Hi ,

Imagine you were going to eat out with a few friends in London but, instead, you decide to go to someone's house and cook instead.

Rather than split bottle of wine and buy a main + pudding for £25-£45 you only spend max £10 per person on the dinner.

To start with, you're a bit clumsy at the cooking.
A few things burn, are served a bit dry or cold, but you get by.

And, each time you cook from home, you realise you've saved about £20.

Imagine that each time you choose to eat in instead of out, you physically put a twenty straight into a piggy bank on the counter, or virtually into a Monzo pot.

If you're a social butterfly who's used to eating out quite often and now hosts at home, you might be saving a few hundred pounds a year easily.

Now imagine how much better your cooking would be if you invested that money into the kitchen equipment you didn't have.

Now imagine how much better you'd be at cooking if you invested that time into learning and trying new recipes

Now imagine how much healthier you could be if you weren't throwing in the cheapest oils, over-indexing on salts, sugars and fats just for flavour.

You're not just saving money - you're building wealth in physical kitchen-bound assets.

You're investing in the most timeless, priceless, high interest, ETF you can find: your health

(I'm writing like this to be ironic by the way)

Most of the weight you want to lose, the energy you want to get, the muscle you want to build comes from what you buy in the shop - and what you do in the kitchen.

It's a weird thought experiment to look at a half full bag of protein powder and think "That other half is now me" Maybe 1% of my left bicep...

But, to make this email more than just a thought experiment, here's the things I'd trade up if I had a client making these trades.

1. Glass Tuppaware - varying sizes (£50). This one will change your life. Glass is the GOAT. Dishwasher proof, oven proof, microwave proof, anti-staining, and won't dissolve harmful microplastics into your food everytime you eat from it.

2. Wooden cutting boards (£30)- one big, two small. Each time you cut on plastic, you cut off plastic. Straight into your food. It's disgusting and I cannot believe this isn't talked about more.

3. For God's sake, get an Airfryer (£70-100)- it's annoying to have been late to the party on this one. But they'll save you so much time. The main reason people fry things so much is speed. Pre-heating a whole oven for half a sweet potato is a faff and means a face full of heat, awkward arm burns and challenging tray shaking for no reason.

4. Cast iron pan / and or crockpot (~£50) - It's not just the lack of PFAs and microplastics that will (sadly) leach off eventually into your guest's food. It's the versatility, ovenproof-ness, and heat distribution that changes your whole cooking experience. These can become the only pan you ever need to cook on. Clean simply with water and a metal scourer/steel wool and you don't need to worry about the plastics also found in brillo pads and other products.

5. One of the reasons why you don't add more veg to meals? Prep time is often one. So buy a sharp knife (£20), put some music on (£0) and cut all your veg in advance - when you've time, putting it straight into tuppaware and back in the fridge till you need it.

6. If you eat meat, a slow cooker (£30) is not only a cheap investment, but will save you money in the long run: You can turn the cheapest cuts of meat into delicious meals with minimal prep.

Have I missed any?

If in doubt, get rid of everything plastic.

Wood is great and a natural anti-microbial.

Also, cook with butter, ghee, lard and (if not too hot a pan) olive oil.

Those cheap seed oils (veg, sunflower, rapeseed) were made to lubricate tanks in WW2. They're not for you...

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Live by design, not default.

James - humans BEING

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