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Okay, so I'm broke as fuck and on food stamps, and I'm resorting to this ramen noodle shit as my base source of carbs for each day of the week.
Thing is, I don't like those fucking flavor packets with those nasty shit in them and all that fucking sodium. I've actually eaten these without the packets and they were alright.
What can I do to make them taste good without the fucking packets? Put in some onions sauce? Cause like a bottle of cheap onions sauce is like $1.50 here.
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>>34440448
I know how to cook. I'm just on a tight budget of $45 a week (the food stamps) and food is fucking expensive and I want to make my money last a long time.
As I said, I needed a cheap tasty food that would meet my BASE daily carb intake needs. I did the math, and these noodles would cover that, at about $10 a week.
I just need a good base carb that's glucose starch based and not fructose sugar based, cause all that fucking fructose sugar is bad for my blood pressure and heart cause my doctor is saying I fucking up my body.
I already buy "real food". I buy jasmine rice and chicken and onions sauce and make fried rice out of that as my daily meal. I make my own sausage egg and cheese muffins every day, that's $1.16 a muffin.
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>>34440525
That sounds disgusting. Plus eggs are expensive, and I don't need all that fat cause it defeats the purpose of eating the ramen in the first place. I'm not going for a meal here. Just something tasty to give me my 100% daily value of carbs for the day.
Anyways, I think I'm gonna go with garlic powder for the ramen.
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>>34440525
Also, you're being very vague. Cooking ramen involves boiling water. Putting a "beaten egg" in there would wind up with a disgusting mixture of ramen and boiled eggs.
Have you ever eaten a boiled egg that was cracked open as it was boiling. Fucking nasty sulfuric ash tasting shit.
I don't know how the fuck you expect that to be tasty, but it doesn't sound tasty to me. Nasty shit.
It would make more sense to fry the egg separately with some oil and salt then put it in with the ramen after they're cooked.
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>>34440541
This is why youre poor because youre a fucking retard holy shit
Youve never about heard rice niggers eating this shit, its like basic ass fucking knowledge this is why I was so vague
Put the already beaten egg into the cooked ramen, also the ramen must be hot in order for the egg to cook, and just mix
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>>34440599
No, it's not basic ass fucking knowledge. I don't know how the fuck "rice niggers" eat their shit cause I'm not a "rice nigger". You're an idiot to assume that I or anyone should know how everyone else cooks their food. And who the fuck gets annoyed at being asked how they cook their food. Who the fuck do you think you are? Gordon Ramsey? Get the fuck out of my thread and go fuck yourself you piece of shit.
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>>34440510
$45 per week is doable for one person. Assuming I had literally nothing I'd go to Aldi and buy
>2gal milk, $5.40
>butter, 16 oz, $2.99
>1 dozen eggs, $1.66
>12 grain bread, 24 oz., $2.40
>14oz kielbasa, $2.89
>3ct. pork chops, ~22oz, $5.39
>2 cans green beans, $1.44
>2 cans sweet corn, $1.42
>1 can kidney beans, $0.85
>1 can black beans, $0.85
>1 can corned beef hash, $2.69
>1 can sardines in hot sauce, $0.99
>frozen onion and pepper blend, $2.09
>frozen Asian medley, $1.59
>3lbs brown rice, $2.09
>baking potatoes, 5lbs, $2.79
>bunch of bananas, $0.64
>bag of apples, $2.69
>2 7.5oz macaroni and cheese, $1.20
That's a total of $42.06 but I assumed tax would push it up. I'd have a fried egg and two slices of buttered toast for breakfast for three days, one slice of toast with an omelette made with two eggs and some of the pepper blend for two days, and toast with some of the kielbasa (~3oz) for two days. If you have the time and know how to cook you can make hash browns with the potatoes to spare yourself the monotony of toast. Have some of the fruit too.
Mix some of the onion and pepper blend into the corned beef hash, split it in two for two lunches. A cup of rice, a can of beans, and some of the vegetable medley makes three more lunches. Other half of the kielbasa, a little frozen veg, and one of the mac and cheeses gives two more lunches. I didn't budget for sauces or seasonings but if you have any add them to the individual portions to get some variety. Honestly just fucking shoplift them if you don't because you'll want to kys otherwise. And again, add some fruit.
For dinners you'll have the pork chops for three nights, baked or mashed potatoes, and some of the canned vegetables. Again if you've got sauces use them. Three more dinners will be the same as the rice lunch. Use 4 eggs and different vegetables. Last mac and cheese straight for the last dinner.
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>>34440832
I'd have some extra stuff from this. It'll carry over. Deenz and rice; a medley of green beans, potatoes, and sausage with some melted butter and herbs as a "sauce," and are additional options. I'd try to buy yogurt or cheese with some extra money too because it's nutritious and I really like it. You can do something very similar with tomato paste, pasta, or pre-made pasta/alfredo sauce, I'd probably do that the next week just to keep mixing it up. Oatmeal, cornbread mixes, and pancake mixes are other good options I didn't go for. You can also get chicken or other meats for similar prices to the pork and there's all kinds of things you can do with those besides just pan-frying them. Spam is also pretty good value but I'd get the reduced sodium. If you're dead set on Ramen mixing in some of those frozen vegetable medleys, cheap meats, and chili powder will make it a decent meal. If the flavor packet is too salty just don't use the whole thing.
I also assumed you have a decent amount of tupperware. If you don't obviously this doesn't work, but I would straight up skip meals if I had to to get those things.
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Also if you're a brokie go to a food pantry, Salvation Army, or Interchurch. They will give you basic goods like this for free if you need it, or give you a decent meal that'll let you either save a bit more for next week or eat a somewhat better diet. Shit is hard but society has not collapsed, you don't have to give yourself African starver diseases eating nothing but salt and carbs.
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>>34440841
It's always nice to get a look at what other people buy for food and how they eat it. Thank you for the effort you put into this post. Much appreciated.
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>>34440355
>Okay, so I'm broke as fuck and on food stamps, and I'm resorting to this ramen noodle shit as my base source of carbs for each day of the week.
Why?
I mean, of all the pastas in the world, why ramen noodles? Buy a box of elbow macaroni for the same price and you have meals for days. Buy a jar of pasta sauce and a bag of dried beans and then you can make pastafazool (Pasta e Fagioli), which is a complete protein (instead of just carbs) that will last you an entire week.
All you need is a pot, a storage container, and a refrigerator-- so if you're not homeless then you're eating the wrong cheap pasta.
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>>34440832
Damn your Aldi is cheaper than mine
>>34440355
Get some unagi eel sauce from Walmart and put some eggs in there man
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>>34441134
>I mean, of all the pastas in the world, why ramen noodles?
Because I haven't eaten ramen noodles in years? Also I like the taste and I'm craving that right about now. I hate pasta though. Unless it's mac and cheese. My daily meat and potatoes carb is rice.
>All you need is a pot, a storage container, and a refrigerator
Yes, I have all of those.
>>34441173
No, no eggs. This has to be strictly carbs.
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>>34441184
>My daily meat and potatoes carb is rice.
Why not potatoes?
Also if you're not eating enough meat then please pair your pasta and/or rice with legumes. A grain (rice/wheat/corn) plus a legume is how you get a complete protein FOR CHEAP.