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Put in destination to save money!

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40% Less

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Before blowing a lot of money.

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We don't get paid KRW in the summer, so put a little money aside each month in advance to cover your summer expenses.

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I wrote a meal prep approach a while back on reddit, detailing how my family goes about meal-prepping.

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- Every person ever claiming they don't want to eat healthy, or don't want to prep their meals

I'm going to give you the hard truth here. You always have time. The problem is not that you don't have the time to not cook healthy, it's that you're not making it a priority. TV, videogames, napping, homework, hanging out with friends, these are where you're placing your priorities instead. Now, I'm not placing a value statement on where you place your priorities, sometimes sleep is indeed more important than meal prepping. However, if you're honest with yourself I think you'll find that you're making unimportant things like TV and videogames (or even snapchat and getting more likes on Instagram) more important than eating healthy and prepping meals.

The thing is, it doesn't really take that much more time to prep your meals properly, you just may need to up your meal prepping efficiency. This is a topic that is talked about a lot, but I find that many people haven't taken the time to flesh out a system that works for them. My goal here is to show you my 2x2x2 system and hopefully make meal prepping and eating healthier a little simpler. as Jeff Cavaliere says, you can eat "Cheap, Healthy, and Fast. Pick two."

The 2x2x2 Approach: The biggest tip I can give you on being able to eat cheap, healthy, and fast is to change the way you approach cooking. Instead of thinking about making full meals at a time, instead think of your meals as a carb source, protein source, and vegetable source. When you step into my fridge (it's a big fridge apparently), you will find it is filled with different Tupperware that contain:

2 fully cooked protein sources (Usually ground beef or chicken thighs) 2 fully cooked (or easily preparable raw) vegetable sources 2 fully cooked (or 'ready to grab' in the pantry) carbohydrate sources

This means that at any given day, I can have 12 different type of meals. Typically packing a lunch goes like this: Protein A, Carb A, Vegetable A in a Tupperware, Meal 2: Protein A, Carb B, Vegetable A, and so on and so forth. By always having 2 carbs, proteins, and vegetables fully cooked and ready on hand at any time, I end up having a huge variety of meals to eat throughout the day and week simply by mixing and matching up the different sections of my meals.

This approach also lets me "prep on the day". Prepping up a full fridge of tupperware for every meal doesn't work for me. I'll wake up on thursday not feeling like eating a meal I had originally prepped sunday because I want beef, not chicken. This 2x2x2 approach allows me to prep on the day, pack lunch quickly, then zip out the door.

Bulk Cooking: This is the largest shift in my thinking that goes along with the thought process explained above. Cook In Bulk. Never only cook 1 chicken breast for dinner. Cook up 5, refrigerate 4, and now you've got 4 more meals ready to go and cooked! It doesn't take any more time to cook up 4L of rice as opposed to 2 L, 5 breasts vs 2 breasts, 500g of pasta vs 3 whole boxes, or 5lbs of ground beef compared to 1lb. This will save you a metric TON of time in food preparation.

The Oven is your friend: Seriously, this will become your best friend. While technically not food safe (unwatched ovens oh my!) I'll often thrown 10 potatoes in to the oven, go have a shower, do homework, complete projects for work, or do something else around the house. Now I'm cooking and it's not taking me any more time than I had originally planned for other tasks as I can do both concurrently! I'll cook chicken thighs, spaghetti squash, sausages, ground beef, just about anything I can in the oven so that I can simply cook it and "fo get' about it".

Rice Cookers: Yes, similar to the oven this also saves a ton of time. I know, I know, rice is bland. Try this, add in some chicken stock to your batch next time. It adds a TON of flavor and really ends up making rice enjoyable to eat again Cook plain, season later: When I cook ground beef, chicken, etc, I generally only cook it with salt and pepper. Then when I go to make my meal, I add even more variety to my dish by either dry seasoning before I re-heat my dish (Shout out to ClubHouse pre-made seasonings), or add in sauces once I'm done.

Combatting "dryness" - But Brogan, you complain, constantly re-heating food in the microwave or on the stove will make all of my meat dry and nasty to eat! Honestly, I've never had a problem with my meals being re-heated and being tough or dry. My answer to this complaint is to cook your meat slightly less, and remember that meat needs to "rest" (you don't cook meat fully through right away, as once you take it off the heat the residual temperature finishes cooking the meat.)

Cheeses, Spices, and Sauces add a ton of variety: Adding cheese reshapes a dish, sweet chili sauce, BBQ sauce, different pre-blended dry seasonings all help to add variety to your dishes. At the same time, let's be real, you really do end up only eating the same 10-15 meals over and over again every month anyways, so by adding in this style you may actually be adding more variety to your meals.

Black Beans: Same deal here. Buy a large bag (2-5KG), soak the beans overnight in a vat of water, then boil them for 30-40m. Tupperware and freeze all the beans (they only keep in the fridge for 4-5 days, but in the freezer for months). Now when you want beans, you can just 'chip' a few off (once they're strained they actually split off really easy frozen) into whatever dish it is that you're making.

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r/bodybuilding - My 2x2x2 Approach to Meal Prep

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Every person ever claiming they don't want to eat healthy, or don't want to prep their meals I'm going to give you the hard truth here. You always have time. The problem is not that you don't have the time to not cook healthy, it's that you're not making it a priority.

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Avoid paying for meals here at School.

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ex. credit card fees, tax filing fees, new furniture
Rather than throwing off your set monthly budget to pay one of these, it can help to preplan for them and put a little money aside each month to cover them.

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I use google flights with no destination when looking for vacay spots.  This creates a nice map with prices to everywhere in the world, so you can find lower cost areas to travel to.

Use hopper app for flights I know I'm going to have to take well ahead of time.

Use VPN or incognito mode to sometimes get better deals on flights.

Always book directly with airline to ease changes or cancellations.

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You see where things start adding up and might even hold yourself more accountable if you're having to look at the list of expenses on somewhat of a daily basis. Document it all :-)

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Book airfare on Tuesdays?
Use Skyscanner
Get the Chase Reserve card for travel points
Try sticking to one airline
Use Air BNB over hotels to save
Southeast Asia is inexpensive, but feels luxurious

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Build boards based on your interests (eating, living frugally)

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For 2019 created a travel budget of 25k, which seems ridiculously large but we like to travel.

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Avoid Late Night Drinking 3 nights a Week!

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Avoid Late Night Drinking 3 nights a Week!

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Get 4 beers for 10,000 KRW at the CU and netflix and chill with your squeeze.

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Eat more vegan recipes. Start by having a vegan 'day' and then see if you can go 2-3 days per week.

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Buying bulk at Costco
Purchasing fruit "in season"
Shopping at multiple grocery stores
Cleaning lady comes every other week
Google spreadsheet for monthly spending
iHerb discounts
no car

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I always pay all bills, retirement, savings, & loans as the very first transactions out of my account, and leftover is for food/ living expenses

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Invest $3,000 per month first and then adjust spending aftewards.

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Out of all your groceries, the most expensive parts are:
1. Pre-processed foods
2. Meat

As for pre-processed foods, that is your deal on what you like to eat/want to eat.

For meat, try out G-market! I was skeptical at first as well, however, the meat shows up frozen at your door, in 3inch thick Styrofoam containers, and includes and ice pack. I've had 10kg of chicken breast stay frozen in front of my door for over 10 hours with 0 signs of defrosting.

Personally, I get chicken here, as well as frozen pork,
http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=289909258

brocolli, cauliflower, asparagus, etc.
http://item2.gmarket.co.kr/English/detailview/item.aspx?goodscode=172716963

To those squeemish about frozen food, know that the vast majority of restaurants that you go to, use frozen foods as their meat sources anyways, so don't feel like you're getting "lesser quality" meat!

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Gmarket - Green Food made in Korea chicken breast SL 10kg

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Internet Shopping Mall, Auction, Bargaining, Discount Coupon, Event, Gstamp, Gift certificate

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Budget how much you need every week and put it in an envelope.  Not allowed to spend more.  Our family budget is 500,000 a week, so we can invest 4k a month.

I tried budget apps, but am not responsible enough to keep up.

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My own personal way of budgeting is using this app, YNAB. My Fiancee' and I both share the same family budget, and it allows us to track our spending in categories of our choosing.

It takes an interesting approach to budgeting. Let's say you have $1000. You have to give each dollar a "Job", so:
$150 - Groceries
$100 - gas
$200 - Phone
$550 - Travel Savings

There is no "slush fund" because you have a category for it. It encourages you to budget for future expenses down the line, and allows you to be flexible, by transferring money from category to category if one ends up spending too much.

It is $90 a year, but it has saved be several thousand dollars, so completely worth the purchase for myself

-Brogan

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