If you're new here, this blog will give you the tools to become financially independent in 5 years on a median salary. The wiki page gives a good summary of the principles of the strategy. The key to success is to run your personal finances much like a business, thinking about assets and inventory and focusing on efficiency and value for money. Not just any business but a business that's flexible, agile, and adaptable. Conversely most consumers run their personal finances like an inflexible money-losing anti-business always in danger of losing their jobs.
Here's almost a thousand online journals from people, who are following the ERE strategy tailored to their particular situation (age, children, location, education, goals, ...). Increasing their savings from the usual 5-15% of their income to tens of thousands of dollars each year or typically 40-80% of their income, many accumulate six-figure net-worths within a few years.
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I’m currently cooking dinner using ALL of the leftovers in the fridge (+ a few additional ingredients).
- I pressure cooked some chick peas.
- I also pressure cooked some rice and added it to some rice leftovers from the tortilla night the other day.
- I chopped up an onion + half an onion from the other other day.
- I’m currently frying the onion.
- I will add some chopped cabbage which I will fry as well.
- I will then cut up the rest of a piece of chicken from yesterday.
- Add some Indian hot curry paste and the chicken.
- Then add some scrambled egg from the other day.
- Add the rice and some soy.
- Serve with leftover salsa from tortilla day.
This should be pretty good and it will practically clear out the fridge of leftovers. The trick is just to know what goes well together and then do a stir fry, or if you’re really good. Fry it up in a regular pan. Other ways of using random leftovers include baking it all together in an omelet.
Originally posted 2009-02-25 19:03:36.
