Last summer, during the height of the fuel crisis, I like a lot of Americans started trying to find new ways to save money. Many of the ideas I came up with are not actually new, but things I learned from my parents and grandparents, but had not implemented in my own household because I did not feel the need for them before. The first thing I decided to do was to eliminate waste in the kitchen by cooking meals with plans in mind for the leftovers. After that was successfully implemented, I started looking at ways that I could reuse the packaging that the food came in. Then I started to look for recipes to cook more things from scratch, so I wouldn’t have leftover packaging. This is a journal of the ideas I have implemented to save money, time, and prevent waste in my household.
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Jae says
I’d like to hear more about what ways you reused the packaging the food came in. Recycling is always a plus!