single guy needs to save money in regards to dining?

Question

I single need to save money and I am eating out all the time..what can I buy and cook in bulk to last me for a week at a time..please help!

Answer 1

You will save a lot of money by cooking at home. If you are new to cooking, I liked the idea of picking up a basic cookbook. Take some time and go through it. Make a menu for the week, and you can choose to eat leftovers for a few days if you wish. Then make the list of ingredients and go to the grocery store. Shop from you list, and you will save a ton of money.

There is a series called Six Ingredients or Less that have some good choices that are pretty easy.

Answer 2

Jeez, just about anything in a grocery store will help you. First - get a BASIC cookbook and look through it. Pick out 3 recipes that look simple and good. Try mashed potatoes and pork chops, for example. Make a list of the items that you'll need, including spices, oil, etc, and go get that. Cook these 3 dishes, 1 each night, and see how it goes. You can have the leftovers for lunch the next day.

It's not hard, despite how the cooking shows make it look.

Answer 3

When I was young and single and short on funds I bought myself a 'slow cooker' and made stews and more stews - beef - chicken - lamb - chilie - and more...I also bought a slow cooker cook book and I lived cheap and ate very well. With a slow cooker I could add all the ingrediants for what ever I was cooking and set it and forget it........go to work and when I came home it was ready - ate some, froze the rest - still do things like that today.

Answer 4

My hubby works a different shift so he makes his own dinners. He has a george foreman grill (Like $20 at walmart) and that's all he uses. He buys a big pack of steaks, pork chops or chicken and seperates them into baggies and freezes all but one. (move one to the fridge each day to dethaw while you're at work.)

Then to go with it, he buys the littl steamer packs of veggies that you put into the microwave, or the little 90 second rice things that you can microwave, or other types of easy sides. His dinners always look really good!!

Answer 5

I'd suggest Lasagna. Double the recipe. Cook it up. Divide it into single servings and freeze. Lasagna has all five food groups, meat, dairy, vegetable, fats, and bread.

Also homemade soups freeze well.


You could also cook a ham or roast beef or turkey breast and have it in sandwiches, scrambled eggs, hash, macaroni and cheese, salad. very versatile.

Answer 6

in case you paintings, each and each payday, pay your self first. %. an volume or a %, say $2 hundred, or 10%. positioned it right into a cost reductions account. I certainly have my value reductions account at a various financial corporation than my checking sccount, i've got not got an ATM card for the value reductions, and that i'd desire to plot forward if i choose money from there, i will purely get it throughout weekday banking hours. attempt to no longer touch it.

Answer 7

I lived on peanut butter and honey. and washed it down with a glass of white wine for three years. Then I had to take a physical for a new job. And the doctor came out and said; "you really watch what you eat don't you?" He was obviously impressed with my health. I never bothered to tell him What I had been eating. But he said I was very healthy.