I have $20 to buy food for a week.Please \CK\ save my life.

>>8643505
Buy seeds and grow your own food ;)

>>8643505
>$20 to buy food for a week
So a perfectly normal food budget? What's the problem?

Peas and beans. Maybe your situation will improve but you won't die in a week

>>8643505

Soup kitchens and food pantries give you food, FOR FREE. An absurd amount of food for just one week, factually speaking.

I was thinking about getting my worst clothes and going around town for leftover bread.Will it work?

>>8643505
You only need $6 to buy 15 pounds of rice.

>>8643534
It doesn't taste good without a side dish.

>>8643505
Chicken thighs (either bone in or not) usually run about a dollar a pound. Bananas are cheap, as are most beans. Eggs can usually be found for around 1.50 a dozen. I would do this if I only had to deal with it for a week.

1 dozen eggs: 1.50
2 loafs store bread: 2.00
3 lbs Chicken: ~3-5.00
Peanut Butter: 3.00
Frozen Veggies: 3.00
Beans: 2.00
Cheap Pizza: Last few bucks

Cook 2 eggs and toast for breakfast each day, prepare beans in slow cooker and make peanut butter sandwich each day for lunch. Have chicken and frozen veggies for dinner. Should have plenty of calories there, just will be very boring unless you have spices available. Good luck, shouldn't be to hard to get by for just a week though

>>8643537
Sure, he can buy the side dish with the other $14 bucks.

5 pound of pork can last 7 days and will only cost like $10. The other $4 can buy 8 pounds of veggies.

>>8643505
20 McChickens
>20/7 = roughly 2 mcchickens per day
You're all set!

>>8643586
To add, I've been living on $2 a day of food + the occasional asian buffet for seafood.

>>8643505
Ok so let's say you have no other food around.

>dried beans, just soak it overnight before cooking. Pound for pound champ
>rice
>potatos
>onions
>get butter or milk for some dairy.
>some kind of other fruit or veggies. Carrots are cheap, maybe cabbage or prange. Just something on sale.

Get some salt at least, pepper too if you can. Spring for hot sauce if you got to. Don't shop at fucking Albertsons, go to a local market or something, it will be cheaper, guaranteed.

>>8643605
Also, check out the brothers green eats. One of them did a dollar a meal challenge. Could give you creative ideas to spice up just having rice, beans, and a veggie for every meal.

>>8643605
Forgot about potatoes, they are very versatile as well and also very cheap. You can get 5lb bags for 2 bucks most days. Make breakfast lunch and dinner with them as a side

>>8643632
>potatoes


Look at countries that adopt a nightshade based diet
Italy - Tomatoes - failing economy, corruption, their fall from grace started when they imported tomatoes from the new world, coincidence?
Russia and Ireland - Potatoes - alcoholism, violence, corruption, ireland was nearly destroyed thank to the potato
Do you ever notice how ARYAN white people cannot tolerate spicy food? Because peppers are a NIGHTSHADE vegetable, what do they recommend to cure the spicy food burn? MILK.
What countries drink milk?
Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the most successful countries on earth.
STOP eating nightshades and START drinking milk

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>>8643505

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>>8644041

>>8644041
Oh look, an idiot.

What diet do you think the Irish peasent thrived on before the famine? Oh, that's right - potatoes and milk.

>>8643505
Buy some potatoes, rice, and beans fuccboi.

>>8644051
Something's gotta keep this board movin'

*Rice 100%. That shit will last you forever.

*Potatoe bread, (especially if you already have meat, cheese, sauces) if not, get some cheap American cheese so you can have 1 grilled cheese with a side of rice or whatever.

Now you roughly have 10 - 13 bucks left. (depending on whether you go cheese or not, let's be optimistic and say you have cheese and sandwhich stuff as well as soy sauce or whatever you like on rice, 13 bucks left)

*Ramen cups 12.

roughly 3.50.
9 bucks left.

Milk & Cereal should do the trick. That will easily last you a week, if it is only 7 days that concerns you.

You can make a pot of jambalaya with sausage and rice plus peppers and onions for under $15 big enough to last a week. Or buy whatever meat is on soecial sale at the local market, plus some potatoes and peppers

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Can you cook?

if no:
-hot dogs
-bleached white buns
-cheapest canned stews/chef boyardee/chili/soups you can find. Rate by calories-price ratio (canned soups are often a ripoff)
-convenience store packets of condiments
-oatmeal (no flavored shit)
-bulk noodles and bottom shelf pasta sauce

if yes:
-cheap meat like chicken or pork, about 16-32 ounces that you can add to your fillers
-fillers like rice and or beans
-a couple onions
-a head of garlic
-salt and pepper and any spices you have (garlic powder, parsley, red pepper, bullion are all cheap and versatile)
-eggs
-oatmeal (no flavored shit you DONKEY)

make sure everything is off-brand. Sometimes produce is really cheap, bananas/apples/oranges/potatoes are often on sale. Sometimes bread and grains are really cheap, sometimes they are numale 12 grain hippie breads that cost 6 dollars a bag/box. Don't buy frozen meals or soda or condiments which you can get at gas stations for free.

Frozen veggie mix is usually pretty cheap and can be added to homemade soups, rice dishes, or into a casserole. A couple peppers can go a long way and jalapenos are like 25 cents each. You can boil some chicken/pork meat in a pot, add a half an onion, a pepper, some garlic, and use that on rice and tortillas. If you really like soups or stews, look for cheap packs of bullion cubes/paste; some of those are like 70 cents for 5 cubes. there is always bread and margarine spread. ground beef is kinda expensive but a good choice for chilli. pasta egg salad is dirt cheap, and with a can of tuna it's actually pretty good.

>>8643505
Canned food will get you through a week.

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Genuine question, /ck/.

What if 20$ a week is all you have indefinitely? Because that's my situation... but I don't want to eat like an uncultured pig and suffer from having clogged my body with unpleasant, high cholesterin food.

>>8643505
A pound of brown rice and a pound of black beans is like what, five bucks?

>>8645488
Buy lots of frozen veggies and rice, get cheap spices and shit from an asian grocer and reserve meat as a treat for the weekends. Tofu is also cheap and makes meals more filling, just marinade it in something the night before. Go shopping on Saturdays since produce gets discounted so they can avoid throwing it out over the weekend. Start baking bread, it's delicious and flour is dirt cheap. t.25$ a week

>>8645507
Thank you, I'll see what I can do!

>>8645513
Good luck anon. Also forgot to mention the stables of my poorfag diet: Chili and most kinds of stew are really cheap, delicious and will last you a few days/can be frozen easily

>>8644041
When did you find out you had autism?

>>8643505
Go to Applebees and do a 2/$20

>>8643518
I had to do that for a month once when I was a broke college kid trying to make it in the city. At first I was embarrassed to do it because I was a spoiled little piece of shit, but once I did it, I saw lots of people there, not just your stereotypical poor people.

>>8643506
thank you, this changes everything

Even if you ate frozen pizza twice a day, you would get by on $20 a week. Why is this even a thread?

There's a lot of good advice in this thread. While tofu and beans aren't my favorite foods, they definitely are good options.
I'd also add that if you don't mind the taste & texture, liver is a really good choice for a cheap meat.

>>8647251
You can get Tombstone pizzas at the Dollar Store.
20 pizzas for a week = 3 pizzas/day

Each pizza is 1200 calories.
You could literally gain weight on $20/week by eating those things.

>>8643505
20 dollars worth cereal and use big titty flatmates breast milk

>>8645507
the cost of running an oven for that long costs more than a loaf of bread at the store

>>8643505
$5 bag of frozen drumsticks(~13 r in 1)
bulk buy eggs the 30 carton(~$6, lasts a week)
get salad dressing(~$3) and lettuce(~$1 usually lasts me a week)
w.e else like 1gal milk or something

>>8643505
Banquet Homestyle Bakes

>>8644614
>or into a casserole
Flyovers get out

>>8647216
>At first I was embarrassed to do it because I was a spoiled little piece of shit

I'd say that's more about having self respect. I've been to a food bank before and it was depressing, old ladies kept trying to steal my vegetables.

>>8647760

not if your utilities are included in your rent :)

>>8643505

tonight's grocery haul
2x6 packs of sausage rolls
500g minced beef
2 packs chicken nuggets
1 pack frozen chips
2 litres milk
1 can beans
1 can peas
4 pack 7 inch pizzas
2 x bbq chicken breasts
2 jars white sauce
2 jars lasagne sauce
3 packs lasagne sheets
1 pack frozen chopped onion
3 bulbs garlic
4 pack scotch pies

total cost £17.60,
2 weeks worth of main meals

>Also interested in these threads
>always based in America, where food seems to be absurdly cheap

I'd like to see this pulled off at a Coles.

>>8647887
It's ridiculous. Compared to the UK, it seems like Americans have:
- cheaper food
- higher wages
- lower taxes
We're really getting screwed

dry beans, brown rice; and then carrots, broccoli, and spinach.

>>8643505
chicken and fucking rice faggot

chicken breast is $1/l. That's 10 days for 10 dollars.

>>8647954
Sounds like somebody young, healthy, and with no issues would say.
If you don't have a decent job, have a health issue, or don't have mommy and daddy to back you up then you're right snoggered.

>>8648038
So I'm subsidising the parasites. Wonderful, time to leave the country

>>8643505
Rice, Oats, Beans, eggs, Cheese,

And the cheapest Meat you can find.

Or learn to bake bread with flour and yeast.

Where do you guys find chicken that's a dollar a pound that isn't a whole chicken? Individual cuts are no cheaper than 2 dollars near me.

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>>8647866
ALDI or ASDA?

>>8643537
objectively wrong

kill yourself

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Ok guys i have to live off £10 a week for groceries. Uni student.
All i've been buying are bread, eggs, sausages, dry soups, noodles, frozen meals, frozen chicken breasts and frozen fries.

>>8648449
...I thought we couldn't go lower Han 20 bucks. Seems I guessed wrong.

How long until we have someone dropping by asking how to live off 5$ a week? 1$? Nothing?

>>8648506
not my fault my fucking roomates decide to scam me off over £2220 and not pay for the internet bills this entire year.
I have 2 months of uni and i fucking go back to my home, this year has been full of shit for me.
Just need help surviving and trying for these 2 months..

>>8647954
You do realize you live on an island, I hope. And it's not like Brexit is gonna make things any better.

>>8648118
Usually in bulk. Manager's specials/clearance.

>>8648118
Just cook a whole chicken

>>8643505
Eggs- 2$
Rice- 3$
Chicken- 5$
Potatoes- 3$
Frozen Veggies- 2$

use some leftover cash get an abundant snack for when you dont wanna cook

>>8648601
essentially you can use that bag of potatoes for snacks (french fries) as well if not an entire meal together as a potato skillet (fried potatoes with egg on top)

My cousin damn near lived off potatoes for a month cause reasons

>>8648601
Also ground beef and noodles with cheap tomato sauce can last you a week if made in mass

You could buy a 10lb sack of potatoes for less than $2 & 12 large eggs .69c right now in my area,just looks for sales and shit my dude

>>8644609
This. Probably will have enough left over to buy a baguette with too.

>>8644041
But milk seems to cause autism

>>8643505
Ramen lot's of it, that or cans

>>8643505
A bag of potatoes, a bag of dried beans, and a back of chicken thighs or whatever the cheapest per lb chicken you can find. Also see if your store has stuff on sale. For example there's a local Krogers here that you can get meat cheap as fuck on manager special or whatever. Like $.99 for a pound of Johnsonville ground italian sausage (not the pre-cooked crap). With whatever extras get a big ol' bag of frozen mixed veggies (I go for broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots)

>>8648891
*and a bag of chicken

>>8648449
Stop buying frozen meals. Just get potatoes, rice, and whatever meats and eggs you can find cheap. A 10lb bag of potatoes for example will last you a week or two. Also check out ethnic shops, they tend to sell stuff a good 10-20% cheaper than most chain shops.

>>8647858
I've worked in one of these and people steal often, it's pretty shit desu.

>>8643505
value BL/SL chicken breasts
taco seasoning
tortillas

>>8647830

>nitpicking one little thing to shit on

t. faggot cocksucking hoodrat

>>8648519
get revenge on them anon

>>8643537

Then you're not really hungry either. You don't what it's like living om a tight budget, wannabe poor person douchebag

>>8644078
Pearl jam sucks.

>>8643505
Buy 12$ in frozen veggies, bag of rice, bag of beans, rest in meat.

>>8647760
If it's a gas oven it cost literally cents. An electric oven would cost at most 40-50cents (unlikely).

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>>8647954
We also have bigger houses, and more freedom.

>>8647282

When you die of malnutrition after a month you'll lose weight though

>>8644041
Speaking as a danish person, you have no fucking idea how many potatoes we eat.

>>8643505
Are you only recently poor?

I grew up poor and I make less than 25k a year in an East coast city. 20 bucks for food wouldn't present me with any sort of challenge requiring advice.

Here's your cart:
Brown rice and/or potatoes
Beans/peas/lentils
Whatever the cheapest green vegetable your grocery has (usually kale or collards)
Bananas
Carrots
Your primary source of animal protein should be eggs and butter, anything else is inefficient and less versatile.

Use the leftover 3 bucks to buy new condiments/spices.

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>>8649331
big houses but ruined cities

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>>8649515
That's because they all moved to suburbia.

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>>8649331
The American obsession with having a big house as a status symbol is disgusting.

>>8649324
electric oven costs roughly $0.50/hr using a low figure of $0.10 USD per kilowatt hour

>>8649521
It's not a status symbol, they are very comfy. Plus they are not that expensive, $200,000 or so.

>>8649530
You're also stuck living in the middle of nowhere so you have to drive 20+ minutes in order to do anything.

>>8649521
>status symbol

houses are dwellings, why the hell would you settle for a cuckshed apartment?

>>8649627
Because I'd rather walk 5 minutes to buy groceries or booze than get in my car, drive 20 minutes, park, walk 5 minutes to the store, walk 5 minutes back to my car, drive another 20 minutes to the next store, repeat, then get home and find a letter from the HOA telling me that my curtains are the wrong color and I'll be fined for not letting some bored elderly asshole dictate the how I decorate the inside of a home that I ostensibly (but, apparently, not actually) own

>>8649650
you are a confirmed cuck then

>>8649699
I pour bacon grease down the drain without a moment's hesitation. You get bullied by retirees over the kind of vegetation you're "allowed" to have in your front yard and what color cloth to hang in your window.

Enjoy all those conveniences in your "autonomous independent self-reliant castle", I'll enjoy being the cuck I am.

>>8649710
My complex started fining people for leaving trashbags outside their doors at night before taking them out un the morning. We started moving our trash between me and my neighbor so they don't know who to fine.

>>8643505
Post the coupon and weekly specials of the local grocery stores and we will tell you. stick with those for the best bang for your buck. In wisconny we got green beans and shrooms and blueberries on the dollar day sales.

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>>8648899
Yeah i guess frozen meals are bad since they're like £2 each. I do like the idea of potatoes over the frozen fries, a bag lasted me for weeks compared to a bag of frozen ones and i can add small amount of olive oil instead of whatever's in the pre made thing.
My roomates practically dont let me use the kitchen either even if i paid more than my fair share of the rent and all the other bullshit my roomates are doing. I just had to resort on frozen stuff because of that, till then i cook things in the oven or frying pan or microwave.

>>8648931
They bully me and shit even if i paid for this expensive apartment, my roomates bf freelos this place, the rent includes all bills except for internet 6 months each, they refuse to pay the rent as 3 people and make me pay 50% while they pay 25% each. The agency wont do anything and because of this issue i have with them taking my £2800 + risking my £800 deposit and me going to court because of an extra tennant living in the house. They're not even paying for the only bill we have to pay, the internet. Now im having to eat off £10 a month, save me from this hell, get me a lawyer, fuck my life..

>>8644041
>Do you ever notice how ARYAN white people cannot tolerate spicy food?
apparently me and many others aren't white

>>>/pol/

>>8649710
>>8649650
I feel you.

I'd rather live in the city, but all the affordable places are full of black people.

>>8649710
>you get bullied by the elderly --- I-I get to treat someone else's property with total disregard while paying them 1/3 of my wages.

You can't drive, how do you think it's a 5 minute walk to the store from a parking lot. come on man you're talking out of your ass, apartment life is for suckers or hipsters and that's the bottom line.

>At least I don't have to upkeep my yard or have property

ok ok you got me

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>>8650519

Where I lived back when I had a car:

5 minutes to get to the feeder road
5 minutes on the sub-arterial road
5 minutes to get onto the arterial road
10 minutes to get to the turnoff for the shopping center
5 minutes to get from the turnoff to the appropriate parking lot sub-section
2 minutes to park
2 minutes to walk from car to door
repeat, in reverse

The whole point of suburban "planning" is to segregate different types of land use (retail, industrial, residential, etc) as much as physically possible. The grocery store may be physically a mile away, but it requires four miles of driving and a GPS to actually get there.

This is mainly to cater to nervous nellies who would get frightened if they saw the cashier from the area supermarket anywhere near their home, so elabroate systems of artificially convoluted traffic patterns are built into the system to make accidental interactions between different socioeconomic classes as unlikely as possible. Having to waste time navigating collector roads is seen as a worthwhile tradeoff by these same nervous nellies, who likely don't dare even set foot outdoors without a personal firearm concealed inside their rolls of fat.

Which is fine, I guess, if you live your life gripped in fear of the boogyman, but when I visit those areas now I'm blown away with how artificial it all seems.

So you are correct. I don't drive. Not anymore. Still keep my license renewed but I haven't owned a car in a long time.

>>8650593
the grocery clerk is the boogyman in this scenario is it?

is this marxist GPS circa 1950 urban planning theory original or did you read it somewhere else?

>>8649521
>this is the future jews want

>>8644041
this is what i come on 4chan to see, thanks

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>>8650666
Yes I, a random 4channer, invented New Urbanism, I'm actually the re-animated corpse of Jane Jacobs

store brand frozen pizzas

>>8644041
>Scandinavia, the Netherlands,
All countries that eat shitloads of potatoes, too. Especially the netherlands; we have a whole category of foods based around things mixed in with mashed potatoes.

>>8650593
Too true. In my area the roads leading to the front parking lots of major shopping centers are named in English, and the roads to the delivery/employee lots are often named in spanish.

>>8650593
I have aunts and uncles that live in purposefully convoluted planned neighborhoods that buses don't even go close to, kind of developed a similar theory to you, it makes it super inconvenient for nig-nogs to get anywhere near your home.

personally I live downtown and somehow my building doesn't have niggly nogglers and I'm pretty happy being able to walk 3 blocks to the grocery store although I have to tell 12 homeless people to fuck off on the way

Dried beans
Dried rice
Some veg and chix thighs.

Stay golden pony boy.

>>8645488
Have porridge for breakfast because oats are cheap. For meat buy mainly mince, potato leek and onion can make a nice soup. Don't buy branded stuff either. If you can afford it buy milk or you will never grow up to be a big boy.

If you live in the suburbs you can get rabbit for free

>>8643591
>20/7 = """ roughly""" two

Jesus fucking Christ Almighty. I can't tell what's bait and what's genuine idiocy anymore.

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>>8643505
rice, eggs and instant miso soup.

>inb4 weeb

>>8644041
>Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the most successful countries on earth.
Dutchfag here.

>>8650748
This.

The average person in the Netherlands eat a fucking shitload of potatoes and potato-based foods.

Fuck,this board is really slow this shit is still open.I just bought some rice and chicken to do a risotto.

>>8653871
then do a risotto motherfucker

you wont go hungry dont worry just plan your meals and portions and relax.

>>8653896
Yea i'm also trying to finish things that might go bad if i left them a few more days on the fridge.

>>8653907
then you have food! fucking hell.. eat whats in the fridge first; are you a baby? take care of yourself!

>>8653920
It was almost nothing i already finished it.

>>8653965
okay... I love you.

>>8653999
I love you too anon,good night.

>>8654006
fuck you hope you die

aw nevermind,, good night <3

>>8654006
Sweet dreams, OP.

>>8654006
Sweet dreams, OP.

>>8654009
Good night to you too anon,i hope you sleep well and have a great day tomorrow.

>>8651891
you wouldn't be so negative if you ate 2 mcchickens a day

>>8654134
lol you're funny

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>>8643613

Man I just went out and spent 30 bucks for the fucking month and probably more. How is 20 bucks a week not a goddamn ton for one person? Genuinely confused.

>>8643509
>tfw have $50-$100
be back later, gotta check my priviledge.