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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Foraging. Mushrooms be nom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only downside is if you didn't grow up with someone showing you the ropes (or you did, but moved far enough away that mushroom species changed), a bad identification can put you in the hospital or kill you.

I didn't get the benefit of anyone showing me this stuff growing up, but I've been very carefully educating myself. Like you said, mushrooms are tasty!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only started picking mushrooms this year actually. But I'm also very careful and don't pick anything but good newbie mushrooms without risk of dangerous mix ups.