Canned food is not the cheapest way to go. Dry goods are. Beans and rice you could do for a dollar a day.
You won’t enjoy it though.
Anon comes into some money
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bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 days ago
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
beans rice celery onion and bell pepper is like $8–9 and hopefully you have paprika and garlic and you definitely have salt and pepper. That’s like 85% of red beans and rice. Or if you can get some noodles and chili powder and an onion and diced tomatoes and tomato sauce and you got a pot of cinci style chili thats pretty damn filling.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 days ago
You can eat really cheap if you know where to look for food on sale and have the wherewithall.
I know a store that sometimes has discounted turkeys on sale at .50/pound, for a young turkey it’s like 7 bucks. That, a 15 pound bag of russets or two, about 5 bucks each, some carrots and celery, about 2-3 for about two pounds. After you eat the meat, boil the carcass with all the fat and everything with the carrots and celery, you can eat for like two weeks on that alone if you had to.
But eating turkey soup gets old.
curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Won’t enjoy it? Just learn to cook and buy some spices. Big bag of carrots, some onions, cellary. All super cheap. Splurge on one jar of chicken better than bullion. Add some cans of beans and dry pasta if you want and you have an excellent soup. Cook one big batch and you can eat it for days at about $1 per day.
Make a spicy Cajun red beans and rice.
I was broke after college for a while and got really good at shopping, meal planning and cooking, and still make some of those recipes today for my family because they are genuinely so good and comforting.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Just learn to cook and buy some spices.
OOP can not and will not do these things. In order.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
And even if you’re going with canned foods, canned ravioli is definitely not the cheapest way to do it. Buying dry spaghetti and canned pasta sauce is significantly cheaper (and significantly better tasting).
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It doesn’t take all that much to make a delicious rice- or beans-based meal. Though you do need to buy a few more ingredients. Bibimbap is a great rice dish. Emerald dal is spinach and lentils, but I’d put dried lentils in the same cost-effective category as beans (wouldn’t be surprised if they are a bean, assuming peas are also beans) and a batch could last you for a few days.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 days ago
I actually just spent like two weeks eating almost nothing except for rice and beans.
I had little in the way of spicing it up, some greens I foraged, oyster mushrooms I had foraged and dried, some homemade vinegar with some garlic powder while it lasted, maybe a bit of beet powder. Salt obviously. Pepper, cayenne, or chilie powder while it lasted.
Back on meat and potatoes for now.
Lentils, and peas are old world, beans are new world plants. The lentils and peas will cook quickly, while beans take hours of boiling to cook. That said last time I tried to make rice and lentils it didn’t taste as good idk why.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Naw, generations of very clever broke people have learned to do amazing stuff with rice and beans. Got some extra raisins? Sure throw em in. Cocoa powder that’s about to expire, why not. Some peanut butter left in the fridge and you got no bread, sure throw that in.
Oops you just reinvented mole.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Dream big, fella. Reach for the stars.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
2 kilos/4.5# rice, two dozen eggs,a kilo/2# of bacon, a bottle each of soy sauce and knockoff sriracha.
Go from $15 to $60 and eat like a sumo wrestler!
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Might want to throw a cheap rice cooker in there to avoid the inevitable mishap from anon’s likely unfamiliarity with operating a stovetop
huppakee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s only 14 nights and parents probably have insurance, I’d risk it at their age.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And you’re never gonna have to eat sodium again!
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Not like canned noodles will have any less sodium.
Alternate: 4kg/9# cabbage, 2kg/4.5# onion, 2kg/4.5# barley or brown rice, box of bouillon cubes.
Wander@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Rice, beans/peas, TVP, then soy sauce and sriracha.
Bonus it can all go into one pot.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Absolutely!
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 3 days ago
Is anon speedrunning scurvy?
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Probably enough vitamin c in the tomato sauce to prevent that. Unless they’re big fucking cans he’s gonna be hungry as hell though.
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 3 days ago
Also, I doubt 2 weeks is a long enough period for scurvy to set in anyway
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I lived on chef b for like a year. Apparently they grow their own tomatoes.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
I wish I could buy a ravioli can for $1 …
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
$1 for Chef Boyardee on sale, but you’ll need to spend another $0.50 on toilet paper
Varesti@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Just put your thumb over the end of the garden hose.
TIEPilot@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And canned ravioli’s are terrible these days.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I like ravioli as much as the next guy, but I won’t pay those prices
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
This seems like 14 days of chemically laced, processed food being absorbed by anon’s body.
Klear@piefed.world 4 days ago
This seems more like a lifetime of that.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Rice, beans, butter, seasoning. Multivitamins
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I feel like peanut butter and tortillas is the way to go. Filling, protein, yummy and cheap.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You might even manage to gain five kilos in two weeks!
Shayeta@feddit.org 3 days ago
Peanut butter is an incomplete protein, WILL lead to malnutrition.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 days ago
2 weeks of ravioli can is considered human torture in 15 countries in the world.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
Ramen noodle
turkalino@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Nobody wants to admit they ate 9 cans of ravioli (the first can doesn’t count)
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 days ago
This is self-harm. Ravioli tastes fucking awful.
bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 days ago
The ravioli sold in cans is fucking awful. There are good raviolis. Just as frozen lasagna is pretty lackluster, but my homemade stuff is great.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Raviolis taste amazing. Chef boyardee canned raviolis though, truly awful
snoons@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Anon fasts for the vidya.
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Chef Boyardee, Totinos party pizza, and Hamburger Helper are how I got through college. He’ll be fine.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is exactly how a per diem actually works.
Go for it, anon.
phonics@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No anon. Because you made it already.🌠
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Anon could byy like 1 unit of g9vernment bonds and still have epenougu money for some vidya and countless ravioli cans
everett@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Upvoted because: fun to read.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Tajed knew you
Darkblue@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is the exact premise of a German TV series, where the parents leave the kids money for food while on vacation, and the kids decide to save the money by only eating … ravioli.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravioli_(TV_series)
the_disseminator@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Actually watched this series in my high school German class in the 90s.