Great Tips... one liners

nosuperwoman

I've posted this on one of the forums here before but my favourite frugal tip is to wrap an elastic band round the stem of a push despenser (in my house it's usually handwash). That way you don't get as much squirting out.

piecemeal

1. save clean plastic bags for freezing food. I buy cheap bags to use next to the food, then a saved bag on top.
2. Wristwarmers and legwarmers under other clothes keep you warmer than an extra jumper would (although tonight, I am wearing the jumper too!)
3. start saving plastic trays and pots now for spring planting.

monnagran

If you are a cheese lover buy extra strong cheese and grate it very, very finely. You will use much less but won't lose any flavour.

Watch TV or read Hester? Not what I've heard.

Lilyplonk

monnagran wrote: »

If you are a cheese lover buy extra strong cheese and grate it very, very finely. You will use much less but won't lose any flavour .........

I'm on a 'low-fat diet' but I satisfy my 'cheese craving' by using the extra-strong low-fat cheese grated into Cottage Cheese along with some finely chopped spring onions. It gives the CC a lovely flavour instead of that 'blandness'.

niftythrifty33

Wow I can't believe how many frugal tips you've all added in just 24 hours!

Here's mine for today:

Buy value dishwasher tablets not liquid. Break them in half, on the edge of the worktop. Using half a tablet works just as well and they last for ages.

[Deleted User]

Never throw away or recycle a lidded jar, use them for storage instead or better still make preserves and pickles and fill them up with your own produce, more frugal still, grow your own fruit and veg and use that to make the preserves and pickles!

lillibet_dripping

monnagran wrote: »

If you are a cheese lover buy extra strong cheese and grate it very, very finely. You will use much less but won't lose any flavour.

Watch TV or read Hester? Not what I've heard.

Oh Monna, you beat me to it:rotfl:

cooking-mama

My Frugal tip of the day is:
Visit MSE forum every single day
Cheat, I know, but works for me. Xx

camNolliesMUMMY

Get on your onsie or fluffy pjs and slippers when you get in from school or work if you are not going out again, They are really warm and you can turn your thermostat down a little even if you've got little ones.

Ours goes down to 20-21c and when the kids are in bed it goes down again to 18c then down to 16c when we go to bed.

If you make too much veg or rice, even if it it's a small amount freeze it in a container or ziplock bag. Comes in handy if your peckish n need to add it to a recipe or a meal for little ones.

Aliceinfrugaland

Brilliant ideas, thankyou. I:


double curtain windows in winter.
make window quilts and draft snakes out of old blankets
paint all ceilings and walls white


cook from scratch
forage and grow stuff
freeze bits in ice cube trays or cup cake moulds and decant into freezer bags when solid.