/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13453068
blood

>>13453068
Onions, spinach, olive oil and spices.

Just make chili dummy

>>13453079
>beans

>>13453079
>rice

I use this on my beans/rice/vegetables and it makes them taste delicious. It MUST be the bold and spicy version.

>>13453135
how long does it last for? like do you need to add a large amount of the bottle for cooking, or will it last like 20+ meals?

Can of tomatoes, cup of beef stock, ground coriander, ground cumin, smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, cinnamon. Top with fried eggs.

>>13453142
don't add during cooking... add it when it's on your plate. it will last about 12-15 meals

>Rinse rice
>Dice onion and garlic
>Saute onion and garlic in oil
>Add rice and stir to coat in oil
>Season
>Pour over water, cover and simmer until water has evaporated and rice is cooked

Then do your beef and beans in a seperate pan with some diced capsicum, tomatoes, cumin, ground coriander, chilli and paprika.

>>13453068
olive oil, onion, garlic, chili, cumin, cilantro, and sriracha is how I do mine, but then I also put in a slice of cheddar and a dash of milk. You are pan frying it, yes?

>>13453181
>Rinse rice
What third world country are you from?

guys im not a millionaire i'm looking to spend $5 a day on food i'm going to go broke just from the water bill to clean the 47 dishes you're making me use per meal

>>13453191
New Zealand.

>>13453068
>beef
>cheap
so the idiot that can't understand pricing scales is having financial problems... what a shocker

>>13453191
>Not rinsing rice

You could only afford 33 beans?

>>13453199
2 pans and a plate? Fuck off then.

>>13453214
I mean you can get like 4000 calories of beef for $10. That's $5 a day.

>>13453068
Refried beans, diced tomatoes, lettuce, salsa, cheddar. You can also cut way back on the hamburger and add more beans and some beer bullion, wrap it all in a tortilla.

>>13453068
Cajun seasoning, I'm sure you can find a big shaker of it in the supermarket for <$5. Get some veggies in there too, or at least take a multivitamin

>>13453254
Yeah I microwave $1 worth of frozen vegetables per day.

>>13453068
In the Asian sauces section at Kroger, I'm partial to Peanut Chili Sauce and Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. In the main sauce area the Lawry's brand Baja Chipotle sauce is really really good too.

>>13453259
Based. When I was living cheap a while ago I made the same dish you're making + cajun seasoning and lentils, which are another nutritious thing easy to buy in bulk

>>13453278
What's the difference between lentils and beans? Right now I'm just using pic related.

>>13453283
On a scale of one to "walmart brand bean mix", how much do you hate yourself?

>>13453235
by that logic virtually all food is "cheap" you fucking mongoloid since beef is one of the most expensive things you can get at the grocery store so delete your faggot thread and buy literally anything

>>13453412
and what is wrong with the beans i posted exactly?

>>13453427
i bet you think if you buy a big bag of rice for $50 that somehow makes rice an expensive food item

>>13453427
i would consider anything that gives you one day worth of calories for $5 to be a cheap food. not everything you buy in the grocery store does that.

>>13453435
that better be a really fucking big bag of rice for that price, ass clown. And no i don't, i think it's literally one of the cheapest foods you can buy. Stop being retarded.

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>>13453446
>calories
again, most raw ingredients are going to be able to do that and be far cheaper than beef. The problem is you're cooking retarded and are only familiar with premade shit and frozen dinners, so that is what you are comparing it to. Beef is not cheap. If you think beef is cheap, then everything else should be cheap for you too.

>>13453068
retarded whiteoid
literally just look up any cuban/mexican ricenbeans recipe and copy the spicing

>>13453462
name a raw meat that's cheaper than beef for calories

>>13453430
Walmart aggressively price shops and threatens to back out of purchase agreements to renegotiate prices, as a result, suppliers have to significantly lower their quality standards in order to keep them as a customer, the long and short of it being that they don't inspect or remove obvious contaminants like rocks or rotting vegetables before they freeze or can produce for WM.

>>13453468
Venison. You can get a whole Buck for a 32 cent round.

>>13453471
i'm pretty sure that would be highly illegal, also i didn't even buy them from walmart

>>13453468
hmmm that's tough one... oh right, the other two stupidly common ones taking up an entire fucking aisle right next to beef called PORK and CHICKEN.

>>13453485
do you actually think chicken is cheaper than beef? lmao your iq has been exposed.

>>13453430
Six bean mix is for middle aged, midwestern mothers to use in a "spicy" bean dip. Mixing that many kinds beans fucks with the texture, and canned beans are iffy anyway. The dried ones are better and cheaper.
You didn't answer the question either, faggot

>>13453488
please leave this board, kill yourself, fuck off, and never return.

>>13453068
Make refried beans from pinto beans. Add garlic cheap chicken bouillion cubes dissolved in water and a 1 half of a seeded fresh jalapeno to the beans. (Remove jalapeno before eating)

Bake bone-in chicken thighs and shred

Make chipotle sauce by pureeing adobo chilis with mayo

Fry a corn tortilla in oiled pan 10-30 seconds each side

Layer chipotle sauce, refried beans, shredded chicken and top with shredded iceberg lettuce

Prep chiplotle sauce, beans, beans and chicken ahead and make tostadas anytime.

Or just fry some corn tortillas cut up into triangles in a 1/2 inch of oil drain on plate with paper towels, stir fried tortila chips into some cheap canned salsa over heat in a frying pan and serve with fried eggs.

Add cumin, chili powder, fresh or powdered garlic and lime juice to the beans. Cook rice in chicken bouillion cube water. Add salt or packet taco seasoning to beef brown and drain fat. Roll it all up in a flour tortilla.

>>13453481
WM has a huge team of cutthroat lawyers that put together incomprehensible contracts that give them outs so they can do crap like that. Try to get a job there, there's a massive employment agreement you have to sign, and they pretty much tell you that if take the time to actually read it first, you're not the right person for the job.

>>13453508
you're saying that like it's a bad thing, even though you admit yourself it drives their prices really low as a result, which ultimately benefits the customer

if what you're saying is true (still no source), it probably happens so rarely it would never effect you ever.

>>13453499
looked it up in multiple stores near me:
beef is around $9/kg
chicken is around $17/kg
beef is also double the calories per weight
so beef is 4x less expensive than chicken

>>13453508
Different anon here I agree with you, but this thread is for people too broke for morals.
OP, separate the rice from the rest and season it differently or not at all. It'll help keep you from getting tired of eating the same thing all the time

>>13453538
Why the rice? And can you do that with a rice cooker? My plan originally was to just buy chili powder or something and throw it in with the beef while I'm cooking it. I don't even know what chili powder is though.

>>13453515
>you admit yourself it drives their prices really low as a result, which ultimately benefits the customer
It really does neither of those things. Other stores with much, much higher quality store-brand canned goods like Winco for instance, tend to be the same price or lower without resorting to using fillers. Just compare WM juice and Winco juice. WM juice is practically all corn syrup, whereas Winco is 100% juice. The only people saving any money or living any better, are the Waltons, they couldn't give a rat's ass about their customers, their employees or their producers.
>it probably happens so rarely it would never effect you ever.
It's their entire business model.

>>13453538
>this thread is for people too broke for morals.
I still think there's better and cheaper options, but to each their own. I started growing my own food because I disagree with the entire industrialization/commercialization process of what's basically just plants growing in dirt.

>>13453547
Carbs can have a slightly sweet, but still savory flavor when cooked on their own. I've never used a rice cooker, but a nonstick sauce pan works fine. Chili powder is made from chili peppers. You can find it in the spice section, which is listed alphabetically. Some have a bunch of other ingredients listed, avoid those. They may look cheaper but if they're padded out with salt, it's price is inflated.

>>13453556
>1g of sugar per half the can
>all corn syrup
you're just stretching dude
like i know some cheap foods are bad for you, but when all you're buying is raw ingredients like this you're literally just getting the same thing

>>13453068

>>13453556
THIS NIGGA GROWIN BEANS
>>13453579
Answer the question
>>13453498

>>13453068

>>13453579
Don't ignore the qualifier "practically", just to justify calling me dramatic. I chose that particular example, not because it was the best, but because it's one of the very few examples I know off the top of my head, since I'm allergic to corn, and I haven't been able to plant any fruit trees yet, hence, store-bought juice.
>when all you're buying is raw ingredients like this you're literally just getting the same thing
You're not though. WM brand is inferior to most other store brands, because they know they're almost a monopoly, and can demand better deals from suppliers, who then have to cut corners in order to make a profit at the price point WM wants.

>>13453612
You still haven't said why they're inferior though. You say that have corn syrup in them, but it has 2g of total sugar (including the beans) in the entire can.

>>13453068

>>13453632
I was talking about the juice, as a point of comparison. The only cutting I can see happening on the beans is just that they're probably lower end cuts, canned at the end of the season, stuff grabbed off the ground, or handled by workers with a lower standard of sanitization, etc. I took a year off work to travel when I was younger, decided to take a quick job on a farm to make some more traveling money, and let me tell you, the kinds of conditions on some farms are disgusting. When you need to take a shit, and you're told you're not getting a ride back to housing until the shift is over, you pop a squat in the field, wipe with your hand and get right back to picking produce. I don't 'know' that that was being sold to WM, but I do know that you get what you pay for, so when you're wondering how romaine gets ecoli, that's how.

>>13453068
sour cream

>>13453068
>1lb ground beef
>3 diced onions
>3 diced bell peppers
>3 cloves of garlic, finely minced
>1 quart chicken stock
>thyme, black pepper
Brown the beef then add the veggies and then the stock. Add in another quart of water and simmer for about 3 hours adding water if needed. Reduce down to a gumbo-esque consistency and serve over rice. I call it slop o’ shit style 4.

>>13453068
bottle is literally like a $1 bro

>>13453214
>t. Canadian

>>13453068
Garlic, onions, canned tomatoes
All much cheaper than ground beef you goofy fuck.

>>13453598
this, but ironically

>>13453219
I've never rinsed rice and it always turns out fine

>>13453068
How fucking insanely poor do you have to be to resort to this? Even people in third world countries eat better than that. You blowing all your money on drugs or something? If you seriously earn that little that you can't afford decent food, you should probably just fucking off yourself now - Should be spicy enough for you.

>>13453888
I thought Rice and Beans are the staple poorfag meals?

>>13453880
i always rinse and actually found a pebble once

>>13453880
because you're a low IQ moron who doesn't even know rice contains high amount of arsenic. People in Asia didn't know about arsenic but they always washed the rice, removing a good % of the arsenic in it in the process.

how to remove most of the arsenic in the rice:
1. only eat basmati rice
2. wash the rice several times before cooking
3. cook it with way more water than normally needed
4. rinse once again
there will be too much water in your rice but it's better than the traditional method.

>>13453135
Being poor isnt an excuse to eat like a fucking kid who doesnt know how to cook.

>>13454362
>how to remove most of the arsenic in the rice

>>13453430
Nothing

>>13454427
i understand it can sound funny for low IQ morons like you
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/simple-cooking-method-flushes-arsenic-out-of-rice/

>>13454503
>scientific american
>for low IQ morons like you

>>13454517
i thought you would be clever enough to check the original sauce in the article (was published in nature, do you know what nature is, brainlet?) but even that is too complicated for you. brainlet pleb i piss on your stupidity.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131608

>>13453068

Ingredient mix sounds pretty standard to go with southern spices, you should buy some chili powder in BULK (individual bottles have extreme markup) and shove that shit in there. If you want to get fancier you can break it down into the individual spices and create a preferred mix, aka cumin, onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, ancho powder if you can find it, chipotle powder if you like it. Add actual onion and garlic, chilis, etc. if you can afford the extra few dollars.

>>13454661
>implying i even clicked on a scientific american link
>waaaah arsenic in rice isnt a minimal amount that doesnt matter, must wash it off or i get the cancer guys oh no

>>13454343
If you live in a normal country, the rice will not contain a high amount of arsenic. Developed countries and even the US are very strict about that. If you rinse, you wash off the starch coating and some vitamins, giving it a fluffier texture. For some dishes (risotto, sushi, ...) this is not what you want, but for others it may be.

>>13453068
>whatever would you suggest i add to it (that's also cheap) to make it taste better?
aspartame
ground celery seed
cumin
ginger powder
chili powder

>>13453534
ITT: retards learn that different things have different prices in different places

Not that other buttmad anon, but where the fuck do you live that chicken is so damn expensive? I can get boneless chicken breasts for like 4€/kg

>>13454753
He uses $ but also kg, so he's not from the US. Maybe he's from some developing country where they are unable to hygienically keep chickens in facilities like pic related. These industrial chicken houses are what makes chicken so cheap.

>>13454753
>>13454792
Literally every country that isn't a frozen wasteland and can support life has chickens as a staple resource. He was probably comparing ground beef to overpriced organic pre-sliced chicken breast or some retarded faggotry instead of buying a whole chicken. Or more likely he's just full of shit. If chicken is expensive where he lives, than beef is almost certainly going to be even more expensive unless he literally lives on a cattle ranch and is buying it wholesale. But again, he's probably just either full of shit or too retarded to compare the prices correctly.

>>13454719
Wrong. The US has some of the highest levels of arsenic in their rice.
>Rice grown in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and most other U.S. states had the highest inorganic arsenic levels. So it’s best to minimize or avoid rice grown in these areas.

https://www.foodrevolution.org/blog/arsenic-in-rice/amp/

>>13454844
do amerisharts really willfully poison themselves each time they eat rice?

>>13453068
make korean beef and rice

>>13454661

>arsenic
>a non-cumulative poison found in many foods that the body builds a natural tolerance to
>bad enough to warrant rice rinsing

Get back to me when they find lead or mercury, pleb

is anyone else eating like OP for the autistic fun of it and to be used to 2030?

>>13455068
Enjoy your cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
>Rice tends to absorb arsenic more readily than many other plants.

>Regular exposure to small amounts of arsenic can increase the risk of bladder, lung, and skin cancer, as well as heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Recent studies also suggest that arsenic exposure in utero may have effects on the baby’s immune system.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much-arsenic-is-in-your-rice/index.htm

>>13455415

Cancer and heart disease already runs aggressively in my family, I'm getting them regardless, I'll keep enjoying my shitty rice ty

>>13453068

>>13454719
The vitamins are gone as soon as the bran is polished off, mate. When you buy a 20kg bag of real rice (not some kind of enriched, parboiled product) it probably contains enough debris and insects to warrant a rinsing.

>>13453068
Onions, garlic and cumin are what i add to my similar poverty meal.

>>13453534
In Northeastern China currently and chicken breast is about $1.80/500g ($1.62/lb) while beef is at least $5.00/500g. Funnily enough pork was as expensive as beef, if not more, just a little while back due to some sort of swine flu killing all the pigs. The Chinese love their pork so prices went sky high.

>>13454753
>>13454792
canada

>>13454820
why would i compare beef to whole chicken when we're talking about weight? a whole chicken is half bones, whereas beef has none. that's not even close to an accurate comparison.

>>13454792
>>13454820

he's probably canadian, chicken is incredibly expensive here because hormones and antibiotics aren't allowed in commercial farming

>>13456944
You use the bones to make stock you ass clown. And even after subtracting the weight of the bones it still costs less than beef.

>>13456950
a whole chicken is $6.5/kg, let's say it's equal to the price of beef once you factor the bones in, that makes it 1/2 as calorie efficient and therefore a more expensive type of meat

>>13456985
>let's say it's equal to the price of beef
Or let's say what it actually is instead of making up shit.

>>13457000
check for yourself

https://www.walmart.ca/en/grocery/meat-seafood/N-3793

For me its

>Chop up potatoes, carrots and maybe onion and mix with olive oil, salt and pepper
>Roast in oven to preferred doneness
>WALA

>>13453214
Ground beef is only $3-4/lb. dumbass.

>>13453068
cumin, bay leaves, onion, cayenne, cinnamon. or get a can of chipotle peppers, blitz it in your gooifier of choice with a can of water, and stir it through.

For me it's frozen green peas and ground beef. I use ketchup, barbecue sauce, or chinese chili oil to flavor it

>>13453068
>trying to eat cheap so i've been making this ground beef + rice + beans combo and it's pretty good, but it's also kind of plain. what type of sauce / spice / whatever would you suggest i add to it (that's also cheap) to make it taste better?

Try browning the minced meat on it's own, with onions, peppers, maybe some celery or hot peppers. Or roll the meat into balls, and can use fillers of bread or cracker crumbs as well as more veggies to bulk them out, but add flavor. Baking a bunch of once can let you make them ahead, sauce them to reheat them, from BBQ to tomato sauce to sour cream. Dried onion, herb flakes, and seasoning blends can sub in cheaper. Dried blends, bouillon powders.

Look up recipes for the following:
cuban picadillo
cajun dirty rice
various countries in the caribbeans "rice n beans" dishes just to see how they flavor them
>>13453430
>>>13453412
>and what is wrong with the beans i posted exactly?
Nothing at all. They're going to give you a variety of flavor and nutrition. If you can bring yourself to soak them overnight and cook it, dried beans are about half the price.

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>>13453068
Chili comes to mind
Add some tomato sauce and put it in some bell peppers
make some meatballs with any sauce you want
bbq beans
stir fry over rice
Italian sausage and pepper rice
Those 3 ingredients have a ton of possible uses

>>13454844
>>>13454719
>Wrong. The US has some of the highest levels of arsenic in their rice.
>>Rice grown in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, and most other U.S. states had the highest inorganic arsenic levels. So it’s best to minimize or avoid rice grown in these areas.
>https://www.foodrevolution.org/blog/arsenic-in-rice/amp/

Ehh, not so fast.
When you read a 2016 survey of american available domestic and foreign products that the FDA did to test every single bag on the market, this is no longer true by type or by state. The bran on brown rice seems to be able to absorb more arsenic, but as you can see it varies widely by bag if the white is better or worse, when they tested rices from all over the states and all over the world.
https://www.fda.gov/media/86074/download

It appears to be really a big problem. I'm going to limit my rice now, though it looks like I can make fried rice more frequently, since it'll finish drying out an overly wet rice.

mix up your ingredients every now and then.

for example, you can replace your kidney beans with chickpeas and ground beef. add in frozen carrots and peas and some potatoes with the curry style of your choice. it goes pretty well with coconut curry style or Japanese style.

I also like to make Korean inspired beef bowls which is pretty much cooking the ground beef with a bulgoli sauce and scallions. you can use frozen edamame beans as your bean for this dish.

there are so many meat rice and bean dishes you can make. you can even skip the sauces and just go for the spices if you want it to be healthier and cheaper.

>>13457009
>walmart
how about an actual grocery store fuckhead

>>13453068
best sauce for ricy beef

>>13453068
>of sauce / spice / whatever would you suggest i add to it

Cajun

I really want to eat more lentils and beans but they take so long to cook l feel like I’m wasting electricity

Looks like some cajun dirty rice Op

>>13453068
>I tried to eat cheap
>so I ate some meat
Every fucking time. What the fuck is wrong with people ? If you're focusing on money saving cut the fucking meat it's way more expensive than about anything else.

>>13459409
mentally ill vegan detected. if he wanted to save all his money he could eat grass for free. unfortunately meat is an essential part of a balanced diet, loser.

>>13459415
>vegan
If you're that afraid you could eat some meat once or twice a week, it's enough.

>>13459427
maybe for a little bitch who weighs 103 lbs

>>13457009
According to your link chicken is indeed less expensive. Shocking. As if that wasn't already obvious to anyone who has been in a grocery store before.

>>13453477
As much as I want to agree, it’s not fair to make that claim unless you factor in the additional costs that come with it. E.g. firearm/optics, gas to travel to and from your hunting location, licenses, lease fees if you aren’t hunting public land, and whatever processing tools you might need if you don’t take it to a butcher.

>>13454362
Indian rice is the worst for arsenic, check your rice bags to see where it actually comes from. But yes you should rinse all rice, multiple times until the rinse water comes out clear

>>13454362
>there will be too much water in your rice
Not necessarily, just don't overcook it and don't use a temp too high.

>>13453068
Get some fuckin Valentinos brah.