/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11759718
Ramen add dried or frozen veggies cheap discount meat, and buy in bulk

>>11759718
Get a job as a line cook. I can eat enough restaurant food during my shifts to get me through the day and often bring home shit. The only problem is you get sick of looking at the same food every day, but it's still a better option than eating hardcore poverty shit every day.

beans and rice. they make a complete something or other according to alton brown. just a little salt and pepper, if you have money left over, get some cheap kilbosa sausages, or some hot sauce or something to give it a tad bit of flavor

Steal shit. If you're in the US, just do it at big chain grocery stores. They can't do fuck about it except call the cops and if you're smart you'll be gone before they respond.

>>11759756
based

>>11759718
Go buy a huge bag of rice.

>>11759718
Beans and rice. You can get like 20 pounds of rice for like 10 dollars. Beans are cheap too. You'll basically be eating the human equivalent of dog food and will grow to hate it. But it's cheap.

>>11759756
based indeed

>>11759756
protip: most dollar stores dont have cameras, and have small packages of basic essentials like rice, pasta, beans

>>11759756
guy at th grocery store i used to work at years ago would come in all the time and stuff crab legs down his trousers and just walk right out. evidently he did it for months before they caught on

Just follow a bunch of social media promotions. There are tons of "If you like this you'll get a free burrito"

They make you fill out forms though I got a free $5 value box from Taco Bell by doing one

>>11759718
churches give out free food still. Find a food church

Beans and rice. That’s it.

>>11759718
Hold up a bank and land a cushy sentence in prison.

>>>/gif/14297324 nsfw

but this legit might help

>>11759718
Drop the dollar near an old person everyday and knee them in the head as they go to pick it up for you then rob them.

>>11759735
>still a better option than eating hardcore poverty shit every day
isn't that kind of what you're doing?

>>11762923
>restaurant food
>poverty
how did i end up posting on bizarro /ck/?

>>11759718
Carve a spear and learn what you can legally hunt where you live.
Live like a wildman, anon

easily but it wont be fun

>>11760986
This. Just go to a food bank if you're that broke.

Dumpster dive
Food stamps
Charity food bank
Sunday homeless meals
Steal while also legitimately buying groceries
Buy only beans/rice and maybe some bulk citric acid to keep the scurvy away
Buy stuff like green onions that you can plant in your window and continually harvest

a can of DEENZ a day keeps the hunger away

some soup kitchen are all you can eat as long you eat everything you take

get a loaf of bread for a dollar, you might even get it slightly cheaper or get ok bread if you check the discount rack at the grocery store bakery.
look at the discounted/managers special section. I remember getting a huge 40oz can of beefaroni for 2 dollars, that is enough food for 2 days.
is the goal to spend 1 dollar a day or buy the cheapest things in bulk?

>>11759756
My roommate would put $200+ worth of groceries in his cart and only scan a couple things at the self checkout

>>11764567
>scurvy
Do people still get scurvy this day and age?

>>11759718
Cannibalism is free.

>>11759718
Get a job
Work one day
Get $100 for your day's work
Now you have 3x as much to spend on food

>>11759756
Vanilla extract always seems so easy to steal despite how pricey it is

Why do you have only $1 to soend?

Potatoes. Rice with soy sauce. Dollar store soup and tuna. Spaghetti and butter or cheap tomato sauce. Bread and butter. Biscuit mix. Cornbread mix.

rice+beans

>>11765847
This. Go to Laborworks/People Ready and get some fucking job doing some menial task for the day. Even at the lowest minimum wage you'll make about $50/day.

>>11759718
Being broke sucks.

Eggs and milk are pretty cheap nowadays. About $1.50 for a dozen/$2 for a gallon. Get a bag of potatoes that'll last about a week and a half for $5 Get a $5 rotisserie chicken, eat some, toss the leftover meat and bones in a pot or slow cooker overnight with some carrot, onion, celery. Buy some egg noodles, and you got chicken soup for a few days. Loaf of bread can be had for $1 or less. PB&J or above said eggs or chicken can make sandwiches.

You can do the beans and rice, too. They do tend to get boring real quick, unless you have additional ingredients to spice them up.With eggs and potatoes, I feel like you have a greater range of things you can do with them without a multitude of additional ingredients and they tend to keep you pretty full.

Playing the poverty game sucks, but the knowledge and experience you gain can be enriching. You might as well make the most of it.

>>11759718
My friend lived in India off of two dollars a day, I guess that's your best bet

homemade biscuits, homemade gravy

don't use real butter

>>11766715
when I had to go through that, even they were so saturated with people that they wouldn't send you to jobs unless you came in and sat and waited without being sent out, every day, for a week or two to show that you're reliable

ah to be rock bottom again, those were simpler days

>>11766518
Wew, bad al/ck/ memories triggered. Usually went for the lemon though, much higher proof.

>>11759756
guy i knew used to go to the massive tesco, the brit equivalent of wal*mart i guess, and they'd wander round with a trolley (cart) putting stuff in as if they were shopping
they'd eat stuff out of the trolley as they leisurely went along, putting the packaging in the trolley as if they intended to pay for it
then they'd wander close to the exit and hide the trolley and walk out
i wouldn't have the balls to do it myself unless i "took a phone call" and asked the security guy or someone to watch my trolley for 2 mins while i met someone, then never, ever went back there

>>11760373
>stealing from a dollar store

This is how dollar stores go out of business you faggot

>>11767419
Good riddance. They put all those mom and pop general stores out. If people steal from them and put them out, that's capitalism too.

>>11767410
Best thing about working at Tesco on fresh produce was when I had to throw out of date stuff into the compacter. Stand up there taking bites out of apples and bananas. Eating as many grapes and berries as I could while throwing good food away.

>>11759718
Ya, hell you could MAKE a dollar a day if you ate dick

>>11759718
Get a job.

Here are some suggestions:
>soup kitchen
>only eat every other day
>look up the brothers green eat videos on eating for 3 dollars a day

>>11759718
Rice, beans, potatoes, pasta/flour. Supplement with stuff from the food bank. Get free meals from church and other events

>>11765458
Some retard on here got scurvy 2 or 3 months ago. You can if you eat like a fucking retard although most foods are fortified to prevent deficiencies through your own retardation.

soups /broth
stew
oats
rice
peanuts or seasame seeds
powdered milk
flour
sugar
salt
yeast

find somewhere to garden and learn about canning dehydration and possibly freeze drying.
scout out area fruit trees, the owners usually have more than they can handle might be worth asking them to grab some.

>>11759753
don't forget your enzyme supplement so you don't become that guy at work

>>11767363
How sick did you get?

humans are slow, weak, and have limited defenses. good hunting

>>11769190
Didn't really feel more ill than normal, but I was stealing it to fight off WDs so I felt like shit anyway.

Grow your own food at a nearby creek
Use root based vegetables and shit, they'll often pop back up

>>11759756
This is how I get my non-organic spicies ;)

>>11759756
spit them out DayQuil

>>11759756
Based. It’s almost too easy to “forget to scan everything” in self checkout lanes. Only scan cheap shit and and play dumb if they catch you. Fuck wal mart.

>>11759718
Take up fishing.
Be good at it.

And eat a lot of rice.

Buy horse feed.

>>11765458
A head of cabbage plus some salt costs like 3 dollars.

If you really want to avoid scurvy, make raw saurkraut. It's what the old school pirates used to do.

https://youtu.be/ITpr3e_Ld3U

>>11759718
Fast. Don’t eat for 6 days and then spend 7 dollars on sunday

>>11770229
50 pounds of oats for 18 bucks. You'll be ready to ride out the English when they besiege your castle.

>>11759718
Foraging. Urban or not. And you can eat for Nothing/day

>>11765847
>>11766715
Honestly, this is good advice.
If you only have 30 bucks for a month, even earning another fiver will make a big difference. Shovel snow, rake leaves, or mow grass depending on the season and you can very easily make ten or twenty dollars in a few hours. Then you can buy the rice, beans, oats, eggs, and chickenlegs everybody else is talking about. And definitely get some flour and bake your own bread.
It's all about looking around for work that needs to be done. Is there someone in the neighbourhood with a couple appletrees in his yard that are full of ripe fruit starting to fall off? Knock on his door and offer to pick the apples for him in exchange for a bag of them etc.

>>11759792
For $1 a day, it's basically this. I looked online and Target sells rice for $4 for 5 lbs. That's 80c per lb. So $1 is 1.2 lbs which is about $2000 calories.

I think you can live on rice alone for a month, but if you are worried about scurvy, a bell pepper or lemon should be enough.

>>11759836
As a big bean consumer, beans are not that cheap, but if you can get rice at this price then there is money left over for beans.

>>11765847
Already work like 4x6 hour shifts a week and it sucks ass. This economy is crap for people like me, especially after
>XBL
>phone bill + insurance for said phone
>car insurance because DWI spiked rates
>car lease payment
>300 month to parents for rent
>bar money
Leaves like 120 a month for food, luckily work gives a free meal for each shift worked but it's only 1 combo max

Look into banquet serving for a hotel or catering company. Flexible hours and there's always free food at the end of the night.

>>11770250
That would have been for storage reasons, not because sauerkraut has special vitamin C content. Just eating the cabbage will suffice.

>>11759718
Fuck it, just buy a few six packs

>>11770676
>300 a month for a room in own parents house
>don’t even get meals

Anon just work like two more days a month and rent out an efficiency. Your parents obviously hate you.

Move to Chad. Less than $2 for a week for whole family.

>>11759756
Former grocery store clerk here

Dress normal (don't look like a scumbag)
Bring a reusable shopping bag, you want to look like you made a purchase.
Fill it
Calmly walk out within 10 minutes


You won't get caught as long as you're not stealing expensive cuts of meat, there are security tags in those. Even then nobody but trained loss prevention staff can stop you.
Go during the busy hours for best results.

Theres this place called the dollar store.

>>11770676
>car insurance because DWI spiked rates
>bar money

>This economy is crap for people like me
The economy is shit for most people, but when you say "people like me" do you mean alcoholics? If you prioritize spending money at the bar over eating than there's obviously something wrong. You're not even smart about buying booze. If your willpower is so low that you can't quit drinking, then at least buy your booze at a store and drink at home. It's much cheaper that way and you won't risk another DWI.

Although, depending on how much of an uncontrollable alchy you are, you might want to only drink while your parents are around so they can keep you from drinking to much and getting alcohol poisoning. Either that or pace yourself by just buying a couple nips per night or drink beer or something with a similarly low alcohol content.

Of course it's better if you can work up the self-control to quit drinking all together though. Also if you smoke you should quit that too.

>>11770676
>>11771467
Also just read the rest of your comment and $120 per month for food plus 4 free meals per week should be enough to live on if you're smart about it. And 4x6hr shifts per week is only part time. If you can't get this job to give you full time/ more hours and you want more money, then you should try for a second job and work like 2 shifts/week there, unless there's some reason you haven't already done so.

>>11771235
>farmersmarketindetroit.jpg

>>11770250
>head of cabbage and some salt
>$3
What are you, Canadian?
A cabbage costs $0.48 and salt costs $1.39 for a 3-pound bag here in Texas. Add $0.34 onion and a $0.12 potato and you're golden.

>>11771323
bullshit. prove it

Nepali here

Carbs are your priority, make a simple calorie to cost calculation.
Pro tip: flour, rice and lentils are usually cheapest
Because of transport costs wholesale and Asian groceries will probably be cheaper than supermarkets.
Flat breads come in many varieties and are easier to transport than cooked rice - better for lunches.
Indian chipatti can be made without oil, as can afgan flatbread.

Making your own pasta is also an option, you don't need a pasta machine to make tortellini, fetuchini etc.

Potatoes might also be an option

We usually eat rice and lentil soup with garram massala.
Easily a dollar a serve.

Next go for vegetables, this is where you dumpers dive.
Vegetables are thrown away in huge quantities by supermarkets and farms, you won't be the only one there at closing time.
Vegetables are great because you can visually assess if they are safe to eat (almost always).
Cook them in a pressure cooker if you can, boil them otherwise.

With my steamed rice and lentil curry I make a mixed vegetable curry by pressure cooking random veg.
Cabbage is better peeled to preserve more of the fiber, just peel the outer layers.

Try growing your own food from the seeds (from waste veg if necessary), potstoes are easy to grow and using stacks of car Tyers you get a great yield per meter.
Ask people if you can take cuttings for a herb garden, people probably won't even think it's because you are too poor for seeds and gardeners love to help.

You can volenteer picking fruit for a share of the harvest, check online.
Make jam of you have too much at once.

If you're going to steal, take a pair of salt and pepper shakers from outside a Cafe, you can return them empty.

But at the point you're doing all this it's worth while to try and make some money.
I've never been ashamed of selling things by the side of the road, working on Craigslist, working for meals washing dishes.
Walk into any restaurant, they will give their dishwasher the next night off

>>11769126
Tell me about those enzymes, I'm that guy at work.

>>11759756
Based but try dumpster diving first

>>11767444
Does crime create poverty or does poverty create crime?

Two gallons of these is 60,000 calories. Enough for 2000 calories a day. And you still have $10 to buy snacks.

>>11772980
Calories are relative to your ability to digest them.
Usually that's not a huge concern, but it's the reason extreme dietery choices never work out well.

I'm sure you're joking, but I'm making a general comment for the benefit of those lurking

>>11773078
>Calories are relative to your ability to digest them.
Yes. And that's already taken into account by the labeling on the package. The calories printed on a food container are calculated based on Atwater factors, which takes into account human digestion. They are not the same as the calorie measurement you'd get from a calorimeter.

It certainly wouldn't be a healthy diet to consume nothing but veg oil, but it would keep you alive.

>>11772943
Depends on how many non-whites live in the area

>>11759718
rice and beans - have you never been on this board before?

>>11771513
Dude it's hard man. 4 days is the max I am willing to do, youtube 4 day work week and how it changes people for the better.

>>11773086
imagine the shits

>>11764567
most place but bleach on garbage or dystroy the food when thrownout like my wallmart does

>>11772943
95% of the time poverty creates crime

>>11771467
>10 years since the last recession
>the economy is shit for most people
Yeah no, those people just have a useless skill set.

>>11771297
I don't believe this. I once had a cashier come running after me all the way into the second floor of parking (she took a second elevator to catch up with me) when I forgot to scan something. I legitimately forgot though, so I went back and paid for it. But it reminds me of all the people who say "once you get to the parking lot store policy is that they can't chase you". Some random fat mexican lady chased me down for a missing $5 on an $80 checkout, so I don't believe this "only trained loss prevention" thing unless the secret is they're all trained in loss prevention.

>>11765196
What is DEENZ?

>>11775466
sardines

>>11775464
> I once had a cashier come running after me all the way into the second floor of parking (she took a second elevator to catch up with me) when I forgot to scan something.

okay bro. Most any big name chain grocery store has a no chase policy because an insurance payout is way more than loss of 100-200 dollar items

>>11767355
>don't use real butter
why?

>>11773086
They take into account normal human digestion.

Drink a gallon of oil and you're not going to have anything normal down there, you would have perpetual diorhea

>>11759735
>Get a job as a line cook
Oh, great idea. He won't have an appetite due to his crippling opiate or cocaine addiction that he picked up.

>>11766518
Same with saffron

>>11775578
Well it was a major US grocery store chain, so you're wrong there too.