Poorfag cooking

Why is ramen such a poor meme? Spaghetti is infinitely cheaper and healthier. Rice is cheap as fuck too.

its literally way harder than it should be to have a healthy functioning diet in the U.S.

Not even memeing.

whole plant ingredients, nothing (((value-added))), from at least four stores + farmer's markets, dad's garden, amazon (sometimes I have it shipped to the locker at the shitty grocery store).

How so?

producejunction.com/specials/
groceryoutlet.com/
and walmart ofcourse. Beans and oats are good for keeping you full and being dirt cheap with some nutritional value.

Infographic time

I don't like being in those stores because they're full of poor whites buying poor white "food", the most unpleasant poors to be around.

For me, it's beansprouts!

6/day for one person? That's nearly 200 per month, not poor at all unless you live in some shit place with high priced food.

>Be self proclaimed poor
>Act superior to people in the same boat and who most likely don't live alone or have the luxury to have free produce and spend a further $200/m on food

No offense but I don't understand Americans at all. You consider other countries snobby yet can't even shop with your own kind without triggering your superiority complex.

Poached or fuck you

m8, you're going into a store for 10m max to buy something, not to live there, you have some major insecurities to deal with

Because I can spend $5 a day on fast food or equally shit food from a grocery store instead of my food budget consuming 40-60% of my income.
Albeit I'm kind of in a shit place in life rn, just kicked a nasty heroin habbit and moved in with my buddy in a small town. Now I'm working at mazzios for $9/hr because I can't find work as a chef out here. Or even construction work, as that's the family trade I grew up in.

>$6 oatmeal box
>like 15,000 calories worth of packs

add banana for flavor

For meat,buy whole chickens. Chicken breasts are way more expensive. Potatoes,carrots,onions are also dirt cheap

Beans. They are cheap and relatively healthy (I'm not a poorfag, but I lift and beans are among gods of gains). If they are canned you can eat them cold or warm them up and add sausages or fried eggs.

Dry beans that you can buy at market can be a base of some cheap stuffy soup - tomato soup, but it takes time to soak them in water.

So far site is okay.

Always have some chickpeas or white beans cooked and some soaking in the fridge, and get a pressure cooker. Use pot-in-pot method for everything. Some beans that can kill you, like kidneys, need to be cooked in water because they're kinda hydrophobic and dry out otherwise.

>$5 a day on fast food
bullshit, even McDonalds is too pricy for that nowadays

I moved into hamburger and broughtworst. don't really like the broughtworst.

the only other thing i could do was eat steak n lobster. kinda pricey.

but if you want poor there is tons of cheap stuff. tuna,beans,corn,eggs,banquet tv dinners,rice,potatos...ect.

raviolli,spagetti,hotdogs.

Going to bump this so it's still alive when I get home

Debate:
Chicken of The Sea vs Bumblebee vs Starkist

You fucking idiot, you didn't even mention lentils.

Throw lentils in a pot, add water, add heat, wait 40mins. Add frozen veggies, wait 5 minutes. Done.

Put on plate, add generous amount of olive oil, salt, pepper, add some vinegar.

Eat as it is or with bread or rice.

Depending on the amount of vegs you add, this has all your body needs.

This stuff is also great for freezing and taking to work.

You didn't even mention lentils, mang.

I'll mention it, especially if you could write up something I could copy-paste into the site.

Sorry m8, i'm sitting in the tub, shitposting on my phone, not writing a bestseller here.

Just bring it up to your standards and upload as one possible alternative.

I mix em with bread crumbs, a bit of salt. I add cheese and make an omelette out of them.

This, pasta is the poor man's best friend. You can get concentrated tomato tubes for very cheap as well for the sauce.

1 ramen pack is 400 calories. I've seen 6packs/$1 so 2400 calories for $1. Best I've seen for 1 lb (1600 cal) of spaghetti is $1. I can get 1 lb (1600 cal) of brown rice for 50 cents though. Ramen takes less effort to cook and comes with seasoning so it's the ultimate poorfag microwave pleb food

>several cups of cruciferous veggies are literally $1
>1 lb of frozen veg is a little over a dollar
>waaah it's so hard

OP I like the idea and have wanted something like this to be developed for a while, even if we'll never get a sticky. Can you drop an email so I could keep in contact/send documents to really develop this? I'm willing to put in a good amount of effort to make a comprehensive guide, spellcheck, etc.

I think some general ideas that could be added:

>Name brand vs store brand
>Buying what's on sale in bulk so it lasts for weeks, rotating your diet based on what's cheapest
>Meal prepping for the week
>More recipes in general

Thanks a lot for the enthusiasm! Email me anytime and we can figure something out. I'm a busy student but I can find a couple hours a week to do this.

a wiki, my love, a wiki

That would be better but I don't know where it would be hosted. I don't plan on paying any money for something that would be self-hosted.

maybe the dudes in /g/ can help ... btw, bathwater is cold, i'm off, dreaming about lentils ...

>so we can make a sticky or something.
fuck off

Why are people so opposed to trying to improve the quality of posts on here?

cheap recipes are idiotic, cheap is something thats going to depend in where you live
you want cheap? potatoes and eggs are universally cheap, anything else you have to go to the store and find out what is cheap and the how to cook it

Guys, I'm basically a hobo, but I have a job. I just don't really have a source of heat to cook with. What are the best vegetables for me to eat raw? Really needs to keep me at even energy levels, so most fruit is out.

You can't scavenge wood and make a small fire? You are aware humans cooked with wood fires for @ 99.9999% of our existence, right?

Nah, fuck that noise, I'll just buy shit from the store instead.

Why?

I think we're on the same page. It's not about cheap recipes as much as the methodology of cheap cooking. But you can't go too abstract and you have to mention specific foods that might not match your region. Also if you look on the current website there's a link to find food that's in season for your location.

However since we're a english-speaking site, we can assume certain foods like potatoes and eggs as you mentioned. But your average joe isn't going to know how to cook them too well, and that should be a component of this site/blog/wiki.

Carrots and broccoli are pretty good, but try to find a way to at least get a pot of boiling water, or a pan with some fat on it to fry something up. What's your living situation?

its not about the country you live in
just living in the middle of a big city vs living in some town will change things for you, hell people living in the same city but near different stores will have access to entirely different things
your diet has to somewhat adapt to where you live, otherwise you wont be able to eat for cheap ever

Let's just pretend I live in a cuckshed and everyone pisses me off so much I rather hang out in my car. That describes it well enough.

Is spinach pretty good as well?

Fruit doesnt keep you at even energy? Most fruits have relatively low glycemic indexes

bro I literally spend like 60 bucks a day on food and booze in the summer

Look summerchild, this is not Facebook or Instructables, this is the deep end of the net. If you can't deal with it, piss off.

Get a camping stove, fagduke. Time to level up.

>this is the deep end of the net
Is this a joke

are you?

Yeah, but when you live with your mom and don't pay rent, you can do that

Just call the mods, they will help you.

You dickless doublenigger.

Carrots, potatoes, pasta, rice, lentils and beans are cheap everywhere. As are frozen vegs.

Nah m8, food in the developed world is pretty uniform.

>Email me anytime

Am I missing something..? I don't see an email posted anywhere. I'm also a busy stuudent be we will do our best I hope.

Sleep tight, pupper.

A cabbage is one dollar, whole chicken is like 7. That's food for 3 days. Rice and beans are 1 dollar per pack. I get it, i'm a lazy cunt too, but cooking for yourself is cheap.

Let's play spot the ironic poor nigger.

McD is not cheap. There are plenty of fast food that do cheaper meals than McD.
Carl's / Hardee's - 5 dollar boxes
Taco Bell - 5 dollar boxes
Jack - $6 midnight muchchie, $5 jumbo jack
Wendee's - 4 for 5
Popeye's - $4 popcorn chicken & fries
KFC - $5 fillup
Burger King - 2 cheeseburgers combo for $3.5

I honestly don't know how McD is competing.

Ironically, the number of whitetrash using ebt and foodstamps is double the number of nignogs.

Really makes the ol' fidget spinner whirl!

>inb4 b-b-but muh nignogs and spics are the reason I can't find muh job

Make sure you ignore per capita statistics, we wouldn't want to accurately represent data or anything :^)

>peanut butter in ramen
Bait

You underestimate hood culture

i think you are cherry picking at this point, 2 mcdoubles which has the most protein per dollar of any fast food item is only 3-4 dollars depending on your area, its also 600-700 cals

Don't eat for 3 days. At some point your body will want food and you'll find certain things appetizing.

As long as you still to less-processed, raw, healthy ingredients without much artificial sugar you'll be fine.

My bad.

I have no reason to, but if that makes you feel better, all right.

mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/vanilla-shake-small.html

Small: $2.19 (490cal/11g protein)
Medium: $2.59 (600cal/14g protein)
Large: $2.99 (800cal/19g protein)

mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/mcdouble.html

McDouble: $1.39 (380cal/23g protein)

>y-you mean to say that the most populous ones have numerically more people on EBT???
That's right, my possessively owned nigger. Yet, when you take ratios of actual racial populations, white people come out above. Interesting, isn't it? As always, stay hungry, nog. Gotta sell those food stamps cuz that Cadillac won't pay for itself unless you think you can steal it undetected.

Oats and peanut butter. Cheap and keeps you full forever.

As a poor fucking spic, I live off of bean tostadas and eggs. If my check don't bounce, I get me a rotessire chicken when its on clearance for $2.55. The bird can feed a family of 4 or last near a week.

Not bait. Peanut butter pasta is a classic poorfriend dish and I often added some to my instant ramen when I used to eat that shit.

>i have 11 dollars to last until monday

Depends where you live, and how expensive food in your country is. I set the upper bar for dinner at 10 kurwabux (circa 3-4 dollars) a day and have no problems with that

>bean tostadas
How do you make these?

>until monday
>have 13 cents until next two weeks
Good thing I horded rice and oats when it was on sale

Add more (quality) links and I think we may just have our overdue sticky.
Good job.

Pretty much this. If you don't want to live off ramen/rice/noodles just roast cheap meat with root veggies like carrots onyuns and taters it's too fucking easy
Chicken thighs are good, way cheaper and far better taste than breasts

Important point on beans is to buy them dried, not canned. It's cheaper. Only extra thing to do is plan ahead and soak them overnight

>taking a bath
Gross

Step 1: obtain a tostada by any means necessary

Step 2: obtain beans, I prefer pinto beans

Step 3: spread beans on tostada

Can be topped with cheese or cream or whatever you desire

>taking a bath

Cosplaying as soup

Ah you avin a giggle at mi expense? I fucken drop ya, tosser. I'll hook you in the gabber.

Healthy food is cheaper than fast food, it just takes up more of your time to prepare.

You can put an egg or two (either over-easy or hard-boiled) on top of pretty much anything and it will improve it. Potatoes, chili, beans, rice, salads, sandwiches, soups, you name it. Fried eggs and chili is a really cheap but decent meal.

I already looked at most of these options, and they aren't going to offer a day's worth of sustenance for 5 dollars (as I originally argued). Not that things like the Wendy's 4 for 4 or the KFC fill-up are bad deals, you just can't live for 5 dollars a day on those options

The closest you can get is either:

McDonalds:
>McPick 2 (McDouble, McDouble)
>McPick 2 (McDouble, McDouble)
>A cookie

Taco Bell
>Bean Burrito
>Bean Burrito
>Bean Burrito
>Bean Burrito
>Bean Burrito

cookbooks.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf
some methodology, some recipes
(also bump)

noice

I have it on metaphoric authority that I'm ironically a meme