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I'm poor and gonna have big expenses in the forthcoming months so I have to save as much money as possible.

Give me the cheapest possibly diet that won't affect my health on the long term.

It doesn't have to taste good.

>> No.16166232

shoplift all your food

>> No.16166235

>>16166227
I'm poor too I do potatoes or rice, frozen veggies and cheap meat like chicken

>> No.16166239

>>16166227
Beans and rice. Occasionally eggs. With seasoning rice and bean dishes can unironically be delicious.

>> No.16166240

Rice and beans. Lentils and rice. Fresh fruit occasionally. Ethnic markets are your friend.

>> No.16166313

>>16166227
Deenz, eggs, and frozen broccoli. You don't need anything else.

>> No.16166321

>>16166227
Potatoes, rice, beans and lentils. Add butter as well and you'll be nutritionally complete.

>> No.16166332

>>16166235
Oh shit.
I'm not poor and this is what I eat.
Am I gonna make it?

>> No.16166403

is this poorfag thing a larp or are a third of you subhumans actually minimum wagies

>> No.16166652

Food pantry

>> No.16166664

>>16166403
At least half of 4chan at any given moment is literal 12 year olds.

>> No.16166763

>>16166332
Sounds like you're gonna make potato or rice, frozen veggies, and cheap meat like chicken

>> No.16166892

>>16166763
Chicken is $12/lb a now and rising thanks to the Biden economy...

>> No.16167475

protein will be the most expensive part but there is alot of amateur tein stuff on the internet for free

>> No.16167512
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>>16166227
Oats and squats

>> No.16167515

>>16166227
A big tub of oats, breakfast for at least a month.

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>>16166892
[citation needed]

>> No.16167545

>>16166227
Red beans and rice. Also, you're going to learn to love potatoes.

>> No.16167600

>>16166321
change the butter to lard and you're golden

>> No.16167608

>>16166232
if not all of it, at least pocket some things

>> No.16167614

>>16166892
for $12/lb that chicken better have been goddamn royalty

>> No.16167752

Eat whatever you're going to eat but hydrate more than you usually do.

>> No.16167806

>>16166227
Go to any restraunt that has unguarded carry out. Take it.

>> No.16167819

Oatmeal, frozen broccoli, salt, and a vitamin supplement. Plus all the water you can drink.

>> No.16167979

>>16166892
Lmao every chicken breast in the grocery chains around my country are literally BOGO right now. What shit red state do you live in where chicken is becoming 12/lb??

>> No.16168015

Whatever you do, dont go vegetarian. You cant afford having a sudden lack of vitamins or proten by eating 2 pounds of potatoes a day. You can get diabetic by eating so many starches and nothing else.

Go seasonal when its prudent instead of following strict cheap diet. And have a small variety of different dishes or you'll go insane.

>> No.16168046

Rice, beans, eggs, frozen veges. Get cheap chicken cuts when you can find them on sale. Get a big bag of flour and you can do a lot with that, like make dumplings, bread, pasta noodles, etc. For other shit like coffee, drinks, etc. start going to a dollar store or whatever equivalent you have.

>> No.16168210

>>16167512
taste like shit product that tasted okey was the mapple syrup.

>> No.16168327

>>16166892
I live in Ohio and my Walmart is selling boneless skinless chicken breast for $1.99/lb.

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>>16166232
“self checkout”

more like free meat

One time I got two whole Christmas hams for a mere fo free

>> No.16168672

>>16166227
Start off by not buying frozen fucking food. Generally its more expensive. Sometimes out-of-season things like spinach is a "have-to-buy" or if you don't use much of it at once, it makes sense to buy it for longevity reasons. "Store-brand" is always cheaper; find a cheaper grocery too, like Aldi

You usually don't have to compromise much if you "wait" for sales too, look around different stores. At a local grocery, sometimes they put a $4 off sticker on beef and I can buy at a sale. Chicken legs instead of wings - MUCH cheaper. Same with chicken thighs versus breasts.

get less "popular" items. usually things that are 'trending' get overpriced due to hype. Like avocados.

Finally, just eat less if you can. Eat some until you feel 'satisfied' not necessarily 'full'.

>> No.16168679

>>16168644
I haven't payed for beef jerky since I moved out of my parent's using this neat lifehack

>> No.16168717

>>16166892
2.38/lb in Western Pennsylvania
you are just fucked

>> No.16169505

>>16168717
>>16168327
>>16167979
>>16167614
I like in Oklahoma surrounded by chicken farms. The shock will ripple outward from here.

>> No.16169541

>>16166227
Literally beans and rice.

>>16166232
This.
If its a Mini-walmart (the tiny ones that just sell groceries) or any other grocery stores, there won't even be someone at the door to try and stop you.

And even IF the employees see you shoplifting, just keep walking: they are LITERALLY incapable of stopping you, legally, and so grocery store employees have been told to let you go.
Additionally, corporate are so shitscared of shoplifters not coming back and spending their EBT bucks (Because THER STIL A COOSTUMER!), they won't let management do jack shit to bar you from the store until you've done it repeatedly and verifiably (At which point the only downside is that they'll call the cops, who'll then be there in 30 minutes after you've left).

Pro tip: If they ask you to come with them or see your receipt, shit like that, tell them to fuck off and just keep walking: They can't do shit unless you CONSENT to them doing shit.

>> No.16169545

>>16168644
Did she stick ham steaks to her titties with saran wrap?

>> No.16169549
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>>16166227
potatoes, rice, eggs, beans, farmers markets are dirt cheap.

>> No.16169928

>>16166227
Rice and beans.
Flintstones vitamins if you're worried about the rest.
>>16166232
Shoplifting is a viable, albeit illegal method.
Proceed with caution.

>> No.16169946

>>16166892
>biden did it
>definitely not the fed due to the pandemic that we fucked up
???

>> No.16169953

Food pantry. Eggs.

>> No.16169967

>>16166227
Rice and beans are the usual to go, if you really want to save up head over to the local Asian supermarket for the cheaper large cuts of meat, make sure to cook throughly though.

>> No.16170000

>>16166892
Where the FUCK do you live at nigre?
Its 1.99/ld here.

I know that New york has crazy inflation, but it should only be about 2x-2.5x the price of what it is here.

>> No.16170007

>Cabbage
>Potatoes
>Butter
>Eggs
>Tuna
>Deenz
>Rice
>Beans
>Frozen veg

>> No.16170010

>>16166892
everything is possible when you lie

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>>16166227
50kg bag of premium quality soybeans

>> No.16170119

>>16166227

Don't look at prices per kilo. Look at calories per kilo:

Flour: 15000 kcal/€
Dry chickpeas: 19899 kcal/€
Olive oil: 1300 kcal/€
Butter: 1000 kcal/€
Bananas: 890kcal/€
Chicken legs: 767 kcal/€

Then combine this with foods tha thave the most protein /€ (not to load on carbs and fat)

Chicken legs (once again) 86gr/€
Mozarella or fresh cheese 56 gr/€
Eggs 40 gr/€
Canned tuna 24 gr/€

Then for vegetables:
onions 600 kcal/€
Zucchini 160 kcal/€
Green salad 35 kcal/€

As you can see, vegetables are relatively expensive, so if you want to survive, make food with the aforementioned ingredients:

Bread
Pancakes
Hummus
Banana milkshake (with milk or yogurt)
Fried vegetables/onions
Bread with butter

All this shit should cost you at max €2-4 euro per day depending on how much vegetables you buy.

>> No.16170122

>>16170119

Flour: 7000 kcal/€
Dry chickpeas are 1899 kcal/€ my mistake

And these are based on prices in italy. It might be more expensive for you (olive oil, meat and vegetables) but it gives you a ballpark estimate. Take butter instead of olive oil and local vegetables and so on.

>> No.16170175

google food banks in your area

>> No.16170201

>>16166403
You know in order for society to exist as it does those wagie jobs need to be done by someone. Kill yourself bro honestly i hope you do. Like from the bottom of my heart. The world needs less people like you