/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I allways wanted to make a post like this. With anons we can help each other with creatives ideas etc

https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/the-most-common-grocery-items-in-america.html/
I read the first 2 things and already Kek'd

Wtf
did I get shadowbanned?

>>18356168
I live at home but if I am shopping my list is this

Pasta
Potatoes
Chicken breast
Salmon
Olive oil
Parsley
Salt, pepper
Assorted fresh veg - cabbage/brussels/broccoli
Onions
Eggs

THis covers all my bases and costs less than 100$ usually. There is some variance and some sales, like if clams are a 1$~ a can Ill get them for pasta. I grow my own tomatoes, garlic, kale, basil, peppers and cucumbers in the summer (Garlic is year round, havent bought it in over four years).

If Im shopping for my parents, I get stuff like cheese and coffee.

>>18356234
You dont eat crap food? Ever? Fruits vegetables?

It may seem easy to do, but preparing a grocery list that will actuallt fit your needs, both corporal and pocketwise its kind of hard

*fruits
I saw you posted vegs.
Anyways

>>18356244
I do eat garbage food. I gave you the cheapest most idealized list I could and lately I've actually been eating mostly just what I posted. I make hash (2-3 eggs, garlic, pepper, fried potatoes in olive oil, pepper, Tabasco) for my first meal around 1pm, then I drink a big ass soda from the gas station making my daily calorie intake somewhere around 1300-1600 calories.

I dunno what your area is like, but I mentioned Tobasco, there is an Amish store near me that gets random shit in bulk for some reason. Currently they have a whole shopping cart filled with Tobasco for 0.75$ a bottle, so I bought like ten. They do that with a LOT of goods, I got those good Cento tomatoes that Chef John talks about from Italy or whatever, the ones that are imported and cost like $5 a can for $0.75 each too, the catch was that almost all the cans were pretty dented.

>>18356247
I never, ever buy any fruits besides lemons and limes, which are very cheap. Like I said I shop for my parents too, sometimes they will want fruit so I'll get them stuff when it's on mega sale, like in season blueberries for $1 a pint. Never, ever buy that shit out of season/sale.

Honestly as far as shit food goes, lately no, besides the soda I mentioned, I don't eat it but very rarely. It just costs too much now. I can't validate a $4 bag of cheetos. Rarely doritos will be 3 for $6 and I'll get that, but that's all, and even that is stupid.

>>18356168
the store i go to depends on how autistic I get
ALDI
>salmon
>zucchini / squash
>carrots
>potatoes
>celery
>tortellini
>whatever cheese sounds good, usually smoked gouda
>almond milk (yes i know it's gay but i never drink milk fast enough to justify it
>coffee creamer
>ground turkey
>stew beef
>those sick ass hash brown patties
>whole ass side of salmon
>any spices i'm missing

WINCO
>coffee
>whatever meat is on the big dick display on sale, usually ribs or beef of some kind
>sweet potatoes
>tofu
>kimchi
>sausage
>any frozen veg i forgot
>eggs
>chicken thighs

i dont really plan meals beforehand and i just kinda wing it most nights with what i have. i also live alone so anything i make makes leftovers for days

>>18356278
i said salmon twice like a retard. i also forgot about peanut butter and pasta from winco's bulk section

>How you people shop food?
On weekends i go buy stuff i need, i only buy stuff i can't buy near at mom & pops stores, like vegetables, fruits, meats, cereals, etc. I know how much i'm likely to eat so i shop accordingly. I know how much i'm going to need so i shop accordingly:
7X small fruits or enough portions of a big one
7X same but another fruit
One quarter cabbage
1 Vegetable, enough for 7 days (14 portions)
1 Vegetable, same
7 protein sources, i usually go for chicken, because i buy in bulk, so i usually eat the same thing the whole weekend, it's the healthiest, so around 7 chicken steaks.

In the mornings i eat eggs, i buy these daily from a local mom and pop's, they sell them by piece so it's fine. If i get tired of chicken i just swap it for chorizo or cutlets, perhaps beef, for a day or two. (Can also buy near).

>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
No, i actually spend very little in food. Just what i need, literally, i don't even check how much i spend on it. I try to buy local produce, only buy from big chain stores shit like cereal, so that saves a lot of money.

>Also you make a menu beforehand? How you prepare it? You rationalize it by protein/carbs/f & v/ shit fast or frozen food?
In the mornings i eat bread and coffee, plus two fruits, usually an apple and a guayaba. At some point during the day i cook for myself, a 2X sized portion. Either 2 chicken steaks, 2 small cutlets, 6 eggs, or halfs of two of these. I try to avoid beef but it's fine sometimes. As carbs i either buy bread or tortillas, sometimes i cook pasta or rice, but not very often since i'm lazy.

>Are your menus solely based on whats on sale beforehand?
The core of my diet is simple, if i don't find something i can easily swap it for something else. So no, i can improvise i'd say.

I, every now and then, get some fast food, be it pizza, burgers, or whatever, usually on fridays, just to cool off. I try to avoid cooking legumes since they take more time

I make a menu/plan for the week. Sometimes I have my heart set on certain dishes, and will just go out and buy the ingredients. Most weeks though, I'll check what meats are on sale, then base my meal plan around that.

>>18356168
>How you people shop food?
I usually walk to the nearby grocery store that's literally 5 minutes away. I bring 2 reusable bags and generally dill them up pretty accurately.
Sometime I'll drive to the bulk store, not because it's far but because I'll buy bulky stuff.

>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
No, I make enough money to not care about my food spending and food aside I generally spend very little so it's never an issue.

>Also you make a menu beforehand? How you prepare it? You rationalize it by protein/carbs/f & v/ shit fast or frozen food?
I think about what I wanna eat and make a list of ingredients I know I'll need, then I top it off with basic shit and whatever I'm out of. I'll often decide on the actual recipe while browsing available cuts or looking at spices, sauces and seasonings.
I don't buy premade or frozen meal, but I'll buy frozen vegetable mixes if appropriate.

>Are your menus solely based on whats on sale beforehand?
No, I don't care about sales, special offers, coupons, etc.

>Also, what type of food you usually splurge on/avoid at any cost?
I'll splurge on any nice cut of meat or fresh/interesting bread & pastries. For example they were selling croissant loaves the other day, it was pretty cool.
I also keep an eye out for interesting beers from the local microbrew (though most of the time they taste terrible, I just enjoy trying new drinks).

>>18356267
>blueberries for $1 a pint
>doritos will be 3 for $6
>Tobasco for 0.75$ a bottle
You live in the 00's or the amish are, at leasr lol

>>18356278
>>18356278
How often you shop?
Why coffee creamer if u have milk?
Also whats harsh brown patties?

>>18356278
I just google those patties
Fucking addicting "looks healthy because is veggie" crap lol

>>18356285
It seems thats work for you, but you buy 7x of some times and sometimes eat fast food?, looks a very full week of eating... do you have lots of extra food by the end of the day?
Also, i dont know if i understood it clearly, but you cook every day, and its the same food for lunch and dinner?

>>18356290 making a menu sound so unrealistic for me, i admire people that are capable to choose what they want to eat lol

You have a designet amount of $ to spend on food per week? Fast food/crap is included on budget?

>>18356364
>Sometime I'll drive to the bulk store, not because it's far but because I'll buy bulky stuff
Well... that make sense lol

>No, I make enough money to not care about my food spending and food aside I generally spend very little so it's never an issue.

For myself im thinking budget /menu idea to keep more control overall of what i spend, and nutritional overall value of food.. my goal is to force some discipline, and as an extra incentive to use "thrown money" thats spent on shit food for smth better. Hell, just to know I have extra money and not having crap its an incentive for itself...

>I just enjoy trying new drinks
When I can I try to taste all the beers brands and flavor, I dont know if I will be able to go throw all of them at least once lol

>>18356168
>Chicken
>Some other meat or fish like steak, ham slices, mackerel
>Spinach
>Carrots, mushrooms, and/or broccoli depending on what I want for veggies
>Eggs
>Yogurt
>Jalapenos, Cream Cheese, and Bacon for poppers
>* If I feel like changing up the poppers, bacon wrapped shrimp is good too with some lemon/lime and butter
>Milk
>Orange juice

If I feel like splurging on snacks or treats, it'll usually be almonds or ingredients for cheesecake

This shit deserves it own thread:
Whtf (why the fuck..) fruits and vegs are so fucking expensive in the fuckin states? Isnt it supposed to be a ruch country mfs baka

I see they have a bunch of posts like that..
But like i said before, those containers are quite expensive.
And like many people point out, food taste like shit after few days, or afyer being defrosted..

So unless you dont care about taste or repetitive foods,(I wouldnt eat sonething more than twice/thrice a week (without being sick enough to not have it in a long time after that, because of the repetitive "trauma"),
What you can do, is to find an intermediate way to make that shit work, maybe like:
>do that crap for side dishes or quick lunch
>force the fuck yourself to eat the same thing, you can make it last longer by playing with diff. dressings/spices
>meal prep for 3 days
(Or similar for starters, who knows, maybe it turn to be your kink and you may want to keep adding days, and who knows, perhaps you will get bored the fuck out of it and stop all this faggotry Im writing a whole essay about while fucking shitting garlic sented shit in middle of the night)
>go uninvited to communal parties lol

>>18356168
I hate restaurant food and I want my kids to eat home cooked food every day. That's hard because of work and lack of time. So once a week I prepare a menu, then make a list of all of the ingredients plus breakfasts plus dinners for whole week. I then predict which days of the week I won't have time to cook and make extra. I freeze the extra portions and thaw when I need them. Over some time, I now have an inventory of ~50 home cooked ready to thaw various lunches which complement the days I can't cook. This way we eat home cooked food every day and I only go to the store once a week.
Starting this system was hard (I track the inventory digitally so it doesn't get old), but after two years now it works flawlessly and takes minimum effort honestly. I also have a very good grasp of how much food we need for the whole week.

>>18356663

I hope one day I would master this .

Wym
>I track the inventory digitally so it doesn't get old

I only buy meat and milk products and flour. Big garden ftw

>>18356686
Well I have 50 lunches frozen in freezer and I need to know which was prepared when, so I have a digital list with dates when that food was prepared. You put something in, you add it to the list with date. When you take something out, you remove it from the inventory. It's easier than writing on the glass box containing the meal, because then I don't have to go through the freezer to see which one is how old. My general rule of thumb is I don't keep anything frozen for more than 6 months.

>>18356745
I was asking what digital thingy were you using

Also, wouldnt be easier if you have a chart , could be magnetic one, right there on the fridge?

>>18356690
Well, then get a even bigger one and have those things but yours lol

>>18356757
I have enough land, just no time for livestock. Maybe if i survive into retirement. Doubtful though, survival and retirement still being a thing.

>>18356755
Ah, I just use Apple notes on my iphone. It syncs via cloud with my wife. Yeah I guess a more analogue solution would also help, but then I have to be at my fridge when preparing my menu, but I prepare while I'm out with the kids and they're playing on the playgrounds and I have time, for example. With two kids trust me every minute gained is worth gold...

>>18356792
>With two kids trust me every minute gained is worth gold
Truer words were never spoken. However, you can involve them and thats highquality family time spent well.

Imagine actually liking yourself and thinking theres any hope and not eating frozen meals or fast food and drinking every night

posting in a datamining thread

>>18356168
>How you people shop food?
I work in food retail so I buy all the reduced price shit at the end of the night. I also get to do my shopping on the clock.
>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
No, I just don't buy dumb things.
>Also you make a menu beforehand?
No, I generally don't care about what I eat so long as it's cheap and healthy.
>Also, what type of food you usually splurge on/avoid at any cost?
Beer is my vice but then I started brewing my own so now it's dirt cheap.

>>18356455
he prob follows the american tradition of going grocery shopping, then eating out and throwing half your groceries out because they went bad

>>18356420
The first two are sales that happen at meijer grocery stores once in a while. The Amish people get shit in bulk that is going to expire, but stuff like tobasco can't really expire so they mark it down like crazy and I just reap benefits.

>>18356505
They arent unless you are buying them at the worst time of year. I can routinely get broccoli heads for a dollar each. There is always something on sale and in season, you have to get that. early summer, asparagus is basically free. Late summer, sweet corn is basically free. Early fall, squash are basically free. Winter is usually imported green beans from Mexico and stuff like that.

>>18357177
I homebrewed and with the time it took, it wasn't really cost efficient. It was fun to do and Ill do it again but I wouldn't say it saved me any money.

>>18356168

Back when I was using food stamps, there is an entirely different psychology. I saw food stamps as free money and therefore I could buy whatever I want because the money was "fake". I bought a lot of easy frozen dishes like chinese style chicken, banquet mega bowls, frozen lasagna, frozen pizza, fresh shrimp, fresh steaks. With real money I only buy cost effective food products and whatever is on sale in the store.

>>18357332
>he prob follows the american tradition of going grocery shopping, then eating out and throwing half your groceries out because they went bad

lol that's why it's retarded to ever buy more than $80 worth of food at a time.

>>18357523
Same. Actually, I'm in the states and it's funny how this handout stuff works. I never had food stamps, but I have government insurance, so when I went to get new glasses, they wouldn't give me the good lenses for working on the PC... so I had to buy them out of pocket. But, they were still giving me the free pair, so what did I do?

I used tax payer money to get old lady frames to troll my family and sister at everyone's expense lol. Obviously the pair I bought out of pocket look nice and are good while the other pair just sits in a drawer.

Anyway, since I don't get food stamps I don't even buy coffee, I just buy what I need to live.

>>18357544
>>18357523

It's easy to spot a food stamp user in the grocery store if their skin is dark and the cart is full of junk foods.

>>18357559
Or they are obese and female. More times than I can count it's fat, white, disgusting looking single mothers with cards full of beer and soda. Then they buy all their shit food with food stamps and pay for beer out of pocet with cash.

Chicken: leg quarters, cheapest option
Beef: whole brisket, subprimal cuts & ground beef. Learning to butcher large cuts off beef saves more money and is more fun than breaking down a chicken.
Bread: homemade with freshly milled flour. costs us about $3/loaf
Other carbs: Sweet potatoes and potatoes, cheap dried pasta
Produce: whatever looks good and is cheap at the farmers market or aldi. This week was green leaf lettuce, carrots, and cucumbers.
Stuff like pasta sauce and fancy mustard we make ourselves.
Total for the month - about $325 in a relatively expensive metro area.

>>18356182
>universally consumed beverages that aren't an ingredient for anything specific are the most purchased items

Wow, shocking. You really got em bro! Good job!

>>18357332
Im sensing a Rent free lol

I suffer the wrath of boomers who spend $1k a month on junk food and other frozen garbage and use paper plates because they do nothing all day and when it comes time for dinner it's like they are afraid to use any pot or pans because that means they would have to spend an extra 20 mins not doing nothing to clean a few dishes.

>>18356182
Holy fuck. What a depressing list.

>>18358114
>afraid to use any pot or pans because that means they would have to spend an extra 20 mins not doing nothing to clean a few dishes.
Nailed it lol
I wss thinking that there must be a psychological thing of eating with real cutlery being tasting better. Earlier i was having some cereal and milk and I tried the real spoon and a larger bowl.. idk.. perhaps is the feeling of not being a cheap fuck that uses disposable cutlery..

>>18357605
I couldnt expect any less from an anime poster

>>18356504
So you have the same menu over and over? With some slight differences? Hory shiet

>>18357497
That broccoli is infested af. And theres a lot of frozen things that are even cheaper after season.. but i cant compare , or think of them as real vegs . Odk why.. perhaps never grew up with that being common

>>18356849
Wait, what?

>>18356843
>Imagine actually liking yourself and thinking theres any hope and not eating frozen meals or fast food and drinking every night

>>18356768
Being a citadine anon, i can tell you that i enjoy walking on the grass part of boulevard makes me think im getting my quota of green natural human sighseeing I need lol

>>18356792
First agree with >>18356812

Second, it seems that your kids dont yet know how to defrost the neals, otherwise i was about to ask how tf do they keep track of the list, especially if its not right there, posted to the freezer.
Anyways congrats on mastering meal planning anon, thats on my higher levels on ladder on thing i want to get better at, as you see im with the menu/shopping level yet lol

>>18357177
>.
>>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
>No, I just don't buy dumb things.
>>Also you make a menu beforehand?
>No, I generally don't care about what I eat so long as it's cheap and healthy
It doesnt make any sense, so what you eat?

>>18356168
>How you people shop food?
Online almost exclusively, monthly farmer's market. Local supermarket is $5 for a small can of beans, it's just unfeasible to shop there for anything beyond milk (which is $7/gal).
>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
No.
>Also you make a menu beforehand? How you prepare it You rationalize it by protein/carbs/f & v/ shit fast or frozen food?
I just think of things I want to eat that hit my macro requirements and go from there. I don't particularly care about it being super unhealthy or not given I burn a shitload of calories per day just from work, even before I work out.
>Are your menus solely based on whats on sale beforehand?
No, but I'll modify recipes if things are on sale.

>>18357544 kek, or they give you 23 bucks for discount lol. You could have gotten one for emergency glasses, but i guess you still can use the one for the lolz for emergency
>>18357523

Fucking true, there are people that have FS and let you use the card for cash, i think they can get in trouble, but they make you a 5 10 20 % discount..
Those people dont event really need the FS or they earn lots more of someone that doesnt have it,what an upside world we live lol

>>18357600
1 or 2 people?

I was considering buying chest freezer to put prep meals/meat and chicken on discount.. but appt its not that big for that..
I bet you can ssve bank on one of those bad boys

Anyone here care to share numbers?

Op here
Eating (swallowing) garlic every day with water and with small spoon of olive oil is highly recommended.
Also youl gotta love those deep smelling, and machine gun sound farts
Especially on the shower lool

>>18358787
But you can save lots of $ with buying once a while and know what are you eating in advance

>>18356168
I figure out what meals I want to eat that week and buy the food to make those meals. That's all.

>>18358844
You sound like you dont mind eating the same 2 dishes in a week. Either lunch and dinner combos, or lunch lunch dinner dinner

What would you anons recommend me as a beginner?

I saw theres an app or smth called mealim
And there are more i dont have them rn

Never used any of this lol

>>18358860
Why would you assume that? I have some standbys I make pretty often, but I eat a pretty wide variety of stuff outside that.

>>18358811
>But you can save lots of $ with buying once a while and know what are you eating in advance
You're not saving any money where I live, it's a food desert. Any good cheap food locally is entirely seasonal and depending on harvests.

>>18358776
Right now in my kitchen I have oats, rice, bacon, eggs, cheese, broccoli, and Greek yogurt.

>>18357497
>I homebrewed and with the time it took, it wasn't really cost efficient.
What's time got to do with it? All I know is I can make beer for 1/4 the price of supermarket stuff, and can brew it stronger. Stronger alcohol is more economical because it takes less of it to get you there.

>>18358802
Had like 5ft tall fridge-like freezer, which truth to be told was old as fuck and not exactly air tight, my electricity bill literally halved after tossing it away.

>>18358909
I wasnt sure. It jus sounded very simplistic lol

>>18358937
Kek I shoukd've suspected the moment you said it fkin 5$ a can of beans
Where the fuck you live? In middle of the ocean? Sa.n fuckismo? Kek

>>18359069
>Stronger alcohol is more economical because it takes less of it to get you there.
What?

>>18359251
>not exactly air tight
I dont think I get this lol

Did you get a newer one?>>18359251

>>18358797
2.
Wife is 7mo pregnant so eventually costs will go up

>>18356168
I grocery shop every other day and always buy what’s on sale and cook it that night. Never had to budget for food. Sometimes I’ll make a large roast or ham and eat leftovers for a week. I incorporate leftovers as ingredients to a new dish, leftover ham becomes split pea soup or beans, a roasted turkey or chicken becomes shredded enchiladas and a chicken stock in my crock pot.

I live rural. I drive into town monthly for food and supplies. It's a hard road. Two water crossings and many rock outcrops. I grow a limited selection of food. When it's winter, it's easier to just fly into town once, maybe twice in 4-5 months. I also check the post office and stock up on illicit drugs for me and my girlfriend. I also have chickens that produce now and then. I rarely feed them feed. Mostly forage. My father use to live with us but at the time we didn't have 911 service so he lives in Florida of all places now.

>>18359813
Are you the anon thats preganant so is due in 4 months?
Also, get wic lol

>>18359813
Im sorry im fuking tired. Didnt see the 7 month thing kekk

>>18359828
One of my ideal thing for a preparing a menu was exactly that, to make food in an order that one food's leftover will be [second?] Ing. To next one.
In other words, to have soups for end of week lol

>>18359845

>>18359914
You get older each and every year.

I have made a rule against processed junk foods so my shopping list is usually something like this:

1% milk
some kind of poultry
onions
garlic
root vegetable like beets or carrots
plain yogurt or cottage cheese
lentils or beans
some kind of grain like oats
canned tomatoes
eggs
usually some spice or tea
spinach
apples and bananas

I never buy cheap chicken because it looks, feels, smells, and tastes disgusting. On the other hand, I always buy the cheapest repack eggs possible.

>>18356168
Typically I make a months menu by what I'm feeling that day i go shopping, so if I want asian one day, burgers or pasta another and something like steak I take that into considerstion before i even look at the sale adverts.
Once I look at what is on sale I by so forth to make whatever out of those staples work.
Want asian, chuck or sirloin is on sale, I'm make beef and broccoli or beef chowmein, no beef sale? Pork lumpia or pork egg rolls with fried rice. I want pasta but only chicken is on sale? Alfredo it is.
Basically I build my meals around a protein.
Sides are really where I need to work though because i always misjudge and make too many sides. Tonight we had steak with artichokes and a salad, way too much food.

>>18356436
Not that anon but think mcdonalds hash browns fucking amazing to just snack on or eat a couple as a meal... I've done it.

>>18356690
I have a small backyard but got the irrigation rigged myself. Even though it's late, we just planted our first zucchini yesterday to see if I even have a chance. I have zero green thumb but have been (moderately) maintaining a basil plant at my kitchen window for the past 2 weeks

I go to the store I put stuff in my cart that I want....
never went shopping before?

>>18358615
Pretty much. I'm a pretty routine eater at home. Whenever I have anything really different is when I go out with friends at a restaurant or something.

You should check out the BBBE diet if you wanna see something where people can literally eat the same exact stuff every day.

>>18359892
Had wic when my son was born for like 5 or 6 months. It was great for formula and stuff but when it came to food it's super limiting, always beans and rice with vouchers for other alright stuff. It helps dont get me wrong but the first time I held up some dumb fuck cashier at walmart that had no idea what she was doing and a huge line formed behind us I noped the fuck out of using it ever again. Fuck that man, I refuse to be one of those people.

>>18359911
Sam the cooking guy gets a lot of shit on this board but he has a book that is basically all about making food with intentional left overs to use towards other meals the next night.

>>18360839
I do this at work all the time, I make the same meal for work in advance for the entire week, its healthy and cost efficient. The only days I splurge are twice a week when we eat out. The only time I cook is 2 to 3 times a week for my family on my days off.

>>18356202
Ye

The cheapest rice is often quite good, so I get that.
Cheapest rice, cheapest pasta, cheapest noodles, cheapest potatoes and bread. 20% minced beef, pork shoulder, chicken wings or legs or thighs or whole chicken, cabbages, carrots, onions, whatever veg I feel like.
It's all quite cheap and you can make many nice meals.

>>18359541
Are you a fucking retard or underage?

>>18361122 i was asking how that make it cheaper in the making of the beer, not in the finalized product
Also,
Who the fuck drinks beer for the solely reason to get drunk? Like this 40% beer
Anyways it wouldnt surprise me

>>18361240
ESLs lmao

>>18360920
Can you stop saying cheapest

>>18361243
There is esl and there is esl

>>18359892
my career is going pretty good so I make too much to get wic. If that changes we're ready to apply for it.

>>18356168
make list of things I don't want to forget.
go to store
go up and down aisles buy whatever I fancy.
try to find decent meat in the meat section.
check managers specials for meat that is really good quality but other people don't seem to want.

>>18361345
Are you me?
Did you start being anxious or stressed in general when this started to happen?

>>18362214
Fuck wrong thread lol

>>18360855
Is a youtuber? Also why the hate?

HEY WHAT THE FUCK I GOT BANNED FOR??
WHATS GOING ON MODS??
IM ON WIFI RN, BUT SERIOUSLY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? WHAT I HAVE TO DO WITH A FAGGOT THAT POSTS PORN ON A BLUE BOARD??

Test
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>>18360066
?

>>18360349
>I have made a rule against processed junk foods
What? Also how?

Also i cant understand people that allways have the same things over and over. I dont know from your list but looks like

>>18356285
>goes shopping once a week
>buys in portions of 7, one unit of food per day
NPC diet. Even if vegetables and fruits could stay fresh for that long or you don’t mind eating wilted lettuce for a few days, the ability to be satisfied by such repetitiveness is not natural.

>>18360802
Never planned before? Budget?

Pd
Fuck 4capchan

>>18360839 ah i see , luckie you if you can eat importamt meal over and over
>BBBE diet
What does is stand for?
Bring Back Beef Everyday??
>>18360870 like said above, luckie you if you can eat over and over the same foods. Wait did you just say THE SAME MEAL.. evryday for work??

For me only in breakfast i can do the same pretty much. Classic bread with butter+ coffee for starters. Actually never tried having the same for lunches dinner other than occasionally same food twice a week, and even that , not one day after the other.

>>18360872
: (

JUST NOW I SAW THAT MY IP WAS MISTAKEN WITH A CREEP THAT POSTED SOMETHING A FUCKING MONTH AGO August 17 .

HALP! MOOODSSSS


im on wifi atm, but fuck man

>>18362410
So what? That happens all the time.

>>18362410
are you fucking twelve?

>>18362404
Yea. I make low carb chicken wraps 3-4 times a week for lunch and dinner the recipe I use now has been, by far the most interesting: smoke my chicken breasts for shredding, bit of cabbage, onion, cheese and a teaspoon of hidden valley secret sauce/chick fil a sauce. After awhile it does get boring so I'll vary the cheese/sauce add avo, or whatever, but it does make those home cooked meals so much better.

>>18356168
>How you people shop food?
Every 2-3 months I do a bulk buy meat order then freeze. Get 5kg of chicken, then vary the other bits, 2kg sausages / bacon / pork loin steaks / beef mince / joints of ham / pork / beef.
This gives me my base and just work from there.
>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
I shop once a week for bits for recipes that go with the meats and that weeks snacks. No real budget, just get stock back up if finished something or get some missing ingredients need for a recipe.
>Also you make a menu beforehand?
Yep, generally do a list of dinners for the week and shop based off of that.
>How you prepare it?
Tend to batch cook around 2-4 potions, eat 2 and freeze 2 if it's freezable if not I'll just do 2 potions.
Pic related, I knocked myself up an ingredients to recipe site which sorts out my cooking flow.

>>18356278
seems like you need to be drinking more milk

>>18356234
Do you have a job or do you live as mommy and daddy's personal chef

Break down your shopping into protein (pb, eggs, meats, fish), carbs (pasta, bread, flour), veg, fruits, herbs/spices, and grocery (soap etc). Then bookmark the ad pages of every store within range. Every week pop open the ads and see what the sales are. Over time you will get a sense of the real price of foods and what is a deal to spend on.

Eating healthy and whole foods is also best tasting and cheapest way to eat.

Some tips:

>Buy in bulk at the lowest price then shop for smaller amounts as you go
>find the discount aisles in each store you visit, they all have at least one area
>Immigrant markets are your FRIEND. Find where they are and get their ads.
>You can buy some food and toiletries online cheaper, and at higher quality (e.g., bulk bags of good rice, paper, etc)
>If you have the room freeze your on-sale protein and get your veg fresh
>Potatoes, onions, and carrots sell dirt cheap in bulk bags. Learn to cook with these.
>Rice is a staple and there are a thousand ways to eat it
>Learn recipes that stretch out proteins with vegetables, rice, and pastas
>oatmeal and oatmeal accessories
>search for deals on herbs and spices like a thirsty simp and over a long period of time you will build a formidable spice collection
>Buddy up with the deli and butcher personnel and they will hook you up

>>18362404
>BBBE diet
>What does is stand for?
>Bring Back Beef Everyday??
Not far from the mark. It stands for
Beef, Butter, Bacon and Eggs

That's literally all you eat. It's basically an extreme version of keto, or keto + the carnivore diet.

>>18356168
>shopping for food/grocery list
It's a continuous process. When I first got my own place/started cooking, it was expensive as hell, because I had 0 of the basics (oils, salt and seasonings, flour and other random shit like that), so every time I cooked something different, I was getting the whole list from scratch (mostly). Eventually, I had all of the basic seasonings stocked up, and it leveled out a lot more. Now I have a sorta adhered-to process:
>base bulk ingredients
Anything bulk I buy from costco.
>20lb bag of rice: <$20 (at least, 1.5 years ago when I last bought rice it was).
>5lb(?) dried black beans, might be 10lbs I dunno
>steel-cut oats, several lbs
>lentils
These are sorta my "bulk staples", I buy like once every 6 months to 2 years.
Next, I have a rotating list of "regular" meals and a bunch of "special" meals, which are more expensive. Lastly, I have cookbooks out the ass. I generally rotate through my regular meals, sometimes "special" meals (these depend on what's on-sale), and I'll mark a new recipe from cookbooks to cook every 2-4 weeks. My regular meals are like 4-5 recipes per meal-time. Every Sunday, I create a shopping list for the week, and plan my meals. I'll simultaneously look at what's on-sale that week at the grocery store I like to go to. If I see ingredients that are on my "special" list (I don't literally have 2 lists written out, I just have the recipes on hand and know which ones are more expensive), I'll buy what's on-sale and make it. Example: Anything with shrimp. Shrimp is expensive, but my store regularly puts it on sale for half-price. I'll make shrimp scampi, shrimp tacos, etc. when it's on sale.
If whatever is on sale I can bulk-buy, I will (shrimp, chicken, beef: stuff the freezer full).
So essentially: regular rotating meal-set unless some specific ingredients are on sale, in which case more upscale meals.
Finally, I love cooking, so every other Sunday I'll cook a totally novel, fancy recipe.

>>18356168
>Post how you shop for food.
Wife goes grocery shopping 2 to 3 times a week. Weekend is a bigger haul so we can do some meal prep for the week
>How you people shop food?
>Do you make your own weekly/biweekly budget?
Wife and I make over $500k annually, and coupled with our child-free life, grocery budgeting isn't something we are concerned with.
>Also you make a menu beforehand? How you prepare it? You rationalize it by protein/carbs/f & v/ shit fast or frozen food?
Usually protein based. Try to target seasonal produce
>Are your menus solely based on whats on sale beforehand?
No
>Also, what type of food you usually splurge on/avoid at any cost?
I avoid avocados that are over $0.99. Refusing to pay $1.50+ for a fucking guacamole fruit is a hill I will die on.
Splurge on cheeses, seafood, meat cuts.
>Basically tell the anons how you have mastered your own system of keep yourself alive with food.
I make a lot of money, married a sexy trad wife who makes even more money. We combined our monies and use a very very small portion of it to buy foods

>>18366495
Our monthly average spend on groceries is ~$950 (not including alcohol or dining out at restaurants).
This is for two very active adults

>>18366495
>I avoid avocados that are over $0.99. Refusing to pay $1.50+ for a fucking guacamole fruit is a hill I will die on.
About 8 years ago avocados were regularly $0.50 to $0.67 each. I feel your pain.

rate my grocery haul

guess how much

>>18367671
$60

>>18367671
>80$ for meat and dairy imitations and snack
>no fresh produce
>no staples like rice, lentils, beans or bread
1/10 buy real food anon, you don't have to live like this

>>18367671
>Almost entirely snacks
$100, lasted you 2 days, and you came here from R*ddit.

>>18356168
>Broccoli
>Couscous
>canned tomatos
>apples
>spinach
>frozen blueberries
>protein powder

go to wholesalers for
>bulk skinless chicken breast
simples

Fuck im still banned because 4chan thinks im a degenerate thats post porn in blue chans, its a problem of ips. And that faggot posted at a month ago ffs

can someone help me


Pd f the captcha
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>>18368877
Cool
I read
>banned tomatoes

Kek

>vegetables
>meat
>milk
>cream
>eggs
>yoghurt
>bread
>beans
>your preferred drink
what more do you need?

>>18356168
>i put the rice in the basket
>i put the beans in the basket
>i put the tomatos it the basket
>i use my bank card and never ever check the balance
this is how i shop for food. thoughts?