/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18888372]

welp, im fucked. Rent just increased by 150 dollars and im already broke as it is.
How can I each cheaply but with some flavor.
my diet already just consists of chicken legs and spaghetti, idk what to do .

[Anonymous No.18888384]

>>18888372
get a job, retard

[Anonymous No.18888385]

>>18888372
start selling drugs

[Anonymous No.18888511]

>>18888372
>How can I each cheaply but with some flavor
The "flavor" part is actually not expensive. Garlic powder, hot sauce, etc will last you weeks.
You WILL only buy the cheapest possible rice and beans (bulk). You WILL eat only the cheapest possible chicken and pork cuts. And you will be happy.
Go to the food bank and snatch some canned bullshit and pasta. If you are American or west European, you have free food available - literally nobody starves to death in these places.

Also
>Downgrade your internet to the cheapest one possible
>Downgrade your cell phone bill to "pay as you go"
>cancel any subscriptions if you still have them. Download kinos overnight if you must
>bundle up and shut off your heating
>Very obvious: don't spend any money on alcohol or cigarettes

[Anonymous No.18888545]

>>18888511
thanks for the advice brother. Yeah, I just canceled all my internet stuff. netflix, huhlu, wow, yaddqa yadda....i figure that lone will save me 80 bucks or so a month.

[Anonymous No.18888552]

>>18888372
Just buy a house. Jesus whats wrong with you people

[Anonymous No.18888573]

>>18888372
what is this picture
are you robbing graves OP?

[Anonymous No.18888584]

>>18888573
Bones are a cheap source of dietary calcium and phosphorus

[Anonymous No.18888624]

>>18888511
>>bundle up and shut off your heating

His landlord is going to beat his ass when the pipes in the house freeze.

[Anonymous No.18888655]

>>18888624
Pipes? You mean the copper stuff in the wall that OP sold for beer money?

[Anonymous No.18888723]

>>18888624
Not his problem

[Anonymous No.18888742]

[Anonymous No.18888826]

>>18888545
freeing up 80 a month gives you plenty of budget for one person per month. As long as you don't snack a lot w/ preprocessed stuff like cheez its and oreos, you don't eat out at restaurants, and you don't buy dumb shit like steak every night. Whole chickens are nice since you get 2 breasts 2 thighs 2 drums and like 4 wings, so it's a solid choice for ~$7. Chicken breast whole as a meal is good but it's much better chopped or sliced and used to add to other meals i.e. topping salads, in wraps, or with spaghetti. Chicken might be rising in price due to the whole bird shortage whatever, so look for alternatives for protein like fish, pork, and turkey. keep in mind the price per pound and the calories/protein per pound to give you a cals/protein per dollar. buy generic brand as much as you can, it isn't a huge step down. Don't start buying a ton of bulk shit if you don't need it. Yes it's cheaper by the pound, but if you're strapped for cash it's wiser to buy an $5 8oz bottle of olive oil that might last you a month compared to a 128oz jug of olive oil that'll last years. When you're well off, you can buy in bulk, but the high upfront cost disincentivizes buying in bulk when you're low. It's sad to say but you will have to take hits like that sometimes.

[Anonymous No.18888847]

>>18888545
theres so much free media available, theres really no excuse for paying. If you still want the convenience of streaming without the cost, i recommend tubi.

for gaming on a budget, you cant do much better than gamepass ultimate

For cell phone, i highly recommend tello. I pay $10 bucks a month, no contract. works off sprint network so pretty reliable

Also lower your car insurance to liability only if you havent already

For food (ie the actual topic), rice and beans lmao

[Anonymous No.18888848]

>>18888742
Why is this a gif

[Anonymous No.18888863]

>>18888848
why not

[Anonymous No.18888875]

Start driving for uber eats. You can usually earn enough to buy yourself a meal in the same amount of time it would take you to prepare it yourself (1hr), and it lets you cash out immediately. I have a friend in a similar situation and that's how he stayed afloat while he figured out a different living situation.

[Anonymous No.18888876]

>>18888848
It prevents phoneposters from zooming in to read the text.

[Anonymous No.18888891]

>>18888848
Fuck I didn't notice it was a gif and opened it. .gifs are commonly used as vectors for hidded ecoded info. Not gonna take any chances and gonna hard format the drive that my temp. browser files go into now. Luckily I've set aside a separate drive for that so it's not a big deal
I recommend you do the same anon

[Anonymous No.18888892]

>>18888876
y'know what fair enough, i can respect it now

[Anonymous No.18888952]

>>18888372
hahahahhahahaahahhahahahahahahaha time to eat ramen and rot poorfag

[Anonymous No.18889219]

>>18888952
op here
literaly have ate ramen like its out of style...i cum ramen.

[Anonymous No.18889239]

>>18889219
ramen is so bad bro. you can do so much better than that on a tight budget. Seriously. Plus it's really a lot of empty calories.

[Anonymous No.18889262]

Buy whole chickens and brine them.
Salt is cheap and you'll save more money.

[Anonymous No.18889265]

>>18888372
Unironically find a food drive. Almost none of them ask for any personal information or proof of unemployment or shit like that. My grandparents run a church and their food drive just asks for a name and address so they can prove they're actually donating the food to people. They wpuld often give my family the leftover stuff when they had extras and we'd get decent shit like veggies, pasta and sauce, tuna cans, lots of non perishable food mainly

[Anonymous No.18889267]

>>18888888

[Anonymous No.18889278]

>>18888848

[Anonymous No.18889428]

>can't afford food
>still pays for Netflix, Hulu and other trash

How retarded are you?

[Anonymous No.18889431]

>>18888372
If you live near a state university, most of them have a no questions asked food pantry for struggling students. As long as you're under 40 I doubt anyone will ask any questions.

[Anonymous No.18889434]

>>18888372
Go to a food pantry, get onto EBT/SNAP/Food Stamps/etc.

[Anonymous No.18889471]

>>18888847
All digital media is free.
Also internet is free at the library.
Posted from my local library.
>>18888624
You can just turn it down low. I keep mine at 45-50 F during the winter, pay $25 a month for electricity+heating.

[Anonymous No.18889505]

>>18888876
Posted from my iphone

[Anonymous No.18889556]

>>18888624
>>18888723
One day I'll have the opportunity to be the first one to say this.

[Anonymous No.18889558]

>>18888952
we're all gonna be poor soon enough

[Anonymous No.18889600]

>>18888372
Check the archives for this type of question. A few months ago there was one anon was sharing his recipe for 25¢ meals

[Anonymous No.18889822]

i just eat lentils and rice for half my meals because i'm lazy as fuck, can cook a gigantic batch and just eat it for the rest of the week
>dice onion and garlic and fry it up
>pepper, salt, coriander
>dump in lentils and broth
>cook for a while
>serve over rice
wa la

if you want to go ultra poor mode replace broth with water, omit the onion and garlic, and use leftover ramen powder packets of flavor
cheap, filling, nutritious, doesn't taste half bad, gives you regular bowel movements

[Anonymous No.18889837]

>>18889822
Add curry powder and this is basically 85% of the Indian diet

[Anonymous No.18889855]

>>18888372
Just start sucking dicks for cash. It’s super easy money

[Anonymous No.18889885]

Just kill all landlords (AKA kikes, poojeets and chinks)

[Anonymous No.18890013]

>>18888372
eat the landlord.

[Anonymous No.18890019]

>>18888372
Have you tried making spaghettoni al pollo leggisimo?

[Anonymous No.18890554]

>>18889855
OP here, I've been doing that for years and never thought to charge for it! Thanks!

[Anonymous No.18892472]

>>18888511
> You WILL eat only the cheapest possible chicken and pork cuts
>can afford meat at all
Woah look at this regal fuck

[Anonymous No.18892817]

where I live, landlords can only raise it by 2% each year. look into it to see if it’s even legal for your landlord to do this

>>18888545
>long list of consoomer services
like the other anon said, tubi is free. it’s trash compared to netflix but there are gems on there

[Anonymous No.18893817]

>>18890554
lmao

[Anonymous No.18893876]

>>18888372
kill your landlord
https://youtu.be/r8PI0zauruk

[Anonymous No.18893911]

>>18889434
>EBT
he probably makes too much to get EBT. the income cutoff is somewhere around someone working a part time, almost-minimum wage job

if i was in this situation, i would eat a fuckload of oatmeal - very cheap, healthy macros with lots of fiber, and fills you up well. yogurt, too, if you can get it cheap. meat is generally expensive for the nutrition that you get, so i'd focus on staples like oats, potatoes, rice and supplement with dairy protein/fat sources like yogurt/milk/cheese/butter. usually i'd suggest eggs as a great cheap protein/fat source, but apparently egg prices are high right now. see if you can get some cheap/discount whey protein

worse comes to worse, you can donate plasma twice a week to get some grocery money, but i would avoid it if you can