This website features articles about how to eat healthier for less money. They are excerpts of and a companion to a book I'm writing about this topic. For more information, see my About page.
All in Conserving
I make about $6.40 per hour while watching TV by repurposing newspaper to make my own news pots instead of buying peat pots. You’d think newspaper would make flimsy seedling pots, but these pots are quite sturdy. My instructions are a little different (better! but I’m biased) than others I’ve seen on the internet.
The dead of winter is alive with citrus. It is sweet and juicy, being picked at the peak of ripeness. The simplest thing to do is just eat it. But if you want to take citrus a bit further and stretch your dollar a bit more, consider saving the peel and making it into candy.
Since it’s summertime, here’s a tip for using your ginger peelings to make iced ginger tea. I just tried this recently.
Making my own cheese helps preserve my milk resources, saving me money, but also unexpectedly enriches my connection to history, evoking tales of the Italian countryside.
Fresh ginger is soooo tasty, but it’s not the easiest spice to work with. It took me years to develop a method that saves me time while cooking and also helps me save money by conserving what I have before it spoils or dries out.
