cheap foods but actual cookingthe humble burrito may be the best food on earth. When im low on cash i just grab some rice, beans, and a tube of chorizo and i have lunch for a few days.protip: after the beans and chorizo are fully cooked mix the beans into the chorizo. mash the beans up a bit so they soak up the grease
>>21944257tuna croquettes. just crack open a can of tuna and mix it with an egg yolk and some bread crumbs, season it with whatever you have, pat some extra breadcrumbs on the surface and pan fry it until it's good. dip in ketchup. complete meal. you can use any canned fish for this, probably even deenz.
>>21944257Sorry, no one cares about the poors or what they eat. This is now just a burrito thread.
>>21944257Fried rice It's the cheapest dish possible and you can put basically anything in it. >wok hei It just means 'overcooked' That's it
>>21944257Bannock or fry breadA great side food to go with any soups or just putting something in the belly
>>21944355this but pouch salmon (tuna is literal catfood)
>>21944719aint nobody got skrilla for pouch salmon
>>21944355I invented these one time. It looked nice, but I wouldn't make it again. I believe that there really isn't anything you can do with a can of tuna to alleviate that "canned tuna-ness", and in my opinion you might as well eat it plain from the can with a fork rather than dilute it and waste ingredients by tainting them with it's essence.
>>21944725oops forgot pic
>>21944371Can I post a doner? In Europe we do not have burritos!
>>21944725Lemon juice spinach and Parmesan cheese dash with pepper just make a salad.
>>21944257i went through a period of being very low on money, the most economical food i found was buying a big pack of frozen nuggies and a big pack of frozen potato wedges and ate that every day. each bag lasted about a week, cost like 8-10 bucks for both bags.
>>21944257When I was poor, "eating out" meant a bean burrito and 2 soft tacos from taco bell. back when taco bell was cheap.
>>21944355Worcestershire sauce, dijon mustard, hot sauce, corn mealAdd these.>>21944257Lately my latest go to cheap food has beenlentil taquitos, and chocolate/cinnamon powdered donuts.And whatever vegetables, fruit, nuts, etcI can find.1lb of lentils is about $1.50 as it isand it makes enough bean mash for about 4 days of taquitos.Also spaghetti.I get a box of pasta for $1 and a jar of saucefor $1.Some pepperoncini peppers $2.50 and somecanola oil. I cook the spaghetti el denteand then fry it in oil for a couple minutesdrain it, spice it, sauce it, pepper it, heat it again slightly in a covered pot to make itsizzle as I prepare to eat.The donuts I just use coconut oil, flour sifted, baking soda, and sugar.Then powdered sugar and either chocolatepowder or cinnamon and shake it up.To avoid bioengineered corn or at least tryI mill popcorn seed I buy in a bag for$2.50.
Donuts like timbits cuz its easy.Also i cut the pepper with scissors
>>21944400Mlahhhhh, ever sick bro.
Made 15 or so servings of lo mein for probably 30 dollars a few weeks ago and it only cost that much because I loaded it up with a lot of chicken. If you're just doing veggie lo mein then you can make just as much for 10 dollars or less, and it's a great recipe for using up veggies that would otherwise go to waste in your fridge.
A pork shoulder and 1-2 bottles of BBQ sauce gives you thousands of calories of meat for $15, maybe $20.
>>21944257Cheap chorizo is commonly made from a mash of pork salivary glands and lymph nodes.
Chicken leg quarters are .79 cents a lb, sometimes as low as .59 a lb. You can split them into thigh/ leg or just cook them whole and eat cheap.
>>21944836>back when taco bell was cheapTake me back to 2002
>>21944865yes and it tastes amazing
>>21944865I still don't know what to do with this stuff. All the neon red fat renders out when you cook it, leaving practically nothing.
>>21945053That's grotesque.Why is that worth it to you?And the animal suffered immensely.
being poor doesn't mean you have to eat with no flavor
>>21945053mash some beans into the chorizo to soak up the grease and add more chorizo flavor to your burrito
>>21945071>nuts onlinewot
>>21945053that is the lowest quality chorizo you can buy. you WILL get a bone fragment and a very chewy piece of cartilage or labia or something in every toob. and it seems like it's more liquid than solid. chorizo is good but dont buy that brand unless you have to.
>>21944396>the cheapest dish possiblenope.that would be an orange.>>21944836why is it so wet?
>>21944257no
>>21945119OP said actual cooking
burritos are tasty and very cheap. I find making a lot of them to be a bit too labor intensive. And freezing them and reheating does not work very well, they always come out of the microwave soggy. Slop pots work best for me.
>>21944257
>>21944371Love me some Americanized Mexican food that's had all the flavor sucked out of it.
>>21944257my favourite breakfast meal is white rice dressed in butter and soy sauce, with 2 runny eggs placed on top
>>21945383that guy's burrito was from a taqueria owned and operated by mexicans. your burrito came from a fast casual money laundering front for a hyperconglomerate of seed oil and dudewipes shareholders
>>21944836>OP specifically mentions actual cooking>anon posts fast foodLearn to read faggot. Getting tired of you cooklets shitting up actually decent threads
>>21944858Excellent looking lo mein. I tried using fresh ramen noodles that I bought the other day to make lo mein and they just weren't as silky as what you have there.
>>21944865This brand is okay in a pinch but I highly recommend getting an actual fresh made chorizo if you're doing a non sloppa dish.
>>21945383tex mex is superior to mexican food. daily reminder
>>21945495hehehe don't care
>>21944858>15 servings for $30are you saying that one pan is 15 servings? this would be like 2 or 3 meals for most of this board. $10 per meal isnt exactly cheap.
>>21944257I used to do this with my chili. Would make a giant batch then find all kinds of different ways to eat it. One was a humble burrito with rice, sauced liberally with my chili. Sometimes I would reheat the chili by Sautée and reduce it a little. Then always let it sit for a while to glue up that tortilla.
>>21944257Chorizo is disgustingUse ground beef instead
>>21944257>tl;dr anon fucks up making brothI had some leftover cooked meat (oven cooked) I didn't wanna throw away, "it'd be a terrible waste" I thought to myself, so I put that meat with water, 2 sliced tomatoes, 2 spoonfuls tomato sauce, parsley, salt, pepper in a pot and let it boil for 1 hour 30 mins with the idea to make some kind of broth. I overdid it on the pepper and that's all I can taste. This supposed "broth" fucking sucks and just tastes like water otherwise but I refuse to throw it away, else I won't learn my lesson i.e. cook fucking well. That and the idea of throwing away food just sickens me, I want to recycle leftovers in worthwhile dishes if possible no matter the cost, unfortunately such a noble sentiment has only resulted in dogshit slop so far.I'm still a noob to cooking, any anons willing to share some broth makin' tips would be kindly appreciated...
>>21945669broth tips:1. use bones & veg scraps2. boil for longer than 1.5 hours. 3+ at least. it should reduce by about a third.any other tips to add?
>>21944371Marinade?
>>21945119Must be nice. Those are exhorbitantly expensive here. Especially after the chinese espionage.Cheapest calories are rice, flour, sugar, walmart brand soda and bags of potatoes.
>>21944257Are beans interchangeable? What kind of beans are used in shitty frozen burritos? There has to be some spices missing like at least chili powder.
Is it still a burrito if you do this to it?
>>21944257cheap staple foods:>rice>chicken breasts>lean hamburger>beans>tomato sauce>diced tomatoes>onion>potatoes>oatmeal>milk>butter>garlic>cheese>breadyou can make 500 different dishes with these ingredients
>>21945815that's day laborer sushi
>>21945738looks like al pastor from the trompo. achiote for the red color, dried guajillo, cumin, oregano, pineapple juice, garlic, salt, vinegar, etc. just look up al pastor marinades. achiote is not necessary but gives it the iconic color.
>>21945669You can't really make broth with cooked meat. It's never gonna have a deep flavor. If I'm using leftover meat in a soup I always add something like miso, stock cubes or soup powder of some sort. Even an instant noodle flavor packet can help a lot
>>21945320>And freezing them and reheating does not work very well, they always come out of the microwave soggy.Get a george foreman grill, stick the frozen burrito in there for 15 minutes. You can thank me later.
>>21945921I have a theory that Foreman grills are making a comeback
>>21945923They bringing that beat back
>>21944257>cook dry beans on the weekend>big pot>include the rice and meat>easiest assembly for burritos, all ingredients mixed evenly
I am literally broke (payment error from pay office) and got a $100 gift card to my grocery store from third-party and bought a lot of the recommendations on this thread. So to all who contributed, thank you. I can easily and struggle meal it through until I get double pay at the end of the month thanks to your suggestions. Wouldn't even call it struggle meals, $100 got me a lot, even great protein using the tips in this thread.
>>21945818>lean hamburgerthis is triggering my autism
>>21945713>>21945902Thanks lads I'll keep these in mind
Is it a wrap, or a burrito?
For me, it's the El Gordo.
>>21944257When I was poor I ate cheese pizza everyday. I made the dough, put a bit of canned tomatoes on it and a few slices of the cheapest cheese.
>>21946334it says wrap in the picture dingleberry
>>21944865wtf I love pork salivary glands now
>>21946334A wrap is just a burrito but 'invented' by a white guy
>>21945375lol
>>21945815yeah but im not sure why you would
>>21946460I don't think people understand how cheap pizza is. It's one of the cheapest foods.With $2 worth of flour, $2 of sauce, $5 cheese and maybe $1 salt and spices you could eat pizza for every meal for a week for $10.Add some veggies and pepperoni, $20/week
>>21946793Everything mexicans think of as "their culture" was taken from Spain, that is, from white people.That includes Spanish, which they so hilariously believe is their original language (lmfao).
>>21946837No shit. A Mexican friend of the family is from an old Spanish aristocrat line, proud of their heritage, and he's inherited the generations of looking down their noses at the "dumb indios."
>>21946306Huh I ate that broth this evening, it was much better than I feared, still not great, acceptably average I'd say. Can do better but it's a far cry from the slop I anticipated
>>21946306Add pepper only right before serving. Cooking it sucks
>>21944865For me? It's La Banderita chorizo made with 100% pork shoulder.
>>21945500tex mex is gay, California has the best mexican food
>>21944355Good stuff
Make vareniki, super easy. Boil potato, mash it, mix in fried onions, then make a dough from water and flour. Flatten the dough, stuff circles of it with the filling, close them up and boil for 5 minutes. You can easily make a shit ton and they freeze for many months
>>21947635based croquetter
>>21944257Eat the flush of the underman
>>21945512If that pan is 2 meals for you, you genuinely need to lose weight and nobody should value your opinion on affordable eating (or food in general)
>>21947645Doesn’t look the prettiest but I chugged milk along with eating those. Felt so powerful
>>21944257>cheap foods but actual cookingConsult the oracle
>>21947657if it's 15 meals for you, you're lying. you can say it's 15 "servings" to skew your price point but we all know 99% of people are not eating that one pan over 15 meals. it's more expensive than you're trying to say it is, is the point.
>>21947669what the fuck is gammon
>>21946834It costs me $7 to make 14" pepperoni pizza. Sauce can be bought in gallon cans for $8 if you have space to freeze it. Flour is also cheaper than that. Cheese is $3. Pepperoni is $2-3 but hard to source and slicing it takes half the prep time.I put some mushroom in the sauce and garlic and onion in the dough but those costs are kind of negligible.
>>21947669this is a really neat graphic. I'm going to send it to my cooklet friend every time he sends me some gross slop he cobbled together
>>21947696Ham. Lrn2internetsearch, brainlet.
>>21947805why? i can just ask on here and wait a while until some pack mule like you spoonfeeds me.
>>21944865just like every other sausage, how terrible
fuckin love burritos man
>>21947696its jambon
>>21944257mmmmm breakfast burrito.
>>21944768mutt larping as europoor.we have burritos everywhere in europe, they are extremely popular
>>21945496ty, I used some crushed sichuan peppercorns in the velveting marinade for the chicken and it imparted that nice cooling numbing spice that I enjoy to the meat.>>21945512>>21947671My shitty camera work makes it look smaller than it is, that is a very large pan (14 inches high-rimmed) that is very full. I get that there are many fatasses on here but 2 meals for something like that would really be pushing it to the level of just trying to hurt yourself. From what we ate and stored afterwards, there was around 2 gallons of food in that pan. That's 10 or so pounds of food. I got 15 nice-sized bowls full of nothing but those noodles.>2-3 meals at mostIf you eat 5 pounds of food a meal then your scale of what is a "meal" is off, man. It doesn't have to make you feel disgustingly full and hate yourself to be a proper meal.
>>21944400a love bannock. >>21944854ye dinny need oil fer bannock. but aye frybread is awfy sickly
>>21945818>breasts>lean hamburgergtfo
>>21948056bro thats a salad dressed as a burrito
>>21945375The broken plate is too far lmao
>>21944257>rice, beans, and a tube of chorizoI can smell your cholesterol levels from over here Fatorosaurus Rex, get some vegetables, sweet potatoes, either fish or an assload of mushrooms, kill yourself you lardfuck
>>21944725a can of tuna is one of the best additions to pasta saladthe cheaper the better
>>21948123that's kind of mean, anon.
>>21944257I just made a 12 egg frittata with 2 lb of pork for about $12. Cut into 6 slices it's $2 each with 50 grams of protein and about 500 calories. I got everything from costco, and the pork loin was $2 per lb. I make this pretty regularly with beef or pork.
>>21948123This projection is always embarrassing. If you weren't a lazy retard you could eat what you want too.
>>21944257>tube of chorizoAre you talking about that Mexican chorizo tube that's made almost entirely out of lymph nodes and hemorrhoids?
>>21947420no it doesnt. New mexico actually has the best. Then texas. California is third place for mexican food.
>>219448731995. My wife and I as teenagers looked forward to date night.
>>21948550I don't know where you've been in New Mexico but I've only ever seen southwest style ground beef green chili nacho cheese slop over there.
>>21948599yellow cheese is why texas and new mexico mog california. And pinto beans are better than black beans as well. But yeah new mexico just has bad ass mexican food. They do chili relleno but deep fry it and use pablanos. The hatch green chilis are really good in everything. Green chili pork stew. They also do gorditas a lot more than in texas. The menus are typically a lot more fun. Combo number 9000 has 3 enchiladas, a taco, a gordita, and a chalupa
>>21948268yeah sorry for lashing out I was a lardass up until 2019 its different now Im maintaing a 80 to 85 kilo weight, regular exercise, portioned meals, no sodas or coffee I do ginseng ice tea with honey if I wanted an energy drink>>21948477fuck you and your digits faggot bitch
>>21948114in my head right now: a salad dressed as a burrito, preying on burritos8/10 - very good nature documentary, recommended
>>21945101they are activated nuts
EUfags, potatoes are essentially free at this moment due to a massive overharvest. Most farmers in my cunt are literally giving them away, you can buy entire sacks for cents at the supermarket.Besides mash, salad or frying, what else can I do cook with potatoes?
>>21948996olivier salad>but thats saladno it isnt and i dont care
poorfags have great meals
>>21948996slice them up, boil them and put your favourite seasoning onit's an easy snackalso moussaka + various gratins
>>21945375rough
>>21945494this>>21945383its trying so hard to be a mission burro but it just fails at every level
>>21948876nta but what is even that?
Not actual cooking at all but im ashameed to admit how delicious this dollar store trip is.
>>21948550what no love for arizona?
>>21945053most people mix eggs or potatoes with it which soak up the fat
>>21948078nta, it really depends. The tortillas you can buy in stores in my country are dogshit, sweet as fuck even the corn one. Restaurants or take-aways where you can get tacos are usually very expensive for the amount you get (3eu per mini burrito).Unless you are making everything yourself from scratch it's just not worth it, at least where I am. ''tacos'' are popular though, but 99 percent of the time they're just something else riding off the name without having much in common with the original dish.doners are popular all over western EU, every city has dozens upon dozens and even small towns usually have one or two.
>>21947657is the pan much bigger or deeper than it seems? I'm not remotely fat but it doesn't seem like more than 5-8 servings if that is the total of your meal and not a course. Looks delicious in any case, I'll me making lo mein this week if I can find the noodles in my town.
>>21945053eggs, beans, rice, basically anything that can soak up the flavor. With cheap and dirty chorizo like this you want to think of it as a flavor packet.
>>21949422>Nutsonline.com is a trusted online seller of premium bulk nuts and wholesale nuts. Shop for specialty snacks and gifts from our selection of peanuts, almonds, walnuts, cashews, pecans & pistachios. Dried fruits, trail mixes, chocolates & sweets, seeds & more.Can't access the website in my country for some reason but it doesn't seem interesting anyways.
>>21944864based i do this often, but for carnitas. and i dont buy the shoulder unless it's like 99 cents a pound. then you have a week of meat for like $7 plus a little extra for sauce and tortillas or whatever.
>>21945713I heard you have to roast the bones and veg before plopping into broth, is that true?
TheWolfePitt has a series on YouTube where he makes full family dinners with super affordable ingredients. Great videos. I've used a few of his recipes. He always encourages you to use what you've got in creative ways.
>>21946185good luck anon, I remember I had that happen to me once in a stupid way, got paid twice a few months before and I didn't notice so paymaster took a month away at the wrong time (pretty sure it was illegal). Thankfully I always stock my freezer and my parents make preserves they throw at anyone who visits so it wasn't a problem
>>21946457>one burrito a weekThat's underwhelming as fuck
>>21946185Show us a pic of your haul. We can brainstorm some meal ideas
>>21948056is that just salad and dressing? I mean I've done worse but pretty surprising, imagine handing over a burrito to someone and he bites into this lol
>>21948471Very good portion size for $2 a serving. How long does it say good in the fridge? Does it make you fart a lot. You seem like you fart a lot.
>>21948996>entire sacks for cents at the supermarketwhich ones? My local supermarket still prices a 5 kg bag at around 5-6 eu. If this is true I'll buy a cartful and eat like an Irishman for a month.
>>21950944If he'd put some chopped chicken, cheese, and ranch or Caesar dressing, it would be top tier
>>21946185Watch thesehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYRx9e6PeSoJ7Bjn24q_AMSiWzCqEH962
>>21950943No pic of the haul, but I have indeed been eating well. One rotisserie chicken has made many chicken burritos. Same with 2 LB of ground beef and some refried beans with jalapeno. A little bit of rice in each burrito but not too much. I made McMuffins that have double the Canadian bacon and old cheddar. I also made a bolognese and have some dry pasta for when needed. With some deli pepperoni, salami, ham and not even the cheapest goyslop options I made pizza subs using that and mozza, red onions and sliced black olives. I took that one day to batch cook and prepare this all then individually froze what I wasn't eating immediately. For the burritos, subs, mcmuffins I wrapped in wax paper then saran wrapped. The Bolognese is in 2 seperate airtight tupperware containers.I didn't put any 'wet' ingredients into the subs, burritos etc so they don't sog out. But I've got salsa, sour cream, mayo and pizza sauce as I eat them.I bought a bunch of eggs so I have lots left for quick egg meals. I got a 5lb bag of potatoes as well, but I haven't really done anything with it yet. I should tho.
>>21950949specifically parmesan chips would be good
>>21950968How do the meals taste after you've thawed and reheated them? I know when times are tough, you've gotta make certain concessions (calories over flavor). Seems like you have everything on lock. I eat using most of the simple ingredients anons mentioned ITT. Only thing I splurge on is maybe some cheeze-it crackers or ice cream every now and then.
>>21950949Used to make chicken caesar wraps all the time when I lived with my parents. Might actually do that this weekend.
>>21950968> bought a bunch of eggs so I have lots left for quick egg meals. Hard boiled eggs, baby. Ultimate money saving food. You can do them in big batches, they last quite a while in the fridge, they're portable, relatively high nutrition content for the small size. Eat them with salt + pepper, or with mayo, or just plain>I got a 5lb bag of potatoes as well, but I haven't really done anything with it yet. Potatoes are great because they can go into so many dishes, and they're also great as a side for your main. >Take the soup/stew-pill. Potatoes always go great in a stew. >baked potato, easiest potato known to man. (wrap in tin foil and bake in oven) serve with butter, cheese, sour cream>twice baked potato (in case you made too many baked potatoes the night before) >scalloped Potatoes (very easy to make actually) >gnocchi (not really "hard" to make, but there's a bit of prep involved)>garlic butter mashed Potatoes (so delicious, you won't even need gravy)>potato salad (again not hard to make, just takes some prep)>polish style potato dumplings (very easy to make) >vodka (much harder to make)
>>21950984It's honestly fine, almost as good as fresh. I think the double wrap I do with wax paper then saran before freezing helps a lot. It's much better if I can let it thaw so it's just the littlest bit frozen still. Prevents sogginess. Then I'll use the microwave on low settings (I rarely use top power on a microwave) to defrost to where needed and I'll finish off the heating up in the oven. Oven temp depends on what I'm reheating.Sogginess is the enemy of the meal prepper who uses breads/tortillas.
>>21950920let me guess. you are french?maybe "everywhere" was a slight exaggeration but yeah theres Mexican resturants all over europe, I stand by what I said.just because the french like to call doner wraps tacos dosent mean there's no burritos in europe
>>21951141>theres Mexican resturants all over europeany examples that aren't taco bell?
>>21951316its mostly independently owned ones not chains like in america.go on google maps and type in burrito in any european country and you will find loads of places selling them and stuff for making them is availible in practically every supermaket in the entire continent
>>21951368>go on google maps and type in burrito in any european countrylotta doner
>>21951377you are lying through your teeth faggot. even Berlin dosent show a single place putting donner in fucking burritos when you do what I said.only france does that and they call it 'tacos' not burritos
1 flour tortillaspread peanut button on tortilla microwave for 10 secondsenjoyor another delicy 1 flour tortillashreaded cheese on tortillatoco bell hot sauces packets you got for free from toca bellwarm up in microwave
>>21951141There is almost nothing in common between a ''doner wrap'' and a burrito besides the casing, but yeah I wish there were decent mexican places here. I've lived in 5 countries in West EU and 1 in East (Romania) and there are nowhere near the same amount of mexican places than kebabs, my point stands, mexican places might be more common in places like Germany (Berlin) or Finland (taco bell lol) but they're on the same popularity tier as like chinese food, that is to say way under doners in number of places serving them.I never said there are no burrito places in Europe, they're just not at the top of popularity compared to other options.
>>21951482>I never said there are no burrito places in EuropeWell somebody did!>>21944768>In Europe we do not have burritos!
>>21951482>in europe we do not have burritos>I never said there are no burritos
>>21950945Keeps at least 4 days and makes 6 of those big slices. I do fart a lot but I don't think it makes me fart as much as legumes would. It's only 2 eggs per slice, and there is some Greek yogurt in there.
>>21951589>>21951553That wasn't me smartass, notice I first answered with the 'nta' included in my post. I know it's hard here on /ck/ with keyfag and other samefags shitting up threads but it's not always the same person you're answering, that's how imageboards work.
>>21951714ah my bad I overlooked the nta bit.I often don't pay enough attention to discussions here because I try not to take anything online seriously
>>21951741that is probably the best approach especially on here
>>21944355wait so no potato in this? How do you get it to not be flat without potato to give it volume?
>>21951754it's just as flat or thick as you make them, like a hamburger patty. it's not a korokke in the japanese sense, where they take potatoes and meat and make a ball, then fully bread the outside with egg flour and panko. this is more just like making meatballs, where you mix the breadcrumb and egg into the meat.
>>21951749yes
>>21951766ah ok gotcha, I'll give it a try.
>>21946334These were absolute shit. Just everything that would be on a big Mac lazily stuffed into a tortilla. The regular chicken snack wrap was the only decent one.>>21950938I love Larry. Too bad about the divorce.
>>21944836>>21944873>>21948597>t. retards it was affordable 10 years ago
>>21952024it was affordable but not cheap. When i was a kid my sister and i would walk into taco bell with $5 between us and we would get more food than we could eat
>>21945071make me some curry goat BITCH
I aim for 200 grams of protein and 3000 calories a day and I had chatGPT estimate the ingredient cost of all my meal preps this week to under $50. I do eat yogurt and eggs for quick meals sometimes so adding some wiggle room. You just need to make everything from scratch as much as is reasonable for you.
>>21952825Are you in sport or bodybuilding?
>>21951774I tried making it with cabbage but it didn't hold...next time I'll try shredding it or just slicing it way thinner.
>>21944858I need to do this and/or fried rice more. I hate wasting food and nothing puts me in an autistic rage more than cleaning out the fridge and tossing half an onion/old garlic/remaining bits of bell peppers.
