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COOKING AND FOOD - EXAMPLES OF DO-IT-YOURSELF SAVINGS - DIY
- Make
your own microwave dinners.
Make
a large one-pot meal and freeze the rest for later.
- Grow
your own herbs in a sunny window.
- Have
a garden either in a plot or in a container.
- Pick
vegetables and fruit at a "pick your own" farm.
- Can,
freeze or preserve food.
- Make
your own beer or wine.
- Make
your own soda, e.g. root beer.
- Make
your own cheese or yogurt.
- Try
"investment cooking," a system worked out by Woman's Day magazine. Spend at most four
hours preparing and freezing food on a Sunday that will last your family the entire week.
Refer to back issues of Woman's Day.
- Make
your own cleaning supplies or personal care items
Get
a copy of Cheaper & Better, by Nancy Birnes, Harper & Row, $15.00. This book shows
you how to make many household products.
EXAMPLE
OF DIY - SAVE ON THE COST OF BEEF - CUT YOUR OWN SUBPRIMALS
Cut
your own beef and save a bundle. "Subprimals" are large sections of beek that you can cut
yourself into much smaller portions.
Ask
your butcher how to cut boneless subprimals into smaller sections that you can store and
freeze.
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