Cheap Meals
StephsBack
Acolyte
Some cheap meals - most people don't seem to know how to cook really cheap, or find that they are cooking the same things over and over again. Most of the meals here can be made for around 3 or 4 dollars and are pretty nutritious. I managed to even build muscle mass eating these and working out.
Tuna (small tin)
Instant noodles
Cheese
Cook noodles - drain
Add tuna and cheese
Put in microwave for 30 seconds
(you can also dice a mushroom, add some spinach leaves, or even a small tin of baked beans, or a beaten egg (just put in microwave for an extra 1-2 minutes or until cooked)
Sliced potato
Cheese
Sliced tomato
1/3 Onion
Butter (to taste)
Slice tomato, cheese and potato as thin as you can
Dice the onion as small as possible
Put in a frying pan, heated to about medium with a little water in there
Put in potato and onion first, then the rest
Wait until potato is soft and browned - then add butter, to taste
Rice
Mushroom
Butter
Milk, only a little bit
Cheese
Cook rice and drain
Chop up mushroom as thin and small as possible, try to dice it out of existence
Add mushroom, butter and milk and stir on low heat, don't walk away
Wait until the mushroom has been absorbed into the rice and there is no milk liquid
Add cheese
Potato
Egg
Bread
Butter
Tuna
Rice
Boil potato and mash it up
Beat an egg and add to potato
Cook rice, drain and add
Drain tuna and add
Break bread into little pieces
Put in butter, to taste
Cook over medium heat or until the egg is cooked (there won't be any liquid and the mixture will get super thick and hard to stir)
Tuna
Tomato
Rice
Corn
Cook rice, drain
Add tuna, diced tomato and corn
Cook until all ingredients are warmed through
*If you have a freezer, get a roast, like a chicken or turkey roll, and cut it into serving sizes and freeze them. I get a $10 turkey roast roll and it gives me 5 meals for two people
*Bread goes mouldy really fast, so separate it into two piece lots and put it in bags and freeze it. They are good for toasties, french toast or using with soup. Bread is good for 3 days by my count.
*Tinned food is shit. Have a piece of bread and butter with it.
*If all you have is rice, drink lots of water.
*Breakfast cereal is OK to eat for dinner. I don't care what anyone says.
*If you can, at work, store instant noodles, box of cereal and tins of chicken and tuna at your desk or in your locker. It saves you from having to buy overpriced food or shitty fast food that's expensive and out to kill you.
*If you are fat, I bet you drink soft drink, no, I know you drink soft drink. Buy a bottle of sparkling mineral water and add cordial (google that, I don't know what it's called overseas). It has way less of EVERYTHING BAD. But it's definitely better to drink water.
*Drink water, a lot. When you have had one glass, have another. I recommend this to keep well hydrated, and if there is a disaster that renders you unable to drink for long periods of time or limits your rations, you'll be glad you do this.
*Don't eat bacon or ham. The Jews are right about this one. I was talking to my friend who did environmental science at uni and studied pathogens for some of it and pork contains this bacteria or pathogen or whatever (I'm obviously a humanities student) that can slow down your nervous system.
*I've been running a little scam where, because I dye my hair frequently, my hair is always a different colour. If you change to blonde, keep a dark hair with you when you got to a fast food outlet. Apply it sneaky to food and then complain that you have a hair in your food, it's a serious infraction of health and safety standards as prescribed by the authorities and unless you get a full refund you're going to the authorities. I try to eat most of the product before this happens and don't hit the same place more than twice in 12 months. This is when you get seriously low on cash. Tried and true. Just be careful you don't go to a store full on Indians and plant a blonde hair. The police get called, but you can run away. They can't hold you in the store. You haven't stolen or damaged their premises. Don't argue, just run and never go back.
*Add 3 vegetables to a frying pan with a little butter or chilli sauce. You can live on this for quite a while.
*If you do happen to live like I did, I found that I need one huge serve of meat a week. Buy a sausage, chop or some other cheap piece of meat, cook it and add cheese and egg. That's a whopper serve of protein and iron. That's how I reckon I was able to build.
*You can live for atleast 3 weeks without food, but only 2-3 days without water.
*If you work - there is always the work fridge. I swiped bottle of milk, coffee, boxes of tea, packets of sugar, pizza, microwave meals and all sorts. Don't get caught, otherwise people stop leaving good food and may plant some nasties. I realised I wasn't the only person doing this, so to stop them being on my turf I left some chocolate mousse in there with a little log of possum shit. That stopped them. You can also steal toilet paper (therefore giving you more money for food).
*If you buy those bags of chips with the little bags complain to the company that two of those bags of chips were open and the other packets were stale - because of course you've tried them all.
*If you have eggs you always have a meal. Same goes with rice.
There are many ways you can feed yourself. If worse comes to worse there's usually a charity or soup kitchen and shop lifting. Or wait outside a fast food restuarant and ask the poor kid who's job it is to dump it for the food. They won't say no. They'd be too freaked out.
I would also love to hear about different ways other people have fed themselves for cheap.
Tuna (small tin)
Instant noodles
Cheese
Cook noodles - drain
Add tuna and cheese
Put in microwave for 30 seconds
(you can also dice a mushroom, add some spinach leaves, or even a small tin of baked beans, or a beaten egg (just put in microwave for an extra 1-2 minutes or until cooked)
Sliced potato
Cheese
Sliced tomato
1/3 Onion
Butter (to taste)
Slice tomato, cheese and potato as thin as you can
Dice the onion as small as possible
Put in a frying pan, heated to about medium with a little water in there
Put in potato and onion first, then the rest
Wait until potato is soft and browned - then add butter, to taste
Rice
Mushroom
Butter
Milk, only a little bit
Cheese
Cook rice and drain
Chop up mushroom as thin and small as possible, try to dice it out of existence
Add mushroom, butter and milk and stir on low heat, don't walk away
Wait until the mushroom has been absorbed into the rice and there is no milk liquid
Add cheese
Potato
Egg
Bread
Butter
Tuna
Rice
Boil potato and mash it up
Beat an egg and add to potato
Cook rice, drain and add
Drain tuna and add
Break bread into little pieces
Put in butter, to taste
Cook over medium heat or until the egg is cooked (there won't be any liquid and the mixture will get super thick and hard to stir)
Tuna
Tomato
Rice
Corn
Cook rice, drain
Add tuna, diced tomato and corn
Cook until all ingredients are warmed through
*If you have a freezer, get a roast, like a chicken or turkey roll, and cut it into serving sizes and freeze them. I get a $10 turkey roast roll and it gives me 5 meals for two people
*Bread goes mouldy really fast, so separate it into two piece lots and put it in bags and freeze it. They are good for toasties, french toast or using with soup. Bread is good for 3 days by my count.
*Tinned food is shit. Have a piece of bread and butter with it.
*If all you have is rice, drink lots of water.
*Breakfast cereal is OK to eat for dinner. I don't care what anyone says.
*If you can, at work, store instant noodles, box of cereal and tins of chicken and tuna at your desk or in your locker. It saves you from having to buy overpriced food or shitty fast food that's expensive and out to kill you.
*If you are fat, I bet you drink soft drink, no, I know you drink soft drink. Buy a bottle of sparkling mineral water and add cordial (google that, I don't know what it's called overseas). It has way less of EVERYTHING BAD. But it's definitely better to drink water.
*Drink water, a lot. When you have had one glass, have another. I recommend this to keep well hydrated, and if there is a disaster that renders you unable to drink for long periods of time or limits your rations, you'll be glad you do this.
*Don't eat bacon or ham. The Jews are right about this one. I was talking to my friend who did environmental science at uni and studied pathogens for some of it and pork contains this bacteria or pathogen or whatever (I'm obviously a humanities student) that can slow down your nervous system.
*I've been running a little scam where, because I dye my hair frequently, my hair is always a different colour. If you change to blonde, keep a dark hair with you when you got to a fast food outlet. Apply it sneaky to food and then complain that you have a hair in your food, it's a serious infraction of health and safety standards as prescribed by the authorities and unless you get a full refund you're going to the authorities. I try to eat most of the product before this happens and don't hit the same place more than twice in 12 months. This is when you get seriously low on cash. Tried and true. Just be careful you don't go to a store full on Indians and plant a blonde hair. The police get called, but you can run away. They can't hold you in the store. You haven't stolen or damaged their premises. Don't argue, just run and never go back.
*Add 3 vegetables to a frying pan with a little butter or chilli sauce. You can live on this for quite a while.
*If you do happen to live like I did, I found that I need one huge serve of meat a week. Buy a sausage, chop or some other cheap piece of meat, cook it and add cheese and egg. That's a whopper serve of protein and iron. That's how I reckon I was able to build.
*You can live for atleast 3 weeks without food, but only 2-3 days without water.
*If you work - there is always the work fridge. I swiped bottle of milk, coffee, boxes of tea, packets of sugar, pizza, microwave meals and all sorts. Don't get caught, otherwise people stop leaving good food and may plant some nasties. I realised I wasn't the only person doing this, so to stop them being on my turf I left some chocolate mousse in there with a little log of possum shit. That stopped them. You can also steal toilet paper (therefore giving you more money for food).
*If you buy those bags of chips with the little bags complain to the company that two of those bags of chips were open and the other packets were stale - because of course you've tried them all.
*If you have eggs you always have a meal. Same goes with rice.
There are many ways you can feed yourself. If worse comes to worse there's usually a charity or soup kitchen and shop lifting. Or wait outside a fast food restuarant and ask the poor kid who's job it is to dump it for the food. They won't say no. They'd be too freaked out.
I would also love to hear about different ways other people have fed themselves for cheap.
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Markets are good places too - just go before they close and preferably before they finish trading for the week. I used to live off $40 a fortnight for food quite easily and nutritiously.
Ah, when I first moved out. It was great. I hope you have as much fun as I did.
Oh, and vinegar is an awesome cleaner - toilet, shower, floors, windows, walls (especially mould stricken walls), shampoo for dishwashing liquid, toilet paper for tissues, shampoo again for washing (though I wouldn't wash anything super good or with specific instructions with it) and remember to clean you fridge every 3-6 months to keep food fresh.
Your friend is a moron and you are an even bigger one.
and you never once paid for drugs. Not once!
give up!
???
Sounds like you've got quite a few handy tips under the belt there. Those things are probably what I'll be living by for the next few years, I love to take shortcuts to save time and money, as well as effort. Budgeting FTW, living cheaply can be done and you can still have a good time doing it!
YouTube - & YOU NEVER PAID FOR DRUGS, NOT ONCE!
I don't give up. Oh, and seeing as you've some how managed to track me down and find out what I look like - good for you, fairy-fucking kike.
I know people like you on forums. You have nothing significant to offer and so therefore flame people to get attention and to try to distract yourself from feeling like a fucking 'tard every time someone intelligent comes along. I have not seen you post ANYTHING constructive or remotely intelligible.
:fap:
Can affect immunological response and can also attack the lymphatic system.
Did you even read anything to show evidence that me and my environmental scientist friend were wrong? NO.
Fucking 'tard.
So you make a habit out of eating raw pork?
So you make a habit of eating under cooked pork?
I hope it continues with some nice content about cheap food, and I will dispel any myths about the prevalence of trichinosis when I continue.
C/O
"grr"
Sorry, I was actually waiting for her reply to make a point, probably the same one you plan on making.
Also thought the whole thing about not eating pork was funny, considering the talk about eggs. AND I don't think someone who would be caring about cheap meals could afford to be picky with the kind of meat they get.
And by the way - I posted this to help people like me who were once in a situation where they could barely afford to eat.
You have lost a constructive poster. And for all you little teenage fucks - go back and fap on 4Chan where you belong.
What I wanted to do was get the thread back on track about your original post, I will apologize for not making myself clear;I'm sorry, I would like this thread to continue along the lines of your original post. And this is not the original totse, it is totse.info, and the moderators try hard to put out butthurt brushfires when they occur, I am sorry I did not get to this one before it singed the fetlocks of your high horse.
This is what I would have said if I wasn't such a jerk.:hai: I really did like your OP, and I know how long it takes to write something like that. Big Harry is a semi troll and should be ignored. But some other posts had valid points that you should refute with wit and style, not absence.
C/O
"okay, my nose is so far up there I can smell your last meal"
So why say 'ham and bacon' and not 'pork products'? Being that I am a pretty good (the opinion of others) home charcutier, I have read a lot around the subject. I daresay I have a greater knowledge than someone doing an undergraduate degree who has done a module on parasites.
Now, any problems that could occur will be negated by COOKING THE FUCKING FOOD.
Lets look at the evidence. Your article states that for the years 1997-2001, in the USA the median level of infection was 12 people per year. In 2001, the US populate was estimated at 285 million and pork consumption averaged at 51lb of meat per person, per year.
Now, obviously, not everyone in the US would have been eating pork at that time - Jews, Muslims, vegetarians and vegans and morons would not be eating it.
In 2000, 4.5% of people surveyed in the USA stated they did not eat meat. Lets say thats 13m people. The Jewish population in the USA was around 6.5m at the time. The figures for the number of Muslims are all over the place, from 1.4m to 7m. Lets go with 4m. We have 23.5m people who do not eat pork out of a population of 285m - so 261.5m people do - and of those 12 of them got sick and were cured.
Thats around 0.00000043% of the population. That is a statistical insignificance.
Every year in the USA, more than 10,000 children under 15 years of age are treate in ER for choking on food. That is 0.013% of children - working out the odds in this, a child is 31857 times more likely to need an emergency room visit for choking than a pork eater has chance of trichinella.
Based on your recomendation of eating pork, it stands to reason given the above facts that your friend and yourself would advocate turning everything to a paste before eating it to negate the risk of choking - hundreds of people die a year from this in the USA versus no deaths for trichinella.
Looking CDC data, they estimate their are 5000 deaths from food viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxins, metals, and prions per year. None of them are from trichinella.
So yeah, I stand by my original statement. Your friend is a moron and you are an even bigger one.
We could go into the stats of how pork is one of the cheapest meats to buy and how you are better off eating cheap on pork than you would be with beef, chicken, lamb or fish, but the odds say that as a moron, you are likely to become butthurt and die from that.
I do them once every 3-4 months in the oven. You are not required to be a snooty cocksucker about it, the oven works well. Make an envelope, season them, let 'em hang out for 2-3 hours on the lowest your oven goes. Then broil them. They turn out pretty well. Man it's about rib time, shit balls.