ITT: Extremely broke meals.

[Anonymous No.16440844]

Took 3 large potatoes, sliced them into quarters. Drizzled them in olive oil, salt and chilli flakes. Roasted them in my toaster oven for 30 minutes. Took them out and ate them with a dollop of hot sauce. All in all the meal cost me about 50 cents, was pretty tasty and filled me up.

Poorfags, whats the cheapest meal you've ever genuinely enjoyed?

[Anonymous No.16440852]

>>16440844
rice & beans

[Anonymous No.16440894]

Tinned tuna, can be added to rice, beans, ramen

[Anonymous No.16440897]

>>16440844
Add pepper and garlic powder next time as well.

[Anonymous No.16440904]

Ground beef, potato, beans, rice, spinach, etc in a pan and fried like a hash.
Beef is a little expensive, but I did something like 1 part beef : 2 parts beans : 2 parts potatoes : 2 parts vegies.
Probably cost me about 10 USD, but it's seven dinners and a few lunches to boot.

[Anonymous No.16441102]

>>16440844
I remember when I was around 11 or 13 me and my mom cooked up spinach green beans and sweet peas there might of been canned beans in it but the end result was this green soupy mush that got over salted

[Anonymous No.16441236]

>>16440844
i usually two meals every day. the first is just whatever porridge with a packet of unflavored gelatin mixed in and some vitamines. the second, i make entirely of scraps from work
>collect all of the scraps after butchering fish and poultry
>collect all of the odd bits left after portioning vegetables and pasta
>steal a carrot
>steal an onion
>save some bread heels
fry meat and veg, dump in some stock/water/beer, season it, then tear up and stir in chunks of stale bread until it's thick
wa la
when i was a kid my mom used to boil cabbage and onions in water with salt and a bay leaf and send me and my brother to the store to ask for day old (free) bread that was pretty poor

[Anonymous No.16441242]

>>16440844
Same. But I tried to make fries. They were soggy but still very good with extra salt. I think I have eaten even cheaper a meal but did NOT enjoy it. Something like just cooked pasta, nothing else.

[Anonymous No.16441244]

>>16441236
Savoury porridge with whatever bullshit mixed in is surprisingly good.

[Anonymous No.16441246]

>ctrl+f "lentil"
>zero results

[Anonymous No.16441249]

Pack of ramen 27p
Handful of frozen mixed veg 10p
An egg 20p

Carbs, protein, veg

[Anonymous No.16441251]

>>16441244
Oatmeal porridge that is, I can't really say how good any other type would be

[Anonymous No.16441277]

cup ramen I guess. it's so cheap.

I've had that potato meal too. hot sauce on pasta. a piece of toast with an egg. a box of ferrero rochers from a dumpster (it was unopened).

[Anonymous No.16441707]

>>16440844
>extremely broke
potato goulash
>onions
>potatoes
>a ton of paprika powder
you can throw in some carrots if you have have and if you're rich you can throw in some sausages

[Anonymous No.16441719]

>>16440844
with actual nutrition?
eggs over rice.

[Anonymous No.16441809]

[Anonymous No.16441823]

>>16441246
Probably because lentils fucking suck even if you’re a poorfag

[Anonymous No.16441831]

>>16441707
just finished this
>2 onions, roughly sliced
>6 potatos, small cubes
>3 thin sausages, 2cm slices
>380g can of red beans
>paprika powder
>salt
boiled it all for 40m

[Anonymous No.16441857]

>>16440844
shakshuka
>can of chickpeas, fried in pan
>sauteed in pan: onion, red pepper, chillies
>can of tomato, chopped garlic, spices
>3 eggs and some feta or mozza
>spices and herbs

I love this shit.

[Anonymous No.16441858]

>>16440844
Saute some cabage with that and youll have an actual meal. Or an egg. Both very cheap.

[Anonymous No.16441875]

>>16440844
You can't go wrong with a nice stew.
Piece of cheap meat on sale, maybe on manager's special plus whichever root veggies are cheap/in season.
Brown meat and onions, add liquid, add the veggies and some spices/herbs of your choice. Simmer.
I suppose a poorfig can use water as the liquid but if you can spring for even a cheap beer or wine or have some stock from something else that does help things along nicely.
You can have it as-is or with mashed potatoes or bread to stretch it even more.

[Anonymous No.16441890]

>>16441875
this.

>>16440844
just made this but sliced into thinner slices and put in oven for over an hour at 350. very hearty and filling chips/fries for about $1. A day of calories at least.

[Anonymous No.16441899]

>>16440844
Rice and salt
If I feel fancy I ll add chickpeas

[Anonymous No.16441904]

>>16441857
>eggs
>cheese
>loads of veg and spices
Not a poorfag meal, suffer more, richfag

[Anonymous No.16442030]

>>16441904
>eggs
>not for poorfags
Where the fuck do you live?
Where I am they're comparable to dry beans for the calorie to dollar ratio.

[Anonymous No.16442034]

>>16441236
>whatever porridge with a packet of unflavored gelatin mixed in
good lord seek help

[Anonymous No.16442040]

>>16440844
with just a slight change in you you cut the potato, you could be fine dining on Potatoes a la Hasselback

[Anonymous No.16442143]

>>16442034
gelatin is a flavorless, colorless liquid when heated. adding it to hot foods like soups or porridge is a good way to get collagen in your diet if you don't get to eat meat often

[Anonymous No.16442195]

>>16442143
>be animal product industry
>have scraps of animals left over
>need to make $$$
>big think
>get idea
>degrease and roast animal parts
>acid and alkaline wash animal parts
>boil animal parts in water
>evaporate water and grind animal parts to powder
>???
>gelatin
Yes goyim, good choice, processed gelatin is a fantastic way to get collagen in your diet! Keep consuming it daily goy dont stop.

[Anonymous No.16442209]

>>16442195
Kill yourself or go back to /pol/. Either way nobody gives a shit enough to read the entirety of your posts.

[Anonymous No.16442214]

I like biryani rice, only kind of rice that i can enjoy eating it without chicken or meat.

[Anonymous No.16442342]

>>16441236
try a couple tablespoons of plain yogurt in your oatmeal.
sounds disgusting but a friend insisted I try.
as an oatmeal-every-morning-and-often-little-else level of poorfag it's been an unexpected game changer

[Anonymous No.16442391]

>>16442030
If I find eggs on sale here in Denmark they're usually about six eggs for a dollar.
Still cheap protein, but a lot more than what I see the Yanks talk about.
Shakshuka is still a good poorfig meal, though. 30 cents worth of eggs, a tin of tomatoes, some spices, an onion... Stretch it with some bread which you can bake yourself for pennies.
It also allows for almost endless variation. You can bulk it up with some grated carrots or potatoes if those are cheap or some celery or almost anything else.

I was never poor, but I sometimes work very long days and come home and just want a hot meal before I pass out. Good old franks and beans is a good one for that.
Just saute a chopped onion, add in a couple cut up hotdogs, or any other meat you got cheaply for that matter, brown the meat a little if it's raw but otherwise just dump a tin of beans in there and simmer it while you're in the shower with a cold beer. It's delicious, cheap, almost impossible to fuck up.

Look out for stuff on sale instead of just shopping in one place. If I find a huge pack of ground meat that's really cheap I take it home and make a big batch of meatballs from it. Freeze them in portions of maybe 4 or 6.
You can make your meatball mix as much as 25% oats or breadcrumbs mixed with a liquid. Helps as a binder and doesn't fuck with the taste as long as you let the liquid soak in before the mixing.

[Anonymous No.16442405]

>>16440844
It was more because of laziness than being poor. But when I was a kid and feeling hungry, I'd mix a bowl of rice with some butter and soy sauce.

[Anonymous No.16442424]

I got plenty of money for stuff, but I usually get whatever is on sale/cheaper stuff and make a meal out of it as long as it isn't low quality crap.

Hell, one favorite I made today that is cheap is a fried egg sandwich. Put some butter in a pan on medium heat, let it get hot but not enough to burn the butter. Crack an egg, flip it, add some bread in to absorb the butter and toast it. Salt and pepper the egg and maybe add some cheese if you have anything.

Costs less then a dollar to make and is a quick and easy breakfast.

[Anonymous No.16442465]

My grocery store use to do a pretty nice deal on the store brand pasta, sauces, chicken breast, and frozen vegetables.

For about $20, I use to be able to get:
>5 boxes of assorted pasta
>5 jars of assorted sauces
>12.5lbs of chicken breast
>5 bags of assorted vegetables

I was able to get 2 meals out of 1 box of pasta to feed 2 people comfortably. It was kinda fun figuring out how different combinations of sauces and ways to cook chicken breast to keep things interesting. Sadly, they stopped doing that deal sometime ago.

[Anonymous No.16443287]

>>16440844
>large potatoes
>quartered
anon, those pieces could be quite large.
could you clarify what you mean by "large", like diameter or circumference of the pots?
I think of roast potatoes as pieces like 4-5cm, which is quite a bit smaller than a 1/4 of what passes for a large potato around me

[Anonymous No.16443812]

>>16440844
rice often doesnt give you any shit of calories and since you are starving you need to eat something that will allow you to survive.

So in the end the right answer is potatos , fried , boiled, on the hoven it does not matter since it will only fill your stomach and go on till the next day.

Im out of food and have to survive 6 days

[Anonymous No.16443882]

Just boiled potatos, a lot of butter and salt. Very tasty. If you feel fancy you can also dip them in heavy cream, sour cream, buttermilk or something.

[Anonymous No.16443889]

>>16442195
Back to your containment board, schizo

[Anonymous No.16443895]

meat, onion, cabbage, tomatoes, whatever else you want
throw it in a pot

[Anonymous No.16444277]

>>16442209
>>16443889
t. obese lardasses

[Anonymous No.16444337]

>>16440844
>>16440852
I've been without a range for the last couple months and I have been cooking everything in an air fryer or Instant Pot. I am eating so much rice, beans and vegetables. I have to eat a steak or a hamburger every few days to keep from going crazy, but I am saving so much money.

[Anonymous No.16444688]

>>16440844
Fried dough with butter and jam

[Anonymous No.16444713]

>>16440844
My rock bottom was "pancakes" made from cornstarch, water and salt. Nothing on them. Glad I'm not in that place anymore.

[Anonymous No.16444724]

>>16444277
t. obese-r lardass with schizophrenia

[Anonymous No.16444758]

>>16441236

>fry meat and veg, dump in some stock/water/beer, season it, then tear up and stir in chunks of stale bread until it's thick


that sounds like some early renaissance shit. u realize it's the 21st century, not the 16th, right? get some real food. damn.

[Anonymous No.16444766]

>>16440844
cooking indian dhal (orange dhal) with rice. Complete protein and tastes amazing if you cook it right.

[Anonymous No.16444769]

>>16444766
forgot the pic

[Anonymous No.16445509]

>>16444724
>thinks factual data from the food he consumes is schizophrenia
Go back to r*ddit cuck

[Anonymous No.16445637]

>>16441719
this, but with kimchi

steamed rice
kimchi
fried egg

[Anonymous No.16445663]

>>16445509
No, the schizo part is the Jewish part you idiot schizo.

[Anonymous No.16445677]

>>16444769
>>16444766
recipe?

[Anonymous No.16445738]

>>16440844
Bean and cheese quesadillas!

[Anonymous No.16445744]

>>16445663
Ok so youre just a fucking retard then, got it

[Anonymous No.16445768]

>>16442040
I never liked the texture of the hassleback. It´s not really crispy all the way like a good chip would be but also not soft like a good roast or boiled potato would be in the middle.

[Anonymous No.16445773]

a girls butt

[Anonymous No.16445775]

>>16440844
>Boil eggs
>Heat canned pinto beans
>Mix them together and use pinto beans seasonings
>Feel full for the whole fucking day
If it works, it works.

[Anonymous No.16445793]

>>16445775
>eggs
get some chickens, even cheaper

If you live in apartments in NY, just call it an "emotional support animal" and they can't tell you that you can't have it.

[Anonymous No.16445813]

>>16442342
why would that sound disgusting? Ever heard of a parfait?!

[Anonymous No.16445815]

Corn is like $0.10 an ear in the summer time

[Anonymous No.16445817]

>>16441875
>Piece of cheap meat
It's 2021 though and "two more weeks" has quadrupled all meat prices by me

[Anonymous No.16445824]

>>16445815
Haven't seen corn for 10 cents an ear since like 2003

[Anonymous No.16445833]

>>16445824
4th of July weekend it was $0.25

[Anonymous No.16445841]

if you're that poor steal or go to a foodbank

for me, poorfood is any combination of eggs and bread, or ramens

[Anonymous No.16445855]

>>16445833
Yeah so did I. Wasn't 10 cents though.

[Anonymous No.16445864]

>>16440844
try chef John's fondant potatoes. it's super cheap and it used to be served to aristocrats and shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOatJPocjDo

>eat like an early 20th century aristocrat on a budget

[Anonymous No.16445884]

>>16445815
Corn is a fucking dollar an ear where I live. I assume it's because we don't subsidise it the way the Americans do

[Anonymous No.16446145]

>>16440844
potato + rich butter + salt
extremely cheap and can theoretically keep you alive for years.

[Anonymous No.16446156]

fried chickpeas
cucumber sandwiches

[Anonymous No.16446157]

>>16440844
>Olive oil
Poorfag my arse if you can afford that over unspecified vegetable oil

[Anonymous No.16446170]

White Rice+ salt+ butter+ sugar+ cinnamon cooked in rice cooker

[Anonymous No.16446268]

>>16444769

this, i have been cooking myself this like 5 times over the last month. you put all the ingredients in a pot and that's it wait 30 min. same for rice.

oignons, tomatoes, olive oil, a cube of stoke, green curry paste, curry powder, and lentils coral with water. its delicious.
also i put potatoes whole in the oven for like 1H, then with butter or olive oil.
also pasta aglia e olio, or cacio e pepe, or carbonara, 3 ingrediens top not the cheapiest but its very tasty compared to the cost of parmegiano.

also grated carots with corn and olive oil.

all of those are tasty cheap and healthy meal.

[Anonymous No.16446282]

>>16440844
Salted rice

[Anonymous No.16446431]

>>16446282
>>16446170
>>16441899
Damn you guys live like this?

[Anonymous No.16446486]

baked beans and canned tuna just plop it in a bowl and mix it up

[Anonymous No.16446496]

>>16445813
>parfait
well there is no sweetness in this, you stir in that cheap, plain, sour-ish stuff and end up with pale yogurty oatmeal.
tastes healthy.
sweetened yogurt + fresh fruit and brown sugar or whatever would be great but maybe not pathetic enough for this thread

[Anonymous No.16447913]

>>16445855
woah $.25. make sure to spell check ur reply nerd.

[Anonymous No.16447985]

>>16440844
I like to fish so a grilled salmon trout.

[Anonymous No.16447986]

>>16447985
what part of broke don't you understand. Unless you live by the ocean where is fish cheap?

[Anonymous No.16448040]

deenz and pasta w/red sauce

[Anonymous No.16449388]

rice and salt

[Anonymous No.16449837]

I imagine any nourishing meal should have like 60% carbs, 20% protein, 20% fat.

With that in mind, I think the cheapest option would be a potato with a couple dollops of cottage cheese. Season with salt n pepper

The last quart of cottage cheese I bought was $3.30 for 8 servings, 12g of protein a serving (around $0.40). I think you can buy a potato for under a $1.

If you did 1 potato and 2 servings of cottage cheese a night that’s like $1.40 for a meal a night. You could theoretically slice up a green onion, chives, or any other green herb you’ve grown yourself and survive off that.

Supplement with a multivitamin, and I think that’s like baseline above starvation.

[Anonymous No.16449848]

>>16442465
12.5lbs of chicken breast for under $20 including all that other shit is insane

[Anonymous No.16449851]

>>16445637
+1
Especially if you have a rice cooker and use brown rice.

Also, I like one pot/pocket meals like ramen noodles with sliced cabbage and a chunk of chiken (buy a whole chicken and cut it up yourself for cheap not-processed meat).

If you have a slow cooker you have a lot of soup/stew options or my personal favorite of pulled pork.

Either kitchen tool can be found cheap at a garage sale/flea market/goodwill

[Anonymous No.16449859]

I ate out of a coffee pot for a few months. My go to was to hard boil an egg, veggies in the filter section, then rerun a second pot to cook some noodles. Optionally heat up a slice of spam on the hotplate.

[Anonymous No.16449867]

>>16449837
you can buy 15 potatoes for 1€

[Anonymous No.16449872]

>>16447986
What part of
>Fishing is literally free, you fucking mongoloid flyover
don't you understand?

[Anonymous No.16449873]

>>16449867
Lmoa so a weekly meal could be 2 potatos and 2 cups of cottage cheese n that’s like 50~ grams of protein plus carbs plus dairy fat for under $1

[Anonymous No.16449875]

My poorfag meal was called hamburg rice and peas, you just gotta find some discounted hamburger and frozen peas with some cheap rice and cook em all up and mix em into a big ole pile, infinitely customizable with spices/sauces such as putting a cream of mushroom soup or gravy on top, or soy sauce with some garlic powder and ginger powder, or cheese sauce.

[Anonymous No.16449876]

>>16449859
Spam is not cheap

[Anonymous No.16449882]

>>16449876
Its like $3 for 2kcal of pork. You don't eat it in one sitting you fatty.

[Anonymous No.16449890]

>>16449882
There are cheaper sources of protein

[Anonymous No.16449891]

>>16440844
>olive oil
>extremely broke
Larper.

[Anonymous No.16449892]

>>16449890
Its not a competition

[Anonymous No.16450027]

>>16441707
>>16441831
how much water do you add? id like to make this

[Anonymous No.16450494]

anyone here ever tried buying and cooking mechanically deboned meat (MDM)? apparently poorfags here in my country eat it

[Anonymous No.16450509]

>>16445817
You can't find a piece of porkshoulder or some chops or something close to expiration that's half off or something?
What about a sack of frozen chickenlegs? Or a whole chicken for that matter.
The great thing about stewing/braising is that you can use absolutely any cut of meat for it.
Heart and liver are great too if those are cheap for you.

>>16449882
That sounds very expensive. That's like three thousand dollars for a day's worth of calories.

[Anonymous No.16450519]

eat beans

[Anonymous No.16450522]

>>16450519

[Anonymous No.16450528]

>>16440844
>poorfag meals
>olive oil

[Anonymous No.16450532]

>>16450522

[Anonymous No.16450537]

>>16444769
I ate nothing but dahl fry for three months while I was trying to be an aesthetic.
It doesn't freeze well, you would think it does but this is simply not the case

[Anonymous No.16450540]

>>16450494
Yes. It makes good cheesesteak sandwiches.

[Anonymous No.16450542]

>>16450537

[Anonymous No.16450564]

>>16440844
Olive oil is not exactly broke

[Anonymous No.16450578]

>mix flour and water
>fry in pan
>pour beans on

[Anonymous No.16450620]

>>16450578
>leave flour and water in air
>culture yeast
>make flatbreads
>make beans into a paste
>eat lobiani

[Anonymous No.16450692]

dry coleslaw, moosh avocado in with a bit of basic hot sauce, bit of mustard. reminds me of shoestring salad but w/out tuna.

[Anonymous No.16450801]

>>16442465
>>12.5lbs of chicken breast
Holy shit.

As for me, I can always snag certain staples on sale or for cheap -
>lentils
>rice
>peppers
>tomatoes
>eggs
>lettuce
>chicken thighs
>potatoes

Plus I make my own bread, which saves tons of money and tastes great.

[Anonymous No.16451455]

>>16450509
I see what you did there.

[Anonymous No.16452524]

>>16441102
Canned beans normally have a shitload of salt. Adding more is just asking for something not tasty.

[Anonymous No.16452540]

>>16442195
Yes? Why list the process like it's a bad thing?
Yes, anon that is factually how they produce gelatin, very insightful.

[Anonymous No.16452549]

>>16450537
how stinky were your armpits, paresh?

I eat one indian meal and the next day I'm driving a tuktuk and shitting in the street

[Anonymous No.16452621]

>>16443882
How can people live like this holy shit.
Mash that together and you will have something infinitely more humane.

[Anonymous No.16452632]

>>16447986
>Unless you live by the ocean where is fish cheap?
Do you have to pay for fishing as a hobby beyond the materials?

[Anonymous No.16452639]

>>16452632
In most states you need a license but they're not expensive and "need" is a relative term anyway

[Anonymous No.16452640]

>>16441823
Completely wrong

[Anonymous No.16452642]

>>16450540
Every bagged sealed meat I have eaten has a samey extremely weird taste, no matter if it's pork or beef.
Are you supposed to clean it up?

[Anonymous No.16452656]

>>16441857
Shakshuka the mic rula

[Anonymous No.16452662]

>>16441857

[Anonymous No.16452913]

>>16452642
Read the label. What a nightmare

[Anonymous No.16453086]

>>16444337
Nice but don't forget about eggs, pasta, tuna, and maybe potatoes.
The pasta you can easily make it yourself if you're not too busy/tired.
>mix>knead>flatten>roll>cut

[Anonymous No.16453139]

>>16452662
jej

[Anonymous No.16453141]

>>16445817
>Be me
>Go to store
>Find markdown frozen food section
>Didn't realize that exists since frozen food lasts forever
>Find a box of chicken wrapped in bacon and stuffed with cheese and broccoli
>$1 for two of these
>$0.50 per entree.
>Find a giant pork loin wrapped in bacon, stuffed with cream cheese and jalapeno
>$6 bucks for this whole thing.
>Big enough to be my entree for 7 meals
>Less than a dollar per serving and it was fucking delicious
Meat is still cheap. Even meat that you don't have to do anything with except put in the oven and it's already delicious.

[Anonymous No.16453411]

>>16450519
I wish I liked beans their texture is so gross

[Anonymous No.16453602]

>>16441904
I can buy 18 eggs for $1 how fucking poor are you

[Anonymous No.16453651]

>>16441236
what country?

[Anonymous No.16453662]

>>16440844
My duck eggs are free. I eat them for breakfast most days, tho currently i am eating oatmeal cooked in water. Somedays you just wanna feel like a peasant.

[Anonymous No.16453834]

>>16445793
how much does it cost to feed and take care of them though

[Anonymous No.16453853]

once again I'm in this poor/broke meal threads to remind you that's it's the 21st century and there is millions of dollars in free food sitting on the table that if you even have to think about making a "poor" persons meal just sign up for your snap benefits and get an ebt card. In CA if you make less than 2k a month you qualify for full bennies. You don't have to eat fucking beans and potatoes like a fucking medieval peasant in a first world country.

[Anonymous No.16453993]

>>16447986
reading comprehension: zero

[Anonymous No.16454027]

>>16442040
these are a crime against potatoes
the worst possible potato you could eat

[Anonymous No.16454035]

>>16447985
What's a salmon trout?

[Anonymous No.16454121]

>>16453853
I'm pretty sure most people here either live in countries where those benefits aren't available or just browse these threads for lazy food recipes to make after coming home from work.

[Anonymous No.16454150]

>>16454035
it's just a large trout (>1,5 k) with reddish meat.

[Anonymous No.16454262]

>>16440844
fucking rice and beans, it's a solution as old as time.

[Anonymous No.16455467]

>page 9
Shame

[Anonymous No.16455521]

>>16440844
Typical italian lunch dish: spaghetti with garlic, olive oil, a few chili peppers, easy, tasty and extremely cost-effective

[Anonymous No.16455530]

>>16441823
Plebeian taste

[Anonymous No.16455571]

>>16452549
the stink is from the spices. You can season dhal with anything and it's still an amazing protein source when paired with rice.

[Anonymous No.16455738]

>>16450027
69 grams

[Anonymous No.16455743]

>>16450540
>30% water bromelain dextrose sodium phosphate
fuck me whats wrong with normal meat? Why do they have to pump it with shit? No vegan extremists keep yelling about meat causeing cancer, they pump it full of shit like that.

[Anonymous No.16455814]

>>16441707
Those little seeds on top are cumin which adds a ton of flavor. Definitely use if you have them. (but not as a garnish like the pic, add them with the raw potatoes)

[Anonymous No.16455896]

Buy encor family pack of salisbury steaks. It's a big tray meant to be cooked at once and cost under 4 dollars iirc. Cut off a chunk, let's say a 3rd which is a hearty portion, plop it in a baking pan and follow the directions as if it's the full pack (I thought it would take less time but nope). Throw in a potato with it which should go like 15 minutes longer. Three full meat and potatoes meals that are super easy and cost under 2 dollars each.

[Anonymous No.16455926]

>>16455896
Wtf they made the Salisbury Steak from Fallout into a real thing? Epic!

[Anonymous No.16455927]

>>16440844
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDdvHx3-ipA

[Anonymous No.16456009]

>>16441823
What are you talking about? Lentils are delicious.

[Anonymous No.16456059]

>>16453853
>In CA if you make less than 2k a month you qualify for full bennies.
Wtf, America has better food benefits for the poor than my Western country?
Here you need to sign up for welfare, and then they just give you cheques (~$700/month) instead of food.

[Anonymous No.16456078]

>>16449891
Came here to post that, cheers

[Anonymous No.16456088]

>>16456078
That isn't true, in my country you can buy a decent olive oil bottle for 2 euros and it is honestly essential

[Anonymous No.16456545]

>>16456088
I'm envious, mediterranean life must be good bro

[Anonymous No.16456568]

>>16456088
im from eu, where u from to buy a 2 euros olive oil bottle haha it must be crap :)

[Anonymous No.16456927]

Speaking of cheap, I found this on a butcher site I occasionally use to get a big box of chicken breast I discover

https://www.onlinebutcher.co.uk/chicken/chicken-carcase-soup-chickencarcase

56p is really cheap, like I guess 70 cents or something, and I think it'd be really good for making soup, but am I overestimating how much actual meat would be on this thing? I mean they obviously have hacked off the main parts but would there still be enough to make a decent amount of soup? I've never seen this sort of thing before but I'm assuming it's something most butchers would probably offer

I mean I'm getting some other stuff from there anyway so I might as well give it a go, it's only 56p after all and if there's barely anything left on there meat wise it's not like I wasted a significant amount of money

[Anonymous No.16456939]

>>16443812
Find a food bank dude, fasting completely for a week puts you at risk of refeeding syndrome on payday and that can actually kill you

Otherwise assuming you're not working, go dumpster diving or something. Supermarket chains throw a shitload away. Hell, Even going to a local diner, telling them you haven't eaten in like 3 days and you can pay them back when you get paid is better than sitting around starving. Do you not have family you can borrow like 2 dollars for to get a couple loaves of bread or 2 pounds of potatoes from or something?

[Anonymous No.16456988]

>>16446268
Carbonara is actually pretty cheap if you "borrow" the cheese from a store. I don't do this anymore now I have money, but at one of those self service things, scan through your shit you're buying that's cheap, like your pasta, eggs and I guess cheap bacon if you're doing a poor version. Then you get your last item, pretend to scan it, and put it in your bag while picking your shopping up off the scale. Pay for the rest of the stuff and walk out. Works every time, assuming you're sensible and the thing you're stealing doesn't have a security tag on it, so it's no good for booze and I guess steak. I used to do it daily so I could get expensive things I needed like clothes detergent and stuff for free while just paying for regular groceries. I justified it by saying I deserved pay if I'm checking out my own groceries, but that was pretty much an excuse.

Of course, if you're a desperate alkie, find a walmart that doesn't have a security guard watching the cameras, buy one of the magnets online that opens the security things on bottles from amazon, it's just a neodymium magnet, stuff it in your bag and walk out. Obviously wear a hoodie and a mask, and don't be black because then, according to other black people, the staff will follow you round.

Or just Grab the booze, walk to the front and leg it, and then drill a hole in the bottle like I saw hobos doing. I'm not here to judge. I do wonder where that hobo charged his power drill though

[Anonymous No.16457042]

>>16446486
This, beans are prime cheap eating, get the cheap cans for like 50 cents and just add spices to taste. My british friend got me onto using "brown sauce" like the bongs use on toast, basically HP sauce if your store has it

As a student I had a lot of "hobo Shakshuka", which was browned mince beef and a can of beans, put in a dish with eggs poached into it and whatever spices you like. An extremely solid meal full of protein for really cheap. Beans are like 50c, 3-4 eggs can be had for like 20c-40c, and half a pound of ground beef is like a dollar. Spices are cheap once you already have them, but you should at least have some

My britbong friend also got me onto dumplings, though I had to get a box of suet from a british import shop, though apparently it can be got from a butchers since it's cow kidney fat. Sounds gross but you mix 50g of suet with 100g self raising flour, then combine with just a little water until it can be made into 8 or so little balls. I'd put the beans and ground beef in a slow cooker, added some brown sauce, Worcestershire sauce, some BBQ sauce if you like it and I had a bunch of those crispy bacon bits that go on salad so I usually stuck a bunch of those in. Other spices are up to you, If you want it to taste a bit indian, add a bunch of Garam Masala. Chilli flakes are good, as is the normal stuff like pepper. Garlic salt is also a good addition if you don't have fresh garlic. It's up to you though, spice or herb to taste. It's beans, pretty much anything works. Once the slow cooker's up to temp and your beenz and meat is warmed through, stick the dumpling balls in. After about 15 mins flip them over so they're coated in sauce and so they cook evenly, or if you're super lazy then push them beneath the surface of your sloppa and wait half an hour. Violins, You have some delicious, cheap and filling food. Eat as is or serve with some nice bread, or even toasted wonderbread if you're genuinely poor.

[Anonymous No.16457067]

>>16450519
I'm a britbong and my retarded mother managed to give us all food poisoning with red kidney beans when I was younger. I feel like I should probably give them another chance, am I likely to poison myself again if I get them or is it actually really hard to do that if you cook them right?

[Anonymous No.16457089]

>>16452549
Why is it that Indians profess to love spices so much but every fucking time they cook it fucking reeks of just onions?

I used to live with an indian chick housemate at university and she went through a 25kg sack a month

[Anonymous No.16457093]

>>16456059
I mean money is better than EBT because you can spend it on whatever you want, like booze or clothes.

[Anonymous No.16457099]

>>16457067
I don’t know how you can poison anyone with beans. Try them again.

[Anonymous No.16457110]

>>16457067
You have to rehydrate them overnight, clean them, and cook them.

[Anonymous No.16457115]

>>16455521
Not very nutritious or healthy

[Anonymous No.16457120]

>>16457099
I think she just soaked the dry beans in water, assumed that meant they were cooked and threw them in chili which was then immediately served. She was and still is fucking terrible at cooking

>>16457110
I'll give them a go, I'm making chili next week so I'll add them to that. I saw they have dried ones at my local shop so I'll pick some up next time I go

[Anonymous No.16457150]

When I'm really broke I either just eat potatoes or I buy instant ramen and cabbage/onions/bell pepper and stir fry them.

[Anonymous No.16457174]

>>16457089
Were her braps amazing?

[Anonymous No.16457268]

>>16440844
when i lived a few days in the forest i took a bag of milled corn, i just put hot water and salt-peper on it.

[Anonymous No.16457290]

I usually made the same thing but added more veggies like carrots, peppers and onions to the bake.

[Anonymous No.16457294]

you can get eggs for free just follow a bird

[Anonymous No.16457308]

>>16440844
Chinese tomato egg stir fry: ~ 2.5€ for 10 eggs and 6 tomatoes, making for 2 big or 4 small meals.
Shakushka works similarly.
Curry can be cheap if you don't make one that needs coconut milk.
All of these are cheap and tasty.
Rice is a great filler, as are oven potatoes.
A "I'm fucked there is no store open and I don't have any carbs at home" meal is fake mashed potato: chop onions into a pan and fry, top with flour, roast until toasty, add water + oil, optional bay leaf. More flour or water to adjust consistency to that if mashed potato. Or just make a flour+water flatbread like our ancestors did.

[Anonymous No.16457336]

>>16457308
please take this CCP propaganda elsewhere

[Anonymous No.16457349]

>>16457336
>One Chinese suggestion
>One Israeli suggestion
>One indian suggestion
>One eastern European/Russian suggestion
I truly am covering all bases that 4chan memes about these days, don't I?

[Anonymous No.16457354]

>>16457174
I found her completely repulsive in every way imaginable, since she was the super dark kind of indian, IMO incredibly ugly and also an exceptionally arrogant bitch, but she somehow had like 50k followers on instagram. I don't know, maybe she bought them or something

Worst part was everything I fucking owned ended up smelling of onions, and she was also clearly terrible at cooking and ended up ruining a bunch of my cookware. She somehow made the glass pan I had explode. I have no idea how, presumably she was boiling something in it, let it go dry, realized she was a retard and attempted to salvage it by pouring in cold water or something. I don't know, all I know was apparently it was my fault somehow and she wasn't going to replace it. Then bitched at me for locking all my cookware away because she didn't have any.

[Anonymous No.16458520]

>>16456545
It is sometimes
>>16456568
Italy, nah it's alright if you know where you should do the shopping
>>16457115
I agree, it'll fill you up though
>>16457354
Don't know how you managed not to kill her

[Anonymous No.16458776]

>>16440844
One meal a day at sundown: 400g pasta, 3 fried eggs, 2 fried potatoes, mayo.
Comes at about 70 cents a day and you'll be fine

[Anonymous No.16459400]

>>16458520
interesting, i pay like 10e to get a good quality olive oil bottle

[Anonymous No.16459456]

>>16442195
>not letting animal parts go to waste
Yeah, I'm thinking they're based

[Anonymous No.16459541]

>>16459400
Then I understand you

[Anonymous No.16459569]

>>16440844
>buy couple of cheap packets of cream of chicken soup
>buy a large, or two medium potatoes
>dice the potato then boil them
>pour the chicken soup packet into the water (take the taters out first to make it easy to mix/whisk the soup packet)
>add some cornflour to water & pour that in to thicken it, if you've got cornflour
>re-add the taters
bam. potato soup that costs like a buck.

[Anonymous No.16459690]

>eating only potatoes
Jeezus OP, spend the extra 75 cents for 'dines, tuna, or an egg on top of the spuds.
You're gonna fucking die.

[Anonymous No.16459697]

>>16459690
im pretty sure someone can actually live off solely potatoes if necessary

[Anonymous No.16459701]

Bar-S hotdogs and store brand buns

[Anonymous No.16459703]

>>16459690
I ate nothing but baked potatoes with butter and hot sauce for 4 months

[Anonymous No.16459710]

>>16442195
>collagen bad
You're not even good at esoteric fitness fascism, collagen IS good for you.

[Anonymous No.16460752]

>>16459697
It is possible to live entirely off of potatoes.

[Anonymous No.16461124]

>>16440844
deenz
beaten egg
various powdered peppers

it just werks
also good for mackerel

[Anonymous No.16461967]

>>16457349
>Shakshuka
>Israeli
Fuck off, kike.

[Anonymous No.16463087]

half box of spaghetti
salt
ounce of cream cheese
tablespoon of lemon juice

very tasty

[Anonymous No.16463179]

>>16456568
huh olive oil is not super expensive here but you still pay 5-7 euro for a decent quality. idk if i'd trust 2 euro olive oil.

[Anonymous No.16463182]

>>16442391
I live in the US in the south, just checked grocery closest to my house and eggs are 11 to 11.5 cents each, depending on size of order