{"id":323,"date":"2006-05-12T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2006-05-12T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T14:09:18","slug":"the-best-way-to-save-money-is-to-eat-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/12\/the-best-way-to-save-money-is-to-eat-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way to Save Money is to Eat In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/\">Get Rich Slowly<\/a> brought attention to a helpful post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/educatingthewheelers.com\/\">Educating the Wheelers<\/a> blog entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/educatingthewheelers.com\/2006\/04\/15\/a-lazy-persons-guide-to-eating-more-meals-at-home\">Lazy Person&#8217;s Guide to Eating More Meals at Home<\/a>. They stated that &#8220;Cooking at home is an excellent way to save money. But if you&#8217;re accustomed to dining out for most meals, it can be a difficult transition. Fortunately, there&#8217;s plenty of help available on the web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author advises that people making the transition from dining out to eating at home should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start small<\/strong> \u2014 Pick one day a week to make meals at home, or two, or three. Start with easy recipes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start with simple ingredients<\/strong> \u2014 Don&#8217;t make it complicated. Don&#8217;t be afraid to start with prepackaged foods. (One of my favorite meals has always been a can of chili. It always will be. I just bought a case of the stuff at Costco yesterday for 86-cents a can.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Find a good source of recipes<\/strong> \u2014 Borrow some cookbooks from the library or from a friend. Find one you like. Learn to cook from it. Copy out your favorite recipes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Use the Taco Bell approach<\/strong> \u2014 Learn to recombine a few basic ingredients into multiple tasty dishes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Rich Slowly brought attention to a helpful post on the Educating the Wheelers blog entitled, Lazy Person&#8217;s Guide to Eating More Meals at Home. They stated that &#8220;Cooking at home is an excellent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,104,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-managing","category-savings-and-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}