Cook at home and brown bag the leftovers

In the era of rising prices, it is much easier and cheaper to eat at home. Here's how we pack our lunch for the next day.

Dinner is cooked the night before, keeping in mind the need to bring lunch the next day. Before dinner is served, a portion is set aside and left to cool on the countertop while dinner is eaten. It is then packed in the fridge and eaten for lunch the next day.


We have done this ever since getting married, and it surely has saved us a lot of money. Plus, I get gourmet meals at work!

Reuse those Cereal and Bread Bags!

When you finish eating cereal, you are often left with a box and a bag. That bag can be used for something else!

We use those bags for freezing meat - instead of using cellophane wrap, cereal bags are quite thick and free way of portioning meat for freezing.

Just take the bag, shake out the crumbs, and put a portion of meat into it. Once you are finished with a portion, put an elastic over the portion and put more meat into the bag. At the end of the exercise, you will end up with a meat/elastic/meat/elastic sausage which you can freeze.

You can do the same for bread bags. This sure beats using cellophane wrap.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water...and don't throw the bath water out either

You can wash your baby's bibs, clothing with their bath water after they are finished bathing (provided that it's not contaminated with poopsies). When you are finished with the clothing, you can even water your garden with it!

Use Coupons, and stack sales

Do you throw away those flyer coupons? Don't! Use coupons, as these will save you money, and it is quite painless.

Stacking a coupon on top of s sale increases your savings.