One of the best ways to save money is to cut down on the amount of times you go to restaurants and fast food places. You can save so much money by making food at home. I like to make extra’s at dinner so I can have leftovers for lunch the next day.
One of the problems I have with cooking at home is thinking of ideas. There are so many great recipe sites (my favorite is allrecipes.com) but I get overwhelmed if I go there without an idea of what I might want. Reading over menu’s at restaurants is a strange pleasure of mine. There have been several times I’ve read something on a menu and thought "hmm that sounds good I bet I could make that at home." But by the time I get home I forgot what it was I was going to attempt to throw together.
Today I found the solution … I found this website called RecipeInsider that has secret recipes from many different brands and restaurants.
From the list of recipes I am most excited about:
I could keep going but I’ll let you check out the list yourself.
For many twenty somethings money, or lack there of, is a pretty prominent issue. For me my main issue is saving money so that I can get out of the dreaded D word (debt).
The Simple Dollar has a great round up of resources on Thirty Ways To Use One Hour To Improve Your Finances - And Open The Door To More Riches.
Some of the items I have implemented in my life to save money:
- stopped buying bottled water
- bring my lunch to work most days
- limit eating at restaurants - I used to eat out several times a week
- selling books on Amazon that I was not longer using
- plan my meals before going to the grocery store so I don’t impulse buy
- use a bank that reimburses me for atm fees
Things I plan to start doing:
- not buying Christmas presents for anyone and everyone I know this year
- selling more random things around my house that I don’t use or like anymore
- stop buying books from Amazon and start using the library
Previous Monday Money tips:
Do you have any money saving advice to share?
This article needs no introduction, if you are living paycheck to paycheck or poo-check to poo-check (as in poor) this is a must read - Getting "Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck". I know that GenPink readers are all independantly wealthy but you probably have some friends who could use some advice 
Here’s the scenario: you are shopping in your local grocery store and the woman behind the check out asks you “will that be debit or credit?”. You are very aware that you are holding your debit card but to make matters easier you just say credit. After all it is quite an ordeal to remember 4 or 5 numbers in a row. I just did this for the last time about 2 minutes ago at Starbucks.
Did you know you could be protecting yourself against identity theft just by chosing the debit option instead of credit?
If you are like me and have forgotten what it’s like to carry cash I’d highly recommend you read Money Crasher’s reasoning for opting to say debit instead of credit.
Today is Monday which means I am playing catch up on my finance blogs. I came across an interesting headline on I Will Teach you to be Rich - There’s an interesting discussion on women and salary happening in the comments section which led me to his post 13 stunning differences in how men and women think about money. Of course, before I could read the comments I had to read what they were commenting about.
I am not really surprised by the results of the survey but I do find it interesting to see a percentage break down.
This particular slide jumped out at me:
I can image that a large part of this discrepancy is because of these statistics …
I’d recommend for anyone interested in this topic to join in the conversation or at least have a read, there are some pretty interesting debates going on.
People are talkin'