/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17107780]

Alright fu/ck/s, lets settle this shit
Assuming you DON'T persist on exclusively ramen noodles or lime tequila shots, what do you buy with $29 for the week

[Anonymous No.17107792]

>>17107780
I make a cheap chili or beef stew in a gigantic pot and eat like a pig for an entire week.

[Anonymous No.17107818]

I spend about that much per week, but I'm only feeding myself.

[Anonymous No.17107824]

>>17107780
I live in Alaska so I’d be screwed if I could only spend $29 . I guess I would buy far less low carb vegetables and meats and be forced into buying cheaper starches .

[Anonymous No.17107826]

>>17107780
i make a pot of meat stew with vegetables for about $8- $12, some eggs and milk, and then a rotation of fresh vegetables or froots with whatever's left. avocadoes, cucumbers and tomatoes were on sale this week so i got some of each for about $8 and make salad every day. bananas are always cheap and good to keep around

[Anonymous No.17107835]

Tons of rice and egg beaters. Easy way to get the calories. Big jug of cheap cooking oil as well for even more calories and frying the eggs.

[Anonymous No.17107859]

Ignoring the fact that SNAP is supposed to be supplemental to your grocery budget and not the entire budget, you could buy a $5 chicken and some rice and eat very cheaply everyday. Other items like bulk eggs, cheaper cuts of pork.

Make stock with the carcass and make soups/stews with leftover chicken and veg.

Poor people are overweight because they make bad food choices, not because they can't afford organic vegetables from their local Whole Foods.

[Anonymous No.17107876]

>>17107780
>One week
>Seven limes

[Anonymous No.17107885]

Rice
Chicken breasts and some hearts
Potato
Onion
Broccoli
Mushrooms
Milk (half gallon)
Eggs
Oats

That might be $29, I dont really budget out my food spending. Id add a yam and pears if there's money left after that.

[Anonymous No.17107901]

>>17107780
i shop at Lidl so $29 could actually get me a decent amount of food. usually i spend more than that on food a week but if i cut out shit like energy drinks and snacks and just got basic shit like bread, milk, butter, meat, rice, eggs etc. i could do that and still get a good amount of calories in

[Anonymous No.17107931]

>>17107876
Racist

[Anonymous No.17107933]

>>17107780
it depends on what staples already have at home and on what's on sale. Anyway for a week I fell like 29$ are more than enough to by any vegetables, fruits, eggs, pasta, rice, legumes and piece of fish/meat you want, if you are not a dumbass

[Anonymous No.17107939]

>>17107780
7

[Anonymous No.17107943]

>>17107780
> Assuming you DON'T persist on exclusively ramen noodles or lime tequila shots
Delete this.

[Anonymous No.17108052]

>>17107780

Beans, rice, a green (2 if possible), hard vegetable(s, if possible) ==> lots of pilaf. It's one of the few ways that I think I could get the volume / calories that I need.

[Anonymous No.17108068]

>>17107780
>celebrity makes retard false premise argument
I'm shocked

[Anonymous No.17108081]

>>17107876
>He doesn't end each day with a lime up the tuckus

[Anonymous No.17108090]

>>17107780
Potatoes, an onion or two, bag of rice or beans, some bullion cubes (to make potato and onion soup), whatever meat is on sale (picked up some bone in chicken thighs today for 1 dollar a pound so let's go with those), whatever veggies are on sale, a gallon of milk, some oats and a multi-vitamin. That's well under 20 bucks to last a week.

Then I go to the food pantry.

[Anonymous No.17108125]

>>17107780
I never noticed before but several of those ingredients together probably make salsa.

[Anonymous No.17108238]

beans, rice, multivitamin
wow that was hard good post

[Anonymous No.17108250]

>>17108090
> 7 apples, 7 oranges
> 1kg rice or pasta
> 1 lemon

> 1kg whole grain bread
> 500g tomatoes
> 2 zucchini
> 1kg carrots
> 500g eggplants
> onions and garlic

> 500g beans
> 500g peas
> 500g chickpeas
> 1kg of lettuce

> 6 eggs
> 1l of milk or better greek yogurt if it's on budget
> whatever cheap meat/fish you find

>>17108238
>>17108090
What the fuck is this multivitamin shilling? is it an american thing?

[Anonymous No.17108251]

>>17108250
forgot bananas

[Anonymous No.17108255]

>>17108251
bananas are gay

[Anonymous No.17108264]

>>17107780
>7 pounds of beans ($7 or less) (11,000 calories)
>4 pounds cheapest chicken ($4 or less) (2800+ calories)
>1 gallon whole milk ($4) (2,400 calories)
>5 cartons of eggs ($5) (4,200 calories)
>rest of money on fruit, veggies, and seasoning

That's over 20,000 calories a week for $29. I'd have food left over too. Everything is fairly healthy too.

[Anonymous No.17108266]

>>17108250
>$29
in what country

[Anonymous No.17108297]

>>17108090
Wasting money on that multivitamin.

[Anonymous No.17108299]

>>17108266
There are 16 items for 29$, so an average of 1.8$ per items.
Meat aside, it's doable by shopping in cheap shops

[Anonymous No.17108321]

>>17108264
I went to walmart's website, selected in store items from my local walmart only, and then built up a list. This is what I'd get for a starter week (I might also swap out the pepper and/or cayenne pepper for cooking oil which is $1.57 for 32 oz of soybean oil, $2.52 for 17 oz olive oil, $2.54 for 33 oz of corn oil, or 2.88 for 48 oz of canola oil. All depends on what kind of oil you want.

The salt, seasoning and/or olive oil would obviously last for more than a week allowing me to get different seasonings next week.

[Anonymous No.17108324]

>>17108321
This was just buying normal stuff, not even specifically looking for items on sale.

[Anonymous No.17108329]

>>17108324
Also given how filling beans are and how many calories everything is, I suspect the beans, chicken, and eggs would last more than a week too.

[Anonymous No.17108331]

>>17108324
> 60 eggs
> also no carbs

[Anonymous No.17108345]

>>17108331
> 60 eggs
I said the eggs might last for more than a week (I suspect they would because that averages out to about 8.5 eggs a day).

> also no carbs
Beans have quite a few carbs, bananas have carbs, onions have carbs, tomatoes have carbs, cucumbers have carbs. If you want more, swap rice or lentils for some of the beans. I picked a lot of protein heavy foods because I wanted filling foods.

[Anonymous No.17108353]

Looking at my local supermarket only, that doesn't sell things like bulk beans, I would get the following:

Description - Price - Quantity - Total
Banana - $0.59/lb - 3 - $0.45
Asparagus - $1.25/lb - 2 - $2.50
Store Brand Wheat Bread 24 oz - $1.99 - 1 - $1.99
Store Brand Beans - $0.79 - 4 - $3.16
Valued Naturals Split Green Peas 26 oz - $2.99 - 1 - $2.99
Store Brand Rice 20 lb - $6.99 - 1 - $6.99
Store Brand Pasta 16 oz - $0.50 ea - 4 - $2.00
Store Brand Butter - $1.99 - 1 - $1.99
Eggland's Best Large White Eggs 18 ct - $2.99 - 1 - $2.99
Store Brand Chicken Thighs - $0.99/lb - 4 lb - $3.96

Total is $29.02

[Anonymous No.17108356]

>>17108345
eggs last for weeks and weeks.

[Anonymous No.17108362]

>>17107780
So that's about forty dollars Australian right now. For forty dollarydoos a week I can buy;
Eggs $4.50 a dozen
Bread $3.40 a loaf (myself personally I'd save money by buying a kilo of flour for a dollar and baking my own, I like baking)
Milk 2L $2.60
Potatoes 2kg $5.50
Two heads of garlic for $2.50
Ten chilies for 12c, so $1.20
Carrots 1kg $2.00
Weather conditions have been kind of shit for growing tomatoes here, so the price of fresh tomatoes has gone up. Now it's a dollar ten for a single tomato. Well, SINCE I'M ON FOOD STAMPS AND HAVE TO BUDGET clearly I'll only buy fresh tomatoes and break my bank on them and then cry about not having enough money. Or I could just get instead;
2 400g cans of peeled tomatoes for a total of $5.50
Chicken Breast 1kg $8
White Rice 2kg $2.80
Brown Onion 1kg $2.90
Oh no. This is 90 cents over my budget. Since I don't have another dollar to my name, I guess I'll put a can of tomatoes back and a kilo of salt for 90 cents, and a little shaker of dried basil for a dollar twenty.

Ok, my meals this week are going to be slapdash as I push those vegetables and four chicken breasts across seven days. But that's ok. The eggs will last me more than a week. So next week I'll get eggs and have more than I did this week. The rice will last me over a week too, as will salt, basil, etc. See, the basil? I can buy a different type of herb every week, after four weeks I'll have four kinds of herbs and spice, after a year I'd have at least thirty, factoring in replacements. Herbs and spices are how you take the same basic ingredients and make wholly different meals after all. And I'm getting all this from one store. I'd be shopping around

And personally? I'd be growing my own vegetables and my own herbs. I'f I've got forty dollars a week to feed myself, I clearly have no job and have the free time. I'm doing that right now, even with a job.

Fuck whiny povvos who can't budget. Get a job, or get a veggie patch. Cunts.

[Anonymous No.17108364]

>>17108345
5 pounds of rice for $2.48, 4 pounds for $2.52 if you'd prefer brown rice. 20 lb of white rice for $8.48 if you really really like rice.

>>17108356
You wouldn't have to eat everything I listed in one week. The idea was sort of to build up on some things. I went with 60 eggs because a pack of 60 was the cheapest way to get them at my walmart. If you're on a really tight budget, every single cent matters.

[Anonymous No.17108377]

>>17107780
I bought two pounds of Beyond Meat and two two-packs of eight ounce Beyond Burgers, cost $25.

[Anonymous No.17108505]

>>17107933
assume you run on a fairly empty pantry, no 12kg reserve of flour or half a deer in the freezer, even if that is the cheapest way to buy its not what poor people do.

[Anonymous No.17108508]

>>17107780
>1 chicken, $5
>500g salad mix, $4
>30g egg tray, $4
>2kg onion, $3
>black beans 500g, $3
>1kg brown rice, $3
>2kg flour, $1
>1kg tinned tomato $2
>4L Milk $3
>1 Milky Way Bar, $1

[Anonymous No.17108513]

>>17107780
rice
beans
eggs
flour
peanut butter
bananas
potatoes
frozen peas/carrots

[Anonymous No.17108519]

>>17107780
Never order food. Buy everything on bulk. If it's already prepackaged don't buy it it cuz it will be more expensive. Never buy frozen (huge bait for poor people).

Carbs- rice or potatoes
Vegetables- carrots or spinach
Protein- whole chicken (cleaned but uncut) and eggs
>you will need to learn how to cut it
Fruit- bananas/oranges (depends on the region you live in)
Optional- garlic/milk/spicies

You don't need anything else. Breakfast (cereal and shit) is a bait and low in nutrients. The chicken is the most important part. Meat can be very expensive. I will add up everything to show you how retarded poor people are.

>14 whole chickens (14 *1.5 = 21)
>2 dozen of eggs (3)
>1kg bag of rice(4) or potatoes(2.57)
>1kg of carrots (0.44)
>1kg of bananas(1.56)
>30 dollars in total
Plenty of food for a family of 4. You can have 2 whole chickens per day. And you will always have leftovers for the next day.

If you want to go ultra cheap you can cut the rice and potatoes, and learn to bake bread. You only need flour, water, instant yeast and salt.

[Anonymous No.17108523]

>>17107780
The grocery store I work at sells 5 meat items for 19.99 so I buy alot of steak and chicken to last me through the week and pick up the other ingredients as I need them

[Anonymous No.17108549]

>>17108519
>>14 whole chickens (14 *1.5 = 21)
How do you get whole chickens only $1.50 each?

[Anonymous No.17108552]

>>17107780
>I am on a budget, should I buy a kilogram of potatoes and cheap meat? Nah lets get a yam, 7 limes and an avocado.

[Anonymous No.17108585]

>>17108552
1 avocado a week is good to eat, 2 halves in 2 meals.

[Anonymous No.17108606]

>>17107780
Beans, Rice, Potatoes, Onions, Cheese, Eggs, hot sauce, vegetable oil, salt, and whitewater's left over on more fresh produce. Stupidly easily for 1 person to eat on $30 a week.

[Anonymous No.17108620]

>>17107792
Hearty king

[Anonymous No.17109168]

>>17107876
heh this guy literally WANTS to get scurvy.

[Anonymous No.17109205]

>>17107780

[Anonymous No.17109249]

>>17107792
First post, best post.
You can't go wrong with a nice stew.
29 bucks will buy you a lot of cheap meat and vegetables. Get some flour and a pack of yeast and have some nice homemade bread on the side as well.
Another thing you can do is work. If your budget is so tight that ten or twenty dollars makes a big difference you should be asking people if they want their lawns mowed or leaves raked etc.

[Anonymous No.17109835]

>having 30 bucks
>spending it on garlic, herbs, limes and pepper
still that's plenty

[Anonymous No.17110039]

>>17107876

[Anonymous No.17110051]

>>17107780
Me and my wife eat on 80 dollars a month. I eat what I normally eat: Chili, fried chicken, roasted chicken, stuffed mushrooms, cornbread, tacos, stir fry, enchiladas, stews, spaghetti, roasted vegetables, basically anything.

[Anonymous No.17110061]

>>17107780
Mostly chicken and broccoli. I bet you can guess which board I frequent the most.

[Anonymous No.17110071]

>>17110061
/lgbt/

[Anonymous No.17110077]

>>17107876
>1 week
>1 onion
>1 tomato
>entire head of lettuce
>7 limes
they used a weirdass picture

[Anonymous No.17110087]

>>17110071
I went to that board like one time and it was a shithole, so if there's an in joke there, I'm missing it completely.

I guess I should have said oats or rice too, but that would be a lie. Oats make sense but rice is such a macro deadzone, don't see the point.

[Anonymous No.17110106]

>>17107780
hmmm why would something named "supplemental nutrition assistance program" not be enough to survive on alone

[Anonymous No.17110211]

>>17110087
Yeah definetly /lgbt/

[Anonymous No.17110740]

>>17108266
29 dollars is actually a lot of money for one person to live on if you aren't obese and/or a completely retarded shopper.

[Anonymous No.17110912]

>>17108321
> 1 cent over
> 6 limes short
why did you even try

[Anonymous No.17110987]

>>17107780
>what do you buy with $29 for the week

I buy
7 packets of San Remo instant pasta
5 pack of Mi Goreng
7 cans of canned spaghetti
and a 15pack of beer

[Anonymous No.17110992]

>>17107780
here limes are $4 each so that's $30 gone right there more or less

[Anonymous No.17111000]

i love when rich retards post dumb shit on social media without knowing what the fuck they're talking about.

[Anonymous No.17111015]

>>17111000
nice double-trips

>healthcare
free
>eating out
$0
>utilities
$100
>transportation
fuck all, like 2 tanks of gas a year
>phone
$19
>house cleaner
$0
>internet
included in utilities
>rent
$800
>donations
$0, charities are a tax scam
>groceries
never really counted, prob like $200~400 depending if I go college mode or 'actually eating properly' mode.

[Anonymous No.17111040]

>>17107780
>SNAP
>Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
>Supplemental
Hmmm....

[Anonymous No.17111041]

>>17107780
honestly? Here in Germany, carrots, apples, potatoes, a bit of cheese and sausage, bread, butter and eggs. Dirt cheap and actually healthy. Also a lot less boring then the usual rice and beans.

[Anonymous No.17111215]

>>17107780
My typical diet:

>Breakfast
1kg porridge: £1
1kg sugar:£1
4L milk:£2.50
2L fruit juice:£5
>lunch
2 loaves bread:£2
700g Cheese:£6
500g peanut butter:£3.50
6 Apples:£3
>dinner
4 chicken fillets:£2
4 cod fillets:£2
1kg rice: £2
1kg pasta:£1.50
1kg potato wedges:£2.50
2kg frozen vegetables:£4
2 cans baked beans:£1.50
2 jars cooking sauce:£3
1 pack of salt:£1
>Snacks/extras
400g salad mix:£3
Sauces:£2
6 eggs:£2.50
250g butter:£2
2 packets of biscuits: £2
6 pack of crisps:£2
1 box tea:£3
1 jar hot chocolate:£3
1 box multivitamins and minerals: £5

£70, nearly triple the budget, BUT a lot of that stuff above is not even the cheapest option available and do not count sales. I would also not use all that food in a week, for example, I would not use all that sugar or tea in a week. If I had £120 a month and chose budget items on sale in bulk, I could probably have the same diet above and close to the budget, e.g. I can get 2L of store-brand fruit juice for £2 or make my own salad for half the price.

But one thing this exercise has made clear to me, food prices have gone up quite a bit since I did this months ago. Same shop a year ago would cost me less than £60.

[Anonymous No.17111234]

Break down your shopping into protein (pb, eggs, meats, fish), carbs (pasta, bread, flour), veg, herbs/spices, and grocery (soap etc). Then bookmark the ad pages of every store within range. Every week pop open the ads and see what the sales are. Over time you will get a sense of the real price of foods and what is a deal to spend on.

Some tips:

>Buy in bulk at the lowest price then shop for smaller amounts as you go
>find the discount aisles in each store you visit, they all have at least one area
>Immigrant markets are your FRIEND. Find where they are and get their ads.
>You can buy some food and toiletries online cheaper, and at higher quality (e.g., bulk bags of good rice, paper, etc)
>If you have the room freeze your on-sale protein and get your veg fresh
>Potatoes, onions, and carrots sell dirt cheap in bulk bags. Learn to cook with these.
>Rice is a staple and there are a thousand ways to eat it
>Learn recipes that stretch out proteins with vegetables, rice, and pastas
>search for deals on herbs and spices like a thirsty simp and over a long period of time you will build a formidable spice collection
>Buddy up with the deli and butcher personnel and they will hook you up

[Anonymous No.17111290]

>>17107780
How do they only get 29? Thats ridiculous. I thought families get much more than single people. I dont have kids and I get close to 300 a month on SNAP. I am also on disability so maybe thats why I get so much

[Anonymous No.17111312]

why do we still talk about a shit post made by a snake oil salesmen? this bitch owns goop

[Anonymous No.17111320]

>>17107876
You're right.
That's not nearly enough limes.

[Anonymous No.17111339]

>>17107780
Potatoes and eggs