The Unofficial Kiwi Poorfag Resource Thread - share recipes and resources for your area (both government and personal) here

[FatalTater]

Not sure if it's been mentioned and I don't want to read the whole thread right now BUT
if you need household cleaners but have no money? Vinegar, baking soda, salt, lemon juice are all considered FOOD and can be purchased with EBT.
Instructions on how to use them are all over the internet.
Spices are also considered food and putting a little cinnamon and clove in a warm pan for a little while can make the house smell nice, if you like that sort of thing but don't want to pay for air fresheners.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Another thing to know if your on EBT, local farmer markets done by your towns usually can accept it and are cheaper produce then supermarkets.

 

[deputydogshit2.0]

Lots of supermarket delis sell their cheese ends. That’s the cheese that is now too small to be cut on the slicer. My regular market puts several varieties of cheese in one package. I have gotten 3 lbs for $2.00 many times.

It is the best cheese for making homemade macaroni cheese.

If your store is also selling some ham ends you’ve got a meal the young people in your family will love for low, low cash.

 

[Friedrich Hayek's Ghost]

My favorite poverty meal is neckbones and rice.

Get a couple packs of neckbones, pork or beef, depending on preference. Optionally, rinse them off. You shouldn't need to do this, but a lot of butchers really half-ass the cleanup after the bone saw goes through. Toss them in a big stockpot with seasonings (Worcestershire sauce helps a lot with flavor and making the meat taste "meatier") of your choice, and boil the hell out of them for a couple hours. Full on, rolling boil, covered. Top off the water as needed; I typically don't need to. You can boil them longer if you want, but a couple hours is my personal minimum. It's like chili in that it's edible long before it's "done". Whenever you're good and goddamn ready, pull the neckbones out and cut the heat. Use the water (it's stock at this point) in place of water to cook the rice. Give the neckbones a bit to cool, but don't let them hit room temperature, then pull all the meat off of the bones. Put the meat on the rice and serve.

It's filling, and cheap as fuck. Two pounds of neckbones where I live is less than ten bucks. The real trick is that everything else you cook that calls for water can be improved with the stock that happens as a byproduct.

 

[Fields Of Rye]

Not quite a poorfag but something I learned in my college days, bread is one of the cheapest, "high use" foods you can make. You can get flour incredibly cheaply and im 99% sure through foodstamps and if you know the right places you are looking at a loaf of bread for around 40 cents. It takes time, but once you hit a schedule it's fairly easy and if I could do it with 9 hours in the lab + classes I'm sure some of you have a chance.

What do I mean by high value? Toast in the morning, sandwich for lunch, soup with bread for dinner. Have a date? Go on a hike with homemade bread with summer sausage and as someone mentioned earlier, cheap ass deli reject cheese. Suddenly you go from a broke ass nigga to an artisan.

Not to mention, making bread is one of those hobbies that is both useful and dirt cheap. 20 years from now, when you are married with 10 beautiful children whom you raise while telling stories of the great corporate sperg war of 2030, you'll still be making that bread, only it's challah bread and you are making french toast. Except people call it "Cloudflare" toast due to how fast they buckled when our greasemobiles broke through the Death Valley Firewall. and challah bread because you finally found a pair of khazar milker to call your own, having impressed her with your bread based financial saviness.

 

[CharcoalChkn]

If your work office/staff room has a complimentary snack cupboard, talk to whoever is in charge of ordering for it. See if you can convince them to order things like oats, frozen berries, rice cakes, fresh fruit, healthy and filling snacky things.

Granted I follow a very strict diet that requires eating those certain things, but it's saved me 10-15 dollars a week (not much but it adds up over a year) since I was able to get that stuff in our staff shared food cupboard. Can also provide at least some decent nutrition if you find yourself in a pinch where you are skipping meals at home.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

I go

Mormons are generally okay with you telling them you're not interested in converting and they'll drop it and help you anyway. Same with Catholics and mainline Protestants (Presbyterians, Methodists, etc.)

Evangelicals, JWs...that's when shit starts to get weird. I'd just stick to the above.

Muslims as well.
Ditto Sikhs. I've my beef with Islam but they see feeding the hungry as a true act of charity. You're also likely to score some of the best curry and naan you'll ever eat.

Olio is worth a try. If you're truly desperate, post asking if anyone has any food going or of people in your community can point you to resources.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Humans used to prize the organs for their nutritional value. As we became distanced from the function of killing to eat, turned into consumers and taught how to buy instead of create for ourselves, we moved towards eating the muscles instead.
Doing a soup? Add a marrow bone. They’re usually free if you’re friendly with a butcher.
Want actual nutrition? Rethink your stance on kidneys, liver, tongue and heart. Saturated animal fat is better for you than trans fats.
I’ll be honest, I do draw the line at brain but that’s based on one bad encounter.
I’ll eat cow foot, pig foot, pig tail, chicken foot. Love yakitori (bbq) chicken tails on a stick.
Protein is important and it’s crazy to see how much good stuff is just discarded,

chicken feet are delicious , they are also shock full of vitamin B and colagen.
A broth of chickel feet will make you feel 10 years younger. Its excellent to recover if you are getting back pains or muscle aches.

I also love pig feet and pig ears are also super good. Pig ears are wonderful chopped in tiny pieces and stewed with black beans and are super cheap.

chiken gizzards also make for really tasty recipes. I don't get why people throw the giblets away, they are healthy and taste good.

 

[NoReturn]

chiken gizzards also make for really tasty recipes. I don't get why people throw the giblets away, they are healthy and taste good.

Teach me, sensei.

 

[FatalTater]

If you weren't born knowing how to make biscuits, LEARN.
They're easy, quick, filling and can be served with almost any meal.
There are lots of recipes out there, but at the most basic they're just flour, shortening (or other fat) and milk. I've used water instead of milk out of desperation before and it worked out okay.

To turn All Purpose Flour into Self Rising Flour, add 1 and a half teaspoons of baking powder and a pinch of salt for every cup of All Purpose Flour you're using. I'm not sure why I capitalized all those words. lol.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Teach me, sensei.

I don't have anything fancy. Gizzards are pretty good just cooked with a simple sauce of some onions, garlic and tomato with maybe a little white wine.

Would do something similar with leftover giblets, cook them with some onion and tomato paste and just scramble them with eggs to stuff arepas or tortillas with it.

 

[Accept Only Substitutes]

There are lots of recipes out there, but at the most basic they're just flour, shortening (or other fat) and milk. I've used water instead of milk out of desperation before and it worked out okay.

Water instead of milk works in a whole lot of cases. Like in cheap ass Kraft Mac and cheese. I've even made strognaff hamburger helper (American prepackaged noodle/sauce/add meat mix) water successfully. It may not taste quite the same, but the boxed foods have so much going on in the sauce mixes that I can't really tell the difference. I pretty much only buy milk to make real mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving.

If you have a Seventh-day Adventist church near you ask them about their Dorcas program. When I was involved with them it was mostly clothes. Bigger Adventist communities (like near one of our universities) probably have more. If you qualify for it they give you stuff you need for free. Also a good place to take donations to. They use every bit to help the poor directly.

Some churches have bread or food programs. Some stores give them day-old breads they can't sell and they give the bread to whoever they can find who need it. Not just SDA churches either. In the case of my church they don't care if you don't attend - you show up, meet qualifications, get food - but they do offer optional Bible classes.

 

[CharcoalChkn]

Live in apartment building with an enclosed/underground carpark? Check the area with the large recycling and garbage bins. So many people just put perfectly fine furniture and rugs down there because they are too lazy to sell it or get rid of it themselves.

Recently picked up a super nice rug and an outdoor chair from things left down there, absolutely nothing wrong with them at all.

 

[Chan Buddhism]

Good and Cheap is a cookbook specifically designed for poorfags. All the ingredients are buyable with food stamps and it includes some general food budgeting advice. As for other cookbooks just go to libgen or the library idk.

Learn how to torrent because paying for a year of a VPN is way cheaper than streaming services and buying games. Your ISP most likely won't care if you're just watching something in your browser, but as long as you aren't a dumbass it's not hard to torrent safely and without your ISP getting on your ass. I wouldn't recommend thepiratebay, it's the most likely to have malware. In all my years on the high seas I've never gotten a virus.

If you're a college student, don't pay for textbooks. Libgen works spectacularly. I may be wrong but since Libgen is mostly a direct download site, a VPN isn't necessary. Tor is also an option.

Go to thrift stores near rich neighborhoods. That goes doubly so if you know your brands. Certain shit like gym equipment, sewing machines, printers are almost guaranteed to be there and there's no reason to buy them brand new. Also a lot of thrift stores have color or tag sales on certain days, or deals where you get a 10% discount for every month a piece of furniture's been in the store. I'd imagine a post-christmas thift haul would be possible, as that's probably where many people's unwanted gifts end up.

Get free plants from plant giveaways. Those might be advertised on Facebook or by your city hall. Or just dig them up if that's your speed

 

[Neverending23]

Probably not the most earth shattering poor people revelation-but I find for some meals subbing dry milk instead of gallon milk saves quite a bit and you can’t really tell taste wise. Also many food banks give that away for free too.

 

[AbyssStarer]

Learn how to make a pizza crust and stop paying upwards of $20 for a large pizza.
You can really cut spending by clipping coupons and buying store brands, my annual savings is at $755 from doing this. Being a quality whore isn't worth it.

 

[std::string]

Live in apartment building with an enclosed/underground carpark? Check the area with the large recycling and garbage bins. So many people just put perfectly fine furniture and rugs down there because they are too lazy to sell it or get rid of it themselves.

Similarly, if you live near a university with dorms, check when move-out is.

College kids just throw everything out for some reason. You probably won't find any cool furniture there but you might find some nice electronics.

 

[NoReturn]

for some reason.

• Rich kids = Can always buy more shit
• Middle-class kids = If they're moving out of dorms, they're usually tossing "dorm stuff" and will get "real stuff" when they get their first apartment
• Poor kids = If they go home over the summer, they are unlikely to have a place to store stuff, so they have to get rid of it

 

[CumDumpster]

Learn how to make a pizza crust and stop paying upwards of $20 for a large pizza.

To add on to that, even frozen pizzas aren't expensive. Walmart's store-made pizzas go for about $7.
Large pizzas have a diameter of 14 inches. Most pre-made crusts have a diameter of 12.

Of course, I've also made pizzas on quarter-slices of clearance bread and they turn out quite well.
Tomato sauce is cheaper by the can than pre-made sauce too. One would just need to find the recipe for whatever sauce you're making.

 

[Broadside]

I've got some good advice if you're a poorfag: steal stuff. My life was made infinitely better as a poorfag when I learnt shoplifting was easy in the right places. Not a long term solution though