/pfg/ poverty food general

[Anonymous No.12500683]

beans, beans, the magical fruit
probably the best canned food out there as long as it has the bacon fat in it. the only problem if you're drinking it out of the can, you have to be careful as to not cut your mouth on the edges of the can. i am older than fuck and still have a scar from cutting myself on a can of beans

[Anonymous No.12500692]

>>12500683
I, too, have bean drinking scars from the Battle of Bean Bay.

[Anonymous No.12500696]

Baked beans and potatoes.
Kidney beans and rice.
Refried beans and a tortilla.

Truly the most diverse food by far.

[Anonymous No.12500699]

>>12500692
semper fi
my grandfather lost his life in the battle of beanker hill

[Anonymous No.12500742]

>>12500683
>poverty food
>canned beans
Dry, son.

[Anonymous No.12500801]

>>12500683
even beans are kinda expensive compared to split peas, which cost literally nothing. anyone have any suggestions on cooking those? i find it hard to find a use for them because the taste is very different from beans

[Anonymous No.12500944]

>>12500801
use them the way you'd use red lentils
as in add enough water to boil them and then blend that shit into delicious puree.

If you ever get your shit together then you can try baked split peas for some real savoury goodness
fag

[Anonymous No.12500958]

>>12500699
ass fucked to death on the hill
rip in beans

[Anonymous No.12501427]

lentils are superior to beans in any way

[Anonymous No.12501873]

>>12500683
>canned beans
Buying beans in a can is not poverty. Beans are $1/lb in cheap markets, maybe $1.29 for northern beans. This'll be at least 6 cans of beans.
>>12500742
wisdom
>>12500801
Follow the directions on the bag and throw a couple hunks of leftover fat in there. Bacon is not poverty tier. You save your leftover meat scarps, right poverty guy?
>>12501427
lentils are also more expensive but they are required arsenal.
Beans require overnight soak and long cooking times. Lentils you throw in a covered pan and cover with water. Turn on the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Then throw in cheap white rice, and cover with water again, just barely, simmer for 15 minutes, remove from heat, sit for 5, fluff.
The true poverty food.
Of course if you use brown rice throw them in same time as lentils for the onger cooking time.

[Anonymous No.12503261]

>>12500683
I still have a prominent scar on my hand from fucking up opening a can of Libby's corned beef. Totally worth it though. That stuff is the tits.

[Anonymous No.12503276]

>>12503261
For those not familiar with this type of can, it has a hook thing you pull and unwrap all the metal around the product inside.

[Anonymous No.12503288]

>>12500683
Usually buy two dozen eggs, 5 lbs bag of potatos. 4 lbs bag of pinto beans, white onion and ham hock for crockpot beans

[Anonymous No.12503304]

>>12503288
do you put the eggs in the crockpot, or is that just separate?

[Anonymous No.12503308]

>>12503276
never seen this before. a big MNC ought to know better than have this package design

[Anonymous No.12503314]

>>12503304
I make potato and egg tacos and put the slow cooked beans inside them. It's very filling for not a lot of money

[Anonymous No.12503338]

>>12503308
It's outrageously hazardous. Luckily I only needed some superglue and butterfly bandages and had no infection. But it left a fat scar due to tissue curling into the wound.

[Anonymous No.12503348]

finally, a general for me!

[Anonymous No.12503360]

Dry chickpeas, onions, yogurt, a few peppers, garlic, ginger, canned tomatoes. Make that shit into curry in big batches.

[Anonymous No.12503661]

>>12503314
Call it a breakfast burrito

[Anonymous No.12504941]

>>12501427
kys degenerate

[Anonymous No.12505466]

>>12500944
sounds a bit bland desu. do you put in anything else?

[Anonymous No.12505474]

>>12500683
Lentils and rice with turmeric are tasty, cheap and filling.

[Anonymous No.12505489]

>>12500683
>poverty food
>posts a picture where half the pot is bacon
I hope you don't live in America. Pound for pound you could be throwing beef in that pot.

[Anonymous No.12505655]

Check it out, $4 all with shit I got at family dollar

[Anonymous No.12505686]

>>12505655
based and povertypilled

[Anonymous No.12505758]

>>12503261
>>12503276
>>12503338

my nigga, sliced my thumb pretty good on one of those bad boys while camping last summer, kicked off a series of events that resulted on sweaty sexy tent sex for the rest of my stay with a very nice tight cougar (not the feline kind, the primate kind)
many records were broken and knowledge had been had
I am very fond of corned beef now

[Anonymous No.12505797]

>>12505655
Walmart would have been $2 cheaper

[Anonymous No.12505800]

>>12500683
Chicken curry and aloo roti. 4 servings for $20 maximum.

[Anonymous No.12505806]

>>12505797
Walmart isn't close enough to walk to, I saved on gas

[Anonymous No.12505811]

>>12505758
haHAa so cool duDE Xd

[Anonymous No.12505898]

>>12505800
$20 is a little steep, I need to eat for $10 every 3 days

[Anonymous No.12507166]

how the fuck are you all cutting yourselves on cans so much holy shit
I don't understand, why are you interacting with the sharp edges of cans? I'm not even going to think about drinking a fucking can of beans DIRECT FROM THE SHARP-ASS FUCKING CAN (if you were going to do that why not use the canopener so that the rim of the can isn't cut off????) but fucking corned beef is unthinkable to me. Are you reaching in there to scoop out the corned beef with your bare hands? Fucking how could you ever cut yourself, just use a fucking fork or table knife?

[Anonymous No.12508184]

>>12505655
looks really good desu

[Anonymous No.12508194]

>>12500683
You're so uncivilized that you would drink out of a can?

[Anonymous No.12508339]

>>12507166
Based, nice

[Anonymous No.12508368]

In my country beans are more expensive than meat. Poor people only eat carbs which are expensive too :(
One kilo of beans is around $6-8 and meat about $5

[Anonymous No.12508878]

>>12505655
Solid. I go higher on the beans for the protein.

[Anonymous No.12509158]

>>12508368
that's insane. must be tariffs, because otherwise someone should buy them for $1 a kilo wholesale and sell for some more reasonable price. Dried beans store very well, no reason not to

[Anonymous No.12509240]

>>12508368
Latvia?

[Anonymous No.12509429]

>>12500683
unironically japanese food can be pretty good poverty meal.
>buy ginger, fish sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, onion, garlic powder, curry, bread crumbs etc
>enjoy making tuna bowls, pork cutlet bowls, katsu curries etc easy and fast

[Anonymous No.12509477]

I've been living off cheap salami and cheese sandwiches for the past six months plus a sack of oranges so I don't get scurvy or whatever
It's not quite pure poverty but it costs me almost nothing and I'm not dead yet I guess

[Anonymous No.12509533]

>>12509477
>salami
Salami is expensive.

[Anonymous No.12509537]

>>12509477
that does not sound enjoyable. there's gotta be some way to get variety for cheap. all that processed meat is not the best for you why not throw some oats in there, that and bananas and cinnamon are good and cheap

[Anonymous No.12509545]

>>12505466
Caramelized onions, butter and curry powder

[Anonymous No.12509549]

>>12509477
Yeah salami isn’t even a particularly cheap protein and is basically one of the most unhealthy things you could eat. You’re killing yourself and it’s not even a good deal.

[Anonymous No.12509692]

>>12505800
5 dollar a serving? Are you taking the piss out of us?

[Anonymous No.12509721]

>>12509549
Nothing wrong with real salami, it's just meat and spices in a casing with a lacto bacteria starter, hung to ferment and dry until it loses 30%-40% water. However, the US megacorporate crap injected with shitloads of chemicals is another beast altogether.

[Anonymous No.12509731]

>>12509721
I had some real Italian salami some travelers shared. Hot damn that was one of the best things I ever ate. I asked them where they got it from so I could go to Italy and buy some myself and they said 'this is just normal for Italian salami, you can get it anywhere in the country'

[Anonymous No.12510238]

stop drinking

[Anonymous No.12510261]

>>12510238
You are not a poorfag unless anything but water from tap is ludicrous

[Anonymous No.12510282]

>>12510261
You can be poor and also an idiot about how you spend your money
In fact the two mesh rather nicely

[Anonymous No.12510314]

>>12501427
Bean is the abbreviation for lentil ya dookiemuncher.

[Anonymous No.12510426]

>>12500801
I like pea soup with croutons in it.
Yum.
>sauted onions, garlic, chili pepper and a medium or thinly strawed carrot
>add to the boiled and semi mashed peas (soak them overnight and change water for less cooking time and less bloating, respectively).
>add small potato cubes
>add finely chopped dill, coriander and parseley

[Anonymous No.12510470]

>>12500801
Yes, saute a TON of finely chopped mirepoix, thinly chop up some chicken, and in another pot cook the split peas until close to done then strain and add stock, chicken and the vegetables. Blend them together for a very healthy and hearty soup. Add salt and pepper, and butter.

[Anonymous No.12510595]

>>12510470
Even mirepoix is expensive. I got a whole celery for TWO fucking dollars and 39 cents. Carrots were 1.39. If you do 2:1:1 Onoins:Cel:Carr, the onions are still the cheapest.

[Anonymous No.12510717]

find the food bank, free food nigga shit

[Anonymous No.12510729]

>>12500683
for me, its beer and pringles, the dinner of champions

[Anonymous No.12511418]

>>12500801
You can make split peas into split pea soups (lebanese, german, english (pease porridge), chinese), etc

But theoretically you can also sub them in where you would use lentils like in indian cooking, for instance, or as a filling in things like pierogi, which is done with lentils.

[Anonymous No.12511437]

>>12500683
For meat, pork shoulder is really damn cheap, and recently I make a 4 pound chunk into carnitas
(Usually runs about $12 here in commiefornia), and it lasts for at least a week.

Just make some of that and some pinto or black beans and rice and you got urself an assload of burritos.

[Anonymous No.12511440]

melted cheese dinner

[Anonymous No.12511443]

>>12510595
this celery is crazy expensive for some reason right now

[Anonymous No.12511459]

>>12511437
Pork Shoulder is usually around $2 a pound but it's a bit more expensive here.

The last time I bought some I got about 8 pounds for $20 i think.

[Anonymous No.12511463]

>>12511440
cheese is fucking expensive

[Anonymous No.12511485]

I need a good baked bean recipe

[Anonymous No.12511502]

>>12511463
i think it was maybe 4 bucks a pound. few pinches a night, got to be like 20 meals in this bag

[Anonymous No.12511511]

>>12511502
I mean if I can get fresh meat at $2 or less a pound and beans at $1 or less a pound then yes, cheese is expensive.

[Anonymous No.12511542]

A big tip if you want some good Italian food: Marcella Hazan's famous tomato sauce recipe is extremely economical.

>1 gigantic can of whole tomatoes
>1 big lump of butter, like maybe 1/3rd of a cup or more
>1 onion, cut in half

Combine ingredients, bring to boil, simmer at least 1 hour, season with salt and pepper, remove onions if desired, blend if desired.

With this sauce as a base for your meals, you can make pasta, homemade pizza (dough from flour, yeast, vegetable oil, salt), tomato soup (add stock and cream, then blend), eggs poached in tomato sauce, and so on. A huge batch made with a 3L can of tomatoes lasts more than a week for me, eating it twice a day.

[Anonymous No.12511561]

>>12511542
>Marcellas Hazan's famous tomato sauce
I'm sure Marcella's is good, but there is no way it can hold a candle to Marie's Italian Tomato Sauce.

[Anonymous No.12511572]

>>12511561
yeah actually nvm I forgot the oil gives it the flavour

[Anonymous No.12511622]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacio_e_pepe
i never heard about this dish
its just pasta, black pepper, and parmesan

[Anonymous No.12511878]

pasta and beans

[Anonymous No.12511886]

>>12511622
well canonical cacio e pepe uses pecorino romano which is quite different from parmesan

[Anonymous No.12511919]

>>12500683
lentils>beans

[Anonymous No.12513400]

>>12500683
bumpalump

[Anonymous No.12513474]

>Scars
>Battle of Bean Bay
Sometimes... Jesus...

Sometimes I do thoroughly enjoy this board.

[Anonymous No.12513619]

>>12500683
I ate nothing but Mexican rice and beans for a month once.

[Anonymous No.12513642]

>>12500683
H u m i l d a d

[Anonymous No.12513681]

>>12500683
Not enough people have chastised you for putting the edge of a fucking can on your mouth

[Anonymous No.12514061]

daily reminder that bioavailability is a thing. While one food might have "more" of a nutrient, others can have less, but it's more available.

[Anonymous No.12514093]

>>12511561
Just don’t forget to rinse your garlic and onions. Very important.

[Anonymous No.12514105]

>>12514061
so what does that mean in the context of this thread? beans good or bad?

[Anonymous No.12514372]

>>12503261
Does this still count as poverty food when it's almost $5 a can?

[Anonymous No.12514428]

>>12503261
>>12514372
Why the heck IS that ground slop $5 a can? A chunk of steak literally costs the same per ounce.

[Anonymous No.12514438]

>>12514428
Only reason I can think of is because it became popular. Spam also cost about $4 to $5 in my area. I remember when you could get that garbage for a dollar.

[Anonymous No.12514642]

>>12500683
thread film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYHWkVWQ4o

[Anonymous No.12514736]

2 eggs pasta plus whatever you mix it with
cabbage, cottage cheese, cheese, cheap ham, cheap cheap cheap and you can make so much

[Anonymous No.12515254]

>>12511485
soak northern beans
simmer for 20 minutes until they're a bit tender
add worcestershire
1/4 cup brown sugar (super cheap)
1/4 cup ketchup
onion powder
garlic powder
onions whatever
light peppering
maybe some red pepper
add some water until they're a bit runnier than you like in baked beans
put them in the oven and cook at 350 covered for half an hour
check see if beans are tender and stir
repeat until they're as tender as you want

[Anonymous No.12515265]

>>12515254
Tyvm fren

[Anonymous No.12515714]

>>12511878
I never heard of this before but I made this. It cost me 3 dollars. It was good and it was filling. Better than I thought it was going to be. Thanks

My bone apple tea version was half a can of spagettie sauce, pinto beans, and some spaghetti i broke into small pieces. Added a spoonful of chicken bullion, some water and some italian seasoning and garlic, a dash of sugar. Sprinkled some parmesan cheese on top. YummO!