Eat for $3 a Day Like The Japanese (You NEED To Try This!)

📗Save $100's Each Month With The Complete Japanese Kitchen Handbook https://frugaljapan.shop/ If keeping your kitchen, your pantry and your grocery bill in order matters to you then this book is for you. A pantry that never goes to waste, a freezer that saves you money every single week, and the Japanese techniques that make cheap ingredients taste expensive. 👉 https://frugaljapan.shop/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Frugal Japan channel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Shopping List: Nishiki medium grain rice, 5 lb bag Great Value large eggs, 12 count Nasoya extra firm tofu, 14 oz block Chicken thighs, family pack (about 2 lb bone-in) Ground pork, 1 lb Green cabbage, 1 head Carrots, 1 lb bag Potatoes, 3 lb bag Yellow onions, 2 count Green onions, 1 bunch Fresh ginger, 1 knob Garlic, 1 bulb Canned tuna, 1 can Nori seaweed sheets, 10 count pack S&B Golden Curry roux, 3.2 oz box Instant ramen, 3 pack You've probably watched one of those three dollars a day videos on YouTube where somebody eats peanut butter sandwiches for a week and calls it a challenge. In Japan, spending about three dollars a day on food is just what a lot of regular people do, and they don't think of it as a challenge at all. It’s just another Tuesday for them. A bowl of hot rice with an egg cracked on top and a splash of soy sauce is a real breakfast over there, and it costs about thirty five cents to put on the table. Kids grow up eating it before school, adults eat it before work, and nobody sits down wishing they had something else, because that bowl is honestly really good when you make it right. I want to show you how you can eat the same way for a whole week, using regular ingredients from your local grocery shop. The whole grocery shop comes to about twenty two dollars, and once we do the math at the end of the video, the actual eating cost lands at around 3 dollars a day. 0:00 - The $22 Japanese meal plan 2:38 - Egg over rice breakfast 5:31 - Portable onigiri lunches 9:01 - Shape and pack onigiri 11:18 - Eight-minute pantry ramen 13:36 - Big-batch Japanese curry 18:26 - Sauce-grabbing mapo tofu 21:31 - The final weekly cost 22:40 - The $100 freezer alternative 23:53 - Japan’s thrift cooking philosophy 25:26 - Start with one meal