5. Budgeting Time and Money for Food

I’m so happy that we’ve come this far together and that you are clearly this invested in feeling good food can very much help you feel good, and you’ve learned a lot about how to help it do that for you. I chose this as the final lesson because once I inundate people with a whole lot of information and they walk away and they digest it and they absorb it.

It’s very natural to wonder, okay, then what next? How do I actually live this? We have so many tools and utensils and all these great resources that tell us, here’s all the stuff. Here are all the things, but we have a whole lot less that actually breaks it down for us and says, here’s how day to day you can make sure to incorporate everything you’ve learned.

So I wanna go over the ways that you can do that, the daily wellness element of this. How to incorporate this into your life, everything you’ve learned and all the different ways that you’ve learned.  Now I have mentioned, I come from a fortunate background where.

This wasn’t a cause for concern for me, and it definitely, of course, is never a cause for concern if someone’s hiring me As a private chef, if you have money for a private chef, you have money for any ingredients they want to use. But that’s not the case. Most people in the world at large. And because I wanted to help more people, I shifted focus a number of years ago now from.

Um, cooking just for people in their homes or in my home and having it sent to them to writing. And I write many, many articles monthly that are completely free and I write about a lot of different things, but one of them is easy and inexpensive recipes. So. If you’re looking for free recipes, I encourage you to go to my website, which is just my name, arianne resnick.com, and click on the article section.

And then there’s a section of recipes. So that’s one way to make sure that you have access to free and easy recipes that are focused on accessible ingredients and not taking up a ton of time. I don’t like to do things that take up a ton of time. I don’t encourage other people to spend their lives cooking, even as someone who absolutely could not love to cook more.

The last thing I wanna do is spend the day in the kitchen for myself. Budgeting is hugely important. I can say with confidence that the more simple whole foods you buy, the less expensive your grocery bill is going to be. I encourage you to stock up on the things that are going to make fresh whole foods taste their best, and that’s seasonings, oils, vinegars, spices, and herbs, dried herbs.

Not totally separate from the fresh herb conversation. I just wanna make sure it’s clear. I don’t expect people to have a lot of fresh herbs on hand unless I’m cooking for someone. I rarely do. Having those things that gives you an arsenal. Of ways to make the simple fresh foods you buy taste good. It’s hugely beneficial to making sure that you’re actually going to be motivated to cook.

I love having different vinegars on hand. That’s because they keep for years and they add each a completely unique flavor. A sherry vinegar mixed with some oil and a little bit of mustard to emulsify is going to have an entirely different taste as a dressing. Then a red wine vinegar, or then an apple cider.

Vinegar and vinegars are digestive because they’re acidic and oils are necessary for our bodies. There’s so many things just talking about oils, vinegars, spices, and herbs that you can keep on hand that will make simple foods taste great. If you have the time, I encourage you to do things like buy dried beans.

They’re much cheaper than buying them canned. However, they’re still really cheap if you buy them canned or in uh, tetra pack, which is a little bit better than canned and you don’t have to spend overnight soaking them and then two hours cooking them and that’s great. I very much in recent years found myself becoming someone who, when I just needed a small quantity of beans, would just buy a can of beans.

Because the amount of effort is not necessarily worth it. Time is valuable, and that’s one way that I encourage you to look at your budgeting for your food is not just on what you spend on ingredients. But also what you spend on time and what your time is worth and how much of it you can spare.