Frugal kitchen tips
March 3rd, 2008
The Urban Vegan has a helpful guide to money saving tips in the kitchen. She mentions baking your own bread, freezing cooked beans, using leftovers as well at 22 other helpful tips. My top picks from the list are:
- Buy in season - This is a huge, huge money saver, when you make your meals based on what’s cheap/available vs. what a particular recipe calls for you can save enormous amounts of money
- Pack a lunch - This should go without saying, the lunch you pack is going to be fractions of the lunch you can buy, and you can make it healthier
- Stock up - savings for buying in bulk are significant, if you run out of room in your cupboards start storing cans under your bed (you’re not using that space anyway)
- Avoid bottled water - Even if you dont care about the environmental impacts of bottled water, it’s absurdly expensive, you’re much better off getting a water filter and filling up a reusable water bottle. Further most bottled water is most likely not any cleaner, more sterile or safer in any way.
- Cut down on the Lattes - This one wasn’t on there, and of course it’s your choice, but brewing coffee at home can save a bundle, and with lattes is easy to mimic the majority of lattes you can buy. Just do the math for a second, (1 $3.25 latte/day×(5 days/week)×(52 weeks/year)=$845 year on coffee. That doesn’t include a tip. You could buy 2.5 complete organic locally grown fresh butchered pigs for that much money.