Sup /b/, So I've moved out on my own now and I'm not

that grocery list on the whiteboard gave me a good chuckle

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canned soups are easy cheap meals. grill a cheese with them. badabing badaboom baby

>>742979919
Spaghetti carbonara

>>742979919
Janitor from /sp/?

Potatoes and rice if your poor but don't wanna dies.

>>742979919
I always love making Mostacholi with meat in a crockpot yeah it takes long as fuck but it's awesome if you work start it before you go to work and by the time you get home all you have to do is make the noodles and your meal will be fresh !

>>742980352
How much are those crock pots?

one of the first things i did after moving out was i purchased a big ass pork butt, marinated that shit, put some rub on that shit, and roasted it in the oven for 8 hours. Fucking delicious. Fed me for 3 weeks. The pork cost me probably 10-12 bux.

Its not hard you just gotta do it.
Just fucking make yourself cook something you don't know how to cook. Even when it turns out bad its still mostly edible.

Learn to cook you stupid ass. It is not that hard you are just being lazy and need mommy to do this for you.

>>742980138
>Salt, corn syrup, preservatives with gmo cheese and empty carbs
Yeah killer meal you got there hank

>>742979919
Most meals aren't that hard
Just got to follow the instructions

>>742980459
buy one of these they are fucking mindless, put shit in go to work come home to good smelling house and food for days

>>742980138
This guy is right. Also, if you live in a humid area keep your bread in the fridge, it will last a lot longer.
I do a lot of guns and chicken salad sandwiches myself, canned tuna/chicken is really cheap and only requires a few ingredients to make. Go to the dollar store and get some Tupperware and that one batch will last a couple weeks. For breakfast, cheap yoplait yogurts (50-60cents)and generic granola bars( a box of a dozen is like $5-$6. You can eat breakfast all week for under $10 and not get weighed down
Stash a box of ramen for emergencies too

>>742979919
Tyson?

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>>742980548
stick to your bird seed and grass then bub.

>>742980884
Not guns, tuna wtf autocorrect

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>>742980548
Dude asked for easy and cheap, not a fucking speech on healthy living and conspiracy theories asshole

>>742979919
It's really not hard. Get your basic spices like salt, pepper, thyme, rosemary, paprika. Stock up on fresh vegetables like garlic, ginger, onion, tomatoes, potatoes. Buy some meat like chicken or pork. Always have a bag of basmati rice in your cupboard. Cook meat, add some spices, add some veg. Cook some rice on the side.

>>742981013
I know, god damn it. At least it saves money on food in the long run

Get a few pounds of potatos and always have onions around. Fried potatos with fried onions never gets old and can be stored forever. Get some Quark and fresh herbs and its even better. Also it is super cheap.

Got a Food 4 Less?

Start making random combinations of lean meat, veggies and nuts or fruits. You can get a rotisserie chicken, a head of romaine lettuce, some raspberries or walnuts and make like 7-10 chicken wraps for under 10$. Just experiment man, it ain't that hard.

>>742979919
Hey OP, 48 year old confirmed bachelor here, and I can tell you that I can't imagine surviving without my crockpot. You can put literally anything in a crockpot, leave it for 12 hours, and get delicious soup like magic. You can take all your trimmings, stuff you'd normally throw away -- apple cores, banana peels, potato skins, bones, celery tops, carrot stems, ANYTHING -- and toss it in your crockpot, add water, and just leave it. Poof, 12 hours later you have soup which is absolutely mouth-watering at literally pennies a bowl.

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>>742980459
They're like $5 at Goodwill.

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>>742979919
Bread
Milk
Orange juice
Had
Ham and Cheese
Peanut butter
Hot dogs
Crystal Light
Ground Meat
Chicken
Spaghetti sauce and pasta
Ramen noodles
Chicken broth (or cubes)
Lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cilantro
Ketchup and mustard
Chicken tenders (oven ready to make)
Potatoes (and mashed potatoes mix)
Rice
Beans, tomato sauce
Olive oil
Salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, garlic
Nestle quick
Crackers
Diet soda for fat people
Bottled water
Salad dressing
Hot dog and burger bread
Cheetos

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i spend 140 schemckles a month here. i eat like a king.

>>742979919
Past pub kitchenhand/very active home chef here.

Here's the easiest recipe I know and it's fancy as fuck, and impresses the HELL out of everyone. Also? The ingredients (other than the meat) last forever so you can have it be your "cooking to impress" meal.

It works on salmon and chicken.

Ingredients (just fucking trust me on this):
1 part kewpie mayo (Japanese mayo - it's a game changer)
1 part fig jam
1 part Dijon

Mix it up, save it for later. Preheat your oven to 180-200C.

Rub a bit of olive oil onto, then salt and pepper your salmon/chicken.
Fry on each side on medium high heat for 1 minute, remove from heat, spread the sauce mixture on ONE side. (We only want it to kind of glaze on the top, we don't really want it to cook against metal, it will turn brown and weird)

Either put it in a cooking pan, or, I use a cast iron pan to fry, so after I flip it I just stick it all in the oven for about 10 mins, maybe more depending on thickness.

Serve over rice. Creamy and classy as fuck concerning modern cooking trends. Also? If you have the coin, switch to kewpie mayo and use it in almost everything.

>>742981446
you eat dog food

>>742981446
Scottish tinker

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fuck cooking just stick to hot pockets there fucking delicious.

>>742981555
Forgot to mention. Dijon and mayo make kickass sauces for baking because the vinegary part of the mayo and the kick/spice of the dijon cook out of them, leaving people wondering where the fuck all that flavor came from. They usually can't place it, and you look like a genius for slapping a 2 dollar instant condiment into your meal.

>>742981555
He's a poor fag he can't afford salmon and olive oil haven't you got any spam recipes ?

>>742980548
Shut up faggot, there's proof to the fact that calories are just fucking calories, you can eat a Big Mac meal every day and if you work out you'll be as well off as people who spend an atrocious amount of money on bullshit they can't resist buying at Trader Joe's over Instagram inpulses. Go back to sucking dick on Grindr because you suck at giving advice.

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>>742981578
there are some foods that are questionable there. but for the most part, its pretty good honestly. just gotta be smart with what you buy. like premium dog food.

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>>742981825
This and some beams on toast

>>742981815
Their replica alcoholic drinks are pretty good

>>742981670
Me again. Here's another sweet recipe that's basically a giant chicken nugget but much healthier and better tasting.

Mix together 3 parts panko bread crumbs (Jappo section), 1 part parmesan cheese, and quite a bit of parseley because it's fucking parseley don't measure it asshat. Salt and pepper too. Set aside.

Put a chicken breast on a cutting board, put plastic wrap on top and smash the hell out of it. Try to keep it a consistent thickness, and the thinner means quicker cook times. Don't worry if it breaks - we're breading it so we can hide that part.
Rub dijon mustard on one side, pretty liberally. The spicy part cooks out. Now put it dijon side down in the bread crumb mix. Dijon the other side, repeat.

Put in pan of medium heat olive oil - you know it's heated through well enough when it moves around almost like water when you jiggle the pan.

2-4 minutes each side. Cut it and check that it's done.


Seriously. It's a giant, fresh, healthier chicken nugget. It's not fancy but people can't quite place the parmesan and the dijon, and they're impressed as shit.

>>742981815
Jesus Christ, the real war was in the home of housewives

>>742981696
Real talk. Have you seen how much spam is these days. Here in NY(not the city fucking central NY state) its like $3 a god damned can. On the bright side our raw chicken is like 75 cents a pound.

>>742981620
I know this is bait. While hot pockets are quick and easy, they're also fucking poison. Resist the urge to stock up on shit like that and learn how to cook. Hell, one egg scrambled in a bowl, microwave for one minute in the bowl, put that on some wheat toast with a slice of cheese, salt, pepper, and some sort of condiment of your choice (I like sweet and hot mustard) makes for a quick snack that's not pumped full of salt and other preservatives.
just learn how to cook. In a month or two you'll have a set of recipes that you can do from memory, and it just keeps getting easier. You'll eat better (and cheaper) in the long run.

>>742979919
Potatoes, ground beef, ramen, eggs bread, tinned meatballs, tinned meals, pasta, rice,.
Do with them as you wish

>>742981696
If you save up and buy olive oil in the big ass metal containers that's like 4 liters, it's one of the cheapest things you can buy. Bulk = win.

>>742981960
This guy just doesn't get it....... the mans a tramp that would suck dick for a double cheese burger

Get a slow cooker and a rice cooker. Now

>>742981996
Exactly. Buying raw and unprepared will save you a shitload.

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>>742981949
yah i buy 3 dollar bottles of wine. gets me drunk. no hangover. tastes just fine. its weird.

>>742981124
Oh fuck yes, I got to try

>>742981999
Your fucking retarded hot pockets are nutritious as fuck. Buy eggs to spoil in the fridge are you fuckin mental m8.

>>742982046
The difference between eating hobo chili and fucking sweet meals is buying raw/unprepared and doing the work yourself.

>>742981996
I'm outta touch this is what I used to feed my dog years ago hmmmmm that's a total mind fuck

>>742982155
If you're using substandard materials I agree

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>>742981446
Used to shop at netto years ago, the fucking shame.
>bright yellow netto bags
>basically homeless eat better
Aldi is too expensive compared to liddle.

Buy Goya canned beans, some raw meat of any variety, and brown sugar. Chuck it all in a crock pot. Enjoy.

You got stores like Grocery Outlet? Here in he west, you can pick up 10lb cuts of corned beef for $7. Reubens for a week, just get sauerkraut, thousand island, bread, they also have a lot of bullshit food you can get for 4 for a dollar like protein bars, calzones and loose drinks like Capri sun. If not, look for an Aldis or Save A Lot. Never buy at a Dollar Store, they're marked up insanely high unless its soda. Same with gas station. If you live in a cousin fucking area, look for farmers or hillbillies with chickens in the yard. A farm fresh dozen goes for about $1-2 and you can truly taste the difference. Go to the butcher, ask if he has any cheap cuts that don't sell well. Meat is meat is meat. Frozen veggies for about a dollar a bag will go great over rice with cheap meat or eggs. If you're a burger kind of nigga, get the bagged kind and get cheap ass buns. If there's a sale, buy two bags and throw one in the freezer.

>>742982155
>hobo chili
There's nothing wrong with hobo chili. When I was hard up, I used to go to 7-11, buy a Super Big Gulp, and fill the cup to the top with the chili and cheese sauce from their pumps, then add some onions, black olives, and hot peppers from their condiment bar. For $1.99 I got a giant cup of chili which would last me a couple of days.

>>742981620
>that image triggers my anxiety

>>742982025
Nigger I have money for groceries and I still don't buy a $30 bulk container of olive oil
I'd rather have money to put aside for my mortgage

>>742979919

Get a girlfriend, beat her into submission. Then you have a housewife, cook and sub slut to use any time you want all rolled into one.

>>742981825
Hispers have now ruined spam

>>742982252
Raw chicken breasts, one of the healthiest and arguably freshest protein widely available, is probably the cheapest meat you can buy. I live in Australia where shit is expensive as hell, and a 4 pack of chicken breast will cost you 12 dollars. You make a chicken sandwich out of half of a breast, and that's a ~$2 meal. So, no.

>>742982431
Again, bulk. That will last you 2-4 months.

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OP if you want to cook cheap and healthy then I'd suggest not buying canned or pre-cooked meals.

Italian food is actually rather simple to make and easy to buy for.
Depending on where you live, fresh veggies might be a little expensive, but you gotta see it as an investment in your health. Eating only canned and frozen shit will only make you fat and get diseases.

Cooking healthy & tasty is not as easy as people think, but if you make an effort you have a useful skill for life and women will love you for it (especially them fancy eurodishes)

Foods overrated buy some cheap alcohol and sponge of the family for rations

>>742982364
oh dear lord i can only imagine the pain you were in during these times.

Buy fucktonnes of Tempeh, Cashews, Almonds and Walnuts and become a vegetarian and you will feel amazing, save money, fuck longer, have clear skin and blast more cum onto college sluts' faces than you thought possible

>>742982518
A chicken sandwich is a snack not a meal

>>742982364
The diarrhea must have been awful, though.

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>>742982559
Vs. 3$ worth of vegetable oil that lasts the same amount of time
No,man

>>742982494
Holy shit really?
Where I live the only people that eat that shit are on work release

>>742982652
...that's fair.

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>>742979919
wraps. everything goes in a wrap

>>742982788
>>742982834
>>742982877

Have you been saving recipes specifically made by retards for retards?

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>>742982877

Fuck op, I'm having vodka for starters and a Chinese take away for dinner he can snort evaporated milk for all I give a shit

>>742982744
that's like saying why eat food when you can eat fucking dogshit its free and fresh in local parks daily

google "gutter oil china" for a glimpse of what you're actually eating faggot. Olive Oil FTW

>>742982977
yes

Can't beat beans on toast healthy delicious n cheap as fuck

>>742979919
rice cooker rice and some cheese
vinegar
salt
pepper
oil

the world is yours my friend

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>>742983008
Ok then. The point is to be cost effective, jackass. Olive oil is not.

Is the food in this thread what you guys are actually really eating?
Is this an American thing?
No disrespect just asking

Shit looks disgusting and unhealthy

>>742982700
>>742982616
>Having the intestinal strength of a 3 year old

>>742982364
They let you do that?

>>742982744
>>742983008
this guy gets it. vegetable oil is fucking disgusting, and you aren't saving much. You aren't going to get 3-4 liters of it for $3, more like $15-20. Just spend an extra small amount of money and get the best there is.

>>742982788
Seeing the shittiest ingredients possible used there, one has to wonder where the eggs came from.

>>742982987
not gonna lie I would eat this eat for real

>>742983330
Also when you cook the eggs long enough where they get brown and rubbery, they're fucking disgusting.

>>742979919

Look into gnocchi and just premade pasta sauces.

The pasta sauces are easy enough to get and heat up, and gnocchi is literally
>put in pan
>put boiling water in pan with it
>wait for gnocchi to float
>take out of water

And it takes a couple minutes.
It's a good stepping stone to then making your own sauces, etc.

>>742982788
>Add loads of butter

>>742983300
>They let you do that?
If you go in at 3am when there's just some minimum wage drone at the counter, you could take off your pants and dance the fandango in the aisles and they wouldn't give a rat's ass. They're just happy you're not going to shoot them in the face and steal the $35 in the register.

>>742983307
I get a liter of veg oil for 3$ and it lasts like 3 months, and I have kids to feed. Seems pretty cost effective to me

>>742983391
>premade pasta sauces
NEVER EVER

olive oil, sundried tomatoes, garlic, seasoning

>>742983427
"butter"

Cup of noodles/top ramen,

>>742983634

Obviously cooking your own is infinitely better, but the guy is asking for the simplest of the simple baby tier.

Better to ease him into making a proper sauce himself via seeing some premade ones and seeing what he likes.

>>742983514
I get 4 liters for $26, sale goes as low as 20, and it's literally the best shit you can buy for yourself in terms of taste and health. So you're giving me shit for spending $8-14 more than you, on something that lasts for MONTHS. Like not to be an asshole but you're fucking retarded.

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/321601/red-island-extra-virgin-olive-oil

>>742983758
http://imgur.com/NnAI1og

>>742983822
Your "olive oil" isn't olive oil. Most olive oil is illegally adulterated by organized crime because there's so much money swapping out olive oil for cheaper stuff, but the really cheap "olive oil" generally contains absolutely no olive oil at all. If you're buying cheap olive oil, you might as well just switch to canola, since that's probably what you're getting anyway -- and paying a premium for it.

>>742983822
Last I checked $3<$20 in the real world.
The thread was about being cost effective last I checked. You want to be a pretentious ass, go to >>/ck/ I'm sure they'll suck you off

>>742984188
Are you kidding? Is this bait? $3 for 1 liter. $20 for 4. Are you really that dumb? Like if that's an honest mistake, that's cool, I make them too. But probably check your math before you insult people about being wrong.

>>742984041
you're bang on brother.

>>742984374
3$ X 4 liters = $12 for 4 liters < $20 for 4 liters
>math

>>742982987
>Cooking your lettuce

>>742984666
Correct, I actually said that above. What I'm saying is, if it's going to last you 2-4 months, an $8 difference is absolutely nothing if you're getting the best there is.

>>742984807
My one liter of veg oil lasts an average of 3 months
>like I said earlier

>>742984807
It's cheaper, and that's the whole point, you hard on

>>742979919
Meat: Chicken or pork or salmon are easy in the oven, 350 degrees for 30, 40, and 20 mins respectively. For bonus points, look for premixed spices to put on them.
Carbs: Minute rice is super easy to cook and clean up. Potatoes of you have a bbq and want to wrap them in foil.
Veggies: Carrot chips or baby carrots. Cucumber is easy to cut up. Peppers are more effort to cut up but you can do a bunch at once and put them in baggies. Don't bother cooking them if you aren't feeling fancy.

Always use foil on your cookie sheet when you cook your meat. Makes for easy cleanup.

>>742984891
Are you fucking using differences in personal usage as an argument?

>>742984891
Then this would last you a year, and you're stressed about the expenditure of $8 over the course OF A YEAR.

I'll take a different tack.

You deserve better. Your kids deserve better than a product created, packaged and transported by all lowest possible bidders. You deserve better than the shittiest possible thing the world has to offer you when it comes to cooking oil, and you can get the best, for the cost of $8 more than what you're spending OVER. THE. COURSE. OF. A. YEAR.

What you're telling me is you can't afford to spend ~65 cents more a month than what you are, you're that cash-strapped.

>>742985285
Even the same quantity is cheaper

>>742985134
It's economics. If the only thing standing between the best and the worst possible product is $8 over the course of a year, you're a fucking moron if you don't know which to pick.

>>742985397
See
>>742984041
>quality

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Stop being a pussy and pan-fry a goddamn steak like a man.
>grease your pan
>heat it on medium or just above
>add steak
>turn it every now and then until brown on the outside
>enjoy not being a pussy

You're welcome

>>742985597
Economics implies cheaper.
What I buy costs less.
Your argument keeps going back to quality, not price.

>>742985609
I'm not acknowledging the tin foil hat crowd. Also, not tons of organised crime in Australia, because there isn't much of an economy to milk here? Soooo...

>>742985630
>not getting the pan as hot as possible to properly sear the steak

>>742985738
Economics is weighing value and price... It's weird that you don't understand how important value is when you're buying something, but by all means keep feeding greasy diarrhea to your kids and patting yourself on the back for being a master of economics. $8 man. 65 cents a month. Super weird that you don't get it.

>>742985746
>ignoring easy to google arguments
>posting easy to google arguments
So Australia doesn't import olive oil

>>742985888
It's less expensive.
Again, this whole thread isn't about quality, it's about being cost effective.
Call me whatever you like, but it's still simple math.

>>742982987
im triggered by the fact that you can make double the food by simply using 2 tortillas

im 130lbs and 1 tortilla filled with lett/toms aint gonna work as a meal

>>742985914
Are you just looking for a quick fight? You aren't going to get one. I even linked the one I usually buy, which is produced on a farm in Australia... are you... are you really this stupid and pugnacious?

I'm not really sure why you jumped in, but good luck with it I guess. Are you on a mission to educate the world on organized crime's infiltration of the olive oil industry? Because one, this is a weird place to begin your crusade, and two, we get it. We've all seen the Godfather, chill.

>>742986090
So what you're saying is, you're too strapped for cash to pay 65 cents more a month because it isn't cost effective, using your language here. That's your point?

>>742981047
This

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>>742985858
Think about who's asking the question. He'll burn his house down and, even worse, end up with a shoe-leather steak that he ends up giving to his dog before he goes out and spends $10 on fast food.
>inb4 stop being a goddamn pussy and burn your fucking house down like a man

>>742986090
Also what I've been trying to say is, saving money isn't worth it when you're buying shit. It's about value vs. cost, not just cost which is what you're claiming this discussion always was. It wasn't. Economics is not less money, don't be simple.

>>742979919
buy a crock pot. tons of cheap and tasty things you can make, from beef roasts/stews, to chili, beans with sausage, etc.

buy a large skillet with a lid. now you can saute, brown ground beef, etc.

buy a large pot to boil noodles, because spasketti is a staple food.

small pot to boil eggs, heat sauces, etc.

>>742984041
Did you know canola oil is a portmanteau for Canadian Oil? It's a huge export from the prairie provinces

>>742986307
65 cents extra not just on that, but on all items deemed low quality adds up quite a bit

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>>742986785
I am aware. Did you know canola was genetically engineered as a way around the Canadian marketing boards? Farmers wanted a crop they weren't legally required to sell to a marketing board at a specific price, so they pooled their money and paid to have an entirely new plant created which they could sell for whatever the hell they wanted to sell it for.

>>742986485
I'm not saving money buying a more expensive product. That's all there is to it. I have a grocery budget that I prefer to stay under. I'd rather pay for my mortgage and keep my kid in private school than eat olive oil.

>>742986937
Isn't canola oil basically rapeseed oil? Or is it something else?