/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6616658
chicken in bulk
potatoes

>>6616658
>$120 for 2 weeks between 2 people
>broke as fuck

>>6616686
That's literally all of our money left over until the next time one of us gets paid. So yes. As in, our bank statements are going to say sub $10 for the next two weeks. So yes, Broke as fuck.

>>6616658
>>broke as fuck
>>need to afford groceries for the next 15 days for two people
>>only have a total of $120 to cover it

nigga, you ain't broke as fuck. $120 is more than some of the skellies around here spend on a month of groceries. $120 is how much a small family would spend on their family for two weeks. what's the difficulty here? stock up on essentials, if you avoid spending money on crap you should have more than enough provisions for a month or two.

>>6616691
Are you merely pretending to be retarded, or did you just move out of your parents' home?

That is eight dollars a DAY in food, four per person. You can feast like kings for fuck's sake.

>>6616658
Hit up the bargain section at the grocery store. At my Ralph's, think Kroger's is the same 'cause they use Kroger brand shit, there's a section where all the dented cans, soon-to-expire (like a month away) organic and rare things go. The produce dpt also has its own shelf for cheap things like bruised organic apples and shit like that. It's dope as fuck. Love it.

>>6616658
50lb bag of rice $35
10lb bag of oats $5
10lb bag of flour $5
10lb bag of sugar $5
10lbs frozen mixed veg $5
15x1lbs cans of tomatoes $10
5xbags various bulk spices $5
4L of cooking oil $5
40lbs box frozen unseasoned chicken breasts - $25
4 gallons of milk $10
12 pack of orange juice concentrate $10

>>6616717
Yeah I like to pull prices out of my ass too.

>>6616736
ballpark, and some stuff will be more expensive or less expensive going from region to region. that said, prove me wrong.

SHOP AT YOUR DOLLAR STORE

>>6616749
not that guy but that much chicken for $25 is a fucking joke.

>>6616757
i live in farm country so it's not uncommon for grocers to stock chicken at $1/lbs. places like safeway carry those big boxes of chicken breasts and frequently put them on sale so paying that much isn't uncommon.

>>6616717
I buy 10 lb bags of chicken leg quarters for $5.90, breasts are at least 2.5x that in price - you are definitely blowing smoke up this thread's ass. Show me a label of some chicken you bought and the price you paid per pound that equates to $0.625 per pound, how about you prove us wrong?

The other prices are only possible if you have access to a store like Sam's Club that lets you buy in bulk.

>>6616658
get reebee application, browse all local flyers

>>6616669
these are the cheapest items

>>6616779
>unless you buy in bulk

don't have a label, but why the fuck do you think i suggested buying 40lbs at one time? and you don't need to go to a costco either. butchers and even regular grocery chains will carry fuck huge boxes of these things for around the $30 mark.

>>6616658
>>need to afford groceries for the next 15 days for two people
>>only have a total of $120 to cover it

You don't know what being broke is.

>>6616717
>4 gallons of milk for 10 USD
where in the fuck are you buying milk at, 1995 land?
A gallon of whole milk at walshits is like 4 dollars

>>6616658
northern white beans, neckbones and whatever fucked up meat that's marked down make a bretty good soup

>>6616936
>where in the fuck are you buying milk at, 1995 land?
>>6616779
>The other prices are only possible if you have access to a store like Sam's Club that lets you buy in bulk.
>>6616736
>Yeah I like to pull prices out of my ass too.

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>>6616691
>>6616686
OP, you have to remember that you're on 4chan. Lots of ultra poorfag anons that will get butthurt with things like this

>>6616658
>15 days for two people
>>only have a total of $120 to cover it

nigga you ain't broke
>two 20lb sacks of rice
>$16
>2000kcal per person for 16 days

now GTFO rich bitch

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>>6617019
Thanks for your valuable contribution.

>>6616968
Not everyone lives in yankeeland

You buy assloads of frozen burritos, hot pockets, cheap ass cereal and brandless soup in a cans

Ive been doing this intentionally for awhile. For the past 6 years ive ben earing nothing but fucking sandwhiches

>>6616936
LMAO

>>6616658
do people usually spend more than 60$ a person, every 15 days on food?
that's a thing?

>>6617034
yes, and not everybody is OP, who stated dollars you mong

I think the last time I went to the grocer's I spent about 70 bucks, and I'm pretty sure it was still May when I did. I've eaten fast food a couple of times since, but nah, I couldn't even with another me probably eat 120 bucks of food in two weeks.

Are yawl hard laborers that need olympic calories to live?

>>6616658
How do you manage to NOT feed two people for 15 days with $120 unless you live in a very remote area where you pay premium for food to be transported to your community? $15 per person per week here, $20 if I happen to be stocking up on a great deal.

>Fast for the two weeks.
>spend saved money plus next paycheck on booze.

>>6616658
> a bag of frozen sugar snap pees
> frozen sugar snap pees
> sugar snap pees
> snap pees
> pees

Eat your pees, son.

>>6617285
> Toronto

>>6617436
>not enjoying their rich pee-ness

>>6617442
You're talking shit.
I just went grocery shopping and bought a shit ton of stuff for $83 which will last me and my spouse at least 2 weeks, some items maybe more.

I also grabbed;
>cheese
>pasta
>red kidney beans
>spinach
>Kraft dinner x 2
>Oreos

There's no way you can't afford to live on 120$ or you're an idiot who buys shit packaged stuff. Hell, even if you just got frozen meals you could live on that.

>>6617585
I was just thinking that, I could plan 6x meals a day + snacks for $120....

>>6617585
Forgot pic

>>6617442
Toronto has some of the cheapest groceries in Canada

>>6616717
>two weeks
>50 lbs of rice
I assumed OP wasn't 600 lbs

>>6617687
>what is planning ahead

>>6617442
What's the Canada-fake-dollar-rate compared to USA-master-dollar-rate these days?

>>6616774
Living in a farm community dint mean shit it's if you live near the possessing plant unless your buying them from the fucking farmer or a local butcher that can compete with the local wal mart
unless it's one of the 2 then your talking out of your ass

>>6619373
>local butcher

bingo. this glorious bastard gets me 3 x 1.5"-2" strip steaks for $15 in this age of ridiculous beef prices. also having friends & family know people who work at processing plants helps a shitton for getting meat on the cheap

120 for 15 days for 2 people?

not very hard, i make 80 work for 15 days for 2 people..

Newfag here (to this shit board anyways) and what the fuck are you guys serious?

I spend $80 a week on myself.

How the fuck do you people live?

Also, no shitposting here. I'm legit perplexed.

>>6619604
what the fuck are you eating that's 80/week per person?

>>6619604
Rice and beans nigger. The staples of this fantastic board. If you don't like it, leave.

>>6619623
You know, meat. Meat. Meat. And then sometimes I eat meat.

>>6619638
Rice I can dig but beans are gross as fuck. Any other ideas?

Shit I could live off of fast food for 15 days with half of that.

OP are you literally retarded?

>>6619644
Lentils

>>6619650
Are you like 120 pounds?

>>6619656
Stop.

>>6619658
Lentils are good, when paired with meat.

I make a lentil soup with garlic, onion, celery, frozen mixed veg, spicy smoked sausage (andouille is nice), and chicken breast. Add potato also if not enough meatiness. Add parmesan cheese to the bowl til it's lightened up a bit, then add hot sauce to taste, I use frank's. If there isn't meat in every bite you did it wrong.

>>6619644
Let's slow the fuck down man.

Unless you're eating absurd amounts of very prime flesh for every meal, I'm struggling to compute.

Have you never heard of sliced bread and lunch meat, hot dogs, and canned sardines? I'm not even talking about the extreme rice and bean diet here, but I can't easily imagine spending 80 bucks a week on my food.

>>6619670

Have you ever gone keto?

>>6619677
Is that one of those new animus or mangos?

-rice
-beans
-lentils
-pasta
-potatoes
-frozen spinach or other very inexpensive frozen vegetables
-foodbank

also: ditch the red meat. That's the most expensive item on the list.

>>6619696
>ditch the red meat. That's the most expensive item on the list.

And the healthiest. What a shame.

>>6619707

healthy, nutritious and calorie dense are different things entirely.

>rice, beans, meat off of bone-in chicken thighs, seasonings
>chicken broth made from leftover bones, ramen noodles, carrots, celery, maybe peas

2 meals. Cheaper than fuck. Recycle ingredients.

>>6619707
>red meat
>healthy

i know this is a popular /ck/ meme but surely no one is this retarded

the amount of empirical evidence that points towards red meat being shit for you is overwhelming

also op you're a glutton or an idiot who cant cook if you cant make do with that amount

I spend about $30 a month on food OP. $120 for 2 for 2 weeks shouldn't be that hard.

>>6619715
>the amount of empirical evidence that points towards red meat being shit for you is overwhelming

Prove it.

There's not been a single real study that shows red meat is bad for you. Continue to believe your soccer mom websites you poor deluded fool.

You probably also think red meat sticks to your colon and saturated fats cause heart attacks. Go drink some vegetable oil.

>>6619717
>>6619717
american detected. have fun with heart disease.

>>6619719
Prove it or get out.

Amazing how people can never show the studies.

>>6619721
the first result on google shows that women who eat read meat have higher chances of diabetes

processed red meat that comes from a factory farm is also linked to eariler death/diseases.

you can easily google this for yourself. im not going to engage in any kind of actual, rational discourse with someone who's this lazy.

please die at 40 fatty so my taxes can go to people with healthy diets.

>>6619725
All I got was a self-reported study of people eating red meat having diabetes.

That is literally the definition of a bullshit study.

>processed meat

Why don't you eat vegetables drenched in pesticides? See how long you live.

You're a retard.

>Please die at 40
>Implying the real reason for diabetes is meat
>Not knowing how glucose works
>Blaming it on food that is high in vitamins and minerals, saturated fats, protein, and has a very good omega-6/3 ratio even when factory raised
>Thinking heart disease has to do with fat and not calcium

Yeah we're done. You're probably a vegan that thinks eating dirt gets you enough B12 so you don't have to "dirty" yourself with icky meats.

>>6619736
nawh im a meat eater. i just don't eat red meat like a pleb.

have fun with your ground beef, kid

>>6619715
That evidence is somewhat outdated. If you pay attention to the trends in thinking, you'll see that over the past decades nutritionists have starting to discover just how misguided their entire field has been. The food pyramid itself is a sham. The only sensible part of it is the topmost point-- the bit which indicates refined sugars should only be consumed in tiny amounts.

>>6619736
From the Journal of the American Medical Association

Conclusions Red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, CVD, and cancer mortality. Substitution of other healthy protein sources for red meat is associated with a lower mortality risk.

Meat is a major source of protein and fat in most diets. Substantial evidence from epidemiological studies shows that consumption of meat, particularly red meat, is associated with increased risks of diabetes,1 cardiovascular disease (CVD),2 and certain cancers.3 Several studies also suggest an elevated risk of mortality associated with red meat intake.

cut the rice and just get more black beans

>>6616936
milk is 2 dollars a gallon here

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>>6616658
if you want to save money ditch the beef and buy chicken.

>>6616658
buy vitamins, water, and flour. roll them up into little energy balls. it costs like $5 to make.

>>6616658
That doesn't mean broke at all.
You can have loads of pasta, rice, and canned beans and peas, potatoes and onions for less than half the money. I once survived one week with 10bucks, you'll do fine.

>>6617247
>spending less than $4 a day on food
what

>>6616658
>complains about money
>has ground beef and sirloin in the fridge

When you are actually broke, you dont buy 5$ a pound ground beef or 10$ a pound steak.

>>6622962
This, and you can look for uncut pork loin that goes on sale for around 2$ a pound. You buy them in 6-10 pound packages.

>>6623380
>uncut

>>6616977
Over the years I have started to realize 4chan is what happens when internet becomes readily available to the lower class in the west.

>>6616658
Bread.
Go in the evenings, most shit is below 50% price.
Baked beans.

Ultra mega broke here
> tiny freezer (can hold 2 steaks max)
> weeks where I ate only pasta with butter aren't unusual
> no breakfast food except coffee
> meat is literally a luxury.
> I sometimes eat butter when I'm too hungry but already cooked my meal of the day

>>6616658
do you have a slow cooker? If so, pulled pork! $2 bottle of bbq sauce, 1 cup bbq sauce per 4 lbs pork butt. Boneless pork butt is about $2/pound and fucking delicious.

Mix it with rice and beans and that's 3 (really really good) meals for each of you for about $10.

Boom now you only $110 for 12 days.

Pasta and homemade sauce - you can use chicken if you feel rich, lentils if you don't. Canned tomatoes (diced, puree, stewed, etc) are about $0.40/lb. Pasta's about $0.50/lb. Might be able to make the pasta cheaper (and certainly more delicious) if you make it yourself instead of buying it, but it's also a big hassle.

So that's 5 or 6 big dinners for the both of you for about $18 spent.

Get you some seltzer, that shit's delicious. $2/12 pack.

Buy two dozen eggs, about $5 total, maybe a bit less. A block of cheddar about $4. A few loaves of bread or packs of english muffins $6. A bunch of plum tomatoes $4. That's $19 for a delicious breakfast sandwich for both of you every day.

So to recap, you've got 5 dinners and 15 breakfasts covered for $39. 10 dinners to go, you can obviously skip lunch.

Trader Joe's sell some delicious frozen beef wellington about $8. Treat yourself, for saving so much money the last 5 days. Get some of their cheap wine too

Now you've spent $50. 9 dinners to go, $70.

Use some of your breakfast tomatoes to make pico de gallo. Jalapenos are about 20 cents, cilantro's basically free, onions are cheap AF too (let's assume you get a whole bag of onions for $4). Get you a pack of "mexican" shredded partially-dried cheese and some tortillas for $5. Make quesadillas with pico. Mad delish. Not healthy. But that's fine.

Next day, cook up some of that ground beef into hamburgers. Use some of that block cheddar, extra jalapenos, tomato, onion, etc. You can splurge on some nice mustard if you don't have any yet, let's say $3 plus $1.50 for the buns. Serve it with rice and beans (lets say you spent $15 on rice/beans CONTINUED

>>6623614
7 days to go, $55.

Eat that top sirloin. Onions, garlic, whatever. Get some mushrooms for $1.50. 6 days to go.

Make some more pulled pork. Or pulled chicken, if you want. You use the other half of the BBQ sauce for this, and spend $10 on meat.

3 days to go, $43.50 in the bank.

More pasta and sauce - let's assume you're doing something different than last time. Add some ground pork. About $10 for all ingredients and it'll last you the rest of the time.


There you go OP, you get to eat like a king for the next 15 days. meat at every meal. Since you've got like $35 left over you can even get some nice beer :D

>>6616658
Kill the other person and live off their flesh, use the money to buy video games.

OK actual emergency here. My girlfriend and I have about $25 dollars to survive for a week because we're trying to save. What hell do we eat. Already got oats, rice, and frozen broccoli.

I spend 120€ on groceries in a month and I eat very well

>>6623993
creatine

>>6623993
Chicken cuts, curry paste, frozen wok mix vegs.

>>6619644
>beans are gross as fuck
welp, you can just waste all your money and die, then
But seriously, beans aren't gross, for that I truly do think you're an imbecile. It is more of a simplification of a concept, though.

The concept being: find a good set of cheap staples in your region that you can buy in bulk and have a good nutritional value. The better the nutritional value on their own is best, but combined is fine too so long as you know you can make a consistent supply. Search terms like complete protein, and check up on vitamin and mineral dietary requirements in addition to macro nutrients, and fill out your meal planning as needed for maximum cheapness. Otherwise, just make sure you get some varied fats, fruits and vegetables, and the occasional meat in there.
To take it further, combine that with extreme cheapskating like dumpster diving (figurative and sometimes literal from what I've seen around here, though I would NOT recommend that) and salewhoring, and you can live quite well off of insanely small amounts of money, but it takes effort, especially to get a system going that works for you. It's not a big deal once you get it down, but I stopped living that way as soon as I started making more money. Some people are fine with it even when they have the money.

>>>59877918

What rice and what beans does /ck/ recommend for rice n beans?

>>6625001
I prefer plain rice and black/spotted beans.
Lentils and Zucchini are also good for bulk, in season you can almost get squashes thrown at you by garden owners.

$30 bucks a week per person isn't bad at all. I've seen anons complain about only $10 per person per week, now that is a struggle.

>>6619716
>I spend about $30 a month on food OP
May I please see a grocery list? I know that Alberta is very expensive for food compared to most of North America so I spend more, but damn son.