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5 expert cooking tips for your broke ass

Approx. 8 minute read Heads up: picture of fake cooking injury towards end of article, avoid if sensitive to blood Your broke ass needs to learn how to cook. I started cooking in the summer of 2012. I was living on my own for the first time, working two jobs, supporting myself. I had two goals I hoped to meet by doing this: I wanted to save money by eating mostly food I cooked from scratch, and I wanted to lose weight. I wasn't overweight or anything, I was just on the threshold of where I wanted to be in terms of fitness. I succeeded at both. The picture above is of a bowl of homemade congee I made for myself. It tasted better than a Chipotle burrito and cost me about $0.35 in ingredients just for that bowl. You too can harness such power! Cooking is intimidating, I get that. So is getting into shape, getting your driver's license, learning how to swim, and lots of other things that are worth having. Like all those things, it's just a matter of starting small...