Neighbor lady said she buys ground turkey for 40 cents a pound or whatever and adds a few beef bouillon cubes to it to make it "just like real ground beef".
Oh dear!Neighbor lady said she buys ground turkey for 40 cents a pound or whatever and adds a few beef bouillon cubes to it to make it "just like real ground beef".
And they think re-cycling is a new thing!
As a post-WW2 baby I was used to Mother, Aunts and Grandmothers saving useful packaging, etc., so have always done it myself. But I don't go as far as to wash aluminium foil.
My favourite aunt used to save the brown paper bags that the grocer put hand-cut cheese, loves of bread etc., in and take them with her to be re-used for her shopping next time. When they were no longer useable she tore them into strips and twisted them into spills for lighting gas rings or cigarettes. (Lighting them from the fire and crossing the kitchen to the stove to light the gas was quite hair-raising to a watching child who was taught not to play with fire!)
Himself and I refer to cottage cheese and yogurt tubs as "Allentown Tupperware". If you open an upper cupboard door in any of his PA cousins kitchens , you learn quickly to first put your free hand up to deflect any possible falling tubs.As a kid growing up, I never saw Tupperware, Ziplock, etc. Mom used Wonder bread bags, and plastic tubs food was sold in...
Waste not, want not as they used to say.My MIL saves all plastic and tin containers (like cookie tins, not cans) to pack stuff up for all the kids after family meals. I don't see anything wrong with that and actually send a lot of mine over to her...that way I am assured of leftovers!
I add some of my homemade super concentrated stock (beef, chicken, ham, veggie, fish) to many dishes including ground meat. I have to use a mix of poultry and pork meat to have low fat but if I want a beef taste (i.e. for tacos) I will add beef stock. I make the stock into containers but I also freeze some as ice cubes so I have it for those "small jobs".
I don't do it because I am frugal, I do it because we need to have foods without allergens and I still want to be able to have flavour!