Even More Frugal Kitchen Tipsby Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger 07 Jan 2008 04:30 AM Have you been following our frugal kitchen tips? They are great ideas for saving money in the busiest room in the house. I like to concentrate on this room, because I find that establishing good frugal habits in the kitchen can take me a long way to saving money. Plus, it is always fun for me to save in the kitchen. My mom was practicing this next idea for as long as I can remember, far longer than the frugal lifestyle got to be so popular (See Nicole's blog). If you need a really cheap way to keep those potato chips and other snacks from going stale, roll up the bag and use clothespins to clamp the bag shut. You can find bunches of clothespins for sale in the dollar store. In our family, we seem to go through cycles of eating ice cream. We may consume mass quantities every day for weeks and then not touch it again for a month. As a result, the open containers of ice cream would sometimes look like miniature Mt Everests with the peaks of frost that turned the ice cream to something not so delicious. But I did find out a trick for stopping all of that frost that grows and grows. Simply place a piece of plastic wrap on the surface of the ice cream. Press it down well. You want to eliminate any possible air pockets. Put the lid back on the container and store the ice cream back in the freezer. If you do this every time you open the ice cream, it will stay fresh until you use it all up. If you buy hamburger on sale and freeze it, here is a handy trick. Weigh the meat out to one-pound portions. Place each pound in a freezer bag. Before sealing the bag, get out your rolling pin and flatten the meat in the bag, being careful not to let any of it out. Seal the bag up and freeze. The bags are easy to stack, and the meat will thaw out very quickly because it is so thin. Mary Ann Romans writes about everything related to saving money in the Frugal Blog, technology in the Computing Blog, and creating a home in the Home Blog. You can read more of her articles by clicking here. Related Articles: What You Should Have in a Frugal Pantry Saving Food: The Ice Cube Method Learn more about Mary Ann Romans  Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat. Relevantfrugal tags User Comments jonesx6 (1606) 07 Jan 2008 09:43 AMI like the meat idea!! Laura  Mary Ann Romans (26886) 07 Jan 2008 09:45 AMUse the cheaper baggies for the meat (since you can't reuse them) and then place those baggies inside the more expensive freezer bags, which you can reuse. I learned that from a comment on one of my blogs! Community Tags frugal, ice cream, kitchen, save money Discuss this article
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