is the best cooking. What is your favorite "End of Month" meal?

Me, I just throw potatoes and onion into pan with salt and pepper.

[Anonymous No.11933368]

>>11933336
I always feel so good when I can afford Annies White Mac n Cheese + a can of lemon pepper chicken. My favorite meal

[Anonymous No.11933377]

Welcome to Flavor Country

[Anonymous No.11933378]

sometimes I just sip tabasco sauce

[Anonymous No.11933395]

>>11933378

[Anonymous No.11933401]

>>11933377
Red pill me. My budget is tight

[Anonymous No.11933404]

>>11933401
Look at the prices of the things on sale and get the lowest dollar-to-volume you can find.

[Anonymous No.11933473]

>>11933336
throw in some eggs and we're cooking

[Anonymous No.11933476]

>>11933473
>eggs
Whoa, watch out guys, we've got ourselves a high roller here

[Anonymous No.11933527]

>>11933336
I usually keep lentils on hand. Toss em in a pot with a bunch of water and some basic spices (turmeric, ground coriander, curry powder, etc) and let cook for a while (approx 35 min, though you could cook less if you prefer a firmer texture). Heat up some rice and boom; full nutrition and not completely tasting like sadness.

[Anonymous No.11933534]

>>11933401
Dollar Tree frozen food section

[Anonymous No.11933562]

My favorite poverty meal are the basic spaghetti recipes. Aglio e olio is a classic. But my favorite is definitely fried anchovies with garlic spaghetti.

Get a big bag of dried anchovies, it will last you a while and adds a lot of flavor and protein to dishes. Buy pasta on clearance. Salt, boil al dente. Drain, reserve the starchy water. Throw gutted anchovie filets into pan with a few tablespoons of the cheaper frying variety of olive oil. Fry with minced garlic and a few dashes of red pepper flakes until anchovies are golden brown. Toss spaghett into pan with about a cup of the starch water. Stir under medium-low heat until the sauce thickens onto the noodles. Add parmesan. Pepper. Serve.

Costs less than $2 a meal for sure, and you can scale it up with fancy shit like capers, shallot, real parmigiano, and chopped parsley if you really want.

[Anonymous No.11933623]

>>11933336
dried shrimp and egg gumbo is the cheapness. and it's stupid good.

[Anonymous No.11933727]

>>11933336
I like the comfiness of onion soup, with leftover dry bread slices, garlic and grated gruyère. Quintessential poverty food
>cheap
>filling
>good
>even better reheated
>easy, provided you know how to use your time to make it flavorful

[Anonymous No.11933734]

>>11933336
>>11933473
I might try this, but isn't it better to put the salt and pepper after you take them from the pan?

[Anonymous No.11933790]

The ultimate poverty food is the split pea. Costs less than beans and lentils while providing equal nutrition and tastes/smells better. Easy soup, make some eggs to go along with it.

[Anonymous No.11933795]

>>11933734

Of course, you always had salt and pepper on anything only after you take it off the heat

[Anonymous No.11933808]

>>11933336
$2

[Anonymous No.11933816]

>>11933808

How much more flour and cheese could you buy for two bucks

[Anonymous No.11933817]

>>11933816
Not much. Cheese is expensive.

[Anonymous No.11933819]

>>11933336
Cabbage and lentil soup gives you really noxious gas and fills you up for pennies with the right spices it's super tasty too

[Anonymous No.11933825]

Usually make something like a vegetarian chili and serve it with rice. It's only a couple of dollars for a few days worth of food.

[Anonymous No.11933831]

>>11933817
Cheese isn't expensive at all. $2 a pound you stupid nigger

[Anonymous No.11933838]

I make hummus and eat it on bread, plus a fruit or two a day, nutritionally you're p much set there. Also try to buy cheap whole chickens or mince when it's on sale and freeze.

[Anonymous No.11933865]

>>11933336
>Poverty cooking is the best cooking. What is your favorite "End of Month" meal?

Living a life of poverty is nothing to strive for nor celebrate. It belies either poor financial circumstance or poor financial planning (of which the two may be related but not always). If you have to resort to 'end of month meals' you really need to sort your life out at least with respect to food and food budgeting.

[Anonymous No.11933868]

>>11933336
mostly pancakes.

[Anonymous No.11933870]

>>11933795
b8?

[Anonymous No.11933872]

>>11933831
>"""cheese"""

[Anonymous No.11933887]

>>11933336
I do this "dish" but also add carrots. And I usually make a sauce to go with it because I'm not actually poor, I just think it taste amazing.

[Anonymous No.11933892]

>>11933865
Real Wages have been outpaced by inflation for the past half-century

[Anonymous No.11933895]

>>11933887
it's also good if you use seasoned salt/garlic powder and cook until crisp. best with eggs, but those almost never last till the end of the month.

[Anonymous No.11933897]

>>11933562
Where do you buy bags of dried anchovies?

[Anonymous No.11933898]

>>11933868
Did the cat ever burn itself?

[Anonymous No.11933909]

>>11933898
never. shes smart

[Anonymous No.11933914]

>>11933527
Ok apu

[Anonymous No.11933917]

To me poverty food isn't necessarily the cheapest calories available to the broke man. It's great food even the poor can afford because you pay it with labor and cleverness.

[Anonymous No.11933942]

>>11933336
Doesn't it take a lot of time for the potato to cook?

[Anonymous No.11933983]

Chili is nice if you aren't in full poverty.
If you're really poor, egg drop soup can be good
French toast is pretty cheap

[Anonymous No.11934002]

A favourite for me is soy pasta, which I learned from my dad.

Literally just pasta of your choice and soy sauce. Add some butter/ anything else you have to adjust the flavour (I like to use chilli powder/sauces). Tuna if you need protein. Make sure to add the soy once you've drained the pasta and added it back into the pot so you stir fry it sort of.

There's something enjoyable and satisfying about making something tasty out of absolute scraps of food.

[Anonymous No.11934074]

>throw everything you have that is about to expire from your fridge into a crock pot
>add soup stock/packets of gravy mix or can of diced tomatoes
>now you have yourself some hobo stew

[Anonymous No.11934079]

I have two.
First is a pan full of all kinds if root veggies. Turnips, parsnips, carrots, root parsley and so on together with butter and and seasoning as disiered, though most of the time only salt and pepper.
Next one is fried rice with about 2/3 as much diced onion, some ham or salami dices and parsley.

[Anonymous No.11934082]

>>11933897
Anywhere with poverty Asians (non-Japs) have those by the bagful for cheap. You don't really need anchovies, you just need little dried fish, it's all the same shit really.

[Anonymous No.11934085]

>>11934002
>tasty
>reddit spacing
girls not welcome on 4chan(nel)

[Anonymous No.11934086]

>poverty food thread
>every1 posts fresh veggies
lol

[Anonymous No.11934099]

>>11933336
agreed, and i purposely eat "poverty" because i can't disgest gluten, wheats, or meats anymore.

>>11933377
fuck, i love 1 dollar food

[Anonymous No.11934121]

>>11933868
>electric hob

[Anonymous No.11934127]

>>11934121
pardon me?

[Anonymous No.11934152]

I love lentil soup. There is a lot you can do with it.

[Anonymous No.11934183]

>>11933336
What third world shithole are you from that you have to do this?

[Anonymous No.11934251]

>>11934183
It's called Bratkartoffeln and it's a great dish if you are lazy and have leftover potatoes. You can also throw leftover meat or veggies into the mix. Depending on the season, this dish is cheaper than 2 slices of cheap Rye-Wheat bread with butter.

[Anonymous No.11934279]

test

[Anonymous No.11934335]

Rolling high with minced meat and macaroni.

[Anonymous No.11934381]

>>11933868
Hi Kiki
You still making those deliveries?

[Anonymous No.11934401]

>>11934099
>because i can't disgest gluten, wheats, or meats anymore.
Should probably just kys desu

[Anonymous No.11934410]

>>11934381
whos kiki

[Anonymous No.11934418]

>poverty meals

[Anonymous No.11934429]

>>11934085
Why are you forcing this meme

[Anonymous No.11934653]

Unironically canned beans and if i have extra cash i chop some sausages into the mix and maybe a fried onion.

[Anonymous No.11934660]

>>11934381
i got that reference
upvote

[Anonymous No.11934674]

>>11934086
No sympathy for the retarded.
Stop wasting money

[Anonymous No.11934801]

When I'm on a budget I tend to get the new york strips instead of filet mignons, and probably a pork loin instead of tenderloin.

[Anonymous No.11934808]

I eat as if I'm in poverty every day, that way I never end up in poverty.

[Anonymous No.11936621]

Biscuits and gravy
Bacon sandwiches
Fried bologna sandwiches
Hamburger Helper

come at me

[Anonymous No.11936681]

It might sound gross to other, but I enjoy a chicken pasta salad. Just pasta like rotini or spirals with mayo, cheese and some shredded chicken i cook up with garlic salt. Good shit, last a couple days too

[Anonymous No.11936745]

>>11933378
I squirt mustard onto my palm and lick it off.

[Anonymous No.11936796]

>>11933892
Factually false. Real wages in the US have fluctuated up and down but have trended up since the 70s.

[Anonymous No.11936811]

>>11936796
>reading comprehension

Now compare it to the rate of inflation.

[Anonymous No.11936824]

Cornmeal mush, surprisingly not bad.

[Anonymous No.11936843]

>>11936811
Real wages means it's already adjusted for that.

[Anonymous No.11936933]

>>11936811
Real wages is already compensated for inflation. That’s what makes it real wages not nominal wages you fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.11936960]

>>11936843
>>11936933

>READING COMPREHENSION

The rate of real wage increasing has been outpaced by the rate of inflation increasing for the past half-century, you fucking idiots.

[Anonymous No.11936964]

>>11936960

[Anonymous No.11936974]

Whatever dry staples I have left in my cupboard, usually beans, rice, sweet potatoes, or lentils. Cook up some meat, cabbage, and/or spinach. mix it together, serve up on bread or corn tortillas.

[Anonymous No.11936975]

>>11933336
rice with chouriço, less then 10 minuts to do, clean and no salt needed

[Anonymous No.11936980]

>>11936960
>real wages are tied to inflation
>inflation is increasing faster than real wages

nigga you retarded

[Anonymous No.11937006]

>>11934674
what do you meen

[Anonymous No.11937014]

>>11936960
>>11936980
Don’t worry about it man, this is about the level of economic understanding I would expect from someone who is probably a basement pseudo-intellectual socialist.
Per def. Real wages are wages adjusted for inflation, or, equivalently, wages in terms of the amount of goods and services that can be bought. This term is used in contrast to nominal wages or unadjusted wages.

Meaning inflation cannot out pace real wage because it is a component of real wage. If inflation increases real wage decreases, UNLESS nominal wage also increases, which as we’ve seen has also happened. Maybe you’re trying to say that inflation has out paced nominal wages but even that’s not true in the US.

[Anonymous No.11938104]

Not overcrowding doesn't cost anything.

[Anonymous No.11938158]

>>11934183
LOS

[Anonymous No.11938281]

>>11934085
This
is
reddit spacing
you
fucking
nigger
now go back to /b

[Anonymous No.11938282]

>>11938281
Hmm /ck trims my newlines, interesting.
test
test

[Anonymous No.11938286]

>bread
>cucumber
>salt

[Anonymous No.11938293]

>>11938282

[Anonymous No.11938294]

>>11938293
test
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[Anonymous No.11938324]

spanish potato omelette for a dozen oldish eggs.

[Anonymous No.11938339]

>>11933336
I love poverty cooking! It’s so comfy even if it’s not necessarily healthy. This weekend I went to Citarella for my monthly poor meal. I got Flageolet beans, some mild sausages, duck legs, thyme, garlic, and with some leftovers at home whipped up a makeshift cassoulet in my Le Creuset (you’d be surprised how long duck fat keeps)

Problem with cooking poverty food is it takes forever and you’re smelling it all day and don’t even want it anymore, so I tossed the whole mess and made a nicoise salad instead

[Anonymous No.11938390]

couscous
pepper/pepper flake
a type of vinegar
dried basil/coriander depending on the vinegar
maybe boiled egg or spam if either are available
grated vegetable mixed into couscous after water absorb
wa la

[Anonymous No.11938443]

>>11936964