Tag: health

How to Cookbook Cook on a Budget

Posted on by Samantha Dedea

Personally, I don’t follow recipes to the T because, well for one thing, it usually costs so much money and I’d rather utilize what’s in my kitchen. But, I love cookbooks. And when I say I love cookbooks, I mean I LOVE cookbooks. They’re incredibly inspiring and give me the foundation to make some great recipes of my own. I am currently flipping between Ina Garten’s “Cooking for Jeffery” and my grandmothers 50 year old Jewish cookbook. So here are a few tips to stay on budget while cookbook cooking:

  • Whenever a recipe calls for a type of mushroom, JUST GET WHAT’S ON SALE (don’t waste money on cremini mushrooms when button mushrooms are BOGO)
  • Find recipes that incorporate the ingredients you currently have in your fridge and pantry
  • If the recipe requires a pan/pot that you don’t have, TURN THE PAGE because there’s nothing worse than committing to a recipe only to find out that you need a dutch oven and do not in fact own a dutch oven

Cookbooking can be so fun and you can learn a lot about culinary arts just by having cookbooks from a wide variety of chef’s and I encourage everyone to have at least 3 different types of cookbooks. But following a recipe doesn’t mean you have to break the bank. What are some of your favorite cookbooks? Let me know in the comment section below!

Exam Diet

Posted on by Samantha Dedea

I did one year of law school before realizing that I didn’t actually want to be a lawyer. The truth is, I don’t know what I want to be, but that’s for another time. For now, I’d like to talk about exam dieting. Going to Stetson Law meant that there were A LOT of wonderful options to choose from on Uber Eats. With being so busy reading, briefing cases, or outlining for exams, my friends and I often found ourselves having food like what’s pictured above being delivered to the library. I had a love hate relationship with my eating habits during law school. I tried the best I could to eat “healthy” and made sure that I had good sources of proteins, fats, carbs, blah blah. But I also indulged in the good stuff. Maybe even a little too much. I definitely gained the freshman 15 my 1L year. Now that I’m out of school I’ve had a chance to reflect on how my body’s changed over the last year. There is not one part of me that regrets eating six doughnuts in a 5 minute period. They were DELICIOUS!!!! Moving forward into work life, I’d like to be able to take the lessons I’ve learned about stress eating and mindless eating and keep myself a little more together than I did around exams. What are some of your study/work eating habits?