/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9525

Note that the channel is pretty annoying as a whole, though. Freaking Juden. It wouldn't be that bad without their commentary.

Searh for "Paul Graham Ramen Profitable"

Rice and beans are a better source of food.

Start by investing in a rice cooker, if you don't have one.

Rice and Beans for 2n

olive oil or butter

n yellow onions

other fresh vegetables; experiment

3n cloves garlic

n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or black beans

n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon

n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper

3n teaspoons ground cumin

n cups dry rice, preferably brown

Put rice in rice cooker. Add water as specified on rice package. (Default: 2 cups water per cup of rice.) Turn on rice cooker and forget about it.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, over fairly low heat, till onions are glassy. Put in chopped garlic, pepper, cumin, and a little more fat, and stir. Keep heat low. Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then add beans (don't drain the beans), and stir. Throw in the bouillon cube(s), cover, and cook on lowish heat for at least 10 minutes more. Stir vigilantly to avoid sticking.

If you want to save money, buy beans in giant cans from discount stores. Spices are also much cheaper when bought in bulk. If there's an Indian grocery store near you, they'll have big bags of cumin for the same price as the little jars in supermarkets.

>Possibly homeless

Hobo Soup

-Hot water

-Ketchup

-Pepper

Mix hot water with ketchup to obtain desired viscosity, and pepper your tomato soup to taste.

Theoretically free, as most restaurants will give you hot water on request, and you can use the ketchup and spices on the table. If you go overboard or do it too often without buying anything, they'll kick you out, so be polite.

>>9530

Oh, jesus christ.

>>9530

I've actually heard of this one before. It's not the worst if used as an addition to one's diet instead of being the entire diet.

>>9530

>>9531

>>9533

Here's another one.

Hobo Lemonade

-Ice Water

-Lemon

-Sugar

Ask for a glass of water with lemon. Squeeze the lemon into the water, grab sugar packets off the table, and sweeten your lemonade to taste.

Again, you're taking advantage of their free services, so be polite and wash down your tomato soup.

>>9535

Hobo Buffet

>Find a place offering free samples

>Get some

>Browse their store

>Repeat

If you're in a big place like Costco, then the sample givers probably won't even notice you coming back every two hours, and you can also sample the comfort of their AC and furniture. If it's a normal sized grocery store, then you'll probably need to leave after one or two circuits, since management is more attentive to loitering.

I'm pretty sure the OP wasn't looking for literal cheapo no-budget recipes, so I'll share a dish that I make occasionally. I'm a student btw.

>one cup of rice

>one can of corn, kidney beans and chopped tomatoes each

Cook rice, remove water, add beans, corn and tomatoes. Cook for a bit until through. Season with salt, pepper and whatever you have available. From experience, oregano or cayenne work nicely.

Cheap, nutritious, lasts for two days. If you want it to last longer, just make more. It tastes a lot better after a night in the fridge than fresh from the pot, too. If you add seared minced meat you'll get a proper chili of sorts.

>>9540

>a proper chili of sorts

Of sorts because it's not nearly stewy enough. The result shouldn't be liquid at all, but rather dry. It's very tasty actually, but I might just be a sucker for beans. It's a bit sour from the tomatoes at first, but when reheated that isn't a problem any more.

>>9539

>2 Slices of bread

>using baker's yeast instead of brewer's yeast

Enjoy going fucking blind.

>>9542

anon, if your willing to do this you have bigger problems then worrying about your healh

>>9525

Oatmeal. From about $2.50 to $3.50 for a 40oz tub is about $0.08 to $0.12 per 1/2 cup (two servings.

Milk. $0.30 for two cups (about 1 glass) from a $2.50 gallon.

Eggs. I've seen $1 for a dozen in a carton, so enjoy your $0.34 for a 4-egg omelet. As for frying you can get tons of olive oil on the cheap, or if you don't care just plain old vegetable oil even cheaper.

Peanut butter. I get a $2.39 for 28 tbsp so go ahead and slather huge amounts on the cheapest bread you can for less than a quarter.

If you need lots of protein, nothing's cheaper than vital wheat gluten, which is basically the protein in wheat isolated into a powder. To make it a complete protein eat it with peanut butter and/or beans/legumes.

Rice.

Bread.

Lentils. I got a $1.19 per lb bag at Save-A-Lot. So much protein, complex carbs, and fiber for like nothing, and all you need to do is boil then medium-simmer for about 20-30 minutes. Mix with peanut butter for max flavor.

Slightly more expensive (for me at least) are bags of black beans or kidney beans or chickpeas or whatever. I just happen to find lentils as the cheapest and easiest to prepare (no overnight soak!) of all the dry bean options. Dry split pea is close, and has a bit more protein and a bit less fiber comparing servings.

If you want nutrition you're going to have to use a good portion of your $5 daily allowance on frozen or cheap produce veggies. Save-A-Lot has 1 lb bushels of kale for $0.99, and you can easily eat just 1/4 to 1/2 that for a big ass salad that you can pour cheap shit ingredients like ketchup, mustard, and/or sriracha on, or even garlic powder and pepper and so forth. I like making egg salads.

Homemade yogurt – I haven't tried this, but turning 1 cup yogurt and 4 cups milk into 4 cups yogurt sounds like a bargain to me: http://epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/homemade-yogurt-395111

Reposting my personal-use spreadsheet (poorfag /fit/izen reporting). I'm a bit under $7.50/day and I'm paying big for organic milk and organic eggs (to save money I only buy animal products as organic as doing the research there's much less to worry about from non-organic plant products), and the einkorn wheat berries are also a specialty wheat so I can have top quality high-protein bread.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w2qJFkEoVQU-xm0ReuLNbK-7D_qOMjQoiNYpn8xx66I/edit#gid=208018296

(by the way, powdered lentils is disgusting and broccoli + flax + peanut butter is only slightly less so; I'm eating for nutrients, not flavor, but I can just slather on the mustard and cheap hot sauces and oregano or whatever)

>>9644

Oh yeah almost forgot, a $2.50 or $3 can of pink salmon from Meijer gives about 84 grams of protein and 35 grams of fats. Mix with melted peanut butter, it tastes better than it sounds and is seriously satiating. Tuna and mackerel is cheaper but then you gotta worry about mercury.

>>9645

Aaaand something else I forgot:

1-2 tbsp ground flax (get a $9 coffee bean grinder from Walmart) can be sprinkled on just about anything for a hearty dose of healthy fats and fiber for about a dime.

>>9644

the yogurt, it's half a cup for 8 cups of milk and after that you can save half a cup of your yogurt to reuse, I wouldn't do this past 2 to 3 times. The cooking is a very tedious process unless you have a machine.. also your yogurt has to be plain and unsweetened, and I would not use one with probiotic.

Here's how I do it.

> Sanitize everything by boiling water in it

> Cook milk to 185 Fahrenheit

if you go slow you willnot have burned milk in your yogurt and you willnot have to clean burned milk

>take milk off the heat and let it cool to 120 Fahrenheit

there are methods to do this quickly like dipping your pot in cold water.

> Measure half a cup, half a cup for 8 cups of milk is the ratio, of yogurt and put some of your heated milk into your measuring cup and blend it together then pour it back in.

> You will have to store the yogurt for eight hours while it remains relatively hot. What I do is I put it in my oven wrapped in a big towel, before that I heat my oven to the lowest setting and then cancel it so it has some heat, and then I let it sit for eight hours and transfer it to a container then put it in my refrigerator

also you need a stainless steel pot and spoon. It lasts for a week so I would make a new batch on the sixth or fifth day. You'll need some sweeteners. If you buy your yogurts at a place like Cosco then it's slightly cheaper but it's very, economical if you buy it at the grocery store.

>>9527

>>9540

>cheapskate

>canned beans

Get a slow cooker and dried beans, you can make some great stews with cheap cuts of meat, too.

>>9541

Technically, chili doesn't have beans, just meat and seasonings. The beans and rice were originally served separately.

Bumping, because I want to see more cheap, easy recipes created by anons.

>>11016

Rice Cakes

Cook up a batch of rice and let cool. Night before is fine. Beat about 1 egg per cup of cooked rice; stir into rice. Should be vaguely like a batter.

Dollop onto oiled griddle, pat to about 1 cm thick, 7-10 cm diameter (a bit under a half inch, 3-4 inch). Turn at the right moment (golden brown), cook until both sides golden.

Smear with a little butter and a sprinkle of sugar. Dash of cinnamon on top if you want to get fancy.

Mom always called them rice cakes, but these are more of a rice pancake.

>>11016

Omelettes are not new, not created by anons, but are ridiculously cheap and easy.

If you are on cheap, you need to learn how to omelette.

Look up "Ruhlman Onion Soup"

You got onions, a dab of butter, salt, water, some toast and cheese. The most expensive part is the shredded cheese.

>>11018

1. rice mixed with corn (its cheaper)

2. Omelette mixed with veggies ( protein + vitamins)

3. Homemade chilly sauce : chilly + tomatoes + garlic + salt then mash all of it and fry it with oil , its edible at least a week in closed container.

>>11019

I thought I was joking when I said I couldn't cook for shit, but holy hell I've been trying to make omelettes the wrong way this whole time.

>>11247

I am curious…

Are your omelettes better now?

What were you doing differently?

>>9525

>poor people on welfare

It's not /leftypol/ m8.

If you can manage to do her shopping list for under $112, you're under $4/person/day ($140, $5/person/day).

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm

Advantage here is that you're not just looking at eating the same thing 3 times a day for a month. That variety will help. The disadvantage with this plan is that it requires a certain scale to be feasible - I doubt it scales down to one person.

It is absolutely not going to work if you don't have a kitchen, so don't be living in a car. It probably won't work if you're trying to work two jobs and implement this plan - it seems to be aimed at the "traditional" household.

https://www.budgetbytes.com/

You're welcome.

>>11502

Oh man, this has some cool shit on it. Not OP but thanks for the link.

If you had to buy milk, buy whole since it's the same price as skim or 2%. More calories and fats too.

Buy a whole chicken and after you finish it, use the carcass for a soup. Add eggs for protein but only after it has simmered for a couple of hours. Make sure you add mirepoix while it simmers.

>>11540

I have never seen skim, 1%, 2%, and "whole" at the same price point.

If they are the same price, yes, buy the highest fat content you can get.

Most dairies skim all the milk, then add back the milkfat to make the 1%, 2%, and whole* (usually 4%).The extra fat gets used to make butter, ice cream, half&half (10%), light (table) cream (around 18-20%), and heavy (whipping) cream (around 35%). They price the higher fat content products higher.

If you need cheap milk, you need to look at powdered skim (instant skim milk powder). Shelf stable for a few years; mix with water to reconstitute as needed (or use the powder as is for coffee whitener). For drinking, reconstitute 12 hours in advance. Use a blender to dissolve the powder in a small amount of the water (measure powder, add about 1/4 of the required water, blend thoroughly, add remainder of water, blend to mix, chill for 4-12+ hours). It slightly decreases the economy to reconstitute at 110% strength, but makes the powdered milk much more palatable to drink. Small packages are often more expensive per ounce, so look at the big big box.

*According to some guy I met one time who wouldn't shut up on the matter, milk comes out of the cow around 6-8% fat.>>11540

>>11541

huh, that's odd. almost every grocery store I've ever been to (southern USA) has all the milk at the same price per fat content, and typically a huge price break for buying a gallon vs. smaller amounts. like a pint of milk will be 1.89, a half gallon will be like 2.39, and the whole gallon will be like 2.79. since i live alone and have all the fridge space i can handle, i typically get a gallon of whole milk for a shitload of cheap calories and protein. i also like getting plain yogurt for the same reason, and it also keeps longer. i know, i know, i could be making my own yogurt but that's too much hassle for me right now.

>>11575

Up here in the dairy producing regions, half gallon of milk is around $1.25; shave off a few cents for each reduction in fat content.

CHEAPASS PIZZA

1 flour tortilla

tomato sauce

cheese, grated or diced

toppings: whatever you got! garlic, onions, olives, mushrooms, peppers, ham, turkey…

Just cover the tortilla with tomato sauce (except the very edges), cover again with cheese, and then the toppings. Cook in toaster oven or regular oven at like 200C until the cheese is all melted and tortilla is crisp.

>>11276

By the way the recipe she gives for basic pinto beans can be much improved by just throwing in half an onion, a bay leaf and some spices for heat after you bring it up to the initial boil (don't add the bacon or any additional salt until the point she says to though).

I have a few poorfag tips.

Most "recipes" are expensive especially if you're not cooking for a family. It's not a good habit to get into relying on recipes for meal ideas. Try to come up with your own shit. I think of recipes as being more like a hobby.

Do a bit of research and find out how much protein your individual body needs. If you aren't lifting, you probably get enough protein without even trying. Especially in the West, we hugely overconsume protein. Don't spend money based on some nebulous standard of "muh protein." Protein is expensive and your body doesn't store it for future use like carbs, so it's wastetul to eat what you will not use.

Coupons. In my area, Taco Bell will regularly send you amazing deals on your phone if you have their app, and Burger King mails fucking amazing coupons. Other chains do coupons as well but I've noticed BK does the best (again, that may just be my area).

Read the weekly circulars you get in the mail to get an idea of how the grocery stores stagger their sales. For instance, rarely will canned goods AND fresh meats be TRULY "on sale" in the same week.

Dried fruit is expensive but it's also extremely calorie dense. If you're buying it as a snack you're just going to get fat. But if you're legit poor it's good to have some dried fruit around for sustenance.

Applesauce and tomato sauce are both good to keep around for a shot of vitamins (mainly C).

Peanut butter / other nut butters are incredibly nutrient dense. Great for people who are truly poor to supplement nutrition. As with dried fruit, you will get fat if you overconsume.

Ask all your local grocery stores if they have a senior discount program. I know Kroger has one. You typically have to "activate" it at the customer service desk, you can't just put your age as 70 on the form and get away with it. So encourage any old people you know to get the discount, then when YOU shop, use their card (read: give cashier their phone#). These programs typically offer the discount on a few set days of the month, so plan your shopping accordingly. The discount is for many food items (and some non-food items) but it's not a flat percentage off your entire purchase. Pay attention to see where you can save the most.

If you're homeless, visit a store during "dinner rush" (when store is most busy). Grocery stores have public bathrooms and they're usually in the back. Most grocery stores are used to bums coming in periodically to use the bathroom and fill their water bottles.

As you make your way straight back through the store (walk with purpose), go down the soup aisle and steal a can or two of those hearty stews–usually they come in a red can. They are full of protein, fat and calories and you can eat them without heating and they have enough salt and preservatives that you don't have to worry about them going bad if you don't finish right away. Even if you're not homeless, this is an item that's easy to shoplift to save money.

For super desperate times, you can flavor plain gritz or plain oatmeal with almost anything. I've made soy sauce gritz. I've cooked oatmeal in a can of red enchilada sauce. Once I dumped raw oatmeal into a near-empty jar of queso (spicy cheese sauce) and stirred it around so all the cheese got on the oatmeal. Needless to say, eating oatmeal like a normal person is good, too. Slow-release carbs and fiber from oatmeal, plus protein & fat from the milk you make it with. Flavorings like nuts, raisins and spices are expensive but easy to shoplift.

Pancake mix. Buy it in bulk if you're really fucking poor. Pancakes have a lot of calories and you'd be surprised how many different kinds of flavors go with pancakes. If you buy the kind of mix that requires milk + egg (Bisquick) you can make more things besides pancakes but if you don't trust you'll always have egg/milk on hand, get the just-add-water kind.

Dehydrated eggs aren't cheap but a good investment if you eat a lot of eggs (but remember my protein warning above. how much do you really need?) There are youtube vids showing you how to dehydrate your own eggs (great if you have chickens) but it's a pain in the ass to do properly.

Look for mexican meat stores in your area (carnicerias) they're usually cheaper. Also look for meat wholesalers.They have a bunch of "packages" and will do shit like sell you 50 lbs of frozen chicken for $70 and there are various options like a 3-way split of wing/thigh/breast etc.

For fruits and veg, eating in season is cheaper. Use the internet to find out when things are in season. Once I realized I was eating an apple from fucking New Zealand (saw the sticker) and thought no wonder this stupid fucking apple cost so much

Homemade Greek Yogurt is the king of cheap protonz. You need:

>gallon-capacity crock pot

>1 cup 'starter yogurt' (ie only one ingredient: Greek yogurt, and make sure it's probiotic, that it has live active cultures; fat-free is best because it has the highest protein, and there are higher quality/nutritive fats you can add afterwards like peanut butter and/or flaxseed)

>gallon of milk (skim/whole/whatever, though again dairy fats are garbage-tier [especially if they're not organic], so just get skim and add peanut butter later if you wanna be a fatty)

Then:

>pre-heat crock pot on low

>leave 1/2 cup starter yogurt on counter to warm up

>bring milk to 180F (or just beginning to bubble; you don't want to boil it) by whatever means, like cooking on a stovetop and stirring constantly to avoid a burnt bottom

>cool milk to a bit less than 120F by whatever means, like putting the pot in a sink full of cold water and emptying and re-filling the sink 2-3 times as the water gets hot, also while stirring constantly

>mix starter yogurt into milk

>pour milk and yogurt into crock pot

>turn off crock pot, unplug it, lid it, and put a towel atop

>let sit on countertop at room temp for at least 8 hours, 10-12 for it to be slightly thicker

>pour excess whey into sink

>for best results, do not stir nor strain through cheese-cloth but instead put the whole thing into the fridge for another 3-6 hours (however long it takes to get chill)

>at this point you could stir and/or cheese-cloth if you want it thicker and/or less carby

>after everything is said and done, it is strongly recommended to mix in 1-2 cups of sugar or stevia to counteract how utterly tart and sour raw is homemade Greek yogurt

-Buy directly from farmers or fishermen if you can. Local fishermen here get paid 0.9 Euro/kilo for cod by big distributors. In stores it costs about 20 Euro/kilo. Things aren't much better for farmers. Just go to pubs near harbours, farmers markets or farms and buy them a beer.

-Buy in season but never first of season. Here the price of lettuce, zucchini, tomatoes etc. doubles summer to winter.

-Buy bulk dried foods. Chinese shops always have cheaper rice of good quality, Arabs have chic peas, etc.

-Islamic butchers (Turks are usually best) sell meat at half price because it needs to be halal and nobody wants it. But it's high quality. Turkish bread is very good and cheap as well.

-Foraging: I used to grow rocket salad in my garden. A 1.20 Euro seed packet would feed the 2 of us for 3 months. Then I discovered it grows near the beach here, along with sea kale, samphire etc etc. Sorrel, dandelion leaves, yarrow, chestnuts… are all edible and ffa.

-Infusions: you can very easily make your own oils and vinegars. Learn how to sterilize a bottle, add herbs, spices or even flowers according to taste, fill with the cheapest, most neutral tasting (vegetable) oil or ("white") vinegar and let it sit on the shelf for 2 months or more. The longer the better.

-Don't use "good, tasty" oils or vinegars to get better taste. The more neutral, the better. If you want better taste, let it stay on the shelf and have patience.

-Learn about toxicity. Garlic+oil can lead to botulism. Spring pine shoots+vinegar is delicious with asparagus, but pine itself isn't edible. You really need spring shoots.

-Learn about combinations. Vanilla-oil works with shellfish or beetroot, tarragon-vinegar with fresh vegetables, spicy oil with most things, elderflower-vinegar needs to be used sparingly.

>>9745

>Get a slow cooker and dried beans, you can make some great stews with cheap cuts of meat

What I found was that pork shoulder is worth it's weight in gold. $1.19 for 10 pounds gets you alot of lard, you can cut the skin off of the pork shoulder and bake it to make pork rinds and then let the rest of the shoulder cook for 8 to 12+ hours. You get some good quality pork stock too. Dried beans will especially get you far because the fiber is so filling if you drink it with water. You can easily turn $20 into a very solid chili.

Local butchers are amazing like >>11292 said, typically pork skin comes cheap for them and so are chicken livers.

>>11833

The chinese grocery near me has some amazing deals. I expect the latino grocery does, too, but i don't speak enough gardener to bother trying.

There is a meat wholesaler (restaurant supplier, mostly) nearby with an attached retail shop. They often get deals from their suppliers on close-dated product, which they then freeze before it goes bad and sell off for dirt cheap. Others pay $5/lb for bacon, I pay a bit over $2 usually. Similar deals to be had when they freeze last week's non-frozen meat specials.

One of the grocery stores has a "use or freeze today" section of meat - the stuff that has been on the shelf in the display cooler for a few days and needs to go before they have to dumpster it. They chop it down to around $3/lb and it ain't bad, just noticeably drippier than the full price stuff.

Gotta go and look; don't be afraid to ask at the counter.

Homemade sauerkraut.

>>9530

>ketchup

Luxurious

Try this delicious dish made under amazing conditions in a land rich in natural resources under communist management

WODZIONKA

-Hot Water

-Stale bread

-for richfags, onion and garlic

pour hot water over the stale bread until it soaks

>>9535

ive done this as a little hobby. I also collected sugar and honey packets over a few months to prove to myself that booze CAN be free. lol. I made "mead" in an empty 20oz bottle filled with about a quarter full of "honey" and sugar. most of the honey was from starcucks, racetrac, and a kroger deli. It didnt taste very good, but honestly I think it was mostly a plastic taste.

Ive also made strawberry "wine" out of a few pounds of preserves. i tasted it after almost 2 months of fermenting then filtering into bottles. It still tasted sweet and made me nervous so I poured it out.

>>11990

https://www.google.nl/search?q=garlic+oil+botulism

>>11990

Literally any unsterilized food if it's been infected + no air conditions can give you botulism. It's not all that bad tho, you can still eat such stuff if stored in a refrigerator for less than a month.

>>12008

i've used refridgerated garlic that has been submerged in olive oil that was over a year old with no effects. Nice blueish/green color to it.