It’s only 2 pm and I’m pretty confident it will be a $0 day. Suze would be proud.
The key to this great feat clearly centers around food. If you can feed yourself without opening your wallet, you too can have many Suze-approved $0 days. Obviously, I’m not suggesting not buying food. I’m talking about avoiding regularly eating from restaurants/take-out/groceries stores on a meal-by-meal basis. Of course, if you were in-the-know, today you could have eaten in a restaurant for free. But I didn’t do that either. (The line at the Denny’s near me was around the block, by the way.)
Instead, I had my coffee at home in the morning, had free lunch at work, and will eat from my stash of frozen goodies at home. Free lunch, you ask? It can be had. I’m fortunate to work in a place where free lunch is just part of the culture. It’s unusual, and I’m lucky, and I know it. As for dinner, I’m not talking about frozen meals, in a box, from a store. I’m talking about batch cooking and planning ahead. I love food and quality is important to me. Tonight I’ll be eating delicious black bean and ham soup from Cook’s Illustrated. Cook’s one of my favorite sources of great recipes – though they tend to be labor intensive – and even when I’m eating something I cooked and froze several weeks earlier, my need for quality is satisfied.
Suze Would be Proud
It’s only 2 pm and I’m pretty confident it will be a $0 day. Suze would be proud.
The key to this great feat clearly centers around food. If you can feed yourself without opening your wallet, you too can have many Suze-approved $0 days. Obviously, I’m not suggesting not buying food. I’m talking about avoiding regularly eating from restaurants/take-out/groceries stores on a meal-by-meal basis. Of course, if you were in-the-know, today you could have eaten in a restaurant for free. But I didn’t do that either. (The line at the Denny’s near me was around the block, by the way.)
Instead, I had my coffee at home in the morning, had free lunch at work, and will eat from my stash of frozen goodies at home. Free lunch, you ask? It can be had. I’m fortunate to work in a place where free lunch is just part of the culture. It’s unusual, and I’m lucky, and I know it. As for dinner, I’m not talking about frozen meals, in a box, from a store. I’m talking about batch cooking and planning ahead. I love food and quality is important to me. Tonight I’ll be eating delicious black bean and ham soup from Cook’s Illustrated. Cook’s one of my favorite sources of great recipes – though they tend to be labor intensive – and even when I’m eating something I cooked and froze several weeks earlier, my need for quality is satisfied.
Yay for a $0 day.
Cumulative February Spend: $2,599.59