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How does /biz/ keep costs down when buying food? You don't participate in the fast food scam, do you anon?
>>29258504Literally about to go pick up 40 nugs & 2 large fries I'll let you know when I'm back
I live with my parents and my dad still lets me use their credit card for food, groceries and fitness supplements. I’m 26
Beans rice chicken eggs milk veggies steak
>>29258594Sick Atl-atl and cock-warmer, but wtf is up with the Sailor Moon magic wand? Do ancient niggers really do this?
eggs & butter honestly lad
I have a bazaar next to me with middle eastern food and cheap stuff even though I live in a HCOL area. I buy bulk stuff from there.5 bananas for $1.605 KG bag of quality Jasmin rice is like 9$5 KG bag lentils like 5.70$5 KG bag onions 4.30$5 KG bag chickpeas 5.70$5 KG jar of pickles - 7.30$2 grips of spring onions 2.30$bag of 6-7 bulbs of garlic 3.50$30 eggs 3.30$also fuckton of spices at good prices and other veggies I missedThen I get fresh meat from normal supermarketsI spend 200$ a month and feel like I eat pretty well !
haven't been to a drivethru in maybe 2 or 3 years. Fast food is extremely rare for me unless there's some potluck and people ask everyone to pitch in.About once a week ill head to the grocery store and only pay attention to foods that have discount or discontinued stickers on them. The food I cook and eat is judged solely on what was on sale that time, so it might be a lot of hamburger helper, pasta, chicken, sausage, eggs, pancakes, or sometimes i get lucky and they have a lot of steak on sale. Then i check if frozen veggies are on sale and bulk buy those when they are, and shove it all in the freezer. There's generally always a full freezer and my fridge is mostly empty unless i have leftovers or milk.
>>29258504I only eat eggs and canned tunaIt's cheap and good for weight loss
>>29259763don't mono-diet fucking canned tuna anon you'll poison yourself with mercury
>>29258504>fast foodonly when I'm feeling particularly indulgent. Fast food is maybe a 1-2 times a month thing, max.
>>29260554I think I am already fucked with lead poisoning from inhaling soldering fumes for so long, but thanks for the tip anon
>>29259763sardines are good and cheap too and have way less mercury
>>29260554>>29260697>>29261013>Mercury is only harmful because it binds to selenium and prevents it from performing its vital roles in the brain. As long as you are eating fish that contains more selenium than mercury, the amount of selenium in the body will always be in plentiful excess of mercury.it's completely fine, most fish contain plenty of selenium. if you're worried then supplement some more. though you can't go wrong with deenz
>>29260697Honestly, best cost saving measure food wise for me was growing leftover food scraps. If you see an onion that's sprouting, peel back the layers one by one until you find the core, then you plant the core and eat/compost the layers you've taken off, so there's no waste. Onions are almost fool proof to grow and honestly the quality difference is night and day, the plants are so stressed out when you get them at the supermarket because they were essentially in the process of dying, so all the flavour is gone.Don't give up, we're all going to make it.
>>29258594>>29258504Ok I'm back, don't worry I'm fine, it only cost about ~17 ADA
i worked in restaurants for years so i know what i'm doing. I cook for myself and make things you generally can't get at a restaurant. Right now i'm making chicken ginger pho broth which i've been simmering for 6 hours.
>>29261295ginger is based, I got a turmeric plant that's fuggin huge and my ginger is starting to sprout little green dudes
>>29258504no cause I don't support billionaire elite gmo pumped selective breeding and fattening up health declining mass murdering operations
>>29261396based
>>29259213I envy you
>>29258504i eat at mummys house
>>29261604too lazy to take photos, but here's a pic of my cat in my grow-room. The tree in that photo is currently chilling on my balcony, half-buried beneath a foot of snow. Love my plants, love my cats.
>>29259213p sure you could plant those onions yourself anon, the grow like weeds and you can even grow them for a while in a dish with some water and fertilizer.i don't even buy mine the first time cause they just grow around in the woods.
>>29258504I cook meat once a day. Starch once a day. And drink a Pepsi fruit shake called naked. I try to add nice shit like tumeric, bone broth, cinnamon, whatever spices i can think of.
I eat every other day now. Amazing how much more money I have
>>29258504Dumpster diving is unironically awesome. Saves money, environmentally friendly and is just fun and cool.
>>29262444bro get into the salt game. I bought a KG of iodized sea salt last year and have been brewing up some strange home-gamer luxury spice blend, complete with garlic, mint, ginger, turmeric, basil, an eggshell or two and whatever else I can grind into a fine powder in my pestle. Steak has never tasted so good.
>>29262267very nice and comfy
I eat 3 $1 burritos from taco bell per day, and some lettuce.
I like to eat cheap but still eat nutrition.I get continental fried rice packets (normally $2 but I wait until half price so it’s $1 and buy like 50 of them for 50 dinners), I usually add some frozen peas and corn to them. Then I have steamed frozen beans (about $2 kg) and for the main part I will get small cuts of inexpensive meat such as lamb or cheap beef to fuel my body with the rice and vegetables. This is all Australian dollars so it’s a pretty good price and roughly $6-$10 AUD will feed my fiancé, daughter and I.
>>29262663whoagot pics or anything? that sounds goooood
>>29258504You can get several sweet potatos for a few dollars, eggs are also a few dollars. Super nutritious meal between both of those and not even $10 bucks for several days of food.
I raise my own meat to save on food costs. It sucks cause I live in the city and I’m worried I might lose my security deposit. My neighbors also don’t like it when I slaughter, but fuck em. 95% of my food budget can go into crypto
why nickel and dime on food? I don't go overboard, but I eat out at least once a week, and buy whatever I want to cook throughout the week. what are you gonna save by eating like shit, like 50 or 60 bucks?
>>29258504My meals for the past 2 years:Breakfast: Large glass of milk and bowl of cereal thats actually good for you (whole grain with fruits and nuts. More expensive but worth it to cut out sugar)Lunch: Wild rice with diced carrots or green beans and tuna/chicken/salmon from a tin (Alternate proteins to avoid monotony) and a serving of fresh fruit like bananas or apples. Milk or diet teaDinner: quality salsa and chips. Dont get cheap shitty pace salsa, get the fresh cut good shit in the refrigerated aisle, and get some quality tortilla chips. Sometimes ill replace the chips with celery instead. Snacking throughout the day is totally fine too, keep it to nuts and veggies tho for optimal cost to nutrition ratio.Following this diet and budget trimming my food bill is about 40 bucks a month while retaining good nutrition. I sometimes eat out with friends, but that money is attributed to fun as opposed to food budget
>>29261174Based scrapmonger
>>29263126the Jew fears the apartment cattle-rancher
>>29258504I've been through rough times when I was younger which thaught me how to cook and live for cheap. Even now I'm broke and waiting for my paycheck which will arrive on monday (I do have a lot of money in crypto but I'm hodling). Lentils are cheap. Caramelize onions in a little butter or sunflower oil, add lentils and herbs or spices, and then unsalted water and cook that for an hour. Bam, lentil soup that can last you for days. Cheap, healthy, filling. Homemade tomato sauce is also very easy and cheap to make and it's very versatile. In general, cook meals in one big pot that can last you for at least a couple days. You can also use very cheap products to make your own cleaning products such as baking soda and white vinegar. Go to thrift shops for clothes. I have bought real YSL, Burberry, Missoni, Valentino etc clothes for ridiculously low prices at thrift shops. If you smoke, roll your own cigarettes or just quit altogether.
>>2925869622. parents moved out of state and I stayed to work my salary job. Prolly gonna move back this is the move.
>>29258504I eat lots of eggs and rice.
>>29262915Going to use this advice ty.
Just smashed 2 baconaters a large fry and a diet coke RN
>>29258504>You don't participate in the fast food scam, do you anon?They dont make money from fast food dipshit. It's too cheap to be sold at a profit. Those are poppy seeds by the way which are used to grow opium, which is used to make hallucinogens. McDonalds and Burger King make their money selling drugs on the street and to pharmaceutical companies. Even coca cola makes most of their money from cocaine sales. You're a goddam moron. I worked in the fast food industry for 25 frickin years. From 15 to 40. And guess what, kid? I did the calculations. They lose money on every single FRICKIN item sold. I started asking questions and management told me to back off. I put it all together, told them to their face what they were doing and they fired me. I have a big giant D.O.S - E A.. collected on them and I'm going to blow the whistle one day.
lol ever since reddit made the news and /pol/ took over /biz/ the retard posts have skyrocketed, yet it is directly proportional to me keks. Well done you retards. Good thread.
>>29263705Based and schizo-pilled
>>29258504I don't, I'm not looking at more than 100 a week for good quality food and meat every day. That's pretty affordable.
>>29263249Also going to try this.I don’t eat dairy but this meal plan sounds pretty based.
>>29258594>muh dick
>>29258504Ive been eating way too much fast food lately, been lazy...If you get into indian cooking you can really keep costs down, and eat really awesome food. like look into masala dosa, tandori chicken, idli & sombar.
>>29263006hey >>29262663 here, the salt looks greener than normal, but compared to plant it barely looks green at all. File size is too big so sorry for gay imgur linkhttps://imgur.com/a/FwI65Z6
>>29258696Same but I'm 32.
>>29258504The human digestive system is not 100% efficient. No system is. I have had a method of filtering and re-prepping my stools for consumption. I estimate that I can survive, meal wise, off USD$0.75 per day purely by sifting, straining, rinsing, and dry baking the contents of each and every stool, then mixing with filler material such as seasoned corn meal.Pic is my entire stool, combined with an extraction tincture, prior to first mesh pass. You will want to keep a low fat diet, as fatty stool is impossible to clean, fat becomes rancid, and your first meal of dry roasted fatty stool will probably make you want to kill yourself. I have been immunised against all types of hepatitis so I do not advise you to try this until I provide more information.
>>29258504Its been about 2 months and I still cant taste anything. Fuck COVID.
>>29258504PLEASE! Tell me I'm not the only one that saw this. I'm hopeless, I keep seeing this coomer shit everywhere
Another good lunch I enjoy:This isn’t the cheapest but relatively low cost vs standard normie and takeaway. 1-2 packets of mi goreng including sliced bacon fried eggs capsicum and onion. This is more an effective meal to fuel your body for exercise and get you through the day. It cost me from $1-4 and is good when I’m active otherwise there are too many kJ if you are sitting around doing nothing.
>>29264221...
I grow my own food, m8.
>>29264221This Anon is gmi What do you hold, oh Guru?
>>2925850426, live with my parents and saving major bank rather than renting. I buy them food on occasion when I'm ordering out or cooking, they also take care to order me and cook me food when they can.
I don't eat out and eat a lot of rice and vegetables. I go to a restaurant supply store and buy my meat in bulk, vacuum pack, and freeze. I keep a large supply of canned and frozen vegetables and buy fresh vegetables/fruit as needed. Meals daily is something like; fruit/bread/eggs for breakfast, leftovers for lunch, and dinner which usually consists of rice, grilled/fried meat (usually pork loin, chicken thighs, sometimes ribeye/tenderloin, and sometimes frozen salmon/cod), and vegetable (canned corn, frozen/fresh broccoli, artichoke, mushrooms, canned green beans, fresh asparagus, fresh onions, etc.)
>>29264221
>>29262915>Buying prepackaged ricengmi Same fucking price for 2kg long rice wtf are you doing nigga
>>29262886Master pro, and you drink tap water?
>>29264091>>29263006fixed my retardation, you may now have a properly sized image
So basically pic is just 1 item you can work with. Add 48 pack of frozen meatballs $6, parmesan cheese $4 & garlic salt $1.16 oz of pasta $0.651 can of traditional or meat sauce $116 meatballs $2Sprinkle of garlic salt, powder cheese $0.25Total: $3.90Once done that can be 4+ servings at $0.98 each. Store 3 in fridge, eat one. Want a more balance diet? Garlic bread? Just add it in the cost.
>>29258504>tomato soup>flatbread naan from costco, very cheap>bulk buy chicken breast and tilapia, costco>bulk buy rice & rice noodles, costco>never fucking eat out>make my own bread sometimes, make my own pan fried pizzaeverything home made. Nothing goes bad because I have an instant pot and I put whatever veggies i haven't used into my tomato soup. I have a super nice kitchen so I stopped eating out entirely. That + podcasts makes cooking very enjoyable.
>>29258504I just eat the same things every time, and go for groceries twice a month. Only costs like $160 on average for the month. Lots of pasta, rice, eggs, veggies, and canned fish. I buy frozen nuggets and chicken fingers once in a while too because you can get triple the amount of goodies for the price of one 10 piece nuggets meal at Mcdonalds. The key is sticking to the list and not wondering the aisles. Get in and get out
>>29264221based poopmeal pasta
>>29258504Uncle Sam sends me 1900 a month because reasons. That goes to food.
>>29258504a crockpot/slowcooker is the ultimate way to eat frugally with barely any effort. prep is faster and easier than any other form of cooking and you get really good results with even the cheapest cuts of meat.also buy a small chest freezer so you can buy tons of meat on sale and keep it for when you need it. used chest freezers are cheap and use practically zero power.
>>29258504Make a monthly budget. Try to stick to it.Shop in different locations, big box vs small/local shops.Buy in bulk from those types of stores.Always buy more than you need. Food is going up in price so you are beating that inflation. Buy another freezer. Store larger purchases of meat. Hunt if possible.Grow a garden. Grow a garden. Grow perennials like sunchokes or asparagus. Grow garlic. After just one year you should never again need to buy any garlic from a store.Grow potatoes. Early to mid to late. Taters for all time of the year. Grow the 3 sisters. Get chickens.
>>29264954everything i cook tastes like shit and i look up recipes online and go to our small town rural walmart that closes at 8pm and they dont have half the shit
>>29265187That reminds me, I have like a 2 KG pork loin that's been sitting in my freezer for the past 6 months. It honestly still looks pretty good, gonna break out the ole' crockpot and stew me up some slop.
>>29264954That looks great and I never liked pizza. I've been thinking about making my own bread but I live pretty close to a franz bread store and can get dollar loafs and free shit after spending 5 dollars. I think I'd only break even but the quality may be better if I make my own.
>>29265366invest in a stone oven and undercut the competition. This is what you were born to do.
>>29258504i love eating out too much and wind up spending 300-400 a month on food because of it. Wish i could stop. not even fat
>>29258504frugality is a poor fag habit. focus instead on making more money anon. there's only so much you can save, but no limit on what you can make.
>>29262367I need to do better with my onions this year. Haven't had as much success as i would like. And cabbage too.
>>29258594>he doesn't buy fries in 30 pound (15 kilo) incrementsngmi homie
>>29264135I bow to you good sir
>You don't participate in the fast food scam, do you anon?Actually fast food are quite cheap, if you only buy burgers.A McDouble is incredibly cheap, for example.If you large menus you are retarded.
>>29258696Same. I’m almost 27 and have saved/invested $100,000 outside of retirement accounts. Not having to pay rent is probably the easiest way to save money. I’ll probably start seriously thinking of moving out when I turn 30. I’ll never get married or have children, so I’m not in a rush. I figure it will be extremely lonely to live by myself, so I’d like to delay it as much as I can. I also hope to retire early.
>>2926568030 pounds of frozen fries is literally less calories than 10 pounds of actual potates. NGMI
just eat potatoesnot even jokingafter 1 year of corona with nonstop food delivery and constant trips to the supermarket i got so fat i just had to do somethingso i skip breakfeast, eat normal lunch but dinner is like 500g potatoes (with some sour cream or salt + butter), its crazy how filling potatoes are, normally if you just eat 1600 kcal per day you would be hungry as fuck but with potatoes its just a breeze
>>29263126lol
>>29258504I eat one meal a day , an intermittent fasting technique which promotes autophagy and is healthy for you. This allows me to have one high quality meal a day , keeping costs down and allowing for a nice meal.
My wife, son, and myself live off of $150 a month. We utilize pantries, as well as donate things we don't need from their packages. People don't use them because of pride. We have pride, but pride doesn't fill your belly.
>>29258504I just eat potatos and vegetables and grilled chicken
>this threaddoes anyone not eat steak? i get 1.5lbs of ribeye every day @ $5usd a pound
>>29265757I'm between 170 and 180 pounds, I'd tell you my exact weight but I'm too poor to afford a scale. If I eat 3 McDoubles, which is 390 calories a pop, so just under 1200 calories, that costs me almost ten Canadian dollars. I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I only at 1.2K calories in a day. You're looking at atleast 20-25 dollars a day in McDoubles, which is'nae bad, but is'nae good innit?
>>29265797Living with your parents for as long as you can is the absolute best way to save money, just contribute by labor and/or rent and everyone benefits. Unfortunately for me I had a shit relationship with my parents and couldn't do this.
>>29265646there's stupid timewasting ways to be frugal but then there's smart ways to be frugal. honestly though if you're living off passive income and trading then you probably have more spare time than 9-5ers anyway, so it doesn't hurt you either way. smart people spend when it's smart to spend. i have passive income because i don't want to be hustling for every hour of my life.
>>29264954buy a #32 can of tomatos. Now buy like ten more. Put in a blender and smooth it out. Put in a pot with a bit of water (protip: use the water to rinse out the blender and the can to get all the juice out). Add a little olive oil and salt and red pepper flakes. Simmer for several hours. Protip: simmering means its boiling slowly aka one or two bubbles per second. When its almost done crush a few cloves of garlic into it and maybe a chiffaunaud of basil. Now you have tomato sauce for the week and it costs like 4 bucks.
>>29265680After trying different fries I found this is the best shit ever.13 mins in airfryer at 400. Shake well at 7 mins, talking like you got a wok and doing fried rice kinda shake. Very similar to Popeye's fries.
>>29265876Yeah, used to go to a food shelter too, was pretty awkward when I saw one of my friends there, but fuck it was just as awkward for them is'nae?
>>29258504Eat once a day and usually only eggs or meat sometimes vegetables. The only liquids I consume are water a alcohol in a 4/3:1 ratio
>>29261143Problem is with big fish:If they grow big, they absorb lots of plastics over lifetimeIf they are farmed, they are pumped with estrogen for sizeIf they are from cold waters, they are full of PUFAsGo little, go wild caught
>>29265939thats not bad actually. I average about 3 dollars a steak by buying a whole ribeye at costco and portioning it out. I then individually wrap each steak in seran wrap before putting about 4 steaks in a gallon ziplock and sucking the air out. Poor man's vacuum seal. If you do it this way you avoid freezer burn and can store your steaks perfectly for about 6 months. To thaw properly put in the fridge overnight so it doesn't rise to room temp. Thawing slowing prevents the ice crystals from bursting the cellular structure of the beef.
>>29266024lol this fucking reminded me of HOMELESS GASPACHO enjoy the funnyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTD0Hd6jbvk
>>29265802I never did the math, but I figured the extra oil would mean the contrarygoogle seems to agree (set both to 100 grams)https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/9174/2https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2903/2if you're too lazy to click, it's 174 Cal/100g for "Potatoes, french fried, crinkle or regular cut, salt added in processing, frozen, as purchased" and 93 Cal/100g for "Potatoes, baked, flesh and skin, with salt"
>>29266200That's after it's unfrozen anon, most of the weight in frozen potatoes is water.
>>29266150based.I'd do this but i've become a steak snob and got used to going to the local grocery store on a daily basis to get the fresh steaks
I shop at save a lotFor $50 a week i get lots of food
>>29266177only use one can btw. Buying ten more is because you should always have that much in your cupboard. Ten cans is way too much sauce for a family of 3 for a week. Maybe a month.
>>29262915>cheap beefFucking yourself in the long run nibba, get high quality to avoid the factory farmed downsides
>>29266277 give it a try. It's not going to be as good as a steakhouse steak, but you can cut it thinner and it will be a great steak and eggs steak.
>>29258504I spend about $30 a week on groceries. I eat mostly chicken breast, pork, and eggs.
> broccoli> chicken/beef/fish> beef broth> brown riceJust make a stew, add all the spices you can, just broccoli, meat, small amount of brown rice. Season it how you want, very healthy and very cheap. Take a multivitamin as well if you're worried.
>>29266319no way, just use all 10 cans. there's no difference in taste between sauce you cooked fresh and sauce you reheated from the freezer. do all the cooking at once instead of doing it every time you need the sauce.
>>29264221I was waiting for this post kek
My other trick is to buy pic. Each packet is $1 (comes in box of 3). Add 8 oz of shells or elbow noodles and you have velveeta shells and cheese for around $1.50. Think about it, no need for milk, butter. Just those 2 items and boiling water.
I only shop at the asian supermarket. Also, it's very difficult to get caught poaching.
>>29266713I really like rice, but I just don't like eating it, if that makes sense. Cooking rice isn't much of a burden, I use my thinnest pan and keep the rice barely submerged, but I just want some MEAT to what I'm eating, and by meat I mean structure, like the physical resistance to me trying to consume it. My fondest memories of eating were from last summer, when I spent a month eating only beef and eggs.You don't know what being alive is until you spend an hour gnawing on a huge chunk of sinewy fatbrings the APE out to esc/ape/
My diet consists of beef, chicken, cheese, milk, eggs, butter, rice, potatoes, fruit, vegetables and that's it
>>29267021You sound like a person who would love Steak, eggs and fried rice in the morning. There are some places that have that and it is comfy x1000.
>>29258504chicken thighs/bacon/pork chops/steak (as it's on sale)cheap frozen broccoli/caulifower/brusell sprouts>EGGSenabled partially by $400 covid food stamps (hawaii)not as expensive as it sounds, just meat and butter mostly veggies are like $1 a bag frozen
>>29267178This is the ideal meal. I can eat that everyday for the rest of my life
>>29266820why would you waste freezer space on that much sauce? They're already preserved in cans dude.
>>29267470They don't preserve sauce in cans, you buy tomato paste. Tomatoes in cans are unironically better tasting and better for you than tomatoes you buy off the vine.No nasty pesticides or freak fucking GMOs
>>29259213Why are the bananas so expensive?
>>29258504im trying to lower my body fat percentage so it meshes well with trying to invest. i basically only eat salmon, sardines, and vegetables. the money i would normally spend on junk food or fast food i put towards buying more linkies
>>29258504I kill elk, deer and bear for meat. Hundreds of pounds of organic, free-range meat in the freezer. We grow our own veggies with a ton of potatoes and can the veggies for the winter. Rice is cheap and so is pasta. Need to figure out how to get a cow so the milk supply never runs out.
>>29267580no man, i'm saying why make sauce out of ten cans of canned tomatoes and then freeze it. The tomatoes are canned, they won't spoil. Just make a sufficient amount of sauce per week instead of wasting freezer space on frozen sauce. Re-read the posts and you'll see what i'm saying.
>>29267796fuck your daughter young and abort her fetuses. Keep her hooked up to sucklers and she'll produce milk well into her mid thirties.
>>29267791i moved home and have been cooking all my parents meals for them. It's cheaper, healthier, and i'm not doing any dietary restrictions. I'll do shit like shepherds pie or prime rib. And my parents have lost weight and are healthier than they are in years.Learn how to cook well and treat your ingredients properly and you will lose weight regardless of what you choose to cook.
>>29263750>/pol/ took over /biz/We're just refugees. A person can only take so many bbc and twitter threads before you gotta flee to the hills.
>>29267470ok all 10 cans was an exaggeration but i've got a 4 gallon stock pot and a big freezer. i can load it up with sauce and then not have to think about making more for weeks at a time. when i have the spare room to scale up i scale up.
>>29258504Depends on what your body needs. If you are healthy, active, and have a decent metabolism...rice, veggies, eggs...maybe milk if your into that shit. I’m overweight, not fat by any means, but definitely have a dad bod. I’ve been just skipping meals and snacks to cut down on expenses. If someone brings treats into the office, I make sure to get seconds. If no one seems interested, sometimes thirds.
>>29263750/biz/ is just applied /pol/.
>>29267791Damn anon what about red meat?
>>29262572Lol I do similar shit. “Want to save money on food? Just don’t eat”
>>29259213Based health and wealth
>>29267653Yeh why are those bananas so expensive ?
>>29268282That only makes sense if you're a brainlet who doesn't believe in entropy and the third law of thermodynamics. You expend just as many calories eating one every two days as you do eating fifteen times a day, so your caloric requirements literally don't change. INB4 "Oh but I am so good with my hunger i don't eat until I'm LITERALLY STARVING", yeah, and then you consume the exact amount of calories (and probably more) than you would have if you ate more frequently.
I only allow myself to eat out on the weekends or when I'm with friends.During the week I cook every meal and I usually get groceries at Lidl because that shit's cheap.
>>29258504High caloric density, balanced meals (50% protein, 30% carbs, 20% fats as a goal). Nothing processed nothing refined, as close to how it came from the earth or animal as possible.I do eat fast food because I'm a hardgainer.
>>29268497This is true and it fucks with your sleep too if you don't eat enough/properly
>>29258504GF cooks every meal from scratch. I rarely take lunch at work, and when I do it’s because boss is paying.
>>29268497who gets this mad at intermittent fasting. i did it instead of calorie counting/reduction and it helped reduce my appetite with less effort. everybody knows that calories are what matters, that's not new. it doesn't mean your body doesn't respond differently to different balances of carbs/proteins/fats or their the frequency. having cereal in the morning has a worse effect on your appetite for the remainder of the than having steak and eggs. limiting yourself to a single meal in the morning is harder than limiting yourself to a single meal in the evening. the body's chemical reactions and their effect on the brain's drive to eat are more complicated than just thermodynamics.
>>29269278No it's not. This is like if you say that a stock has an upward trend of +20%, but right now it's dipping so the stock is worthless. You don't look at the minute to minute data to plot out a long term graph, and you don't consume less calories if you consume your calories tomorrow instead of today. I'm not hating on intermittent fasting, I'm just telling you you aren't losing weight because you're eating fewer times a day, I'm telling you you're losing weighty because you're eating LESS.
Redpill me on urban meat. Why can't I just poach a bunch of seagulls?
>>29258504I cook
>>29258594https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/3240/homme-de-la-nouvelle-caledonie-lancant-une-zagaie?q=%2Fexplore-art-and-ideas%2Fartwork%2F3240%2Fhomme-de-la-nouvelle-caledonie-lancant-une-zagaie
>>29269563They eat garbage and will make you sick.
>>29269563>>29269675if you want urban meat just hunt for roastiesmystery meat pre-tossed salad
>>29269832uh... same answer
>>29269506>I'm telling you you're losing weighty because you're eating LESS.yeah no shit.what i'm saying is that the method of reaching that outcome isn't irrelevant, because it has an impact on the chemical reactions that cause you to overeat in the first place. i've done a 21 day water fast where i ate literally nothing other than supplements and only drank water with salt and potassium and magnesium to maintain my electrolytes. when i broke the fast it was because that was the goal i set, and not because i couldn't go on with it. i know what i'm talking about here.
>>29258504Alot of home made vegan meals are cheap because they usually are some form of veggies and a carb like noodles or rice etc.
>>29269922you're fat dude, don't try to make it sound like you're not by using a bunch of buzzwords and overcomplicating reality
>>29270148>buzzwordselectrolytes are a buzzword huh. cut out all sources of salt and potassium for more than a week and tell me how your body copes with it retard.
>>29270371Electrolytes, water fast, supplements, intermittent fasting and you list your NPK like you're a fucking plant, yee m8 I'm pretty sure you've subscribed to the buzzword soup o the day
I rarely eat fast food but if you're feeling cheap and hungry then the taco bell dollar menu is genuinely where it's at. It's serviceable.
>>29263307God I could just imagine the jaw dropping moment when some jew landlord sees pic related “What are you gonna do, take the security deposit you were already gonna take anyway?”
>>29270673Unfathomably based
>>29270546talk to literally any biologist and ask them what happens when you run out of the electrolytes your cells need to function. it's not just a gimmick invented by gatorade you moron. i only even brought it up because someone knowledgeable would call me out if i said i only drank water for 21 days. your body can only survive on its fat stores for as long as you don't piss out all the salts it has stored up. that's one of the reasons why diets fail, because you have a hormonal response to imbalances of electrolyte levels. keep pretending you really know what's up though.
>>2925850423/ 6 figure income/250k investment assets but at a cost of working 84 hours a week I am trying to stop eating Uber eats every day. Started doing it to save time since I work 12 hour night shifts every day. Now I do it also to cope with the stress along with 2 monster energy zero ultra drinks each night
>>29270673My dad used to rent out a house to some fucking heroin addict loser, by the time we got it back the bathroom floor had completely collapsed because he let the fucker overflow for months on end. We took the fucker to court and obviously won, but he's a basically homeless drug addict who hasn't had a real job in the past 30 fucking years.Sometimes I see the faggot riding around on his shitty bicycle and I plot out various ways to murder him, but then I realize it's not even my fucking money he owes us, so I let it be.
>>29270843Do you know what's the not-buzzword word or electrolytes is? It's salt. Electrolytes are salt. You're a fucking moron.
>food bill roughly $150 a month>keep thermostat at 60 degrees because fuck heat pumps>shower in the dark>reuse cleanish dishes and wash them twice a weekWhat are some of your other tricks bros?
I have calculated the cost per serving of every meal, snack, or drink I generally buy. I have scaled my plan to a 2000 calorie diet with at least 2 servings of vegetables and 2 servings of fruit every day. It's a healthy diet with very few processed foods. In my area, an average meal is about $1.50. I can eat for less than that, but I'm a picky eater and it would be more difficult to reach nutritional requirements. Two recommendations are to fill up in the morning because most breakfast food is cheap and to brew and drink iced tea.
>>29270945Heroin is unbiased. I am fond of sticking it to corporate mega apartment buildings Seeing as I’m a wage slave that lives in one but you should be able to kick someone’s ass if it’s your private property. Hindsight’s 2020 but hopefully now your dad has a better idea of what to screen for in tenant selection
>>29270990>this mad at a word
>>29263705How do I get cocaine at mcds is there a code word I use at the cashier
>>29268497Nah it’s fine. It’s more about cutting out snack food which tends to be expensive. Also the most convenient meals for me are when I’m home and can cook cheap shit. Packing breakfast and lunch never worked for me. So I’ll be hungry, but I just don’t eat that is until I’m home and can cook up some eggs, rice, and stuff. It does tend to be better for weight as snack food, fast food, carry out...is all packed with calorie dense garbage.
>>29271201Yeah I'm gonna get mad at someone who specifically uses the same word but synonyms to describe two different things. You take electrolytes so you don't suffer so badly from salt deprivation, BUT YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY THAT ELECTROLYTES ARE FUCKING SALT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>29270990No retard Electrolytes are Gatorade >Just drink Gatorade like everyone else you idiot. Why do you think those Africans on the poor people continent look so sickly? it’s probably just a lack of Gatorade
I spend 30 dollars on food a day.
>>29258504you don't have an immigrant mother who feeds you healthy home cooked meals? you didn't follow this up by securing an immigrant gf who also cooks and gives you impromptu massages?
>>29271530OH shit boys we've got a high roller posting in this bread
>>29271559ur gf is hot anon am jealous OI MAMACITA
>>29261013>29261013Beware too many sardines, high in purines and can give you gout
>>29263126holy shit this needs to be screencapped and made into a meme
>>29271647
>>29264563KEKK
>>29271735>made into a meme>he doesn't know
>>29271839hehe did you draw that funny frog
I cook all my food myself but I'm vegan and work out so it's a bit more expensive. Only eat out on the weekends. Making sure I get over 100g of protein a day can be costly.
>>29271906what's ur grindr
>>29263705You are unironically right, but the drug they sell is the High Fructose Corn Syrup in the drinks and the salt on the fries. It's why a combo adds $2 for half a potato and sugar in water
>>29258504i unironically dumpster dive from time to time. america has one of the most wasteful mindsets and i take full advantage of that when i can. i also have been compiling multiple ways to get free restaurant quality food through multiple online exploitsive been thinking about making a zine about it to help people that would like to be in the knowalso, here is one of my dumpster gains from a long time back, maybe 3 months ago. i havent done it much recently since its been really cold, but thats a great thing for the excess food since dumpsters are pretty much powerless refrigerators in the winter
>>29263126Based indoor rancher
>>29271981id also like to state this may have been one of my best/worst hauls because at the time of looting it all, there was so much more that i physically couldnt carry on me because i had forgotten my carry bag. feels bad man i couldve been stocked on those fruit drinks for weeks
>>29258504I'm a schizo when I cook meats. Made a rare steak and this whole time been paranoid if I got some intestinal infection.
>>29263126Gosh I need the original thread, can we find this at the archive? (please?). There is also one of a guy that would get ducks at ponds and he was growing then at his house to sell to Chinese restaurants.
>>29270990Sodium is one electrolyte. Others include potassium, calcium, magnesium etc.
>>29272077Bacteria can't travel through beef muscle tissue, if you cook the exterior of the beef you're 100% fine. I went full carnivore last summer and I always ate my steak as raw as possible, maybe 1 minute 30 seconds in total on a hot pan. I even ate a raw ass salmon steak at one point and it was so fucking good I couldn't stop eating even though the texture was awful and my brain was complaining. Last time I was sick was when I dripped a bit of old bacon grease on some eggs, and the uncooked oil made me instantly vomit.
>>29272065how dangerous is it to dive dumpsters? can you get stuck in there somehow?
>>29272129Yeah, and in what form are those consumed? Oh yes, they are consumed when they're a salt. Today you learned more things than NaCl are salts.
>>29258504>man I spend way too much money on food>order a bunch of bulk rice and beans>turns out I fucking hate beansIdk, I spend 1k+ on food a month and am fat as shit. Poverty food feels like living in a gulag.
>>29258504I eat like shit, shop at Aldi and charge it on my credit card that gives me cash back.
>>29272284if youre able bodied then pretty much anyone can dumpster dive. safety first though!! dont just jump in all willy nilly, always assume a dumpster has broken glass, needles, etc on the bottom as a safety measure as to not cut or hurt yourself. most of the time my best hauls come from not even physically getting inside the dumpster itself, just rummaging around the insides and porpping my waist upon the metal sides while i dangle myself. i firmly believe even a parapelegic could dumpster dive just fine as long as they knew what they were doing.
>>29258504I work 80+ hours a week despite having 6 digit crypto holdings so that I can eat the highest quality food possible custom tailored to my genetics and years of trial and error, because it I don't I will either literally die, or go back to how I was before which is worse than death.
>>29272794im gonna try it soon, thanks fren
>>29271559>implying non european food is better then classic european foodNGMI
>>29261143Nope, the selenium decreases it in the body but increases the amount in the brain. No more tuna.
>>29272508How can you possibly eat for 30 dollars a day?Man just buy cheap sausages/meat and potatoes and eat that a lot
>>29264569I understand where you’re coming from but those few dollars in the long run doesn’t bother me when it comes to convenience and taste for all of the party eating it. I don’t buy alcohol and such as well so I think of it like I get to enjoy smaller liberties like enjoyable rice over the liberty of expensive indulgences.
>>29272959good luck fren!if youre serious about this id highly recommend pirating "The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving" by John Hoffman. its and old but amazing book with tons of great information. ill even give you a good tip, if you got any slow traffic shopping centers around your area, they are wonderful starting places
>>29272816What are these foods then?
>>29258504not fast food, but ive been buying too many heady stouts lately. i gotta stop drinking.
>>29264221yes goy, You will eat your poop to save the environment
>>29273133thank u for sharing im interested in doing this. it really is amazing what people throw out due to convenience
>>29258696>>29263465>>29265797How did you guys do it I’m 27 but I can’t imagine still living at home and my parents buying me foodI wish I could go back and never move out, moving out and renting was the biggest scam perpetuated by American culture and society. I just can’t imagine what it’s like to be a super neet or how it works
>>29258504I shop at Costco Spend extra to buy organic and avoid sugar and seed oilWealth cants buy health
>>29266273>freezer water makes it heavier
>>29259213Good work anon
>>29261174dangerously basedwhat else do you manage do grow? I only have some basil in a vase
>>29268156>dad bod>not fatAmerica
>>29271981do not feed the homeless
>>29259213Same with me except it's a chink grocery. Crazy cheap produce and good meat too.
>>29273476I'm not a NEET. I make $80,000 a year. I just live with my parents. I refuse to pay rent, ever.
As someone that only makes 17k a year, potatoes and rice.
Take modafinil, nicotine, or an amphetamine like phentermine instead of eating. It is often cheaper and faster.
>>29265301Focuse on a specific type of cuisine (e.g italian or greek) that you like and get good at it. That way you save money by not having to buy shit tons of ingredients, like for italian cuisine you just need onions, garlic, celery, carrots, tomatoes, eggs, pasta and some herbs that you can grow anywhere yourself (basil, oregano, parsley). Besides that some rice, cheap wine, and literally any type or cut of meat and cheese can be made into any different combination of a meal.These are all cheap ingredients besides the meat, cheese, and tomatoes. And even then you can purchase cheap cuts of meat, or shop at a discount store for that shit.One of the great things about italian cuisine is a lot of it you can make ahead, the tomato sauce, the meatballs, the ragu, so that you can prepare it all on a sunday and can cook the food when you get home from work or whatever.
Why be frugal with what you put into your body? I only eat grass fed meat and organs from a local farm. The rest of the grocery store shit is GOY FEED
dumpster diving is pretty greatI used to spend 120 dollars a month on food but I decided I'd rather dump that money into crypto so I started looking in dumpsters rather than buy it. Saves me about 100 bucks a month, which is pretty worth imo.
>>29258504I exclusively eat take-out. Due to working from home, that and the gym are the only thing keeping me sane.
>>29276486This except instead of going to the gym substitute getting really fat
>>29276432dangerously based
>>29263465>>29264135>>29265797 I'm jealous.My dad would never do shit like this for me, and was all too eager to kick me out once I turned 18.
>>29258504i only drink water eat fruits, eat oatmeal eggs and plain food, i dont give a fuck im healthy as fuck
>>29264300I think its just you
i live with my parents at 28 and i am signed up for a poor person grocery store that gets donations from boogie grocery stores like whole foods because i live in an extremely high cost area so i get like organic food like meat and produce like really healthy shit and even supplements and vitamin and protein powders where i can spend like forty bucks and get like a week or two of groceries. that and also my parents will help out with shit that i can't get at the store. i live in leaf cuckland so i get like 1800 cad in covid bucks and 900 in welfare bucks so i get 2700 a month to not even work and i put it all in crypto and don't spend any of it on fuck all besides taht and the gym and bjj. the biggest expense is i bought 1200 dolalrs worth of books recently because i'm going to be making videos to collect donations to invest in even more crypto. i'm definitely going to make it. i already turned like 4500 cad to like 10k usd in like the last two and a half weeks. most stressful part is just thiniking about if i had more money to invest i'd be making more money and also trying to get my retarded friends to also invest in crypto. but as for food, man, see if you guys can get a member ship to a poor fag grocery store, its a game changer.
i use a slow cooker and an expensive rice cookeri buy 15 lb bags of koshihikari from the asian market and buy my meat fresh when i need it. i'll occasionally buy lentilstake supplements to fill in the gaps nutritionally. only vegetables i buy are habaneros, garlic, and shiitake mushrooms. about to buy some seed to grow superhotssimple, cheap, effective
>>29277591What recipes do you follow?
>>29277449>>29277591i tend to make alot of stir fries.i like to make rice pilafs by getting, oil, shitake mushrooms, onion and garlic and seasoning like seaweed flakes, japanese red pepper flakes, basil, turmeric, salt, and lemon pepper seasoning sizzling and then i fry up the uncooked rice grains in a wok before i put it in the rice cooker so that the rice is imbued with flavour and digests better. then i slowly shallow fry a protein and cut up vegetables like heart of palm, cabbage, celery, cauliflower, carrots, and bell peppers and stir fry that shit in various different sauces. i also take hella supplements because i can stock up when the shit is at my poorfag grocery store. sometimes i make my own tempeh in an instantpot.
>>29277591you're on the right path, but you should get a deep freezer and stock up on your meat when it's reduced/on sale.
>>29277749i have a maybe slightly odd recipe my mother used to make me growing up poor. i use chicken thigh for this mostly but occasionally will cook cheap cuts of pork this way. this is mostly what i eat, it never gets old for me, i love it.1 part onions sauce, 1/2-3/4 parts rice vinegar (i like to use a onions sauce with a tad of licorice added, forget the name, my bottle is in japanese and i cant read that shit. if you use tamari, use a lot less)2 parts+ chicken stock, reduced sodiummaybe a little water depending on the amount of chickenchopped garlic and habanero to tastesugar to taste, i like to use erythritol insteadcook on high for 4 hours. we called it "teriyaki chicken" growing up but its really nothing like that. in my opinion its the ultimate poor mans meal. i'll still make it after i make it... only other dish i make is a spanish chili>>29277831definitely a good idea anon, thank you>>29277830i love tempeh, might have to look into that
you guys do know rice has arsenic in it right? look it up, i stopped eating it months ago, switch to millet or similaror keep eating poison idc
>>29258504>scarcity mindsetngmi
>>29272326When people talk about salt in casual discussions they're talking about sodium in 99.999% of cases. Stop being a sperg.
>>29263208You don't have to eat like shit to save money in fact cooking your own food will always save you more money in the long run while being healthier.If you know how to do it right Nickel and Diming your food will save you thousands a year if you used to go out a lot.There's no point in buying food outside right now as you face coof risks and are probably getting fatter.
>>29261174I do this with lettuce too. Each one produces a decent leaf a week for a bit. Scaling it is easy so I have a shallow pan filled with romaine sprouts. It really doesn't save me that much, but I like my little sprouts.
>>29268282Yeah, but it hurts me in the long run. It is hardly gonna save me money if I get myself in the hospital again
>>29271039I keep thermostat off. I live in a reasonably warm area so it doesn't get much below -10 C here. I also live in an apartment so I think I am coasting off of neighbors' heating
Haven't used tp in three years. I poop just before I bathe, and my shower is supplied by rainwater and runoff from the bridge running over my house. Also I've taught a bird to collect cans for recycling, and my diet is mostly bugs
>>29258504Shit and piss in my mouth to save on foodI am the dirty shit pig
>>29263705I managed at a really slow Wendy's where employees siphoned/wasted food and cleaning supplies. Not to mention our customer base was mostly rich GenX/Boomers so we sold a lot of grilled chicken and salads, which hurt margins. Even so, we still made significant profit. Did you even read your store's COGS? Sales Journal (w/e equivalent)? I'm sure there is some shady shit going on but they most definitely make margin on their products.
>>29278586instead of believing scarcity I believe in abundance with it all going to me
>>29270990Sodium potassium magnesium etc. Stop being dumb and getting mad at words.
>>29266200You didn't seem to realize that the Sam's Club one does not come with oil. It is just cut potato. The nutrition facts you linked are for pre-fried frozen ones
>>29280556what a fucking retard, "buzzwords", information is free in this day and age. jesus christ.
>>29266952Asian supermarkets are good fucking shit. The more shitty it looks, the more worth-it the stuff is
data on your phone is literally retardedespecially now that everyone works from home
>>29281175>especially now that everyone works from homeMan I wish I could.>t. Hospital fag
My diet now consists of Oats, beans of all variety, brown rice, tea, honey, peanut butter, canned fish, jam and homemade food like bread. For vegetables, I ended up growing bean sprouts of all kinds. I grow mung bean sprouts and harvest them every week. I make some stirfry every friday with egg noodles or chicken and that would be my Chinese Takeout on friday nights. The rest of my takeout money now goes into savings, crypto, stocks, and the occasional silver ounce every week.
>>29271351>Why do you think those Africans on the poor people continent look so sickly? it’s probably just a lack of Gatoradethis may unironically be true
>>29281304If you live near an Indian/Asian supermarket, I would suggest trying it out if you enjoy eating beans and bean sprouts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E3xUr-aQlI
>>29262654...Anonymous (ID: EbP3i9Tj)02/20/21(Sat)20:07:19 No.29262654>>29258504 (OP) #Eating ze bugs is unironically awesome. Saves money, environmentally friendly and is just fun and cool.
basically been gaming the self checkout system in a couple grocery stores and cvs — I stock up on expensive protein (3-4 per day) and one supermarket has a hot buffet which I eat frequently.... normally spend about 2 dollars in each location by charging whatever I buy as a water bottle
>>29265939I only eat meat. Most cost-efficient food, most nutrient dense.
>>29265837The Potato diet is the most cos-effective one I've ever tried. Its really amazing how much money you can stretch out eating a 10lb bag for at least one week.
>>29266713Broccoli is pointless and might get you thyroid problems. Brown rice is worse than white rice.
>>29269928Yeah and they are completely devoid of nutrition.
>>29271981This is why we dump bleach on our grocery waste at big retail grocery stores, to prevent people like you from making it. Stop trying to beat the system and pay sales tax on your food faggot
>>29278420Asian empires specifically china has existed for thousands of years, subsisting off of rice. You fell for the American (((FDA))) Big Grain FUD.
>>29282876right?> race with longest average lifespan eats a fuckton of rice> MUH ARESNIC
Imagine saving money on food, u only young once and tastebuds will die one day.
>>29283049you can legitimately save money compared to normies by eating better
>>29278420Lots of health food has arsenic in it, dose makes the poison
Find a store that specializes in grocery store overstock. Most areas have one. Expiration dates don’t mean shit on most items (obviously use your best judgement). I have an organic grocery overstock near me and most items are super cheap. Literally cut my grocery budget in half if not more.
>>29264300It’s called subliminal messaging, most ads use it. Look it up.
>>29258504i'm on food stamps, it rules
>>29258504i rotate between different meals and cook in bulk. this week it was: -pasta with tomato sauce, italian sausage, garlic and onions - lentil curry-split pea soup-beans and rice with cuban pork cooked in orange juicejust got some chicken thighs and veg to make thai red curry when the stuff i made runs out. my technique is to make large amounts and freeze half of what i make, then live off the leftovers for a week or more. i get eggs and yogurt and coffee, that's my breakfast usually. i've been living off $100/month since august or so, when i really got into crypto and decided i wanted to put every spare dollar into it in preparation for the bull run. also cooking is very meditative for me, i like to put on some tunes and just zone out after working and doing homework and whatnot.
I used to make what I called pitzas a few years back when I first lived out on my own. All you need is pita bread, a few spoonfuls of tomato sauce, bag of a mozzarella cheese, and some pre slice salami. Basically just assemble it how you would a pizza and just put it into an oven, toaster over, air fryer, or if youre a pleb a microwave oven works too. Only needs a few minutes for the bread to toast, cheese to melt, and meat to to get warm. Fast and instant personal pizza for cheap. You can put whatever toppings you want on there too, ground sausage, garlic, some basil, bell peppers, anything. I haven't tried this yet but feel free to take the idea form me to make this work anons. If you cut the pita bread in half it kinda opens up into a pocket pus- pocket pita. I theorize that you can just put all of those ingredients inside and coat the inside with tomato sauce with extra cheese with your toppings, then wrap it in foil and heat it in the oven and now you have a pitzone.
>>29263249good for cost. terrible for nutrition. no vitamin A, no micronutrients, etc. go carnivore ASAP
>>29258504Beyond the topic of what you eat, it's also a question of where and how you buy. Obviously bulk buying gives big benefit. Costco or Sam's Club often have per unit costs 1/2 of the normal grocers.But there's another type of store which many people never take notice of: restaurant supply stores. Every region has their own chains, so you'll have to do some research on the options in your area. Here in the PNW, the big chain is Smart Foodservice. They're kinda dumpy little stores that nobody looks twice at, and which don't get much traffic, but they allow public shopping, and have all kinds of niche and weird shit that normal retail buyers wouldn't go for.If you're the kind of autist who could live for a month on a giant #10 can of queso and giant bag of tortilla chips, for example. Or, if the idea of buying 10 lbs boxes of frozen tendies at a time sounds appealing... well, I would at least suggest to take a trip to one to see what they've got.