Money management tip from a millionaire

[MissB]

62. Solid advice actually

I’m surrounded by neighbors that don’t cook. They have incredible kitchens and don’t cook.

I hate grocery shopping in general, so I tend to do my weekly grocery run at 6 am. When returning to the neighborhood, I nearly always see at least one Uber eats delivery driver heading out of the neighborhood. Absolute insanity.

But they can afford it and I can’t. I mean, I suppose I could, frankly, but I see my grocery budget as something to minimize and not maximize. I prefer to have extra spending money or extra savings.

Anyway, I have time and generally energy to cook from scratch. Yesterday’s lunch was Lemon Rosemary White Bean toasts with some leftover Dan Dan salad and some cherries. I had no bread in the house and I really like the white bean spread (topped within sautéed mushrooms by the way) on English muffins. So in between work yesterday morning, i minded a batch of dough that I’d started after breakfast, eventually making a batch of 10 English muffins. The white beans were soaked from dry beans earlier in the week and cooked in my Instant pot, used some in the Dan Dan salad and some for the white bean spread.

Dinner last night was an chicken enchilada casserole. I could’ve made the corn tortillas from scratch but I had a packet in the fridge already. I grabbed a jar of boneless canned chicken breasts (canned when they hit $1/lb) and made the casserole. Served with some roasted squash.

This morning I’m having an English muffin with peanut butter and some watermelon, lunch will be leftovers of some sort and dinner will be some broccoli beef and rice with a side of fruit (main dish made in the instant pot of course.) I could just go get some Chinese takeout but this is cheaper and moderately healthier.

Tomorrow’s dinner will be some bbq drumsticks (bought when they were .89/lb and frozen in meal sized packages) with homemade bbq sauce and a lovely zucchini tart (includes some Gruyère and tomato pesto on a puff pastry sheet) and likely some corn.

I meal plan, buy stuff when it’s on sale and cook from scratch as much as I can. It’s cheaper to cook beans from dried beans vs a can of beans etc.

Folks don’t cook as much as they used to.