One of Frugal Son's pals from high school is now in medical school. We seldom see him because he's so busy. He graced us with his presence last year. He told me that he learned a lot from me. I said What's the main thing?
Answer: If it's on sale, buy a lot.
In the 80/20 Pareto Principle of food frugality, that's probably most of the 80% right there.
I recently bought 12 pounds of onions for $4.00. I've already written about my main onion hack. (Now that I've used the word hack for the first time, it is probably no longer au courant. Oh well.) My hack: cook the onions with a little oil in your slow cooker, creating a facsimile of caramelized onions, which you freeze and use--in broken-off pieces--in many recipes. What a time saver! P.S. We slow cook onions on our front porch because they SMELL terrible.
Now Mr FS has a hack of his own. On a recent walk, Mr FS picked up a box fan. He said: I bet I can chop the onions on the porch and set the fan to blow AWAY from me, thereby minimizing tears. Reader: it worked. He chopped SIX POUNDS with nary a tear!
Now the onions are cooking away outside and I probably won't have to chop an onion for a month--maybe more.
Do you have an onion hack?
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Wow, you and your young friend are hard core,
my more low key hack is chop a whole onion instead of just part, save the rest in a glass jar, ready to use next time,
if onion is soft and sprouts yellow or green shoots, pot up or plant in garden for the green tops
also save brown or red peels of onions, beets, dry, use for coloring waxed eggs for Easter
@tess--You're pretty hardcore too. Love the Easter egg idea.
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