Frugal Foodie Fridays (series announcement)
I love food. I love eating it. I love cooking it.
I can’t stand it when someone tells me to save money by buying crap food. No McDonald’s artery clogging meat imitation substitute byproduct pseduo-burgers for me. No, I don’t care how cheap it is on the dollar menu. I’m not eating it. And I don’t like it when people tell me save a buck by making crap food. So no instant ramen, no flavorless bean dish and no meatless Monday either.
But of course loving food has it’s drawbacks. Groceries are my second largest expense behind rent. Part of this is due to the fact that I eat a lot. Part is due to the amount of meat that I buy (a lot, as I am a true carnivore). And part has to do with the fact that I will buy whatever ingredients are necessary, no matter how exotic, to make a dish. Yes I live to eat and consider cooking and eating a hobby as well as a necessity.
But on the upside, the more that I cook the less money that I spend eating out. Eating out regularly just isn’t worth it anymore.
So I present to you Frugal Foodie Fridays. Every Friday I will be writing something about food with an eye to saving money but not sacrificing quality. Recipes, stories, anecdotes, tips, ingredients, shopping advice or whatever whatever I feel like talking about at the time.
This series has no definitive end point and will last until either I get bored with it, become distracted by something else, run out of ideas or am hit by a bus…. Whichever comes first.
Reader contributions and guest posts are highly encouraged. But you must stick to the only rule of FFF - save money without sacrificing quality.
The fun begins next Friday!
