/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6760102]

What are some easy affordable meals a poor college student can make?

[Anonymous No.6760105]

>>6760102
Sticky when?

[Anonymous No.6760118]

whole wheat thing mixed with egg

filling and nutritious as fuck

i'm talking cook a serving of oats, brown rice or whole wheat pasta and stir in an egg or two at the end + seasonings

[Anonymous No.6760120]

>>6760118

whole grain* my bad

[Anonymous No.6760124]

>>6760105
We'll get a sticky when I write the anti-sticky, as that will get stickied to explain why we don't have a sticky.

It's existence will be an affront to itself, but alas, it is a necessary sacrifice.

[Anonymous No.6760203]

>>6760102
Bread with cheese.

[Anonymous No.6760205]

>>6760102
>white rice
>kidney beans
>red onion
>chicken (thigh or breast, I prefer thigh but it's really just preference)

>cook beans and onion together
>mix with rice
>add cooked chicken

You can cut up the chicken if you want, I do. I toss in some seaweed wraps (look in the Asian section at your grocery store) for some added flavor. I'll add a hardboiled egg if I really need protein, too, and some soy sauce because why not.

The single greatest tool for a college student is a George Forman grill, btw. 5 minutes with some chicken and steamable frozen veggies and you have a decent meal.

[Anonymous No.6760256]

>>6760102
a bowl of your own semen

use some common sense and ingenuity.

[Anonymous No.6760266]

>>6760124
Sticky that quote

[Anonymous No.6760287]

Whole chickens, average sized, 2 ($10)

Remove necks and organ bags and reserve.
Cut out spines with shears and reserve.
Cut off wingtips with shears and reserve.
Trim all fat and reserve.
Remove leg quarters from carcass.
Remove drums from thighs.
Remove skins from thighs and breasts and reserve.
Remove bones from thighs and reserve.
Remove breasts from ribs and reserve.
You now have about 1lb/450g of boneless thigh, 2lbs/900g of boneless breast, 2lbs/900g of wings and drums for frying, 1⅓lb/600g of skin and fat, 2¼lbs/1000g of bones and 1lb/450g of giblets.

Use the bones for 1 litre/quart of stock, that's four portions.
Render the skin for about 1 cup of cooking grease as well as two portions of chicken skin snacks.
There is enough meat for eighteen, reasonably-sized portions.
Mince up the giblets, toss with tenderiser powder, allow to dry-marinate a bit, cook in chicken grease (or butter) with minced onion and finish off by simmering in chicken stock or cream then blitz into a smooth paste and season to taste for paté. Makes eight portions.

All for $10 and a little work. It sounds like a lot to do, but it's surprisingly less labour intensive than you might think.

[Anonymous No.6760312]

go to costco. stock up on $4.99 rotisserie chickens, rice, vitamin supplements, and free samples

[Anonymous No.6760319]

>>6760312
are you some kind of sage?

[Anonymous No.6760328]

>>6760102
Alway, always, always buy food in bulk.

[Anonymous No.6760334]

>>6760319
no but i shop there a lot and see old asian women, you know the ones who collect bottles and cans, pushing an empty shopping cart eating all the free samples they can.

[Anonymous No.6760350]

>>6760334
>ywn be an old asian lady
The ones in my area also collect ginkgo nuts and wild mushrooms from city parks. They also unashamedly pick fruit from other peoples' trees if said tree happens to grow over and beyond the property's fences.

I might be an immigrant with no sense of shame when it comes to scouting a good deal, but I will never be as, for lack of a more on-the-nose word, thrifty as an old Asian lady.

Truly, the only group of people who can outjew a Jew.

[Anonymous No.6760359]

bro, i can live off the 99c store

you can make tuna sandwiches, fried spam is good, chili, spaghetti,... you just not thinking. they have frozen tuna and chicken too so i guess just thaw it and put it the conventional oven... also buy a conventional oven

[Anonymous No.6760377]

>>6760359
Your regular oven, the one that makes a large portion of your stove, is a conventional oven. That's why it's called "conventional."
What you mean is "convection." Which is entirely unnecessary to cook chicken.

[Anonymous No.6760390]

>>6760102

I feed a family of 4 on a budget and this is all cheap, easy stuff I make regularly:

-Fried Rice
-Pasta, spaghetti sauce and meatballs
-Pasta, alfredo sauce and imitation crab
-Chili
-Beans and rice
-Bean burritos
-Any number of egg-based dishes, eggs are super cheap protein, ham and eggs is nice, Egg Foo Yung is a nice curveball
-Giant can of Bush's baked beans and an 8 pack of hot dogs, cut up the hot dogs, mix with beans, nuke for 10 minutes with 1100 watt microwave (adjust for wattage)

Learn how to cook whole chickens. Chicken is cheap this way. Freeze what you don't use quickly.

Learn how to cook dried beans. Super cheap protein and fiber. Freeze what you don't use in two days.

How to cook brown rice (preferable to white rice from a health standpoint due to fiber content and being lower on glycemic index; if you make white rice a regular thing in your diet you may get fat), foolproof method: ratio 2/3 cup rice, 1 cup water, bring to boil, reduce to simmer, cover, simmer 25 minutes, do not disturb cover, turn off flame, keep covered still, do not disturb cover even once, let it sit another 10 minutes and it's done.

A simple, cheap, easy meal can consist of rice, a vegetable and a meat. Cheap veggies I like a lot are canned corn and frozen broccoli and cauliflower mix. Again, whole chickens may be your cheapest meat source. Fishsticks are cheap. Most Banquet foods are shit but their chicken patties are good.

[Anonymous No.6760737]

Burgers and hot dogs. The latter are especially cheap. If you can keep your meal costs under $2 per meal, which is a reasonable price for a decent (Marie Callendar's or Stouffer's) frozen meal, then you're doing good money wise.

[Anonymous No.6760784]

>>6760350
My mom takes the blankets provided on flights
> "but i paid so much for the flight!"

[Anonymous No.6760833]

>>6760784
Is she Asian?

[Anonymous No.6760855]

>rice cooker
>20-30 pounds of rice
>X amount of butter
There, you've got meals for an entire semester up to a year.

[Anonymous No.6760869]

>>6760350
I have two apple trees on my property. Where can I import some old Asian ladies to pick them clean?

[Anonymous No.6761030]

>>6760869
I'd rather invite some old Asian ladies to get picked clean nah what I'm saying uncle phil?

[Anonymous No.6761373]

>>6760102
beans on toast
eggs on toast
eggs and chips
quescadilla's
grilled cheese's
fried rice
rice n beans
omellette
sandwiches
large bowl of cereal

[Anonymous No.6761391]

With this, the thread could be stickied as-is, because there is other good stuff in here.

Now please, please go away. Please. Sage.

[Anonymous No.6762491]

>>6760102
Leftover rice + frozen vegetables (spinach/broccoli/etc) microwaved + soft-boiled egg

Break the egg and the molten yolk will mix with the rice

[Anonymous No.6762515]

>>6760102
Dal

Practically lived off of it in college. Just make it with red lentils, onions, and your favorite spices.

[Anonymous No.6762518]

Kidney beans and rice

Chickpeas

Tofu

Sardine sammiches

[Anonymous No.6763952]

Buy a box of elbow macaroni (sometimes $1 on sale)
Buy a can of condensed cheddar cheese soup
But a quart of milk

Ok. Boil pasta for about 3 minutes. It's going to be underdone, but that's ok. Drain it. Mix the cheese soup can and milk. Pour the mac into a large casserole dish. Pour the cheese/milk mix over and stir it all together. Bake on 350 degrees until the top turns golden brown and its bubbling.

It gives you a ton of mac and cheese for about 3-4 bucks and it will last you 3-4 days if it's all you eat. Many a-time it has been my crutch.

[Anonymous No.6764011]

>>6760390
an actual helpful post, didn't see that coming

[Anonymous No.6764015]

>>6762515
this, do it with chickpeas, beans whatever you want. Also you can do it with roasted eggplants to make eggplant curry. I make a shit load of this and put em in the freezer. Ingreds are cheap and just use tinned tomatoes for the base

[Anonymous No.6764029]

>>6762515
Is that your own pic? Looks a bit dry. Could use a bit more butter/ghee in the tempering and a splash more water.

[Anonymous No.6764037]

>>6760105
this is just a meme now
all the janitors are laughing at your shit posts
no one cares

[Anonymous No.6764063]

>>6760102
Stir fry. Get whatever vegetables are cheap or on sale, add some chicken or ground beef. Cook it all with you favorite sauces and shit. Serve over rice

[Anonymous No.6764081]

>>6764015
honestly, lentils have a higher nutrient density and protein content than other beans at a generally lower price. The only other 'cheaper' bean is pinto which is a bean meant only for a dip

[Anonymous No.6764092]

>>6764037
Fuck off, Joe.

[Anonymous No.6764108]

>>6760350

>They also unashamedly pick fruit from other people's trees

My uncle lives in the middle of a completely white, ridiculously upper class neighborhood and he has a plum tree that is regularly picked clean by the neighborhood residents.

Though I guess that might be because he never tells them off.

[Anonymous No.6764301]

>>6764081
in australia the chickpea has more nutrients for cheaper, but thats because the chickpeas are sourced from canada and chickpeas are local grown (we are major producers of chickpeas)

[Anonymous No.6764317]

>>6760350
I pick my neighbor's plum tree. It hangs over into my garden and I pick the branches that are on my property. According to law here thats fine as long as I offer to give the owners the picked fruit, which I never do because the wasteful cunts don't even eat the fruit on their side.

[Anonymous No.6764471]

>>6764317
See, that's fine. What I mean is, and I know this from decades of first-hand experience, that if you're out in the car with an old Asian lady in there with you and you pass by a fruit tree visible from the road, guaranteed, she'll either pull over (if she's driving) or nag the driver to pull over so she can pick it.

I think the only non-desi Asians that don't do it are Koreans, Japanese and maybe Han Singaporeans. Even Taiwanese do it. Just how it is.

[Anonymous No.6764515]

Butterfly a chicken breast 3 minutes each side then throw in black beans, spinach and some white vinegar and cumin.
Cover to wilt the spinach.
Damn good eating.

[Anonymous No.6764719]

>>6764471
hahaha asians dont give no shits

[Anonymous No.6764730]

>>6760102
Spaghetti and tomato sauce.

[Anonymous No.6764741]

>>6764029
Dal comes in many varieties friend.

[Anonymous No.6764778]

>>6764719
Old Asian ladies really don't.

The only fruit trees around me I never see OALs pick at are fig trees. I guess they either don't like figs or they know old Italian ladies have a similar amount of fucks to give and will yell and attack OALS for picking their fruit.
And it's not just fruit, either.
I used to live above a restaurant that had a few lemon trees in front. It was basically in Little Jakarta because of all the houses on my street, I think only three were occupied by non Indonesian families and those three were Vietnamese or Cambodians. Occasionally, I'd see OALs cross the street to pick at the leaves from the trees in front of the restaurant. While the restaurant is open for business. WIth the owners of the restaurant looking straight at them and giving them the stink eye.
No fucks given. Just harvesting the leaves like they owned the place. OALs got the biggest fucking balls.

[Anonymous No.6764844]

>>6760390
>Bush's sugar beans
>hot dogs
>microwave

I just threw up in my mouth. How can you feed your family such shit?

[Anonymous No.6764853]

[Anonymous No.6764862]

I use budget bytes recipes, they're all really easy

My favorite is the slow cooker taco chicken bowls
http://www.budgetbytes.com/2011/07/taco-chicken-bowls/

Only thing is you might not have the room to save left overs :(

[Anonymous No.6764958]

>>6760205
>bean, onion, rice, chicken, egg, soy sauce and seaweed
>WA LA

[Anonymous No.6765009]

>>6764092
hey man, I just started reading the thread, no need to be a dick

[Anonymous No.6765083]

>>6764092
That's definitely not my name, silly goose.