/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16064634
Eggs are cheap and good for protein. Rice, beans and noodles are all cheap and healthy

Beans rice and eggs. Cook the eggs and beans in lard. If you happen to see some chicken or pork on sale grab that, if not you'll be fine with no meat for a week.

>>16064634
Stock up on some lentils my niqqa

>>16064634
As someone who grew up poor, I genuinely don't understand people who don't invest in their pantry and instead literally survive on week-to-week shopping. The fact that you're a fucking redditor only explains half that shit. How retarded do you have to be to not keep food on hand? I could have both my legs broken by our local backhoe retard and I wouldn't have to worry about my pantry going empty for months.

I found the thread because it sounded hilarious but I'm kinda disappointed.

You eat twice as much as a mortal man so it's more like $130 for 16 days, and yeah $8 a day is a little thin. Still, fatty ground beef is cheap easy burgers, chicken thighs, eggs, etc. You should be fine as long as you don't lean too much on preprepared food, as tempting as that would be in that position.

>>16064634
How much do McDoubles cost these days? Just get $130 worth of McDoubles and you're set.

>>16064686
Thanks for the input nigger. Since I've been home for the past 2 months and not getting paid my pantry is running low. Can I have some of your stale dusty pantry food?

3,500x8=28,000 calories
One 10 lb bag of rice from Kroger = 16,000 calories, $14
Three 4 lb bags of dried beans from Kroger = 14,040 calories, $10
Total 30,040 calories for $24
You have $106 extra to buy whiskey

>>16064634
>$130
>8 days
Erm, how about Chinese food delivered for dinner 5 of the days and then milk and cereal, bread, ham, peanut butter, chocolate and ice cream?
Why would you even need to ask?

>>16064634
>So I have $130 for food to last me 8 days and could use some recommendations.
Nigga I have $130 for food and it lasts me a fucking month

boil gammon joint in veg stock, roast it in a mustardy glaze and you have meat for 4 or 5 days. save the stock and make risotto with it. probably costs me £6 for a week's worth of meals

>>16064634
did you break your leg by being a retard? cause you're talking like a retard right now.

>How am I gonna get muh big boy welder calories on $15 a day

>>16064634
>welder and work anywhere from 12 to 16 hours a day
lol fucken löser gtfo

>>16064752
Not everyone is ghetto

Your budget is like $16/day so you don't need to go full rice and beans mode. Personally, I'd do a couple big batch meals you can eat for a few days. Something like a pot of chili or bolognese that you can easily reheat. Lots of protein there, too.
In my area at least, pork is crazy cheap so you could get a pack of pork chops and grill those up, serve with a potato for some additional cheap protein.
There should still be some room in your budget for some convenience food or fast food for days you just don't feel like cooking.

>>16064634
>$130 for food to last me 8 days
lmao

>>16064634
Well $130 should buy you 20kg minced meat or 2.5kg (5.5 pounds) a day.

I think you should buy 1/3 meat (meat, fish, chicken, eggs), 1/3 rootfruits and vegs and 1/3 calories (pasta, rice, potatoes, other).

Potatoes are rootfruits but with much more calories when cooked so i put it in the calories section.

>>16064634
I have a 200 word essay due tomorrow what do.

>>16064634
>tradie/welder
>working long hours
this is how I know the post is bullshit.
you cunts get paid like $80 an hour and always fuck off early every chance you get.
never known a tradie to work past 2pm on a friday, the site's "young fella" usually does a beer run at 1 and everyone gets smashed on site before fucking off early for the weekend

>>16065536
I make about $4500 a week gross.

>$130
Just order pizza every day and spend the rest on liquor.

Why are people so bad at budgeting holy fucking christ.

$130 is almost my monthly budget for 2 people. Usually total spent on food comes out to like $100 per person per month if we buy fast food or junk food.

>>16064752
what do you live on? I spend about $65 a week and think that's less than most. I eat a lot of rice and noodles, not much meat, and no drinks besides tea

>>16065739
Because some people eat more than 1 350 calories meal a day you absolutely fucking dolt.

>>16064634
130 USD im assuming
should last you at least a month what with your cheap ass food you fucks take for granted
t. sad canadian

>>16064634
Live on McDonald's cheeseburgers

>>16065612
>I make about $4500 a week gross.
so does literally every other cunt who stands around holding a shovel

>>16064634
>actually posting on r*ddit
Go back then break your other leg then kill yourself

>>16064748
>Eat 2.7 kg of rice every day

Are Americans seriously that poor that "rice and beans" is a legitimate option?

I've been poor in my life, even on welfare, but I've never been poor enough to resort to literal Bangladeshi day laborer poverty tier...

How do you even ear rice and beans? My body would reject it.

Decent budget to work with, don't have to go full poorfag.
You want filling, relatively healthy, tasty.

Sweet potato and lentil daal. Spicy and filling, also very cheap.

One pan chicken and roast veg with seasonings over some brown rice.

Hokkien noodle stir fry - carrot, capsicum, broccoli with soy sauce, hoi sin, oyster sauce. Garlic and ginger. Cooks in about 10 mins. Add chicken if you want.

Big batch of chili, mince, beans, spices over rice.

Just some examples

>>16064634
Don't take it as a period of starvation. It is an opportunity to try fasting. You don't have to fast all 8 days, though I have done that and more. Try 5. Monday to Friday water fast. Then break your fast on Saturday day 6, go easy on the food. Then eat normally Sun and Monday. The thing to remember is to top off on electrolytes (potassium, salt, magnesium), because when you go into ketosis you will be losing water and electrolytes along with it. If you have your electrolytes, fasting will not leave you weak. You'll be lean and mean.

>>16066788

You put beans and eggs in the fucking rice you retard.

Alternately you could skip the rice, buy cheap corn tortillas and some peppers, and eat bean and egg tacos every day. 130 dollars would get you enough simple veggie taco materials to last that time easy.

>>16067017

Nice troll. Beans and rice can be prepared dozens of different ways, each of them delicious

>>16064634
>I made the mistake of asking on frugal reddit and was basically called an alt right nazi because apparently $130 is enough to last you for 6months and working a physically demanding trade is racist.
Cute fanfic.

>>16066678
>Makes $250,000 a year holding a shovel

You truly are a dumb nigger who eats dumb nigger food which is turning their brain into a nigger brain.

>>16066678
spoken like a literal neet. jesus christ. if only you knew how hard real life is

>>16065842
pasta/rice and dried lentils/beans, sardines, oats and whole milk for breakfast.
I actually manage to also drip in dark chocolate, honey, bananas and nuts daily without breaking my budget, ironically the most expensive thing I eat each day is two vegetables at around 75 cents per portion.

>>16064634
I can get frozen pizzas at my grocery store for $5 each and they all have ~2000 cal $40 for 8 days of food.

>>16064634
beans are your go to rn, high in protein and satiating, eggs are solid too but for your cals use lard to cook the eggs or beans or just drink the oil straight, itll cause no problems for you and i am 100% certain someone drank bacon grease for 30 fuckings days and came out on top. also chicken

>>16067831
you can find the thread you mong

>>16064634
50kg bag of premium quality soybeans

>>16064634
Post the Reddit thread, I want to see the salt.

No shame in going to the food bank. It's literally free food.

>>16064634
Rice, noodles and eggs.

>>16064634

Get some thick cream, it's loaded with calories

>go to grocery store
>buy whatever meat is on sale

>>16068348
You mean discounted. "On sale" only means it is for sale, a tricksy term retail uses to avoid admitting the price is usually inflated.

>>16064634
Do you have a dog?

>>16065612
What kind of welding do you do?
I can do arc, mag and oa. Yet to try Tig.
What kind of jobs do you do too?

>>16068379
whatever

With that much money and need for calories, i would focus on rice and beans but I would also recommend plenty of eggs, home made no knead bread, and either bigos or gumbo made in a huge batch. Obviously you should eat veggies too, if you have trouble eating veggies I recommend trying to make something like palak paneer, you can easily substitute the paneer with that soft Mexican cheese in every grocery store that comes in those disks. You should have some leftover money to splurge with if you play your cards right.
Most important advice is to figure out the cost of everything including taxes before even going to the store and doing as much adjustment and penny pinching as you can handle. You can try to cut calories a little anyway if it's only for a week, wont cause that much trouble with such a short time.

>>16064686
they learned JIT supply methodology from their managers.

>>16066678
what an ignorant statement made by a total manchild with no job, education or training.

>>16064634
just fast you fat pig. maybe your weak legs might support your disgusting body then

>>16067864
>>16067986
>>16069827
nah i'm 'strayan.
literally any tradie, construction or roadworker here literally makes minimum $80/hr, usually upwards of $130 or more.
being an electrician here is literally a $250k/year job.

>>16064634
you sound like a cunt that omits information so im just going to tell you to eat rice and beans.

>>16064634
>So I have $130 for food to last me 8 days
What the fuck dude I'm not even a Ledditor and I can go a month that relatively easily. I was gonna give you advice but that's not even a challenge. The fuck is the point of telling you to eat oats when your budget allows for tons of shit.

>>16070667
your dollar is shit though