One thing I have noticed with a lot of people, they need to learn how, and what, to cook. Canned vegetables? Apart from the fact that they have little nutrition and they taste like the can they come from, they are very expensive. It costs lots of money to process, can and ship cans. Buy frozen or fresh. Frozen are as easy to cook, fresh almost. Nutritionally they are close to equal.

Chicken nuggets, also expensive and poor nutrition. You can not only eat cheaper, you can eat better, both nutritionally and taste wise. Once you learn how, it doesn’t take all that much time, esp. if you cook enough for several days and eat the same thing, or freeze it.

I cut my food bill in a third. Buy rice in large bags. Its a very cheap starch.

Put 1 cup in oven proof pot with lid.
Add 2-1/4 cups boiling water. (or chicken stock)
1.5 teaspoon chicken bullion mix.
1/4 cup (or one small onion) fine dice, but don’t knock yourself out getting it perfect squares or all the same size.
1 toe crushed diced fine garlic, or 1/8 tsp garlic salt.
Add either a bay leaf, or dried basil. buy in bulk or big plastic containers, not little glass jars. Too expensive.

Boil on stove top four minutes, low boil. Put in oven 350 F.
Wait about 25 minutes. Check. When all the water is absorbed, its done. Add pepper to taste, stir it up well. Rice pilaf. Easy peasy, very cheap. Make three times as much, cool in sink of cold water and ice, and microwave just enough for dinner each night for up to five days.

Processed food cost about twice to three times as much. Buy food in bulk, one thing each pay check. Rice, beans, flour, eggs. Borrow cook books from your library. Write, copy, scan recipes you think you will like that are easy, fast and cheap.

Cook a big chicken on Saturday, on Sunday, take it apart and make chicken stock. Use the stock to make your rice pilaf, or make soup.
Have the chicken again on Sunday. Use the leftovers for chicken pot pie with mashed potato topping. (peas, carrots, chicken, gravy, thyme). Make enough stock to freeze some for future use.

I know your tired when you get home, but if you plan your meals and time, you can save time and money.

You don’t have to start all at once but you should start, your body and wallet will thank you.

I currently fail at diversifying my investments, with my 401(k) allocated as: 90% S&P 500 index fund, 5% Russel 2000 index fund, and 5% broad international index fund. I’m 26, so I have a ways until retirement, but I’d like to correct this sooner than later. I’m planning on reallocating my current investments from these three to eleven low-cost index funds, both domestic and international, with a fairly even spread. Should I do the reallocation all at once, or should I dollar cost average into the new funds (for example, reallocating 1/12 of the investments every month for 12 months)?

Thanks a lot!

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Question 4: What the hell kept you motivated to keep writing your blog after 6 months of not-that-many readers?

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also, your wiki page is categorized under “Indian people”, which is pretty awesome. LOL

“Categories: Indian people”

Here are some:

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Question 1: After your book blew up, you must have received both compliments and criticism. What piece of criticism did you appreciate the most?

Question 2: Will you write another book? Will it be “How to negotiate like an indian”? If not, are there some parts of IWTYTBR you wish you could emphasize more thoroughly?

Question 3: You studied technology & psychology (according to the wiki page). Did you take any business or finance classes? If so, what did you think about what they were teaching students?

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btw, if you had an indian accent or if you were white, i wouldn’t have signed up for your boot camp, lolololollll

Thanks.