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Originally Posted by steven
I'm just starting to realize this myself-- but if you are careful you can have good complete meals day after day inexpensively. It's a bit of a hastle, but if you make more things, you only have to make small amounts of each thus lowering the cost. So you can make a potato/macaroni salad that lasts a week by using it as a small side dish every night. You can get a head of cabbage and shred it up and kind of "garnish" your dishes with it (you can eat it with Sushi-no-su, squeezed lemon, mayonaise, or even dry if you use it as a bed for meat). Or you can buy a package of tofu to eat it as is (with a little soy sauce on top). You can do the same thing with things like Buta-kimuchi (pork and kimuchi)... if you change the main dish and swap out some of the side dishes you can have quite a variety of food for a small cost. It just takes a little more time... mostly spent on planning out your meals.
And for people living long term in Japan-- if you live in the countryside, you might find friends who happen to be in families that make certain food (like tofu or rice and stuff like that) and you might be able to get some for free or for a cheap price (provided they are close friends).
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Interesting, kinda do a tapas thing by eating small portions of a larger dish, and saving money that way...I don't know if a refrigerator will be available at the hostels, but I can double-check.
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping to do, if I make friends, I can hopefully have a few free meals >_< not that I want to bum off people!