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 see your great idea and raise it with the “lose it” concept…
Have an end of a bread loaf you don’t know what to do with? How about the crumbs left over in that bag of cereal or nuts? The next time you make oatmeal, just add them to the pot (cutting up the bread beforehand of course).
Losing it like this makes breakfast more interesting and make use of the (yes minucule) stuff that might otherwise be thrown away.
If you made too much rice the night before, you can throw that in with the oatmeal, too.
Rice goes with almost everything. I always make “too much” and use it over the next two days. If I don’t feel like having some as a side dish, I make rice pudding and have it for desert.