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12294435 No.12294435 [Reply] [Original]

is there a better way to feed yourself for cheap?

>> No.12294439

>>12294435
it's called cooking it yourself.

>> No.12294446

>>12294439
FPBP

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>>12294439

>> No.12294461

I mean at least make a dressing for the coleslaw mix

>> No.12294491

>>12294435
My wife calls this ‘couldn’t be fucked’ dinner.

>> No.12294917

>>12294435
Beans in bulk
Rice
Most leafy vegetables
Potatoes
Soybeans
Processed meat if you're into it (Can't stand it)
Occasional deals on things like squash, beets, carrots, cauliflower, etc.
More beans

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>>12294917
>soy beans

>> No.12294950

>>12294435
Taco Bell.

>> No.12294954

>>12294435
That's one of the best ways for takeaway based Pākehā

>> No.12294958 [DELETED] 

>>12294917
He's kinda fucked though. If he buys a sack of beans, that's going to leave him $15 at best. Then he probably has to buy spices, since he's bad with money and foresight. Even cheap mexican spices will eat up most of his money. Then that's not even counting meat. It's kinda too late for him to buy a bunch of cheap food. Lord knows by the time he reads this he's already bought McDonald's or something with $5-$10 of it. You can't fix retarded poor people.

Just borrow money from someone OP. Then buy proper poor people groceries and stop wasting your money on dumb shit.

>> No.12295050

>>12294461
why? it usually comes with one.

>> No.12295062

>>12295050
because they can't fuck up chopped cabbage but they can fuck up dressing by making it with HFCS and shitloads of preservatives

>> No.12295214

>>12294435
based man of taste.
>5 buck woolies chook
>2 buck buns
>2 buck salad
shit can feed you for a couple days too, it's great. You forgot to include mayo or aioli tho.

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>>12294439
>Just DIY it!!!!
Fuck off, this is the food board, not /diy/

>> No.12295426

>>12295365
Food AND cooking

>> No.12295428

>>12294435
Yes.

>> No.12295448

>>12295365
>OP asks for a cheaper option
>he's given a cheaper option
>"NO I DON'T LIKE COOKING, THAT DOESN'T COUNT"

>> No.12295471

>>12295448
But anon cooking the bread and chicken and making fresh slaw is far more expensive

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fixed.

>> No.12295922

>>12295471
Literally none of that is true

>> No.12297359

>>12295922
Other poster must live in one of those $3,000.00 a month apartments with no range and oven that they have in San Fransisco.

>> No.12297363

>>12295365
Dipshit. Lrn2cook

>> No.12297379

>>12294435
Absolutely, yes.

>> No.12297747

>>12297359
You sound like an expert on the frisco scene. Where does your boyfriend live and how often do you hook up?

>> No.12298581

>>12294917
know someone in charge of a staff meals at their restaurant, who makes it their personal mission to keep feeding a staff of ~10 under $10.

>> No.12298597

>>12294435
a couple sticks of butter, a multi vitamin, and some cans of tuna. thats like $3 a day

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>>12294435
Yes, you can buy that same whole chicken raw for half the price and cook it yourself, and make your own bread for literal pennies. Buy a cabbage and a carrot that might come out to a little over a buck, and shred your own slaw yourself.

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>>12294435
>he throws out the carcass

>> No.12299282

>>12295922
The margins are so thin on those whole chickens that it basically is. A whole chicken where I live sold already cooked by the grocer is 25 cents more expensive than cooking one yourself.
If you don't already have flour and yeast, it'll cost as much to buy a bag of flour and a packet of yeast as it will to buy the pack of rolls, probably a little more. Obviously you get more rolls of out of it with a whole bag of flour/yeast because you can make a starter, but the initial cost still favors the premade rolls.
Cabbage is like 50c a head so $2 will net you more slaw until you realize you also have to buy shredded carrots and then you've hit more than $2 but for more cabbage.

>> No.12299317

>>12299282
>Obviously you get more rolls of out of it with a whole bag of flour/yeast
>you also have to buy shredded carrots and then you've hit more than $2 but for more cabbage
Does this board even think before trolling? Or is typing out this shit and closing the browser the best we get?

>> No.12299332

Rice and those $2 Indian veggie pouches from Trader Joes

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>>12294435
Yes.

>> No.12299409

Buy a 20lb bag of rice, a bunch of cream of soups, and a bunch of meat. That shit goes a long way.

>> No.12299420

>>12299355
this isn't /diy/ it's a cooking board, go back.

>> No.12299451

>>12299282
In my area of Ameriland, raw chicken is 95c/lb ($2.09US/kg) and rotisserie-cooked chicken about $3/lb ($6.61/kg). Unless chicken loses 68% of its weight during cooking, it's considerably costlier to buy rotisserie-cooked chicken than it is to cook your own.
>packet of yeast
Nigger, buy a bag of the stuff. $3/lb. A 5lb sack of flour is $1.49. 5lbs of flour will make roughly 20 rolls and leave you with over 14oz of yeast to use in future roll-making. You'd have to buy twelve 5lb bags of flour before you use up all your yeast. That's 9c/roll, compared to storebought, which costs at least 13c/roll. That's 240 rolls for $21 if you're baking them yourself v the same number of rolls for $30.
>cabbage is 50c/head
lolwut
Unless things are different in Skincancerland, cabbages are sold by weight. Were they 50c/head, they'd be about 17c/lb, which is ridiculously cheap. They're usually around 50c/lb in my area, not /head.
>Have to buy shredded carrots
lolwut
What's stopping you from shredding one yourself? Carrots are 50c/lb here. 1lb of cabbage + 1lb of carrot = 900g. That's 4.5× more slaw than that Woolies bag in the OP has. Basically, you can make the same amount of slaw as Woolies sells at you for only 22c compared to $1.39 (once converting from AUD to USD).

Conclusion:
6 rolls + slaw + chicken costs $3.61US homemade v $8.39US storebought. Homemade is considerably cheaper.

>> No.12299569

>>12297747
I'm one of the shit streeting meth addicts. Posting from Starbucks.