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Frugal Tips for the Kitchen
- Save the plastic bags that your cereal comes in as it has many
excellent uses. It makes a great freezer wrap (put in meats, etc) You
can also use it for coating chicken or potatoes
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- Use less meat by adding oatmeal or tsp (textured soy protein) This
cooks up like hamburger meat but has no taste. I add it half and half
with hamburger meat for taco's, spaghetti, sloppy Joe's etc and no one
can tell. I have also used 1/4th oatmeal to 3/4's ground meat with
great results.
- Dice up green peppers, onions, and celery, flash freeze on a
cookie sheet, and store in Ziploc bags. If you buy them on sale, then
you will have them for when they are too expensive.
- Recipe call for self rising flour but you just have regular flour?
Just add 1tsp baking powder and 1/4th tsp salt per cup of flour.
- Cut your SOS pads in half or even fourths. You will get the same
cleaning power out of them but they will last a lot longer.
- Do you have a pan that has stuck on food that is hard to get off?
Put a half of a dryer sheet (dollar store brand works great) and fill
with water.. the next morning the food will wipe right out.
- Drop an egg? Sprinkle salt on it and it will wipe right up.
- Clean with baking soda and vinegar and keep a spray bottle with a
little bit of bleach and filled with water.
- For fast cleanup in your microwave nuk a glass bowl of water until
it boils and then let sit for 5 minutes. Everything will wipe right
out.
- Store brown sugar in the freezer, it prevents it from getting
hard.
- Instead of throwing out your bread heels save them in a freezer
bag and use them late for bread crumbs.
- Dilute juices with water (kids will never know the difference if
you do it when they are young and they will get use to it if they are
older)
- Keep a Tupperware type bowl in your freezer to add leftover
veggies to it to use in soups and stews for later.
- If you like fresh soft cookies put a piece of bread into your
cookie tin or jar. This will keep them soft and fresh.
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