Commuter with meals

Yes, this commuter thinks that cooking your own meals is just more economical than ordering takeout! First of all on this issue I first explain, I because the unit brunch cafeteria package meal, usually their own to do a dinner, the general evening to do two dishes, a plate of main dishes, a plate of fruit, so that positively eaten not leftover food. If you are working people to bring their own meals in addition to saving money but also take into account the nature of the ingredients, for example, such as vegetables overnight will have nitrites, vegetable dishes best to do that morning. To share with you my cooking experience, it is entirely possible to reduce costs to a certain extent, with the money saved to do more and more fun things, so it is not more fragrant?

I. How to buy cheap ingredients.

First of all, if the vegetables, I usually buy from these areas: one, large supermarkets; two, Jinduoduo; three, the neighborhood group buying group; four, the neighborhood door discount vegetable store. Before once a week will go to a large supermarket, such as Walmart, basically every time will find a low price of about a dollar vegetables. And I will save in their own cell phone to encounter a vegetable meat minimum price of sticky note records, so that when shopping can be very clear that the price is not the lowest price, buy is not cost-effective. Do to the price of ingredients to do a good idea, then will not be because of the young people and by the price of the merchants deceived.

Buying vegetables in Jindo is also a good choice, but because of Jindo on the general movement of 5 pounds, 10 pounds to sell, so do not recommend choosing leafy vegetables, choose the roots and stems of this longer storage time will be more convenient. If the same vegetables or fruits are particularly favorite, there is certainty that they can certainly eat up or Jinduoduo buy more cost-effective. Several times before I bought 10 pounds of pineapple in Poundland, in order to eat cheap pineapple, I even learned to use a pineapple knife to peel out that nice fruit store cut.

The neighborhood group buying group this kind of words are now everywhere, and now there is a normalization trend. Occasionally into the group to see, there are cheap worth buying dishes. Because I said earlier that as long as you have the price of a dish in mind, when the price reaches your heart expectations when you yourself will be clear.

Discounted vegetable store in front of the neighborhood, this everywhere should also have, you can talk to the side of the moncler outlet store to understand, this kind of vegetable store is more famous is the money ama. Like this Qian Da Ma's business model, there are many fruit and vegetable stores have to learn from the past. My neighborhood this store is after 9:30 all vegetables discount 50%, but this calculation is also very cheap. To learn to ask more with the neighborhood grandparents, they will know where to buy vegetables and meat on the side more cost-effective. Where to buy vegetables around the neighborhood cheapest, follow the grandma and grandpa to go is correct. But about this kind of physical store is generally used stored value card way, in order to avoid the risk, do not recommend that now all of a sudden in the card to store too much money.

Two, on how to make cheap ingredients.

First of all, in the production of ingredients, they have to have a grasp of the heart, the general market is beef and lamb than chicken and duck meat will be expensive, the cheapest chicken, chicken wings than chicken breast meat expensive, frozen goods cheaper than chilled goods, just slaughtered out of the kind of more expensive. All kinds of seasonal fish and shrimp will also be expensive. There's no way to make a cheaper dish than takeout if you're hard on the ingredients themselves. It's also good to prep the ingredients ahead of time by freezing them directly in boxes if you're making too many portions at once, or just freezing the ingredients in the portions you're making when you buy them.

As an example, cassoulet I usually use frozen chicken wing root, chopped chicken pieces with a bone chopper, add potatoes and cook, pour on the rice, the flavor will be very good; Kung Pao chicken will generally use chicken breast, as long as it is marinated in cornstarch ahead of time to do it will be very tender, and not at all firewood; pipa legs are a little ribbed, I personally don't like to take directly to the gnawing, chopping the chicken pieces and too big, I will usually I would usually pick the bones and use the chicken thigh meat to stir-fry with other things. Last time, I also tried to use salt baked chicken powder to bake the pipa legs in the rice cooker, also very delicious. For duck, those supermarket duck halves and frozen duck legs are cheap and should be good, but I don't eat much duck in general, so I can't offer any suggestions.

Seafood and aquatic products, the autumn swordfish, mackerel, yellow croaker, balsa fish is very cheap, if it is the fishing ban, as long as the Taobao search "Zhoushan yellow croaker" can be found in a lot of cheap frozen yellow croaker, it is necessary to pay attention to some of them are relatively small, may be seven or eight to do a plate of food. This frozen fish as long as thawed with salt, pepper, ginger, old wine marinated for fifteen minutes, do steaming dripping steamed fish soy sauce kind of flavor and fresh fish is almost the same. Fresh flavor requirements of higher friends can also make the flavor strong, to get that kind of braised with bean paste, so that the original taste of the poor basically do not eat out too much. Or you can make a good relationship with the skilled fishermen around you who don't have an air force, and you'll have a lot of river fish to eat (laughs).

Shellfish I have also bought, before the Japanese drama "Yesterday's Food" also introduced a way to eat the shellfish can not be finished preservation: directly spit the sand finished frozen, eat again when the same taste. Note: Frozen shrimp is not the same as the general frozen fish, divided into boat frozen and cooked frozen. General cooked frozen meat will not shrink, boat frozen is not the same, be careful not to be fooled.

Finally share a few low-priced convenient dish recipes. First, cold black fungus. About 10g of dry fungus in a thermos box, add a teaspoon of sugar, a box full of warm water, cover and wait 10 minutes, fungus is soaked. Feel this method is like magic, blanch the fungus in hot water, rinse and cool, put three cloves of minced garlic, a tablespoon of soy sauce, a tablespoon of vinegar, a tablespoon of sesame oil, a tablespoon of sugar, a bit of chicken essence, mix well.

Two, pumpkin red date soup. Pumpkin about 500g peeled and cut into pieces, a handful of jujubes, a spoonful of sugar, throw the rice cooker, add a pot full of water, set the timer soup button, go home from work, there are cheap and delicious pumpkin jujube soup to drink.

Three, baked potato corner. Potato cut roller knife block, sprinkled with parsley, five spice powder, cumin powder (sprinkled with what random as long as you have at home), add a small spoon of oil, the oven about 220 degrees baked for 30 minutes, potatoes are really cheap, this dish feels expensive on the electricity bill.

Four, sweet and sour pork, this dish will be slightly more expensive pork, but this dish is quite simple to do, blanch pork skimming impurities, normal frying in accordance with the proportion of one wine, two sauces, three vinegars, four sugar, and then add a small bowl of water, boil on high heat and then cook on low heat for about 15 minutes on the very good.

A few more pictures of other dishes I've made myself

Ice-flower pan-fried dumplings

Fish head and tofu soup

Kumamoto Bear Curry Rice

Honey Roasted Sansho Chicken

Italian Tomato Risotto

Korean Style Bibimbap

Spanish Paella