Sneaky ways to save the pennies

Primrose

My husband makes all our own pesto from our home grown basil and it is so much nicer than the commercial stuff which I always think has a rather acrid taste. Yes, it freezes perfectly well, either in small jars (e.g empty mustard jars) or cream pots/ plastic containers which can be defrosted and then stored in the fridge. And if you use a lot of basil, it's easy to regenerate new plants. Just snip the top three or four inches from two or three growing stalks and put them in a little water for a week. You'll find lots of little white roots growing from the base which can then be planted in a fresh pot of compost to make a new plant. If you do this on a regular basis you'll always have a supply of vigorous basil plants.

rosemary54

Becky_2 wrote: »

Does anyone know how to make your own green pesto? I thought about that yesterday when I saw the prices for ready made jars in the supermarket.

Thanks

I saw this in GH mag it is from Aggie s(of how clean is your house)using late summer basil that has a stronger taste.

25 basil leaves crushed in a mortar with a litle salt,add 1 garlic clove ,4 tbsps freshly grated parmesan ,3 tbsp of freshly toasted pine nuts and 4 tbsp of olive oil.
then keep crushing

she calls it 5 min pesto,not tried it yet.
my OH loves pesto mash but the stuff in jars does not keep well even in the fridge so am going to try Aggie,s and freeze what I dont use at once.

Frugal_Mouse

taplady wrote: »

this is what we do too, I use warm water and add a stock cube plus any leftovers too. They love it!

please be careful when giving dogs stock cubes as they can have a high salt content which is not healthy for dogs

FM
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edit - sorry, I bit slow typing and I see that this has already been mentioned

Frugal_Mouse

rosemary54 wrote: »

I saw this in GH mag it is from Aggie s(of how clean is your house)using late summer basil that has a stronger taste.

25 basil leaves crushed in a mortar with a litle salt,add 1 garlic clove ,4 tbsps freshly grated parmesan ,3 tbsp of freshly toasted pine nuts and 4 tbsp of olive oil.
then keep crushing

she calls it 5 min pesto,not tried it yet.
my OH loves pesto mash but the stuff in jars does not keep well even in the fridge so am going to try Aggie,s and freeze what I dont use at once.

I also remember watching a cookery program which said that it is better to pick first thing in the morning as the oil can be lost from the leaves on a sunny day.

FM
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Mrs_Thrify

When shopping always decide if a purchage is a need or a want?
If it is a need buy it but if it is a want put it back!

Use it up, wear it out, make do or do without!

Saving the pennies is a daily challenge to try our skills and strength.
We have quite a few chats about this in our home much to the famly's :rolleyes: as I am only working a few hours and not full time at the moment.

One of my more recent savings is to throw a rug on the laminent floor so our tootsies are cosy. It worked so well that DS(adult) soon got the other one I got free from doing a promption job to put on the back room floor. Guess ware the large dog lies now?

Becky_2

When my OH works away from home and leaves his leisure clothes that he wears at home but has only worn once before he goes away and then when he returns back the clothing goes straight in the laundry basket. I have recently started to hang them back in the wardrobe to make him believe that I have washed them and he is then perfectly happy to wear it again. Sneaky I know but I have got fed up washing only once worn clothes when I wear mine longer.

Aril

You can bring down the cost of hm pesto by using sunflower kernels rather than pine nuts. They taste similar but are a lot cheaper:D
Aril

Confuzzled

Becky_2 wrote: »

When my OH works away from home and leaves his leisure clothes that he wears at home but has only worn once before he goes away and then when he returns back the clothing goes straight in the laundry basket. I have recently started to hang them back in the wardrobe to make him believe that I have washed them and he is then perfectly happy to wear it again. Sneaky I know but I have got fed up washing only once worn clothes when I wear mine longer.

i've done this for years, saves a lot of money and time. detergents, washing machines (and dryers if you use them) are harsh on clothes so washing them unneccesarily isn't advised anyway.

if clothes smell or have stains they get washed then but if they don't i will wear them a few times (knickers do NOT fall in this catagory, they get washed as per normal ) i also have comfy at home clothes and nice going out clothes. by keeping them seperate i save on buying more expensive going out clothes. if i suspect someone might drop by that i don't want to see me in my 'comfy' clothes then i wear either my nicest ones or my oldest going out clothes and that problem is solved.

i've been able to halve my wardrobe using these methods and the amount of time i've saved on laundry and the loss of stress over ruining good clothes whilst doing things at home has obviously come to a full stop

spikeycat

:T Mooncup FTW! I haven't bought tampons for a whole year - it's perfect!

Primrose

When I was a child (during wartime) it seemed to be almost general practice to wear the same clothes for most of the week. Modern washing machines and tumble driers simply didn't exist and most homes didn't even have constant hot water on tap so laundry had to be reduced to a very practical minimum. There was no question of throwing clothes into the laundry basket after just one wearing, especially when they had to be washed and wrung out by hand with rationed soap, and then had to dry in winter by being hung on a clothes horse to drip on the hearth in front of a miserable little (coal rationed) fire. When you think about it, we don't know we're born now, do we ??