{"id":276587,"date":"2018-11-27T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/27\/watts-of-dragons-yatahisofficiallyridiculous\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T02:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T02:02:31","slug":"watts-of-dragons-yatahisofficiallyridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/27\/watts-of-dragons-yatahisofficiallyridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

watts-of-dragons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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yatahisofficiallyridiculous<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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geardrops<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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jmathieson-fic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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amireal2u<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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taraljc<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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camwyn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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sunreon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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anextremelysadmeme<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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hagar-972<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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codeinetea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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vanishinginthepark<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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codeinetea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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cyborg-cat-girl<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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codeinetea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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cyborg-cat-girl<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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codeinetea<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

a pallet of ramen noodles<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I hate ramen noodles tho<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

hmmmmm<\/p>\n

bees?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Are you suggesting that I eat bees for a week<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is roughly what I make sure I have in my kitchen all the time along with rough estimates of local prices (MN). I buy a lot of things when they\u2019re on sale and stockpile them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

instant oatmeal packets with fruit in them – $3 probably and this can be breakfast all week and maybe even a lunch or dinner too since you usually get 10 packets<\/p>\n

bag of rice – $2-3 depending on size. 1 cup dry rice makes enough for about two meals depending on what you add in. if you get cheap rice, rinse it before cooking<\/p>\n

canned beans – usually under $1 per can – mix the can with your rice and you have a meal. chili-spiced beans will make bean tacos. Rinse non-spiced beans before adding to anything.<\/p>\n

Tortilla – usually around $3 but you get like 8-10 of them. Tacos, wraps, and quesadillas are all fair game here<\/p>\n

lettuce – $2 max around here, either a head of something or bagged precut depending on preference, use as a salad or on tacos<\/p>\n

protein other than beans of some sort – probably $5-7 for meat, $2-3 for eggs. sometimes I can get bags of frozen chicken breasts in this price range and each is usually 2 meals if I add in a bunch of veggies. fry\/scramble eggs and add to any of the options.\u00a0<\/p>\n

your favorite stir fry sauce – $3ish<\/p>\n

vegetables – $5ish. literally anything that you can 1. fry in a pan and 2. you\u2019ll eat. fresh carrots are usually pretty cheap. get frozen if it\u2019s cheaper and you\u2019re strapped for cash\/prep time on this part.\u00a0<\/p>\n

alternative to stir fry: \u00a0pasta (~$2), fresh tomatoes (~$2), cheese (~$3).\u00a0<\/p>\n

cheese and fruit if you have extra – look if your store has loyalty cards for free that you can load coupons on for cheese there\u2019s always one it seems like.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ahh thank you!!!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reblogging because there\u2019s never knowing who\u2019ll need it.<\/p>\n

Adding also: the single most nutritious food on earth is potatoes in their peel. Potatoes + some milk and butter = everything you need. They don\u2019t last all that long, but they\u2019re fairly cheap and the quickest cheat to \u201cHow do I not fuck my body up.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Cooked potatoes\u2019ll last a while in the fridge. Potatoes nearing the end of their useful lives? Cook them to half-done first, figure out what to do with them later.)<\/p>\n

Easiest baked potatoes: slice thinly but not paper-like, spread like cards, brush with oil (a silicone baking brush is totes worth the little it costs), spread salt and pepper (a little less than you think you\u2019d like), cover with foil, stick in oven or toaster-oven at 150C for 40min. (If you have the patience, at that point click up to 180C, remove the cover and add 10-20min.) Reheats well, lasts in the fridge longer than it\u2019ll take you to nom.<\/p>\n

Dead-Animal-Free Whole Protein: some legumes + some grain. AKA rice and lentils, or rice and beans. (Maybe some fried onion for flavor; onion\u2019s cheap and stays good a descent while. Fried onion makes everything taste better and keeps forever in the freezer, so frying up a bunch and keeping portions is not a half-bad idea.) (If going for the beans option – lentils are cheaper around here but fuck if I know what it\u2019s like in your area – dump some tomato sauce and oil in; canola or soy are best health-wise, and far cheaper than olive; avoid corn.) Oh, what does instant couscous go for in your area? It keeps for fucking ever, it\u2019s usually cheap, and it takes well to any and all added taste.<\/p>\n

If you get to choose, black lentils taste the best and need the least soak-time (0-20min), green lentils are best for cooked stuff and red lentils are best in soups. (Red lentils + potatoes + root vegetables of choice + spices; cut into small pieces, cook, run through the blender if you wanna [stick blender\u2019s awesome], freeze in portions.)<\/p>\n

When possible, get instant soup mix. Get the good <\/i>instant soup mix. (The kind that\u2019s not made primarily of sugar, yeast or both. The rest is optional.) Dump 1\/2tsp (or more, but start on the low end) into couscous, or chicken, or sprinkle over potatoes being stuck in the oven. Whatever. It\u2019ll make most cooked-food-type things taste better. And again, lasts forever on the shelf.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0 you can have eggs (goodness knows they\u2019re sometimes expensive), dump some tomato sauce in a pan (tomato sauce lasts forever on the shelf), add some oil, onion\/beans to cook in it, hot peppers if you wanna, then when it\u2019s nearly ready crack an egg or two in. Hard-boiled eggs last a remarkably while in the fridge, so when eggs reach near the end of their usable lives, just hard-boil and stick in the fridge.<\/p>\n

(Have eggs as often as you can, particularly <\/i>as you have brain-shit going on. You need all the eggs, salt, and 60%-or-more chocolate you can get. Brains are made of cholesterol and salt, so folks with neuro or other brain shit need more of both. Potassium is also aces. You know what has the most potassium? Tomato paste.)<\/p>\n

Grated cheese keeps in the freezer for ever. Grated cheese will make a lot of things taste nicer. Preserved lemon juice keeps forever in the fridge. Grated cheese + oil + lemon = instant and awesome <\/i>pasta sauce that\u2019ll liven up the weeks-old dry pasta in the fridge.<\/p>\n

Slices bread also keeps well in the freezer. Try to have half a loaf or a loaf. Dry bread gets cut in cubes, mixed with oil and the aforementioned instant soup, stuck in oven at lowest until properly dry, then kept in an airtight jar to add to soups.<\/p>\n

(Over-ripe tomatoes come cheaper. They get turned into soup or sauce, then frozen in portions.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

this is a very good post but why are we glossing over the fact that the alternative to ramen is bees<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

i have it on pretty good authority that bees are not<\/i>\u00a0an affordable eating alternative to ramen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, bees are expensive<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trufax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And speaking as someone who is also living off oatmeal, beans, and brown rice, if you need recipes, I have them!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today I made 16 bean soup with chicken sausage and it was crazy good and I got 8 servings out of the one batch (froze half). I usually get the cheapest beans I can find, and GOYA bags of beans are usually $1-2. I soaked them overnight,rinsed them, and threw them in a gallon lidded saucepan with 2 boxes of chicken stock (also on sale for $2), two bay leaves, sauteed green pepper, onion, and celery, some garlic from a jar, about two tablespoons of dried herbs de provence,and the\u00a0\u201cfancy\u201d bit was adding $6 bourbon and apple chicken sausages. You can actually sub veg stock for chicken and skip the sausage and make it vegan and it would still taste great.<\/p>\n

Oh and I\u2019ve been doing steel-cut oats. I don\u2019t buy the name brand ones, I just pick whatever store brand\/generic I can get for less than $4. They take about \u00bd an hour to make, but they\u2019re super tasty and I make 2 cups<\/p>\n

of dried oats at a time<\/p>\n

with dried cranberries and that\u2019s breakfast for 4 days at least.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been making black bean soup, red beans and rice, and curried potatoes and chick peas. I got 100 quart and pint take-away containers from Amazon for $20 and they all stack neatly and are perf for one serving of whatever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Additionally, depending on where you live, whole rotisserie chickens are something like $4-$7 and are easily 4 – 6 servings of protein and on TOP of that, if you stick the carcass in a ziplock bag and then the freezer you have excellent soup makings. Using bones in soup literally squeezes all viable vitamins and minerals out of the suckers. Soup made from lots of bones is great to keep around if you get sick, it\u2019ll feed and sooth you relatively easily and as you get better you can add noodles. ON TOP OF THAT, a quarter to a half cup of soup broth added to a lot of dishes also adds those nutrients PLUS flavor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s my \u201cHow to eat for a week on $30\u2033 post.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

don\u2019t forget Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 A Day<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yall are clutch for this lmao cuz ima need this for about the first month after I move<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reblogging cause who knows what your followers are going through rn<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

watts-of-dragons: yatahisofficiallyridiculous: geardrops: jmathieson-fic: amireal2u: taraljc: camwyn: sunreon: anextremelysadmeme: hagar-972: codeinetea: vanishinginthepark: codeinetea: cyborg-cat-girl: codeinetea: cyborg-cat-girl: codeinetea: I have $24 to last me til Friday, what should I buy with it? a pallet of ramen noodles I hate ramen noodles tho hmmmmm bees? Are you suggesting that I eat bees for a week This is … <\/p>\n

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