🔥 In This Episode:
• How to make classic baked ziti the easy way 🍅🧀
• The 3-Bucket Money System explained step-by-step 💡
• How to stop living paycheck to paycheck using this method
• My personal breakdown of how I divide income between bills, savings, and investments
• Real examples using Axos Bank, Robinhood, and Coinbase
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Chef Poppy does it again. What’s up financial family? Chef Poppy with the profits here where the flavor is hot and the finances is always hotter. Today we’re baking up a cheesy baked ziti. And you know why that cheese is melting down? I’m going to teach you about one of my financial tips I like to call the three bucket rule. [Music] It’s a simple money hack that helped me stop living check to check and start stacking my money. Now, let’s cook up this plate and it’s playing. All right, so here’s our ingredients. Yes, a whole lot of that. So, I’m not going to say it all, but you can screenshot it. So, now we’re going in with that beef broth. It adds a little flavor to the water. Then, I’m going into my peppers. I got some red peppers and yellow peppers, some jalapenos. All right, so for my meats, I use chorizo and I use ground turkey, but make sure you remember to use the 15% fat ground turkey. Next, you’re going to add in those ziggi noodles. Make sure your water’s hot first though. So now all that meat should be all mixed and ground up. Now that’s the chorizo and the ground turkey. So now we’re just going to add that tomato paste. and some tomato sauce to give that tomato with flavor. Now, see how that looks? That’s golden. But let’s talk budgets. Most people hate budgets cuz it feels like punishment. Like, damn, I can’t spend nothing. But change your mind on it. Budgeting is not about restriction. It’s about permission. And that’s where the three bucket rule comes in. It’s simple. It’s flexible and it actually works. So now we’re chopping up our fresh spinach to add to our ricotta cheese mix for the layers of that big ziti. And then you use telekinesis to bring the spinach to you. And that’s what your budget needs too. Layers that makes sense. The first bucket is 70% and that’s for your essentials like bills and anything’s mandatory. The second bucket is 20% and that’s for your fun money. And the third bucket is 10% for your futures, like things like savings, investings, and emergency funds. So, for example, if you bring in $3,000 a month, $2,100 will go to living, 600 goes to lifestyle, and then 300 to go to your investing. You still get to enjoy life, but you’re building at the same time. So, let’s get back into this recipe. You got to take your meat sauce mixture and make that first layer in the pan. Get one good layer on there and then we’re going to add some noodles next. Add a layer of ziti noodles. Get that on there good. Get a good layer. And then we’re going on with that ricotta cheese mix next. [Music] [Music] There’s the cheese. See the consistency we got there? You want it to be like that so we’re going to so we can have a good layer of it. Get one good layer on there. Really good. [Music] And now we’re on with some more cheese. At this point, you can get a little funky with it. You can add whatever kind of cheese you want in the middle right there. But we just want to make a bunch of layers. Want as much flavor as you can here. So then I’m adding more red meat sauce on top of that. That’s that marinara chorizo and turkey meat. Add more noodles. [Music] And guess what? You’re going to add some more cheese. I love cheese. Get it ready. And I almost forgot. I added some spinach leaves on top. And I topped it with a little bit of olive oil. And then I chopped up some butter cubes and put those on top. So when the the the pasta starts to melt and that cheese gets in there, all that butter is going to get in there good with everything. And it’s just going to make it just even better. And while that bakes, let me tell you why this method works. Most people mess up their savings because they focus on just saving and being miserable or all spending and then you get stuck. This system gives you a little bit of balance. The three bucket rule feeds your today and your tomorrow. [Music] Yo, look at this cheesy baked gooey. Bro, what is a baked gooey? Don’t you mean big ziti? Just like your budgeting should be. Let’s see how this food tastes though. [Music] Look at the cheese pool. Walk off. Just walk off. [Music] Big back. Big back. Big back. Big back. Chef Poppy does it again. Oh, I did it again. That’s it. I’ll see y’all next time. If you enjoyed today’s episode and you feel like this going to help you in your saving journey with this new bucket strategy, do me a favor, hit that subscribe button, like, comment, and share to all your friends about Chef Poppy with the Profits. Until the next time, I’m Chef Poppy with the Profits, where we eat good, live rich. Peace. Heat. Heat. [Music]
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