Due to frenetically working on an essay, I completely spaced on posting yesterday. Oh well, I’ll continue to try to keep up my regular posting schedule about food-related goodies.
Well, today I’m not cooking a thing because I’m stuck at school all day working on ANOTHER essay (which I should be tackling right now), and so instead I’m going to talk a little bit about buying food, and eating cheaply. It’s the direction I’m interested in taking this blog as my complete lack of financial management abilities ensure I live paycheque to paycheque. Also, I’m certainly not a high quality cook, I’m an alright one – my skills lie in eating well on practically nothing, not haute cuisine.
I can’t spend too long on the post, so I’ll state my first rule of eating cheaply, and subsequent posts are going to give you a few more rules.
STAY AWAY FROM PACKAGED FOOD.
If you have no money, don’t fucking buy kraft dinner. That’s the worst thing you can do. Even the cheap stuff isn’t -that- much food for money, and the pasta is going to be atrocious. No nutrition, and filling on pasta with pretty much no protein is never very satisfying. The same goes with frozen, premade dinners, sauces in packets, all that kind of stuff. The only exception I make is ramen noodles, which Tracy loves quite dearly, and I can do a few different things with, cooking wise. The basic rule is that if somebody has done any of the cooking for you when you buy something, you are wasting money.
Voli Dublino thinks you are right!
so true – it’s hugely expensive- yet the poor buy it all the time, because they’ve lost the skill of cooking from scratch