/ck/ - Food & Cooking

frozen chicken, frozen veggies, rice, legumes and invest in a good selection of herbs and spices.

what country/region, this is important data.

>>7431813
Australia, East coast.

>>7431812
>Herbs and spices
Obviously. Shit makes errything good.

eggs. lots of them. cheapand good protein.

find someone that sells chopped vegetables. thats a serious time saver.

learn to cook your own bread.

>>7431833
That I never understood.
What are the advantages of baking your own bread in terms of value for money?

Poaching meat is superior to frying because there's no oil splatter, therefore less cleaning up to do. I also find that poached chicken without browning is visually superior. Use the water to cook the rest of the dish.

Aubergine is a good vegetable to buy because it's very versatile and (at least here) fairly cheap (just 30-50% more than carrots which are the cheapest vegetables except for potatoes if you even count them as regular vegetables)

Canned whole tomatoes are great, especially when they're cheaper than fresh tomatoes such as in winter.

The amount of money you spend on food is primarily dictated by the composition of food categories in your diet. All staple foods and fats (including nuts and high-fat dairy) are cheap in terms of the calories per unit of money. Fruits and vegetables are fairly expensive but healthy.
So one good thing to do is to to avoid low-tier staples like wheat and white rice and replace with more nutritious staples like legumes, corn, buckwheat or millet which are fairly nutrient dense with somewhat higher fiber content.

At the end of the day, healthy and cheap are competing elements in modern food. Typically the main thing you need is adequate calorie intake but beyond that you also want to get micronutrients and fiber, and some taste and variety for psychological reasons alone. So you'll always end up buying some vegetables and fruits, meat and fish and never have some autistically pefect cost optimization. So the best thing to do is to set a target or limit for more expensive food categories like poultry, fish and vegetables while maxing out cheap calorie sources with adequate nutrient composition like nuts in particular.

>moved into an apartment six months ago, worked for two months, quit the job
>no job from november to february
>just got a job
>enough money in the bank to just barely cover the rent next month
>won't get any money until the 25th of next month
This'll be a challenge. Fucking bring it.

>>7431833
why would you buy chopped vegetables when it takes what, an entire minute to do it yourself if you have the right tools? especially if you're only cooking for one.

>>7431834
I can buy a 500g loaf of bread for 20-30 SEK.
Or I can buy five kilos of flour for 30 SEK.

>>7431819
Go fishing.

>>7431805
>ITT: Male fresh out of home.
>Post your cardinal rules of shopping on a tight budget.
Learn to cook and make a good shopping list before you go out, because
>>Cheap as fuck.
>>Easy, slap together style cooking.
>>Healthy.
>>Preferably tasty.
Is not possible. You know that
>cheap
>fast
>good
>pick two
Saying? Well, if you turn up the choices to 4, you still only get to pick two.

>>7431837
This is actually really informative. Thanks, anon.

>>7431819
Aldi.
Learn to season and cook 1.49/kg chicken wings.
Drink goon.

>>7431848
That's... actually not a bad idea.
I live not far from a the beach/shallow channel. Used to fish there when I was young with my brother.

>>7431851
>Learn to season
Gotcha.
>Drink goon
Way ahead of you.

>>7431837
>aubergine
that isn't a word in this language, and while you're at it you can stop saying "courgette" and "bleu cheese", you fag. it doesn't sound "fancy", it just makes you sound like you accidentally an extra chromosome

>>7431852
You in SE Qld/Bris?

>>7431805
Learn Asian cooking. Specifically Chinese or Thai. It's fast, cheap, tasty and the flash stir fry cooking style keeps nutrients intact. This style of cooking requires prepping all ingredients before hand, meaning you can make in bulk and freeze.

>>7431849
Interesting way of looking at it.

>>7431854
>America in charge of language
in the rest of the world we prefer not to dumb things down.

>chicken fillet
>chic fil a

>>7431858
NSW, 'bout an hour's drive from Sydney.

>>7431845
time.

>>7431862
What else do I call bleu cheese?
For the record, you call edible yellow plastic "American cheese", like you're proud of it.

>>7431834
>That I never understood.
>What are the advantages of baking your own bread in terms of value for money?

If you're this Goddamn dumb, don't forget to budget for a new brain.

>>7431865
At least we don't pretend to be girls on the internet Laura.

>>7431865
how do you read that post and think I'm American? what.

>>7431892
It was meant for
>>7431854
I just sperged out.

>>7431865
that person obviously isn't american, and you should just call it blue cheese. if you're going to say bleu, it's like half-heartedly attempting the french name instead of saying fromage bleu which is unnecessary especially since your blue cheese probably isn't french and if it was you would use the specific name.

>>7431805
>Male fresh out of home.
>incapable of figuring out BASIC self sustaining stuff

you should go back to the womb, OP.

Root veggies and legumes, rice and cornmeal

Root veggies, they keep longer than others
>potatoes, carrots, turnips, celeriac, radishes

Legumes, dried or canned
>black beans, kidney beans, lentils, split peas

Rice for rice, cornmeal for polenta - good filler for cheap (along with potatoes)

Eggs for protein, pork is super cheap these days too, tofu at asian markets is super cheap. Shop at ethnic grocery stores when possible as you can get a lot of fresh produce and other products for significantly less money than conventional grocery stores.

>>7431903
Basic?

10 PRINT "OP GO WOMB"
20 GOTO 10

>>7431812
came here to say this desu senpai.

Staples for me are as follows

Flour ( to make bread)
Rice
Pasta
Frozen Veggies
Chicken
Eggs
Milk
Frozen Fruit
Greek Yogurt
no salt added natural Peanut Butter
Nuts
Tilapia
Cod
Salmon
Canned Tuna
Sardines
Turkey Bacon or Prosciutto(cheap kind) to eat in the morning
Canned Tomatoes
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables if i am using them that day
Bananas


side note

buy lactose free milk and don't eat beans or lentils or too many peas if you don't want to shit yourself all day.

>>7431909
>GOTO

>>7431850
Really depends on your fitness goals. Thats good advice if you are attempting to lose weight. If you are not eating that much and want to maintain weight or even gain weight you better be consuming rice pasta potatoes etc... Also if you are active ( running,biking, swimming, weightlifting, ...) and you don't eat carbs you are fucking retarded.

>>7431916
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/BASIC_Programming/Beginning_BASIC/Control_Structures/GOTO

I'm not going to set up a WHILE statement as OP always needs to go womb.

>>7431910
>buy lactose free milk and don't eat beans or lentils or too many peas if you don't want to shit yourself all day.
WTF am I reading?
I only drink normal milk, and I love to eat beans, lentils and peas, and I never shat myself. Maybe you should stop believing in all that postmodern hipster illnesses.

>>7431854
you are the same amerifat from the ratatouille thread that still can't get to grips with his own language. english is not always spoken as it is in the united states. an eggplant is not a food in england - it means nothing at all - neither does zucchini. maybe you should just give up with loan words altogether. that ratatouille was awful by the way.

>>7432121
>everyone who is not me is one person
OK buddy