We’ve certainly been eating out more often than we did in the past and it’s noticeable on the wallet as well as on our overall health. We aren’t in bad health or shape but we’ve got an extra 10 pounds we didn’t have before and we know that we need to ditch that.
Cooking at home is absolutely a great start to that process! The cleanup is tough but it teaches good lessons to small steps that it’s important to do what we can in the house so that we can be sustaining when we need to be and cut some things out if the need arises. Getting into cooking various things to freeze is great. One of the best tools we got for home cooking is a pressure cooker. Some people scoff at it, saying it’s lazy and some other shit. You know what? It’s fucking efficient lol. Put a few ingredients in there, put it on high pressure or slow cooker and walk away, come back and it’s done. The other great thing? Perfect fucking rice every time if you do 1:1 ratio of water to rice. That was huge for me! Lol. I swear I don’t have stock in pressure cooker companies :D they are an awesome tool though! Completely worth the cost! We actually bought an extra bowl so that we can wash one and have one available if we need to make another meal.
I have never used a pressure cooker, but now I know that you will get a cut from every purchase, I will look into them! ;D
We do have a rice cooker though, which we got from a Filipino friend, because when he found out we didn't have one, he thought us crazy. Every Asian apparently has a rice cooker.
Do you think writing and discussing these things helps you evaluate what you are doing in your daily lives too? It helps me to talk and get views from you guys on it :)
Yeah I never used one before 2 years ago and now outside the summer, we use one 5 or 6 days a week. You can’t beat the efficiency of it. It will make a soup in 30 minutes, with meat 40 and the meat is tender enough to fall off the bone or just fall apart.
For sure it’s good to see what other people are doing and get ideas about what we can do different! I know I’ve changed a few things based on what others have said in comments and it’s cool!