The Truth About Cooking on a Budget

The internet is wonderful tool for sharing information. It can be especially helpful in finding great budget options for stretching a dollar, especially with food. You found your way here, didn't you?

But the internet is also a place of fantasy. And a lot of times the budget recipes you might encounter, unless you already have the same capsule kitchen as the influencer, social media personality, blogger, or recipe developer, doesn't always mean a savings over buying that dish from a restaurant. This is why...

... I'm so open about what my capsule kitchen is - so that those who find their way here can read and decide if I'm a match for their pre-existing financial picture and household routines and rhythms.

Having to buy what one's household considers "exotic" ingredients can destroy the economy of scale that would make a dish otherwise be cost saving and frugal.

The following video is both a great, cost saving recipe for Cuban beans (or Cuban bean soup), and an explanation of how to determine if the recipe you are following will save you any money. It is provided by a rags-to-riches chef whose fortunes changed recently enough, and who is familiar enough with cooking's cost savings and restaurant pricing, that he can guide us all through thinking about what we should take in as entertainment and what we might wish to consider adding to our household's food story. I hope that this nourishes your mind as much as it did mine, even though it isn't a written recipe, this recipe book's usual fare.