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Ah, use sweet soy sauce, not the salty one. Well, you can use salty soy sauce as well (in fact, I like it better) in place of salt.
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zeroniv_legend wrote...
Ah, use sweet soy sauce, not the salty one. Well, you can use salty soy sauce as well (in fact, I like it better) in place of salt.I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, but there's a sweet soy sauce?
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You don't have one? Sweet soy sauce is much thicker than salty soy sauce. Open google and try searching 'kecap manis' (Indonesian for sweet soy sauce). Its taste is sweet and savory. Pretty a staple seasoning here.
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SolidShark wrote...
Please_don't_ban_me wrote...
zeroniv_legend wrote...
Ah, use sweet soy sauce, not the salty one. Well, you can use salty soy sauce as well (in fact, I like it better) in place of salt.I know I'm going to sound like an idiot, but there's a sweet soy sauce?
Don't worry, first time I hear that too. Also:
Try making pankakes (complete-just-add-water mix). They're cheaper making them yourself than buying them.
Tools: Pan, ingredients Pancake mix box and oil, maybe jelly or syrup.
1: Make mix according to box
2: Pour a bit of oil on pan
3:Pour a bit of mix on pan
4: Wait till golden brown
5: Turn over and add more oil
6: Repeat from 2.
Sometimes, I use a slice of hand and cheese instead of jelly or syrup, as if a sandwich.
Weighed it as an option already, dollar store oatmeal won out as I got more for the value. Still, I appreciate the suggestion.
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Yeah honestly with your monthly budget trying to get enough food for the month and being able make anything good is impossible.
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Ingredient:
Instant Ramen
Peanut butter
Hotsauce
wat do:
Make instant ramen in the cup, when it's done poor out about a little more than half of it (if your making it manually with a stove, you can find your levels), put a moderately big scoop of peanut butter in it, put a splash of hotsauce on it, and boom.
It sounds gross, but it's awesome.
Instant Ramen
Peanut butter
Hotsauce
wat do:
Make instant ramen in the cup, when it's done poor out about a little more than half of it (if your making it manually with a stove, you can find your levels), put a moderately big scoop of peanut butter in it, put a splash of hotsauce on it, and boom.
It sounds gross, but it's awesome.
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I live off 120 a month for food. Your best way to go is buy family size meats, chicken, pork, Steaks, and etc. You'll get about three meals out each pack if you eat two pieces of meat at a time, six if you eat one. Buy things like mashed potatoes, rice, Mac and cheese, vegetables, salad and etc to complete the meals. Ramen noodles are your friend, stock up like crazy, I have about 100 packs in my cupboards, also your favorite soups. Hot dogs and hamburgers get you through the month to.
Its all about planning meals and not just buying random things. Check prices on your meats not all of them have the same price.
Its all about planning meals and not just buying random things. Check prices on your meats not all of them have the same price.
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Kolish
butts
Medzy wrote...
Ingredient:Instant Ramen
Peanut butter
Hotsauce
wat do:
Make instant ramen in the cup, when it's done poor out about a little more than half of it (if your making it manually with a stove, you can find your levels), put a moderately big scoop of peanut butter in it, put a splash of hotsauce on it, and boom.
It sounds gross, but it's awesome.
You poor poor tongueless homeless man.
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Mr Hat N Klogs wrote...
Medzy wrote...
Ingredient:Instant Ramen
Peanut butter
Hotsauce
wat do:
Make instant ramen in the cup, when it's done poor out about a little more than half of it (if your making it manually with a stove, you can find your levels), put a moderately big scoop of peanut butter in it, put a splash of hotsauce on it, and boom.
It sounds gross, but it's awesome.
You poor poor tongueless homeless man.
:]
It sounds absolutely disgusting, yes; but it is actually really good.
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Medzy wrote...
Mr Hat N Klogs wrote...
Medzy wrote...
Ingredient:Instant Ramen
Peanut butter
Hotsauce
wat do:
Make instant ramen in the cup, when it's done poor out about a little more than half of it (if your making it manually with a stove, you can find your levels), put a moderately big scoop of peanut butter in it, put a splash of hotsauce on it, and boom.
It sounds gross, but it's awesome.
You poor poor tongueless homeless man.
:]
It sounds absolutely disgusting, yes; but it is actually really good.
I can corroborate that.
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Hello, what i do when im low on money is meny diferent ways on bolognese.
It will always be chepper to buy the fresh ingridient and make it your self. will take longer but soooo mutch better and helthier the redy microwave food is shit. You will feel so mutch bether if you eat fresh foods (what every you do dont buy the GMO shit it will kill you).
If you are lazy and buy the redy made food you will lose money in the end.
Basic Resepie:
1-2 onions depending on size
800g minced meat (about 1.5 ib)
about 400g cruched tomatoes (on can or simular/ about 0.75ib)
salt pepper.
how you do:
1. Chop onion put in a good sized pan (soute pan).
2. Fry on medium/high heat untill soft and almost transparent (put litle bit salt) .
3. Add the mince and mix with the onion and stir untill the mince is no longer red/pink (add litle salt and peppar).
4. Add tomatos stir (put some whater in the can and spin it so you get every thing if your poor you cant waste eny thing), lower heat to low and let reduse to preferd thickness and taste if needed put some more salt and peppar.
As you see its nothing spesial so i put in extra things that i have in the fridge like maby peppers, bacon, leek, blue cheese, cream, broccoli etc...
Hard vege like peppers and broccoli are chopped to prefered size (the biger the longer you have to fry them) then add it between step 1 and 2.
If you go with bacon you can add it with the onion but put down the heat to medium and you dont have to put as mutch salt (bacon is wery salt as you know).
I always add cream becose it tastes so mutch better with it, you add that on the end and bring to boil.
If you have some red whine left that you dont want to drink you can add some at step 3.
The most comon mistake while cooking is inpaciense! Dont ruch things let them thake there time and put lots of love in to it ;)
This is food for 3 persones or 3 meals.
If you want to have it diferent insted of using spageti use penne or some other pasta to not have the same spageti every singel day ;)
Good luck
It will always be chepper to buy the fresh ingridient and make it your self. will take longer but soooo mutch better and helthier the redy microwave food is shit. You will feel so mutch bether if you eat fresh foods (what every you do dont buy the GMO shit it will kill you).
If you are lazy and buy the redy made food you will lose money in the end.
Basic Resepie:
1-2 onions depending on size
800g minced meat (about 1.5 ib)
about 400g cruched tomatoes (on can or simular/ about 0.75ib)
salt pepper.
how you do:
1. Chop onion put in a good sized pan (soute pan).
2. Fry on medium/high heat untill soft and almost transparent (put litle bit salt) .
3. Add the mince and mix with the onion and stir untill the mince is no longer red/pink (add litle salt and peppar).
4. Add tomatos stir (put some whater in the can and spin it so you get every thing if your poor you cant waste eny thing), lower heat to low and let reduse to preferd thickness and taste if needed put some more salt and peppar.
As you see its nothing spesial so i put in extra things that i have in the fridge like maby peppers, bacon, leek, blue cheese, cream, broccoli etc...
Hard vege like peppers and broccoli are chopped to prefered size (the biger the longer you have to fry them) then add it between step 1 and 2.
If you go with bacon you can add it with the onion but put down the heat to medium and you dont have to put as mutch salt (bacon is wery salt as you know).
I always add cream becose it tastes so mutch better with it, you add that on the end and bring to boil.
If you have some red whine left that you dont want to drink you can add some at step 3.
The most comon mistake while cooking is inpaciense! Dont ruch things let them thake there time and put lots of love in to it ;)
This is food for 3 persones or 3 meals.
If you want to have it diferent insted of using spageti use penne or some other pasta to not have the same spageti every singel day ;)
Good luck
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NEXUS
Since 2010
Here's a good one.
Cheesy Bread
Ingredients
- 2 Slices of white bread
- 4 slices of cheddar cheese
Directions: Put cheese on each slice of bread facing up sitting side by side, put in microwave for 1 minute (or until cheese is melted) fold each individual slice of bread with melted cheese in half and hold until cheese works like glue and keeps the bread in a folded form. Eat with a fork and knife because that fucker is hot to the touch.
Cheesy Bread
Ingredients
- 2 Slices of white bread
- 4 slices of cheddar cheese
Directions: Put cheese on each slice of bread facing up sitting side by side, put in microwave for 1 minute (or until cheese is melted) fold each individual slice of bread with melted cheese in half and hold until cheese works like glue and keeps the bread in a folded form. Eat with a fork and knife because that fucker is hot to the touch.
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Holoofyoistu
The Messenger
Dude, best low budget meals? I m your man.
1.) start with a packet of top ramen, scrap the flavoring packet and add chunks of meat and cook the living hell out of it.
2.) make a pot of white rise and add a little water. Than put in cubs of bulyon and a little pepper and butter. Mix well.
3.) my personal favorite and a great meal. Take diced celery, snap peas and chale cook in a pan with Manila oil and add garlic and cumin to spice it up.
1.) start with a packet of top ramen, scrap the flavoring packet and add chunks of meat and cook the living hell out of it.
2.) make a pot of white rise and add a little water. Than put in cubs of bulyon and a little pepper and butter. Mix well.
3.) my personal favorite and a great meal. Take diced celery, snap peas and chale cook in a pan with Manila oil and add garlic and cumin to spice it up.
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First off, don't be proud...go to the food bank. Some of them might adjust what they give you based on budget, but most don't and you'll *never* go home empty-handed.
See if there's an off-brand store close enough for you to get to. They can go by names like Grocery Outlet or Food Rainbow (both places I've shopped before), and carry brands you never see in big-name chains. They're significantly less expensive than the big-name stores, at least for the canned goods.
Invest in two or three small spice mix jars. A dash of a carribean spice mix can make that pot of mac'n'cheese far more palatable, and they last longer than you might think.
This will suck but: reserve milk and eggs for cooking. Unless it's getting close to the "use by" date and you need to get more anyway.
Do you have a slow cooker/crockpot?
See if there's an off-brand store close enough for you to get to. They can go by names like Grocery Outlet or Food Rainbow (both places I've shopped before), and carry brands you never see in big-name chains. They're significantly less expensive than the big-name stores, at least for the canned goods.
Invest in two or three small spice mix jars. A dash of a carribean spice mix can make that pot of mac'n'cheese far more palatable, and they last longer than you might think.
This will suck but: reserve milk and eggs for cooking. Unless it's getting close to the "use by" date and you need to get more anyway.
Do you have a slow cooker/crockpot?
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TheBookie
King of Red
most pasta or rice dishes since you can buy those in greater quantity
Eggs are also a good source of protein and can be bought cheap if you know where to look
basic stir fries where you have limited waste on food - if u buy products where you have scraps, turn them into a broth (if they aren't hazardous to your health to eat) like stalk ends, onion root, potato skins
But just a simple egg fried rice works:
1) Cooled/day old rice
2) Egg
3) Oil
4) Salt/Pepper
5) If you are feeling fancy - some garlic
Heat the oil in a pan, scramble your egg, cook it, set aside
Mince your garlic, cook in the pan, add your rice
Chop up the cooked egg, and add to the pan
stir to heat evenly, add salt and pepper to taste
don't be afraid to use the scrap meat parts you see butchers, if you are lucky and get into a good relationship with a butcher, they will throw in a few extra ounces of meat in for you for free
Eggs are also a good source of protein and can be bought cheap if you know where to look
basic stir fries where you have limited waste on food - if u buy products where you have scraps, turn them into a broth (if they aren't hazardous to your health to eat) like stalk ends, onion root, potato skins
But just a simple egg fried rice works:
1) Cooled/day old rice
2) Egg
3) Oil
4) Salt/Pepper
5) If you are feeling fancy - some garlic
Heat the oil in a pan, scramble your egg, cook it, set aside
Mince your garlic, cook in the pan, add your rice
Chop up the cooked egg, and add to the pan
stir to heat evenly, add salt and pepper to taste
don't be afraid to use the scrap meat parts you see butchers, if you are lucky and get into a good relationship with a butcher, they will throw in a few extra ounces of meat in for you for free
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the refridgerator is your friend
follow what richrob and archon said, buy food by the bulk
choose deli meats or cold cuts for it's flavor
like bacon, if you buy it by 2 lbs you will have about 15-20+ strips
two to three rashers of bacon can flavor fried rice, a handful of french beans, asparagus, baby carrots, snow peas, almost every vegetable. you can also use spanish chorizo
have a variety of spices , rubs and sauces
if you're going to buy meat by quantities at least you can cook it in a variety of ways and flavor. roast, fry, stew...have small containers to divide it to so that you will only bring out and thaw what is to be consumed. you can also pre marinate it.
buy what's in season. mango? make chutney out of it very good with rice and pork.
onions? saute it and keep in the fridge for future use; french onion soup, meat extender for burgers and sandwiches.
I will add more probably... those are only what I can think of right now
follow what richrob and archon said, buy food by the bulk
choose deli meats or cold cuts for it's flavor
like bacon, if you buy it by 2 lbs you will have about 15-20+ strips
two to three rashers of bacon can flavor fried rice, a handful of french beans, asparagus, baby carrots, snow peas, almost every vegetable. you can also use spanish chorizo
have a variety of spices , rubs and sauces
if you're going to buy meat by quantities at least you can cook it in a variety of ways and flavor. roast, fry, stew...have small containers to divide it to so that you will only bring out and thaw what is to be consumed. you can also pre marinate it.
buy what's in season. mango? make chutney out of it very good with rice and pork.
onions? saute it and keep in the fridge for future use; french onion soup, meat extender for burgers and sandwiches.
I will add more probably... those are only what I can think of right now
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Okay, so I've been drinking and and here's what's going on.... I spend $57 USD per month and I just.. don't eat much anymore... Whatever, looking story short I'm poor and survive and I don't need more ideas. Thanks though, seriously, but whenever I see this thread I just get sad that my life sucks, so thank you all, seriously, but you're only making me realize that I'm just a loser, so please stop posting in this, please...
