I blew most of my paycheck this month on bullshit, I was left with $100 for groceries. I bought $80 worth of chili ingredients, and the rest I spent on bagels and stuff for lunches at work.
I'm going to eat chili exclusively for dinner for the entire month of August, do you guys think I can do it, or will I get sick of it 2 weeks in?
Doesn't sound like you have choice
You will get tired of it, even if you make burritos or mix it with egg, potatoes, rice, etc. God speed, user.
your poor asshole
Honest question. How does someone blow their entire paycheck without realizing it? How old are you?
I bulk cook 1 meal each week and I don't get bored of it by the end of that period, a month may be pushing it though. I hope you got meat on sale
mix it with pasta on some days, bread on other and tortilla's on the rest.
Invite someone to eat with you and afterwards dine with them
You will get sick of it, but it'll keep you alive. Kinda what matters.
If you're ever this broke again, I'd suggest going the bulk dry rice and beans route. Shit I used to stock up on when I was broke:
>bulk dry rice and beans
>tomato sauce
>tortillas
>bulk pasta, cheapest you can find
>day-old bread that a local restaurant used to sell in bulk for a dollar a bag
>single bottle of hot sauce so you don't feel like murdering somebody
>bananas (cheap; just eat them before they go bad)
>another on-sale fruit or veggie; veggies go in the pasta
>ramen noodles; snatch up the dollar tofu if it's there
>maybe half a carton of cheap-ass eggs
>bulk oatmeal
>bulk canned beans
>peanut butter
>bulk container of cheap nuts
>soy sauce so you can stand eating plain rice
Abuse the farmer's market if you can, and always compare prices. Slow-cookers are your friend. Save vegetable broth whenever you make veggies; put it in a jar and keep it for later use instead of dumping it.
Avoid:
>premade dinners
>canned soup
>any meat that isn't on-sale
>expensive fucking produce that's not even in season
>anything that's gonna go bad
>anything that's expensive but low-calorie
Source: Living broke-as-hell with my sister for an extensive period of time.
>I hope you got meat on sale
This. Meat that isn't on sale is where you'd be blowing most of your money needlessly.
>pasta, bread, tortillas
Also, this. Tortillas especially.
Here's what you do OP
>Go dumpster diving behind wendys and see if you can score some of those chili cups
>go around to various wendy's at lunch hour when they're too busy to notice you and walk up to the counter with a cup full of your shitty month old chili and ask to exchange it because its cold or there's hair in it or if you really want to go out of your way find some bugs and put it in the chili and raise hell
>negotiate your way up to a burger or a spicy chicken sandwich if you're really a pro because wendy's spicy chicken is the bomb
>do this once or twice a week at each wendy's at different shifts exhausting all your wendy's options
hopefully this will break up the monotony enough that you can survive. good luck, i have only done this once
What do you bulk cook?
I sometimes do a big stir fry that lasts me about 3 days as the 'big meal' (along with 2 different smaller meals each day, one being breakfast).
this week I cooked 5lbs of chicken thigh and feijoada - a bean dish with other veggies and ham hocks. I have a rice cooker so I make rice daily and this week my diet consists of chicken rice and beans
other weeks I've made coq au vin, beef stew, casseroles, etc. My main goal going in to each cook is get a good amount of protein in there with as many vegetables as I can justify
stir fry's are great, I find that 1 week is about the max amount of time I'm willing to let something sit in the fridge and still eat it
all I eat is veggie chili. I got 100 pounds of dry pinto beans stored away.
>paycheck
>month
what kind of job pays once a month?
do you mean welfare?
You've done this before? This is goddamn brilliant.
I laughed so fucking hard reading this.
What the fuck is $80 worth of chili ingredients?? You could have made at least 3 or 4 bulk meals with 80 bucks.
dude he needs the latest gayming PC hardware xD
can't overheat during those Dark Souls marathon runs
>day-old bread that a local restaurant used to sell in bulk for a dollar a bag
A lot of grocery stores with bakery sections will have marked-down bread like this too.
i like you
You'll make it. Your butthole might not.
Good Luck OP. Different people have different stomachs. I could eat chili for a week and be fine, hope the same goes for you. Usually I will make something in bulk and bring to work for the week (i do 4 10hr shifts). and I do just fine. But I have my other meals to break it up. 30 days with just chili will be ruff but tough it out and be more careful next time.
whats wrong with his asshole?
>eat with you then dine with them
wat
fucking degenerates making everything more expensive for non-total fucking losers who should have been executed at birth. You are a disgusting piece of shit.
having said that, do what you gotta do
>I sometimes do a big stir fry that lasts me about 3 days as the 'big meal'
I do the same thing to get me through the work week. I created one involving country smoked sausage and fried potatoes. I call it the Wide Eye Stir Fry.
I did this high the other night at McDonalds, just for a coffee though. Found an empty cup on the patio and I just told them I'd spilled it by accident and asked for another. It was a busy mcdicks though, wouldnt work at a quiet one where theyd remember you. Same goes for your tactic.
as long as it is con carne brother and that means NO BEANS
-Nathen
please ignore this one I just googled con carne and it meant something different
-Nathen
I would have just lived on ramen
>inb4 why don't you just eat beans and rice
>30 days of beans and rice
>do you mean welfare?
yep. welfare, neetcheck, crazycheck. i doubt he's got a gubbermint jerb.
great solution
Lmao this.
My prayers go out for your toilet user.
Try not to crack the porcelain.
>month of chili
I've eaten beans and rice almost everyday for 2 years now. Most people outside the developing world eat it everyday for their entire lives. A month won't kill you.
I hope I will never understand why somebody has to worry about what to eat for a month (a fucking month!!) when they have a job.
Is that America?
I have a job, I don't have money for everything, I can't just buy a new car for example, but I don't have to worry about what to eat. Actually I'm really willing to spend a lot of money on my meals.
Oh, I'm European, German to be more precise.
I don't think there is any single person who has to worry about hunger here.
Even when unemployed.
And we are not a socialist country. Get your shit together, America.
>entire month of August
>posted on August 1st.
Nigga don't you at least get paid every other week?
You can mix it up a bit with sour cream, or dump some mushrooms in it.
That reminds me of fall semester in my second year of college. I had classes all evening so I ate Hot Pockets for dinner. By the middle of the semester the only thing they had going for them was being a hot meal. By the end of the semester I couldn't think about Hot Pockets without feeling deep and abiding resentment.
In Yuroop it is normal to be paid monthly.
I'd stretch it out with beans.
absolutely this. whenever i am too broke to afford normal food because i have shit priorities as an addict, i will remind myself of a story of a kid in some developing country that sometimes "eats" a few hands of lukewarm water a day whose biggest dream was to have some rice on the regular, finding those dreams crazy because they involved "potentially some chicken". you will be fine, you spoiled fucking cunt
why didnt you just check off the food groups as you were buying to make sure you could live off the $80 instead of buying $80 worth of a single meal
yeah, monthly or fortnightly are the most common
Most professional jobs pay once a month.
do americans get paid once a week?