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Making delicious dinner meals and convenient, healthy
lunches is frugal. Learning to cook is the single most frugal behavior you can
adapt. It is the best way to save money because it bleeds into so many other
areas of opportunity to save. Once you can cook, you can save on groceries by
using coupons. You can create gifts and provide food treats as thank you's or
barter for services such as lawn maintenance or pet sitting.
Once you learn how to cook, further develop your skills
by making delicious meals with dried beans, lentils and rice. These
ingredients are nutritious and very inexpensive.
You can save on expensive lunches by bringing leftovers to
work. By cooking your meals at home, you save money by not going out to
restaurants for dinner. Figure lunches cost $9 day, and dinner out up to $18,
this equals $135 a week, and $540 a month. You could cook steak and seafood at
home and beat that price.
If you cook your own meal they are more likely to be
healthier than eating out, therefore you will be more healthier lifestyle. Plus
the communication and sharing of tasks makes for a better relationship, and
talking over all those meals at home is great too. It prevents divorce which is
the most unfrugal thing of all.
Learn to grow your own food, start a garden. Its not hard
and you don't need a lot of tools. If you don't have a yard or garden, make a
simple garden in a box by using a plastic container filled with dirt. Or start
small and plant herbs on your windowsill.
There are plenty of cooking resources online and everyone
has a recipe to share.
