How to Feed Your Family On a Budget Like The Japanese

Get My New Book: 'The Art of Japanese Cooking' from me and my grandma. 👉 https://frugaljapan.shop/ Easy to make Japanese recipes that your family will enjoy :) -------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Frugal Japan channel. -------------------------------------------------------------- Times are tough right now, but that does not mean you or your family should be eating worse because of it. I want to show you how a Japanese family puts dinner on the table for the whole house using two of the cheapest things in the entire grocery store, which are a bag of rice and a bag of dried beans. That is really all this is. We are making two big pots today, one of seasoned rice and one of simmered beans, and together they come to about eighty five cents a plate. That feeds a family of four tonight with enough left over for two more meals later in the week. This is not special occasion cooking either. Rice with a dish of simmered beans next to it is what dinner looks like on a normal Tuesday in Japan, and kids and working adults have been eating it that way for about four hundred years because it genuinely tastes good. Chapters: 0:00 - A budget Japanese family dinner 1:28 - Choosing rice for takikomi gohan 2:54 - Effortless kombu dashi 7:46 - Washing and building the rice pot 10:20 - Cooking and resting the rice 12:51 - Why dried soybeans are better 15:50 -The kombu bean-cooking trick 18:52 - Finishing the gomoku mame 22:43 - Flexible pantry variations 23:49 - The full meal cost 25:36 - The philosophy of simple meals #japan