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Get a rice cooker from the salvation army, put rice and cheap meat and veggies in it, push button. You can put raw meat in it and it'll be cooked by the time the rice is done, so it's seriously the easiest way to make a decent meal.
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When you cook a whole chicken, I suggest that you put more salt on it than you think you want. I always put way too little because I'm not not super into using salt, but that poo poo makes the skin crisp up like crazy if you actually use enough.
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Oct 19, 2013 06:59
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All this chicken talk made me pull one out of the freezer a couple days ago, and it should be ready to cook up after some sink time. I love it because I barely have to use anything other than salt, since I'll just be throwing the parts in pasta or rice later anyway. Aside from the skin, that gets eaten before it's even safely cooled. Something I only just tried as a super novice cook so it might be new to someone: try putting alfredo sauce in your chicken and rice instead of pasta! You can use a little less, since the rice does such a good job of absorbing it, and rice is always cheaper than pasta! Question, though: can I just leave the organs in the chicken and let them cook that way, or is it better to cook them separately?
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Oct 26, 2013 00:35
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Dogdoo 8 posted:That depends on income/family situation/what state you're in. For single adults around here it's closer to 60 cents. I'm single and got like $500 in EBT for being out of work for a week during a hurricane, and I wasn't gaming them at all or anything like that. Maybe that's a special circumstance or something, though.
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Jan 6, 2014 05:48
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Whole chickens here hover around 90ยข/lb, which is great. I usually just skim for marked down stuff about to expire, since it gets put out on no particular schedule at my local grocery. I love grabbing up a half off thing of pork chops or steak that I'd never buy at full price, then cooking up a feast for friends the same day or filling my freezer.
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May 2, 2014 00:01
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I got a whole chicken for like 90¢/lb the other day, and I live in Mississippi. This was at a super thrifty local grocery store though, not like a chain. I understand food in America is crazy crazy cheap compared to most countries in general.
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May 2, 2014 20:34
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Why wouldn't you just make the broth from bones and veggies and add the chicken late in the cook to let it retain a not poo poo texture? ed: I mean I guess you're out of luck if you don't have any bones, but there's no reason to ever buy boneless chicken parts if you're even remotely concerned about being thrifty. Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 02:01
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Darryl Lict posted:Santa Barbara, in uh, California. I got a pound of asparagus, a couple of portabellos, a pack of 5 roma tomatoes, and a pound of grapes for a buck apiece. On the other hand, rent is really expensive. Holy poo poo gently caress you. I live in an area with inexpensive everything, but man.
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May 30, 2014 00:07
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I remember reading that it doesn't really eliminate jobs because a lot of places keep the same number of cashiers on deck since the automated lanes are always screwing up and a lot of customers can't manage to work them properly without assistance even when they are working fine.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:12
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I was literally just talking to a friend the other day about freezing burritos and what a game changer it is. I barely have to plan meals anymore. If I feel like making something without worrying about whether it'll feed me for a week, gently caress it! I can always just eat a burrito if I find myself without leftovers!
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Jun 14, 2014 00:34
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I made sixteen frozen burritos big enough to constitute a meal each for just under $17. I spent an extra $2 on sour cream on top of that for when I'm eating at home. I could have done it cheaper, but I sprang for the brand name tortillas since a shoddy kind would basically ruin everything.
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Jun 19, 2014 00:24
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Yeah, doing the pretend poor challenge while shopping at a store for rich people probably isn't going to work very well.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:49
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The other store she went to is Rouses which, for those of you not from my area, isn't outrageous or anything like Whole Foods, but isn't exactly a budget joint either.
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Sep 15, 2014 20:18
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Adult Sword Owner posted:Well not like Aldi or Savealot or whatever are Everywhere. They're pretty rare around here I get what you're saying about a lot of places, but the article author lives in New Orleans, where there are like a half dozen Savealots. She clearly didn't put a lot of thought into finding good prices as opposed to just buying stuff she thinks of as cheap.
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Sep 15, 2014 20:35
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I do a lot of depression cooking, but it's mostly just chicken and rice while drinking malt liquor. I think they might be different.
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Sep 18, 2014 01:49
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Rice has a ton of surface area, so I'm really wary of keeping it more than a few days for fear of it going bad. These posts make me think maybe I've been overly cautious, though?
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Oct 22, 2014 04:50
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I can spend essentially no money this month, so I've been having to get creative with my cooking. I had some flour for some inexplicable reason (I don't bake), but no yeast. So, I made hardtack for the first time. It's, uh. It's food alright.
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Nov 26, 2014 10:15
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I eat a shitload of broccoli. It just never gets old for me, for some reason.
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Dec 9, 2014 01:19
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Buy a whole chicken every single week and use it in 2+ recipes. Like, bare minimum you can get a pasta and a rice dish out of it that should last you a couple days each. I've been stuck on unemployment with odd jobs for several months and food is really easy as long as you don't ever buy anything that's premade. You'll get sick of rice and probably miss pizza or whatever, but it's a good way to get creative with your food that'll benefit you even after you aren't a wretch anymore.
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Jan 9, 2015 10:44
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Got inspired by this thread to make my own pizza for the first time tonight. Turned out pretty well. I used leftover chicken, canned crushed tomatoes I spiced up, some pineapple, and some cheap shredded cheese. I've never made any bread before aside from hardtack, so I did go lazy a little bit by getting a little 75¢ pack of pre mixed flour. Next time I'll grab some yeast and try doing it myself. With how little cleanup there was, this may become a convenient new way for me to use up leftover meat and vegetable bits.
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Jan 10, 2015 09:28
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Using this thread helped me survive and not eat like poo poo when I was on unemployment, and probably the best feeling after my recent first paycheck was buying an avocado and some mushrooms without feeling intense financial dread for the first time in years.
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Jun 17, 2015 02:44
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Just buy a whole chicken every time unless you have a specific recipe you're going for. You get variety and it's almost always cheaper. It's incredibly easy to carve up after the first couple learning attempts and you feel like a loving chef even though you just seasoned a big piece of meat and popped it in the oven for a little less than two hours
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Aug 5, 2015 05:23
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Except breast meat is expensive as hell since everyone wants boneless skinless low effort bullshit. Thighs is where it's at though. Almost as cheap as a full bird (nothing is, whole chicken all day), but with more flavor per pound. And if you learn to cut that poo poo after cooking, you can make some bonkers stuffed dishes to impress people.
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Aug 14, 2015 05:04
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Yeah breast meat is still good, but it's def the worst part. It requires more thought to use since it's not very good at all by itself. I'm just going to come out and ask what you mean by "chicken asses" because I can't figure it out.
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Aug 15, 2015 02:16
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Yeah I've noticed my own cooking frequency and quality go down pretty sharply since getting a full time job, and I'm only doing like 50 hours a week and don't have any kids.
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Aug 21, 2015 21:42
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I splurged on a couple packages of ribeye for $6/lb because they were reduced for being about to expire. None of the people I'm cooking them for have to know that though 
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Aug 23, 2015 18:26
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EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:Yeah, that term has various levels of terribleness, ranging from not-too-awful to full-on-super-lovely-thing-that-you-should-never-say. I've never heard another American say it, but I just assumed it was super racist since that's the only way I've ever heard it used by Europeans in media.
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Dec 6, 2015 20:21
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http://imgur.com/G71gIGR Rice cooker, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, chuck roast, and enough wine to cover it all. Either gonna be a disaster or incredible.
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Dec 16, 2015 02:45
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My entire apartment smells like wine. I committed the sin of popping the top to look at my creation, wasting some cooking time, but it was worth it to find that everything looks good. Wine stew is on track
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Dec 16, 2015 04:56
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But Not Tonight posted:it took me a second to see it but you definitely had to break out tools to get that wine bottle open, I hope this meal was worth the effort Yeah I didn't realize I don't own a corkscrew until I had already added everything else to the pot. The screw and claw hammer method worked no problem though. It came out great, but it was too late when it finished for me to try thickening the wine and juice into gravy. I'll do that today and probably put it over rice.
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Dec 16, 2015 17:38
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Yeah, my rice cooker has seen me through rice and tuna times I was so poor I was shuffling naked around my apartment in pitch darkness with no AC in Mississippi summer, and today it's making me wine roasts. Truly a friend for all seasons.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:23
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So I cooked a duck for the first time. I'd bought it on a whim and had it in my freezer for awhile, but I'm about to move so I'm emptying my fridge. It's ok. I love that the breast meat is actually good by itself, unlike chicken. The skin had a sheath of fat attached that tastes kinda fishy and is super rich but still good to work a little into a bite of the actual meat. The bones are way more dense and take up much more of the bird than I'd expected. A chicken's weight is mostly meat, but I'd say this duck's bones make up maybe half of its weight. I think I'll stick to whole chickens except for special occasions, but it was a nice experiment.
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neogeo0823 posted:Where do you even get your ducks from? Here in Western New York, we have tons of wild ones, but no one except the big chain stores sells them, and they're already cooked in most cases and like $$$/lb. I live in Mississippi, so it was a regional chain called Rouses. I bought it so long ago I don't remember the price, but I'll try to remember to check if I go by there tonight.
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I guess I couldn't be a farmer, since I feel like spending more than a few months with most animals would endear them to me enough to make it difficult for me to kill them. I could definitely raise and kill a goose though, hateful creatures that they are. Catfish are as delicious as they are bastards too. edit: to be honest, that's mostly if I only have a couple. If I had a hundred cows, it'd probably be pretty easy to kill some
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coyo7e posted:Here's a kind of fun and interesting interview with a "hipneck" who tends to turn all of his livestock into pets. He talks about the emotional connection a lot. http://www.rumblestripvermont.com/2016/03/a-beer-with-ben-hewitt/ Good link. I grew up in Mississippi, so I'm very comfortable with guns and killing wild animals, but the idea of raising them and being familiar with them on a smaller scale puts me off. I've never tried it, but I know that I'm a big animal lover. I'll treat a dog almost as well as I will a person, since they're our evolution buddies, but I also go out of my way to help turtles and even frogs from being hurt unnecessarily. I have zero qualms with stock animals being slaughtered, but I dunno if I'd want to do it if I were raising, say, a pig every day to kill them after a year or whatever. If you brought me a goat and said, "hey kill this and you can have the meat," I'd go for it in a second because that poo poo is delicious. I'd have difficulty if I'd raised it myself.
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neogeo0823 posted:Cucumbers do not cause weird gas problems in most people. Yeah I mean, I know different people have different reactions to foods, but I've never once heard of cucumbers causing gas, so it must be pretty uncommon.
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I'm of the opinion that anything breasts can do, thighs can do better and more cheaply, but keep in mind for your final product that the thighs are gonna be juicier. So where I'd normally add x amount of mayo for moisture to a chicken breast salad sandwich mix, I'd use a little less when using thighs.
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