Cooking
Learn how to cook. Go to the library and borrow cookbooks and magazines with simple recipes. It's easy to make a nice dish with pasta, rice or beans. Practice makes perfect.- Learn to enjoy cooking from scratch. You will be less likely to eat out. You can carefully craft low cost healthy meals.
- Learn to roll yesterday's leftovers into today's meal. Create a new dish.
- Learn to make great-tasting dishes at a lower cost. Eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches instead of roast beef. Eat macaroni and cheese instead of steak.
- Manage your refrigerator. Never let food go bad. Eat it or use it as an ingredient in a sauce, casserole or soup. For example, old salsa can be added to a curry and old milk can be turned into a quiche. Of course, don't use anything that has actually gone sour or rancid.
- Plan meals based on what you have on hand. Bring out your creative side.
- Plan meals based upon what's on sale. Change your recipes accordingly.
- Find Cheap Recipes On-line There's lots of good cheap recipes on-line if you look, e.g.Click Here!.
Tips
- Share a plate of food. Restaurants usually serve enough for two. Don't pay for more than you need. Take food home for an extra meal.
- Try growing your own fruits and vegetables. Even if it's only tomatoes on a sunny windowsill in your apartment. Dry out the seeds, of whatever you eat, on a paper towel. While shopping, look for planting and growing tips on seed packets in the store.
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