Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

mcculloch29

ljonski wrote: »

After tea in the evening, with the nights drawing in, soak all dishes overnight and wash up in the light next morning(hand wash only!)

This is a great tip for anyone who has arthritic hands. They stiffen up overnight, particularly in the winter. Washing up in warm water first thing in the morning both soothes them and gives them some exercise to get them moving.

donna73

when plastic bottles of mayonnaise etc seem empty, cut them in half horizontally ,there's always more in there
I do this with my moisturiser & handcream too and sometimes theres enough for another week or more in there!

Wombatchops

Hi donna73, I've recently started doing this with toothpaste. It's extraordinary how much is still in what would be considered an empty tube.

ancientofdays

This saves no money whatsoever but I hate waste, have a family member on hand for liking out the cake mixing bowl, perhaps it does save a minute amount as less washing up

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ancientofdays wrote: »

This saves no money whatsoever but I hate waste, have a family member on hand for liking out the cake mixing bowl, perhaps it does save a minute amount as less washing up

I too have three very useful young grandsons who love to 'help' when the bowl needs scouring :):)

Wombatchops

Did anyone watch Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's programmes on BBC1 recently about how much this country wastes? There's an accompanying website. I don't know if I can share the link, but type in waste not UK into a search engine if you want to find it. I thought it was worth mentioning because this thread is about sneakily saving pennies, and the website has lots of recipes for food slightly past its best, so they can be used up rather than thrown out and replaced. HTH.

Primrose

Yes I watched. He's preaching to the converted here though! Yesterday we acquired a big bag of free chicken carcasses from our village butcher. They have been cooked down giving us six bags of delicious chicken stock for the freezer and we currently have a chicken curry for four people simmering on the hob made from the reasonable sized pieces of meat which fell off the bones. As I type the remaining skin and flesh scraps (but not bones) are on the lawn with the crows and kites fighting for them. Not much wasted here !!

Wombatchops

That's excellent, Primrose. I think I need to befriend your local butcher.

Primrose

For those of you who have the patience to make a stockpot,befriending your local butcher is a good idea because they have lots of bones, ham hocks, pigs trotters etc which are ideal for this purpose. You do need to be more time rich to make soups and risottos from your own stock but they have a far superior taste and texture. And we have in the past had ham hocks from our butcher with sufficient meat left on it to produce a meal on its own.

A good butcher can leave bones pretty clean of flesh but if they know they have a customer who really values them for stock making they will sometimes leave a useful amount of flesh on that you can do something else with! The stock produced from ham hocks here is usually used as the base for a pan of tasty lentil and vegetable soup which is very inexpensive to make, and healthy too.

It somewhat surprises me that people claiming to be hard up buy pizzas at £8 a throw but Don't realise they can make a filling and tasty home made soup for little more than pennies if they know how to go about it. I suppose it's a product of being part of the wartime generation!

joedenise

I don't think comparing a home made soup to a bought pizza is really very fair. If someone wants pizza a soup isn't going to hit the spot. However, it doesn't cost much, or take much time to make a pizza which would be much better than a bought one.

Denise