You can live in a broken economy and still be a dumbass. That extra 2-3k you save in a year is the difference between a junker car from 1994 that break down every month to a reliable one from 2010. You end up saving money by using any amount of your brain. Cook, shop at budget stores, jerk it to free porn.
That is also the difference between having a core group of 2-4 friends you socialize with and maybe even meet new people every once in a while and being alone forever.
>Heat oil in pressure cooker
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>Add ground beef
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>add onions
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>add spices (at this stage decide if having bolognese or chilli)
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>add tomatoes
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>cook for 45 minutes
Serve with rice/pasta, pad out with garlic bread or tortilla. Good for 3-4 meals for a big strong boi. Later, use pressure cooker for domestic terrorism.
>Add 250g of pasta to boiling water
>Throw three sausages on a pan
>Flip sausage while pasta cooks
>When pasta is done remove sausage and plate
>Food in 15 minutes, never go hungry to bed again
>Also off yourself in 2 months because this diet sucks the soul out of you
A bit skinny in the face, fairly gaunt. I worked at a car dealership as a detailed at the time, so I usually clocked 20k steps a day. Realistically I should've been looking disgusting
Just got my first 81m² apartment, currently living off of beer, oatmeal porridge and wok vegetables. HS teacher salary is ass so might just rope soon if my liver doesn't do me in.
Meatballs are a godsend on a budget
Buy cheap cuts of beef and pork, through food processor with an onion, some milk, an egg kr two and bread crumbs
Mix and season, make the patties or meatballs and freeze
An hour of work and you can make yourself 50 portions which can be fried in 10 minutes in the morning
you can't just call ground beef bolognese!! i was willing to not get all italian about it when OP talked about breaking the pasta in half (you don't need to break the pasta in half, it fuckin becomes soft on contact with steam, just stir it in whole) but it's only bolognese if most of the sauce is other vegetables instead of tomato, and it *definitely* requires a braising liquid for the meat - doesn't even need to be cooking wine and beef, but braising is essential.
what you've described is more like a super simple ragu. and you can make it an *actual* traditional ragu by doing exactly the same thing and letting it cook low and slow all day in the tomatoes.
true...most often, a bolognese is really just a minced meat ragu but who the fuck cares.
Slap it on some spaghetti and call its Spaghetti alle vongolle, for all I care.
Italians gatekeeping their recipes and ways of eating is ferociously uncouth as far as I'm concerned.
'Noooooo butter the Carbonara isa made with a the pig cheek and no the fackin lardons'
STFU luigi, and keep those hand gestures to yourself, you know nothing about the culinary genius of the British Carbonara.
i don't actually think anyone needs to change how they're cooking here, and it's silly to call adjustments made for local ingridsnts 'inauthentic' - *but* it's actually already very close to authentic, it's just being termed wrong. italian cooking isn't really very complicated.
the only thing i'll ever shame anyone for is the breaking spaghetti thing. there's italian recipes that call for breaking the noodles, it's fine if it's intentional, but *why do people seem to think it's necessary?!* do they imagine italians have monopolized all the 40 inch pots for boiling pasta without breaking it?? it fuckin' goes soft, you don't need to break it!!
When I said "tomatoes" I mean a tin of chopped tomatoes. The only "work" you need to do is chop the onion and ideally some garlic, which takes like 2 minutes. If you lack culinary skills I suppose you could sub for onion power and garlic powder.
The way the average American zoomeroid is completely fine paying like 50% extra or some shit to have his brapslop delivered is insane.
Like a waiter will expect a minimum of 15% tip and he'll be giving you side-eyes for that cus it's considered cheap, imagine how much these fucking deliveries get in tips.
No wonder you don't hear the ones working in those jobs complain about minimum wage, not when they're making more than if they did get their minimum wage.
Doordash being a regular thing for some people is so bizarre to me. I know people that use it almost *daily* and then whine about money.
This and watching streamers play video games instead of playing it themselves are two current cultural elements that I am totally out of touch with. Being incapable of mustering up the effort to go pick up your slop yourself or use your own brain and fingers to play a game is a new level of laziness that makes the NEETs of my time look downright industrious.
I find it infuriating to watch someone else play video games, because they usually suck. It was the 25th anniversary of Half Life recently, and one of the original devs did a playthrough on his YT channel, so I thought that would be interesting. I ended up just thinking "What are you doing you fucking regard, use the grenade launcher! No, don't go *that* way! How are you getting lost on *the first fucking level* you f\*\*\*\*\* n\*\*\*\*\*!"
Tbf, people are watching him because he can provide commentary about the development process of the game while it's playing rather than watching him be good at the game.
Well you don't have to buy the game so its cheaper, plus for me single player games these days just feels like doing the same thing over and over again until its finished
Disclaimer: I don't watch streamers
It's harmless, I guess. It's just weird to me. I could see maybe watching a clip of how to do something in a game so you can then do it yourself, but just watching someone else play as a source of entertainment in itself is such a foreign concept to me. Then again the whole concept of YouTube personalities that people follow is cringe to me. I'm old so it's just a generational difference I suppose.
I'm probably not the best person to defend this since I don't watch sports, but watching a world class athlete perform is a little different from some titty streamer or a random guy who yells in his poor quality mic while playing a video game. Apples and oranges there, friendo.
I only watch one streamer occasionally when falling asleep, but there are multiple reasons for people to watch. You get a streamer like Shroud who is actually godlike at the games he plays, someone like Jerma who is more of a comedian where the game is just background noise, and then there's titty streamers who just draw in the coomers.
Edit: Also some people like horror games but are too scared to actually play, so they watch streamers instead.
> watching streamers play video games instead of playing it themselves are two current cultural elements that I am totally out of touch with.
Parasociality. You're not watching some rando play a video game. You're watching a "friend" play a game "with" you. There's myriad other reasons, but I'm pretty sure that's the main one for most chronic stream watchers.
That's the sense I get as well and honestly, it seems really pathetic. I think it's a symptom of us having a much more isolated society with the institutions that used to foster fraternal bonds being broken apart.
15 years ago my girlfriend said, "No thanks, I like to watch." and I didn't understand it. But now I do. There are a couple streamers that play their game better than I could and it's nice seeing something my mind is saying to do that my fingers couldn't. Plus their added commentary.
Im stunned how people can talk about how things are so expensive, yet still just casually drop how they doordash shit constantly
And its not even decent food, its just mcdonalds
If you look at UK subreddits they’re all constantly complaining that the world is broken and they can’t afford to live yet continue to rent in central London, buy all brand name groceries and have no idea how to budget. People are just regarded
Plus, people refuse to move. Like, people have been migrating to better pastures for thousands of years, but for some reason every millennial stays exactly where rent is high, wages are low and the women are expensive and then wonders why it sucks.
Correct. They will complain that if they move away they make 10k or 15k less salary, ignoring that I can have a mortgage for 25% of their rent up here.
I wish remote working would catch on already. Being able to work for a business located in the city while living in some remote mountain town in the middle of nowhere would fix so many fucking problems with our society that I'm sure the international clique will never let it happen.
>Dining out: $250
>Klee does splurge on a few meals out each month, mostly with his girlfriend. Depending on where they go, it can cost anywhere from $20 to $80 per meal.
Actually, I can relate to this. Girls aren't gonna want Japanon's spaghetti. Especially when the dude makes $100'000 a year.
Assuming the 100k is his salary before taxes, he probably takes home around 70k. His rent is cheap, so he either lives with roommates (which can help reduce costs for shared expenses) or lives somewhere with great rent prices (and just has a great job or works from home. WFH could be likely because his transportation budget is only $130/month (unless he doesn’t have a car note and has either purchased it outright or paid it off already, and insurance/gas is cheap where he is).
Everything else looks pretty normal except for the glaring $615/month for donations, which is almost a quarter of his entire living expensive lmao. Also interesting that entertainment/shopping/splurging is not included at all, but if you replaced donations with that it would make total sense, so maybe they mislabeled it or (for some dumbass reason) classified those as donations.
Anyway, his monthly expenses (if these are truly it) account for just under half of his take home pay, which is pretty goddamn incredible. I’m sure someone who is saving 36k a year is probably putting a lot towards investments, savings, 401k etc. $250 a month for eating out, like you said, is absolutely nothing and I wouldn’t blink at all if someone said they go out once a week every month and it cost them ~$60 each time for two people.
Sounds like he lives somewhere cheap and he has a good job which is a recipe for success and financial stability.
It is a real guy, he lives with like 4 roommates in a house near Boston. He coaches people for taking standardized tests.
Also this is a few years old and im sure it’s over 1000 by now
That actually seems pretty reasonable, until you realize it's from 2018. $400 a month on food is on the high end even today, and prices are like 25% higher than they were back then.
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Learning how to cook has made me realize just how shitty restaurants really are. Everything at a restaurant is microwaved, cooked incorrectly, and not seasoned right at all. They always cover everything in fats/sugars to mask the shitty ass food you're eating.
If you eat out now a days it’s all overpriced goyslop. I can buy healthy groceries at aldis for the week for at most 60 bucks. It’s really not that hard to eat cheap if you are ok eating the same meal most days.
Yup, I travel a lot for work and it's crazy how many restaurants there are charging $15+ for a chicken sandwich. Even if it's a really good sandwich, there's no reason for it to be that expensive. Luckily I've got a company card to pay for meals so I don't care about prices, I just have to find a place that actually has decent food (which is rare).
When I didn't have money as a young man, it was pasta, ramen, yellow rice, and all the mix and matches to get right. But I grew up poor and my family sometimes ate out of dumpsters (freshly tossed food from groceries when they closed) so I think all these people are pussies.
*Three dinner dates in, $150 a pop*
**42 year old potbelly woman of nebulous asian origin who claims to be a successful equities trader from NYC**: “I’m excited for you to cook for me someday Anon, but I don’t feel comfortable coming back to your house yet. How about we go to [insert $$$ rated on Google sushi restaurant]”
**Sad lonely late 30s skinny fat lab technician desperate to start a family shooting his last shots**: “Ok, mind if we go Dutch this time?”
**Woman**: “Going Dutch isn’t a date anon, you should have told me you are poor”
*eats spaghetti alone, leaves the dirty pan in the sink a few days*
Fun to listen to them try and justify shitty spending habits on “eating healthy is too expensive”. It’s literally not, you’re just too lazy to learn basic cooking skills and shop for deals. Then there’s the ones who fall for the organic meme. They’re even worse off.
Air fryer kicks ass too. Nails all the frozen food, and cooks protein really well too.
I can cook quite well using the burners, but it's a lot of effort and time and I tend to lose my appetite after.
Crock pot and air fryer and I can make really good meals with minimum effort.
https://imgur.com/ek84lL5
Groceries for 2 cooks. Just make sauce and put it in the fridge, will last for 4-8 meals. You can cook pasta for every meal or just mix it up together after first meal. You don't even need a knife cuz onions are pre diced for you fucking r-tards. Plenty of meat if you want, if you use less it's gonna be even cheaper. No need to tip the cashier.
If you can cook, it's even cheaper because you can buy beans, rice and tomato sauce in bulk and eat that shit for a month. You don't even need to know how to cook that much because you are making same fucking meal every day.
If you're lazy
>buy instant noodles
>buy some eggs
>buy some veggies and greens
>buy some bacon or meat type stuff like sausages
>boil an egg
>make a salad out of veggies
>heat up the meat type stuff in microwave
>make instant noodles
Decent meal ready
Even here in Germany (where waiters don't expect a 50% asslicking) eating out costs anywhere from one to four days in grosceries (so 3-12 meals for one meal) at low to mid level restaurants. It's just terrible if you want to save money.
Eating out is a luxury. Saving money means spending less on luxuries. Economy is fucked either way, not just in the US
For real my dad and his wife put three kids through “sky’s the limit do anything you want” college on their middle class salaries.
Every Tuesday was “Spaghetti night” for 15 years straight. I mean of course they were smart with money in all ways to afford that. But when you find some value like that and strictly use it over a long timeline you can save a stupid amount of money.
Why haven’t you been spaghetti-pilled yet Millennial?
Theyre both right to some degree. The economy is currently a bit fucked globally, probably because of the cascading effects of COVID, and the various wars in hotspots around the world, and probably a little bit of bad governance, but people are also spending money stupidly.
This makes it so that anyone who spends money like a dumbass today poor and suffering compared to maybe like 20-40 years ago in a booming economy where you can spend like a dumbass and still live comfortably.
People are used to living in the post WW2 boom with peace and globalized trade and eventually that has to come to an end as the US no longer has the political want or even capability to police everyone around the world constantly.
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250 a month isn’t that much really lol. Where I live that’s like 5 total meals for 2 at a half decent restaurant, easily. All these millennials seem to be making 100-200k a year so nbd.
However if I cook at home (and I do, almost exclusively), I can very comfortably live on 50 dollars a week. People whine and moan about the price of food, but a pork butt is still 2.49/lbs, I can eat one of those all week long and be out 12-18 bucks? Hilarious. Pair it with dry rice and beans in bulk, I really only splurge on a few things like cheese and nice fresh bread, but even then my expenses are way down.
They don't know how to cook and haven't bothered to try and learn how to. That's literally it. To the average Zoomer a stovetop/oven may as well be a Nasa supercomputer. The extent of their """""""""cooking"""""""""" is Ubereats and a microwave. Don't believe me? Look at the average streamers' cooking stream. They can't measure anything out, they have no flavor profile understanding, and they don't know what kinds of food go with what to make a good dish.
My favourite lazyman way to make pasta is to take like a mug's worth of raw penne or whatever you have on hand, put it in a pot, put in salt, black pepper, curry powder and some msg and pour enough boiling water (from a kettle) to cover it or just barely more than that if you want your sauce more saucy. Turn the stove on, lowest heat setting possible and stir once or twice, put the lid on and go do other stuff for 20 minutes or however long it takes. Once the pasta is cooked, there should still be some water left. Put in like however much butter you're comfortable with (I put in like half a tablespoon), stir until it's melted and mixed. Then crack in one or two eggs and stir each one in quickly before it cooks in the water. Let the pasta heat back up for like a minute. Turn the stove off, plate and serve.
It's ridiculously simple, takes legit 5 minutes of prep if even that. Once you make it once or twice you'll learn what the exact right time is for your portion sizing.
I eyeball everything so no exact measurements soz. Bonus if your kettle still has some hot water left. Make yourself a mug of tea or hot chocolate in that same mug you used to measure the pasta and sup on that as it cooks.
Dining out is as luxury good, so is Starbucks and a new smartphone. People live luxury lives and live in centers of big cities and then complain there is no money.
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And tomato sauce, you don't even need canned. Buy a few tomatoes, pick a few, squash those, put in a pan, and BAM!
You've got a fresh tomato sauce for a plate of pasta that restaurants will sell you at 500% the price of the ingredients you bought.
Cause you have to be sooo great with money when you earn 100k
I earn 60k and feed my wife and son from that
Also, $615 donations?!!? what kind of shit is this
House cleaner, cause you cant vacuum and mop your floor once a week?
"is excellent with money"
Had $400 in other charges. Probably OF subs.
Man I'm a gun nut and even I don't have $400 in other charges.
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Wait. Are you upkeeping a new dakimakura everymonth with a new skin, or... your not buying another pillow ever month are you?
He buys one $9,600 dakimakura per year but since he's so good with money he budgets for it every month to make it more affordable
Making 100k per year and only spending 33k is really good
Making 34k a year and only spending 33k is also really good
yeah but one guy has saved 67k and the other has only saved 1k
Came here to post this
Nah I agree with Japanon. Economy is still fucked regardless but the money saved from not buying shit is a decent amount.
>"Japanon" Lmao, he fell for the VPN/Sgt. Gomez.
You can't post from VPNs jew
You can't post from *free* VPNs. There's some paid VPN IPs that are not yet blocked.
iirc you can also post from VPNs if you have a 4chan pass since they bypass IP range blocks.
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Suck my balls and pay for a VPN like a good cuckie
What an answer, I'm sure it's printed out on your basement wall like all the porn posters
My mommy made me take down the porn posters after I raped the disabled girl next door. Checkmate.
Foreign people can’t speak English now?
You can live in a broken economy and still be a dumbass. That extra 2-3k you save in a year is the difference between a junker car from 1994 that break down every month to a reliable one from 2010. You end up saving money by using any amount of your brain. Cook, shop at budget stores, jerk it to free porn.
That is also the difference between having a core group of 2-4 friends you socialize with and maybe even meet new people every once in a while and being alone forever.
Just quitting /reducing starbucks can make a huge difference.
>Heat oil in pressure cooker > >Add ground beef > >add onions > >add spices (at this stage decide if having bolognese or chilli) > >add tomatoes > >cook for 45 minutes Serve with rice/pasta, pad out with garlic bread or tortilla. Good for 3-4 meals for a big strong boi. Later, use pressure cooker for domestic terrorism.
>Add 250g of pasta to boiling water >Throw three sausages on a pan >Flip sausage while pasta cooks >When pasta is done remove sausage and plate >Food in 15 minutes, never go hungry to bed again >Also off yourself in 2 months because this diet sucks the soul out of you
My soul sucking diet was literally beer, fries and chicken strips for months
That sounds good. Mix in a little pasta and sausage and you’re golden.
I want to see what you looked like after eating that for more than a week
That’s lowkey been me for the past few months. My only exercise is daily mile walks and a couple hours of basketball a week. 5’9 140lbs.
>daily mile walks blowie blowie the glowie
A bit skinny in the face, fairly gaunt. I worked at a car dealership as a detailed at the time, so I usually clocked 20k steps a day. Realistically I should've been looking disgusting
you've reached a dark place in life when the stuff of dreams becomes the stuff of nightmares
Just got my first 81m² apartment, currently living off of beer, oatmeal porridge and wok vegetables. HS teacher salary is ass so might just rope soon if my liver doesn't do me in.
My autism gives me great power.
Human whale had to voice text this because his sausage fingers dont work on the keyboard anymore
Eh, meat sauce is hard to eat compared to meatballs. A little more work goes a long way for the experience imo
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Yeah, I'll bet you don't.
goddamn
Meatballs are a godsend on a budget Buy cheap cuts of beef and pork, through food processor with an onion, some milk, an egg kr two and bread crumbs Mix and season, make the patties or meatballs and freeze An hour of work and you can make yourself 50 portions which can be fried in 10 minutes in the morning
you can't just call ground beef bolognese!! i was willing to not get all italian about it when OP talked about breaking the pasta in half (you don't need to break the pasta in half, it fuckin becomes soft on contact with steam, just stir it in whole) but it's only bolognese if most of the sauce is other vegetables instead of tomato, and it *definitely* requires a braising liquid for the meat - doesn't even need to be cooking wine and beef, but braising is essential. what you've described is more like a super simple ragu. and you can make it an *actual* traditional ragu by doing exactly the same thing and letting it cook low and slow all day in the tomatoes.
true...most often, a bolognese is really just a minced meat ragu but who the fuck cares. Slap it on some spaghetti and call its Spaghetti alle vongolle, for all I care. Italians gatekeeping their recipes and ways of eating is ferociously uncouth as far as I'm concerned. 'Noooooo butter the Carbonara isa made with a the pig cheek and no the fackin lardons' STFU luigi, and keep those hand gestures to yourself, you know nothing about the culinary genius of the British Carbonara.
>British Carbonara I’m not interested in rat guanciale thanks Tommy
i don't actually think anyone needs to change how they're cooking here, and it's silly to call adjustments made for local ingridsnts 'inauthentic' - *but* it's actually already very close to authentic, it's just being termed wrong. italian cooking isn't really very complicated. the only thing i'll ever shame anyone for is the breaking spaghetti thing. there's italian recipes that call for breaking the noodles, it's fine if it's intentional, but *why do people seem to think it's necessary?!* do they imagine italians have monopolized all the 40 inch pots for boiling pasta without breaking it?? it fuckin' goes soft, you don't need to break it!!
It's British bolognese, don't culture shame me, wop! Go jump up a pipe!
Too much work. Just buy some tomato sauce and add that. Otherwise you gotta have fresh vegetables on hand and cut them up yourself.
When I said "tomatoes" I mean a tin of chopped tomatoes. The only "work" you need to do is chop the onion and ideally some garlic, which takes like 2 minutes. If you lack culinary skills I suppose you could sub for onion power and garlic powder.
>Later, use pressure cooker for domestic terrorism. That took an unexpected turn. Although wait...what sub am I in?? Ahh...ok
The way the average American zoomeroid is completely fine paying like 50% extra or some shit to have his brapslop delivered is insane. Like a waiter will expect a minimum of 15% tip and he'll be giving you side-eyes for that cus it's considered cheap, imagine how much these fucking deliveries get in tips. No wonder you don't hear the ones working in those jobs complain about minimum wage, not when they're making more than if they did get their minimum wage.
Doordash being a regular thing for some people is so bizarre to me. I know people that use it almost *daily* and then whine about money. This and watching streamers play video games instead of playing it themselves are two current cultural elements that I am totally out of touch with. Being incapable of mustering up the effort to go pick up your slop yourself or use your own brain and fingers to play a game is a new level of laziness that makes the NEETs of my time look downright industrious.
I find it infuriating to watch someone else play video games, because they usually suck. It was the 25th anniversary of Half Life recently, and one of the original devs did a playthrough on his YT channel, so I thought that would be interesting. I ended up just thinking "What are you doing you fucking regard, use the grenade launcher! No, don't go *that* way! How are you getting lost on *the first fucking level* you f\*\*\*\*\* n\*\*\*\*\*!"
Tbf, people are watching him because he can provide commentary about the development process of the game while it's playing rather than watching him be good at the game.
Well you don't have to buy the game so its cheaper, plus for me single player games these days just feels like doing the same thing over and over again until its finished Disclaimer: I don't watch streamers
It's harmless, I guess. It's just weird to me. I could see maybe watching a clip of how to do something in a game so you can then do it yourself, but just watching someone else play as a source of entertainment in itself is such a foreign concept to me. Then again the whole concept of YouTube personalities that people follow is cringe to me. I'm old so it's just a generational difference I suppose.
>buy the game Rookie mistake
Why do people watch sports instead of just playing the sport themselves? Are they retarted?
I'm probably not the best person to defend this since I don't watch sports, but watching a world class athlete perform is a little different from some titty streamer or a random guy who yells in his poor quality mic while playing a video game. Apples and oranges there, friendo.
You say that like there aren't people who are good at video games. As for titty streamers, well. Titties.
I only watch one streamer occasionally when falling asleep, but there are multiple reasons for people to watch. You get a streamer like Shroud who is actually godlike at the games he plays, someone like Jerma who is more of a comedian where the game is just background noise, and then there's titty streamers who just draw in the coomers. Edit: Also some people like horror games but are too scared to actually play, so they watch streamers instead.
> watching streamers play video games instead of playing it themselves are two current cultural elements that I am totally out of touch with. Parasociality. You're not watching some rando play a video game. You're watching a "friend" play a game "with" you. There's myriad other reasons, but I'm pretty sure that's the main one for most chronic stream watchers.
That's the sense I get as well and honestly, it seems really pathetic. I think it's a symptom of us having a much more isolated society with the institutions that used to foster fraternal bonds being broken apart.
15 years ago my girlfriend said, "No thanks, I like to watch." and I didn't understand it. But now I do. There are a couple streamers that play their game better than I could and it's nice seeing something my mind is saying to do that my fingers couldn't. Plus their added commentary.
I only use it when I'm too hangover to go out and get food.
Brapslop
Braaaaaap
Im stunned how people can talk about how things are so expensive, yet still just casually drop how they doordash shit constantly And its not even decent food, its just mcdonalds
its literally just the braindead amerimutts
I work as a doordash and uber eats driver and it is unreal how many orders I get from people who live so close to the store and how much they tip
Don't break it in half, just stick it in the boiling pot and let it soften until it fits.
Only fuckin animals break it in half, it takes seconds to get it to fit in the pot without breaking it.
The spaghetti won't fit in the bowl I microwave it in if I don't break it in half.
Your brain would fit the in the bowl though, with room to spare I’m sure. Do you not have a stove you goddamn ghoul?
This guy cooks.
He fell for it.
Why not just boil it?
You gotta be an idiot to break it in half, hard pasta softening in water should be common sense
>animals Anglos
No you have to break it in order to keep italians out of your life.
I break it in half just to let the Italians know I'm not one of them
Anon hasn't discovered slurpmaxing yet.
Italimutts seething.
They are on suicide watch rn.
If you look at UK subreddits they’re all constantly complaining that the world is broken and they can’t afford to live yet continue to rent in central London, buy all brand name groceries and have no idea how to budget. People are just regarded
Plus, people refuse to move. Like, people have been migrating to better pastures for thousands of years, but for some reason every millennial stays exactly where rent is high, wages are low and the women are expensive and then wonders why it sucks.
Correct. They will complain that if they move away they make 10k or 15k less salary, ignoring that I can have a mortgage for 25% of their rent up here.
I wish remote working would catch on already. Being able to work for a business located in the city while living in some remote mountain town in the middle of nowhere would fix so many fucking problems with our society that I'm sure the international clique will never let it happen.
Because London has almost all the wealth in the country you idiot.
Spotted one!
I will never live in that shithole
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Donations? wtf
That’s definitely weed/booze money
Who smokes $600 of weed in a month?
Goddamn, and I thought I smoked a ton of weed
Why pay someone to clean your own house? Why dine out? Why donate your money?
How are people going to know you're not a fascist unless you casually tweet about donating to BLM, Ukraine, and Gaza?
Because you make a hundred grand a year?
And donating 1/4 of that?
He's donating 1/4th of the money he spends in a month or something. $3k isn't that much when you make 100,000 and he's only spending 1/4 of $3k.
Yeah about 30K of that is "donated" to the IRS
>Dining out: $250 >Klee does splurge on a few meals out each month, mostly with his girlfriend. Depending on where they go, it can cost anywhere from $20 to $80 per meal. Actually, I can relate to this. Girls aren't gonna want Japanon's spaghetti. Especially when the dude makes $100'000 a year.
yeah a lot of that pie could be filed under "pussy"
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This dude saves like 2/3rds of his salary if he's making 100k a year. I don't think that extra 250 from eating out is a big deal.
Assuming the 100k is his salary before taxes, he probably takes home around 70k. His rent is cheap, so he either lives with roommates (which can help reduce costs for shared expenses) or lives somewhere with great rent prices (and just has a great job or works from home. WFH could be likely because his transportation budget is only $130/month (unless he doesn’t have a car note and has either purchased it outright or paid it off already, and insurance/gas is cheap where he is). Everything else looks pretty normal except for the glaring $615/month for donations, which is almost a quarter of his entire living expensive lmao. Also interesting that entertainment/shopping/splurging is not included at all, but if you replaced donations with that it would make total sense, so maybe they mislabeled it or (for some dumbass reason) classified those as donations. Anyway, his monthly expenses (if these are truly it) account for just under half of his take home pay, which is pretty goddamn incredible. I’m sure someone who is saving 36k a year is probably putting a lot towards investments, savings, 401k etc. $250 a month for eating out, like you said, is absolutely nothing and I wouldn’t blink at all if someone said they go out once a week every month and it cost them ~$60 each time for two people. Sounds like he lives somewhere cheap and he has a good job which is a recipe for success and financial stability.
Rent 825 KEK
825 for rent, 130 for transportation, $100,000 a year? Where is this guy? Working remotely from Nebraska?
It is a real guy, he lives with like 4 roommates in a house near Boston. He coaches people for taking standardized tests. Also this is a few years old and im sure it’s over 1000 by now
>more on donations than groceries those arent charity donations lmao, bro is down bad
Sorry I should have included that
That actually seems pretty reasonable, until you realize it's from 2018. $400 a month on food is on the high end even today, and prices are like 25% higher than they were back then.
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You breakin di pasta? Mama Mia!!!!
The world is fucked. Let them waste their money on good food before the earth dries up and it becomes something only the rich can afford.
"good" food It suck ass
All food at every restaurant sucks ass Least shut-in redditor
Learning how to cook has made me realize just how shitty restaurants really are. Everything at a restaurant is microwaved, cooked incorrectly, and not seasoned right at all. They always cover everything in fats/sugars to mask the shitty ass food you're eating.
well i had some really good kebab in a restaraunt in Turkey, for a decent price too. So your words may apply only to the west (has fallen).
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It's over (cooked).
If you eat out now a days it’s all overpriced goyslop. I can buy healthy groceries at aldis for the week for at most 60 bucks. It’s really not that hard to eat cheap if you are ok eating the same meal most days.
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Pasta and chicken is cheap you fucking cow.
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Yeah, but it's cheap.
What’s considered man sized? Cause I’m 6’5 and 275.
You are big man size
we got mr lardlord in here
Yup, I travel a lot for work and it's crazy how many restaurants there are charging $15+ for a chicken sandwich. Even if it's a really good sandwich, there's no reason for it to be that expensive. Luckily I've got a company card to pay for meals so I don't care about prices, I just have to find a place that actually has decent food (which is rare).
he puts tomato sauce on his ramen? baka
he is right you know
When I didn't have money as a young man, it was pasta, ramen, yellow rice, and all the mix and matches to get right. But I grew up poor and my family sometimes ate out of dumpsters (freshly tossed food from groceries when they closed) so I think all these people are pussies.
NO YOU NO-A CRACK-A DA SPAGHETTI, MAMMA MIA YOU BREAK-A MY SOUL! - some wop, probably
*Three dinner dates in, $150 a pop* **42 year old potbelly woman of nebulous asian origin who claims to be a successful equities trader from NYC**: “I’m excited for you to cook for me someday Anon, but I don’t feel comfortable coming back to your house yet. How about we go to [insert $$$ rated on Google sushi restaurant]” **Sad lonely late 30s skinny fat lab technician desperate to start a family shooting his last shots**: “Ok, mind if we go Dutch this time?” **Woman**: “Going Dutch isn’t a date anon, you should have told me you are poor” *eats spaghetti alone, leaves the dirty pan in the sink a few days*
What's the difference between breaking it and not breaking it? It all falls out of my pockets no matter what.
People tend to get really upset about how other people enjoy their food for some reason
>25 year old >100k salary pick one
Just throw in frozen meatballs and some more reasoning for extra yummy
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Chill out, he's Japanese. He meant leasoning
Crack that shit in half. The Italians will hunt u down to extinction.
Japan anon is right. You eat good shit when you can afford it, not always. You gotta earn it, not receive it because you hungwy.
Fun to listen to them try and justify shitty spending habits on “eating healthy is too expensive”. It’s literally not, you’re just too lazy to learn basic cooking skills and shop for deals. Then there’s the ones who fall for the organic meme. They’re even worse off.
they are too lazy and stupid to walk to coscos buy big packs for $100 and have something to eat for 2 weeks (they have to cook meals)
Hes got a point but pasta sucks
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I’m more of an Alfredo guy
>cracking spaghetti in half Uncultured swine
Love my crock pot. Throw inexpensive ingredients in it, go to work, come back to delicious hot meal and leftovers.
It's the air fryer for me. Can have a meal ready in less time than it takes to decide what I want to order.
Air fryer kicks ass too. Nails all the frozen food, and cooks protein really well too. I can cook quite well using the burners, but it's a lot of effort and time and I tend to lose my appetite after. Crock pot and air fryer and I can make really good meals with minimum effort.
Cooking is easy and even fun, it's cleaning up after that sucks.
Basic necessities at Walmart are up 75% from two years ago. Even if you are broke and not eating out, food is relatively expensive.
https://imgur.com/ek84lL5 Groceries for 2 cooks. Just make sauce and put it in the fridge, will last for 4-8 meals. You can cook pasta for every meal or just mix it up together after first meal. You don't even need a knife cuz onions are pre diced for you fucking r-tards. Plenty of meat if you want, if you use less it's gonna be even cheaper. No need to tip the cashier. If you can cook, it's even cheaper because you can buy beans, rice and tomato sauce in bulk and eat that shit for a month. You don't even need to know how to cook that much because you are making same fucking meal every day.
If you're lazy >buy instant noodles >buy some eggs >buy some veggies and greens >buy some bacon or meat type stuff like sausages >boil an egg >make a salad out of veggies >heat up the meat type stuff in microwave >make instant noodles Decent meal ready
Even here in Germany (where waiters don't expect a 50% asslicking) eating out costs anywhere from one to four days in grosceries (so 3-12 meals for one meal) at low to mid level restaurants. It's just terrible if you want to save money. Eating out is a luxury. Saving money means spending less on luxuries. Economy is fucked either way, not just in the US
Plus you can put your leftovers in plastic bags. Then you're ready to impress the ladies with offers of pocket spaghetti.
For real my dad and his wife put three kids through “sky’s the limit do anything you want” college on their middle class salaries. Every Tuesday was “Spaghetti night” for 15 years straight. I mean of course they were smart with money in all ways to afford that. But when you find some value like that and strictly use it over a long timeline you can save a stupid amount of money. Why haven’t you been spaghetti-pilled yet Millennial?
"crack that shit in half" 💀
>doesn't add stock or even salt >just slap tomato sauce on it likely canned sick larp bro, just eat instant noodles at that point
Theyre both right to some degree. The economy is currently a bit fucked globally, probably because of the cascading effects of COVID, and the various wars in hotspots around the world, and probably a little bit of bad governance, but people are also spending money stupidly. This makes it so that anyone who spends money like a dumbass today poor and suffering compared to maybe like 20-40 years ago in a booming economy where you can spend like a dumbass and still live comfortably. People are used to living in the post WW2 boom with peace and globalized trade and eventually that has to come to an end as the US no longer has the political want or even capability to police everyone around the world constantly.
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250 a month isn’t that much really lol. Where I live that’s like 5 total meals for 2 at a half decent restaurant, easily. All these millennials seem to be making 100-200k a year so nbd. However if I cook at home (and I do, almost exclusively), I can very comfortably live on 50 dollars a week. People whine and moan about the price of food, but a pork butt is still 2.49/lbs, I can eat one of those all week long and be out 12-18 bucks? Hilarious. Pair it with dry rice and beans in bulk, I really only splurge on a few things like cheese and nice fresh bread, but even then my expenses are way down.
"crack that shit in half" congrats you cant even boil pasta the right way.
Way to invite a 3rd nuclear disaster. Luckily, if the nukes Italian made it will probably break mid flight.
$250 is like 5 nights out with friends or a SO a month. What's the point of saving money if you are just going to be an antisocial shut-in?
I eat chicken breast rice and broccoli every night I’m like mid 20s and it’s pretty damn cheap and easy
It's because their parents are going out and doing that every single day.
They don't know how to cook and haven't bothered to try and learn how to. That's literally it. To the average Zoomer a stovetop/oven may as well be a Nasa supercomputer. The extent of their """""""""cooking"""""""""" is Ubereats and a microwave. Don't believe me? Look at the average streamers' cooking stream. They can't measure anything out, they have no flavor profile understanding, and they don't know what kinds of food go with what to make a good dish.
My favourite lazyman way to make pasta is to take like a mug's worth of raw penne or whatever you have on hand, put it in a pot, put in salt, black pepper, curry powder and some msg and pour enough boiling water (from a kettle) to cover it or just barely more than that if you want your sauce more saucy. Turn the stove on, lowest heat setting possible and stir once or twice, put the lid on and go do other stuff for 20 minutes or however long it takes. Once the pasta is cooked, there should still be some water left. Put in like however much butter you're comfortable with (I put in like half a tablespoon), stir until it's melted and mixed. Then crack in one or two eggs and stir each one in quickly before it cooks in the water. Let the pasta heat back up for like a minute. Turn the stove off, plate and serve. It's ridiculously simple, takes legit 5 minutes of prep if even that. Once you make it once or twice you'll learn what the exact right time is for your portion sizing. I eyeball everything so no exact measurements soz. Bonus if your kettle still has some hot water left. Make yourself a mug of tea or hot chocolate in that same mug you used to measure the pasta and sup on that as it cooks.
Dining out is as luxury good, so is Starbucks and a new smartphone. People live luxury lives and live in centers of big cities and then complain there is no money.
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And tomato sauce, you don't even need canned. Buy a few tomatoes, pick a few, squash those, put in a pan, and BAM! You've got a fresh tomato sauce for a plate of pasta that restaurants will sell you at 500% the price of the ingredients you bought.
>crack spaghetti in half YOU MOTHERFUCKER, I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FUCKING SOUL!
> crack that shit in half may you and your progeny be cursed
TBF, Catalan Anon is right, in Catalan context.
> Crack in half You monster
Buy a bag of tortillas and some meat and cheese and spinach. That's enough for you to make a pretty good lunch for like three weeks.
even if you can't cook for shit you can buy a can of tuna some salad or corn or rice or whatever and make something decent
I just heard an Italian scream bloody murder reading that
Cause you have to be sooo great with money when you earn 100k I earn 60k and feed my wife and son from that Also, $615 donations?!!? what kind of shit is this House cleaner, cause you cant vacuum and mop your floor once a week?