Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

gentlepurr

Another vote for not peeling spuds here too, mash has more interest with a bit of fibre in it!!

Couple of other things i do, i had a new freezer last year and saved the drawers out of the old one, ive used them such a lot in the garden, for mixing compost, moving plants, moving gravel, the list is endless, but i also use one drawer upside down, as a foot rest when i'm sitting in the garden chair. When it rains, i turn the footrest draw back over and collect rainwater, much better for the houseplants. When i was little, mom always used to collect rainwater for the goldfish bowl, so i suppose that still applies too.

Those wonderful coffee tins, Millicano and Azera, i cant find anything new that you can do with the tins that hasnt already been done with a baked bean can, lol, but the lids make brilliant can covers for cat food tins (or baked bean tins, ha ha!)

gp xx

Wombatchops

I'm not sure if this qualifies as saving pennies, but it is at least zero waste. I was at the bottom of my jar of instant fruit tea (the freeze dried kind), but it was all stuck to the jar. I just poured the boiling water straight into the jar, and then poured that into my mug. It totally worked. I guess it would also work for coffee.

Primrose

I wish I could get that to work for Horlicks powder which regularly congeals as solid as a rock in the jar

Susan1962

Primrose wrote: »

I wish I could get that to work for Horlicks powder which regularly congeals as solid as a rock in the jar

Not sure if it would work for Horlicks but I bought some Lecithin granules and there was a big silica bag in the middle - the kind they sometimes put in handbags to prevent damp ...?

melanzana

Primrose wrote: »

I wish I could get that to work for Horlicks powder which regularly congeals as solid as a rock in the jar

I wonder would decanting it into a ziplock bag before use help?

Primrose

Horlicks powder seems particularly vipulnerable to moisture so if one accidentslly dips a damp spoon into it it seems to congesl very quickly. But the ziplock bag might be a useful idea. At least I could then whack the contents in the bag with a heavy thump from a rolling pin to break them down. Once the powder is congealed in the jar you can't even jab a sharp knife in it to break it down.

melanzana

Primrose wrote: »

Horlicks powder seems particularly vipulnerable to moisture so if one accidentslly dips a damp spoon into it it seems to congesl very quickly. But the ziplock bag might be a useful idea. At least I could then whack the contents in the bag with a heavy thump from a rolling pin to break them down. Once the powder is congealed in the jar you can't even jab a sharp knife in it to break it down.

And don't forget.... giving it a whack with the rolling pin will keep you fit too! Win, win.

You could always give it a try anyway. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

mcculloch29

I have cracked a glass coffee jar in the dim and distant past by pouring in boiling water for the final congealed spoonful though it has worked safely at other times.
Not a Horlicks drinker, although a knife in the jar usually does the trick with coffee.

melanzana

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I have cracked a glass coffee jar in the dim and distant past by pouring in boiling water for the final congealed spoonful though it has worked safely at other times.
Not a Horlicks drinker, although a knife in the jar usually does the trick with coffee.

If you put a spoon in the glass jar before adding the boiling water.... there will be no cracked glass.

Years of making Irish Coffees taught me this!

moneyistooshorttomention

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I have cracked a glass coffee jar in the dim and distant past by pouring in boiling water for the final congealed spoonful though it has worked safely at other times.
Not a Horlicks drinker, although a knife in the jar usually does the trick with coffee.

When "bottling" hot liquid in glass jars before now I've stood those jars/bottles on something wooden (ie my wooden chopping boards). I read that as a hint somewheres or other and I don't know the "science" behind it - but its worked so far.