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What's a frugal trick you've picked up recently? (self.frugal)

submitted 1 year ago by IonAddis to c/frugal

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you made too much rice the night before, you can throw that in with the oatmeal, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh man too much rice is a tip in itself.

I now always make to much rice. Having just a little bit left is a bit of a pain or I throw it away but if I purposely make too much rice then I have a simple lunch with some seaweed tomorrow, or a nice fried rice for dinner in the next week, I can fry it as a side with some cheese. Congee. Rice is super duper useful and having some cooked means a lot simpler a meal or 2 always.

[–] MasterBlaster 1 points 1 year ago

Rice goes with almost everything. I always make "too much" and use it over the next two days. If I don't feel like having some as a side dish, I make rice pudding and have it for desert.