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べっ別にいいじゃない

drink 3rd word cola?

Join the military.

Don't drink soda that shit just makes you fat, cook all your meals and steal internet from neighbors.

>>8357449
Not that much cheaper it's 2$

>>8357453

This guy is right. Although, I am terrible at saving money so I have no ideas of my own. Make more money has always been my solution.

Move to a 4th world country.

>>8357454
Country has no Military.

Hint : It's Macedonia.

>>8357474
change your name to Phillip and conquer it.

>>8357474
>Macedonia

eat only 1 time for day

then you will become rich

>>8357486
Yes.
>>8357497
Heh... so funneh.

>>8357497
I eat only once per day and I still have no money, this isn't a very valid tactic.

>Country has no Military.

>Hint : It's Macedonia.

I love the mix of warsaw pact and NATO weapons they use. Hind Helicopters and M4 carbines. Yugo built AKMs and HMMWVs.

>>8357521
Drink tap water, why are you buying soda in the first place

>>8357521
you still have more money than if you'd eat 3 square meals a day.

>>8357533
Sorry but I'm not the original poster. I also drink only tapwater, was just saying that the cost of meals is very low compared to everything else.

>Coke
That is just dumb.
Why dont you just drink water?
Cheap food recommendation
Rice
Egg
Bread
Noodles

Buy a large water filter, drink mixes, and a good sports drink bottle preferably with those metal balls for mixing. Propel Raspberry Lemonade is my favorite by far.

As for food, buy dehydrated stuff.

Invest in a rice cooker.
If you live near a coastline, buy your meat at a fishmarket for cheap.

I spend less than $100 a month on food and I eat very well.

Don't buy soda, that is disgusting.

If you don't do hard labor and stay indoors all day, just breakfast and dinner should be fine. that works for me anyways.

>>8357555
is dehydrated food cheap? seems like it would be expensive compared to cooking your own meals

>>8357551
This.
Bread for breakfast, and rice or noddles with eggs is a nice and cheap diet. Don't buy fast food and buy vegetables to do other stuff, they are cheap and healthy

>>835756
It depends, technically rice is dehydrated food and you can obviously use that to cook meals. The main reason is that it's compact and weighs less and therefore costs less to stock and transport.

but food is cheap

>>8357579
Yeah sorry, that is not food.
If you're gonna eat that shit, at least go somewhere decent like Jack in the Box.

>>8357444
2,5$?
I can buy 2 liters of the cheap one for 0,20€ in Lidl

>>8357579
Enjoy your growth hormone-induced cancer. That meat is full of it.

>>8357551

>Bread

Cheap "bread" is refined shit and has all the wheat germ and bran removed. Traditionally this caused malnourishment but the government made them add Folic acid and thiamine so poor people would stop dying from eating it.

White bread is 100 times worse than Coke. The old saying "the whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead" is very true.

Real bread is up to 5X as expensive as that wonderbread shit, but it doesn't cause you to become morbidly obese and battle with type II diabetes for the remainder of your days.

(also look out for cheap multigrain bread. This shit is just white bread with food coloring and a few other additives to make it "look healthier". False advertising with bread is rampant, and as long as it has enriched flour it is just as hazardous to your health)

breadmakesyoufat.jpg

Semen.

>>8357444
>Saving money general. Share your tips.

Contribute the maximum to your 401k plan. Have your employer deduct your contribution automatically from your paycheque. That way you don't need to think about your budget, but can still save money.

>>8357610
Sorry, but in my country we only have real bread, the kind that you have to mix water and flour and then put in a oven and what not. I'm talking about that bread

>>8357596

>the cheap one
>Lidl

I'm poor and I don't stoop that low.

>>8357640
OP here. I have no fucking idea what you're talking about...

In Macedonia your pay is calculated, then whatever part goes to the government you get the rest. There is no option of playing social and whatnot separately. There is no OTHER medical insurance or whatnot...

>>8357444
Stop buying snacks like flavored sugary water. Stop buying games, anime, figures, and other things.

Live a simple and virtuous life, and you will have more money than you need.

>>8357610
> White bread is 100 times worse than Coke
implying you can get get diabetes bread everywhere in a third world country

>>8357610
So how do you know what a healthy bread is?

In England, I buy brown bread. But I never investigate it much more than "white is bad, brown is good". What other information is relevant? How can we make a shrewd decision?

>>8357651
Yeah, but only because you don't need anything.

>>8357610
2012, still not buying whole wheat bread?
Are they people still doing this?
I dont know which country you are living in but the price difference is almost negligible.

>>8357651
What's the point of saving money if you are not going to buy the things you like. Don't be jew please.

>>8357644

Ohh good.. so the American food standards haven't spread there yet?

-Replace all sugar with low cost HFCS

-Replace all grain products with refined white flour with all nutrition removed and then bleach the fuck out of it.

Generally speaking, unless a product is a raw uncooked vegetable, there is pretty much a 100% chance that it has corn syrup in it.

Pic related, you can actually see the exact year where the corn lobby won and all processed food sold in America switched over to to less expensive HFCS. The corn lobby has been keeping the healthier cane/beat sugar sources out of the American market since 1977.

>>8357747
Save it, invest, make more money?

Or save and buy a car or apartment or whatver.

>>8357756
>Replace all grain products with refined white flour with all nutrition removed
dude grains aren't nutritious to begin with
enjoy your phytic acid

whole wheat bread tastes like shit

>>8357732

>I dont know which country you are living in but the price difference is almost negligible.

If you are in north America, "whole wheat bread" aka brown bread is just a marketing term. Most brands like wonderbread offer a brown "wholewheat bread" but it is not wholegrain. it is just white bread with additives. They do this for marketing reasons to pretend their product is healthier.

White bread: $1.50/loaf
"Whole Wheat bread": $1.50/loaf
Wholegrain bread: $4.50/loaf

>>8357756

>>8357777
That's like trying to eat an apple after a pound of chocolate bars.

Stop eating crap, seriously.
After you remove the bullshit from your system, you can ACTUALLY taste food, real food.

TRUFAX, bro.

>>8357474

>mfw Macedonia always sounded like a made up country

>>8357756
i'm not disagreeing but that's a pretty skewed graph. Any reason the largest growth segment was condensed to one time period?
>1960
>1971
>1980
>2001
>2009
>2020
intevals don't seem linear bro

Pretty much you'll want fruit, vegetables, rice, and beans. Depends on local pricing of course, but if you got the water and heat you can live off just these pretty well. No canned junk either. You'll be cooking all of these or eating them raw.

Of course, you'll want to supplement with meat when you can. Keep your eyes open for bargains. Local places may have better prices that corporate ones in your area or vice versa.

i don't buy bread at all and just stay with rice and potatos. it's way better.

So, I always wondered. How exactly is diet soda unhealthy or fattening. Hypothetically speaking could one be unhealthy if he ate nothing but fish, rice and vegetables, but drank a ton of soda every day?

>>8357836
are you brain dead or something? have you ever read the ingredients label for soda? diet soda is pretty much the same except with sugar substitutes which have proven to cause autism and other problems. drinking soda should be like drinking beer -- in small amounts, it cool, but if you're drinking 2 liters or more per day, you're gonna have issues.

>>8357810
That chart is kind of off, but not too far from the mark. The CDC reports that 33.8% of adults in America are obese.

You can see a little animation of the US getting fatter and fatter from 1985 to 2010 on their site here:
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html

>>8357844

/jp/ is known to cause autism as well.

But what exactly is fattening about it it has no sugar, carbs, about the only thing it has is sodium.

BROWN Rice & Beans, niggers, rice and beans.
Got all your protein and shit, cheap as hell.
Add fresh veggies, fruits, and fish/eggs/good meat, you will live forever.

>>8357832

10 lb. bag of raw potatoes here costs $3 at my local supermarket
2 lb. bag of seasoned french fries costs $1 at the 99 Cent Only Store
5 lb. bag of rice costs $1 at the 99 Cent Only Store

Not to mention the other countless good deals at Costco

U jelly?

Is water free in Macedonia?

Get yourself a bunch of brown rice, and peanut butter.

Seriously, that's all you need is brown rice, peanut butter, and water.

Shit, do they even have peanut butter in Macedonia?

>>8357871
Remember to eat the SKINs, that where all the nutrients are, and tasty too.

>>8357854

SUGAR SUBSTITUTE you retard. the sugar substitute only has half as many calories as regular sugar, but if you're drinking 2 liters of diet soda, that's still 1 liter of regular soda per day. so instead of being 400 lb whale, you'll be a 300 lb whale.

>>8357871
what about ramen?

>>8357883

8 for $1

12 for $1 on certain Fridays

>>8357879
>>8357844
>>8357836
Oh god, Diet Soda is my ONLY vice.
I've quit drinking, smoking and eating junk food and such.
I know it bad for me, butI can't stop... also fat...

We got any other ideas to save money besides food?

Like lower electricity costs.
I heard unplugging your stuff when you aren't using it will lower your electricity bill, but I never tried it.

Tap-water, rice, final destination

>>8357810

here is a better one.

There were always overweight people who ate too much. The difference in 1977-1978 was that "normal" people were not eating any more, they were just eating the wrong things.

Obesity hit the lower class very hard in the late 70s and early 80s. Virtually all cheap food became processed food, and all processed food became corn syrup based. They used to be able to live off junkfood without becoming obese, but junkfood changed.

The body processes HFCS differently than other sugars. People were eating the same and exercising the same as they were in 1985 as they were in 1975, but they were mysteriously gaining weight uncontrollably. It wasn't videogames or cable televison that did this...

tl;dr

Don't eat processed food and excercise more to avoid these health hazards.

>>8357891
It's not a lot, but yeah, devices do draw small amounts of power while not in use. You should unplug things like TV's and phone chargers when you're not using them, don't like your computer idle, turn off lights you aren't using, etc.

>>8357888

I fucking love Coke Zero

I tried to quit but I can't, I don't even drink regular soda, it's too sweet. But Coke Zero is my mistress.

>>8357883
>>8357886
>INstant Ramen
It's liquid shit.
Like drinking McDs.
Empty calories.

>>8357911
>BROFIST
Pepsi Max taste like shit.

>>8357474

There's no country with the name Macedonia, it's a prefecture in Greece. Maybe you mean Former Yugoslavic Republic of Macedonia?

>>8357915
Calories are calories. You eat them and stay alive. Good enough for me.

>this thread

All you people drinking soda, be it diet or regular need to switch over to tea.

I drank 3 cans of diet dr pepper for years before I finally switched over to tea and it's great. It's nice to be drinking something hot instead of cold, and its way healthier for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el02EHxRoZg&feature=player_embedded

I got one of these things for like 15 bucks. You probably want to go get some shitty tea in a bag. DONT. Loose-leaf tea is way cheaper and there are way more types. There are way more types and flavors of tea thn there are sodas and some teas taste fruity so if you were drinking citrussy sodas you can easily move over. This little teapot thing makes it so easy to make good loose-leaf tea. Don;t even waste your money on infusion balls. The great thing about the Ingenuitea is that its clean and allows you to use the same leaves for multiple cups of tea.

You are also probably addicted to the caffiene. Go on amazon and look for a pound of guyausa. It's like 15 bucks for a pound and a pound of tea is a fucking ton. Its this weird bush that grows in like south america and has a really mild taste and lots of caffeine, but unlike soda it has TONS of antioxidants. Then you can move onto drinking green tea and specialized black teas. Earl grey is my personal favorite. They even make green Earl Grey.

Adding milk to tea ruins the antioxidants, so try to wean yourself off of adding milk and just add honey. ONLY BREW YOUR TEA FOR LIKE 2 MINUTES or you will get a gross bitter cup of shit you will throw out.

You really don't have an excuse to keep drinking soda in this day and age.

Coke is about the same price here and I live in the UK

>>8358198
>implying the uk isnt a third world country
im quoting THE TRUTH noob

>>8357747
Enjoy being a poorfag when you're old.

Did I just stumble into /fit/?

One of the perks of living in the third world is that Coke has sugar in it. And I have a market close by to eat cheap stuff.

remember how tea tastes like garbage

remember how water is free

remember how water is the #1 healthiest bevaerage ever of all time

remember when you should all be drinking water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM#t=16s

>>8357682
>Yeah, but only because you don't need anything.

Exactly.

After you stop buying things, you will find that you are no less happy than you were before. It's just a habit.

>>8358159
>gauyasa
>We're proud to be the ONLY distributor in the UK selling this wonderful herb.
>http://www.divineshaman.com/guayusa-18-c.asp
>£6.99 for 50 grams

wat.jpg

Fucking UK prices...

>>8358255

dont bully tea

>>8357836
Diet soda tastes like shit. If you're going to drink soda, you might as well drink the real thing.

How can I save money when I don't have get any?

>>8358264
Do people in UK have Amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/Runa-Amazon-Guayusa-Tea-Peppermint/dp/B004GINST2/ref=pd_sim_sbs_gro_3

The straight herb is sold out right now, but they still have the mixed stuff available. Theres a couple different flavors like peppermint and chai and something else.

I first tasted it when I ordered from Stash and they sent me some for free for being a loyal customer, but their prices are so damn expensive. Amazon is my favorite place to get tea now.

Also, search for Davidson's loose leaf on Amazon. You can get a pound for like 5-6 bucks cheaper than you can get it on their actual website.

I am drinking a cup of straight guayusa right now. I steeped it for like 8 minutes and it still isn't bitter. It makes a very dark green tea, almost colored black if you let it steep for so long. I don;t know about the versions of it with other flavors mixed in. The other stuff they add might make it bitter I don't know. I just bought the plain stuff so if I wanted I could mix it with my other teas.

>>8358259 knows what he's talking about.
We humans don't really *need* anything more than food, water, clothes and paying bills/taxes. Anything else are just luxuries, and it's okay to have them but if you think they're necessities and have to spend your remaining money on them (like most people do) then you're going the wrong way.

Keep what you need for food and put more into your bank account than what you take out of it. Try to have a good diet, because paying a little bit more per meal for a healthy one is a lot cheaper than seeing the doctor.

Coupons. Stock up on a shit ton of coupons, pay attention to when the expire and use them to your advantage. You will save a shit ton of money. If you really get into it, you will get to the point where you may little to nothing for hundreds of dollars worth of groceries.

>>8358301
We need sex according to this colorful triangle.

You jelly and butthurt, /jp/ers?

>>8358337
Masturbation can take care of that. You won't die if you don't get laid.

>>8358337
I can't believe it's not real science!

>>8358311
Coupons are for old ladies, welfare moms and niggers.
A healthy white male using coupons might as well cut off his balls and suck cock for crack.

>>8358350
I guess I'll enjoy having money then.

>>8358342
Masturbation doesn't cover sexual intimacy. Only sex, which is basic.
You won't die if you don't have a lot of things, but you also won't be happy. This is just how human psyche works.

>>8358337
>family

>>8358337
Triangle of the normals

>>8358366
Hey, man, you can use them w/o shame, good on you, champ.
I'd rather have dignity & spend the extra/

Drink water and tea. Eat rice, muesli, and unprocessed grain products. If you can afford it splurge on things like milk, carrots, beans, tuna, onions, tomatoes, and eggs. As far as food goes $100 should last you about a year in most economically stable countries.

Find someone you can trust, like you mom; ask a bank for a huge loan; buy cheap land off the city and build a house; buy solar panels and a rainwater collection system; give everything you have to that person you trust; declare bankruptcy; if you don't "own" anything they can't take anything from you; wait a few years; get your stuff back; ???; profit.

>>8358417
I normally eat lots of rice but even it isn't *that* cheap, it would be 250-300/year min, and that's really pushing it (1 meal/day, or less)
(USA)

>>8358638
$5 for 4kg.

>>8358632
>mfw white kids still think they are primitive hunter gathers wannabe and live in "nature."
First World Fantasies

>>8358822
HOLY SHIT you posted a picture of someone who looks like Christian BAle in American Psycho and YOU GOT DOUBLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>8358834
>not saging

>>8358844
sorry i forgot
WHOP ARE YOU QUOTINg?

>>8358844
nokosage

>>8358834
>Christian BAle
It's him in Flowers in War
>WW2
>Nanjing Massacre
JP related, lulz.

Bread is cheap in America if you aren't stupid.

I get day old bread from local bakeries for free. It's not even hard or stale.

Entire loaves just for the taking. Some places charge a dollar for an entire loaf. That's cheap and good.

>>8358778
Where? I've *never* seen it <$1/lb, even online.

>>8358897
you can bake your own bread it's fun and inexpensive!

just eat out everyday it's less tiresome though, seriously

>>8358880
>Fake of Nanking

>>8360170
>Jap detected

>>8360193
Wrong. I'm fairly certain none of my ancestors ever even had a thought to visit Japan. I just think it's painfully obvious the chinks manufactured their own Holohoax and the Japanese didn't fall for that guilt trip like White people did for the lies of the Jews.

>>8360210
Sup woxapologist?

Ideally, you can supplement your food with things you grow. A herb garden takes up little to no room, you can even have one in your apartment in windows or your balcony. A cheap way to make your cheap food taste better. You can also grow potatoes, peppers, and tomatoes like this, in little pots inside. You won't be able to live off of it alone, but it helps.

I live in the midwest, so fish are actually rather expensive and I never really got a taste for them, so I can't really say anything about that. Maybe you could try fishing yourself, cut out the middleman? On that note, hunting is a great way to supplement your diet with very cheap meat. You need a car for this though.

I forget what they're called, but there are places near hunting grounds that will cut up your meat, and make sure it's a legal kill. Sometimes people will sell their kill to these places and you can buy the butchered meat super cheap, without having to go out and kill anything yourself.

Gas utilities usually have a minimum fee, so even if you do use it once you'll get a $25 charge. Most cheap apartments are steam heated, which also means the pipes won't freeze. This means you can save yourself an extra fee, if you just have your gas turned off.

Electricity is another huge sink. If you've got nearly no perishable food, your giant empty refrigerator is costing you out the ass, especially if it's an ancient model that came free with your place. Unplug that thing and get a tiny CONDENSER (this is important, they cost more, but they actually function right) mini fridge. Most lights and fans cost maybe $0.25 to run a day, so those won't really kill you. Your computer will. Mine is about $30 a month on it's own. The answer to this is a netbook. Use your desktop computer only for intensive things and only for short whiles, and then leave it unplugged. Use a low power netbook for browsing /jp/ and stuff. TVs and stereos are the same, huge money sinks to have running more than occasional.

This right here is fucking delicious.
The bread is myon as hell, the softest bread I ever tasted.
All for 150yen.

You're lucky you don't live in the US, OP. Our "tap" water is just sewage water with hormones and fluoride added. Our food is just about as safe and healthy. Anything that hasn't been injected with hormones and death is rarely on shelves and when it is, it's at 400% markup.

The government and corporations poison us, and then bitch at us for drying or being fat.

Number 1 tip for saving money on anything.

Never pay someone for something you can do yourself.

Anything you can do or make yourself will always be cheaper.

>>8360282
That, and cooked food is cheaper than that fast food shit

>>8360237
What are you talking about?

>>8360355
Its tastier too (Okay, not at first, but you'll get better).

My personal suggestion: learn to make roux right. You can do anything with it. Serve it on chicken. Add some cheese to it for some mac & cheese when you're watching the nephew. etc.