/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5689287]

College poorfag moving into an apartment tomorrow with a pretty low budget. It's my first time living alone and I was wondering what's;

A: Cheap
B: Filling, and
C: Relatively healthy

That doesn't end in me eating pic related once or twice a week.

[Anonymous No.5689291]

>>5689287

1) apply for food stamps.
2) Chicken, grains, legumes, greens.

[Anonymous No.5689294]

>>5689287
Pasta, Rice, Kraft Dinner, anything that are good deals man, what's your budget?

[Anonymous No.5689300]

>>5689294
I'm not sure what the exact numbers are, at the moment, but I'm not expecting to get anything real fancy unless I get invited somewhere or spend a weekend back at my dad's.

[None !OPIATE9fy. No.5689304]

I was really exiced that I found creamy ramen until I saw you get 40 percent of your saturated fat from one brick prepared

[Anonymous No.5689307]

Just buy pure brown rice.

Get some sriracha, black beans, lime juice, and cilantro.

Brown rice, black beans (get the low sodium kind), cilantro, with a little lime juice is pretty good, inexpensive, and healthy.

Just buy teabags and a big thing of oats for breakfast, and get frozen fruit because it lasts longer. Get some eggs, too, because you need that good cholesterol.

For lunch, just eat some whole wheat bread with peanut butter. That supplies a lot of good fats and protein. Or just get some multi-grain bars and eat them with some veggies or something.

There you go. All your food groups covered, all healthy, and pretty cheap.

[Anonymous No.5689310]

>>5689304
Also, the sodium intake in ramen is huge. You literally get like 1200mg of sodium if you eat an entire brick with the flavoring pack. That's really bad.

People don't even think ramen is that bad for you. kek

[Anonymous No.5689313]

>>5689287
I like rice and beans

[Anonymous No.5689323]

Fruits
>bananas
>frozen berries
>orange juice

Veggies
>carrots
>broccoli
>cauliflower

Grains
>whole wheat bread
>brown rice
>oatmeal

Dairy
>nonfat yogurt (be careful of sugar content)
>skim milk
>lowfat cheese

Protein
>black beans
>peanut butter
>chick peas
>sliced turkey
>eggs

Other
>coffee
>tea
>some kind of sauce

There you go, OP. All cheap and healthy with plenty of options

[Anonymous No.5689331]

Beans, grains, kale, and bananas for the cheapest diet that doesn't comprimise your health.

Buy oats to eat for breakfast, lentils for lunch, black beans for dinner, etc. Steam a little kale at dinner time and eat it as a side with some balsamic vinegar, and snack on bananas (and add them to oats) since they're the cheapest fruit and relatively calorie dense. Other cheap and healthy vegetables include sweet potatoes, carrots, and red cabbage.

[Anonymous No.5689336]

Getting sick of this thread every single day.

Here's my list of healthy, calorie/cost efficient foods that I have in my kitchen right now:

>Lentils, 1lb bag for $1, 980 calories
>Carrots, 1lb bag (organic) for $0.75, 180 calories
>Steel cut oats, 18 oz for $3, 2550 calories
>Walnuts, 1lb bag for $7, 3k calories
>Sweet potatoes, 1b for 99c, 390 calories

[Anonymous No.5689339]

>>5689323

>all healthy

except dairy, eggs, and juice

[Anonymous No.5689340]

>>5689336
>walnuts
good list, but go for peanuts of almonds instead. they're cheaper, less fatty and have more potassium

[Anonymous No.5689354]

>>5689340
walnuts give you like super powers or somethin

[Anonymous No.5689356]

>>5689339
How are skim milk, nonfat yogurt, and lowfat cheese unhealthy? Obviously the first two can be a bit sugary if you eat a ton of them, but 1 or two servings a day is fine. Lowfat cheese is basically just for eating with an omelet or rice, and not frequently.

Eggs are good for you if you don't eat a ton of them. 1 egg a day supplies like 60% of your cholesterol, and most of it is good cholesterol. If you don't eat much meat otherwise, 1 egg a day is actually pretty good for you.

And a cup of 100% natural orange juice is very good for you. Sure, it has sugar, but it's fruit and all fruit does. It also has a lot of fiber and like 400mg of potassium in 1 cup.

check mate

[Anonymous No.5689361]

>>5689340

Not that guy, but I'd go with walnuts anyway since a handful of nuts a day is all you really need, and the polyphenols in walnut skins make it the most heart-healthy nut, plus the omega-3 content. A pound of walnuts will last you around 2 weeks

[Anonymous No.5689374]

>>5689300
Sometimes, I just lived off of Leafed Greens and chicken and had chicken salad, and when I had Kraft Dinner, sometimes I like to spice it up and add ground beef to it, if you have basic knowledge of Spices, play around with them

[Anonymous No.5689383]

>>5689356

>how are cow hormones unhealthy?

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html

>Eggs are good for you if you don't eat a ton of them. 1 egg a day supplies like 60% of your cholesterol, and most of it is good cholesterol.

there's no such thing as "good cholesterol" in the diet, you're think of blood cholesterol, specifically HDL cholesterol. eggs are high in dietary cholesterol, but they don't "supply 60% of your required cholesterol," they have around 80-100% of the limit that health officials say you should be eating every day. if you eat one egg, you basically can't eat that dairy or the turkey either because they'll put you over the cholesterol limit. eggs aren't a particularly nutritious food, they're just very well marketed

and as for orange juice, juice by definition has no fiber. an orange is great, squeezing the juice out of an orange and drinking it is not

[Anonymous No.5689384]

>>5689361
That's all true, but in my experience in buying pre-packaged walnuts, there's usually almost no skin on them. Walnuts are also risky because a serving is like 3 or 4 walnuts, and you can easily go over that and end up getting like 40% of your daily fat right there. Almonds and peanuts have the good fats as well, but just not as concentrated.

Honestly, you can't go wrong with nuts. I love walnuts in yogurt and stuff, but I like the taste of almonds more and they're cheaper.

[Anonymous No.5689388]

>>5689383

>they have around 80-100% of the limit that health officials say you should be eating every day

wait, I gotta clarify that. they have 80-100% of the maximum amount allowed in the diet, and the health guidelines for this are pretty generous for how much cholesterol they allow. ideally you want 0, but certainly not the 180-230mg you get in a single egg

[Anonymous No.5689394]

>>5689383
but /fit/ told me low cholesterol diets were a lie and that I should eat 4 eggs a day

[Anonymous No.5689398]

>>5689383
You do realize fat-free milk and yogurt have like no cholesterol, right? And you also realize that our bodies need cholesterol to produce cells and hormones, right?

I should say maybe not to eat 1 egg a day, but eggs in general don't contain extremely high fat content, and, unless you go ahead and eat like 2 eggs or a huge egg, you're only getting like 70% of your cholesterol. Yeah, it's a lot for 1 item, but if that's pretty much all you get in that day, that's pretty good

[Anonymous No.5689403]

>>5689383
Also, you get 100% oj with pulp, which has a pretty good amount of fiber, m8

[Anonymous No.5689455]

>>5689398

> our bodies need cholesterol to produce cells and hormones, right?

there's literally no diet you can be on where you won't have adequate blood cholesterol, and the less cholesterol you have the better off you are. dietary cholesterol is in no way necessary, and is always a detriment to your health. the argument is kind of like saying "we need SOME body fat to function, so being obese is healthy."

i'll go ahead and say that if you're eating one egg a day and the rest of the diet is all grains and vegetables and fruits and stuff, it probably won't be a huge deal, but it bothers me to see eggs always being put on "healthy, cheap food" lists, and then if you get to talking about eggs it's always "well if you only eat one egg every once in a while they're not SO bad" with some gross overestimations of how supposedly nutritious eggs are

[Anonymous No.5689461]

>>5689287
beans
rice
tuna
chicken thats on sale
frozen veg
frozen fruit
fruit n veg thats on sale

[Anonymous No.5689469]

>>5689455
confirmed for dyel

[Anonymous No.5689472]

>>5689469

>implying I don't eat beans all day

[Anonymous No.5689474]

>>5689455

> implying dietary cholesterol affects blood cholesterol in any more than a marginal minority of people

Eggs are a cheap source of protein. If you can't afford meats, you can for sure afford eggs. Now, sure, you can get complete proteins from combinations of pulses/legumes/beans/grains, but it takes 30 seconds to cook an egg.

[Anonymous No.5689489]

>>5689474

yes, dietary cholesterol undoubtedly affects the majority of people, and in more ways than just raising serum cholesterol. I suggest you read this article by three of the world leaders in cardiovascular health, so you can understand why every health organization advises a restriction of dietary cholesterol

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989358/

protein is far from a nutrient of concern. if you eat food, you're going to get your protein. ice cream has protein and it's always ready to eat, does that mean it should be part of a healthy diet?

[Anonymous No.5689496]

>>5689489
>Dietary cholesterol and egg yolks: Not for patients at risk of vascular disease

[Anonymous No.5689503]

>>5689287
http://ck.booru.org/
/ck/ cooking for dummies.

[Anonymous No.5689512]

>>5689472
>ways of cooking beans by itself: 1
>ways of cooking eggs by itself: over 9000
Eggs much better for college students who likes variety.

[Anonymous No.5689518]

>>5689496

read the actual article. David Spence, the lead author, has clarified that the only people not at risk of vascular disease, who can eat eggs with impunity, are those who are already expecting to die of some other terminal illness

[Anonymous No.5689521]

>>5689512

"I like eggs more than beans" doesn't mean "eggs are healthy." you can cook ramen a million ways, but like OP said, that's not all he's interested in

[Anonymous No.5689525]

>>5689403
extra pulp OJ is the greatest thing ever, it's like drinking an orange

[Anonymous No.5689530]

Bananas, carrots, sweet potatoes, oats, lentils, nuts/peanuts, beans, canned salmon, apples, kale, are all nutritionally dense and cheap for the calories they provide.

[Anonymous No.5689532]

>>5689518
>some other terminal illness
yeah like old age you dumb fatass.
>>5689521
>eggs are not healthy
lol last time I checked /ck/ wasn't overrun by landwhales, wtf is wrong with these people who avoid eggs like the plague. Is exercising that hard for you?

[Anonymous No.5689536]

>>5689489

> should ice cream be part of a healthy diet?

Why is this even a question?

[Anonymous No.5689542]

>>5689532
>last time I checked /ck/ wasn't overrun by landwhales

Where do you think you are?

[Anonymous No.5689585]

>>5689394
Ignore the obvious vegan. No clue why they try and justify their diet besides just saying they dislike such and such or animal cruelty etc and instead make shit up,

[Anonymous No.5689589]

>>5689287
Do you people really not learn the essential life skill of cooking from your parents?
There must be millions of you.

[Anonymous No.5689595]

>>5689585

what exactly do you believe is being made up?

[Anonymous No.5689597]

>>5689589
>Single parent who fed me fast food at least twice a week otherwise it was frozen tv dinners or mac and cheese.
Hell no I didn't, I just followed recipes till I picked it up.

[Anonymous No.5689601]

>>5689589
My parents cook worse than me because they grew up in a poorer time, from a poorer country, thus has lower standards.

[Anonymous No.5689618]

I also just moved out on my own and I'm running out of ideas for stuff to make. what can I have that's either fast to make or something that I can freeze the leftovers to eat later? so far I've had jambalaya, carbonara, curry, chili, beef stew.

[Anonymous No.5689641]

>>5689618
Sauces for paste. Alfredo/Red Sauce. Campbells "cream of x" soups make a nice topping for most egg noodles too.

[Anonymous No.5689648]

>>5689287
Learn a go to staple (or several) that you can master and prepare easily for yourself and make in large batches to begin with IMO. Something like chilli, bolognaise ETC where you can bulk buy the ingredients for cheap, make a huge batch and freeze as much as you want. Stews are also extremely simple to make and cheap, and are great during the winter months. Chilli and Bolognese are both versatile, you can do a bunch of things with them to stave off boredom. You can branch out and experiment from there, but its honestly pretty hard to fuck up both of the 2 things i listed so IMO it'd make a good starting point.

Chilli: chillidogs, wraps, chilli con carne, chilli with rice, sloppy joes etc
Bolognese: works with pasta or rice, can make lasagna if you're feeling adventurous or just toss it into omelettes or whatever, I dunno

Its worth spending a little bit extra to buy yourself dried herbs and shit for your kitchen instead of skimping upfront and spending more over time on seasoning packets and stuff which won't help you learn about cooking either.

Eggs are a very cheap form of protein, rice and beans are also cheap as fuck and hearty. Same goes for potatoes and a wide array of other vegetables, particularly if you manage to secure them at a market.

>inb4 some faggot tells you to buy a slow cooker to make bean and lentil stews alld ay err'day

If you're able to afford college you shouldn't be so fucking poor you need to eat worse than someone living off food stamps.

>>5689339
Ignore this faggot

[Anonymous No.5689671]

> cook 2 skinned chicken leg quarters in a pan with onions, garlic, and a bit of water
> when nearly done cooking, remove and set aside
> add like 3-4 cups of water to your pan
> add 2 cups of a firm rice like short grain brown
> add a can of beans or beans you soaked overnight at the same time
> cook until that shits cooked through
> that chicken should have had the meat removed from the bones, the bones and skin frozen for stock later, and the meat shredded and put into the fridge to wait
> open up an 8oz can of diced tomatoes and dump it on the rice and beans
> add the chicken back in
> add a packet of taco seasoning
> blend

If you want to be super lazy you can also steam some mini sweet peppers or any pepper on the side, remove the tops and skin, chop and add to the mixture.

For even more flavour and ease, pick up a cheap box of shells and cheese from a dollar store. Squeeze a bit more than half the cheese into the pan, the rest is more than enough to still make Mac with.

Then you've got this blend of rice, beans, onions, chicken, garlic, peppers, taco seasoning, and cheese which you can eat on toast, warm in a bowl, on top of a salad, rolled in a taco shell, whatever.

Trust me I've been poor as shit these last 2-3 months and of all the big pot meals I experimented with, this one was the best. Shit you can even eat it on chips.

[Anonymous No.5689674]

Dried green peas are rather tasty and a good source for veg and protein.

[Anonymous No.5689681]

>>5689287
OH LAWDY

YOU WANNA GO SUPER NIGGER POOR ON ME? GET SOME MOTHAFUCKIN BEANS AND RICE NIGGA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_o7TScTlWI

Buy like a 50lb sack of rice and 20lbs of dried beans. Just soak beans overnight, and eat.

Beans and rice are a complete protein.

An adult can survive on beans and rice alone.

[Anonymous No.5689687]

>>5689681
>Just soak beans overnight, and eat.
You can't eat beans just because they've been soaked and raw rice isn't too tasty either

[Anonymous No.5689699]

>>5689681

Or for Gladiator Mode, get beans and barley. You still need vitamin A and C and stuff, so pick out a green vegetable too and some cheap fruit. Or fuck two birds with one cock and eat sweet potatoes with your beans and barley

[Anonymous No.5689717]

>>5689699
>Or fuck two birds with one cock
I love this place.

[Anonymous No.5689810]

Poorfag college student here.

I have foodstamps (thank fuck for Alabama). It's only $100 a month but it gets me more than enough food.

I buy bulk beans, rice, and frozen vegetables and fruit, sometimes I'll splurge and buy fresh fruit and vegetables but that's usually when I have too much leftover on my foodstamps card to spend.

I can get a 20 lb bag of rice for $8. Based Winn Dixie.

[Anonymous No.5689826]

>>5689810
Do you have any smaller vegetable markets you could go to? I was in the same situation until I found a small produce store ran by some Turkish guy, the prices are the best and he even gets stuff other stores don't have that are cheap, like middle-eastern snacks and raw honey.

He even gave me a free meal one time. Good guy.

[Anonymous No.5689833]

>>5689826
There's a local farmer's market but I've never been, I've heard that farmer's markets are usually more expensive.

[Anonymous No.5689844]

>>5689833
It depends, some might try to be specialty or gourmet places, but places that just want to sell fruits and vegetables should be cheaper.

And always try to buy stuff that's in season.

[Anonymous No.5689848]

>>5689844
All it is is a large tented area with produce on display, not fancy at all.

[Anonymous No.5689857]

>>5689848
Yeah, the store I go to is actually a house that was converted, so it's pretty simple. Check it out, nothing really to lose.

[Anonymous No.5689873]

>>5689287
Start eating dem leafy greens man and potatoes. Buy those bulk sacks of rice too. Also mushrooms - you can dice em up and cook with literally any typical broke student food: rice or veggies or eggs or chicken or ramen.

listen to this one: >>5689648

[Anonymous No.5689953]

>>5689873

>also mushrooms

Look at fucking Hollywood with his expensive, exotic flavorings. Do you buy fresh herbs too, Richie Rich?

[Anonymous No.5690075]

Learn to make your own bread and pasta. If the school has agriculture and food science programs, find out if there is a butcher on campus (it will only be state certified meat so it will be cheap). Buy everything else on sale.

[Anonymous No.5690076]

>>5690075

Oh, it's make-your-own pasta guy again with his retarded suggestions.

[Anonymous No.5690078]

screw these veggie fags, just get based shin ramyun and add 2 eggs, your dick may explode from getting so hard tho

[Anonymous No.5690093]

>>5690078
just plop them in like an egg drop?

[Anonymous No.5690109]

>>5690093

i do mine on stove eggs in last 30sec or so

[Anonymous No.5690385]

>>5689287
Uk student here. For the last year I voluntarily lived on a food budget of less than 15GBP a week, which even on a student budget is considered poor. Meat was a luxury.

shop within an hour of closing and know where the store's clearance shelf is, you'll get all your meat from here.
Most of the protein in your diet will come from eggs and beans. I bought my beans in bulk and ate 2 dozen eggs a week.
Buy veg frozen (cheaper) and fruit from your city's market.
Buy your spices in bulk
Buy ramen from the Asian stores. It's cheaper and tastes better than the student fodder that fills the supermarket shelves.

I lost about 80lb living cheap and never missed a meal or went to bed hungry.

[Anonymous No.5690409]

>>5690075
Another dumb fucking idea, OP is trying to save money as he is on a tight budget. All the wasted time spent trying to save money on already cheaply mass manufactured goods would be better spent working. Or even looking for work. You'd save what, 40 cents a loaf for an hour or 2 worth of work? How fucking poor and worthless/unemployable could you be for that to seem worth it? Even 1 hour at the shittiest minimum wage jobs would bring enough to offset the money saved making 20 loaves by yourself. Fucking loser.

It's no wonder you're poor if you're this stupid, you should refrain from trying to post advice you fucking dumbfuck

[Anonymous No.5690504]

>>5690385
What was your typical week like food wise? In very similar situation as a britfag student

[Anonymous No.5690508]

>>5690409
Holy fuck, you're mad.

[Anonymous No.5690519]

>>5690385
I'd like to know what your typical diet was as well.

Also where did you get bulk beans from? I don't think i've seen them in supermarkets or anything but maybe i've just not been paying attention.

[Anonymous No.5690523]

>>5690519
>supermarkets
look elsewhere

[Anonymous No.5690567]

>>5689648
if OP doesn't have an oven or microwave in his apartment, a slow cooker would be a good investment though, its hard to fuck up with them and they make healthy/tasty/simple food.

i agree with the herbs part definitely, and having a bunch of staples around can never hurt either

[Anonymous No.5690584]

>>5690504
>>5690519
My typical diet was 50% ramen and rice, 30% fruit and frozen veg, and 20% protein. I mixed it up as much as I could with recipes found online. Meat was used in my meals maybe 3 times a week if it was a good week, it depended on what was reduced to clear.

I made it my mission to hit the local Morrisons at 5pm Saturday because they try to sell their whole cooked chickens for £1 each.

you can buy pretty much anything you could ever want in bulk from CostCo

[Anonymous No.5690749]

Regardless, researchers have looked at the diets of hundreds of thousands of people. Andthey've suggestedthatconsuming eggs every day is not associated with cholesterol problems or heart disease.

(There's only one possible exception here: diabetics and the 0.2 percent of the population with familial hypercholesterolemia.

[Anonymous No.5690761]

>>5689287
Gotta eat like an immigrant anon.
Beans, rice, fatty lower priced cuts of meat with great flavor, such as smoked.

You can save money by buying bulk meat, 12packs of this or that, and using your freezer, or whole cuts, loins, or turkey breast. You can do the indian/asian thing and live off big bags of rice at cents a pound, or make your own flatbreads with each meal.
Buy big bags of apples, oranges and cycle through your boring repetitiveness.
Always have celery, onion, garlic, potatoes those kinds of staples, and eggs are pretty cheap.
The only junk food you buy is double coupon buy one get ones that are nearly free.
Iced tea vs soda. Water.

[Anonymous No.5691121]

>>5690584
Any other tips? I didn't know about the morrisons thing.

I live near britbong central so there are a lot of paki stores. Anything worth buying there over cheap supermarkets?

[Anonymous No.5691153]

>>5689287

http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

Rice and Beans for 2n
olive oil or butter
n yellow onions
other fresh vegetables; experiment
3n cloves garlic
n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or black beans
n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon
n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
3n teaspoons ground cumin
n cups dry rice, preferably brown
Put rice in rice cooker. Add water as specified on rice package. (Default: 2 cups water per cup of rice.) Turn on rice cooker and forget about it.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, over fairly low heat, till onions are glassy. Put in chopped garlic, pepper, cumin, and a little more fat, and stir. Keep heat low. Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then add beans (don't drain the beans), and stir. Throw in the bouillon cube(s), cover, and cook on lowish heat for at least 10 minutes more. Stir vigilantly to avoid sticking.

If you want to save money, buy beans in giant cans from discount stores. Spices are also much cheaper when bought in bulk. If there's an Indian grocery store near you, they'll have big bags of cumin for the same price as the little jars in supermarkets.

[Anonymous No.5691515]

Apart from the obvious legumes/noodles deal, if possible find an asian grocery and buy some textured soy or vegetable protein TSP/TVP. Soy would be better because the protein is complete, not sure about TVP.
It's hard to get a better deal than this in protein price.

[Anonymous No.5691525]

Rice and beans.

Rice is under $0.5/lb, dry beans are about a buck/lb