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April 29, 2024

18 small ways to save money on food

1. Eat your garbage. In this post, and this one, and this one, I list some food bits that many people throw out, but that are actually good food, and might be worth the effort of saving. Lemon grass tops, “enjoy tonight” vegetables, animal fat and skin, parsley stems, all kinds of things. 2. Pack… Continue reading

food

cooking, food, nutrition
April 22, 2024

Recipe: Fried broiled grilled cheese sandwich

I like grilled cheese sandwiches. They’re filling, they require few ingredients or tools, and they’re easy to make – so easy that if you either own or visit a grilled cheese themed restaurant, you should be ashamed of yourself. But GCSes aren’t perfect. They’re often not browned enough, or not cheesy enough, and if you… Continue reading

food, recipes

cheese, cooking, food, recipes
April 14, 2024

Legumes have friends!

For most North Americans, the easiest cheapest healthiest thing you can eat more of is probably legumes (you know, beans and peas and lentils and stuff). One of the things that holds people back, though, aside from fear of farts, is the worry that you’ll end up with food that tastes kinda like dirt. Especially… Continue reading

food

food, health, legumes, nutrition, vegetarian
April 8, 2024

26 big ways to save money on food

1. Eat out less often. This is probably the biggest change you can make to your food budget, unless you’ve got an undiagnosed caviar addiction. Ingredient costs make up a tiny portion of restaurant food costs. Save your restaurant dollars for occasional really good meals, not for basic calorie-insertion requirements. 2. Cut way back on… Continue reading

food

budgeting, cooking, food, meal-planning, nutrition
March 25, 2024

Scamming and marketing are the same thing

There’s a useful article in Wealthsimple’s TL;DR finance newsletter this week, helping us to recognize scams and change our behaviours to be less vulnerable. And the weird thing about it is, we should probably adopt the same behaviours to deal with the “legitimate” business people we encounter! A couple of examples: • “ALWAYS confirm who… Continue reading

high finance, thoughts, rants, editorials, attempted humour

grocery-shopping, money, shopping

18 small ways to save money on food

Recipe: Fried broiled grilled cheese sandwich

Legumes have friends!

26 big ways to save money on food

Scamming and marketing are the same thing