YSK: About The Sad bastard Cookbook, when time, energy, money, or skill is preventing someone from cooking their own meals!

Some heavy hitters here

I really love Mexican food so sometimes my dinner is pulling a tortilla out of the bag and eating it.

If you pass this recipe on please give me credit.

I'll share my recipe since it isn't in the book.

Block of Smoked Tofu

Preparation: cut open the packaging with a knife, put on a plate, and eat with your hands.

Smoked tofu tastes good enough to eat it by itself, and it's a great source of protein and fat.

In the Great Depression, it's not like anyone was starving to death. Rather it was like they were eating flour paste and dying of malnutrition.

That we are in an era that we need the SBC speaks to how bad things are. Here in the states, we don't have food deserts, we have food swamps, where the only thing one can get is junk food.

Frozen pierogi boiled then fried with a little butter & eaten with sour cream is a classic

I don’t get this one, surely you can just buy pasta sauce instead and it’s exactly the same steps but better 🤔

Best one: pasta in a rice cooker. Game changer

Instant Noodles Carbonara

Cook instant noodles in a pan. Chuck an egg in and mash it about a bit.

When the water is nearly all gone, chuck in a load of cheese (I use strong cheddar and grated mozzarella) and a couple of chopped up Peperamis. Mix it all about until the cheese starts burning.

Eat that shit.

First glance of the thumbnail had me thinking this was a D&D sourcebook.

When I discovered this cookbook, I printed it out on regular printer paper and spent an hour or two hardcover binding it with a bookcloth spine and fancy foreign cover papers with gold foil and flocking. It looks so nice!

Then I immediately had to use it because I can manage professionally binding a shitty printout of the Sad Bastard Cookbook, but I cannot adequately feed myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This cookbook is great!

I love the concept of this book but was pretty disappointed by the actual recipes tbh.

Thank you for sharing this. Not only am I finding useful depression cooking ideas here but it also seems like a great "intro to cooking" book and just a "fuck I'm out of everything but don't feel like going to the store" kind of cookbook

Thanks for sharing! I feel like I know some folks who need this in case of emergency. Will be passing it along to several friends...

I expected less cooking tbh. I'm usually at the Eat a Dill Pickle Out of the Jar While Standing in Front of the Fridge mood.

my favorite depression meal is an easy rice and beans. buy those flavored rice sides that come in a bag, chicken flavor is a good default option. cook it per instructions, then throw in a drained can of black beans and whatever frozen veggies sound good. don't even bother heating up the beans or veggies, there's enough heat in the rice that everything ends up nice and warm. just give it all a stir and you're done.

the rice sides have enough flavor to make everything taste good as is, but there's definitely room to toss in whatever spices are within arms reach that sound good.

To add my own bachelor chow to this

Meat of some kind these frozen vegetables And KD

Okay this made me tear up and is perfect. Peanut Butter On A Spoon is a large percentage of what i have been eating lately. I feel seen.

Before I had access to the internet; These were basically my, 'Don't die, eat something easy' list of relatively quick foods back in the darkest, deepest depression days (turns out my brain chemistry reacts horribly to antidepressants and antipsychotics). I was just an anxious dude that didn't know it due to being heavily medicated.

This made my night. What a well-written and kind product

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PBnJ. 3 ingredients.No cooking. Get lost with any cook book.