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Avocado Toast is the New Australian Dream (And That's Fine With Me)

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I next to never eat out or pay for takeaway coffee or avocado toast so could someone please explain to me why at the same age Tim Gurner bought a house, I CAN'T AFFORD ONEASDFGHJK?! Australian millionaire Tim Gurner has some advice, "When I was trying to buy my first home, I wasn't buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each..." He goes on to say that millenials "...want to eat out every day, they want to travel to Europe every year. The people that own homes today worked very, very hard for it, saved every dollar, did everything they could to get up the property investment ladder." I'll be the first to say that it was probably really tough for Tim Gurner to buy his first investment property at nineteen. And anyone who does that is like pretty ballsy and brave. Like kudos to him and I am not trying to take away his achievements! I'm aware that my parents' dream as soon as they started working was to buy a house (a dream th...

Brown Rice Salad

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I'm not that type of blogger (if you could even call me that) that post recipes and such. Because, if I'm honest...I don't cook. I like my pizza delivered and not in my oven, if you catch my drift. That being said, I feel the need to share this with you because I really love this meal and can actually cook this! (I can actually be bothered to cook is what I mean) So let me share with you, how to make brown rice salad!  Ingredients:  - 1/2 cup of brown rice (I mean really, just cook how much rice you want but for a proper meal, such as lunch, I cooked half a cup)  - chicken (this is obviously optional) - 1/4 cup of peas  - 1/4 cup of corn  - 1/4 of a red capsicum  - 1 chopped chilli (this is optional) - 1/2 of a small red onion - 1/2 an avocado - squeeze of 1/4 of a lemon - sprinkle of salt and pepper - strand of chopped coriander - a bit of lettuce (I mean how do you measure lettuce? You can't exactly say 1/4 of a bloody lettuce c...