What’s a frugal trick you’ve chanced upon recently?

I accidentally semi-reinvented the “trencher”. Basically, in medieval times, food would be served on a slab of bread and that would kinda be the plate. Or, you know, bread bowls for soup and the like.

I have an air fryer, and I’ve learned I can line the basket in a large flour tortilla, and it generally keeps whatever I’m cooking/warming up from getting the pan too dirty aside from some easily knocked-out crumbs.

I hate washing things, and I hate wasting paper liners, so it lets me cut down on those, and I can just eat the tortilla.

  • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Save bones and scraps for stock/broth. I keep 2 large freezer-safe containers in my freezer where I will dump all usable scraps for later. Once they start to get full I’ll plan out a stock or broth with what I’ve accumulated. I’ve been doing it for years and it works great. Soups & stews are a great way to eat frugal to begin with and this help make it even more cost effective

    • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      along these lines - no one in my house eats bread heels, so I save them for months in the freezer then make croutons out of them. croutons are easy as fuck to make, hard to fuck up, and add a ton of mmmMmmm to salads, encouraging the fam to eat more salad.