Your number 1 money-saving tip

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What is your number 1 tip that saved you the most money on regular household spending?

@PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn

For amazon impulse purchases, I move things to a wish list instead of the basket. Looking at the wish list, it's amazing the crap I haven't bought

Love this one

@AchillesPoirot me too. It’s not quite to MN chicken levels...but DH and I get at least 4 meals out of a chicken (roast/sandwich or salad/braised chicken, peas and lettuce or maybe a Korean or Japanese broth with noodles and veg/soup made with stock from bones and meat off the carcass.

Chicken tip albeit far from the MNet duracell version.
One large chicken 4 roast dinners
Remove rest of meat; simmer the carcass with a carrot, onion, bayleaf, black peppercorns.
Pasta bake: boil the pasta in the chicken stock and add whatever stock there is to a white sauce of choice I gently sweat a leek for this. Add the chopped chicken to the white sauce. Add a head of brocoli to the pasta, stir through white sauce and bung in oven sprinkled with cheddar for 30 minutes. Usually does 6 portions so dinner for 4, lunch for 2.

Smoked gammon joint
Sunday roast with Carrots, roasties, Broad beans in parsley sauce.
Use a couple of slices in cheesy bacon pasta.
Use the remainder in suet roll. Roll out a quantity of suet - sprinkle over bacon, black pepper and some chopped fresh herbs if you have them, roll up and steam for two hours. You can also bung Carrots and broc in the steamer while it finishes cooking. Serve with parsley sauce.

Love the fact I recall a number of these posters on very recent threads about “what holidays are you going on in 2022?”

And there wasn’t much talk of money saving!

No judgement here by the way. Same for me - still planning on abroad hols this year despite doing loads of the measure on this thread. It just make me smile

Also the reason why I sometimes have a leftover bit of chopped tomatoes is one of our favourite dishes only requires half a tin and it’s not something that can be batch cooked and had again another time. Otherwise I’d just cook double! I don’t always make soup with it. Sometimes I’ll do a shakshouka, or I’ll just add the leftover to my next batch of pasta sauce/chilli.

You can buy cooking bacon in Lidl. I portion out the good bits that could be used as rashers and use the rest chopped up like lardons.

NdeFH81
I may have been one of those posters. Look after the pennies isn't a bad motto. However I am truly sorry for those who have no headroom because every penny is watched from necessity anyway.

Sorry to derail but, what's all this love for air fryers about?
I bought one about a year ago and I just can't get on with it. A pp mentioned that they cook chicken and chips in there, when I tried that it was dry and tasteless.
I've been on YouTube to try and find out what I was doing wrong, but still nothing came out nice enough to eat.
It was a waste of money and I gave it away because I was wasting food that we couldn't eat.

Where the money coming from to buy one anyway if you’re totally skint?

@AchillesPoirot

Where the money coming from to buy one anyway if you’re totally skint?

Ebay? I got my £85 soup maker for £20, it had been used a couple of times but as long as you thoroughly clean and sterilise it before use it will be fine, in fact mine looked brand new!

@AchillesPoirot

Was that comment for me?

If you’re skint - truly skint - you don’t even have an extra £20.

I wouldn’t pay for a soup maker. I have a saucepan and a stick blender already.

Sorry yes @weleasewoderick23 I forgot to tag you

Sorry but no one needs soup maker, its called a saucepan and a spoon!!

@AchillesPoirot

If you’re skint - truly skint - you don’t even have an extra £20.

I wouldn’t pay for a soup maker. I have a saucepan and a stick blender already.

What a daft post

Your contribution was about making bacon in to lardons

If you were “truly skint” you wouldn’t be buying bacon

@AchillesPoirot

Where did I say I was skint? My question was about air fryers which, to me, are crap. Yes, I made an expensive mistake thinking it would save me money in the long term but it didn't work out that way.

My comment was about buying cheaper bacon.

No one at all ever needs a soup maker if they have a saucepan.

Added to which

The op asks for Money saving tips

No reference to being “truly skint” whatsoever

I didn't buy a soup maker, that was another pp. I bought an air fryer

@AchillesPoirot

My comment was about buying cheaper bacon.

No one at all ever needs a soup maker if they have a saucepan.

No one “needs” or to buy bacon

@weleasewoderick23

I didn't buy a soup maker, that was another pp. I bought an air fryer

Brace yourself

She’ll have an issue that the air fryer

@NdefH81

😂😂🙄

@weleasewoderick23 that’s what I’m worried about...I’d like a multi cooker for the perceived convenience, and to avoid having to store and use separate slow cooker/pressure cooker/etc, and definitely for the long-term savings but I’ve never had any food made in one to be able to judge whether or not it’s nice enough, so I’m hesitant to invest if it’s not going to be used! I’m very much not bothered about using less oil/fat free cooking as I eat low carb/Mediterranean so that’s not a pro in my book at all. I wish I could try it out before buying.

@VelvetChairGirl my reply to you sounded really grumpy which wasn’t the intention at all!

@Nnique

I get what you mean. I really thought it would revolutionise my kitchen, but obviously didn't. My ( adult) dd tried to give me hers for the same reason, ( we bought at the same time) nobody wanted it so it isn't just me.

I'm not wasting any more money on gadgets. My food processor does loads so I'm sticking to what I've got. That's money saving isn't it?