Huge food bills often come from eating out and from eating processed food.
Learning how to prepare your own meals from scratch saves money and is healthier.
The real money saver, writes Jacob from Early Retirement Extreme, is not in the straight cooking, it’s in the experimenting.
Now, you can follow recipes for the rest of your life, but if you really want to save money, you got to learn how to cook. Start experimenting with ingredients. [...]
Try to reach a point where recipes are no longer needed. At that point all you need to do is to look into the cupboard and make something up. Alternative, when you go shopping, you’ll only buy what’s on sale and build your cooking around that rather than hunting for expensive ingredients from a recipe.
My own fun comes from “rebuilding” recipes, meals and tastes that I like from eating out or from certain processed meals I’ve had.
Also, I haven’t bought or used a recipe book in a couple of years now, relying instead on Google: enter the ingredients I want to use, add the word recipe to the search and off you go.
Big time and money saver.
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