Household Savings
Cooking larger portions in groups helps to save on your energy bill plus saves you time. For example, bake several items in the oven at the same time to eat throughout the days ahead. You can cook double (or more) portions of vegetables, potatoes and rice to use during the week for several meals. A tray of chopped beef can become burgers plus meat to add to tomato sauce plus tacos or burritos (using the extra rice). If you make extra pasta with your meat sauce, you can mix vegetables and cheese into it later in the week for yet another lunch or dinner.
A whole baked chicken (don’t forget to make gravy with the drippings) or pieces boiled or baked can be the entree for one dinner. The cleaned carcass (or water you boiled in) easily becomes chicken vegetable soup (you can throw in any extra veggies that you cooked plus any remaining pasta or rice. Soup is great to use leftovers at the end of the week so it may spend a few days in the freezer. The chicken (or turkey) meat picked off the bones (leave some on for the soup) becomes chicken salad, hot open chicken sandwiches on bread with gravy or stir fry, depending on how much you have. With all the time you will save not having to cook entire meals from scratch every night, you can find an activity that you enjoy that may even become an extra income. Check out Under or Unemployed here in Juls1World.
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