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If you have some frozen pizza of questionable quality and also some old buns or bread lying around that you were about to throw out try the following:

Bake some garlic bread with the frozen pizza. Scrape the toppings onto the garlic bread when everything’s done and throw out the original pizza crust. 9 times out of 10 it will taste far better than whatever shitty dough was used for the pie.
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Throwing frozen veggies into the ramen pot
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hipster holocaust wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:07 am Throwing frozen veggies into the ramen pot
This is the big one, i figure. Throwing frozen broc into the pot, then adding eggs. Throw away that fucking seasoning packet, drain the water (so its not a soup) and use some olive oil and soy sauce. It becomes a halfway decent meal at that point... i guess you might as well use rice instead of ramen, but either way this is some really solid brokefood.
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I mean it's winter right now and vegetables are a lot more expensive than in summer, but why don't you guys buy garlic, cherry tomatoes, and spaghetti, and make spaghetti alio e olio? If you're feeling fancy, invest in a bottle of decent olive oil (can't be much more than 5 bucks or so) to replace the cheaper oil you possibly have at home. A bittle of olive oil will last you forever if you don't drown everything in the stuff. Or is the clichée about fresh produce being stupidly expensive in the US actually true?
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THE KILL wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:04 am I mean it's winter right now and vegetables are a lot more expensive than in summer, but why don't you guys buy garlic, cherry tomatoes, and spaghetti, and make spaghetti alio e olio? If you're feeling fancy, invest in a bottle of decent olive oil (can't be much more than 5 bucks or so) to replace the cheaper oil you possibly have at home. A bittle of olive oil will last you forever if you don't drown everything in the stuff. Or is the clichée about fresh produce being stupidly expensive in the US actually true?
No tomatoes in aglio e olio. Maybe some chili pepper.

Also 5 euro bucks olive oil? :barf


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A 2 litre of olive oil from Costco will last a real long time.
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Eight Bit Alien wrote: Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:54 am
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Perhaps it’s because I live in a disgustingly expensive town, but a half liter of decent EVOO not cut with sunflower oil or other shit is like ten bucks
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AskForRaffo wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:55 am
THE KILL wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:04 am I mean it's winter right now and vegetables are a lot more expensive than in summer, but why don't you guys buy garlic, cherry tomatoes, and spaghetti, and make spaghetti alio e olio? If you're feeling fancy, invest in a bottle of decent olive oil (can't be much more than 5 bucks or so) to replace the cheaper oil you possibly have at home. A bittle of olive oil will last you forever if you don't drown everything in the stuff. Or is the clichée about fresh produce being stupidly expensive in the US actually true?
No tomatoes in aglio e olio. Maybe some chili pepper.

Also 5 euro bucks olive oil? :barf


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You live in the US? It's easy in Germany to get a half litre bottle of decent olive oil for under 5 bucks you know... as for the rest, just try the cherry tomatoes, give them a good fry, you'll thank me later. Fucker.
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hipster holocaust wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:20 pm Perhaps it’s because I live in a disgustingly expensive town, but a half liter of decent EVOO not cut with sunflower oil or other shit is like ten bucks
Wasn’t there some expose awhile back showing that basically all olive oily is cut with Valvoline even the fancy expensive shit.
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Cheap and not garbage invariably means rice

Coconut rice is cheap and so good, and pairs well with like 90% of proteins. Cook rice in equal parts coconut milk and water, add 1 Tbsp sugar and 1/2tsp salt for every can of coconut milk. Excellent when fresh, otherworldly days later as a base for a fried rice.Take any meat and make it a masala: cook down a yellow onion, add in garlic and ginger until fragrant; stir in can crushed tomatoes, garam masala, cumin, coriander, paprika; add in your (precooked) protein and go slow and low for 20-30 minutes? If doing tofu, you'll want to make this masala, use it to marinade the tofu for 2-4 hours, and then finish it off in a bottom-rack broiler until it starts to char

Rice and beans, classic. (Maybe the best cheapo protein?) Easy mode: can of black beans, adobo, call it a day. Want to get only slightly more advanced, pinto beans in a crock pot with your fat of choice (lard is best, olive oil is for f-slurs), water, spice blend (cumin, garlic powder, garlic salt, onion powder, salt, pepper). Cook while you're at work.

If you're not afraid to do some frying in oil, falafel is a good rice accompaniment; store brand cans of chickpeas are usually less than $0.75 per. Toast your rice with turmeric and cumin before preparing. Classic white sauce recipe is a blend of mayo/Greek yogurt, vinegar, dill, salt/pepper/sugar; red sauce is bell pepper, harissa, garlic, cumin, sumac, salt.

Real lazy worthless f-slur hours, do Roy Choi ramen: prepare as on the package, poach an egg in the broth, finish with a pat of butter, slice of American cheese, toasted sesame seeds (or use furikake if you have ever tasted dick); also can be combined with pan fried Spam or hot dogs and rice to make a sort of third-rate budae jjigae knockoff
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cxwx wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:23 pm
hipster holocaust wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 12:20 pm Perhaps it’s because I live in a disgustingly expensive town, but a half liter of decent EVOO not cut with sunflower oil or other shit is like ten bucks
Wasn’t there some expose awhile back showing that basically all olive oily is cut with Valvoline even the fancy expensive shit.
I got a fuckton direct from a farm where I spent some of my honeymoon in Sicily, it was fucking $$$$ but worth every god damn penny :mastoman:
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Toilet Fleet wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:31 pm
If you're not afraid to do some frying in oil, falafel is a good rice accompaniment; store brand cans of chickpeas are usually less than $0.75 per. Toast your rice with turmeric and cumin before preparing. Classic white sauce recipe is a blend of mayo/Greek yogurt, vinegar, dill, salt/pepper/sugar; red sauce is bell pepper, harissa, garlic, cumin, sumac, salt.
In my experience you gotta use raw beans that are soaked overnight and not cooked ones. The starches in the cooked / canned beans won't bind and the falafel will fall apart.

Falafel batter freezes really well so you can make a gallon of it and parcel it out.
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Geeheeb wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:05 pm
Toilet Fleet wrote: Mon Mar 06, 2023 3:31 pm
If you're not afraid to do some frying in oil, falafel is a good rice accompaniment; store brand cans of chickpeas are usually less than $0.75 per. Toast your rice with turmeric and cumin before preparing. Classic white sauce recipe is a blend of mayo/Greek yogurt, vinegar, dill, salt/pepper/sugar; red sauce is bell pepper, harissa, garlic, cumin, sumac, salt.
In my experience you gotta use raw beans that are soaked overnight and not cooked ones. The starches in the cooked / canned beans won't bind and the falafel will fall apart.
Not even after draining them for like 5 minutes? I find it difficult to believe all those assholes on like every corner in nyc use the fresh method, but, maybe 🤔
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dry beans are a lot cheaper
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:?: :?: :?: Bread crumbs are a perfectly fine binder for canned chickpeas re: falafel

Just remembered another off the shelf combo that slaps: ramen of preference + 1/2 can of cream of whatever soup: mushroom has the most well-rounded savoriness and combines with all flavors well; chicken is mid but meshes okay with non-chicken ramen; celery is great but harder to find; potato is fine but harder to find.

Cannot overstate how fuckin hard the balance between cheap and time-efficient can be. It was hard on WIC and food stamps, and it's not that much better now that I can "afford" (lol) to pay retail for a wider selection of foods.
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i keep making aglio olio even if i don't have parsley
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Toilet Fleet wrote: Tue Mar 07, 2023 8:26 am :?: :?: :?: Bread crumbs are a perfectly fine binder for canned chickpeas re: falafel
For sure, the title is cheap meals. What is cheaper: "Canned Beans + Bread Crumbs" vs "Soaked Beans + Food Processor // meat grinder"?

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