Comments on: 31 Days To Fix Your Finances, Day 20: Evaluating Your Expenses – Food http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/20/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-day-20-evaluating-your-expenses-food/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ralthor http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/20/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-day-20-evaluating-your-expenses-food/#comment-3570 Ralthor Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:10:23 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/01/20/31-days-to-fix-your-finances-day-20-evaluating-your-expenses-food/#comment-3570 I have to second “How to Cook Everything.” That book gets more use than most of my programming references.

As a Software Engineer I tend to be quite strict when it comes to rules, which cooking doesn’t have a lot of. For example spaghetti, which I still hate cooking, was explained to me as: Fill a pot with water, toss in some oil, a handful of noodles, cook until it is tender. It doesn’t have a single hard measurement to grasp on to. Anyways if you are the same way I highly recommend Cooking for engineers, it is what got me started and excited about cooking. There aren’t a huge number of recipes, but the ones they have are written by engineers for engineers. It also has a lot of extra articles about different aspects of cooking (measurements, tools, etc).

The potluck idea is a great one too. During the summer I usually have a BBQ every Sunday. I make sure I have the condiments (mustard, ketchup, lettuce, avacado, etc.) and everyone else brings something (chips & dip, beer, hamburger, bratz, buns, etc). Everyone spends about five bucks and we get to have a lavish BBQ where no one goes hungry. Best part is people usually leave the left over meat at my house so I ended up having at least another meal or two off of it.

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