Another one of these. How to eat good, with flavor, as a poor person.
scrambled egg and toast with some cheap ketchup or a1(brown) sauce
>>20976112A bullet to the back of your throat would do the trick.
>How to eat goodWhole chickens, ground beef, most cuts of porkEggs (especially if youre really hurting)Rice, potatoes, and oats (they can be savory not just sweet)Vegetables and some fruits are always cheap for how much you get, you can also get organic ones and scan them as regular at self checkouts>with flavorCheap chicken boullon powder, lao gan ma, hot sauce, spices from mexican and chinese stores, lemons and vinegar for acidity, good technique
>>20976116wouldnt that be abit hard to swallow and is a bullet really that nutritious?
>>20976112Make big decent meals, and then eat leftovers for several days.This week I bought a Chuck roast, probably 3.5lbs @$5 a lb.Slow cook it in the crock pot, add some potatoes and carrots. Whatever else you need.Its like $20, but for a foreveralone thats enough beef for 3 or 4 meals if you portion it right.Eat it as pot roast, reheat and add italian seasoning for a pulled beef sandwhich. Throw over some egg noodles and made beef and noodle soup. Chuck just tastes so fucking good
>>20976114scrambled eggs rule. eggs are super cheap and i toss in some left over whatevers or some veggies i need to use up.Guys....utilize your local food bank/pantry. They are there to help you struggling. The place i go...i get a shit ton of food once a month...then they have this "spill off" section where you can go every day they are open..free food. bananas,bread, fresh produce..
just making food at home is so cheap I don't understand how anyone is poor todayI was poor as shit from like 2009-2015 but everyone is rich now
>>20976127pork butt goes on sale for like $1.50lb, you can do the same thing and have 6 pounds of pulled pork for almost no money.
>>20976135yeah, great point. just cook at home.You don't understand? how
>>20976138yes! pork butt is great. Also utilize Sam's club or whatever else they are called...chicken is MAD cheap there
>>20976142well i meant to say their chicken theigh is like 7-8 dollars for full ..thing of it..sorry i didnt weigh it... but then you also have the bones to make stock with
Depends on what you have access to.What, objectively do you need to eat? Vegetables.
>>20976126Try it and post results queerbo.
>>20976165i have a replica bullet, will that work ?
>>20976166Only if it results in you never responding again.
>>20976172i dont think there would be any complications a week or two
>>20976112you guys need to state what you have to cook withwhen I read these threads I think what's good that you can cook with a hot plate. But a lot of people mean it as like a shut-in with no money, but you still have your parent's oven or something which changes everything
Good food isn't expensive, it's just labour intensive. If you're poor and have time to cook, that means you're not serious about not being poor.
>>20977349>Good food isn't expensiveYes it is, raw goods arent cheap and in many cases its about the same price as eating out now.Its unironically cheaper to go eat a Sirloin at Logans with a 2 sides than it costs to buy just the raw sirloin at the store.Many such cases!SAD!
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>>20977362We're talking about poverty cooking, not sirloin you faggot.
>>20977564Poverty cooking is inherently shit ingredients
>>20977566Sirloin steaks are inherently not shit ingredients.
>>20976112Lawry's
>>20976132I don’t get it. Can anyone just go there and get food? Why wouldn’t everyone just do it?
>>20976112>How to eat good, with flavor, as a poor person.so 2 options>option 1just earn moreget education or search for jobs where you can get promoted within 1-3years>options 2go to your library and read basic cooking science books like>salt, fat, acid, heat - samin nosrat>the food lab - kenji lopez-alt>on food and cooking - harold mcgeeyour food probably tastes like shit because you don't balance out saltiness, bitterness, sweetness, sourness and umamibasic staples are cheapand so are essential ingredients for each taste
I like that cat, OP. Anyways, the answer is potatoes. Of any type, but I prefer the yellow ones for most cases. There are many dishes to be made with the potato, you see.It makes for an excellent side if you find yourself with a protein that you would like to stretch out.But a humble potato is also quite filling even alone.I will post some potato dishes now.
>>20978688>Can anyone just go there and get food?No.>Why wouldn’t everyone just do it?Because they can't.
>>20979308Firstly, in conjunction with aforementioned eggs.I think this is called country club casserole. I don't know if that's a specific type or not, though.Eggs, beaten. (Optional) Cream or MilkPar-boiled potatoes, cubed into bite-size chunks. Hash browns would also be fine!Bread, torn into chunks. Baking your own or buying those 49 cent clearance loafs from the store is cheapest.(Optional) Cottage Cheese. I've only ever used medium or small curd.(Optional) Meat of your choosing. Bacon and sausage are of course preferable.(Optional) Cheese.And whatever spices you like with your eggs.Mix eggs with cream or milk if you have the desire to stretch out your supply. Add spices as desired. Add cheese, meat, or cottage cheese. Cottage cheese melts slightly and softens the overall texture, so be aware of that!Grease the dish (if you made bacon or sausage, this is a great use of the drippings!)Add bread to the dish, and then slowly pour the egg mixture over it, so as to ensure the bread is properly soaked.Throw the potatoes around in a salt and pepper mixture and then add those to the dish as well.Baking time depends on how much you've made, but I generally do 350 for roughly an hour. If a toothpick or fork poked in the middle comes out clean, it's done.I've successfully frozen it before, but I usually make enough to last 3 to 4 days, so I don't need to. A block reheats nicely with some hot sauce and cheese atop, or some ground chili powder.
>>20976112Another cat?
>>20976126Most of the posters here are suffering from severe intracranial lead deficiency.
>>20979719Cats are cute. People like cute stuff
>>20976112SEASONINGSChicken cube or powder and any similar products
>>20979727Well yeah but I wouldn't eat it.
>>20976116Cat cuck.
Anyone remember that cooking channel on YouTube with that guy whose kitchen was disgusting, he’d clean dishes in the bathroom, do dumb shit like try to clean off bacteria with a lighter. He would go on rants that were very entertaining and I’d like to rewatch some of those vids. I’ve seen him mentioned on ck a decade ago. Ringing any bells? I believe the name starts an M
>>20979719Cats are a piece of heaven here on this God forsaken earth.
>>20979829Whay a beauty. Have my handsome boy.
>>20979850How stoic. Would pet.
>>20979808That’s the toxoplasmosis talking
>>20977349>Good food isn't expensiveany kind of meat is expensivesame with most vegetablesyou can get 1kg of pasta for less than 1 buck and it has 3000kcal1kg of any kind of meat costs over 10 bux and that has less caloriesvegetables are way worseif you're spending more than 5 bux a day on food then you're not poverty cooking
>>20976112These threads are lame if you’re counting pennies, because it’s always the same rice and bean shit and prices vary too much anyway. Bread, pasta, instant mashed potatos and noodles, jarred sauce, eggs, pork, chicken, beef are all cheap. Hell, you could get a real ribeye, make cheesesteaks and still hardly get over $5 per meal. Food is only expensive if you eat out or follow elaborate recipes. Just keep it simple. Crock pots are also great for cheap hunks of meat.
>>20979829Suddenly you realize there are two of them.
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>>20979360More taters plz
>>20978688I think you gotta be a member and like volunteer hours, it’s like communal socialist larping that I personally would never want to do. Good for people who do though, I guess.
>>20979850>>20979829>>20979308CUTE!
>>20976112Spice rack and fat
>>20976112UK based here.Sauces, stock cubes and condiments are your friends.Stews, Soups etc, are largely a waste of time, and the end result doesn't taste "that" good. Nevermind because you've overcooked a lot of the ingredients and the lack of fats, your body will digest it in no time and you'll feel hungry again soon after. Ramen is easy to add to and is cheap/quick compared to stew/soups for the same outcome. 25% fat minced meat (beef) is cheapest meat you'll typically find in a supermarket, don't drain that fat, try and keep it within your meal/batch cooks. Fat contains a fair bit of the flavor, it'll coat the other ingredients and therefore take longer to digest making you feel fuller for longer. Buy large parts of cooking bacon over rashers/back bacon in 300g packs. Always cheaper and although it might end up a bit mishapen and not uniform, bacons bacon at the end of the day in a sandwich or meal. Buy bricks of lard/beef dripping instead of using vegetable oil in cooking/frying. It'll taste better and be healthier. Buy strong mature cheddar over a mild, you can use a little less of it and still get a good cheesy flavor. Frozen vegetables are almost no different to fresh.Joints of meat with bones in are largely a rippoff. Deli cooked chicken, pork etc can be the same price gram per gram as raw chicken/pork. Benefit is because that deli cooked meat is precooked, you're getting more meat to the gram because their cooking has reduced much of the water content already. Deli cooked chicken is pretty bland here though, however, bit of lard, and fry it for a few minutes to give the edges a nice golden brown, massively improves the flavor.Frozen pizzas can suck on the cheap end, but a sprinkle of italian herbs, splash of Worchester sauce and sprinkle of dried parmesan can make all the difference. Buy a "proper" rice cooker, will cook rice properly, quickly and cheaply, and often you can put some extras like veggies in with it.
>>20981319this awful advice is the essence of Br*t*sh cooking at all levels of their horrid society. ie bacon, lard and deep fried/frozen shit
>>20980886Here's the big boy's sister, actual siblings.
>>20976125I would add using bell peppers to things as well. I can't tell you how many simple meat & onion dishes are made better with using green bell pepper as an additional aromatic.
>>20976112i've been shilling olive oil(roman elite food) with spaghetti (around 1$) recently, boiled in bottled water not tap
>>20976112When I was living paycheck to paycheck, I got packs of these and whatever relatively cheap meat I could, mad a big pot, mixed in the meat and some extra spices, and just lived off it for a few days at a time before making another batch.
>>20976112Are you poor with or without a lot of free time?
>>20978688>Can anyone just go there and get food?Pretty much, though some require membership to whatever parent org is running it>Why wouldn’t everyone just do it?Depending on where you are, they do.We used to live in a high trust society where they were only used by the needy. Then, scum like THIS started abusing it and food banks are starting to shut down. https://youtube.com/shorts/xz1KFDq1LkY?si=Mwhtdzb_QcHjEkzV
>>20976132>Guys....utilize your local food bank/pantryThis. Salvation Army kept me from becoming homeless with their help when my company stopped calling me into work for almost 4 months without explaination. They even gave me a temp job ringing christmas bells for $20/hr and put me in touch with a local rent assistance group
>>20976112Get a job you fucking loser. A good one. No, it’s not hard. Congrats now you don’t have to bitch on the internet about being a poor worthless piece of shit anymore.Btw, you don’t get to enjoy food while poor. You get to enjoy it when you can afford it. Eat chicken and rice until you make better decisions.
>>20982738unemployment jumped up 4% here in the last 4 months alone...
>>20982738Rothschild over here thinks poors can afford chicken
>>20980664Get a job lil bro.
>>20982738>chicken and riceDude that's a splurge meal like once a week if you're poor. You're so out of touch it's not even funny.And yes, people work 40 hours a week then after rent, gas, bills, insurance etc. they only get like $30 a week to spend on food.
>>20984150Shit really do be expensive these days. How tf does everything at the store cost twice as much, all of the rents within 50 miles go up by double or even triple, then wages only go up by $1 or $2. I haven't bought new clothes in like 2 years. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
>>20978707>go to your library>not go to libgenboomer advice
>>20979734>anon confirmed not coming from melmac
My refried beans and Spanish rice will last me like a week. To cut costs further, I will make my own tortillas with salt, flour and a little bit of lard. All in all, the week's worth of meals for like $4.
>>20984150Brother a 20lb bag of rice is $20 for nice rice. That's like a zilllion meals. Whatever you have left over with that just get the cheapest protein you can find locally.
>>20981810Anything that calls for bell pepper is better with Pepperoncinis, the god emperor of all peppers
The easiest way to enrich any meal is to make a pan sauce/gravy, and pretty much anything that leaves fond in your pan can be deglazed and turned into a pan sauce. I don't see much difference between using cooking wine to deglaze, or stock, so I just use stock because it's cheaper. Which brings me around to making stock: save your vegetable and meat scraps, boil them in a pot, strain and freeze the excess. You don't have to make soup all the time, so many sauces and things of that nature can be easily made with a splash of stock, and this is also something that gives depth and richness to "vegetarian" dishes, so if you're eating stewed lentils one night, you're still getting some meat nutrition and flavor in your shitty poverty meal, which makes it suck less.I'm in such a great place financially, these days, but I was always dirt poor and these are the tricks I learned, and still use and still save money on food.
>>20976125>porkgross and haram
>>20981319>Soup bad!>Soup Japan good!It just keeps happening
>>20982695Don't listen to this retard.Instant soup mixes like this are not cost effective.
>>20985774i didnt suggest making ramen from scratch did i? , Its cheap, ready prepared, and easy to add to.Stews, soups etc, retards suggest you make yourself, slaving over a stove or using a slow cooker, and for the effort and expense, "taste" result ain't worth it.
>>20979806Masoakis
>>20976112ham, turkey, roast beef goes on sales throughout the year. after easter is the cheapest ham usually, put that in the freezer, cook it alongside your potatoes and eggs and other reasonably cheap food, and it adds a lot flavor. Add some hot sauce, chop up onions or peppers, have some sauerkraut with the potatoes, tasty and healthyIf you're that bothered by the nitrates, pork is usually cheap if you buy it at the restaurant center costcos(basically normal prices at normal costcos usually, I mean the ones that sell whole pork loins and entire pigs)
>>20985774What's it like living every day of your life enraged that a superior country to your slophole actually exists?
>>20976112Idk because chicken is expensive nowEggs are expensive nowAnd even some ingredients to make your food great is also kinda expensive nowYou could substitute and eat more rice, less chicken/meat/eggs but it won't have the same amount of flavor either
>>20987936Eat more pork. It's good meat and very cheap.
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