/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19921199]

Best methods for saving money on cooking? With inflation being so high I need to cut back on spending.

[Anonymous No.19921251]

Frozen veggies.

Been challenging myself to cook it well enough to trick wife into thinking it's fresh. Saving lots.

[Anonymous No.19921259]

>>19921199
eat less. do you really need more than 1 meal a day? honestly?

[Anonymous No.19921266]

>>19921199
It's hard to say unless we know what you're already doing.

[Anonymous No.19921276]

>>19921199
Start eating deli ends.

[Anonymous No.19921285]

>>19921199
a lot of rice and pasta and then just combine it with frozen veggies. don't buy sauces pre made or anything- and try to only buy things when they are on sale. like you should only come home with ingredients. save friday or saturday as a special day where you treat yourself so you dont become discouraged.

[Anonymous No.19921289]

Get staples and shop at discount stores, instead of the opposite like the faggot in your picture did.

[Anonymous No.19921290]

>>19921199
casseroles.

you could make aweek's worth of meals out of 1 chicken and rice casserole (for 1 person).

gimmbap/spring rolls are also cheap foods to make. Gimmbap is rice and seaweed wrapper, basically poor people sushi. spring roll is lettuce and cheap as fuck rice noodle wrapped in rice paper wrapper. You can make multiple meals for less than 5 dollars worth of materials.

soups are also good. Onion/garlic/celery/carrot and flour base, then add water/stock. From then you choose what kind of soup you are making: cream of requires milk and cream, throw in chicken and noodles, or pork, or beef to make various kinds of soups. If you have an emulsion blender you can turn tomatoes/potatoes/broccoli into creamy soups.

hard boiled eggs, the ultimate poorfag food. salt + hard boiled egg = good. just sprinkle a tiny bit between each bite. you can make it fancy if you have mustard and spices, make egg salad or deviled eggs, or egg sandwhiches.

if you want to make bread from scratch you just need water, flour, sugar, salt, and yeast.

its the fall so you could probably grab apples from people's yards. if you arent retarded you can preserve those. Apples chopped, boiled, and blended is apple sauce. Apples dehydrated are apple chips.

if you are an extreme poorfag buy some radish seeds, they grow in the winter in most places. you can make a fuck ton of radishes in less than a month.

[Anonymous No.19921361]

>>19921259
I actually started doing 1 meal a day today.

>>19921266
I have an air fryer, slow cooker, pots an pans but don't really have a strategy, kind of just go to the store and buy random shit.

>>19921290
>>19921285
>>19921251
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.19921372]

>>19921199
Good lord coming home with this grocery load should be punishable by community service. Total fucking slop. And all brand names- not even an attempt to buy store brand items, then have the fucking gall to whine on social media about the price of the processed garbage that YOU BOUGHT. What a fucking NPC way to live your life, holy fucking shit.

[Anonymous No.19921373]

>>19921361

How hard up are you on cash to only do a single meal a day?

[Anonymous No.19921393]

>>19921199
$155 could get you:
>gallons of milk ($10)
>a month's worth of egg whites ($10)
>dried split pea and rice out the whazoo ($10)
>boxes and boxes of whole wheat pasta ($10)
>a crate of oatmeal ($10)
>a gallon of olive oil ($20)
>a pound of liver and some canned seafood ($10)
...and still have enough left over to splurge on Rao's and whatever fresh veggies you couldn't grow yourself this season

OP's picrel is a portrait of baby bitch cope. The bag of candy says it all.

[Anonymous No.19921413]

>>19921372
I fucking love the slightly upscale store brand stuff a lot of markets are putting out these days, like with Kroger and their Private Selections brand items that doesn't break the bank too much.

[Anonymous No.19921456]

>>19921373
Mostly doing it to lose weight, like IF but 23:1 fast:feed instead of 16:8 which is more normal.

[Anonymous No.19921458]

>>19921199
I tend to spend around 300$ per month (for one person), and that includes splurging on eating out.

First, consider food that you can serve in bulk. Pastas and casseroles are king, as others have said. You can vary them pretty well, and use good fruits, meats and vegetables very efficiently.
Second, identify the key cost drivers when you shop. Meat (especially steaks) can easily cost a ton of money for not many meals.
Third, minimize snacks. Snacks and desserts can add a lot to your food expenses, and they leave you constantly craving for more. Either make your own snacks or find healthier alternatives. If I buy a box of 12 cookies, I'll eat them in a day or two; if I make 24 cookies, it'll last me a week.

[Anonymous No.19921466]

>>19921456
Fasting like that might be really bad if you still try to achieve normal caloric intakes. It'll make you feel sick, and it also causes you to gain weight rather than lose it.

You're better off eating 3 meals a day and fasting every other day (full 24 hours) than doing 23:1 intermittent fasting.

[Anonymous No.19921499]

The amount of meals you can make from a base of pasta or rice, roasted veggies, meat and a sauce is endless. Spices and seasoning can totally change it up and stop it from being boring with a bit of imagination.

Buying a $9 Red Baron pizza is the equivalent of throwing your arms up and surrendering, at least in my eyes.

[Anonymous No.19921515]

costco has hot dogs and a soda for $1.50

that's 3 meals for $4.50

a week should only cost you $31.50

so for $155 you could feed a person for a month easy

[Anonymous No.19921532]

>>19921199
none of that is fucking food

[Anonymous No.19921538]

>>19921251
Any tricks you've found? I just throw it in a kettle, let it boil for a couple minutes, drain it in a collinder, dump some salt and pepper on it, and call it a day. I would like it to have a bit dryer/less squishy texture to it.

[Anonymous No.19921545]

>>19921466
not the same anon, but ive done it before and it was easy after the first week. lost like 20 pounds

[Anonymous No.19921588]

>>19921199
The closest thing to a fruit or vegetable in this image is the can of beans.

[Anonymous No.19921642]

>>19921199
fixed for you

[Anonymous No.19921654]

>>19921199
That's $155 worth of slop.
Not food.

[Anonymous No.19921683]

>>19921251
Do you thaw? I figure this must be part of the trick since cooking while its frozen is just gonna steam it all and turn it to mush, but a slow thaw at room temp doesnt seem any better. Might mess around with doing a quick thaw in the microwave then cooking briefly at higher heat, but i can always tell they arent fresh no matter what i try.

[Anonymous No.19921755]

>>19921276
The grocery store I worked at as a teen would make their antipasto with the deli ends, shit was cash money.

[Anonymous No.19921766]

>>19921393
Based and old man diet pilled

[Anonymous No.19921770]

>>19921642
kek

[Anonymous No.19921771]

>>19921683
>reddit screenshot
Not on my 4channel, GETTEM BOYS!!!

[Anonymous No.19921772]

>>19921199
Dried rice and pulses
Frozen / canned and in-season fresh veg
Off-cuts of meat
Eggs
Milk

Buy on sale, buy in bulk, buy the lowest price PER UNIT. I focus on macros and supplement if needed.
>t. poor /fit/fag

[Anonymous No.19921778]

>>19921290
My nigga. Spoken like a true poorfag.

[Anonymous No.19921782]

>>19921393
Check with your butcher for discounts on off-cuts and organ meats, if shit ain't selling he might give you some goodies alongside the kidneys, hearts, and bull balls.

[Anonymous No.19921784]

>>19921538
Steam it in the collander, or buy yourself a proper steaming pot and basket.

[Anonymous No.19921849]

>>19921515

The rotisserie chicken at $5 is a better deal. A single person can live off that for a couple days mixing in another $5 worth of grain and veggies.

[Anonymous No.19921866]

>>19921199
Wow, they even bought food that represented their true selves

[Anonymous No.19921874]

>>19921199
I'm not poor but I bought butter and vegetables today. Soda is usually cheaper and on sale. It's the chips, cereal, oreos, and pre-made foods driving the price up. Thru should be getting a gallon of instant mash flakes, not precooked mash....

[Anonymous No.19921895]

>>19921874
>shit generic butter 3.98
>good butter 7.32(?)
Just kill me already. I'm a few months off from giving "erotic massages" to pay for 1.99/lb tomatoes.

[Anonymous No.19921918]

>>19921466
No, you're not.

[Anonymous No.19921927]

>>19921199

They are going to drink that many sodas in 3 days?

[Anonymous No.19921929]

>>19921199
>spend $50 on short cases of mtn dew and sprite
>WHY ARE GROCERIES SO EXPENSIVE
groceries are fucking expensive but pop isn't "food" and is a luxury item.

[Anonymous No.19921935]

>>19921251
>to trick wife into thinking it's fresh.
Most frozen veggies are fresher than the produce at your grocery store because they're frozen shortly after being picked. but yes i agree the utility value of frozen vegetables is underappreciated.

[Anonymous No.19921936]

>>19921199
Soup and stew.

[Anonymous No.19921973]

>>19921259
Unironically this. You could all probably stand to lose weight. I started restricting calories last month and realized I barely spend any on groceries anymore.
>>19921285
Fresh vegetables are not expensive. No reason to make your experience worse with frozen shit.

[Anonymous No.19921976]

>>19921199
Latest haul.

[Anonymous No.19921996]

>>19921199
Cheap frozen vegetables. Every now and then splurge on some good shit like fresh tomatoes or something.
Rice, lentils, pasta. You can make these a million ways so they're always good to have. Cheap, filling, flexible. That's what you want on a broke nigga budget. Those are your staples. Always have them and vegetables. For breakfasts you want eggs, milk if you can drink it, and bread. Always have bread to dip or make sandwiches and eggs are about as cheap as you'll get for breakfast food.
For meats you'll want chicken. Every now and then if you get a good deal look for ground beef and things like that. You'll have to manage to your tastes obviously.
Everything else is just mixing and matching the above into meal combinations, with an occasional allowance for extra ingredients that cost a bit more. But you want the above as your staples. Always have yourself loaded with them. That's your base and you should never go hungry. Even if it's not the best you'll have at least enough shit to mix and match for a variety of meals that are healthier than goyslop, cheaper, and filling. Can't go wrong with them.

[Anonymous No.19922003]

>>19921199
That is a FUCKTON of chips in the OP pic, I barely go through like 1 party bag in a week. Half that shit in the image is just garbage wastes of money. Also, poor bitches need to avoid the deli counter, you can't afford that high priced shit. Literal dum dum there.

OP, Main thing you need to get when saving money is that you need to do shit in BULK. Small scale = convenience in the food world. Take for example SPAM: a slice of spam in its literal foil packet is FAR more expensive than a can of SPAM, and a can of SPAM is more expensive than a pallet of SPAM. This applies to ALL other food items. Little cups of pre-made rice? Expensive. 20lb bag of rice? Cheap. 6 eggs? Expensive. Monster pack of 48? Cheap. You need to scale up in purchase volume. Bonus for this is you don't need to grocery shop as often which turns into gas savings! Avoid paying for convenience. Get whole chickens. Get whole ham molds or whole ham chunks. Get whole turkeys. Get used to making soups and stocks. Don't pay for shit like water. Water gets piped into your house for cheap (or is free if well), don't pay upscaled prices for water. The final thing you can do is eliminate waste. Bones used in stock, ham bones to flavor beans, that type of shit. Turn stale bread into croutons/crumbs. That is old grandma knowledge right there.

Big principles:
1. Don't pay for water
2. Don't pay for convenience
3. Buy in bulk where possible
4. Make large scale meals - big pots of soup, stews, etc. then store leftovers.
5. Eliminate waste, use everything as best as possible.

[Anonymous No.19922007]

>>19921996
Oh and beans. Forgot to add beans. Beans are always a plus too for the same reasons.

[Anonymous No.19922010]

If you want flavorful but cheap food, buy spices at an Asian, Indian, or Mexican store. 10 times cheaper than the rinky-dink little glass bottles they sell us at the supermarket.

[Anonymous No.19922016]

>>19921996
>Every now and then splurge on some good shit like fresh tomatoes or something.

Protip: canned tomatoes are packaged at peak freshness, don't bother with them in the produce section. The canned will be cheaper and better and last longer. Produce section tomatoes are for richfags and their salads, poorfags need not use them. Stick to basics like onions, potatoes and veggies.

[Anonymous No.19922030]

>>19922016
You don't wanna eat like shit all the time, though. And canned stuff is usually almost always sauce. At least in the northeast where I'm at. Which is good, but sometimes you want something that isn't a paste.

[Anonymous No.19922031]

>>19922010
Yes, this is where you get spices in bulk. The little jars are for convenience, and when poor you cannot afford convenience.

Also, OP, shop where the poors shop. No expensive markup for elites shopping like Whole Foods or Safeway. You need to shop at the places like Walmart and HEB and other low cost groceries where bargains are to be had.

FYI - produce has seasons, so shop in season when things are cheap.

[Anonymous No.19922165]

>>19921199
Look to see if you have a discount grocer (such as Aldi) nearby. Not everything there will be as good as the name brand stuff, maybe not even much cheaper, but for staples you can save a lot of money.

[Anonymous No.19922194]

>>19921199
Man, Imma be real with you.. People really do not need caloric liquids in their lives like soda and juice. Cereal and chips can go, as well. Cut all of that out and you'd save yourself a decent chunk of change.

[Anonymous No.19922220]

Eat peanut butter sandwiches, hard boiled eggs, sweet potatoes, sardines if they're cheap in your area. All cheap and efficient foods. Buy a big pack of chicken thighs if they're on sale and make them with rice/beans/chickpeas, frozen peas to get a bunch of meals out of them. Only drink water, tea, alcohol anything else is a waste of money

[Anonymous No.19922321]

>>19921642
>take stuff away
>gain more days' worth of meals
you can't explain that

[Anonymous No.19922333]

>>19921538
>>19921683

Found the trick is not to thaw before cooking. For green beans I throw them into a large pan, frozen, medium heat no oil, you can crowd it a bit but don't layer, until they have thawed and got some heat to them.

Add your choice of oil and salt, cook until they start going a touch wrinkly, add garlic, cook until you start getting color. I aim for some browning. Splash of lemon and serve.

Brocolli bake on a sheet, frozen, once they are thawed out and got a bit of heat, use the sheet to drop it in a bowl, toss with oil, salt, garlic, throw back on sheet, continue baking until color, browning with a touch of black. I have failed everytime trying to do this in a pan, only succeed baking. Green beans can bake or pan fry but I find the pan is faster and nicer.

Cauliflower same as Brocolli.

Attempting spinach sometime this week, figuring this is gonna be the tricky one.

All my tests have shown not to let it steam itself, cook while it's frozen.

[Anonymous No.19922335]

>>19921199
>$165 of food
>$70 of it is fucking mountain dew

[Anonymous No.19922336]

>>19922333

I'm doing some beans tonight so I'll take some pictures of the major stages I go through and post.

[Anonymous No.19922337]

>>19921199
>$30 of chips
>waah we're so broke

[Anonymous No.19922338]

>>19921393
>gallons of milk ($10)
>when half a gallon of milk is $4

>eggs for a month ($10)
>when eggs are $7 a dozen

[Anonymous No.19922339]

>>19922338
eggs are $1.50/dozen at my local store. I've never seen $7 eggs aside from the obviously-expensive pasture-raised stuff.
Milk is $1.69 per half gallon, or $2.29 per gallon at that same store.

[Anonymous No.19922341]

>>19921935

This is what I heard as a kid but my parents were horrible cooking frozen so put me off as an adult. Now that I realized cost for fresh is a ripoff I switched in desperation and realized I could get pretty much same quality of food but cheaper and last longer

[Anonymous No.19922348]

>>19922321
He took out the number of people.

[Anonymous No.19922351]

>>19922339
ok larper

[Anonymous No.19922353]

>>19922351
>larper
I'm telling the truth. Those are the cheapest, store-brand options at my local Aldi. If I were to go to Shoprite and get a half gallon of name-brand Horizon milk or something it would probably be like $5, so I don't do that.
I also buy my bread at Aldi, where the price is 50 cents a loaf.

[Anonymous No.19922443]

>>19921199

>At least 48 cans or so cans of goyslurp in that picture

[Anonymous No.19922468]

>>19921466
Eating one meal a day is well within the realm of normalcy for what your body expects. I did it for years and was completely fine. Still do sometimes when I don't feel like cooking all day.

[Anonymous No.19922470]

>>19921199
Bananas, eggs, milk, pasta, salt

[Anonymous No.19922485]

>>19921199
What in the vitamin deficiency is that diet?

[Anonymous No.19922502]

>>19921199
Depending on what country you're in I found that vegetables and fruits from the weekly farmers market is significantly cheaper than buying fruits and veg from the supermarket. I usually spend somewhere between 10-20 on everything I need for the week for one person, that is all vegetables needed for dinner and fruit during the day time for every day and I usually have leftovers at the end of the week.
Try and look for things in season, don't try and buy out of season veg and fruits during their off season because they will be expensive.
As for breakfast, I save a lot of money on eating quark (?) with breakfast granola and a cup of coffee or tea. And typically I don't eat junkfood of any kind unless it is my cheat day.

[Anonymous No.19922504]

>>19922485
Vitamins?

[Anonymous No.19922514]

>>19921199
get a shitty stick blender, a deep pot and learn how to make nap sauce. Go to the fruit market, get a bunch of tomato, onions, celery, garlic, carrots. dice it up cook those bitch and blend it up. Portion it, freeze it and you have endless sauce for your pasta or even dip your bread whatever you want. made with actual veggies not just tomato paste and corn starch shit

[Anonymous No.19922522]

>>19921199
process your own meat, buy chicken breasts in bulk cut them into thinner pieces good for grilling, portion and freeze. red meat you can do the same but its been harder for me to find meat I can cut that doesn't have a fucking bone through it, maybe someone smart here knows the cut im looking for.

[Anonymous No.19922531]

>>19921199
stock up on canned tomatoes when they are on sale unless its cheaper to buy fresh tomatoes in your area, either way these tomato paste tubes are sick coz you don't need to use much in a dish just a tablespoon squeeze at most when you deglase with the pasta water you fat cunt.

[Anonymous No.19922536]

>>19921973
what about stuff like frozen peas or carrots? Arent those fine?

[Anonymous No.19922543]

>>19921199
also fuck margarine, buy olive oil, save time spreading use it for your salads and you can get butter instead, go make a bechamel or something you fucker. speaking of salads, Baby spinach use it for salds or cook with it either way you are a winner. put a bit of water in the pan if you are just cooking the baby soinach on its own bit of salf pepper and dry herb of choice and you have something nice to put on your poached eggs. Speaking of poached eggs you need white vinegar for that shit, you can use it for cleaning too have baking soda and lemon juice handy for cleaning, lemon juice works in a pinch for salads and guac, marnides. when you aren't using the baking soda for cleaning make some chocolate chip cookies coz you deserve it.

[Anonymous No.19922547]

>>19922514
What the hell is a fruit market? Sounds like the name of a gay bar

[Anonymous No.19922550]

>>19921199
I grew up poor and my parents are not very good cooks but they never fed us shit like that. The porkchops were dry but they were still porkchops instead of a bag of chips.
I'm going to call my mother and tell her I love her now.

[Anonymous No.19922551]

>>19921199
>Mom life
>Posts groceries
>It's all ultra-processed slop
Jesus....

[Anonymous No.19922561]

>>19922338
Just shop at Aldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT5-cV4oMY8

[Anonymous No.19922566]

>>19922547
I'm gonna guess its equivalent to the farmers market except its not the farmers its a reseller. what do you call that?

[Anonymous No.19922576]

>>19921199
I've been living the frugal life for 2 years. I eat well for less than $5 a day. Here's how

>Shop Aldi, Walmart, or some other cheap store. Look for sales.
>Like others have said, carbs and frozen veggies are cheap
>Protein is more expensive but you can find affordable chicken and pork. Eggs are also an affordable and tasty source of animal protein. Egg prices have come back down. You can get a dozen for less than $3 and organic cage free for less than $5. There are also some good cheap sausages out there. Most steak cuts will be too expensive but there are occasionally some cheap cuts like top round which actually taste pretty good. You can find also decent deals on ground beef.

Here is one of my favorites: get a Knorr rice or pasta pack for like a $1.25. Throw in some frozen peas, or frozen broccoli, or some spinach. Then throw in some cheap ham or sausage or chicken. Thats 2 serving for $3 total and it tastes good. I have this at least once a week.

[Anonymous No.19922577]

Potatos. Rice. Beans.

REPEAT. AFTER. ME.

POTATOS. RICE. BEANS.
POTATOS. RICE. BEANS.

Veggies and spices for taste.
Meat only on sale.

[Anonymous No.19922583]

>>19922576
Also, I forgot to mention baked potatoes. You can get a 10lb bag at aldi for like $5. Baked potatoes with butter and sour cream are filling and cheap

[Anonymous No.19922642]

>>19922577
Definitely this, with a note that a couple of slop meals in reserve (frozen pizza, etc) is a useful thing to have and will usually still fit in the budget if you are being thrifty otherwise.
You never know when you'll have a shitty/crisis day and need a zero effort dinner after midnight because you've been to the hospital or something.
(If you can meal prep something that's zero effort ahead of time it doesn't even need to be slop, but I'm assuming a white room start for these threads)

[Anonymous No.19922659]

buy basic shit and buy what you need
>rice
>flour
>meats (cut it yourself)
>sauces
>spices

Buy fresh vegetables instead of frozen
>but get fruit juice because fruits go bad too quickly
>and they're always bad in the store

Get premade mashed potatoes because they can stretch really far. Get multivitamins. Drink lots of water.

>>19922642
this is good advice because you save a lot of stress with the couple extra bucks

[Anonymous No.19922673]

>>19922659
When I was flat broke I used to buy canned pineapple or fruit salad. It was a great treat and full of vitamin C, and stays fresh for ages. Not that healthy for you if it's in syrup though.

[Anonymous No.19922685]

>>19921361
>I have an air fryer, slow cooker, pots an pans but don't really have a strategy, kind of just go to the store and buy random shit.

I found a few recipes that I like, one is curry and the other is a chicken teriyaki/sweet chili/what ever the fuck I feel like. With some basic knowledge and a trial and error you can make all kinds of combos and spin offs. I really like chicken hearts and gizzards, decided to make a curry dish with them and it was amazing, I make it regularly now because hearts and gizzards are cheap and hearty. Same with beef liver. Get chicken thighs with the bone and skin, not only will it be cheaper, it's also more options for dishes to make if you feel like experimenting. I'm being serious here, if you need some inspiration for things to cook or ideas to base your meals off of, youtube some off the wall videos, like chicken heart curry, find the one made by a random lady in her kitchen and you'll see how real people without a camera crew and professional set ups make food. Browse ethnic stores and butchers/produce places, around me there are a lot of Mexican stores, they have quality meats and produce for less than corporate stores like Walmart, winn dixie, costco or whatever you have in your region.

[Anonymous No.19922733]

>>19922577
I prefer cous cous to rice. Easier to prepare too.

[Anonymous No.19922736]

>>19922003
>1. Don't pay for water
Drinking water is inexpensive if you only pay for the water itself. I have several five gallon bottles like pic related. It used to be $0.25 a gallon for filtered water but even at the inflation price of $0.43 a gallon, for drinking water it's still reasonably priced.
The one time upfront cost for the bottles is pretty low. The only other cost is store brand denture cleaning tabs, which is what I use to disinfect the bottles between uses. That added $0.006 to the per gallon cost, so less than a penny.

[Anonymous No.19922740]

>>19922339
Eggs had a large spike in price last year but have come back down since then.

[Anonymous No.19922745]

>>19921976
waitrose huh. god damn this mf rich.

[Anonymous No.19922767]

>>19922736
Buy a filter (optional) and drink tap water, it's absolutely fine. I've done it my whole life.

[Anonymous No.19922772]

>>19921199
This is literally my shopping cart every time I go to Walmart

[Anonymous No.19922812]

>>19922772
americans. i'm seething about americans again.

[Anonymous No.19922833]

>>19922812
Let it all out man

[Anonymous No.19922899]

>>19922772
>>19922833
People choose to eat this shit and then wonder why they are obese and get cancer. Dig your own grave you fucking slob.

[Anonymous No.19922902]

>>19922767
t. lives in Flint, Michigan

[Anonymous No.19922948]

>>19922338
>t. shops at convenience stores
good job living in neighborhoods that normalize mass looting grocery stores

[Anonymous No.19922976]

>>19921766
I feed a family of five with that approach, on that budget, and our kids routinely eat tomato soup made from scratch, saag paneer, grilled cheese (kerrygold cheese and butter on whole wheat), or just straight up split peas by itself. "Juice" is rarely anything other than low sodium V8 but most meals the beverage is milk.

Waifu brings home coworker's treats from work accepted as courtesy and we throw almost all of that junk away. People act like withholding candy is child abuse, which is truly bizarre.

I have little sympathy for OP's picrel.

[Anonymous No.19922996]

>>19922833
>dimples where you would expect knuckles
confirmed for not a larp

[Anonymous No.19922997]

>>19921199

[Anonymous No.19923033]

>>19922772
>>19922812
>>19922833
this was mine last time I went shopping
>over $100

[Anonymous No.19923036]

>>19923033
why did u crop your hand dimples out of frame

[Anonymous No.19923040]

>>19921372
Anon you know this is a joke right?

[Anonymous No.19923056]

>>19921199
Why is it that every single one of these posts that tries to "prove" how no one can afford food is full of unnecessary luxury shit like soda, candy, chips, etc

[Anonymous No.19923062]

>>19923036
What are hand dimples? Are they something you get when you're very fat?

[Anonymous No.19923064]

>>19921199
Spend less than you currently do.

[Anonymous No.19923160]

>>19921290
I will add in tuna salad. Buy tuna and relish in bulk and make tuna salad sandwiches all the time. Easy quick meal that will last a couple days. Bonus if you buy (or better yet, grow) potatoes in bulk and make homemade french fries (reuse the oil)

[Anonymous No.19923191]

>>19923056
The ones that make good, reasonable points don't get traction. Midwits love simple irony, so they give lots of attention to idiots and pretend to be idiots themselves.

[Anonymous No.19923195]

I was a poor collegefag for 5 years. I ate Beans and rice, bone-in chicken, potatoes, frozen veggies, milk, and seasonal fruits/veggies (cheap when on sale). I also ate eggs back when they were cheap. I could get by on ~$30 per week.

[Anonymous No.19923215]

>>19922338
Stop living in Cali

[Anonymous No.19923256]

>>19923062
>very fat?
that or slow on the uptake

[Anonymous No.19923321]

>>19922561
>Just shop at Aldi
dont exist here

[Anonymous No.19923442]

>>19921290
also remember to salt well if shit tastes bland

[Anonymous No.19924400]

>>19922833
>>19923033
here's another cart that was more than 60 dollars

>>19921976
those drumsticks look delicious

[Anonymous No.19924672]

I just bought two of these for $1.99 each. I couldn't believe they were so inexpensive.

[Anonymous No.19924681]

>>19922338
>>19922339
>>19923215
Shop around.
Albertson's and Vons have had $2.97 coupons whole and 2% milk just about every week since May.
I even saw Ralphs had whole milk for $1.99. It might have been a sale at one store.

[Anonymous No.19924684]

>>19924400
Does Special Kitty taste good? Though it's probably not enough for more than a few meals.

[Anonymous No.19924688]

I bought 2 weeks of groceries for 3 people for $100 at Aldi because I'm not a fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.19924690]

>>19924672
I get these for around $6. They are great.

[Anonymous No.19924706]

>>19924688
They ran out of $0.59/lb turkeys within days.

[Anonymous No.19924711]

>>19921973
sure but frozen means chances of food waste are dramatically less

[Anonymous No.19924751]

>>19922468
>Eating one meal a day is well within the realm of normalcy for what your body expects. I did it for years and was completely fine.
Ruin your metabolism.

[Anonymous No.19924881]

>>19924751
I suppose that by "ruin" you mean I've tuned my body to be abnormally energy efficient. I'm not sure why that's supposed to be bad, exactly. I get to save money by eating less, and if there was ever a famine or natural disaster I'm already prepared to go days without eating and won't even experience hunger. That gives me an advantage over everyone who pigs out constantly.

[Anonymous No.19924895]

>>19921199
I know the picture is a joke but I really don't understand how people are struggling this badly even with everything going on. Prices went up in my area but I barely changed my spending habits and I'm still able to afford my monthly rent and car payments. Is everyone else here just unemployed/low skill?

[Anonymous No.19924999]

>>19921199
Buy fresh meat, frozen veg and dry rice/pasta/beans.
Track meat sales and have a spreadsheet with the cheapest sales you get. Buy extra when prices are within 10% of the cheapest you've seen or lower and freeze it. Bone in skin on chicken is the cheapest and thighs are a better calorie/$ ratio than whole bird. You can save the bones for stock later if you really want to stretch it but I only do that with whole bird carcasses. Picnic pork roast or shoulder is pretty cheap too and easy to throw in the oven to get 4-6 meals.
Veg rarely goes on sale where I am so I buy a big bag of frozen mix and call it a day. Smaller steam-in-bag ones go on sale sometimes and get within spitting distance of the big bags so I grab a couple for lazy days to pop in the microwave.
I don't eat many carbs anymore so my 20lb bag of rice has lasted a long time. Dry beans are fast and easy using the boiling method or a pressure cooker.

[Anonymous No.19925001]

>>19924895
>I know the picture is a joke
It's probably not though. Wait until you've met "parents" that unironically give their kids soda for breakfast.

[Anonymous No.19925023]

>>19921772
> buy the lowest price PER UNIT
Thisthisthisthis! Bigger, generic, off brand, whatever. For saving money, none of it matters; when comparing similar items, price per unit is king.

[Anonymous No.19925028]

>>19923056
because its cheap outrage bait dumbass look at how many replies it got

[Anonymous No.19925040]

>>19924999
Doing the same with the exception of the microwave

[Anonymous No.19925051]

>>19922659
> Buy fresh vegetables instead of frozen
Nope. When broke, buy lowest price per unit, and frozen is almost always cheaper than fresh per ounce (yes, I check a couple of times per year).
If you can handle it, tortillas are waaaay cheaper than bread, and I’d argue more versatile. Tacos, quesadillas, tostadas, fried for breakfast, in casseroles, pretty much anything you can put on bread you can put on a tortilla.

[Anonymous No.19925063]

>>19922338
>when half a gallon of milk is $4

canada?

even in california you can get a gallon of milk for less than 3 bucks

[Anonymous No.19925075]

>>19924672
That’s over $1.00/pound. Wait until whole chicken goes on sale for <.80 cents/pound.
The “don’t buy water” anon is right. I save all carrot, celery, and onion scraps including the onion skins, and all bones, no matter what, in a gallon freezer bag. When I have 2 or 3, I oven roast the contents, simmer with salt/pepper for a few hours, strain, cool, and viola- a couple of gallons of stock for free. Freeze and use to flavor soups, pasta dishes, whatever.

[Anonymous No.19925083]

>>19922772
>>19922833
>fat brown hand
Ahhhhh... America

[Anonymous No.19925096]

>>19921251
Make pork stew.
Pork is cheap and frozen veggies aren't any different than regular ones once you've cooked it that long.

[Anonymous No.19925207]

>>19921199
If you're in a country with Sam's Club or Costco they sell these large 5 dollar rotisserie chickens that are already cooked. I take one home, rip it up into tiny bits, and refrigerate it. It's great on salads, sammiches, and cheaper than buying a bag of chicken breasts and produces a similar amount.

[Anonymous No.19925213]

>>19925207
Good for soups too. I use a safeway rotisserie for a chicken corn chowder that lasts about a week.

[Anonymous No.19925219]

>>19925213
Great idea. Never considered soups. Good on nachos too. It tastes great heated up in an air fryer

[Anonymous No.19925228]

>>19922561
This. You should buy 90% of your food at Aldi. Their produce is limited. You'll save a fortune.

[Anonymous No.19925479]

>>19921199

>Whole grain pizza base
>Par bake in oven with olive oil per instructions on the package
>Open can of good peeled tomatoes
>Add black pepper, other seasonings, salt to taste and mash the peeled tomatoes into a fresh sauce
>Mozzarella and parmesan cheese
>Other toppings as desired

Yes it's better to make your own pizza dough from scratch, but who has time. Compromising with a pizza base and doing the sauce and toppings yourself will always be cheaper and healthier than delivery or a frozen pie.

[Anonymous No.19925484]

>>19923033
>Earthbound farms
I hate those niggers like you wouldn't believe

[Anonymous No.19925530]

>>19921642
Uhh?? I NEED MY SODIE POP AND MY CHIPPIE WIPPIES OR ELSE ILL STARVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.19925543]

>>19922338
>>19922339
>>19922353
Aldi is the easiest option, but for if/when they finish cornering the market (they just bought winn dixie, for instance - good riddance) and raise prices, don't be afraid to diversify your shopping. Save a Lot, Ollie's, Food4Less, and those true hole-in-wall cans-with-a-dent-in-em grocery surplus stores are your best friend. If you can afford something in bulk and you have a friend with a Sam's/Costco membership you can borrow, go for it (don't forget to make a couple laps to fill up on free samples)

[Anonymous No.19925549]

>>19924681
>shop around
>just go to 2 shops that dont exist
anon the reason why supermarket prices are so high is they're all run by a duopoly that have agree'd not to undercut each other

[Anonymous No.19925623]

>>19925549
Those are stores in California. Ralphs is a Kroger store and Albertersons/Vons are Acme/Safeway.

[Anonymous No.19926255]

>>19921199
Fuck. You forgot the carton of smokes. Back to the store, bitch!

[Anonymous No.19926266]

>>19925484
yeah this stuff is shit

[Anonymous No.19926309]

I don't get it, americans make way more money than my cunt on average and food was actually cheaper there than here, and now when things are starting to balance out you're all acting like it's the end of the world. Were you guys used to only spending 5% of your wage on food before or what?

[Anonymous No.19926321]

>>19922833
>wavy pringles
what the deuce

[Anonymous No.19926359]

>>19921199
Drink a lot of water and sleep the hunger away.

[Anonymous No.19926369]

>>19921199
simply don't eat for a month
t. lived on table salt and kalcium tablets for a month

[Anonymous No.19926375]

>>19926369
You forgot to mention the meth, though. That's important.

[Anonymous No.19926378]

>>19926375
nah, had no money for meth
I did drink a coke zero every day for the last week though. Lost 50 pounds too.

[Anonymous No.19926379]

>>19926309
OP's image is a joke. 90% of it is junk food.

[Anonymous No.19926384]

>>19926379
Yeah I get that, but look at people genuinely talking about eating potato soup for nine days in a row in this thread.. is the economy really that fucked in the states?

[Anonymous No.19926400]

>>19926384
It’s gotten pretty bad. Chuck roast $15/lb at Costco this weekend. Inb4
>just budget better and only shop sales bro
I do, but now making $100k I feel poorer than when I was making $60k 5 years ago

[Anonymous No.19926406]

>>19926400
In practical terms, you are.
Increase your income or live cheaper, it's really a pretty simple equation.

[Anonymous No.19926413]

>>19926406
These threads get shilled so hard
>just pick up an extra job bro
>just live on rice and beans bro
>just live in a pod bro
No I think I’ll just continue hating the government thanks

[Anonymous No.19926533]

>>19921199
can't even afford 7 limes

[Anonymous No.19926539]

>>19921199
Instantpot

[Anonymous No.19926588]

>>19921199
>chips
>candy
>frozen foods
>junk food
i cant figure it out at all. why is it expensive?
all the chips is what triggered me. whoever took this pic, I hope you get super aids and die. not just one bag of chips and maybe one junk food item, all that shit. ive never even bought more than 1 bag of chips in any shopping trip no matter how much food im getting. I wouldnt even think to do that. think whats going on inside someones head to do this.
>oh I NEED the cheddar & sour cream chips
(shit taste too)
>I also need the regular sour cream and onion too i mean, come on. and doritos and cheetos.
replace all the chips with air. that would improve it and make it all cheaper. id rather eat nothing at all and just fast rather than eat nothing but shitty lays chips for an entire week if thats what it came down to

[Anonymous No.19926598]

Buy chicken breast on sale
Cook multiple at a time in instant pot
Shred chicken into large batch
Use in different dishes, mainly just sautee with some frozen veggies over rice

[Anonymous No.19926923]

>>19921976
I wanna eat what you're cooking

[Anonymous No.19927095]

>>19925096
Can I get a recipe?

[Anonymous No.19927454]

>>19926255
Don't take fucking anything. You got 2 dollars walk your n-word, n-word, n-word DANNY, walk to the beer, walk to the beer store n-word DANNY. Fuckin A, can you walk eh? AY side door don't go out the front door, I wanna watch you leave, GO OUT THE SIDE DOOR. Hey! n-word DANNY take your fucking bong, take your shitty fucking crackhead, crackhead bong, n-word Danny. EVERYBODY SAY ONCE for n-word Danny, Danny n-word Danny's leaving everybody. Say goodbye to n-word Danny. Here ya go There ya go, alright n-word Danny's leaving. Bye here ya go. Grab it, GRAB your shit, grab your shit. Put your cigarettes, put your n-word cigarettes in your n-word pants. "Lemme get a beer" nah you ain't getting no fucking beer, NO. You're a n-word. N-words don't get beers. N-word Danny's leaving everybody. Here ya go. Alright. OH Jesus Christ c'mon man hold it.

[Anonymous No.19927484]

>>19926413
Based. I also hate them.

[Anonymous No.19927568]

>>19921290
You can also ferment the apples very cheaply, and have make lots and lots of hard cider that will last a very long time

[Anonymous No.19927650]

>>19925051
I've ate like this and learned that less good food is better than a large amount of shit that gets you sick

[Anonymous No.19927726]

>>19924400
>special kitty
I'm so sorry Anon

[Anonymous No.19927748]

>>19921456
Don't do OMAD. You're going to fuck up your digestion by weakening your stomach muscles over time. The body can't handle that much food at once.

[Anonymous No.19927773]

I don't know how popular farmers markets are in the US but here going near the end when people are packing has landed me plenty of cheap veggies and fruits that were left over or were damaged, if they're too far gone to be consumed fresh I turn them into purees or soups and freeze them

[Anonymous No.19928316]

>>19922833
i love frost bite. next best after pitch black

[Anonymous No.19928321]

>>19921290
thanks i hadnt thought of stealing apples and turning them into apple chips

[Anonymous No.19928371]

>>19921199
I don't feel bad for people who eat shit. of that was a pic of $155 worth of fresh vegetables, grains, and protein and they claimed it only lasted 3 days I'd sympathize. fuck these fat garbage eating fucks.

[Anonymous No.19928505]

Are these threads just for people who don't know how to cook?