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Lolwut Sun 01 May 2011 21:09:00 No.2778523 View View Reply Original Report

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CK I have 10 bucks and a bag of rice. (5lbs) What can I purchase for the rice to make it last a week till payday. (Thursday)

I figured 24 eggs is 3 bucks. So 7 dollars. Go!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 21:14:00 No.2778537 Report

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big block of cheddar and ketchup. can't go wrong.

Lolwut

Lolwut Sun 01 May 2011 21:17:00 No.2778541 Report

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Isn't cheddar kind of expensive? But ketchup is a great idea. Let's say 3 for ketchup.

4 bucks left.

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 21:21:00 No.2778549 Report

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maybe over there, here you can get a kilo block of store brand cheddar cheese for like three bucks.
also, beef stock or chicken stock [or vegetable if you prefer]

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 21:22:00 No.2778552 Report

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>>2778541

You idiot. Go into a fast food restaurant and grab a few packages of ketchup and condiments. Herp.

Buy a bag of black beans. They cook in about two hours. They are one of the healthier, more flavorful, and quicker cooking beans. If you really want to stretch your dollars, get the pinto beans. They're cheaper than anything, as far as I know.

Three dollars ought to get you five pounds, I would think. Get a bottle of hot sauce to make it interesting. That's a dollar. I like tapatio.

You still have three dollars left! :-) Buy a package of sausages or one of those Hillshire Farm ("Go Meat!") smoked summer sausages.

Or 6 lbs. of bananas. $0.52 a pound in my area, currently.

Or 5-6 heads of cabbage or bunches of collard greens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 21:22:00 No.2778554 Report

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Some beans and bacon and/or sausage.

Red Beans and Rice. EVERY MEAL.

Also you can get whatever vegetables are on sale and eat them with some soy sauce with the rice. Basically just make vegetable fried rice. Mixing in some diced cabbage with rice and eating it with soy sauce is also a really cheap way to get a lot out of it.

Buy a can of rotel and cook it in with your rice whenever you make and it with refried beans.

Cook it and then put Cambell's cream of Mushroom Soup on it, top with some bread crumbs to get a nice crispy crust on top...

If you have chicken or beef broth or are willing to buy some, you can cook the rice in that and it gives it a nice meaty flavor without being as expensive as buying meat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 21:26:00 No.2778567 Report

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>>2778554

I'm the post above yours. Eerie how much our posts look alike...

nb4 samefag

I've added a can of rotel to my rice before. I can say that it definitely works. You are the man.

If you add chicken broth to rice, you've basically made spanish rice minus some tomato sauce and cumin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 21:34:00 No.2778585 Report

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Nobody posted onions yet?
Buy onions.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 22:04:00 No.2778630 Report

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>>2778552
>collard greens
colored greens

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 22:05:00 No.2778633 Report

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>>2778585

Onions are a good idea. You could get three or four for a dollar.

Onions, broth, tomato sauce, cumin, cheddar, ketchup, rotel, soup, etc. are not going to bring a lot of nutrients (or filler) to the party.

They make it taste lovely, but are non-essential.

You've got 7 bucks and a bag of rice. You want to stretch it out with protein and fiber and the like.

Cabbage, greens, beans, root vegetables, and fruit.

That's all you need to know!

Lolwut

Lolwut Sun 01 May 2011 22:13:00 No.2778646 Report

Quoted By: >>2778651 >>2778652 >>2778666

Ok I'm back. Here's what I got for 10 bucks.

24 medium eggs. 3 bucks
2 loaves of bread. Each a pound and four ounces. 2 bucks.
Gallon of milk. 2.45
Jar of peanut butter. 3 bucks.

Should last me until Thursday no problem. I got like 6 handfuls ketchup and mayo from Mickey D's. So there's my flavor for the rice. Pinto beans were like 1.45 for a pound. That was the cheapest. I definitely have ALOT of ideas for payday. Any other cheap recipes for payday would be great. Man I need to apply for food stamps.

Lolwut

Lolwut Sun 01 May 2011 22:15:00 No.2778651 Report

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>>2778646
Correction on the peanut butter. It was 2 bucks not 3.

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Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 22:15:00 No.2778652 Report

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>>2778646

Have fun eating eggs and peanut butter sandwiches.

Lolwut

Lolwut Sun 01 May 2011 22:18:00 No.2778657 Report

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>>2778652

Necessary evil until payday. Better to eat than hope. Hope isn't filling at all. In any case, I need advice for cheap foodstuffs so when payday does roll around, I'm not destroying my paycheck to eat properly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 22:27:00 No.2778666 Report

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>>2778646

Not sure if troll.

You didn't use a single bit of advice in this thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 May 2011 22:39:00 No.2778682 Report

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Op, there are a lot of foodblogs devoted to people trying to eat very cheaply. Go do a little searching and check out dollar stretcher for some menu and cheap shopping ideas.

Lolwut

Lolwut Mon 02 May 2011 00:57:00 No.2778972 Report

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>>2778682

Saw dollar stretcher. Got any others?

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