Thread 21587622

Best struggle/low cost-effort meals?

>>21587622 (OP)
a couple of saltines whenever I remember I have to eat to survive

>>21587622 (OP)
>filename
Don't need a "recipe" for pb&j...

wash a potato
stab it a few times
microwave it
add whatever the he*k you want

>>21587622 (OP)
rice and beans are the best.

>>21587622 (OP)
It's gonna be red beans and rice, and you can treat yourself to sausage in it if you can swing it.

>>21587622 (OP)
buy banana
peal it
eat

>>21587622 (OP)
Rice, beans, some cheap meat you can find and cheap hot sauce is all you need along with multivitamins to fight scurvy

dollar tree "luncheon meat" and knock off ritz

>>21587622 (OP)
Sales, especially 'buy one, get one free' sales. Lately there have been 'buy one, get two free' deals on poultry about once a month. Hit up either of those sales and fill up your freezer.

>>21587658
"luncheon meat" is short for "delicatessen"

>>21587670
>short for
>luncheon meat
>12 characters
>delicatessen
>12 characters

>>21587658
get a circle cookie cutter with some kraft singles and you basically got lunchables.

>>21587622 (OP)
Egg sandwich. Fry eggs, slap them between two buttered slices. Add cheese or lunchmeat too I dont give a fuck

>>21587678
its shorter to say, jackass

>>21587750
mm egg sandy

>>21587622 (OP)
Chicken, made literally any way you want.
Stir fried, rotisseried, deep fried, baked, broiled, grilled, blackened, braised, roasted, smoked, pan fried, slow cooked, etc.
You can make chicken the main ingredient for any dish and any style of cooking. Besides dessert I guess.

Oh also a large glass of milk is great

>>21587622 (OP)
Pork chops are cheap. Toss them in the oven with a bit of seasoning, mustard, breadcrumbs. Microwave a potato and some frozen veggies.

>>21587641
I do not own a microwave

chicken salad sandwich.

>>21587826
sucks to suck

>>21587622 (OP)
Bit of effort if you're still new to cooking, but you get plenty of meals out of it that saves you from cooking later.

>>21587664
Absolute horseshit and the grocers that do BOGO or Twofer deals are overpricing the stuff in the first place.
Best bet is to just buy one at half the ad price as most stores allow that now, and then it's a good deal unit price-wise, but usually buying both guarantees a bad price vs just going to a discount store.

>>21587639
in high school i got put in a communications class and one of the labs was to pair off, one writes out a recipe for peanut butter and jelly, the other follows it ***EXACTLY***.

Everyone but me used prior knowledge to just make the sandwich normally and assumed I was slow. I should have spoken up to the instructor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HcKEHLuK1g

for years i've been making these struggle tuna can patties scooby put me on.

>>21587622 (OP)
Nothing is easier than beans on toast

>>21587641
Potato do no care too hot. Potato do no care too cold. Potato no get much water? Please, it no need much water. Potato get too much water? Is time for BIG potato. Potato do no have need of anything no even gravity. In space, scientist of russia have grow potato. They eat the space potato, it taste like ground potato. Potato survive anywhere. Potato survive everywhere. Tomato is squishy, it get bruise from walk in crate to car of farm. Not potato. Potato no care if you deliver to supermarket with bat of the baseball. You hit onion? You now have squash onion. You hit potato? Now you have many piece of potato. Can eat raw. Can boil. Can fry. You can throw in fire and eat like bear, potato? Still good. Cut up and use as stamp. With knife, chop to correct size, can use to fill hole in boat. You can turn potato into vodka, for drink or maybe even use run car engine.

>>21587622 (OP)
>struggle

I hate zoomers more than you can ever imagine.

Gorilla chow.

Rice, beans. Rice and beans with tomato, lentils.

>>21587887
It's okay anon, boomers hated you just as much.

>>21587902
We dropped the baboonspeak when we entered high school. Zoomers still talk like groids in their mid-20s.

>>21587855
my comms teacher would have destroyed everyone and given you an A+. I remember this exact exercise. my teacher humiliated one student's shitty instructions in front of the whole class and destroyed a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter in the process.

>>21587855
>>21587910
I'd like to read some of these if anyone has some bad ones.
Like did did the teacher cut the peanut butter jar in half?

>>21587622 (OP)
oatmeal, parfaits, boiled chicken, any kind of sandwich, beans on toast, any kind of microwaved beans

>>21587890
Based

ramen noodles with Sriracha or chili oil

part time job at a shellfish place where there are so many leftover crawfish, shrimp, crab legs, god i wish they were still around

Peanut noodles

>>21587641
>100 calories, dirty microwave

>>21587910
That's pretty gay. I mean my comms professor would mostly challenge people for unclear instructions but wouldn't humiliate them in front of the class. Just had them humiliate themselves by doing speaker phone calls with a friend or relative and to try to convince them to do something and half of these idiots broke down crying for not being able to provide them instructions they could follow

>>21587826
dangerously based.

>>21587622 (OP)
pb&j is not struggle meal.
it's a kids meal.
pic related is a struggle meal.

>>21587855
>>21587910
Is this really part of american education?

>>21587857
>300 calories
>2500mg sodium
The only muscle you'll be growing with that is your heart

>>21588806
this is the first time i've ever even heard of a 'communication class' so no it's not american

Oats, milk, and frozen peas.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/tmfAqwPKucs

One egg, one spoonful of mayo, mix then microwave for 40 seconds, comes out perfect every time

>>21587622 (OP)
Beef & Noodles for the win, plus you can extend it for a week or two if stored in a referatator.

>>21588989
More like commie class that kids get these days in grade or commie classes.

Who the fuck in their right minds wants to take commie california classes and pay up the wazoo for that socialist bullshit?

No wonder people not associated with hollywood land are fleeing that shithole.

Can anyone be more of a retard than be from California and wear sketchers and vans?

>>21589540
It would probably be better if you threw it into a pan and actually cooked it.

>>21589579
What's wrong with sketchers schizo-kun? They're comfortable and affordable.

>>21589642
>What's wrong with sketchers
for puerto rican girls.

>>21589687
You're not just schizo, you're retarded too. You're making connections that don't exist and using it as an excuse to hate an inanimate object. Pic is the goat of shoes, I've had these as my last 4 pairs for casual every day wear. They're comfortable, cheap, durable, and don't look like crap. You're mental illness is stopping you from enjoying life.

>>21587622 (OP)
steamed rice, 2 over easy eggs, soy sauce, big knob of butter
umami bliss for hours

>>21589642
private equity bought them. if you like their shoes you should stock up now before the enshitification

>>21589736
>press release filename
uh huh

>>21589818
I got it from Google, I have no idea what you're trying to say, must be that schizophrenia acting up again.

I have:
>1 red onion
>1 avocado
>1 burger bun
>assorted dressings and spices
How can I make a meal out of this? Should I make a grilled onion sandwich with avo? A salad with toasted burger bun for croutons? I'm starving

>>21587639
I have to look up a recipe every time I make hard boiled eggs

>>21589963
Oh, I also have a 4 day old baked potato in the fridge if that adds any possibilities

>>21589736
Grim.

1lb blend frozen vegetables into a bowl. microwave it, eat it, love it

>>21589963
>>21590030
Literally avocado toast
>Dice onion fine
>Fry it
>Mash up avocado
>Mix it, add whatever seasonings you want
>Toast the bread in the same pan you fried the onion in
>Put your avocado onion spread on it
>And then eat the baked potato assuming its still good
You could maybe even try to mash up the baked potato and mix it in with the avocado, but that probably wouldn't work too well

>>21587639
Don't underestimate how retarded I can be

>>21589959
>I have no idea
>schizophrenia
so which is it?

>>21587622 (OP)
Can of tuna/eggs
Cucumber
tomato
onion
lime
toast

>>21587627
fbwp
just McFuckinkilurselfalreadymydude#

>>21587648
>you can treat yourself to sausage in it if you can swing it.
Watch out for Mr. Moneybags here

>>21589963
that and the potato sounds good. honestly i'd eat the potato first and see how you are after, maybe you can stretch the sandwich for tomorrow if you're really struggling. since the potato is already 4 days old and all.

>>21587622 (OP)
wafflehouse

I used to snack on tacobell packets

>>21587622 (OP)
In no wise is PB & J a meal.

>>21590232
It has to be a miserable existence being this easily triggered into rage.

nuggies
burger
dumpling
chinese stir fry starters
biryani

>>21590285
absolutely faustian of you

>>21590232
>fbwp
what

>>21588989
It is American retard. I took communications in my freshman year of college.

>>21591451
first bost west porst

>>21587622 (OP)

Haven't ate one like this in quite a while, but no jokes, It really fills you up in the morning.

You can cook it in Slices or eat it whole with any left over bread.

Any Wonder bread, Ciabatta, French bread, hot dog buns or even Hawaiian rolls (Like in picture) will do the Trick.

>>21591597
Next time I should fucking read what I post, because calling this cooking is like using a dry rag to clean a stain, "Disinfecting"

Low cost dessert anybody? Just because you are poor doesn't mean you have to skip dessert. Here's what I made last weekend. I'm a phone poster so bear with me. No pics, sorry.
Bread pudding
1 pound bread, one loaf or whatever
6 eggs
4 cups milk
1/4 cup sugar + 1/4 cup brown sugar
Vanilla extract
Cinnamon
Fruit or filling of choice.

I got bread on sale, most stores I imagine have a bakery and sell old stuff cheaper.
Fruit: frozen is cheap, or canned pie filling can work. I guess you don't need fruit but why not? Be creative, I know you can. I'm going to try mixing pumpkin puree into the batter and do a pumpkin spice thing next time.
So mix the milk eggs sugar vanilla and cinnamon together. Get your bread nice and stale and tear it up or slice it. Soak the bread for at least 30 minutes.
Transfer into a baking dish. If adding fruit add half the bread, add a layer of fruit then put the rest of the bread on top.
Bake at 375 for about an hour.
Since there's not too much sugar in the mix, I serve it with maple syrup. Kind of cheap, but definitely delicious.

>>21591631
sounds tasty

>>21589540
Tried this not too long ago, it's alright but by no means the best ever

>>21587622 (OP)
homemade spaghettio's
shrimply cook pasta, drain, and add a can of condensed tomato soup. my mom's friend made this in college and now it's a staple for us

>>21587622 (OP)
Canned food that's on sale. Not very healthy, though.

>>21587855
Kek I got to do this as a sort of teacher's assistant in high school, for her 7th grade science class. Ripping the bread bag open, putting too much or too little PB or J on, joining the slices together wrong, stuff like that.

>>21588511
if you stab it the potato wont explode, you dumbass.

>>21587885
Based potato enjoyer

>>21587622 (OP)
in my south texas grocery store, i can buy a pack of 8 wieners for 99 cents, a loaf of wheat bread for 1.25. a box of mac n cheese for 1.15. but i guess the king of struggle meals is still ramen noodles. you can microwave it for 4-6 minutes and it's instant food for yourself or your pet. you can't microwave rice and beans that way.

Low cost meals... anything, food is extremely cheap comparative to the labour it would take to produce by hand.

Giant bags of rice for basically nothing
Fill up a basket with pasta for nothing
Meat is so cheap its almost free
Sacks of potato you can get for basically free (walmart isnt the only place you can get them)

You can scrub toilets at mcdonalds basically contributing nothing to anyone and fill up a trolley with above listed food after 1 shift, all of this without a second of labour on a farm, its a joke how easy it is.

>>21587622 (OP)
Seasonal fruit. Cheap and literally zero prep.

>>21592993
>Cheap
Yea but it's $1 for like 20-30 calories, its not practice.

>>21593100
*Practical

>>21592603
Damn. More?

>>21587855
>follows it ***EXACTLY***.
I understood what it was trying to teach us but also got autismally irritated that anybody could be that retarded, even in hypotheticals. I'm over 20 years removed from the event and I still remember the feeling of that white hot irritation.
>>21587622 (OP)
Canned fish + crackers + hot sauce.

>>21587622 (OP)
Bulk lentils

>>21590232
I do this when I Poo and rizz. Bruh bruh bruh aye yuh SHrek balart shrek suicide. Felch nig felch bruh felch felch felch anal rape cumgasm lee goldson lee goldson suicide gun a lot of pressure on the brainstem. I like antipsychotics and drinking like vodka nad I 'm losing higher brain fuction and cognition. WHy am i like this

>>21587622 (OP)
I was living in my car for a while and got to the point where I had to dumpster dive. It's amazing how much good food is thrown out. I'm talking like finding steak still in the plastic and not even rotten sometimes. One time I found some broccoli, radishes, a loaf of sourdough, potato salad, and some frozen pork chops behind the Food Lion and had a fucking feast. I hadn't eaten for 2 days when I found it all and I was super depressed and suicidal and had all kinds of shit going on at the time, and to this day it was the most delicious most memorable meal of my life because it was like this small little mercy in a completely hopeless bleak time in my life. I can not describe the giddy and pure joy I felt while eating it, I equate it to some classic Disney movie moment.

>>21594036
Did you cook the stuff or was it already cooked?

Cut off a bunch of cheese off a block of government cheese and microwaved it and ate it. Stomach feels weird.

>>21592728
ramen noodles are literally just wheat noodles at 10x the price (compared to pasta)

>>21594258
funny, i dont have a few million dollars for the machinery that makes those funny flavor powders nor do i have the contacts to supply me with the ingredients

>>21594269
>can't eat wheat without funny flavors so pays 10x the price

and I said something stupid ?

Tuna bake but with double tuna and corn

>>21591440
I hate nuggers

>>21594232
Just cooked the pork chops, didn't want to waist gas on anything that didn't need to be cooked. I washed all my veggies with soap and vinegar though.

>>21589736
Skechers are for autistic men who want to advertise their affinity for trading card games
Why not get something cheaper that doesn't advertise that you want to fuck pokemon

>>21594254

thats nto real cheese

>>21594714
The sketchers will last longer. And your obsession with projecting sexuality and mental illnesses on inanimate objects is troubling, you should talk with a professional about that.

>>21594747
Hence why he called it government cheese you pedantic faggot.

>>21594776
Skechers will absolutely not last as long as Adidas, what are you smoking?
and attributing traits to appearance is a basic natural instint. Blue haired women, neon frogs, men with skechers, its all the same.

>>21594783
Those were knock offs, real Adidas are more expensive.
And when you make connections that don't exist we call it schizophrenia.

Cheesy potatoes is the only food that exists in this world you misguided simps

1 week example
>buy a carton of eggs
>buy bag of frozen vegetables
>buy 7 cans of beans
>buy rice in bulk
>buy a bottle of soy sauce
and all of that for less than 20 shekels, add a bag of whichever fresh fruit is the cheapest in your area as well as the largest container of yoghurt you can buy, the cheapest oatmeal and a bag of the cheapest frozen berries you can get and now you also have breakfast and dinner ready

to not go bananas have a list of 10 cheap lunch recipes and 10 cheap breakfast/dinner recipes that you can just work through top to bottom, i did this for years in uni and my food costs never exceeded 100 bucks a month

also allow yourself 1 or 2 "fancy" days in a month where you can just pig out on non-poverty food, it'll help keep you sane

>>21587648
I cook up some spanish rice with peppers I grew myself (ghost, habenero, and thai hot). I microwave a can of bush's baked beans. It's a pretty decent meal. I'm always full and I really appreciate the taste.

Pound of ground meat + jar of sauce + noodles = dump it together and you've got food for a week for like $10

Imagine owning a food replicator and being able to make saltine crackers and SpaghettiOs all the time you wanted!