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.

  • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Pretty basic

    Buy in bulk and freeze what you don’t need immediately.

    I bought one of those giant Costco ground beef packs. I think it was like 10 lbs or something for $30.

    I packed it into patties and seasoned it immediately. I stacked them with parchment paper and threw them into the freezer. They turned out great.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll follow this up with a recommendation to buy your bread and freeze it. We never go through a loaf or a pack of buns before it starts to go bad. Just grab a few right out of the freezer and pop it in the toaster. Comes out great. Will eventually get freezer burn and have soft spots, but we can usually work through a pack before then.

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        1 year ago

        We put our bread in Ziploc bags (which we reuse) and then into the fridge. A loaf will last at least a month in there. Then it’s easier to eat since you don’t need to toast it as long

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        1 year ago

        I freeze bread. I go through loafs too slowly otherwise, and they go bad.

        Note: If you REFRIGERATE bread, it’ll go dry and stale. You actually have to freeze it. I’m sure there’s some sort of bread science behind “why”, I just don’t know what it is.

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      1 year ago

      I’ll buy the family pack of ground meat and then just transfer it to three containers where each is about 0.5kg, which matches the required amount for a lot of recipes/kits, like the club house sloppy joes/tacos or hamburger helper.