Food Savings

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Stop eating fast food.
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- Edited by Sunder

[peejjj]

Can’t wait to see the day of Thor’s Instant Pot Cooking Club

[bigrob]

"...I also bake."
Thor just out here with extra time, energy, and tasteful noods to spare.

[villainservitor]

thor in a frilly yellow apron with duckies on it baking bread at 4am is a nice dream

[knackigbrot]

Wait. Thor wants to open a bakery, Ludwig wants to bake good fucking bread, Connor wants to eat some good fucking food and I want a creative workspace. I smell profitable bread.

[ryanzollinger]

Careful, we dont want YouTube or twitch to see that tasteful thumbnail

[btackett]

I find it so damn heart warming and hopeful to see streamers like you that go out of their way to help their mostly younger audiences become some percent more self sufficient. You know you have people that look up to you and I feel like a lot of what you do is based with that in mind

[HammerFell-]

Thor out here to become the modern day internet dad rolemodel, I'm so here for it

[justmutantjed]

This right here, Thor. I saw my grandparents (who lived through the Depression) do a LOT of this. Grandma canned, preserved, made jams and jellies, and so on. They'd buy in bulk and store it. They grew veggies and rhubarb. Tried growing an apple tree, but that tree was to its species as Charlie Brown's Christmas tree was to pines or Douglas firs (apparently the Southeast Alaskan climate was not conducive to growing apples at the time).
Everyone needs to see this as an example. Do what Thor is doing. Buy in bulk, preserve as much as you can, get less fussy about what you eat, and don't prepare or buy what you can't consume in a timely fashion.

[Rhyme_Time]

Cooking and gathering your own ingredients is such an important skill. Refreshing to see someone in the content/gaming space talk about this since it's so common place to order food. It's a dummy good money saver which allows for more important things such as the Heartbound demo.

[Zijkrial]

I just realized Thor (often?) does a square when he's starting something on paint even if it's not needed, and that aligns with his advice when making a game: learn how to make a square, put it down, and you've officially started making something.

Paraphrasing a bit, but yeah it makes sense. Easier to get started.

[Basgin]

Thor, the 225lbs is likely the hanging weight. The processed weight is 2/3 of that. On average, the lowest cost after processing is 4.5 -7.5 per lb. It's still a great thing to do, just clarifying for anyone budgeting it out.

[hyperspacey]

One super pro tip I'd recommend is looking into how restaurants do batch cooking, and how that can be turned into meal prep, basically using your freezer as a DVR to timeshift the slow parts of cooking into periods when you can make batches of components you later assemble into meals instead of buying some hideous premade sauce where the label cost more to produce than the stuff inside the jar.

British Indian Restaurant style cooking revolves around a base sauce and protein you pre-cook and can easily freeze, plus a few additional spices and sauces you throw in. Italian restaurants make buckets of marinara sauce that get modified into what the recipe calls for. Etc.

It's a total power move to be able to defrost some prepped sauce and poached meat in the microwave then make a six serving restaurant style chicken curry in 20 minutes.

[genericpotato]

came for the game dev, stayed for the food

[beauodom]

I own a small meat processor that works directly with farmers based out of KY. It is so nice to see someone with a large following mention buying beef in bulk and freezing. Hopefully this will shed some light on the quality increase and financial savings you get when going that route for food! More power to you brother. We also have a garden to eat fresh veggies and can the rest for storage!

[TrazynPrime]

Man thor out here exposing his Noods like they’re free

[kasioedits]

1:36 not the grindr joke going right over thors head ;-;

[DankasorusRex]

Another thing people can do that I’ve done is when meal prepping a lot of food, just freeze portions and put them in the fridge to thaw a day or 2 before! A great option is curries, soups, burritos, lasagna, casseroles, frittatas, etc. just spend an evening making 5 casseroles, freeze them, and you have weeks of food for cheap. Also check the discounted meats at the store and buy bulk when it’s on sale if you can’t afford to buy a half cow at a time!

[hazukichanx]

So what I've learned today is, if there's ever an apocalypse and most people are eating rats, maggots and each other, Thor will be chilling out and dining on fine deluxe ramen with bok choi from the windowsill, oyster mushrooms home-grown in a bucket, and carefully fermented kimchi.
Rad!

[ProfessorYana]

Speaking of vegetables that regrow: Egyptian Walking Onions.

Not only will they grow back every year, not only do they also self-propagate through bulbils... you can use both the leaves *and* the bulbils in your cooking.

The former make great substitutes for scallions, and the latter can be cut up and cooked the way you might use regular onions or shallots.

(In point of fact, I actually have some Egyptian Walking Onions growing in a standing planter on my deck. I've had them growing since last year, and this year I got my first harvest of bulbils!)

[specialagentdustyponcho]

Bones, gristle, fat, scraps, tendons, crusts, skins, any part you don't want to eat as-is, put it in a gallon freezer bag. Once it's full, pour all of it into a pot and simmer it until it all dissolves. This can take a few days. It won't rot so long as it stays hot, don't worry. This is how soup stock is made. Filter any remaining bits of solids before dividing into containers and freezing. You can drink it as-is or you can add meat, potatoes, carrots, rice, onions, noodles, whatever you like.