Your top money saving tip

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Treat your kitchen as though you were running a business and try to cut back on waste as much as possible.My recycling goes in one bag and small rubbish for the week rarely fills a plastic carrier bag, as being brought up with rationing I waste hardly anything.Almost empty jars of jam etc you can empty just with a quick warm blast in the m'wave I have a couple of those tiny empty jam jars that you get from hotels and any small amounts go into them and get stored in the fridge and used up in jam tarts etc.cut the bottom off tubes you would be suprised how much is left in there that gets binned if your not careful.

All sorts of ways to streeetch food especially.mince can be padded out with extra veg or oats. carrot or cheese goes further if grated in a sandwich. Left over crusts get whizzed up in my blender for breadcrumbs, why buy them when you have them already.
I don't buy or eat bread so my DD usully gives me the outside crusts which I use for breadcrumbs as her boys don't like to eat them.
To coat stuff with, almost any meat dipped in flour, egg and breadcrumbs, goes a lot further when cooked

I love pork loin done in flour, egg, and instead of breadcrumbs try dry stuffing mix, then cooked to a crisp either in the oven or often in my Remoska

This Remoska has paid for itself over the past few years as I can cook for myself using it instead of my big oven (less electic and quicker . if I do bake I use all the shelves in my oven and have a marathon bake-up with cakes biscuits (cheap as chips to make ) and if cooling down some meringues.

The slow cooker is your friend, and if I cook a chicken, its usually over-night, and the amount of meat falling off the carcuss is amazing.
Strain off the stock and when cool use to make chicken soup with odd scraps of the carcuss and lots of veg.Nicer than tinned and a fraction of the price

Soup is so easy to make and I make at least several litres a week and have either for lunch with crackers or as a starter before dinner at night.fills you up and you can cut back on your meat bill, or as I do a couple of times a week eat veggie a veggie lasagne or curry is just as tasty and you honestly don't notice the lack of meat.
I love to find new ways to make the cash go further if possible, then what's left over can be used to buy things that you like,I use mine to take my grandchildren out, or on holiday with them every year.

mum2one

Clean the washing machine - I put mine on 90 degree wash, longest programme once a week and steams the drum and keeps pipes cleaner.

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If your buying clothes that are dry clean only try to a avoid anything in the red family of colours - when I worked in a dry cleaners this was the cour we weren't able to put some preclean on if you had a stain xx

janb5

I have found a garden tip which may help someone else. |I was always losing the name of plants and its brand name. Now when I plant a perennial plant. I pierce a wooden stick and put a treasury tag through it to which I also attach the plastic name.( I use a punch cutter to make a neat hole in the plastic name tag) The wooden pole then goes next to the plant which is useful when people ask its name. HTH

janb5

JackieO wrote: »

Treat your kitchen as though you were running a business and try to cut back on waste as much as possible.try dry stuffing mix, then cooked to a crisp either in the oven or often in my Remoska

JackieO wrote: »

I love to find new ways to make the cash go further if possible, then what's left over can be used to buy things that you like,I use mine to take my grandchildren out, or on holiday with them every year.

Brilliantly and succinctly put Jackie as always!


Does the `O` stand for Onassis!

GreyQueen

I'd say leave your ego at home when you go shopping. Don't let the advertising industry con you into thinking you're so special that you must only use this or that product. And buy the goods, not the store; cheap and cheerful places don't mean carp goods. Yes, some things in there might be less than wonderful, but most are perfectly fine.

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janb5 wrote: »

Does the `O` stand for Onassis!

No, sadly not,my late OH when we got married used to call me JackieO back in 1962 when the 'other ' one was still married to JFK When several years had passed, and she remarried Onnasis the papers called her JackieO and my old man thought it hilarious that one of the richest women in the world had pinched my name from, (at that time one of the poorer ones ) :):):):):):) I was very lucky that my marriage was a lot happier than either of hers

vhalla1478

Hi All,

I recognise some names here! Look on the make do, mend and minimise thread and you won't go far wrong.

Viv xx

barneydee_2

Great thread am off work this week & having a good sort out am going to put some stuff on fb to sell we used to have a book table at work where I would take my books to get rid all that was asked for the was a donation all money collected went to our stores local charity but the powers that be at head office have said we can not do this any more any ideas where I can get rid of my books?
I have taken on board a lot of the things mentioned on here as I would like to make over payments on my mortgage so I can be mortgage free earlier thus go down to part time
Deex

Butterfly_Brain

Meal plan, make a list and only use cash, when shopping, but have a £20 note in the back of your purse in case there is something reduced or on special offer

If something that you use regularly is on offer buy it in bulk, for example, I can only drink decaffinated coffee due to a hiatus hernia and osoaphegitis and at the moment Morrisions have Nescafe Decaff 200g jars for £3.99 a saving of £2 a jar which is quite a substantial saving! I have now got 52 jars which has saved me £104 :eek: When the price goes back up I will just live off of the stash, until the next time it is on offer, I just put £4 a week in a sealed pot to cover the cost for next time. I have been doing this for many years with lots of things that I buy regularly, it has saved us a fortune

Use this site to find the cheapest petrol in your area.

http://www.petrolprices.com/

I used it for my town and had the highest petrol price of £124.9 per litre and the lowest of £114.9 per litre 10p a lite soon adds up. It also compares diesel prices

Make as much from scratch as you can, including bread.
Make your own cakes, biscuits and things like jam tarts, cheese straws etc as snacks.

Grow as much of your own fruit and veg as you can and freeze it, dehydrate it , make jams, pickles and chutneys.