Saving Advice: Financially secure people eat leftovers
Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Groceries
Jennifer Derrick has this post at Saving Advice: Financially secure people eat leftovers.
A snippet:
…if you absolutely cannot reconcile yourself to the idea of leftovers, then buy and order less. Share meals in restaurants or order smaller items like appetizers. Buy and prepare just enough for your family to eat it once. Smarter shopping and ordering still saves money and eliminates waste, but doesn’t make you eat leftovers.
I eat leftovers for lunch most days, and see nothing wrong with doing so. But if that’s not your thing, now you have another option.
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March 16th, 2008
I cook every night. I purposely make enough every night so that my husband can take healthy leftover lunches to work and I can get a decent mini meal for lunch without all the additives in packaged foods. No one looks at him like a miser, his co-workers are always interested what he’s eating, like Chicken Marsala with Artichokes. He’s a construction worker. He figures he roughs it enough.
When I go out with my girlfriends, there is usually bread automatically at the table, one of us will order a special type of salad, the other a protein appetizer, another some sort of vegetable appetizer, and with drinks, that’s plenty of food to share with a lot of chatter. Even though money isn’t the object, it’s quite a bit cheaper–enough for another round of cocktails.
March 16th, 2008
I shouldn’t say every night. I never, ever cook on Saturdays. It’s date night and when my husband married me, he became my perma-date. It was part of a mutual agreement.