Saving tons of money and time. Secrets to being efficient with food.

Do you hate wasting money? Do you hate doing dishes? Do you hate cooking? But do you want to eat healthy tasty food? Then read all my secrets below, this will greatly lower every painful aspect of cooking below.

1. Buying in bulk saves tons. (The other secrets aren't as obvious but I see some people going to the store constantly to buy one little container of something.)

Rice is usually about half price when you buy it in 50lb bags (35$ per 50lb bag), flour and sugar are also much cheaper. You can store the rice and flour in 5 gallon buckets with air tight lids. (The sugar won't need an air tight lid, but it needs a normal lid still!)

Also if you fill up your cart at the store with things that you know won't go to waste or degrade in quality too much then you may as well. This lowers the amount of gas you have to buy, the mechanical wear on your car, the risk to bodily energy, your time transitting to the store, and lowers the amount of time shopping moving around, and also lowers the odds you will get sick from some idiot who went to the store to get something they DIDN'T stock up on properly before getting sick! (This way you don't have to get out of bed to go get a chicken noodle soup or something when you feel like trash and you are sick!)

2. Baking and cooking in bulk also saves tons of time, dishes, and energy.

Most of baking involves getting all the ingredients out, reading everything, checking it twice, measuring etc. If the recipe calls for 1/2 teaspoon, consider that a 6x batch is just 1 tablespoon! 600% more food, for the same amount of time and energy! (Just make sure you have you conversion math done right! Otherwise to fix it you might have to make a 45x batch LOL I've been there before! 😜)

Figuring out what the maximum batch size is for your equipment saves tons of time in the future as well. You can then adjust all of your recipes to fit that maximum batch size.

For example I know my oven can cook 10lbs of meatloaf at once, but my 5Quart stand mixer can only process 3.3lbs of my recipe at once, so my recipe is set for 3 batches of 3.3lbs (I thought about buying a giant industrial mixer to fix this problem even lol but then I realized I should probably buy a second oven to even it out and stopped there. ;P )

3. Certain dishes are suprisingly just as good when refridgerated and reheated (or even cold!)

When making scrambled eggs, don't just make what you want to eat, make what you WILL eat over the next few days. Fill out the skillet entirely instead of just putting in a couple eggs. If you put 6 eggs in when you usually only eat 2, now you have saved yourself 3x the time AND dishes. While those are cooking, you are going between stiring and cracking the next batch of eggs. (Now you aren't bored standing around or getting distracted!) Using the same scrambling bowl you save 50% of the coating of egg material left in the bowl for two batches, 66% for 3 batches, and so on.  Put all the extra in the fridge and now if you are hungry, you can just take a fork out and snack instantly or within 60 seconds thanks to microwaves!

4. Experiment with freezing certain things.

Some things that I know are great frozen, pizza crusts, pre made-pizzas (for a while), stromboli, french toast, corn dogs, and many more. (Grilled cheese is pretty good when frozen/thawed/heated properly too!)

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5. Buh buh but!!! I'm too poor! I can't buy in bulk!

It's a step by step thing, most of the reason you ARE poor/in the hole is because of that mentality. Just relax and realize that being efficient is a step by step thing. Some people spend a couple hundreds of dollars a week on groceries, and others spend about a thousand door dashing! Changing the TYPE of food you buy/cook even for just a month can save more than enough to start buying in bulk. (One 50lb bag of rice (35$) is enough calories per one person per month, if you add beans which are just as cheap in bulk, then you get your protein as well.) Now your grocery costs can go from 800$ to under 100$ if you are that serious about saving money and willing to do that for a few weeks!