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

If you have access to an Aldi, you have good odds. A tube of frozen ground turkey, a jar of tomato sauce and a pack of spaghetti is all it takes to make you feel as though you're eating like a human again. I had to live like that once upon a time, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone remotely decent.

To anyone looking at this thread for advice in an extremely tight spot, I hope you'll pull through and make good food choices while clawing your way out of the hole you're in. Don't underestimate frozen variants meats, fruit and veg, but look out for additives. Still, remember that a $2 frozen pizza can be all it takes to be a guardrail from the ledge. Don't go hogwild on treats, but it's important to get something cheap every now and then to keep you sane. Aldi's chocolate bars should have you covered if they're still they way I remember them.

IDK if these have already been posted because I'm not familiar with this thread, but Boris has some advice for you too. Please enjoy his Slavic edutainment.
 
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Please for the love of money, cook your own food. Number one expense for many poor people that stay poor is beer, weed, and/or eating out. Buy meat on sale and freeze it. I had to start looking at what I was actually spending all my money on and making a budget because I'm retarded
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On the topic of weed, if you want to partake, baking your own brownies or other edibles is the best bang for your buck by far. Cut them up into small doses and freeze and they'll make a quarter oz last a month or more
 
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@Diet Coke 4 Life, I can't quote you, but your tip about cheap toilet paper has solved a VERY expensive puzzle for us! No more $800 fees for the septic tank guy!

Also, if you eat mince (hamburger meat) you can lightly crush a an of drained chickpeas with a potato masher and add them when you're frying. That and grated carrot will add volume and extra nutrients to your meal. If you're making lasagne, nachos, or anything with sauce added it is unnoticeable.

Chicken Hearts are Amazing!
I just cut them in half and fry in butter or another animal fat with onions and pre-boiled potato pieces. You can stretch this meal to feed more people by adding extra potato. The animal fat makes a BIG difference in taste and I have small children so need to make sure their growing brains have plenty of energy.

Plain white rice is a good substitute for cereal in the mornings. My kids just eat it cold with milk and sugar but occasionally I will heat it up. With sugar or grated apple and cinnamon. Its like having dessert for breakfast!


If your meal is a bit sad and you don't have any way of making it better then taking it outside to your yard or even better, a park, and all of a sudden its a picnic!
Even sandwiches and water for dinner is exciting when it's eaten in a beautiful outdoor setting. A, small hike to get there will stimulate appetites and make any food taste better!

Tomato soup (even super cheap cup'o'soup) is an awesome meal when you make a cheese sandwich with the butter on the outside and fry it till golden. It is filling and feels like a proper meal when you're down to practically no food...
 
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TismFarmer said:
@Diet Coke 4 Life, I can't quote you, but your tip about cheap toilet paper has solved a VERY expensive puzzle for us! No more $800 fees for the septic tank guy!

Tomato soup (even super cheap cup'o'soup) is an awesome meal when you make a cheese sandwich with the butter on the outside and fry it till golden. It is filling and feels like a proper meal when you're down to practically no food...
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First off, glad my tip about cheap toilet paper helped! I was sick and tired of paying through the damned nose for specialty toilet paper. When I discovered that Charmin Ultra-soft practically fell to pieces and vanished in the blackwater tank during transit from one campsite to another (just the agitation caused by the camper being in motion caused it to degrade to the point of non-existence), I decided it was pointless to go back. Now have been camping for 2 years on Charmin with no tank issues whatsoever.

To piggy-back on tomato soup - if you don't have enough cans to make adequate soup for your whole family (or they're starved, ravenous locusts like my household), add either the cheapest fucking pasta you have (I personally go with egg-noodle spirals - they're cheaper than elbow macaroni at my local grocery store) or white rice to the soup while you're cooking it. This will bulk up the meal considerably. A hit of lemon juice and some salt and pepper make it delectable, and compliment grilled cheese sandwiches quite nicely.
 
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If you have no health insurance or garbage health insurance and your medication copays at the pharmacy are high- ALWAYS try and use a GoodRx code. I have to take specific medication every day and usually my copays are about $390 for a one-month supply, but when I run a GoodRx code I only pay $30
 
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Diet Coke 4 Life said:
When I discovered that Charmin Ultra-soft practically fell to pieces and vanished in the blackwater tank during transit from one campsite to another (just the agitation caused by the camper being in motion caused it to degrade to the point of non-existence), I decided it was pointless to go back. Now have been camping for 2 years on Charmin with no tank issues whatsoever.
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It is also just the best TP in general.
 
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For my fancy poorfags out there.
This is food for a couple of days tou

Put the tomatoes and the feta cheese in the oven w some oil and almost all of the basil and a few crushed cloves of garlic for about 10-15 minutes.
Salt and pepper to taste

Take it out when the feta got some colour and mush it together in the pan.
Back in the oven and let it simmer while the pasta is cooking

Cook the pasta al dente.

Mix it all together
Top it w some basil.

Freeze what you don't eat and reheat later or just put in the fridge for the next coming days.

And here's a shopping list 💖
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I'm not a freedomfighter kiwi so maybe you can get these things cheaper somewhere else but I guessed Walmart is easily accessible to most.

Enjoy 🤌
 
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There is a wonderful book called Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown. It's for folks who are on a food stamps budget and it has a bunch of good recipes.

That tip about oatmeal and how you can change it to be sweet, savory, and other flavors? It has recipes for that. Popcorn? Has multiple ways you can add flair to it. Breakfast? Dinner? Lunch? Drinks? It has everything. Sandwiches, fresh pasta, dumplings, I mean everything.

And the best part is that it's free. There is a newer edition that has a few more recipes and information but you can easily pirate that on Library Genesis.

I cook from this book routinely because the food is cheap and tastes wonderfully. I actually bought the book because I thought it was so great that I needed the hard copy. One of my relatives loves the butternut squash soup from this book and they always get excited when I make it when squash is on sale.

Also Aldi and Lidl are your saviors if you live near some. Aldi has wonderful prices but I have fallen in love with Lidl and their myLidl app. It's essentially Aldi but you can use store coupons to bring it down even further.
 
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ATI Escapee said:
Found the site https://m.publicsurplus.com/
Auctioning off all kinds of unneeded stuff. I know bids usually compete last minute, but so many thing with no bidders.... once about 10 yeats ago I almost snagged a retired cop car crown victoria for a couple hundred dollars but right before auction closed someone outbid me lol
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Public Surplus is excellent, I snagged some Chromeboxes for $25 each, and they were shockingly powerful once Linux was installed. I highly recommend checking your region out every week or so, you never know what you can find
 
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Dried beans and peas are great but my favorite will forever be the extremely simple yellow pea soup or poverty risotto as I call it.
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I don't make it because it's cheap, I make it because it's really good.

The ingredients are dried yellow peas, fatty smoked pork belly, a large onion(maybe a carrot as well), salt, pepper, dried thyme, a bay leaf or two and a couple of allspice seeds if you have them, maybe a bullion cube.

Total price(estimated): ~€4 euros for maybe three-four kilograms of one of my favorite dishes and the piece of smoked pork belly is probably 80% of that cost, it can be substituted by adding anything fatty, salty and a bit smokey. When finished it can also be bagged and frozen, no problem.
 
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If you have housecats, do this.


It's not quite as cheap as she makes it out to be, though I suppose that depends where you are in the world. I got a 35lb bag of wood pellets from the farm supply store for $20 and the bins themselves set me back about another $30. I already had a drill. Even then, it's significantly cheaper than any other litter I've tried. I was skeptical, but I can confirm this works, the cats will actually use it, and it really does not smell (as in, there's no pee smell AND no horrible perfume/chemical smell, just a slight, yet pleasant, lumber smell when you're cleaning it). And the best part is, it does not track. I get so fucking sick of vacuuming up stray bits of litter all over the goddamn house, I cannot adequately express it. This is marvelous.
 
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If you have housecats, do this.


It's not quite as cheap as she makes it out to be, though I suppose that depends where you are in the world. I got a 35lb bag of wood pellets from the farm supply store for $20 and the bins themselves set me back about another $30. I already had a drill. Even then, it's significantly cheaper than any other litter I've tried. I was skeptical, but I can confirm this works, the cats will actually use it, and it really does not smell (as in, there's no pee smell AND no horrible perfume/chemical smell, just a slight, yet pleasant, lumber smell when you're cleaning it). And the best part is, it does not track. I get so fucking sick of vacuuming up stray bits of litter all over the goddamn house, I cannot adequately express it. This is marvelous.
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It's so good! I second this completely!
 
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Make your own electrolyte-rich mineral water. The ingredients are cheap and long-lasting in bulk, and the concoction will keep you energized throughout the day while staving off hunger, and ergo help you save money on food and related expenses.

You'll need the following in food grade form:
  1. Water (1-2 Liters [Preferably reverse-osmosis-treated or spring water])
  2. Epsom Salt (1/2 Teaspoon)
  3. Baking Soda (1/4 Teaspoon)
  4. Potassium Chloride (1/2 Teaspoon)
  5. Pink Salt (1/4 Teaspoon [Either mixed with the main drink or consumed separately as a sprinkling in coffee or food])
Mix them all together in a 1-2 lt bottle or pitcher (preferably a non-plastic one) and you're good to go for the day.
 
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If you have housecats, do this.


It's not quite as cheap as she makes it out to be, though I suppose that depends where you are in the world. I got a 35lb bag of wood pellets from the farm supply store for $20 and the bins themselves set me back about another $30. I already had a drill. Even then, it's significantly cheaper than any other litter I've tried. I was skeptical, but I can confirm this works, the cats will actually use it, and it really does not smell (as in, there's no pee smell AND no horrible perfume/chemical smell, just a slight, yet pleasant, lumber smell when you're cleaning it). And the best part is, it does not track. I get so fucking sick of vacuuming up stray bits of litter all over the goddamn house, I cannot adequately express it. This is marvelous.
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This is definitely the way to go.

Bought a 30L bag and it lasted over 6 months. Less stank too.

You'll have to do half and half with your existing litter for a couple of weeks to get your furball used to it.
 
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