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    6 Practices to Expand Your Financial Ability the Gourmet Budget - Iconic Dishes for Only $2.50
    6 Practices to Expand Your Financial Ability the Gourmet Budget - Iconic Dishes for Only $2.50
    6 Practices to Expand Your Financial Ability the Gourmet Budget - Iconic Dishes for Only $2.50
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    6 Practices to Expand Your Financial Ability the Gourmet Budget - Iconic Dishes for Only $2.50

    By James Aldridge

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    For those wondering, "Why does it cost $30-$65 to cook a meal at home, that only costs $20 $35 in the restaurant?"

    Secrets from the restaurant industry, for the home kitchen. 6 wealth management skills, using the kitchen and the menu as the example along with 3 example menus that display The Gourmet Budget's economic theories in practice, designed to benefit your kitchen budget. This unique style of building menus will increase your ability to enjoy iconic dishes at home by reducing the average cost per meal.

    Displaying the genius of kitchen madness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 4, 2019
    ISBN9780359568659
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      6 Practices to Expand Your Financial Ability the Gourmet Budget - Iconic Dishes for Only $2.50 - James Aldridge

      6 Practices to Expand Your Financial Ability the Gourmet Budget - Iconic Dishes for Only $2.50

      The Gourmet Budget

      By: James Aldridge

      Copyright 2019

      By: James Aldridge

      Statement from Author

      Cancel all big dreams around those single meals that require a thousand ingredients to make one dish.  The restaurant industry makes its’ money by going in the opposite direction and you are about to learn how.  Get ready for making substantial buys that offer you the opportunity to build a plethora of dishes.

      Disclaimer

      For any item of value mentioned within this book, I am not a paid sponsor.  Everything mentioned in this book, I use due to my belief in these items’ economic benefits.

      Prolog

      Budgeting is not about restriction.  Budgeting is about precision.  In this book, I will show you methods of optimizing your finances around the kitchen.  The reason for choosing this avenue of teaching wealth development and money management has two very specific reasons:

      1.  We all have a kitchen.

      2.  Wealth and kitchen economics both begin with daily management.

      The practical application of the six principle theories set out in this book will yield a springboard effect for your attitudes and behavior, which will have a systemic role in every aspect of your life, for the best.  I will amplify the theories that are taught in the kitchen by using real life examples of these theories manifesting themselves outside of the kitchen. 

      This will help you get an understanding of how this book is far greater than just another cookbook.  But, the kitchen’s importance and what it reveals about who you are, is vital to understanding how your own wealth is going to develop.

      The basic idea of this book is to remove restriction from your psyche, in the proper fashion by replacing it with precision.  Many people who are not wealthy may view the wealthy as having little restriction on their abilities to enjoy.  That is actually the goal a lot of the poor-minded people report about their goals with money, to have no restriction on their spending.  They desire to be able to spend freely for whatever they wish.  This is a bad dream, and extremely destructive.  This dream is also vastly misinterpreting the manner in which the bulk of long-term wealthy individuals live their lives.

      Once the theories set out in this book are understood in their entirety, it will become clear that many wealthy individuals, who appear to be living restriction free life-styles, are actually working inside the theories set forth in this book.  These individuals are often living a very precise life-style, not a restriction free lifestyle.

      The main goal of this book is to provide in the finest detail the practical application of capital optimization theories used in the kitchen.  The six principle theories themselves are titled and explained so that you may develop your understanding of how long-term wealth and power stems from your mind and attitudes. The book will also display how to apply these theories throughout your life for your own capital benefit.

      Whether it is capital wealth we are talking about, or just pure happiness, wealth begins in the mind.  Wealth is about optimizing your daily earn versus daily spend.  By sticking to the kitchen, we can talk about wealth in a manner in which we all share in common.

      From experience, it would suggest that we all have a different frame of mind around the kitchen.  My French chef friend believes you should never eat alone, you must always drink wine while cooking, and food should always be eaten while laughing.  This guy lives an extremely glutinous life-style.  He is not exceptionally wealthy.  So, to live up to his glutinous needs, he relies on the theories laid out in this book, and will say that if it was not for these theories, he would not be able to enjoy life so freely (precisely) in the kitchen the way he does.

      After practice, revelations within your own specific lives will begin to emerge, which I could not teach each individual specifically.  That is why I have chosen to teach my perspective from an aspect of our lives that we all share in common, The Kitchen.

      About Me

      I have had a commonly unusual life.  My college experience has not taken the 4-year 18-22 year old approach.  My connection to wealth and food over the past 16 years, from 16 - 32 has been anything but normal behavior.

      I graduated high school in England at 16.  I started my coaching career at 17.  I coached Swimming, Basketball and Volleyball and studied to be a Holistic Therapist & Life Coach.  I studied anatomy and physiology within a holistic therapist licensing. I was merely a fella who knew how to take care of the body by means of preventative health measures and holistic massage practices.

      I left England to re-establish a new career path for myself.  I have been studying Interior Design, Business Management and have recently completed my pre-requisites to get into Grad School to study Architecture.  I have created a number of small businesses; two Web & Mobile based technologies, all while going through school and paying for life as a waiter/bartender.

      I have worked in a number of high-end restaurants, hotels, country clubs, bars, and low-end pubs and have learned the tricks of the trade from the master’s of the art.  Believe me, the kitchen as a profession, is an art.  Bartending, as a profession, is an art.  Mastering the money flow of this day-to-day grind is an art. 

      After designing my own style of handling the economics of my own kitchen, based off of many theories of these Master Chefs who I have worked under, I envisioned a book for parents preparing their children for financial circumstances before they went off to college.  As if to give their kids a last hoorah lesson before they become their own adults. 

      The idea was for the kids who had been given the advantage of their parents teaching them this book; they would be given a leg up against all of their friends economically while at college.  They would enjoy the best food, at the cheapest prices, and possibly even make a little cash while doing so, by going in half with their friends and ending up getting their food for free.  But, what child listens to their parents?

      I wrote down a few of the theories, and briefly showed my wife, who has had the typical college life: Uconn, Mac and Cheese, Ramen, Work Study, Dorms, Cheap Beer and McDonalds Fries, and she pointed out something that of course I missed because of my unusual life-style, which is that for the first two years of college for most students living in dorms do not have access to a kitchen and are forced to purchase a meal plan and eat in the cafeteria.

      I knew this was the general case, and was writing the book to counterbalance the fact that so much money is wasted in buying $8 lunches and $12 dinners.  The truth is, the bulk of teenage students do not actually run a full time job and live in their own apartment their entire college life like I did.  So, there was a bit of a flaw in the design of the book.

      Instead of attempting to hone in on parents teaching their kids before they go off to college, I am simply going to put down the 6 principle theories and allow this book to be for anyone who is interested in the positive effects of an Optimized Budget’s ability to relinquish restrictions throughout life and lead to long-term wealth.

      My life took an unsuspected turn after having to defend myself against a roommate’s drunken attempt to beat me up while I was living under his roof in my early 20s.  I moved out and lived in my car for a few days.  Slept in a Walmart parking lot.  I did not move from that spot for three days.  I just sat there and thought.  It was not some drastically dramatic situation.  I was more or less just fed up and sat there thinking how to un-piss myself off at life in general. 

      I had lived in my car before, for a month traveling California. I could hang out in a Walmart parking lot for a few days.  But, I was just sitting in that car, thinking about what it is going to take for me to become the man I wanted to become so that I would not have to deal with the trivial nonsense that was just pissing me off.  And the answer to all of my dreams of who I wanted to become was a precisely designed Optimized Budget.

      Optimized Budgeting has afforded me a $30,000 car, the ability to move to New York and travel across America, the ability to pour $25,000 into building technologies ultimately leading me to collecting a Mastermind group that I now share with project managers from Google, IBM, Barclays Bank, four other entrepreneurs, a 5 Star Chef who often cooks for the Queen of

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