What’s a frugal trick you’ve chanced upon recently?
I accidentally semi-reinvented the “trencher”. Basically, in medieval times, food would be served on a slab of bread and that would kinda be the plate. Or, you know, bread bowls for soup and the like.
I have an air fryer, and I’ve learned I can line the basket in a large flour tortilla, and it generally keeps whatever I’m cooking/warming up from getting the pan too dirty aside from some easily knocked-out crumbs.
I hate washing things, and I hate wasting paper liners, so it lets me cut down on those, and I can just eat the tortilla.
I was thinking, “Isn’t it usually more expensive to make your own bread?” But then I realized with how inflated grocery prices are now, there might very well be a savings esp. if you can buy flour in bulk or something.
Yes, once bread reached a price that no longer justified the convenience, that was my final straw.
Bulk flour and yeast SIGNIFICANTLY reduce costs, and my machine paid for itself very quickly.