/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15725959]

what were/are your meals like as a poorfag?

[Anonymous No.15725978]

>>15725959
homemade bread

[Anonymous No.15725986]

>>15725959
>pack of chicken ramen
>2 eggs beaten
>some slices of day old bread from the deli

added some sirarcha sauce after a while but it surprisingly kept me full through out the day although I did still feel like shit because of the sodium

[Anonymous No.15725988]

>>15725978
>can afford flour

[Anonymous No.15725995]

>>15725988
Are you so poor you can't buy bread?

[Anonymous No.15726036]

>>15725978
You can't afford a loaf of bread? It's less expensive than the flour you giga retard

[Anonymous No.15726091]

>>15726036
maybe it was all he could afford to actually cook without giving up entirely on his love of cooking

[Anonymous No.15726104]

>>15726091
Now I feel bad

[Anonymous No.15726142]

>>15726036
>It's less expensive than the flour
>bread
>$4.99 a pound
>bread flour
>$3.50 for five pounds
the fuck are you on?

[Anonymous No.15726150]

>>15725988
>>15725995
>>15726036
>>15726091
>>15726104
For the record, I was not dirt poor at the time, but I wasn't living high either. I was making bread in boules, not sandwich loaves. Using a biga as starter, so not paying for yeast each time. Cooking on a stone, but a $2 unglazed quarry tile from Home Depot. I'd bought a large restaurant container so I could buy flour by the sack. And I did have a wooden peel, but it was less than $20 bought from a wholesaler; nothing fancy.
Baking that was definitely cheaper than the equivalent from bakeries.

[Anonymous No.15726429]

>>15726150
based as fuck my guy

[Anonymous No.15726505]

>>15726429
Thanks. The book to read is The Italian Baker by Carol Field. I'm sure there's a digital copy somewhere.

Secrets:
flour water yeast salt is all you need
wet dough --> dry crumb. Dry dough --> wet crumb.
To knead wet dough by hand (I didn't own a stand mixer) you treat the dough like taffy. Keep it in constant motion because it will be constantly drooping on you.
Biga = 50% water 50% flour, fermented with yeast from previous batch. Use half your biga for a loaf and half for more biga. It means you'll need to be baking regularly or your started dies. I kept mine in a bowl under a towel on a shelf; no need to refrigerate. Use a packet of commercial the first time.

Honestly I think poorfags should learn to cook bread. It's not particularly time consuming. The skills, though, are not commonplace; they never were. It used to be that ovens were a village common and it was the bakers that really knew bread. Ubiquitous home ovens that can make bread reliably are a 20th c. thing.

[Anonymous No.15726515]

>>15725959
Fried egg and cheese sammich with barbecue sauce.
There's a lot you can do with eggs.
rice, beans, frozen meat patties, frozen veggies. Depends on how broke you are but you can still eat decently.

[Anonymous No.15726516]

>>15725959
make some rice then pour milk on it. instant breakfast/lunch/dinner

[Anonymous No.15726523]

>>15725959
https://voca.ro/176HD46Zci6G

[Anonymous No.15726526]

>>15726036
>You can't afford a loaf of bread? It's less expensive than the flour
Anon think this sentence through for two seconds.

[Anonymous No.15726535]

Beans n sardines

[Anonymous No.15726726]

>>15725959
Eggs and milk I actually eat breakfast

[Anonymous No.15726751]

>>15725959
god that looks as bad as airsoftfattys meat salad

[Anonymous No.15726806]

putting a hot dog in the microwave and placing it on a bun and eating that.

lots of microwave meals.

[Anonymous No.15726817]

>>15725959
>10 eggs a day
>chicken tighs/wings
>loads of pasta and rice
>dairy if I could get it cheap
>loads of liver, I used to eat livers everyday
It was basically this everyday. I can't say I really liked it, but it provided my enough calories and protein to actually put on some solid mass as well.

[Anonymous No.15726839]

>>15725959
>10 eggs a day
>chicken tighs/wings
>loads of pasta and rice
>dairy if I could get it cheap
>loads of liver, I used to eat livers everyday
It was basically this everyday. I can't say I really liked it, but it provided my enough calories and protein to actually put on some solid mass as well.

[Anonymous No.15726842]

>>15725959
Usually I eat well, but it's always cheap ingredients. A lot of tilapia, eggs, and chicken made up most of my protein, along with the occasional $1 can of 'deenz. Frozen vegetables for stir fries and stews/soups, and I ate a lot of rice and pasta. Assuming I haven't run low on basics like flour, oil, spices, etc., I can get what I need for around $60 a week, but more realistically I spend about $100, including when I used to eat out pre-covid.

[Anonymous No.15727243]

>>15726515
i could and have lived on eggs and rice for many many months straight. sometimes I had money for other food but was too lazy to go get it and eggs and rice pretty much keep forever assuming you eat eggs daily

[Anonymous No.15728324]

>>15725959
Supermarket value brand spaghetti with pesto, or just with salt and pepper if I was extra broke

[Anonymous No.15728332]

Ramen always makes me sick to my stomach so I never did that phase. I'd usually cook rice and whatever protein was the cheapest and mix them.

[Anonymous No.15728471]

>>15725959
Pasta, pesto and cherry tomatoes
Bolognese
mongolian mac and cheese casserole
bacon and sausage slop with peas and corn

[Anonymous No.15728529]

>>15725959
you just posted it but with spam instead of hot dogs

[Anonymous No.15728534]

im poor as shit and i still eat really good. i guess i dont have a girl or kids to worry about though.

[Anonymous No.15728886]

>>15728529
fuck spam is so gross. I'd rather eat those disgusting chicken beak and pig butthole hotdogs that cost like $1.50 for 20 of them than a bite of spam. I swear it has like 5000% daily value of sodium per serving.

[Anonymous No.15728900]

white rice, 2-3 fried eggs, and mommy's homemade kimchi

[Anonymous No.15728934]

>>15725959
An enormous amount of these, sometimes with half a slice of cheese for each witch the cheapest ketchup.

[Anonymous No.15728986]

>>15725959
lots of pasta dishes, burgers and chicken strips

[Anonymous No.15729173]

>>15725988
you can make a lot of flatbread with flour

[Anonymous No.15729201]

>>15725959
Yuge bag of amazon tilda broken basmsti rice and a rice cooker. Any vegetable or meat you can get for free. Cheap condiments. Dried legume. Lots of eggs. Cheap cuts of meat - classic is rice with chicken liver and smth like kale or brocoli. It maked for healthy eating actually if youre not, well, able

[Anonymous No.15729222]

When I was young and single I would buy a bag of rice, a bag of black beans, a large onion, some Serrano chiles and a big package of chicken. I’d cook everything and then combine it together and eat a big portion of the chicken beans and rice every day for the next week or so. Put hot sauce or sour cream over it sometimes to mix it up. Pretty cheap and tasty. You could buy canned beans too but I find the dry ones that you cook at home taste better.

[Anonymous No.15729228]

>>15725959
a potato
a cup of veggies
12 mini meatballs

it's also my weight loss food, can't complain breddy gud

[Anonymous No.15729280]

>>15726150
>I'd bought a large restaurant

Stopped reading right here you were not really poor liar

[Anonymous No.15729301]

>>15729280
well you probably should've read the next word retard he said
>a large restaurant container
as in the big ass flour bin you'd find in a restaurant kitchen that can hold a full sack and a half of flour atleast. Also even if he did buy a restaurant, so many restauranteurs are broke as fuck. Your joint has to be successful for years just to pay the bank back before you even profit anything. All you need is decent credit and balls of steal or a deathwish to open a restaurant

[Anonymous No.15729334]

>>15729301
Are you a junkie line cook? Lay off the crack pipe lmao

[Anonymous No.15729335]

>>15729334
the fuck are you talking about

[Anonymous No.15729339]

>>15729335
Don't @ at me tweaker

[Anonymous No.15729364]

>>15729339
Dumb macaco.

[Anonymous No.15729398]

>>15729339
Not him but you should find fulfillment in your life outside unearned (you)s

[Anonymous No.15729403]

>>15726036
What the fuck are you talking about

A bag of flour is like $2 and can make dozens of loaves of bread. Even a single loaf of bread is $2-5 depending on whether you get shitty wonderbread or a bakery loaf

[Anonymous No.15729412]

When my parents were poorer we had a lot of pasta, ground beef meals, and frozen pizza

[Anonymous No.15729442]

Usually go out and buy rice, beans, canned tomatoes, oil, flour, huge block of generic cheddar/generic mozzarella, and ramen in huge bulk packs at the start of every other month, take a look at the meat aisles to see what's on special- best prices per pound would usually be whole chickens, chicken thighs, Italian pork sausage, pork butt, skirt steak, and ground beef. Meat budget per 2 months was around 40$, I'd split whatever I got into meal-sized portions and freeze it. I had to save up for bulk day- it was always fucking expensive, but then you have much smaller bills until restocking.
Weekly I'd go out for veg, eggs, and dairy. Paid attention to specials and bought mostly seasonal- carrots, celery, and onions are cheap and good year round and various greens have their day. Was in little Mexico so I could get likes for 10/buck or jalapenos for 75 cents a pound as long as I kept an eye open. You can find "irregular bacon" for like a quarter the price of strips, it's all the odds and ends that didn't slice up nicely but if you're using bacon to cook with you'd chop it up anyway.
Made a lot of pizza and dumplings using a simple dough recipe, stretch out your meat that way.
Beans and rice are good.
Whole chickens roast up lovely on top of a bed of veg, or you can make a soup.

[Anonymous No.15729475]

Not a single person in this thread is/was poor.

[Anonymous No.15729482]

>>15729280
hilarious

[Anonymous No.15729520]

>>15729475
>I used to be so poor I had sleep for dinner

[Anonymous No.15729527]

>>15726526
I got a big dick and came your boipucci rrally creamy as i pump yoi

[Anonymous No.15729541]

>>15729403
You got a big dick i got big dick bow down my lil sorcerers

[Anonymous No.15729546]

>>15729541
wat

[Anonymous No.15729557]

>>15725959
>Hamburger helper / Tuna / Chicken Helpers
>egg taqutios
>ramen cooked stir-fry style
>Stealing shit

[Anonymous No.15729590]

Dirt poor Appalachian school janitor here.

>beans and rice
>small game
>wild greens
>leftover school lunches

[Anonymous No.15729621]

Just ramen.

[Anonymous No.15729635]

>>15729590
Tell me about your hunting

[Anonymous No.15729689]

>>15725959
beans and rice
eggs/tortillas/hotsauce
ramen with kimchi
chicken thighs
stew
pasta

idk man i eat pretty good even when i'm broke, cooking your own food is cheap

[Anonymous No.15729722]

I can get a KG of potatoes for 55ct, a KG of Herring for 5 EUR. So lots of fish and potatoes.

[Anonymous No.15729727]

>>15725959
Bread with roasted garlic butter olive oil and pink salt.

[Anonymous No.15729754]

I work in a deli, so sometimes i get to take home leftover boxes of fried chicken wings. Usually I'll pull all the meat off, chop it up, cook some (frozen ofc) vegetables in a pan and mix it all up in some white rice (and add whatever sauce or seasoning I feel fit). I get the chicken for free & the rice + frozen vegetables are pretty cheap so it's a tasty poorfag meal if I do say so myself.

[Anonymous No.15729762]

>>15729475
Well, I currently spend like 1000% of what I used to.
I guess I wasn't an untouchable in India or chowing down on pak-pak.

[Anonymous No.15729877]

>>15725959
When I was a young lad making shit money this is what I ate
Breakfast
Oatmeal with cinnamon sugar
Lunch
A free 6in sub from the subways I worked at
Dinner:
If I didn’t fall asleep immediately after work I would eat several spoonfuls of yogurt and Sean some water.
On the weekends when I only worked one job I would come home and eat 15bean soup and rice.

[Anonymous No.15729913]

>>15725959
I'm not destitute but I'm pretty poor atm.

Basically I eat burrito bowls, eggs, toast, milk, steel oats, pasta, turkey.

I actually enjoy the burrito bowls so much I doubt I'll ever stop eating them.
I have a system for making everything in batches so I'm basically eating Chipotle-tier burrito bowls for like $1 each through the week.
It'd be dumb to ever stop doing it at this point.
Same with the steel oats.

Also I buy fuji apples.

I've worked in restaurants for the past few years, and I keep stealing all their recipes.

I just take the recipes that these places are selling for $10-$15 a pop and make them for myself at home.

It's incredible how well you can eat if you put a little thought your meal prepping systems. And SEASON your food. Aside from the convenience factor (or if I want something like Mexican, Sushi, or something else more exotic) there's no compelling reason for me to ever eat out.

[Anonymous No.15729931]

>>15725959
lots of bean sprouts, onions, pork sausages, potatoes, rice, noodles and pasta.

[Anonymous No.15729976]

we had a unique vending machine for sodas at work, not what you usually visualize
i learned you could reach inside and twist a can free
i would sometimes go 3 days with nothing but dr. pepper (the easiest to twist free and perhaps my third or fourth preferred choice)
when i had a few dollars, i would buy a box of saltines just to have solid food

[Anonymous No.15729985]

>>15729913
well go on lad, drop the chipotle-tier burrito bowl for $1 recipe

[Anonymous No.15730145]

>>15725959
meat: chicken tighs, beef heart, minced meat, stuff on sale, stew meat
veggies: onion, carrot, cabbage, multivitamin (pure encapsulations), magnesium compound supps
spice: salt, pepper, curry paste, fish sauce
rice
olive oil, coconut milk

when I was really broke, I ate oats soaked and drained with wheat flour + multivitamin, totalling about 80c/day

[Anonymous No.15730160]

>>15729475
you're mistaking being stupid with poor. You can easily eat good food for little money

- rice
- lentils
- bread
- eggs
- potatoes
- certain veggies like carrots
- pasta

all these things cost a dozen or two of cents to a dollar if you get the value brands.

[Anonymous No.15730193]

>no name frozen diced veggies (onions, carrots, red peppers) $2 for 750g bag
>no name frozen diced potatoes $2 for 1kg bag
>buy cheap fast fry cuts up meat to marinate in steak seasonings
>cook all frozen veg, finish with sliced steak pieces

I'd be able to make two decent bowls of food for about $3.

Alternatively,
>Campbell's Chunky cans are on for $2
>cook half a cup of rice or quinoa
>add it in when heating
>suddenly 2.5 bowls of food

[Anonymous No.15730210]

crackers and peanut butter are the best investments

>requires no heat or water
>shelf-stable, non-perishable
>provides essential macro nutrients (carbs, protein, fat, salt)
>peanut butter and crackers is a classic pairing
>useful in other dishes, if budget allows
>crackers may crumble/disintegrate during shipping, but fairly portable otherwise (and still edible)
>peanut butter is perfectly portable, ignoring extreme heat and cold
>packing is easy to stack/organize

[Anonymous No.15730270]

This is basically poor of my own doing because of alcoholism, but in my final semester of college, my parents were sick of me fucking off so much that they cut off all money to me outside of putting money on my campus card, which they thought was only good for meals on campus, but was actually accepted at some off-campus places like pizza delivery, and most importantly, 7-11. So I used a loophole at 7-11 to spend all of my campus money on alcohol.

I ended up eating nothing but a Cup o Noodles a day for about 7 weeks, along with booze, and when I was doing my final project on the last night, my body broke down so bad I couldn't even type from the shaking. Luckily I had a box of honey bunches of oats on hand, and eating that got my hands to work enough again to submit the project with about 20 minutes to go before the deadline.

My roommate's parents heard the story and felt so bad for me that they bought me an extra large pizza and 40 wings, which I literally subsisted off of for a week until I graduated and drove back home. That was an amazing pizza.

[Anonymous No.15730334]

>>15725959
1/2lb of the cheapest chicken or ground beef I could find, 1 cup of rice, and salt. I would eat that once a day for dinner, with a cup of coffee for breakfast before work and a can of arizona tea for 69 cents for lunch. went about 6 months on that.

[Anonymous No.15730356]

>>15725959
Beans and rice were a common sight in my poverty meal plan. When times were good, I might even be able to add a little meat.

[Anonymous No.15730366]

>>15729301
I used a large plastic cheese balls container for flour...I still do, to this day.

[Anonymous No.15730379]

>>15730366
Example pic

[Anonymous No.15730386]

>>15726150
any pics from the time? interesting/based setup

[Anonymous No.15730411]

Canned corned beef, sardines, spam. Rice.

[Anonymous No.15730423]

>>15725959
beans, potatoes, eggs, chicken quarters, and the cheapest greens per lb at the store, usually bok choy. occasionally id either splurge a bit for coconut milk to make it a curry, or buy some pipe tobacco to stave off hunger.

[Anonymous No.15730473]

>>15730366
Kino

[Anonymous No.15731376]

>>15725959
corn tortilla with canned black beans and
scrambled eggs on top maybe with hot sauce and eat it like a soft taco

[Anonymous No.15731467]

Mostly eggs with turkey filet on some bread and some sambal oelek. It was kind of healthy but also depressing to look at. And eating the same thing day in day out for months gets boring

[bruce No.15731736]

>>15725959
Definitely lived in some near poverty for about a decade. During the lean times lots of soups, tons of rice and veggies, tofu. So much bean kale soup, rice and chicken and beans and so many stir fries and casseroles with just anything left over. So many canned ingredients and ramen for a snack.

Shopping a lot at ethnic markets and just a lot of buying only what you need for the few days/week unless it's something that's significantly cheaper and shelf stable like rice. You can get like a 5-10 pound bag of rice at a chink market that will last a long time.

Also slow cookers are the shit. Throw in any kind of meat that's on sale with some veggies and some spices, go to work, come back to a delicious hot meal that warms the soul and feeds you for a couple of days.

[Anonymous No.15731764]

McDonald’s.
Back in my poorfag days, the double cheeseburger was a $1 item.
Not that imposter McDouble bullshit.
So I ate a shitton of double cheeseburgers. There was literally no other way to get so much protein in a calorie-dense form for $1.
Wasn’t worried about fat/calories, as I walked several miles every day with a heavy backpack.

[Anonymous No.15731876]

>>15731764
Are you that same fat fag who would get his 2000+ calories a day for a $1?

[Anonymous No.15731900]

>>15725959
Eggs just a shit ton of eggs for every meal nothing on them but salt

[Anonymous No.15731911]

Im the brokest ive ever been, and lately its been canned corned beef with canned baked beans kek. The doctor also recently told me i have awful cholestrol and an wful heart.

[Anonymous No.15731928]

>>15731911
How the hell is that cheaper than making bread or eating eggs?

What is the price of your food? Can’t you at least buy multivitamins?

[Anonymous No.15731986]

Untoasted bread with butter. Sausage and beans

[Anonymous No.15732167]

>>15731876
Not sure who you’re talking about, nor am I sure why you think 2000cal is out of range for a normal healthy male.

[Anonymous No.15732177]

As an actual poorfag mostly spaghetti, chili or frozen stuff from Dollar Tree. Making six figures now I eat like poorfags should eat. Ass loads of chicken and broccoli.

[Anonymous No.15732189]

>>15731876
Nothing you said makes any sense.

[Anonymous No.15732202]

>>15725959
I worked at a restaurant for more than just the paycheck. So plenty of bbq chicken and ribs.

[Anonymous No.15732279]

>>15725988
Flour used to be cheap

[Anonymous No.15732283]

Here's a sample menu based on my recent eating habits as a low-income person with few expenses and no debts due
brekkie: eggs and potatoes with hot sauce
lunch: rye bread, toasted, topped with mustard and liverwurst (on special)
dinner: baked potatoes, frozen broccoli, pork tenderloin (eternally on sale at my local supermarket for some reason)

[Anonymous No.15732298]

>>15726036
>>15725988
i just got 10lbs of flour from Publix for $3.48 (bogo)
The cheapest bread it that garbage white bread and that's $1 a loaf so that is only 3 and a half loafs of shit bread or like 10 loafs of amazing homemade sour dough

[Anonymous No.15732323]

>>15725959
Not a complete poorfag but there was a period where I lived on like 6 dollars a day as a college student. I ate one meal a day, which was either a giant fucking burrito from a taqueria or a frozen pizza.

[Anonymous No.15732656]

>>15726505
>. It's not particularly time consuming
no it really isn't, it's just the waiting in between, i prefer hand kneading it's like meditation for me plus i feel the dough comes out a little better or at least easier to work with when it comes to shaping.

[Anonymous No.15732665]

>>15730366
that's actually a good idea! its hard to find large containers for cheap, is it fairly air tight?

[Anonymous No.15732692]

>>15729398
true wisdom we all should learn from

[Anonymous No.15732698]

I get a pork shoulder and a new bbq sauce each week, crockpot it, and eat it on bread through the week. leftovers get frozen

[Anonymous No.15733820]

>>15728934
>the cheapest ketchup
That’s rough