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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.

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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

along these lines - no one in my house eats bread heels, so I save them for months in the freezer then make croutons out of them. croutons are easy as fuck to make, hard to fuck up, and add a ton of mmmMmmm to salads, encouraging the fam to eat more salad.