Frugal Friday

[ecosophia]

Welcome back to Frugal Friday! In honor, so to speak, of the wildly inflated price of eggs, this month will be Egg Meme Month on Frugal Friday. Yes, you may consider this encouragement to get your own henhouse up and running!

Aside from that, this is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed.

Rule #1:  this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc.  I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #2:  this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.

Rule #3:  please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about.  Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.

Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.

With that said, have at it!

Comments

Re: Heating food without a microwave oven

[industrialchemy]

Soups or anything else with liquid: heat in a saucepan on the stove.

Pizza, burgers*, burritos, potato products: heat in a dry skillet on the stove, covered with a lid. Adding a little bit of oil/grease to the pan first is optional. Once the bottom of the food starts to sizzle, turn it over/stir it if possible, turn off the heat and cover so that the heat can be distributed.

I’m assuming the burger is not already assembled in a bun. If it is, personally I would just eat it cold.

Pasta, dumplings: same as above but put a little water in the skillet instead and heat it before adding the food. Cover and let the steam heat and rehydrate the food.

The dry skillet foods can also be reheated in the oven, but it’s faster and more energy efficient to use the stovetop, unless you have a toaster oven or similar. The wet skillet items usually need to be covered if they’re heated in the oven, to keep from drying out.