Milk

Here is a trick to slim down while saving money.

Try to drink a cup of milk before every meal. It not only reduce your appetite, it also provides you sufficient calcium. Study did show people who drink a cup of milk before meal lose more pound than people who don't.

Note: you may want to buy one litre of milk instead of 200 ml pack. Smple math: 1 litre package costs you $1.50 while 200ml package costs you $1.00. if you buy 5 200ml package, you have to pay $5 for them.

Where is your golden army?

Ok, you have 401k, you have insurance, you have emergency fund in place. Now what should you do with the entra saving?

Option 1. Keep it under the carpet and pray no one will find it.
Option 2. Buy a CD and accept meager interest rate.
Option 3. Use it to build a golden army.

I will go for option 3. Money is mysterious thing. You can use it to help people, to enjoy yourself, and to reproduce itself. What ahold be your golden army? That is an tricky question. Bt it should be something that constantly generate positive cash flow for you. You can look for golden army with your financial planner or your business partner. Or you can create an army by starting your own business.

Another use for egg

Here are two new recipes of eggs.

Fried noodles in egg
1. Prepare one serving of fried noodles as usual.
2. Mix 2 eggs in a bowl and fry it with frying pan
3. After the egg solidify, put the noodles at the center of egg.
4. Carefully cloth the noodles with egg

Egg sandwich
1. Boil 1 egg for 15 minutes.
2. Put 2 spoonful of mayonnaise and the boiled egg into a bowl and mix them.
3. Spread it across a bread.

Got any idea how to use an egg, share it with us. Email to info@TheOneDollarMeal.com

Did you get your pay?

At the end of the month, people are lining up at the ATM, waiting for their salary.
What will you do after getting the salary? Dine at a fancy restaurant? Buy a new TV?

By the way, how much did your boss pay you? And how much you pay yourself? Did you save some money?

It is intriguing that soon after we get our pay from our boss, we pay other people! Thinks about the barber, the shopkeeper, the vending machine... We always pay ourselves the LAST. Survey shows that average American has only $300 saving per year, which is $25 per month.

Why being so mean on ourselves by spending all the income? Start paying yourself a large salary by saving more.

Example of one dollar meal

Here is a recipe for one dollar lunch.

Ingredient, Chicken breast 100g, 1/2 of spring onion, pinch of salt.
Time needed, 8 minutes.

1. Cut the chicken breast and spring onion into bite size.
2. Grill the meat and spring onion with frying pan.
3. Sprinkle some salt on it.

Simple, right? Try to bring it to your office. Your friend will be surprised by the simplicity and deliciousness of it.

How about 1 litre of milk in one day?

Today I made a little experiment with my little stomach. I drank one litre of milk today. Yes, you heard me, one litre, as stated on the package.

I mixed the milk with some packaged liquid called Furuche. I spotted it today at local store. As you mixed the Furuche with the milk, the milk started to turn into jelly-like half liquid. And it tastes great. My stomach is full.

I have chosen banana flavor for my experiment, and I going to try for mango flavor next time.
Guess what, I spent only 320 yen, roughly 3.5 dollar today, 140 for milk, 180 for Furuche.

Link for Furuche, http://housefoods.jp/products/catalog/cat_1,1111,1341.html

NEED and WANT

It is peculiar that we seem to classify lots of luxuries as "needs" when in fact we are able to survive without those "needs". Want some examples? Coffee at Starbucks, new car, laptop with windows 7, iPod...

When we see something we WANT,  we often justify it with some reasons, such as, my productivity will increase with new computer, I NEED to listen to music... Worse, repetitive enforcement of these NEEDS actually make us believe we NEED these luxuries.

Time to reclassify NEED and WANT.