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[Anonymous No.13271224]

What are some easy to cook and affordable foods for a poor college student? I make $12.50 for reference.
I've been eating only fast food, spam, pasta and eggs for the past two months and I'm sick of it. It's gotten to the point where I'm unintentionally doing the fasting diet technique due to avoiding the food I'm always eating. Used to be at 209lb, now I'm at 199lb.
Help an anon out /ck/.

[Anonymous No.13271274]

>>13271224
Frogposting should be a bananable offence.

[Anonymous No.13271315]

>>13271274
ok

[Anonymous No.13271374]

Potatoes
Rice
Pasta noodles and sauce

[Anonymous No.13271384]

>>13271224
Beans

[Anonymous No.13271387]

>>13271224
If you are living in a college town with tons of Chinks or Indians then go grocery shopping with them. I'd ask teh Pajeets to take me grocery shopping with them, they know where to get quality stuff for cheap. I remember they'd feed 12 people for a month for 100 bucks.

[Anonymous No.13271394]

>>13271224
Also Indian and Chinese recipes are easy to make

[Anonymous No.13271397]

>>13271224
you're in college and don't know how to google cheap foods? that's pretty fucking cringe.

[Anonymous No.13271533]

>>13271374
Sounds like a good combo.
>pasta
o-okay
>>13271384
>beans
What kind? There's some beans that I don't like just cuz how its cooked/made. But I'll try it out regardless. Fiber is always good.

[Anonymous No.13271622]

>>13271533
For me, it's the humble navy bean.
Make three bean salad (garbanzo beans, kidney beans, and some kind of white beans), when I was a poor college student I just used to eat that and okinawan taco rice (another great cheap dish if you can get hamburger meat at a good price)

[Anonymous No.13271740]

>>13271224
eggs, ramen, low cost vegetables. Fairly healthy and much less expensive than fast food over the course of a week

[Anonymous No.13272303]

Chicken wings are dirt cheap occasionally.

[Anonymous No.13272314]

>>13271740
How is fucking ramen healthy retard

[Anonymous No.13272333]

1 cup uncooked brown lentils
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 yellow onion, diced
3 tablespoons chile powder
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1 15-ounce can diced tomato (e.g. Rotel)
1 tablespoon mustard
3 or 4 hamberder buns, split and toasted

Get a pot. Rinse lentils, lentils in pot, add water until well covered. Bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer until lentils are soft, about 20 minutes. Drain and set aside.

In same pot, add oil and onion, cook until onion softens, about 7 minutes. Add rest of ingredients. Stir in cooked lentils. Stir to combine, cover pan, reduce heat and simmer gently for about 10 minutes, stir occasionally. Cover pot, let rest 10 minutes.

Eat.

[Anonymous No.13272381]

>>13271274
>Apustaja
>Frogposting
You will never fit in here.

[Anonymous No.13272388]

>>13271224
lentils
Usually about $1 an lb, good nutrition, cooks in 20 minutes
Mushroom ragu + spinach + avocado if you can afford it or curry lentils are some ideas
Also oats look up muesli no cook time just throwing stuff together
Steel cuts oats are best for cooking imo

[Anonymous No.13272391]

>>13272381
>You need to understand the sophisticated varieties of cartoon frogs.
Holy shit, I bet you can name at least 12 different feelsguy copies, too. This whole website isn't /r9k/.

[Anonymous No.13272411]

Broth + onions + noodles + eggs is an easy meal.

Oh wait, you are sick and tired of eggs. But fried tofu skin (inari) works well as a egg substitute

[Anonymous No.13272423]

>>13272391
Holy shit, nobody was ceaselessly cunting about apustaja a month ago.
Go cry to the ADL.

[Anonymous No.13272433]

>>13272423
Complaints against frogposting can be found in the archive going back years.

[Anonymous No.13272473]

>>13272433
It died down significantly over the years, and there was a huge spike several weeks ago, along with newfags who are too lazy to read the board rules or figure out how to use the catalog. But I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'm sure it's not lebbitors who literally go insane when they see a """hate symbol""" or something that only vaguely resembles it.

[Anonymous No.13272492]

>>13272473
I mean, considering what triggered the initial spike in frogposting awhile back...

[Anonymous No.13272509]

>>13271224
fried rice and stir fry

[Anonymous No.13272529]

>>13271224
potatoes are pretty good
get some shredded cheese and throw in a chorzio

Also you can make chipotle bowls. Rice, beans, salsa, etc

[Anonymous No.13272534]

>>13271224
>I make $12.50
I got a 4 year degree and that's almost what I make.

[Anonymous No.13272560]

>>13272473
Every time OP frogposts get excessive, people complain. And rightly so. It's bullshit unimaginative behavior and makes the catalog look awful.

[Anonymous No.13272561]

>>13271224
buy bagels and cream cheese it's a decent breakfast food also you can make sandwiches with them

[Anonymous No.13272619]

>le poor college kid

im so sick of this meme

[Anonymous No.13272623]

>>13272381
cringe

[Anonymous No.13272625]

>>13271224
Pork chops are like $1.50 a pound at Smith's right now

[Anonymous No.13272626]

>>13272560
Frogposting is basically avatarfagging, which is against Global Rule 13. Also, it was synonymous with when /r9k/ culture started leaking onto every other board, which was a terrible time.

[Anonymous No.13272648]

go to Aldi

[Anonymous No.13272673]

>>13271224
I ate tons of spaghetti in college and never got tired of it
That being said:
Eggs
Potatoes
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken for $5 will last you for days

[Anonymous No.13272679]

>>13272626
Ironically those that complain about frogposting are usually waifuposters that claim all of 4chan is an anime board. I don't do either but neither bother me either. Who gives a fuck.

[Anonymous No.13272709]

>>13272679
>anyone who doesn't like frogposting is an animeposter
That's like saying everyone who disagrees with you is a Redditor.

[Anonymous No.13272714]

>>13271224
spam, eggs, bread, and milk. Spend the rest on spices which you can keep for future meals. If you want dessert, bread pudding is super simple to make with milk eggs and bread, you’d just need some sugar and butter too. Spam can be done many different ways, I recommend frying and adding maple syrup and pepper flakes then serving over toast with scrambled eggs and cheese. Very simple, also chicken breasts are cheap in family packs at Aldis and versatile to cook: Italian chicken, barbecue, fried, grilled, etc. Basically either the stereotype staples or healthy cheap stuff sounds good.

[Anonymous No.13272719]

but if he wants to eat cheap and good chicken thighs are cheaper and better than breasts. otherwise good

[Anonymous No.13272730]

>>13272709
Stupid as well but I don't care. I can't even figure out how to use reddit but I've been called redditor a lot. It's not worth complaining about.

[Anonymous No.13272739]

>>13272719
truth, but I know most college students aren’t deboning their shit and breasts are easier to do. But I mean, deboning is a big process anyway. At my Aldis they have 4 bucks for a whole chicken which isn’t half bad. Fish is way over prices and the steaks they have are Angus beef but expensive. Pork and chicken are amazing though. I miss having a real kitchen to cook in ;-;

[Anonymous No.13272742]

>>13272739
they don't have boneless skinless chicken thighs at aldis? I just assumed, and I guess I never checked. I was spoiled by Kroger

[Anonymous No.13272745]

Beans and rice. Mix it up with different seasonings.

[Anonymous No.13272749]

>>13272742
>boneless skinless thighs
I mean, I get how you'd use it for like a stew or a pot pie, but it still just sounds wrong for some reason.

[Anonymous No.13272751]

>>13272742
Skinless but they do have bones. I’d say just get breasts or thighs and cook the meat off and use the bones maybe for soup, but again, college. I don’t think they’re gonna be teaching how to make bone stock in Comp 112

[Anonymous No.13272815]

>>13271224
Do you make 12.50 an hour or is that your weekly food budget?
You sound like a retarded faggot who wastes all his money of stupid shit like drugs/alchohol/iPhones. You can easily make healthy, good, varied meals on 30USD/week if you know what you're doing.
Good luck getting any real advice here though, most of the people here are retards like you that come to humblebrag about how shit they are at cooking and argue about fast food instead of actually learning anything.

[Anonymous No.13272848]

>>13272815
based. OP stop eating fast food, that shit is expensive when you actually break down the cost. I think of food costs in days rather than meals, like if I spend money for chicken, vegetables, potatoes and rice, that feeds me for x amount of days. Fast food feeds you only once and you have to go back the next day and spend more money. When there is a sale, stock up and always buy in bulk whenever possible.

[Anonymous No.13273144]

you've been eating spam, what else could you possibly want to eat than the nectar of the gods ?

[Anonymous No.13273211]

>>13271224
12.50$ what? Do you have 12.50$ available for food every day? If so you're living the fucking high life. Or did you mean per week? Then I recommend slavic wisdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfmRhfuI8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvKQNLdMr48

[Anonymous No.13273220]

>>13271224
I'll hook you up, OP. An entire meal for a bit more than the price of a bag of potato chips.

Pork neck bones and chicken gizzards comin' thru mothafuckas.

[Anonymous No.13273227]

Season both. Sear the neck bones in a pan.

[Anonymous No.13273230]

Put seared bones in crockpot.

[Anonymous No.13273233]

Add onions and garlic and deglaze pan with beer.

[Anonymous No.13273236]

Put everything in pot plus some bbq sauce, turn on low for 5 hours and get this.

[Anonymous No.13273242]

Looks like this on a plate. Pour some pot liquor over rice or make a gravy and you're good for now.

[Anonymous No.13274282]

Uncle Boris has you covered, comrade.
https://youtu.be/CvKQNLdMr48
https://youtu.be/UKfmRhfuI8g

[Anonymous No.13274800]

>>13271533
Get a slow cooker and make soups, pork carnitas etc. Super cheap, can find tons of recipes online (/r/slowcooking you can check reddit for more recpes here), all delicious and cheaper than w/e the fuck you're paying for.

[Anonymous No.13274820]

I get my most at flea markets. Way cheaper. They dont last as long before spoiling, though. Probably fewer preservatives. Also try using condensed soup mix like cream of mushroom to use for pasta/rice dishes. Really makes them more tasty and you can make a big meal for like $1

[Anonymous No.13274831]

>>13274820
don't know what you mean by most or flea markets but this is a good idea: if you have a farmers market around and go near closing time they will sell you stuff at a discount which is probably cheaper than your grocery store, but like this anon said it spoils faster

[Anonymous No.13274845]

>>13274831
I buy my meat*. I'm a phone poster. I can get drumsticks for $.33/kg in a country where food is expensive as fuck. Most ground meats are $6.50/kg there where as at a chain it's almost double that.

[Anonymous No.13274849]

>>13271224
Which state? If it’s a typically democratic state, apply for food stamps

Next, the obvious choice to untuck yourself is to make large meals. Make potato stew, chili, things that are made in a large pot. You can use large-pot meals as a vector to feed yourself more vitamins/minerals by including vegetables (onions, carrots, potatoes, corn, turnips, whatever tickles your pickle) and BEANS nigga
Get them fuckin BEANS in yo shit

[Anonymous No.13274929]

official poorfag general thread!

hey! i need a blender for making hummus! something quick and easy to clean cuase time is money! someone said an immersion blender or something? where should i look for one? craigslist? black friday cooking deals? im not trying to spend more than $20 on a kitchen tool

[Anonymous No.13275162]

>>13274845
>drumsticks for $.33/kg
Damn, I'm fucking jealous.

[Anonymous No.13276032]

>>13271224 Tacos are very easy to make, as are other simple Hispanic dishes.

I can't remember what they're called, but one of my favorite quick meals is a tortilla with refried beans on one side and sour cream on the other, folded in half and cooked like a quesadilla. Learned it from my Honduran pastor, it's amazing.
>>13272314
Throw out the seasoning packet, make an actual stock. Add some soy sauce and mushrooms to make an oversimplified shoyu broth, and add vegetables and a soft boiled egg to fill it out.

[Anonymous No.13276099]

>>13272381
cringe

[Anonymous No.13276105]

>>13271274

[Anonymous No.13276510]

>>13273220
>>13273227
>>13273230
>>13273233
>>13273236
>>13273242


Not OP but good post ano

[Anonymous No.13276523]

>>13271224
a grand selection of cheap vegetables and cheap cuts like chicken thighs

[Anonymous No.13276548]

>>13272391
You have to go back, faggot

[Anonymous No.13276675]

Stock up on frozen turkeys while they are still crazy cheap (currently $0.49/lb at my supermarket). Brine them and roast them over the coming months.

Buy a big ham and use it for breakfast (ham and eggs, ham with red eye gravy, diced ham in an omelette), lunch (hot ham and swiss sandwich or croque monsieur or whatnot), and dinner (split pea soup with ham, U.S. Senate bean soup). Toasted cheesebread is an essential side when eating these types of soups.

Also, as others have noted, get into making lentils, lentil soup, etc. A bit of ham could go in that too.

[Anonymous No.13277954]

>>13274929
if you can't find one on Black Friday sale or secondhand, look for one of those at Aldi, they should have it for $20 if its currently stocked

[Anonymous No.13278099]

Look up chicken estafao or kadon pika. You are welcome.

[Anonymous No.13278332]

The Shashlik King will save you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKfmRhfuI8g

[Anonymous No.13279307]

>>13271224
Look up life of boris.

[Anonymous No.13279584]

>>13274282
>>13278332
>>13279307
Based Borisposters

[Anonymous No.13280995]

Roast chickpeas in a pan with olive oil and crushed garlic and spice with a teaspoon of cumin and paprika, little salt and pepper. Roast for 10 min medium-high heat then throw a large handful of parsley, any leafy herb you like on top.

It's a meal in itself or a base for tons of shit, like wraps, salads, curries, whatever you want.

[Anonymous No.13281232]

>>13272391
You're trying way too hard