I need help surviving!!! lol true story

[smokermore]

Sup every1. This may seem a bit stupid i realize, but i cant seem to grocery shop for shit. My gf and i been living together for bout 2 years now. before that we both lived with our parent and we our basically used to having someone else to the cooking and shopping.
Grocery shopping was easy at first, i just bought all the microwave shit, frozen dinners, canned food, junk food, that type of stuff. Well that junk gets pretty old and i cant stand it anymore. The past few times my gf and i go to the store, we litterally go up and down every isle. We get everything we could possibly want, and we never seem to spend more than 150$. But when we get home and unload everything, it seems like we still dont have shit lol. ill be so hungery some nights, but we dont have food, so ill just keep smoking weed to hide the hunger. Due to my situation, between my gf and i, we get about 300$ a month for food stamps, and we got allll this money, and we are still starving. Are we just pathetic and hopeless?
Can you guys just tell me some basic stuff yall get at the store? Stuff you love? Easy stuff to make, or anything really.

 

[blazin256]

wtf??! get some damn steaks, burgers, chicken and cook that shit. get sacks of potatoes and make french fries/mashed potatoes/baked. sloppy joes you just need 1 lb ground beef and manwich sauce. fuckin hamburger helper just 1 lb of ground beef. get plenty of tuperware and save what you dont eat, then when you heat it back up, shits even better.

 

[Sr. Verde]

Cooking for yourself is way cheaper dude.

Chicken is usually inexpensive and easy to make. Google some easy chicken recipes.

You could get ground beef and make some burgers if you have access to a grill of some kind (electric?)

 

[rene112388]

Ok so there is many things you can do... So I eat well used to be for 2 on 125 a month most often you can get big packs of meat for 8-10 bucks (where I am that is) what I do is I get some freezer bags and when you get home devide the meat just enough meat for a meal with maybe some for left overs in each bag... I get box pastas and rice usually 75cents to a dollar a bag of potatoes and powdered milk... Powdered milk is great for cooking you only make what you need and it is way cheaper to go this route also buy in bulk you can mix it up so you don't have to eat the same stuff the potatoes are great to have if you want some cheap simple recipes pm me and ill help ya out always been a bit less fortunate so I tend to be thrifty

 

[t@intshredder]

Look into some coupons, my friend ...or get a Costco or a BJs membership.

 

[Benassi]

I break into homes at dinner time and eat other family's food. Great way to save money, try new things. Careful of the second amendment supporters....

 

[purplehazin]

I break into homes at dinner time and eat other family's food. Great way to save money, try new things. Careful of the second amendment supporters....

Hahahaha

Costco is your friend. I got to costco weekly and make it out to a regular grocery store maybe every other week or so. You just need to buy a recipe book or go online and look at free recipes. There are forums just like RIU all about recipes and cooking and shit.

 

[rene112388]

Do you have a winco where you live? My favorite store you can buy in bulk or smaller ammounts also what do you like to eat maybe some can share their recipes with you have a great one for coconut chicken strips and home made mozzarella sticks not the healthiest but yum and its cheap you only need like one chicken breast for 2 ppl some flour double acting baking powder panko breading coconut and your on your way to delisousness lol

 

[miteubhi?]

Rice, beans, veggies, bulk products that require thought and preparation. I feel sorry for you. You are on a site for growing Mary and you can't feed yourself properly.

You have bigger problems. Stop growing pot and start an edible garden.

 

[edsthreads]

I always get plenty of veg i.e: carrots, potatoes, toms (canned too) celery, peppers, chillies, mushrooms, swede, leeks, onions, garlic

Then I get my carbs: pasta, linguini, spagetti, lasagna sheets, cous-cous etc etc

Then all my meat: minced beef, steawing steak, chicken thighs/drumsticks, lamb chops, bacon etc.

With all the above you can make loads of stuff like Lasagne, Spag Bol, Hot Pots & Casseroles, Curries..whatever you like really
It's so much cheaper than buying ready meals & better for you (so much salt in those TV dinners!) + most of it you can freeze especially the meat.. With the veg I don't use within a week I make up soups & freeze that..

 

[Mel O'Cheddar]

Before I begin let me preface by letting you know that I am 1) a culinary arts student 2) an avid cook (I'd be fucked if I weren't!) 3) broke as a mofo, and 4) a person who's been in your situation.

But I might be able to help.

Big hint: Make a menu! I make mine for me & the Spouse, I make it for 2 weeks 'cos that's how often we do the shopping. Look at the ad(s) before you go. Pot roasts are on sale? Put pot roast on the menu. Oh, hey, frozen pierogis! (Yes, I know, I cheat.) Throw them bitches on there. Make a note of how much it costs on your list. If it says "3 for $5", it's $1.66. Break it all down if it's on sale. I do my shopping at 2 different stores, so if it's cheaper at the other one, I get it there. Go ahead and throw some "cheat nights" on there. That's when you can have frozen dinners & crap like that, when you're just too fucking tired to cook. I get real fancy & write down what's cheaper where, for 'all the time'.

There were some great suggestions in this thread! Also think of this: If pork loins are cheaper than the chops, take them home & cut the loin up yourself. Then put some wax paper on a cookie sheet and put them on the sheet. Freeze them like that, put 'em in some Ziploc bacs, then you can take out just 1 or 2 at a time if you want. Same goes for chicken boobs, stew meat (there's another one you can do yourself, get that pot roast & cube it up), and lunchmeat too, but ham gets icky so don't freeze that.

Some websites worth checking out are www.food.com and www.allrecipes.com. You can type in what you have & it'll suggest recipes. You can even type in what you DON'T want too! (I hate mushrooms!)

Good luck with your attempt at better eating. If you have any questions please PM me! I'm thoroughly upset at the fact that something like 50% of all Americans get fast food AT LEAST 5 times a week. Heart disease ahoy!

 

[Stoner Smurf]

If you don't like cooking, you could do what I used to do. On your day off make a feast. A 15 course meal for 8. Package up all those leftovers and you have meals for the week. You only have to cook one time a week, then Mr. Microwave does the rest. Some things don't reheat well though, gotta make stuff that can be reheated.

 

[rambler420]

go get yourself a bunch of ground beef. Package it in 1 pound sections and freeze it. Get you a few different kinds of hamburger helper. That shit rocks.

Also, get yourself some of those blue Lipton soup prepackaged envelopes. On the back of those boxes are uber-easy recipes. Get yourself multiple cans of veggies. They're easy.

 

[ANC]

Don't go in the isles, all the fresh produce is on the outside, buy your meat, or chicken some potatoes and rice, some vegies and fruit and you'll be surprised how good it gets.
We used to live in the city and had a similar lifestyle before, now we get like half a lamb and a whole box full of veggies for less money than we spend on cooldrink in a month.

 

[Balzac89]

Get a cook book and grow up. If you don't care of yourself no one will. How the fuck can you not survive on 300 a month for food? I feed myself on 20 bucks a week.

 

[Howard Stern]

Get a new girlfriend! Why the fuck are you with a woman that can't cook? And for that matter were you raised by wolves? How do you not know how to cook?

 

[tinyTURTLE]

www.cooks.com

find stuff you like and make the ingredients your shopping list.
make enough everything for leftovers (except salad, they dont last well).
potatos (red, sweet or whatever you like) are awesome.
figure out what you want for a week of dinners, buy it and
cook as planned. as the week goes your leftovers will be daytime food and snacks.
like cook a pork shoulder roast and some taters.
next day the taters get fried up with some eggs for breakfast. and the roast makes sandwiches for whenever.
or quesedillas.
veggies help you poop (bonus knowlege).
learn how to cook the things you like.
learn to make soup (potato corn chowder with bacon?).

 

[Unnk]

macoroni meat and tomato (ghetoo spaghetti) 1lb of ground beef browned... 1lb of noodles boiled (any you like).... 2 cans of diced or halfed tomatoes (Cook the tomatoes in the beef after its browned and drained for a nice taste) ... mix with salt and there you go you got a meal that will last 2-3 days for 2 ppl

 

[4mula420]

i would be shopping for a new girlfriend that knows how to cook!

 

[Kodank Moment]

You dead yet?