Posted on 02/17/2013 7:16:40 PM PST by PJ-Comix
PING!
You are helping the DUmmies boost Mexican Drug Cartel incomes.
lol
Doubt im first, but....WOOT!
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One way we used to save SCADS of money in Japan is to cook 5-6 cups of rice in the cooker and just go from fried rice, to rice balls, to chicken/egg bowl, etc. until the week is over. It saved us $100 equivalent a week.
Used to make gallons of plum wine myself too, and DIDN’T THAT WORK?!
Per your advice, I have not bought shaving cream, razors, toothpaste, toothbrushes, body wash or shampoo in over a year.
My wife bought with coupons more than a years supply of each for less than $15.00 total.
I wish we had a CVS, Walgreens, and Publix in Alaska. But, we are learning the ways of Fred Meyer and Safeway.
Doesn’t know how to use a crock pot???? LOL....That pretty well sums up the mental capacity at du du ville.
“Rice cooker! “
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Here in the Philippines, a rice cooker is as standard as a kitchen knife.
Rice is bought in bulk at about $1 per kilo.
I am surprised that a Dummie would even know about one.
I wonder if My favourite place is still there, just outside the train station in Aki-Habura. 50 Yen for a huge bowl of ramen soup -delicious and you were lucky if you could finish the entire bowl.
Of course, this was back when the exchange rate was 220 Yen to a Dollar. It used to be 110 Yen when I first arrived!
>>Rice is bought in bulk at about $1 per kilo.
DAMN, that’s cheap!
Never see coupons here, but the cost of living is so cheap, they are not needed.
$1000 per month for EVERYTHING, including rent, is more then enough for the three of us.
Been a few years, give us a break. You know they say the memory is the second thing to go...
WTH is he/she talking about? Property taxes on cars? What?
I have my vendor give me half white and half red, mixed together.
Like most Philippine gals, my wife prefers white, but I insist on mixing in the red.
Every vendor has at least four varieties of rice, all sold in bulk, by the kilo.
They eat rice as Americans eat bread. There is never a meal without rice, even at a McDonald’s.
Well, the first thing you need is a good 80-$120 zojirushi or other Japanese rice cooker. Second, you need to know how to wash rice.
http://kakkoiiblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/chahan-fried-rice.html
Fried rice is described there and is very easy.
Rice balls (onigiri or musubi) only need:
1. Saran wrap
2. Tuna
3. Seaweed (nori)
Take the tuna and put it inside a fist sized amount of rice that you are holding with saran wrap. Ball it up so the tuna is inside (like a ball or a triangle like most Japanese do), then wrap it with seaweed.
I used to go hiking for days in the back mountains of Kyoto and make 10-20 of these for carbs and protein.
If you want anything else, look up Oyakodon (chicken/egg rice bowl) Tannin don (Ground beef/egg bowl) Unaju (eel rice bowl), etc. Katsodon (Pork cutlet bowl) is my favorite.
There is also “chazuke” (rice soup), niku jagga (beef stew), and a whole slew of others.
All you need to cook Japanese is sa,shi,su,se,so.
sugar, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, and miso. And maybe some Japanese sake.
Well, for prepping I found $13 / 20 lbs. at Publix, and that’s the best deal for white rice I’ve found at any store (probably because of the high amounts of Haitian and Jamaican customers at their Florida stores that demand it). But $1 / kilo, that’s like $8 for 20 lbs!
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