This is for anyone on a poverty-level or worse situation. Are you: >staring into your fridge and pantry and wondering if you may end up starving >Little to no money for food >No idea how to combine what little ingredients you have?
Have no fear for this thread could be your help. Post tips, tricks or even post what ingredients you have to get some help from others.
Tonight I just got finished making beef fried rice out of >canned vegetables from the foodbank >some old half-bag of rice I had tucked away >beef bullion >simple seasonings
Now I have 2-3 days of semi-nutritious food until I can go door to door and try to find some work.
living on 140 a month. and I'm not complaining I know there are other people in worse situations. best advice I can give is pic related. also, eat your veggies
Wyatt Murphy
3 ingredient pasta: (this is what I used to make when I got tired of beans, rice, and cabbage when I was poor as fuck)
1 carton sour cream 1 jar salsa 1 pkg. Spaghetti
Cook spaghetti just al dente. Drain, and put back in pot over low heat. Mix together some salsa and sour cream (amounts of each depend on your taste) and gently toss with pasta. Heat over low until hot. You can add any other seasonings or cheese if you have some, or vegtables, whatever.
Aaron Parker
Canned beans and Vegetables are a life savior for your nutritional health in these situation. I fluctuate between 15$-200$ a month depending on if I am on a alcohol or drug bender. I have been getting 80-100$ a month for food recently so it has been refreshing. Why are you on 140$ a month?
Is that any good? The excessive sour-cream seems overpowering, but I do not like sourcream. What does the combo taste like? and does it work with added southwestern salsa ingredients?
Jackson Scott
Yeah, it's good. If you don't like sour cream, but still want it to be creamy you could use some other dairy product, but sour cream goes with the salsa really well and it's cheap. The closest other thing to the right flavor and consistency would cream cheese. And yes, you can add other southwestern ingredients, it's a "recipe" that works on it's own or as a base for other stuff.
Leo Stewart
Sounds convenient. I like to get those reduced campbell's soups or just any canned soup. >Add extra water >seasonings >canned vegetables >possibly beans depending on soup
You can make decent soups by using old campbell's soups as a base.
Also Cumin can make anything taste like Chili if you have it. Canned vegetables have saved my life on too many occasions.
I also eat salsa and crackers if I am hungry and have them.
Asher Richardson
Ramsay has you covered. Just buy extra virgin olive oil, fresh lamb, fresh herbs, king prawns etc. YW youtube.com/watch?v=wiAcJYyLF8U
Camden Green
Ah yes I can get all this to eat on for 2-4 days for only 5-8$
Nathan Myers
I always have lemon and avocado on hand to flavor things with! The gas to get to the store would knock off a 1/4 of my food budget for the week. Christ Ramsey it's just budget food.
Aiden Ross
I'm living on a credit card until I earn something. I've got good food which will last about a week, but after that: Bags of frozen: Leeks, carrots, chopped onions, £3 for like 2 kilos. Pack of 4 Pierre pots, £1.50. 500g gammon, £5. 500g of red lentils, about a quid. Stick gammon in pressure cooker for half an hour then shred. Fry the veg, add the knorr pot, add the lentils and water, boil for half an hour, add the gammon. It makes an absolute shitload of food, takes 5 mins to reheat. Dull as hell but impossible to go hungry.
William Jones
Very cheap and simple. Just take some instant ramen noodles, add some shredded chicken, and garnish it with cabbage, shredded carrots, half a soft-boiled egg, and scallions. For the broth, I like to throw away the seasoning packet and just use water, since it's so high in sodium. I use a tablespoon of soy sauce and a tablespoon of mirin. It's a little bland, but when you serve it you can drizzle some sriracha or chili oil according to your taste. I promise you that it's delicious.
Cooper Ward
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Gavin Wilson
Nice Idea, very nutritious. And pretty low cost if you get a rotisserie chicken, a few packs of ramen, and those veggies.
What is gammon and what is pierre pots? Also how many days of food do you get for what cost? Sounds very filling. Any way to spice up the blandness?
Kevin Long
>What is gammon and what is pierre pots? Pic is gammon. 'Pierre pots' are Knorr stock pots. I use the 'herb infusion' variety. It's actually a really tasty meal, doesn't need any spicing up, but it'll last over a week, by which time you'll be bored to death with it. It was always my go-to meal when I was broke, it's very filling and actually very healthy too.
Oliver Barnes
Nice what was the cost per pot you made of it? Sounds pretty good.
Justin Gutierrez
Why not make a pasta sauce? Is it really cheaper per calorie to buy salsa over there?
I've had times where lentils have saved my economy from going into the red. Just use a liberal amount of stock cubes and spices with anything you make and buy as many dry staples as possible that can be used for cooking.
soups stews pies anything that uses lots of rice or potatoes baking can be really fucking cheap
Colton Anderson
>baking can be really fucking cheap Flour is one of the best foods if you count pure calories per dollar. Baking bread doesn't even need yeast if you got a sourdough starter around, then you'll just need flour and salt.
Adrian Hall
baking and frying breads can be cheap. Many people have leftover cornmeal, flour or potato flakes laying around. All it takes is some water and salt and some form of fat or oils and BAM you may have a free meal laying around your house. I once crushed up some old peanuts and flour and in a plastic shopping bag, Added a bit of salt , sugar and water. Fried it in some old grease.
Palatable and filling, yet somewhat boring. But hey fried bread is highly calorie dense.
David Ross
Salsa is very cheap. There's expensive brands if you want to pay that, , but there's good salsas that cost as little as 50 cents for 4 0z.
Brayden Brown
Also, it stores for later use, where as vegetables have to be used quickly.
Jose Clark
This is true
Brody Ross
Poor fucker who also drinks half his money away here. red lentils, pasta, rice, various dried/canned beans, cooking bacon (bacon scraps in the US), chicken thighs, carrots, onions, celery, garlic, cheese, 15% fat minced beef, flour, milk, oats and a cupboard full of dried spices bought as and when I can afford them is pretty much all I eat.
Super poverty poor lentil soup (serves 1) 150g dried red lentils 1 carrot 1 smallish onion Salt and pepper -rinse lentils, cut carrot+onion as small as you can be bothered (brunoise cut if you're good with a knife, or just grate them) -put ingredient in a pot of boiling water, about 1 litre -boil for 10 minutes then simmer for 15-20 minutes -add salt and pepper to taste -transfer to bowl, serve with bread (add 50g lentils at the start if you don't have any bread)
Chase Gomez
Gammon is basically a big chunk of cured pork, tastes like bacon. It's cheap and salty (soak it in water overnight to remove some of the salt if you want) but it is protein. It's sold in most uk/european supermarkets.
Matthew Howard
Forget the sourdough starter, learn to make Roti. Indian flatbreads make of nothing but flour, water and salt. Good with soups and stews and can be used as wraps too. I'm not a pajeet, but damn bless those guys for figuring that out.
Jaxon Davis
Butcher-offal-scraps. Often, you'll pay mere cents and they'll throw in all kinds of crap they'd usually throw away.
Tyler Roberts
Like at a local butcher? We got one about 15 miles towards town, but I never went in. Think he'd part with the stuff for cheap? I'm in the south so I can fry anything from animal intestines to gizzards. I can make do with some offal. Can they throw in skin, bone and scraps? I can get a ballin soup going with all that too.
Chase Green
>live by the sea >crabs, limpets, prawns, seaweed in abundance, organic, free range, free watch hugh fearnley whittingstall on youtube, he collects all kinds of herbs, plants, fruits... stuff growing wild and makes tasty recipes with them all. living off the land won't feed you entirely, but it makes a big dent if you learn what you can and can't eat. this morning i had a stir fry made from wild mushrooms i picked.
Sebastian Wood
Yeah I do some fishing off the boat ramp near my place, and I forage for wild mushrooms and wild onion/garlic. We even have wild wheat growing in patches around here, although it is not tasty and is a pain to grind. But when you are broke and have a few hours to kill goin fishing/blackberry pickin/wild plant huntin is worth it. Man I love where I live.
I would love to also be somewhere that I could trap >crabs, limpets, prawns, seaweed in abundance Like you were talking about. That sounds neat.
Jacob Rivera
yes to all of the above. buckets and buckets of chicken feet, pig ears, skins, snouts, lips etc
Mason Hall
I think I have a new idea. I have a freezer and 20$ so I think after gas prices and booze money I can get a bit of offal to store in the freezer for when I need it.
Brayden Perez
A chest freezer is worth the money and space. I'm looking at a 50% reduction in funds and I'm glad I can pull food out of the deep freeze. Found a 5 lb. bag of flour in there, too. Went through the pantry, plenty of soup and rice and pasta. Finally got the oven fixed so I can cook things again. Just buy water/milk/eggs/bread.
Hudson Perez
Glad to know this thread has people trying to help one another.
Jordan Gonzalez
Bean dash Red eye Shit on a shingle Thrice boilt poke salat
Cameron Morgan
>buy water what why
Carson Bennett
>ground beef >taco seasoning >cheese Should I just eat this as a meal?
Jeremiah Jackson
Sure as long is it is cooked properly. And don't make it a habit. You need vitamins to survive too. Although it'll fill you up for the night.
Mason Johnson
Is there nothing else you can add?
Xavier King
>You need vitamins to survive too. what are a good source of vitamins? i have some frozen vegetables i try to eat with supper every night but probably not enough trying not to go further into debt while i wait for this job to hopefully start
Ryder Reed
If you want to mix it up with beans, make some 3 bean or 5 bean salad. I ate that a lot when I was poverty tier and was tired of eating lentil soup, white bean soup, pinto beans, etc. You can cook up some of the beans from dried form, and use what you need, then freeze the others for later. Anyway, here's how I like mine: >1 can green beans, drained and rinsed >1 can wax beans, drained and rinsed >1 cup of cooked butterbeans >1 cup of cooked chickpeas >1 cup of cooked white beans or pink beans >1 small red onion, diced >1/2 red bell pepper, diced >1 sliced pickled jalapeno or to taste ( optional) >vinaigrette (use however much you feel you need, and make it however you like, I can give you a simple cheap recipe if you need it)
Mix all that together gently and let sit for at least 2 hours, but longer is better. Then taste it, and add salt and pepper if it needs it. If you have any dried or fresh herbs, it's nice in there too.
Blake Perry
No no, Frozen vegetables will be enough. As long as you are not going meat n cheese every night.
You will make it, although something with flour or some grain could be helpful for calories. Could you try making a gravy out of the meat grease by adding flour slowly and stirring constantly? Extra calories and a damn good gravy if done right.
Ethan Gonzalez
What did you cook it in? a saucepan?
Adam Cox
rice + peanut butter + hot sauce or ramen +peanut butter + hotsauce
Ayden Williams
No, no, no. It's like a salad. You mix it all together and marinate it and eat it cold. Have you never had marinated salads before?
Cameron Jones
Love that ghetto satay
Christopher Barnes
No except Antipasto or Pasta salad Never had beans in a salad before.
Juan Cook
Well, friend, you're missing out.
Mason Clark
>ramen +peanut butter + hotsauce probably turn out better, if the ramen has flavor sachets
Noah Jackson
I have a third of those ingredients and am going to put it in a notepad file to remember it as a starter ideal. I love butter/wax/white beans Chickpeas and green beans are decent-good and the rest sounds right up my alley too. Thanks man for the idea.
Caleb Garcia
Yeah I only use half of the '''flavor''' packets. Most of it is salt.
Hudson Perez
You're so welcome. It's just another way to get some cheap, tasty nutrition, but it's nice. And you can mix up the beans however you want, I've used all kinds of different beans before.
John Howard
>>buy water >what why Distilled water to drink.
Carson Wilson
The cost of the yeast is pretty much irrelevant honestly. I was just trying to suggest something that doesn't have you going to the store while still being a leavened bread. Flatbreads are really efficient though and easier and faster to make for one portion.
Speaking of indian breads, I came across a recipe for a potato filled indian once that seemed pretty interesting. It would easily fill you up for less than a dollar.
I keep rice, beans, onions, garlic and potatoes on deck. Canned fish get stacked too. Then I just get whatever cheap produce like cabbage and carrots, and fresh fruit when I can.
Alexander Johnson
You can’t get food but you can shitpost on the internet?
Eli Ross
Hey guys I'm new around here. I'm starting to live with my family as they're getting quite old and my mom is getting to the point to where she just can't cook every day so I wanna take over the reins slowly and make sure I'm putting some good for in her as well as myself. I don't need something absolute poverty tier but something in the realm of cheapness where I wont be too sad if I mess up would be helpful. I'm not a total idiot, I can cook meats, boil noodles, etc. but its mostly putting everything together. My mother is also prideful in a sense, she really hates seeing males cook so hopefully I can work around that.
Does Veeky Forums have any general guides?
Jonathan Hughes
BBQ and grilling has always been considered a male thing, so you could try grilling her food as a way to break into cooking for her
Joshua Bennett
I'm tired of eating rice and beans all the time. I've been thinking about trying out some fancy stuff - like bulgur or sorghum, but they are ridiculously overpriced. Luckily I've found a shop where they sell this stuff in a bag twice the size and half the price. The problem is it's labelled as bird-food. It's pure sorghum, but I'm still on the edge with this. You guys think it's ok? You guys think I'm gonna turn into a parrot
Grayson Price
Thanks for the thread op, this info is always interesting for a poor unifag. I started using a recipe a which is pretty tasty and only uses dried split peas, ginger, garlic, and onion. As well as some other spices. Look up 'indian split pea fritters' and you should be able to find a basic guide.
It goes like this let a cup of peas soak overnight, drain when prepping puree aromatics and spices, then add in peas heat up an ~1inch of oil in heavy wok and fry the mixture in spoonfuls. serve with lime or other citrus.
Not a full meal, but a pretty damn tasty snack that only costs a few dollars to make if you have a solid spice rack
So a nice aromatic/spiced version of fried peas? I'm down for that.
I used to fry peas with bacon fat and onion and add it to those Pasta Salad boxes they sell at the store.
Also curious about this. Probably much lower quality than what you would be getting at the grocer. Are you sure you want to become birdboy?
Ayden Garcia
Fry up some meats or grill up something. Start with stereotypical MAN-cooking. Then branch out slowly from there.
Carson Barnes
cheap if you got any asianstores nearby
saute udon noodless are a blessing for 4 portions ( or 2 days if youre alone)
300g udon noodles 1 carrot 1 medium onion grated ginger/powdered ginger to taste 4 tsb soy sauce 1/3 cup water (add chicken stock cubes if you want) hotsauce if you want
julienne the veg stirfry with 2 tsp of soy and add the water once noodles are cooked according to package, drain and add to pan with veg add last 2 tsp of soy and stir for another 2 mins
add hot sauce if youd like
you can add any other veg if youd like, i usually also add bellpeppers or eggs if i got the extra dosh goes well with crushed peanuts
Nathaniel Adams
>Don't drink distilled water bud Nonsense.
Asher Rogers
All I really have in my house are some red potatoes, seasonings , some oil and some sausages. My check didnt clear on time and thats all i have besides some "cream of" soups.
What can I do with these red potatoes before they go bad?
David Hall
Fry the sausage. Cube the potatoes and fry them in the sausage oil. If you had some onion, you could chop them and fry with the potatoes.
Caleb Powell
diff user, srsly dont mate
Sebastian Wright
Third user. Really. Don't.
Justin Cruz
i went from real un feed to real feed. and so can you. leighthealion @ paypal.
Ayden Roberts
Going to have to try that. thanks man
Angel Myers
No it tastes bad Spring water in a gallon jug is better than distilled water in a jug.
Austin Hughes
I wouldn't mind eating cheaper if it didn't entail getting random or poor quality food when going for the cheapest possible alternative.
The cheapest I can get is usually: Not sourced in my nation Pesticided to oblivion Prone to have unusable bits Filled with water/brine Weird spots of blood or tendons Poor quality check ups (I often read on the news the piss cheap products have bits of plastic in them and such so they recall it)
If I only eat in-season local stuff it would reduce my choices significantly. Obviously it's still better to get "cheap" (as in potatoes, pasta etc) in decent quality and make budget food on that but that's practically what I'm already doing.
Blake Cox
It's an old as fuck joke, faggot.
Levi Butler
I found it in a cookbook my mother has, but some googling gives me the name aloo parantha which it may or may not have been. It's better that you google yourself because I haven't made or tried it myself.
i came here to post this. add a little orange juice, garlic and ginger powder (like from a spice can that you have sitting in your cabinet), a little soy sauce. mix with whatever musty ass veggies you have sitting in the back of your fridge. good eatin right therr
Parker Adams
What would that even taste like.
Dylan Perez
Underrated. It's an act of futility to teach dumb people skills. >but i'm not dumb, user! If you're poor you're dumb, sorry to be the one to break it to you.
Nolan Cox
Buy a crockpot from a Goodwill or equivalent thrift store, now you can slow cook any meat/vegetable combo and make anything edible with some seasoning knowledge.
Chase Cook
Idk about you but my internet bill is like a $20 a month, it wouldn't change that much getting 67¢ more a day to eat for.
Nicholas Clark
Same as this guy. Internet is cheaper than food for me at 18$ and change a month.
Grayson Johnson
So not a poorfag but have some cheap good tasting recipes
- one can of kidney beans - one small can of corn - one small can of tomato paste - one union - one chicken filet (in smalls squares) - wraps
1. cut the union, and bake it with some oil 2. add the chicken 3. add some herbs (fairly easy to mix your own mexican spice mix) 4. add tomato paste 5. add the kidney beans and corn. 6. heat the wraps
Voila, optional is adding cheese. Above dish would give you enough for 2 days.
Leo Lopez
You mean Wala? What is that silly Italian spelling. What is a union too?
Noah Lewis
my internet phone is 80.00 bucks. but i suck up alot of bandwidth. so if they arent saying anything i'm not saying anything. literally five streams constantly all day.
Luis Johnson
i haven't done any poverty cooking in a while. because when i had money i spent most of it on food. so now i have tons of stuff.
Luis Clark
got a bunch of chicken legs and thighs for .79c a lb, and because I eat once a day at most I got enough to last 2 months
Justin Diaz
dried is better and cheaper, but you gotta soak them first, thats the down side
Kevin Parker
beans are cheap, rice, soup, corn n fruit too.
Jonathan Torres
chop potatoes, dowse in oil, cover in spices, bake for 45 min at 400deg f throw the sausages in too if you like or cook separate
Parker Carter
good advice. I would cube, then toss with the sausage oil & salt, pepper then cook in the oven. Would be easier to cook evenly.
Jeremiah Moore
Man I fucking love rice
Easton Sanders
don't you live in a first world country with clean drinking water?
John Hughes
have you ever considered getting a real job? no, not the one you have now. a REAL job. one that will pay you enough to eat properly, and go to college alongside and learn a trade skill.
Dylan Anderson
Organ meat and eggs. Enjoy your calories, protein, and nutrients. Typical veggies are cheap; as are grains.
And don't give me that dietary cholesterol bullshit; unless you already have a problem shit like sodium and cholestrol are a non-issue with an other-wise balanced diet.
Mason King
Got some ground beef I saved from the freezer and combined it with pretty much every vegetable leftover and some leftover frozen spaghetti sauce in frozen about a week ago.
Made a delicious soup (added some canned Rotel) and some cornbread with leftover fresh jalapeño and cheddar.
Just buy things according to sales and generally if you make things from scratch it is generally cheaper, by a large margin. This will feed us for at least 2-3 days.
During the winter soups and stews reign supreme.
Leo Green
>tfw I can never have cornbread ever again
The last thing I ate before i got the stomach flu was chili and cornbread. Just thinking about cornbread and the batter makes me nauseous
