Taco Fried Rice

So I've been so busy lately, I just wanted to update on my meals.  I almost never pay for any food food any more except when I go out.  I've pretty much allocated my budget that used to be for groceries for entertainment/ eating out / socializing.  It's truly amazing how much better I eat and to top it off how little I need to cook.  Just because I'm getting all my groceries for free these days, doesn't mean that I don't occasionally cook to spice things up and stretch those meals even further.  

So I had some left over sale hamburger meat in freezer and onions so I added it to my pre made brown rice bean packaged meal from this super high end food place.  Basically they have no meat in theres and the spinach is raw, theres squash, corn, black bean and peppers in their dish. I decided to use up some my my left overs to make this more savory and fatty.  

So I basically stir fried everything to make a brown fried rice.  I added too much salt and there was so much non rice stuff, I decided to stretch the meal further with left over white rice.

Turning my original freegan find into an additional meal.  Or 4 diet sized servings.

Dollar Veggie bag from Chinese Supermarket

Some potatoes, Zucchinni, 2 bitter melons all for $1

This is why I love chinese supermarkets, the Bitter mellon was especially good deal cause their like $2/lb normally.  I made a huge stir fry dish from zuchhini, Bittermelon tea and added bittermelon to pork dish as a meat filler.  And the potatoes I used for mashed kale potatoes.  So many dishes all for $1.

Left Over Cooking Ideas: BBQ Burger Lunch Combo

HOW I save money on eating out and food

I love leftovers.  It becomes almost a game to me.. I ask myself ways to extend a meal especially when I'm eating out.  Or getting treated by work.  Like this day I got a lunch order of a BBQ Burger with Bacon and french fries.  I made it my goal to start with the Fries since those get cold and soggy and are not good for left overs.  Then I ate the small coleslaw side.  Once I ate that I barely could finish the Burger ! Hint hint that was the point.  But I made an effort eat half of it and save the rest for another meal.  There is a method to my madness lol I always get bacon if its FREE aka company is treating or same priced to another menu item.  I never eat it and just save it for BREAKFASTS!  So this ONE lunch order I was able to stretch out into 3 meals.

Meal two above, all I did was take out the bacon.  Fry it with an egg, and toasted leftover bread I had from another meal and topped with cheap american cheese.  To make a cheap next day breakfast sandwich.  ($.10 for the egg, $.10 for cheap cheese) so $.20 extra cents!

AND MEAL THREE, was just half the burger with the bacon taken out, the meat portions were huge on this so all there meals were filling.  And to jazz it up, I added some lettuce and tomato after reheating the burger.