How to eat for cheap?

bs that's not $29

>>8690550
Depends on where you're shopping. At Whole Foods, the food items pictured would run you into the hundreds of dollars.

>>8690536

First off, don't eat out. Eating out is expensive. you can have several meals for the cost of eating out. The more you cook from scratch rather than using box mixes or prepared products the cheaper things will get. Also learn to reduce waste.

Here's a great example how to feed yourself cheap. Go buy a whole chicken (about $5), a pound of pasta ($1), and some basic veggies (carrots, celery, onion). That's another $1 or $2 max. For that $8 you can make several meals:
-roast the chicken in the oven. You get four servings (2 legs, 2 breasts).
-pick the remaining meat off the carcass and use to make sandwiches
-toss the skeleton in a pot, add water, your pasta, and the veggies and now you have several servings of chicken soup.

As for beans and rice, that can be super tasty, you just have to learn how to cook it. Add some aromatic veggies and a ham bone when you cook your beans. Cook them with stock instead of water. That's fuckwin delicious and very cheap.

For a great example regarding beans, take a look at >>8690213. That cost me less than $12 to make and it made well over 12 servings. And you can see that it clearly isn't going to taste like cardboard.

>>8690560
What country do you live in where you can get a whole chicken for $5 and a pound of pasta for $1? Where I live, $5 will get me a couple breasts, and that's it.

i like to live frugally

i buy produce in season and can it at home
buy grains, nuts, carrots, potatoes, onions etc. in bulk
as little processed/prepared food as possible
buy shit on sale
don't buy too much shit that can go bad before you eat it
invest in quality instruments and appliances that can help save money in the long run. having the right tools for the job can be the difference between enjoying preparing food and having it be a chore.

>>8690567
An increasing number of grocery stores are selling pre-roasted rotisserie chickens for less than what the raw chicken costs as a loss leader.

I could buy so many meals for 30 dollars, I have no idea what this cunt is talking about. Buy canned and frozen food if you're poor.

Also fucking get a job, if you can't get more than 30 dollars a week you're not working hard enough.

>>8690567
US. Texas specifically.

Breasts are the most expensive part of the chicken. If you're concerned about money then don't buy breasts. Legs are cheaper. Whole chickens are cheaper still. In my local supermarkets the breast meat costs anywhere from $2.50 to $3.50lb. Whole chickens vary between $0.79 and $1.00/lb. Remember: the more work the store does for you (cutting out bones, skin, etc.) the more you pay. If you're tight on cash then buying breasts is the last thing you want to do. Buy the cheap family packs of drumsticks instead.

I'll admit that the $1/lb pasta is the cheap store brand stuff, and I would much rather splurge for the $1.50 to $2/lb name brand stuff, but it's possible to get the cheap stuff for $1/lb.

>>8690572
Good advice here.

Buy the constituent components of food, arrange them in such a fashion that they are combined into food.

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>>8690536
>7 limes
>S E V E N

I used to stretch money by making soup in large batches and freezing it. Large bags of flash-frozen vegetables are pretty cheap and if you're using them for soup it's not like their being previously frozen is an issue. You can make stock for cheap with some onion, carrots, celery, garlic, some herbs and the leftovers from a $5 rotisserie chicken. Once you make it you can ladel it into bags, freeze it, and ration out over a week or two. It's like a week's+ worth of lunches for about $15.

>>8690567
I'm in a higher cost of living state and can get a whole chicken for 5$. Chicken breasts are more expensive because there's more work involved in processing them and it's an easy money grab

Shit, I'd have cut back to eating 6 pounds of chicken leg quarters a day in order to only spend $200 a month on food.

How am I supposed to hit my macros when I can only afford 104.16 pounds of steel cut oats a month.

I can't even imagine trying to live on only 133 cartons of eggs, a paltry 1596 eggs a month.

Something something dead lift 200 fucking pounds of broccoli into your car.

>>8690536
I don't get it, is she blasting SNAP? Cause that looks like a solid amount of decent food for less than thirty bucks.

It must be hard for a celebrity/wealthy person to understand that you can actually eat fairly well on less than ten bucks a day (in many places)

>>8690536

> $29 a week

That's a single hobos food allowance.

I have 2 kids and get $1,000+ a month on SNAP, New York.

No, I'm not a nigger.

>>8690661

Yep. And she seems to be completely missing the point of "SNAP". The "S" in snap means "Supplemental". So no, that's not "all the food" one is supposed to eat in a week. It's what the gov't is giving as a SUPPLEMENT. It's not meant to cover 100% of a person's needs.

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>>8690536
I have a food budget of 100-150 Euros and I make do just fine. I keep a spreadsheet to get a clear overview of what I'm spending my money on each month, picture related for the last few months.

It's really fucking easy. All those "just buy lots of rice and beans" memes are nonsense unless your budget is ridiculously low. The simplest rule is simply don't buy shit you know is expensive. For example, good meat can be pretty expensive, but you can get a bag of chicken legs or ground beef or whatever for next to nothing. So just don't eat prime steak every day. Fish and meat make up the biggest part of my monthly expenses (22% on average) because I like a good bit of fish or meat now and then, but I don't eat meat every day and often I eat cheap chicken or pork. I also have a good freezer so I can buy lots of cheap shit and freeze it for later. A standard meat/2veg/potatoes dinner doesn't really take more than a few euros a day. A halfway decent loaf of bread is like 1.50E and lasts for a week. A big pot of vegetable soup costs almost nothing either and can last for a long time as well, especially if you freeze part of it. The same goes for shit like chili. Like once every two months I just make a big fucking pot of chili, eat from it for two days and freeze the rest.

I really don't get how someone can spend hundreds of dollars a month and not see any room to cut costs. Even on my 150 Euro budget I see plenty of room to cut cost, I could live on half my budget easily if I had to.

>>8690536
well, today's the 15th of the month, so we're halfway through and i pay nearly everything on plastic, so i can give exact numbers of what i've purchased on food, both at home and eating out. keep in mind i have a fully stocked pantry and this included a nice splurge (dry aged steak last week):

$93

ate out three times, just bought some groceries. outside of perishables like milk, bread and such, i could not actually spend a cent on food again this month. shit, i've got boxes of pasta, lots of canned beans and vegetables (mostly peas and corn tho), and enough tuna, eggs and the like so that i could probably go the next 16 days without going to get groceries or eat out if i had to.

current purchase from the local supermarket:
2 lb bag brown rice
bunch leeks
two 1/2 gallons orange juice
12 eggs
loaf bread
1 red bell pepper
1 red bell pepper
1/2 lb ham
3 slices swiss cheese
2 bottles lemonade
1.5 lb chicken thigh
turmeric
500ml bottle olive oil

$26

>>8690739
Apart from just buying cheap stuff and being clever about stretching your resources as much as possible (a good example already mentioned is buying a whole chicken and using every part, and people here can post plenty of good dishes that don't cost much to make), I've found that an important way to save money is to think about the way you approach your shopping.

For example, when I was younger I usually went shopping every day (partially because I lived very close to a good grocery store, partially because it was an excuse to get out of the house), and only bought what I would need until the end of the next day (when I would go shopping again). Needless to say, this is horribly inefficient, so I don't do that anymore. Another tip is to make a list of shit you need before you go shopping, and then buy only that. When you find you need something, just add it to the list and buy it the next time you go shopping. Whatever it is, it can usually wait. If you just go to the store and buy whatever you feel like buying at that moment, you'll not only end up buying shit you don't need, but the chance that you'll forget something and have to go back for it later increases as well.

Also, this might seem like a contradiction but it's really important: Don't buy shit just because it's cheap or on sale. Yes, it's good to spend less money. If it's something that's on your list and it's on sale, good for you. But cheap shit you don't need is still shit you don't need, and thus a waste of money. The only exception is stuff that keeps very well, like anything you can freeze (a large, decent quality freezer is a big investment when you're on a tight budget, but it's 100% worth it in the long run) or anything that's canned. But even then, spending extra money now for stuff you might want later is rarely the best decision.

>>8690567
bongistan, where just about everywhere in the country has prices like this.

i just googled supermarket circular for 5 random states and got the following:

>ohio - marsh supermarkets drumsticks/thighs $0.98/lb
>washington - safeway boneless breasts/thigh 1.68/lb
>alabama - publix bo/go barilla pasta at $2/box
>new jersey - shoprite thighs 0.99
>arizona - fry's leg quarters 0.99

>50lbs bag of rice
>32.99$ at local asian mart
>29550 calories

>1lbs minced garlic
>3.74$ at local grocery store
>648 calories

>25lbs pinto beans
>.91$ per lbs at local grocery store
>39700 calories

>10lbs rolled oats
>1.10$ per lbs at local grocery store
>17650 calories

>20lbs bone in chicken thighs
>1.37$ per lbsat local grocery store
>16120 calories

>20lbs onions
>.81$ per lbs at local grocery store
>3620 calories

>20lbs frozen vegetables
>1.22$ per lbs at local grocery store
>4440

>Price total:
138.48$

>Calorie Total:
111728

This will last you more than a month. A single adult only needs to eat 60k calories a month, this is already almost double that. Buy eggs, spices, dairy, and fresh fruit with the rest till you hit 200.

>>8690536

>on a budget
>buying lettuce, avocados, tortillas, cilantro, seven lime, fresh corn, tomatoes, and kale

>>8690567
Shit I live in california and I can get a chicken for that cheap.

$2.19 - 5lb russet potatoes
$2.29 - 5lb bag of long-grain enriched rice
$0.78 - 12 Large Eggs
$1.90 - 3lb of "chicken breast chunks" (just chicken breasts that were too small to sell whole, so they cut them up and sell them for super cheap)
$4.53 - Four bags of frozen mixed veggies
$1.89 - 2 cup bag of shredded tillamook sharp cheddar
$1.78 - Jar of spaghetti sauce
$1.19 - 1lb of angel hair pasta
$3.18 - 1/2lb 80/20 ground beef for MEATABALL
$0.00 - Breadcrumbs I already had at home

~$20
Plus spices and I'll probably get some sandwich stuff later in the week. Sunday I'll be picking up some discount beef and fresh carrots/etc and making a stew with any potatoes I have left over.

>>8690536
Buy shit that's on sale. You don't have to write-off steak, just wait until it's a good price. Most places here cut it by like 40% the day before it expires. Have a few cheap staples, like pasta, rice + any meat, whatever you like. Just avoid the $3/lbs apples in favor of the $.49/lbs ones.

>>8690856
100 pounds of seed oats will only cost you about ten dollars at a elevator. Barley will cost you a bit more. Potatoes (if a local elevator has a warehouse for them) can be bought very cheap as well. There are much better options than grocery rice for dollar per kcal.

>>8690559
if you shop at whole foods with stamps you deserve to starve

>>8690572
really good advice right here. and don't underestimate the importance of tools. A sharp knife will make food prep easier, quicker, and overall much more enjoyable. Onions are actually fun to chop I find and no tears.

>>8690536
>29 a week
$116 / month? Doubtful. I got 190 a month by myself when I ran into some tough times.

>>8690910
>$0.00
>something I already had at home
NIGGA YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS

>>8690567
Because breasts cost more than a frozen whole chick retard. Whole chicken sells for $1/lb.

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>>8690910
>$1.90 for three pounds of chicken

>>8690969
/devilish/

>>8690972
Ask your butcher about it sometime. Or if you have a winco, they should stock them.
Seriously, they get breasts that can't be shelved because they're too small, and they have to recoup that loss somehow.

>>8690857
how dare they eat healthy!

>>8690567
$5 is fairly expensive here in Bong

https://groceries.asda.com/shelf/chicken/whole-chickens/910000976537

>>8690910
>shredded cheese covered in powdery preservative
>jar of spaghetti sauce
Paying extra for something inferior is the opposite of what this thread is about.

>>8690977
You think selling chicken at base price recoups those losses? You are fucking delusional. Send me a picture of chicken for <$.60 a pound

>>8690984
>converts to funny E symbol 1.13 per lb
About the same as US prices.

>>8690989
shredded cheese is way cheaper than real cheese wedges brospeh. the sauce doesn't get a pass though.

>>8691001
I pretty much just do 1:1 these days. Keeping track of the daily exchange rate is too much effort.

>>8690567
A better question is where the fuck do you live that a pound of pasta is more than $1?

>>8691010
He's probably thinking of namebrand like Barilla or something. Store brand shit is easily less than a dollar.

>>8690536
I spend about 50 a week on food, and could definitely cut back if I wanted to. If you're spending 100 a week I wonder what exactly you're buying. Don't buy premade foods. Those are obviously the most expensive. Other than that apply normal strategies: buy things that can be used for multiple meals throughout the week (bread, pb, oats, carrots, onions, etc), buy things that don't go bad quickly, don't buy things that are expensive (eg don't buy fruit that costs more than $1.50 a pound), and keep a running tally in your head of the total cost as you shop. Just always be thinking about and looking at prices.

Also, yes, eat more rice and beans. They're good for you.

>>8690536
if you only had $29 to live on, why the fuck would you buy that?

>>8690910
>2.29 - 5lb bag of long-grain enriched rice
where the fuck you shopping

>>8690560
is it just me, or does anyone else cringe when the word "veggies" is used. That said, good post provided OP is poor as suggested.

>>8690536
>which I typically eat out

are you fucking joking?

kill yourself you sjw commie scum

>>8690536
>I constantly get told by people on other boards that they live off just $100-200 per month on their food allowance.
Yes. I lived off 100/m before.

> I live along and I can easily spend $100 in just one grocery store trip, and that doesn't include lunches, which I typically eat out. So how the fuck do you do it?
You buy cheaper food. Eggs, potatoes, chicken, rice, beans. You don't eat like you're rich when you aren't. Steak is for tax payers.

>>8690856
I wish i could eat like you do. I need to make something different every day and I hate freezing meals. The way I see it, what's the point in living and earning money if you eat the same shit all the time?

>>8691039
>where the fuck you shopping
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Long-Grain-Enriched-Rice-20-Lb/10315883
Walmart?

>>8690536
>seven limes

I bet she had fun arranging this though

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>>8690627

calls unripe lemons "limes"
what a pill

>>8691073
>People erroneously think that limes are unripe lemons because when limes are picked they are fully grown and green in color, but limes left on a tree to the point of being fully ripened would be yellow.
Well congratulations. You're one of those people.

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>>8690560
>-toss the skeleton in a pot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTgFtxHhCQ0

>>8691005
I don't believe that shredded cheese is cheaper pound for pound than regular cheese in the US, minus the weight of the preservatives, anti-caking agent etc. Got a screenshot for proof?

>>8691073
You're not allowed to be this stupid

>>8691103
Couldn't get an online price for blocks of cheddar on walmart, but Sam's club they're about the same, block being slightly more expensive.


https://www.samsclub.com/sams/bakers-chefs-shredded-cheddar-cheese-5-lbs/110367.ip?xid=plp:product:1:1
https://www.samsclub.com/sams/bakers-chefs-mild-cheddar-cheese-5-lbs/110369.ip?xid=plp:product:1:3

>>8691103
That's absolutely true.

I can't be bothered to take screenshots, but I will post links so you can check yourself.

My local supermarket chain is HEB.

Shredded cheddar, Kraft brand. $2.50 for 8 oz, or $5/lb.
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/kraft-natural-sharp-cheddar-shredded-cheese/584743

A mid-grade block Cheddar. $13.00/lb
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/wexford-mature-green-wax-cheddar-cheese-sold-by-the/1770281

Shredded cheese is nearly always the cheapest shit you can buy. It's barely worthy of the name "cheese". You'd be hard pressed to find a really good cheese for less than about $15/lb.

>>8691118
block slightly less expensive, sorry.

>>8690700
Exactly. I've worked with families in need and have had to explain what the "S" in SNAP stands for... it's like either they just don't get it, or they genuinely believe it's Uncle Sam's job to pick up the whole bill (instead of just helping out, "supplementally"). Ignorance of the system on the part of those in need and those advocating for the needy really doesn't help.

>>8691127
Yeah I used pretty much fake cheese in my example, but like I originally said:

Real cheese wedges are crazy expensive in comparison. This processed crap is super cheap and shredded vs. processed block is the same.

Its easy to eat cheap ur just a faggot

>>8691127
So by "shredded cheese" you mean a different kind of lower quality cheese as opposed to the more expensive brands, because I just looked on that same website and saw the same brand of cheese go cheaper by the block than shredded in several cases.

>>8691146
Not him but those cheap blocks aren't real cheese either. It's the same shit as shredded cheese, but not shredded.

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The only people who complain about grocery store prices are people too fucking lazy to cook.

Every fucking day at work people snidely comment on my leftover portion of $6.00/lb steak as they drive to fucking Chik-fil-a and spend $9.95 getting a quarter pound chicken sandwich, a single potato's quantity of fries, and a nice tall paper cup of sugar water.

>>8691146
>So by "shredded cheese" you mean a different kind of lower quality cheese

Pretty much. "shredded cheese" is only found from low-teir brands. You will never find a quality brand of cheese that's pre-shredded. If it comes shredded you can be assured it's crap.

>>8691153
This.

>>8690980
not him but
>seven fucking limes but only a single avocado, corncob, yam, or tomato
>littleass pack of pre-made tortillas when you can make your own for cheap
depending on tastes the rest is fine but there's some choice money-saving decisions that were not made here

i spent $100 and that was for 1-2 weeks worth of 3 square meals

don't buy prepackaged anything. a bag of doritos or oreos or something to keep you sane, if you must, but a majority of your purchase must be something that you cook, with minimal or concerted effort, and turn into more than one meals worth of food

right now a meal consists of 1/4 protein 1/4 veggie 1/2 rice or potato

i am trying to shift the ratio to 1/2 veggie for health reasons, i don't get enough veggies i bet

things like jalapenos, soy sauce and bacon can help you vary your meals up. it really does help break up a large batch of food that can get monotonous if you ate it the same way night after night...

example: pasta with onions and peppers. easy as anything to cook, and a solid base.

first night, i put tomato sauce and sausage with it. italian! second night, citrus-y grilled chicken. fancy! third night, i cooked the noodles in some soy sauce and ate it with salmon. asian! i got 3 nights worth of meals from a little bit of effort each night, and it was never the same thing!

>>8691275
Well limes are pretty fucking cheap. Tomatoes and avocados aren't. Not sure about yams.

Yeah you could make your own tortillas, but that's a stretch. Her big flaw was cilantro. I don't think this woman is on a budget tho, just making some social media presence.

Fuckin roommate just came over to me, bitching about how he only has $60 for the next two weeks and how hard and awful it's gonna be.
My average food bill is $20/week.
He bought enough ramen to feed a fucking army, and seems to plan on storing it on our very limited counterspace.
The same roommate who 'does the dishes', that is, drips soap on them, rinses it off, and calls them clean even when visible food particles are still stuck to them, then stacks them like fucking jenga in the drying rack so they all accumulate nasty little pools of water.
He's 27, and going to grad school at an ivy league in two months. How the fuck does this happen?

Any advice for people that live in barracks with access to a fridge, freezer, and microwave only? Using a hotplate or anything other than the microwave will set off the fire alarm

>>8690536

1. Choose where you shop carefully

2. Go for store brand instead of expensive big-name brands - the difference in quality can be marginal at best, quite noticeable at worst but still perfectly bearable unless you're a faggot wuss.

3. Reduce the number of times you eat out for meals. Bring packed lunches.

4. Stop being such a little princess who must have X, Y, and Z in their life. Learn to live without or vastly reduce consumption of. Learn what the meaning of 'treat' is and use it sparingly.

5. Use cash instead of credit/debit card. Forces you to think more.

6. Buy foods in bulk where you get a better price/weight deal.

7. Make meals in bulk and freeze/fridge the rest as portions to consume over the week/month.

>>8691052
>I need to

No you don't.

Suck it up and learn deal with less variation. It's not going to kill you.

>>8691275
Limes are like 7 for $1.

>>8691378
Because intelligence doesn't equate to being able to take care of yourself. Also, being good at school doesn't equate intelligence.

>>8691378
>How the fuck does this happen?
Came from a home where mommy did everything and he never learned how to take care of himself. Not shocked he's in ivy school, that's probably thanks to daddy, too.

>>8691378
It's a matter of priorities. He doesn't have much interest in learning about these things or investing much effort towards it. Whereas he probably works hard at school and doing research because he's motivated to do that. So various important things take the backseat, like feeding oneself efficiently.

Different strokes for different folks.

>>8691488
What is that, envy? Why so much anger?

Someone might have already said this but go to a Costco and get frozen meats and frozen vegetables to suppliment fresh things bought at the supermarket. Someone you know must have a Costco membership.

>>8691514
because living with someone who wont do the chores he is supposed to sucks

>>8691488
The only people I know who can actually take care of themselves were raised by single parents.

>>8690575
Kill yourself you stupid cunt. This is a cooking board not /pol/

>>8690536

That pic.
Feminists probably question themselves when they see shit like this.

>>8691514
>facts are anger
Okay bud.

>>8691574
Pretty much.

>>8691585
What?

>>8690560
this is a very smart man

Sardines and saltines are great

>>8690550
>dozen eggs: $1.50
>pound of black beans: $2
>bag of frozen peas: $1
>bag of brown rice: $3
>pack of tortillas: $2
>spring onions: $1
>onion: $1
>cilantro: $.50
>garlic: $.50
>8 limes: $4
>both lettuce: $2
>avocado: $1
>sweet potato: $.50
>tomato and jalapeno negligible cost
I come up to about $20 and that's before tax, and at absolute minimum costs in small towns like where I live. Most people on food stamps live in the inner city where there isn't a Kroger or Walmart, and they have to shop at higher-priced stores.

Most supermarkets I know have sections where they have meat that's about too old to sell and thus gets marked down

Buying that way is great

Getting a roast for cheap can be cut down into smaller pieces, and probably cheaper than the equivalent weight of prepared stew meat chunks

Take about a pound of stew sized beef or whatever meat you have (chicken works fine too) and heat up a pot. Dump the meat in and let it brown, seasoned with whatever you got-I like paprika and chili powder best-, then pour in water just to cover and let simmer on relatively low heat for a couple of hours. During last hour or less of cooking, throw in rice, lentils, potato, or whatever fucking veggies you care for.

Potatoes, most veggies, and especially dry rice and lentils are cheap as hell. The meat should be reasonable if you look for deals, and spices are an investment but usually last a while.

Alternatively, buy tortillas and shredded cheese, fry small chunks of meat in a pan, then roll up the meat, cheese, and whatever else you care for and leave on the heat for a bit to crisp up the tortilla and melt the cheese

Hell, even for a good fucking dessert you just need a premade pie crust, a jar of molasses, cinnamon, sugar, and flour

3/4 a cup of molasses mixed with a cup of hot water and 1/4 to 1/2 a cup of flour and some lashes of cinnamon and a quarter cup of sugar

Pour that shit into the crust and sprinkle maybe another half cup of flour and cinnamon (maybe with some butter cut in) over the top. Only do this if you want something slightly more simple to cut the flavor of the molasses and bake at 350 F for 25+ minutes until the molasses mix has firmed up enough to stick in a utensil and have come out clean

Molasses pie is actually so goddamn easy I've almost become addicted to the shit

>>8690677
you are just a white one anon

>>8691052
there is a variety of meals that could be made from those ingredients. get some peanut butter to make sweet oatmeal and spicy curry

>>8691275
yea, make your own food blablabla. nobody makes their own fucking tortillas, thats outside the realm of responsible sustenance. sure, have corn meal/flour on hand, you always should, but dont pretend like you expect even penny pinching individuals with culinary inclinations to give even part of enough Fuck to make their own tortillas

The $100-$200 per month doesn't include alcohol, dum dum.

>>8691821
I spend that in a work week.

>>8691405
Usually pay 39 cent per lime where I am, and I'm barely 90 miles from the mexico border. Where the fuck are you getting >15 cent limes, excluding keys?

>>8690536
Buy a lot of cheap unprocessed food.
Cook.
Learn to cook well.
Don't eat out more than once or twice a week.
Don't go ham when you eat out.

You're fucking welcome.

>>8690972
buy shit on sale at the poor person supermarket. I once got 10lbs of chicken legs at 39 per pound.

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>>8690980
That food won't last. There are other more hearty healthy things to eat.
>>8691005
Cheese blocks are a little cheaper than shredded at walmart if you buy 32 oz. I'll have to go to the store to see if what I buy is cheaper than 5lbs of shredded. I suspect it isn't, but There is a poor persons market that sells a huge block of cheese for like $11. It's like 5bs I think. Walmart should have a similar block for that price, but the cheese is really only good for melting. It's shit for basically everything else. Actual cheese isn't cheap so if you buy it plan around it.

>>8691769
>8 limes: $4

They are 4 for $1 here. I don't think she made the worst decisions. Could have been better, but definitely not the worst.

>>8690536
Fucking cunt! Not only is that not $29.00 worth of food, but stop complaining about people receiving and extra $116.00 a month.

You know how much food I can buy with SNAP? Nothing, because I'm not a fucking idiot and can keep a job for more than a month. Also I didn't shit out a bunch of kids when I wasn't financially ready. Fuck anyone on food stamps you fucking leeches.

>>8690536

The key to eating well for less is to buy as much as possible in bulk, and cook from scratch.

Look at getting your proteins from large roasts, and buy whole chickens and turkeys. Chicken thighs are cheap as fuck, though, and damn tasty. Pork is delicious, and cheaper than beef.

A pork butt roast costs around 10-14 bucks, and you can get like 10 servings from one, or more.

A whole chicken costs about 5-7 bucks, and is usually good for about 4 servings.

Chicken thighs run about 4-7 bucks for like 10 thighs or some shit.

Buy flour in 25 pound bags for bread and pasta.

Buy rice in 25 pound bags at a based gooker store if you have to, and if you can't afford fresh veggies, get frozen.

Fresh produce is expensive, and that's what I run through the most, because I can, and I don't want frozen, but do what you need to do....

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>>8690964
Sharp knives not only make prepping easier, but a fuck ton safer too. Has a knife ever slipped off of what your were chopping and land/almost land on your fingers? I hate cooking at family reunions because their knives are so dull it feels unsafe to cut with them.

>>8690536
cut coupons nigger

buy what's on sale

buy store brand

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>>8690536

Nigga, I live off $100 for food, rent, utilities. Where I am at, I eat out once a day to boot. If I were back in Commiefornia I'd still be able to do $1-2/day food.

Flour
Rice
Beans
Lentils
Potato
Vegetable Oil
Sweet Potato
Oats

You can live on sub $1/day with those.

Chicken
Pork
Beef
Eggs
Vegetables

Eat meat in moderation. Eggs and vegetables as desired. Bumps up food costs to $1-$3/day. Use spices and cooking ability to make everything taste good and varied.

Just eat fuckng buckwheat.

>>8692250
Where the fuck you at where your rent is that far below 100 bucks

Do you live with your family and pay for room and board?

Are you even in the States?

>>8690536
Autism is now eligible for $20 a month in food stamps. Previous value was $160, 2 years ago.

But basically we starve, beg and go to church if we're disabled.

>>8690574
$7.90 AUD ($6.09USD) for a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken in Australia.

I bought one the other day and planned to turn pull it apart for sandwich meat. Got drunk and stood there at the kitchen bench dismantling it and eating chicken as I went. Ended up with one breast left over and ate the rest right there.

>>8691769
>8 limes: $4
kek wtf

Are you retarded? Limes are like 30 cents each tops.

Cilantro is way more than 50 cents. Tomato is another 40 cents. You don't know your shit.

>>8690536
get a large cheap cut of meat, cook it however you like (i really like crock pot meat), put the leftovers in the freezer, buy cheap rice/pasta in bulk and cook that, buy a few spices that you really like (although just a little salt can go a long way) make a few different large meals so you don't get sick of just eating the same thing every night, try to avoid eating out a lot but when you do, get a big meal and take the leftovers home.

>>8691010
Lol I can regularly get storebrand shit for 3-4 lbs a dollar in Boston/Allston

>>8690559
So? If you're on a tight budget, don't shop at the most overpriced store on the planet.

If I offer to sell you three magic beans for $100, would you buy them?

>>8692578
I don't have $100.

Would you perhaps consider trading them for my cow?

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>>8692408

Malaysia. $45 for half a room. $27 month of dinner eating out daily. Around $10 utilities. Around $18 for filler food, oats, pb&j, etc. I'm living really low cost even by local standards. I download anime at 1MB/s and there's free pool and crappy gym usage.

>>8690536
>So how the fuck do you do it?

Costco. Whole rotiss chicken for $6. That's 3-4 meals easily. Big brick of steaks, $30, 6 meals. Couple of cans of tuna, $1.50 each, 2 meals. 12 bagels, $6, one block cream cheese, $8, ten breakfasts and a couple left over for the tuna sandwiches. Add in some bags of frozen vegetables, or buy fresh, whatever. $15.

That's twelve days of meals for about $70. If you wanna eat more, add in $30 for sandwich fixin's.

If you want to go cheaper, split pea soup is my go-to.

>>8692635
you went from pinnacle of western world meat only diet to lowest caste indian diet within the breadth of 2 sentences


your default lifestyle was little better than eating out every day

>>8692586
Maybe. Does she have huge udders?

>>8692627
Are you in KL itself, or one of the far-flung islands? Beautiful country.

>>8692645
>lowest caste indian diet
Split pea soup is what the British Navy built an empire on. It's awesome stuff.

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>>8692647

Yep I'm in KL.

>>8691995
NYC

mooch and steal

>>8690536
I can pick up all that for less than 25 dollars at the asian mart. That includes her"essential" food of Kale and Avocado.

>and that doesn't include lunches, which I typically eat out.
Step 1: stop doing that.

Anyways, frozen veggies are cheap, rice and ramen are cheap, chicken is the cheapest meat you can get, especially if you buy it in bulk and frozen... Buy eggs in those boxes of like... 60. You save money over buying a dozen at a time. Also, eggs are a great cheap source of protein and can last a decent amount of time in the fridge.

Personally, I like to eat a lot of sandwiches made from these like... 2 pound packages of deli ham from Bar-S, along with some cheddar cheese (or colby jack, since Winco sells it at the same price as cheddar). Even cheaper than bread is tortillas, especially if you get them in an extraordinarily large bag. I get like... 40 large tortillas for somewhere between 6 and 7 bucks.

>>8692814
You make it sound like kale is some luxury food item when it's not.

>>8690536

It's all about convenient calories and shelf life. Don't buy chit that doesn't have substantial energy or that requires more than 1 step to prepare. Don't buy anything with less than 2 week shelf life. The more trips to the store for perishable items the more likely you will waste money on things that aren't in bulk or aren't a good value, and it's hard to keep things in a daily diet if you don't always have them on hand. That stuff just ends up rotting.

Some of my go to foods in college/grad school:

>Cottage cheese
>Peanut butter
>Eggs
>Hot dogs
>Rice (25lb bag jasmine + rice cooker)
>Tub of quaker oats
>Apples, carrots (fiber)

Easily <$100/month like this.

>>8690567
I can get a whole frozen chicken for that in Denmark. I'll bet you don't live somewhere most expensive than Denmark.
The corkscrew pasta is about a dollar for a pound here too.

>>8692858
Kale has had its price jacked up ever since they found it you can eat it instead of decoratingthe salad bar.

>>8693248
yeah. red chard is better anyways. softer, less bitter, more micronutrients per serving, and cheaper

>>8690536
Quality over quantity, buy high nutritional value food instead of a lot of food.

>>8690536
Anon, rich people who spend wisely (which is most of them, really) do not shop at one store. Something like 60% of the Costco members are in the bracket of $150k/year or more, for a reason. You do some of your shopping at Walmart, some at Costco, some at the latin market, some at Aldi, some at the convenient most closest grocery. You shop the sales, and you stock up when you see things in your normal pantry rotation.

I shop at Publix, and if I get meat for 3-4 meals, and all the accompaniments, I can spend $100/week or more. Add in paper items I might buy per month, a trash bag liner daily at $8/box, toilet paper, sunscreen needs, nexium at $1.50/day and the cost of life is far more expensive than these people who _claim_ they only spend a teensy amount.

But, just yesterday, while at BJ's where my membershop for 2 people is $50/year, I noticed that an entire pork loin was $12, and all the other pork was $1.50/lb. Well, about two weeks ago, a 1.5lb pork loin was BOGO at publix, and I got 2 roasts for $9, and those two roasts weren't even half of that $12 pork loin. Whole chickens at Publix? $12 is the starting point for a whole chicken cut up, and yes, you can see two breasts in the $8 range. When ribeyes go on sale, think $10/steak, and that's not even 1 inch thick. But, over at costco, you'll get prime for $10/steak and it will be almost 2 inches thick. Publix, $5,99/bag for onions or potatoes, 1-2lb bag, not the traditional 5-10 pound bag. If you don't want purple onions, or yukon golds, you can get a great deal at the latin markets (where you should consider your beans, rice, aromatics, tomatoes, and cheap cuts of meat like leg quarters). They won't be paying $1.50 for cilantro like at walmart or publix. It'll be 88cents.

So, also shop the loss leader items on sales, like the milk at CVS, which is a couple dollars cheaper per gallon intending to get you to shop there. Stock up on ham @easter.

>>8691084
>but limes left on a tree to the point of being fully ripened would be yellow.
err, no they aren't. They are yellow when they go rotten.

>>8691769
She lives in california, I'm surprised she was able to get more than 3 items for that price.

>>8691585
>blaming /pol/ for a nonpartisan, common sense post
Low effort

Work in a grocery store so you get barely expired food for cheap or free, and a discount on groceries.

>>8693276
if you prepare kale properly it's soft and not bitter

>>8692161
my grandma cuts literally everything with this one self sharpened to fuck skinny little paring knife from the 60s or something

i don't fucking get it, it gives me the creeps

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>>8690536
You can dine like a king for that money.

>>8693302
Those weren't my words. That was a citation. You're also arguing semantics.

>>8693660
It's actually 6.5 kg vegetables, the potatoes are in a 2.5 kg package

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>>8693690
Added rapeseed oil

>>8691385
Get a crockpot

>>8690536
Make small portions and eat it with ramen/rice/potatos/etc to bring it back up to a full meal. Also, get some chickens. Eggs are versatile and nutritious.

Check for sales and buy what gives you the most bang for your buck.

A grocery store chain around where I live is almost constantly running "Buy 2 get 3 free" sales on popular items that can be cooked many different ways.

>$3 gets 5 boxes of pasta
>$4 gets 5 jars of sauce
>$10 gets 12.5lbs of chicken breast
>$5 max on assorted fresg veggies and spices

I easily get 2 meals per box of pasta/jar of sauce. Sometimes I get stretch it out to 3 meals if I make a pasta side dish with some chicken. That's $22 for roughly 10-12 meals. Sometimes I may even have left overs for lunch if I'm not very hungry the night before.

>>8690575
Some people have a thing called bills

>>8690567
In the US, at Sams Club you can buy a roasted 3 pound chicken for $4.99. Most weeks one or the other grocery store near me has legs or thighs for 99 cent a pound, split breasts for 1.29 a pound.

>>8690536
>not a diet that tastes like cardboard and makes me fart all day long.
This will only happen if you're a shit cook and also don't exercise at all.

>>8690536
If you have a big lots store near you , mine has Barilla Pasta for 50 cents a box this week

>>8690536
>Go to supermarket
>Buy cheap protein source
>Buy oil
>Buy rice
>Buy potatoes
>Come home
>Google recipes with your protein source, preferably with rice or potatoes

>>8693991
The only reason I can think off that your bills would get big enough to literally not be able to afford buying food in bulk is if you're poor, supporting a large family and living above your means

>>8694030
Also if that's the case you probably couldn't afford food at all, much less eating out regularly, and be living out of welfare

>>8691769
Here is a crazy idea
Move somewhere else

>>8690536
>2 types of onion
>Avocado
>8 fucking limes
>Tons of leaf vegetables with no nutritional value

>>8690536
>Families are actually living on a head of lettuce and an ear of corn a week!
Bitch please, my baseline is two packs of oatmeal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a bowl of ramen for dinner. Costs me like $12/week. Then I keep snacks and shit stocked for entertaining (chips, popcorn, a 2L of coke, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, etc; any time an actual meal is called for it can be a potluck), and use what's left to rotate in a more interesting meal each week. Sure, it's not as nice as most of you are used to, but hey, it's free.

After all my expenses are factored in, including shit like razor blades and trash bags and socks in addition to rent and utilities (but not food, thanks taxpayers), it costs me less than $350/month to live. 80 hours a month at a hair over minimum wage gives me $450/month discretionary income, which is actually more than when I had a "real job" where I literally did not see the sun during the week for three months out of the year.

I with rich people would stop holding up poor people as objects of pity and realize that it's the working class and lower middle class that are really taking it up the ass. But that's not going to happen because it would shatter the American Dream to realize that modern class mobility is basically nil and no matter how hard you work, odds are that neither you nor your children are going to be any better off than you were growing up.

>>8690536
>have to live on
>no other buying of food
>on SNAP
>the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

who is her target audience? people who dont know what SNAP even stands for? either that or she is intentionally being misleading to promote her agenda. how pretentious. she probably wouldnt even eat half the stuff middle class families because it doesnt suit her.
thats a decent supplement for a week, you can use part of your cash assistance program to get the other essentials like some more protein and straight up calories. and maybe even some tasty stuff.

or if you also have a job you really shouldnt have to worry about food if you are responsible
>>8692578
>magic beans

yes i would. if they truly are magic

>>8694123
They are. I promise. Look, if they don't work for you, just come back in a month and I'll give you your money back. What have you got to lose?

Get a slow cooker famalam. You can toss the cheapest, nastiest, fattiest meat in there with cheap veg like onions and potatoes, get fresh garlic and various spices in for flavour and you can make surprisingly good meals out of the cheapest shit.

>>8694266

You don't even to shell out the $$$ on a slow cooker for that. A pot on the stove set low or in the oven on low works just fine.

>>8691795
I make mine all the time faggot, because I'm a poor ass student and I'd rather save those dollars for beer

>>8694123
I remember years back /ck/ had a poster who was living on foodstamps and used to bitch and whine about how it wasn't enough and how he shouldn't have to demean himself by buying mozarella instead of pre-packaged string-cheese just because he's unemployed.

>>8694266
post some cool sloow cooker recipies pls

>>8691769
>tax on food items

>>8694074
>millonaire who hasnt done her own shopping in probably decades
>getting the most out of 29 $
choose one

>>8692627
what kind of work do you do out there?

Or did you just pull off an Ocean's style heist and have settled down to a retirement of anime and 4chan?

I just got back from shopping

I bought a lot of luxuries, including a new semi-shitty pot, paper plates for an event, and sweets and it cost me just over sixty bucks

Unless you're in some part of the country where the food costs are absolutely ridiculous I can't fathom spending 100 bucks in a single shopping trip and not having more food than space to put it

>>8692653

is that some motherfucking 糖醋里脊

jesus christ i miss that, especially from my old uni canteen. they had just the right amount of pan crisp.

>>8694800
I can, then again, more than half of it is on booze.

>>8690630
Can't tell if you're serious.

Is this a money efficiency thing or a time efficiency thing?

>>8692437
what is transportation cost to somewhere 3000+ miles from where they were grown.

>>8690536
>Please don't reply to this thread with just "eat rice and beans"
Rice and beans. You will eat it every single day and you will like it. Also lentils and eggs. Offal will get you tremendous amounts of vitamins, minerals and protein for ridiculously low amounts of money (fucking especially on sale, you will not fucking believe the amount of liver I've bought with just 1 or 2 dollars on certain occasions); I fucking hope you like organ meats, I'm partial to assorted chicken giblets for cooking with rice. Buy whatever veggies are in season and on sale to get some plant matter in you. Learn to cook pork and veal liver properly and you'll have very cheap and very tasty protein and more vitamin A than you will ever need. Same goes for pork and lamb kidneys.
>'m talking about long term eating on a budget, not a diet that tastes like cardboard
If you're going to eat on a tight budget then they're going to be one in the same, a lot of the time. Sucks to be you. Shit's nutritious, cheap and filling. With this sustenance, you can work towards your goal of making more money so you can eat things you enjoy better and other improvements to your quality of life.
>makes me fart all day long
Then fart. If you must, excuse yourself to the bathroom or somewhere out in the open and away from listening ears. Someone might notice you're going to the bathroom more often and comment on it, oh no, this is literally worse than the Holocaust.
>wah wah I don't like this it isn't fair
Fuck you. You have the money to buy food that will keep you full and nourished, if you choose not to eat what's available for whatever reason, except for allergies or other health related reasons, then its entirely on you. Some asian peasants to this day still live on little more than a day's ration of plain white rice, for example. You have absolutely zero entitlement to anything better than they do.

>>8690660

fuck i laughed so hard

>>8690572
>being able to "invest" in literally anything when you're living below the poverty line

>>8694120
>Obesity epidemic
>Especially focused on poor areas
>Record high levels of diabetes on black people

Ugh food stamps are like not enough money like can you imagine living on minimum wage? Who does that? That's imposible

Buy a lot of flour. You can easily get it for about $.75 a pound, even whole grain. Mix it with water and more flour over a few days to make sourdough. Mix sourdough with water and flour. Let rise. Punch down, add salt, second rise. Bake. Fresh bread that'll give you a lot of calories for cheap. Supplement these calories with cheap vegetables like carrots, onion, leek, turnip, cabbage. In season is cheapest. Freeze if you can. If not, chop up into small pieces and massage with a bit of salt. Put in loosely covered jar and permit to ferment. Bam, mixed vegetable sauerkraut. Eat fermented stuff as is. If fresh, make soup, grill, bake, whatever. For protein, peas as before/ beans/ lentils/ other grains (rolled oats, rice, hit cereal)than what you make your bread out of(you want to get all the aminos) Also tripe. Get stuff on sale if it's something you'd have to buy anyhow and if you have the means to store it. Buy whole foods and not processed shit. It's better for you and cheaper, it just takes a little more work.

>>8696035
>staying poor and retarded forever

>>8694391
Some states do tax food. I'm pretty sure Illinois does, although it's been a while since I lived there.

Philadelphia has been making headlines lately with their massive tax on soda, which caused people to start shopping outside the city, caused some distributors to lay off workers, and is generally fucking ridiculous.

>>8695306
>Can't tell if you're serious.

Are you really that much of a spendthrift that you've never made big batches of soup, and frozen individual servings for later meals?

Jesus fucking Christ. Do you live off canned soup?

>>8696035
>claims to be living below the poverty line
>has never been in a Goodwill store to see the amazing deals you can get
>Ikea bookcase, retail $79, Goodwill $5
>Singer sewing machine, retail $$$$$$$, Goodwill $15
>Rabbit vibrator, retail $59, Goodwill $10 plus it smells and tastes awesome

>>8695510
what is reality?

i would get 400+ a month for groceries through footstamps
i would buy the most expensive shit i could find and they told me if i wasnt using my amounts i'd lose it

>that doesn't include lunches, which I typically eat out

If only you could spend less money by not doing that

>>8696549
There should be a tax on shit like soda, it barely even qualifies as food, and stuff like that has a crazy affect on the amount of obese fucks around the world. If things like alcohol and Tabacco get taxed then so should bullshit sugar foods.

>>8690536
Buy stuff when it's on sale. Learn to cook dishes you like with a cheap base carb (rice, pasta, potatoes, etc.) Eat everything you buy (don't cook one meal with a quarter of an onion then toss the rest. If you're not going to finish eating an ingredient freeze it so you can use it later). Learn to season your foods. Seasonings can seem expensive, but they usually last a while (just don't spend a bunch of money on something you'll only use once), and you can get by with just salt and pepper for lots of dishes.. Recognize that to save money you're going to have to spend a bit more time thinking about what you eat, and making it. Make large dishes that you can freeze and continue to eat later (I'll make a large pot of chili for myself and eat it over the course of a few weeks). Buy an actual chef's knife (can be found for cheap from restaurant supply stores) and watch some YouTube videos on how to use it. Most of the cookware you find in grocery stores is garbage that won't last or will just frustrate you. Generally avoid pre made foods, if they're cheap they're probably not healthy (e.g. top ramen) and vice versa. Drink a lot of whole milk if you like milk, it has a mix of protein, carbs, and fat, as well as being good value (~800cal/$). If you can stomach eating the same food every day you can eat cheap with minimal work, just find a handful of dishes and repeat them. If you're like me and eating a PB&J for lunch every day makes you want to hang yourself you'll have to spend more time planning your meals.

Pasta cooked, garlic, jelapenos, cherry tomatoes, ricotta cheese, baby spinach, parmisan.
Fry the tomatoes(whole) with the jelapenos. Then add garlic, then pasta, then stir through the ricotta and spinach. Turn off heat and stir through a little parmisan.
I made this tonight, cost about $4aus for a huge portion

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>>8690627
>implying she can get through the day without her daily mojitos

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>>8696848

>>8690536
They are probably skinny, buy from fruit markets in bulk or have a source for veggies, eggs and milk with which they make everything (yoghurt, cheese, pasta, bread) and only really factor in the meat costs.