Cook your way towards financial freedom: health and wealth in one complete package!

One of the most under-rated life-skills you can know is the ability to cook.

You don't have to be as good a cook as Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson or Yan but you can learn enough cooking skills to whip up simple, economic, healthy and quick dishes and meals to save money on eating out and more importantly, improve the health of your family and loved ones.

I just made a simple salad good enough for 6-8 persons using the following ingredients:

PG Simple Salad

1. 1 x bunch of Celery ($1.15 - items from NTUC Fairprice unless otherwise stated, prices based on my recall, could be +/- $0.20-0.30)
2. 1 x head of lettuce ($1.40)
3. 1 x cherry tomatoes ($1.00 Fairprice housebrand)
4. 1 x bag baby carrots ($1.60)
5. 1 x red pepper ($0.59)
6. 3 x lemons ($1.45)
7. 2 x corn ($1.00)
   
8. Aluminium container ($2.50)
   

Total cost: $10.69, per 6 pax $1.37 per pax. If you order a small portion of green salad from Mos Burger it costs $3.40 per pax! This costs excludes your own time and effort of course and water and city gas is relatively inexpensive, say additional $0.50 thrown in.

The other important point about such a simple salad is that it is fresh and healthy and is better than ordering a salad from a Swensons style restaurant which would cost your more on a per pax basis!

Cooking as an alternative to eating out
Our hectic lifestyles make it challenging for the typical family to cook and have dinner together on weekdays. But how about weekends? That is the time where a bit of family bonding over a home-cooked lunch or dinner together can help the family save money on cooked food in hawker centres and food courts and help to build up the health of the family as well!

Enjoy the pleasures of dining at home and as ever, be well and prosper!