/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13035389
>Only cookie/cake recipes I know require butter and milk.
I think cookies will work with vegetable oil if you refrigerate the dough until it firms up before baking. Most instant cake mixes use oil and water too, but also need eggs.

You could do a basic fried dough that gets rolled in sugar after frying. Sometimes a simple sweet porridge is tasty too but that works better with oats or whole wheat flour.

Two 5lb sacks of flour plus two 1lb sacks of dry lentils = over 3800kcal per dollar.
Enjoy.

Rice with fried egg. You could also maybe add seasonings like black pepper and red pepper flakes. Roasted bell peppers on the side for even more flavour.

>>13035389
It might be worth researching what wild edibles grow near you and supplement them with basics for more flavor and nutrients. Many of the weeds we mow or pull from lawns are actually more nutritious than veggies they sell in supermarkets.

>>13035389
Canned fish like sardines or salmon is inexpensive, healthy, and tasty. Not as cheap as lentils and beans, but a 6oz can of salmon is like $3. Sardines are like $1 a can

Oats, cinnamon and chopped fruit are a cheap, nutritious and filling alternative to sugary cereals.

>>13035741
Anon wasn't talking about low calorie snacks, anon

>>13035389
Food pantry.

>>13035389
Why do lentils have such a bad reputation? They taste great, quick to cook, and are crazy cheap.

>>13035389
Red lentil and beetroot soup. Really nutritious and cheap as well.
Polenta oven “fries”. Good as a snack.
Oat burgers. Slightly more expensive but really good.
Refried beans and rice. Classic.
Taters and quark.

>>13035755
Oats works very well as a meal what are you in about

>>13035389
Extremely cheap food is SO easy to figure out, yet this thread come up for the millionth time.
Everyone knows about beans and rice. Prices vary, just walk around in the cheapest market in town and buy whats cheap. Are potatoes cheap? Get a sack. Is chicken 59 cents a pound, again? Buy that. Are eggs 49 cents a dozen, again? Buy that. Is there expired meat, bread, veg for a bargain? Buy that.
This isn't difficult you fucking retard.

>>13037224
>expired meat
Why not recommend dumpster dive?

I eat this dish that I make in large portions when I don’t feel like cooking or going out. It consists of:
>4 beef hot dogs sliced
>1 cup rice
>sliced onion
>frozen mixed veg from a huge bag
>sazon Goya
It’s pretty damn good and you can mix and match ingredients with whatever’s on hand. Dirt cheap and tasty

>>13037262
>>13037224
Expired is the wrong word.
It's just passed the sell-by date.

>>13037262
Poor people can indeed dumpster dive without shame. I dont have a problem with that.
By "expired" I mean its the final day of the "sell by" date. Its not bad yet, its just getting a bit old, and the retailer would rather have 25 cents on the dollar, than nothing at all. So, huge discounts. Perfect for lowest tier people like OP.

>>13037268
Never saw sell-by date. Only expiration or best before date.

>>13037274
Oh, now I know what you mean. We usually have these sections in supermarkets where they put everything what’s gonna go bad in like 2-3 days. Never saw meat meat in there tho.

>>13035389
just pasta and sauce.

>>13037277
"best before" is sell-by.
They have to throw that food out even if it hasn't spoiled.

>>13035389
mix those things together and make a shitty pancake

>>13037274
what are some good places to dumpster dive? anyone have experience getting leftovers from factories or anything? there's a large industrial bakery near me and i wonder if it's possible.

>>13035389
You could probably scam at least one meal a day from a church or food kitchen. In some particularly hipster places or near college campuses they have those restaurants where you pay what you can. Just give them $0.50 for a sandwich or bowl of soup. That knocks out one meal and you don't even have to cook it.

Go to discount stores rather than large chains to buy dented canned goods for super cheap. Sometimes industrial named-brand bread bakeries will have outlet stores to sell their overstock and "damaged" goods that they can't send to grocery stores. You can get a few loaves for a couple of bucks and freeze them.

The biggest thing is to just not be a fatass. You'd be amazed about how much money you save with good portion control. You can actually afford more than canned vegetables and cheap ramen if you're not eating like a pig. Measure what you eat and adjust it. You don't need to eat 8oz of meat for every meal. You don't need a whole plate/bowl of veggies with everything. With portion control you can afford to spring for fresher foods.

>>13035389
Mcchicken

>>13037286
I got a pound of precooked shrimp for 1.48 yesterday. It reeked but I just put it in soup.

>>13038634
Quality post anon.

>>13035755
Oats have the same calories as any other grains/rice/dry legume: about 350 for a 100g serving

>>13035389
>ess than 15 minutes of preparation
you are doing poor wrong you doofus. hope you choke hard

>>13035389
>and any cheap flavoring (worcestershire, louisana hot sauce, salt, etc
if you can find a store that sells spices in bulk, then they become cheap

grocery outlet bargain market
dumpsterdiving
around here foodbanks give out foood that was headed on its way to the dumpster

>>13037224
>.59 cents a lbs for chicken
>.49/12 egss

Where do you live?

>>13038891
Chicago.
This was in the newly posted weekly ad. How much do you pay for chicken?

>>13038939
reminder that on sale food is only on sale because the store has a surplus they need to get rid of because it's nearing its expiration date. enjoy getting sick on your cheap meat!

>>13038981
>I don't know how to cook
>I'm afraid ${somethign} because the """"news""""" told me to be
>sanitation sanitation sanitation
Americans, every time.

>>13039010
not quite sure how you got that from my post, but alright. stay obsessed, third worlder

>>13038588
http://trashwiki.org/en/Main_Page

>>13039028

>>13038981
>What is a 'loss leader'

cook 1 lb of split peas in 6 cups of water. puree. flavor with salt and a splash of cream.

If you're poor for real, use the food bank. It saved my life and maybe it can save yours

Buying in bulk is important. Stock up in bulk as often as you can from sales. Once you build a good stock of preserved food it gets a lot easier. Freeze serving sized bags of protein (chicken, beef, etc.). Buy herbs and spices slowly and over time, they last for many servings. It's better to shop for proteins once every two to three weeks and go to market for fresh on sale produce on the weekly.

Oatmeal + raisins, cinnamon, cream, butter, sugar.

Pancakes, cheap syrup heated with butter in the pan.

Stews with potatoes, carrots, and a protein.

Rice, beans, a protein, and a thousand different herbs/spices to try.

Right now they are struggling to sell peanut butter, so that should be cheap. Peanut butter cookies are one to three ingredients. PB, PB + Flour, or PB + Flour and another sugar (chocolate kiss or sugar dusting).

Sauce tomat (one of five mother sauces) e olio

1/4 cup olive oil
7 minced garlic cloves
simmer 1 minute
add in 1 can stewed tomatoes

from there add in herbs, fresh tomatoes, simmer red pepper with the garlic, you do you.

cheap breakfast hash

chop up a potato, bell pepper, and an onion.
sweat onion down for 3 mins in oil
add in bell pepper, stir, simmer for 2 mins
add in potato, stir, and season with dried/fresh herbs, salt, pepper
cook until done

put in bowl, fry eggs, drop eggs right on top.

look up german pancake recipes, add jam

>>13041687
oh yeah simmer tomato sauce on low for at least 20 mins, add a pat of butter, simmer for another 10

you can get away with it for less in a hurry

>>13035427
why need 5 pounds of flour but only 2 pounds of lentils. Why not Pinto Bean? need more pounds of beans. flour last months beans last 1 week tops if beans everyday. but the flour just what? how much bread you making that last same as beans. need sugar too salt, butter, something green at least some collard greens or turnips.

>>13035389
Go to the butcher and buy the fat trimmings, get the cheapest roast or pork cut and make yourself some 60/40 ground meat with a blender. You need to go real light on the blender because it'll burn the motor right fast if you don't. Get some lettuce, onion and tomato, rice or potato and buy some corn oil and vinegar, and get your favorite fresh herb. Make a salad dression from the herb, salt, oil and vinegar, use all the herb and make sure you add enough vinegar and put into a squeezy bottle in the fridge.
Make yourself a delicous salad and serve with the potato or rice, topped with meat.
I OMAD so I guess for you guys that eat more than once a day, you can come up with some derivation of this.

>>13037274
>lowest tier people like OP.
I typically don’t give a shit about political correctness or “wrongspeak” but this is a very faggotty thing of you to say. Don’t be a fucking jerkoff in a good thread

>>13038641
Best-by dates are one thing but don’t buy seafood that is obviously bad. It will fuck you up

>>13035389
>3k Cals. / $
Definitely different pricing here ..

Warm memos:
>replacing carbs with protein
>getting 150g / day

>>13038939

Far too much.

Buy a big sacks of cheap rice at asia shops.

>>13037274
>>13037224
>>13037224
if you're that poor why wouldn't you just get some food from a food bank and then supplement it with cheap beans/grains? the you won't have to eat like a literal starving serf. I would probably steal food before restricting myself that much.

one thing I do is rip off fast food places for all the condiments they're worth. you save 5-20$ right there never having to buy mayo, mustard, ketchup, salt, pepper, etc.

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