Shutterstock/baibazįans of nut butters who have a high-powered blender can make them at home. A particular brand of chicken fingers might be the most popular item in your household, but your family will get used to homemade chicken fingers if that’s what’s on the table that night (they’re terrific!).įans of nut butters who have a high-powered blender can make them at home. You may have to change brands or re-create in your own kitchen what you’re buying ready made. It’s less expensive per pound and the cheese is fresher, more flavorful, and free of anti-caking additives. store brands of chicken, we did a tasting last year and discovered that a supermarket brand ranked as high as a locally raised organic bird.Īlways opt for blocks or wedges of cheese, rather than packages of grated or shredded cheese. There are a zillion YouTube videos to demonstrate how to cut one up and if you butcher it, so to speak, it’s going to be cooked later and no one will notice your mistakes. For example, the cheapest way to buy chicken is whole. But don’t forget, everything that someone else cuts for you costs you.
Broccoli florets already cut up will save you 10 minutes same for cut-up watermelon. See if you can reduce the amount of partially prepped or fully prepared food in your cart. If you’re making a beef or shrimp stir-fry, use half the meat or seafood called for and supplement with extra vegetables. And then, though this is obvious, but I might as well hammer it home, cluster like ingredients together. Get a roll of tape and a Sharpie and label everything on the side of the container (not the top, unless your freezer is a pull-out drawer), so you can see at a glance. This system does mean being organized, keeping track of everything in the house. Leftover night is the quickest meal you’ll make all week. Turn them into a soup, a curry, a stew with a can of beans added for heft, burritos, stuffed pita pockets. Every week, there are free meals in your fridge. If you were going to toss out these oddments, consider this a free meal. Make an omelet or frittata, or pack it into a tortilla.
On a night when you find bits of chicken, the end of a package of sliced ham, a tomato that’s lost its luster, you’ve got dinner. Your menu planning shouldn’t be so strict that it can’t take into account things that just accumulate the way they have a habit of doing. Pull out what’s been pushed into the back. Money is sitting on refrigerator shelves till it’s past the sell-by date.
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