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Money Saving Tip–Pot Lucks

If you’re in the mind to entertain or be entertained, pot lucks serve as a cheap way to save money. You can end up saving money and bring home leftovers. Say 10 people agree to spend 5 dollars each. If each person brings something, that means that you will get a variety of food and you can bring it home with you. This is healthier than going to your local fast food joint and pointing to the one slice of iceberg lettuce and saying “see.. vegetable.”

Also since people often bring things they specialize in making, it won’t be too bad. Just remember to coordinate who brings what if you’re hosting. If you make this a once a month event with some friends, you can all save some money and have a fun time too… maybe even learn to network a little.

Party on!

Money Saving Tip–Rice Cooker

Fast, cheap food, with little effort because you realize looking up, damn, it’s late and I need to eat? The God for this? Rice cooker!

You can get one that’s cheap or relatively expensive. The cheap ones are about 20 bucks, but I won’t lie to you. The more expensive ones in Asian grocery stores for 50-100 dollars are better. They cook the rice better, they are easier to clean and they generally hold more.

I know. Some of you out there don’t like rice, but you aren’t really thinking outside of the box. You can cook meat in a rice cooker. You can cook vegetables in a rice cooker. You can cook pasta in a rice cooker. And with the better models, the water will boil for you. What’s the best is if you know you’re going to be distracted, you won’t burn down the house while whatever you have cooking cooks.

It’s also a snap to clean. If you get food stuck, put in a cup of water, let it boil in the rice cooker, rinse out, wash, done.

I tend to put things like chicken in and vegetables when I really don’t feel like cooking. the chicken never dries out in the rice cooker and the vegetables never get that icky either, even when I leave it for a long time.

Why a rice cooker over a multi-purpose cooker? Because the multi-purpose cookers are more expensive for doing pretty much the same exact thing!

Buying a rice cooker also encourages you to eat rice, which is cheap and easier to make than bread.