Using olive oil is healthier, margarine can not be used for baking, believe me, you can tell the difference. I'm extremely frugal,but there's no compromising on health.
Butter is good for you, the idea it’s bad comes from Crisco. They needed people to stop using butter so they started telling people that butter was unhealthy. Real food is always better than super processed foods like margarine.
The cheap oil and margarine you recommend substituting causes inflammation. Buying healthy food is more expensive but not as expensive as disease. It's not frugal to put your health at risk.
Sorry, margarine is a few molecules away from plastic. So called “vegetable oil” is very harmful to consume. More and more research has come out with this information.
We shop on a budget, but won't use vegetable oil. It's extremely unhealthy. I buy extra virgin olive oil at Aldi. I'd rather spend a bit more & have fewer medical problems/bills. Yesterday I made a huge pork roast that will be turned into several different dishes over the next few days. I also buy the blue dish liquid at Aldi that's just like Dawn.
I will never use canola, vegetable oil or margarine or packaged foods. All of those items cause inflammation and are not healthy. I only eat Whole Foods (nothing that comes in a box or container).
Not only better, but if you melt both in a pan the margarine is half water while the butter coats the pan! Mom loved margarine (probably the cost) but if she made her potato dumplings it Had to be salted butter! You can't brown margarine...
I have food allergies, so I buy what I can eat and eat what I buy. I am also well stocked. I rarely eat cooked eggs. So I freeze them for baking when they are cheaper. There are other foods that can be used in place of eggs when baking.
Strongly disagree with your choices here…butter is not bad for you and there is a huge issue with vegetable oils vs real olive oils health wise…If you cant afford butter you are making really bad life choices
Butter is very good for you - the Science has completely turned around! Seed oils - canola, sunflower, safflower etc lead to macular degeneration. Cold-pressed olive oil is preferential for long chain fatty acids.
I agree with you Genevieve. I love to invest in my health by eating healthy foods. I can cut some other expenses but I can't do so when it comes to eat healthy foods.
Prepper Princess, Margarine, is so very close to plastic in its molecular composition. That the long term impacts are just now beginning to show up in Dementia studies. So, reconsider the use of margarine again. Butter is not a bad fat, just too many people use it too much and too much. I am with you on the Pork Loin Jowl. Love it.
When buying groceries, nutrition is my highest priority. Margarine is not healthy. I never buy it. The same goes for the cereal. Just check the ingredient list and the sugar content. Oatmeal is super healthy and cheap.
I follow you and agree on most things but the food category is a no compromise. Butter is good for you, olive oil great. Whole foods, quit buying processed foods. Since I switched to time restricted eating, getting rid of artificial butters, eating more eggs and fish, my lab work is all normal, blood pressure is normal, off meds, off my blood sugar meds and cholesterol meds. Changing my diet was one of the easiest and cheapest things I did to improve my health. I’m now back to work after not being able to work from chronic pain and my savings and investments are all on track and I will retire 7 years earlier than I thought 10 years ago.
There is a great doctor on RU-vid that I follow but at this moment cannot remember his full name, only Sven, maybe you can find him, he advocates intermittent fasting and low to zero carb eating. Sounds like you are doing great, congratulations on you improved health and lifestyle!
Margarine is rather unhealthy for many, esp for those with gut problems. The healthiest oil is EV Olive Oil. I am forced to eat healthily & Olive oil gives me no problems at all. Although, I am extremely frugal.
Butter is way better for you than margarine. A lot of margarines contain Canola Oil which causes inflammation. My suggestion is to purchase home brand butter if your on a strict budget.
Vegetable oil is terrible for your health :( it's super inflammatory used in all sorts of junk food. Some things you can't skip on when it comes to your health long term. We got a giant thing of Avocado oil and it's been lasting us 3-4 months now.
YES. SO very true. It just isn't worth it. Besides that, cold cereal is generally more expensive, so things like that are a double whammy. Expensive/unhealthy. We shop the perimeter of the grocery store and buy very little from the rest of it. My husband's cardiologist was amazed at how well he's doing. The cardiologist said it's not very common that heart surgery patients actually clean up their diets and start exercising, and he commended my husband and myself for doing the necessary research and work.
The correlation of vegetable oils (including margarine) with chronic inflammation and disease is too strong for me to be willing to swop it for olive oil and butter. I don't use much of either so it wouldn't save me significant amounts of money to change.
I appreciate your advice but the margarine and seed oils are very inflammatory so I’ll keep spending on butter and olive oil. I have to due to gut issues.
the only thing I disagree with is the margarine swap for butter. Margarine has plastic in it. Just NO! find butter on sale - stock up. it freezes very well!
I also dilute Dawn, I will fill most of the small container until there's just enough room for three tablespoons of Dawn, works very well on dishes, even if they are very greasy. I have been doing this for many years long before Dawn came out. We were using Sunlight dish liquid this way in the late seventies.
If you have the discretionary income to buy super healthy food, go for it. But a lot more people don’t have that. These tips make a lot of sense if you are struggling to put food on the table to feed your family. The key is to measure your servings. Anything in excess is harmful but anything in moderation is okay in most cases. When you have a bunch of hungry kids to feed you have to find ways to stretch the dollar or your kids will go hungry. When I was growing up my mother did all these things, margarine, vegetable oil, cereal, oatmeal,
My mother would mix up powdered milk take a gallon of milk...pour half in another container and pour up to the top with the powdered milk...shake good every time you use it..
I generally don’t eat cereal, so there’s that. I love butter and the only oils I buy are Olive, Extra Virgin, and Avocado oil. I also stay away from oil blends, as well.
I make a big pot of bacon or ham split pea soup once a month during the colder months and portion it out for many freezer meals. It works out to less than sixty cents a meal. A big pot of rice pudding or steel cut oats and dried cranberries lasts me a whole week for less than fifty cents a meal. A rotisserie chicken from Costco makes a giant batch of chicken pot pie or chicken stew. Making big batch meals and freezing them into portions keeps the food monotony at a minimum, allows me the savings of buying items only when they go on sale and saves me valuable time, not to mention the lure of eating out since it only takes five minutes to reheat them. I won't skimp on good quality dairy including eggs, butter or creamer but only use very little of them. Coffee is life. I make my own cold brew concentrate during the warmer months.
You've succeeded at saving money. This is for sure. Unfortunately, many of the items you've mentioned are unhealthy. Please don't scrimp on your health Prepper Princess. Health is very important
They don't eat as much processed food. No GMO's and sprayed with tons of pesticides like here in the USA. France and Italy take pride in their food and agriculture methods. Also, their food is more local. It all adds to healthier eating.
You are swapping healthy food for poison food and a sickly lifestyle. Vegetable oil, margarine, cereal, sugar, flour, Etc...and we wonder why america has an obesity problem.
Wash your dishes with whatever you want, but don’t discount the money saving power of Original Blue Dawn. I make just about all of my household cleaning items with it, and use it for my dishes. I’ve had my current bottle for well over a year. It cost $9, and I still have about 1/3 left. I use it as a laundry stain remover, it goes in my grout cleaner, my window cleaner, my stove top cleaner. I use it to make Dawn power wash refills for Pennie’s on the dollar. I’m sure watery shampoo works fine, but don’t discount the huge value that is blue Dawn!
Disagree here with most of these swaps. There's a way to eat well and still eat decently healthy. The olive oil to vegetable oil swap is a hard no for me. I don't judge anyone for choosing it, but just be aware of the lack of nutritional content that you'll likely pay for later.
For an example, here's what we do as a dinner bought at Walmart: 1. 20lb bag Jasmine rice $16.74 (202 servings) = $0.08 per serving 2. 8lb bag Pinto beans $6.88 (104 servings) = $0.07 per serving 3. 1 bag of Broccoli florets steamable $0.98 (4 servings) = $0.25 per serving Basic beans and rice with Broccoli for $0.40 per serving. You've got a vegetable, a starch, and a protein. Sure, it's basic, but it works if you're really trying to save on money. We do not butter our veggies or rice so no cost there. To add flavor, we'll use hot sauce or Mrs. Dash no sodium seasonings so if you add those: 4. Frank's Red Hot Sauce $3.26 (71 servings) = $0.05 per serving Brings the total to $0.45 per serving. Is this a meal that you would crave? No lol However, it is a good base to use when you need to balance saving and nutrition. Add items to it as you see fit to make it more interesting and use leftovers for things like bean burritos. Hope this helps someone!
If you buy bacon, save the bacon drippings that you get when you cook that bacon. Use those drippings in place of cooking oil or butter when pan-frying food or when making cornbread or if you want a meaty flavor in a homemade vegetable soup or want to give a pot of home cooked dried beans a smoky flavor. The bacon drippings are free when you buy bacon and can save you the cost of buying cooking oils or butter. And the addition of just one or two slices of cooked and crumbled bacon can add a lot of meaty flavor to a homemade soup or sauce. Cheap and nutritious breakfast: oatmeal porridge. Ingredients: rolled oats, tap water, powdered nonfat milk, cane sugar (optional) and ground cinnamon (optional). Top with raisins or dried cranberries if you like. If you are allergic to milk, omit it or substitute soy milk or almond milk. Cheap lunch to take to work: one homemade sandwich + one piece of fruit. Make a sandwich from two slices whole wheat bread, mayo and one slice of real Cheddar cheese. Add one small apple for dessert. Or make a sandwich with two slices wholewheat bread, peanut butter and either grape or red plum jam. Add one small orange for dessert. Bring along a Thermos flask of homebrewed tea (either chilled or hot) or homebrewed coffee. Put your sandwich in a sandwich size Zip Lock bag and save the bag -- bring it back home, rinse it out, let it air dry and reuse it multiple times. Get some brown paper lunch bags or white paper pastry bags and use one of those paper bags to pack your lunch. Save the bag and reuse multiple times it until it gets stained or torn. Dinner: homecooked cooked potato chunks or cooked pasta or cooked rice topped with a homemade chunky sauce. Make a white sauce or a cheese sauce from scratch or heat some bacon drippings with canned tomato sauce. A homemade sauce will cost less than a premade canned sauce or canned condensed soup. Season the sauce with minced fresh or dried herbs. Cannisters of dried herbs are expensive, but a little goes a long way. Or you could try growing some pots of culinary herbs to use fresh or dried. Add some leftover, cooked, chopped vegetables to the heated sauce and perhaps some canned or leftover, diced, cooked meat or poultry. The sauce will have a lot of calories and so will the starchy food you pour it over, so you add enough veggies and/or meat to your sauce just for texture and flavor. If you do not want a sauce over your cooked starch, cook some dried beans until they are tender, drain off half the liquid, then stir in a small can of tomato sauce, some bacon drippings and some chili spices (ground cumin, Mexican oregano, dried cilantro, salt, cayenne powder) and simmer for a few minutes. Cheap salad to accompany your dinner: 1/4 of a head of raw cabbage shredded, one medium size raw carrot shredded, 1/2 a small onion peeled and sliced plus some homemade oil and vinegar dressing with or without the addition of dried herbs, mustard and some sugar. The cheapest dinner beverage is a glass of tap water with one or two ice cubes.
Love your channel. Advise from a Spanish subscriber: olive oil is amazing for salads with just some grape vinegar and salt. That's the only dressing we use un the country and if you only use the olive oil for this dish you will stretch it much longer than if you used it for frying.
Regarding the state of your kitchen remodel: no apologies warranted, PP. In fact, you are doing some viewers a positive reinforcement in the value of patience and the importance of saving. People need to be reminded that they can survive on a budget, both in consumables and long-term. Keep it up, young lady! 😊
I love this - even though my approach to food is very different from yours! One thing I've been making lately is homemade fried rice, and I use whatever veggies I have in the house - mushrooms, onions, celery, half a green pepper, peas from the freezer, whatever. You make the rice first (or use leftover if you have that), sautée the veggies (add bits of meat if you want that), add the rice to the veggies. Then take 1-2 eggs, mix and then fry them in a pan without stirring. When it sets, flip the egg to get a thin pancake. Cut that up into small pieces, and add that to the veggies and rice. Add salt, pepper, soy, hot sauce, whatever you like. The eggs give protein which is great if you're not using meat, you get your veggies, and the rice stretches it to save $$. It makes about 7 meals for me, and even with my buying the more expensive (organic) versions of foods, it ends up being really inexpensive. And it uses up scraps of veggies and meat in your fridge, so you don't waste them. I didn't even think of deviled eggs - doh! I'm going to make some this week. You are a freakin' genius. Thank you!
Good thinking on the stir fry. I'm glad it works for you. I have to be careful because diabetes runs in my family. I could probably do a very small portion - the brown rice is a little better for me than white, but it tends to dry out as a left over - doing this might help with that.
@@kellyd8776 im diabetic i make fried rice try this a small quantity of rice but plenty of vegetables!! Eg i use shredded cabbage grated carrot mushrooms frozen peas and corn and whatever vegetables you like i also use a little chicken / vegetable stock powder to taste and sometimes curry powder and a little coconut powder add a little butter/oil if i have leftover chicken i add that or simply plain or with an egg delish! 😺❤️🇦🇺
My tips: buy meat on sale, bone if possible for broth/soup. Buy sale vegetables, or frozen for 1 or 1.50. Clearance mushrooms are perfect. Slow cook the meat, bone-in for tasty broth/stock. A VERY small amount of good butter or oil, whatever you like makes a decent soup. Skip breakfast, soup and/or eggs for lunch. More soup and possibly a salad for dinner. Lost 8 lbs and saving money. Also, do not go to a store to "look around". Make a list, keep it flexible, such as ground meat, so you can grab the sales.
Add a handful of porridge oats (oatmeal?) to your ground minced beef, in Chili con carne or bolognaise sauce (spaghetti sauce?). You would never know the difference and it makes it go much further.
30% are diabetic, 20% are pre-diabetic, and 30% are insulin resistive and don't know it making 80% with blood sugar issues. Very few can eat like you are promoting and live. Giving up needless calories like sugar, seed oils, and white flour will save $$ and save your life.
My grandparents saved bacon grease and cooked with it. They ate ANYTHING they wanted, were healthy and lived to 93 and 97. If we all stay away from processed foods and exercise portion control , we could all live as long as my grandparents.
@@lisagarrison25315 = yep, mine had bacon and eggs every freaking morning for 93 years and died still taking no medications, being able to climb a flight of stairs, mentally sharp, etc.
Fasting is easy and I've found my magic healthy meal schedule: don't eat till after noon, nor within an hour of bedtime. That's an 8 hour window to eat. My main meal, meat and veggies, is around 6 PM, the first food of the day is usually a big salad. My energy level is so good, sometimes I eat very little. My body needs time to process food.
I keep the Grease from bacon and sausage, to flavor greens ect. And to fry food. I hv put bacon grease in my cup cake batter in place of the oil , and it was good with cream cheese icing and real bacon crumbles on top . I also use any soap , shampoo ECT for what ever hands , laundry cleaning the toilet and the best thing for cleaning my floors is laundry detergent actually. I hv went to powder laundry detergent because I'm trying to get away from plastic if I can , because I don't pay for trash pickup
normally, i love your tips & pointers. 90% of Americans need to listen to you (they won't) BUT you're right-- i part company when it comes to eating well. pour toilet water in your car's gas tank to save money-- nope. same thing. short terrm, "margarine" & cheap "cereal" (aka pure SUGAR) "saves money", but no. horrible trade- off, health-wise. You are way too smart to sell such ideas.
Even if a person doesn't need to make the savings now, it is always important to know what to do and how to cut down should one ever need to. Most people don't plan for disaster and the need to cut costs. Knowing how to make drastic cost saving cuts is a very useful tool.
You can save money and calories by making open face sandwiches with just one slice of bread. Making your own fried rice with eggs, green onions, tomatoes and a little soy sauce is cheap, easy and tasty too.
I won’t give up my Dawn dish soap. But I will add a bit of water to it. We are on a septic system and it really does cut the grease and oil better than anything.
I just made a ‘tuna’ salad sandwich using chickpeas - it was delicious. I made it with onion, gherkins, Mayo and celery and sliced peperocini peppers and put it in a pita bread.Yummmm
Egg Extensionnnnn I love that suggestion. As far as I’m concerned, btw, the hysteria over the expense of eggs has nothing to do with anything but drama. If I buy a dozen eggs for six dollars therefor $.50 each, I consider that one good ball of protein for a very reasonable price. .
If you get carrots 🥕 with tops, the tops can be used to add to salads,use as substitute for parsley and.. saute with garlic in a pan with oil..just wonderful...add spices or parmesan cheese.
💯 Absolutely. I buy fresh celery ( I like the lighter-colored inner ribs best) and use the tops (chopped) too and throw into white tuna along with mayo, red onion, dill baby gerkins, blanched slivered almonds, the celery etc. Serve on thick toasted bread with lots of lettuce, avacado and potato chips. Love it. And it's filling and you can stretch it into 3 🥪 sandwiches over 3 days.
One thing that I do all the time now is when I'm cooking my pasta is I shut it off a couple minutes before it's done and let it sit in the heat. That saves on the propane. I do this at least four times a week. It really does add up over A month's time. Another thing that I do to save on using from my propane tank is I will heat up the water in the microwave..... it is cheaper to run the microwave for 3 minutes then it is to use propane to bring water to a boil. Just little simple ways. They really do add up you don't think about it until you actually add up the minutes and times that by a month. I'm a huge fan of yours prepper princess you are awesome!
I always dilute my dish soap. I buy a large bottle and a small bottle to sit on the sink. Keep refilling the small bottle from the big bottle. Fill the small bottle 1/3 and the rest with water. I do the same with my shampoo. Water it down and make it stretch. Buy it at Dollar Tree for 1.25 and then water it down.
I'm of Italian heritage, there is no substitute for butter or olive oil. Your advice about eating less however is the real deal. People nowadays are not active enough to burn the calories so eating less will indeed add years to your life. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THEY WILL BE HEATHY GOOD YEARS...75 here no scrips, still have a small farm , prep my own wood for a wood stove and can lift and carry 50# bags of feed. Eating healthy is the ticket to vitality, and it is never too early or too late to start.And yes I am a woman.
It's hard to explain to poor people about budgeting. This is the one tool, or lack of tool, that keeps these people poor. Bravo for your holding off on the kitchen remodel for a couple of months.
We have chosen whole food plant based diet for about 95% of our diet. We have our own chickens so we use some eggs (and give away a LOT of eggs to those less fortunate)…. We cut our food bill in half the first year of WFPB lifestyle and the second year even further…. It’s not a lifestylefor everyone but so far working well for us (nearly 70 years old)….and we’re super active! Hike, bike, ski, camp etc…we’re all in this together, thanks for the economic tips!
@PrepperPrincess @ our house there's a 3 cup bowl full of water & a squirt of Dawn a few drops of Clorox bleach (sanitizing) on the sink. We hand wash. I have 5 roommates & this has kept us all healthy for the last few years. No one gets sick here. The bottle of Dawn lasts forever. Even with 6 people in the house. No paper towels. just a stack of washable bar towels to use. Lots of homemade soups from the dinner left overs for everyone's lunches. We cook everything from scratch together. Still $50 week total for us all. None of us speak the same language but we all practice team work together. And wear out google translate. ✌️
I work at Walmart but I've actually stopped buying my groceries there after shopping aldis and being able to feed me and my daughter for under $200 a month and we don't eat meat
Thanks for another inspiring video! Good for you fasting, and I just finished up mine last week. Now I'm ready to use up the 'deals' in my freezer this month. Blessings!!
Thank you for providing sensible advice in a world where so much information is thrown at us. I like your videos because it feels like you are talking to friends and you are real about it and not ashamed of showing who you are.
While you may not starve on your diet, you will probably suffer from malnutrition. Part of you food budget should include some vitamin supplements to make up for the lack of nutrition in the food.
I love your tips but we have 2 different views on food. And that's ok. It took me years to see the horrific effects of Trans fats of margarine in my relatives health ie heart disease etc. Butter is good for you (if it's grass fed animals or raw. ) just my 2c. Love your hair today!
If you whip 8 oz of butter with 1/3 cup of olive oil you will make something that spreads easily and it fluffs it up and increases the volume since you are filling it full of air. You don't need to use as much even though it seem like you are. I'm not sure how well it works with margarine. But since you have the butter and the olive oil, its a good way to use it up, while still being frugal about it. If you add 2 tsp of garlic powder and a tsp of dried parsley and a tsp of dried basil or oregano before you whip it, you will have a nice spread for making garlic bread or putting on salmon, even if you are just spreading it on toast. Grocery tips seem to be going around this week with all my people.
Prepper Princess, I love to see your work in process. No need to apologize. I made my own "instant oatmeal". I added prunes, raisins, figs, chia, hemp, flax seeds in the blender mix for my bed-bound son with doctor's orders. Much cheaper than the fancy boxes and so quick and easy. A jug of prune juice is too expensive I make up a hug batch of pancakes or waffles all at one time. Then I put them in reusable zip-lock bags in the freezer. Quick and easy for my son's snack or quick breakfast instead of the brand in the freezer section. As it turns out many brands of olive oil are rip-off that are not 100% extra virgin olive oil that you think you are buying. If you are starving - pay your money - take your choice.
So many do that. Not only cheaper but probably better for you. Hope your son gets better. I like to see PP’s progress too. I don’t think I could do what she does
After my mom passed away, I was given $114.00 in Food Stamps to live on. I went to the store and bought the store brand of Spaghettios and Ravioli at .49 a can, I also bought creamed corn and put it over toast. I ate as cheaply as possible until I met my late husband. He was a big meat eater, and I made wonderful meals for us to eat. He loved his red beans and rice with pork neck bones, now I'm living with a relative who doesn't eat pork and doesn't even season his ground beef.
Prepper Princess, it would be nice to hear more about how you fast and what you drink or eat during your fast since you seem to have so much energy even while fasting. Thanks for the great tips!
Hey, I've used laundry powder for dishes, lol! When things are tight, you do what you've gotta do. It doesn't work so great, by the way, lol! A big pot of lentils is cheap, filling, lasts a long time, and tastes yummy! Every time you open your fridge, there is a sweet little puppy who comes running. ☺️ ❤️
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I wonder how expensive our food is when we need to have 90 different meals/month?? There is nothing wrong with alternating 2-3 different breakfast ideas -- eg hot cereal, eggs, pancakes... Same thing with 2-3 x dinner ideas -- stews, casseroles, stirfrys... My grandfather had a small family cafe during the Depression & 70+ years later, my mother could still rattle off the daily soup ideas for the entire week!!
You're so right prepper princess, butter is definitely more expensive than margarine. Back during the holidays Lidl in my town was selling pounds of butter their brand for $2 a piece and I stocked up many many of them. And yes we just really need to cut where we can and do what we can with less. Thank you for addressing these kind of things. Sometimes it seems like people who eat out frequently or who will be so rigid that they won't switch to something less expensive or cheaper even if it's just for a short period Of time I think seem to have a harder time during times of inflation than those who are very flexible. And you're so right about stocking up on things when they are cheap. Lidl also had a deal over the holidays where if you spent $25 that you can get a turkey for $0.29 a pound. When the holidays were done they still had $0.29 a pound turkeys I was able to buy three of them and put them in my upright freezer. Also they frequently will have bags of frozen vegetables for $0.59, 69 cents a piece $0.89 and I stock up whenever I can
Great tips! We truly do eat way more than we need, most of us. I like boiled eggs but not every day. Always good to see you and the pups having fun. Keep inspiring folks Prepper Princess!
Not eating margarine and butter is better for your health and saves you money. Plus cooking oils are not needed most of the time for instance frying some meats etc like mince can fry in their own fat and dont need oil
I got a whole ham when it was marked down to .99¢ a pound. It was regularly $2.99 a pound. So, a 14 lb. Ham cost $14.00. I saved $28.00 on that ham. I bought 2 whole hams and put them in the freezer. That will be good for Easter dinner. I use an electric slicer and slice the ham thinly. I'll take the bone with some meat attached to freeze. It's good for ham & bean soup. I like to shop meat when I can get good deals too. The hams had a sell by date for January 21 and I bought them on January 19th. There are good deals in the grocery store. You just have to look and find them. Nala is SO cute with her haircut! I know Rocky loves his sister now.
I’m from The Netherlands and a sandwich (two slices of bread with a small spread of halvarine and a slice of cheese) is breakfast. And lunch is the same! Yummy! Don’t overeat. Eveningmeal is usually boiled potatoes, about 100 grams of meat and two helpings of vegetables. That’s enough for a day, you eat to live, you’re not living to eat.🤗🍀
I make butter with whip cream and a mixer. It took a while but it has less preservatives. I add in what I like for salt too. I make 1/2 litre and add 1 tablespoon of salt. 😍👍
You can do a lot with with one egg! Once I had forgotten to buy eggs and I had only one left. Well, with left over potatoes, onions, and a small amount of diced tomatoes, I whip them up together and with can of beans, I managed to make 4 hearty breakfast burritos for my family. Since then, I do my best to create dishes with leftovers.
Back when I had three little ones at home and was dead broke, shampoo was often used in place of dish liquid and laundry soap. We lived on $1400 per month for four people. Those days were hard, but resourcefulness helped us get by.
I think there's a point where cutting costs on healthier food options creates expenses down the road. Not saying you eat unhealthy by any means, especially compared to average American diet. And I get that some things can just be too expensive but for example if you can afford to have olive oil instead of vegetable oil, have it. Vegetable oils oxidize under heat and trigger inflammation in the body, olive oil (not in large portions) is a heart-healthy oil and provides the body with antioxidants. Not trying to give a PSA or preach, it's your life after all. Just feel like if you are able to nourish and give your body the better option it will thank you in the long run.
I love learning more ways to save. My shampoo gets diluted half water, same for conditioner. Dry beans have been a staple good in my house for ages, along with pancake mix, oatmeal and grits.
