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.
If you made too much rice the night before, you can throw that in with the oatmeal, too.
Oh man too much rice is a tip in itself.
I now always make to much rice. Having just a little bit left is a bit of a pain or I throw it away but if I purposely make too much rice then I have a simple lunch with some seaweed tomorrow, or a nice fried rice for dinner in the next week, I can fry it as a side with some cheese. Congee. Rice is super duper useful and having some cooked means a lot simpler a meal or 2 always.
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.
Left over rice is a great excuse for me to make stir fry. It reheats just fine in the microwave in a covered bowl. A bag of frozen veggies, A sauce I can throw together pretty quickly from ingredients I already have, and a chicken breast or two or some tofu.