The country is experiencing an economic crisis, all goods, including products, are getting expensive by leaps and bounds. Is it possible in such conditions to eat healthy food and not go bankrupt? Here are a few tips to help you save on products without compromising on food quality.
- Excess fat, which is formed when meat or chicken broth is being prepared, should be collected in a separate glass jar. It is ideal for frying vegetables such as carrots and onions.
- Biscuit breadcrumbs, used in the preparation of batter for meat, fish or poultry, do not necessarily buy in the store. You can prepare them yourself. For this, stale white bread is used, which is pounded in a mortar, crushed with a rolling pin or grinded in an electric coffee grinder. After the dry white bread turns into crushed biscuits, they must be rubbed and sieved through a sieve. Fold in a glass jar with a tight lid.
- If in the preparation of fish for frying remained food waste, namely: head, bones, fins and skin, they can be used for cooking fish broth for soup or cold.
- Water, in which the peeled vegetables, such as potatoes, carrots, onions, turnips, rutabaga, cabbage or beets, have been boiled, it is not necessary to pour. It can be drained into a glass jar with a tight lid and stored for up to three days in the refrigerator. This vegetable water can be used in the preparation of soups or sauces. In such a vegetable broth contains a lot of useful for the human body trace elements.
- Expensive lobsters, shrimp or cervical cancers in salads can be replaced with salted red fish, salmon or trout, or pieces of ready-made herring fillets.
- Instead of expensive special forms - classic kokotnits, for the correct preparation of a high-grade julienne, it can be cooked in small fresh buns, molds for baking homemade cakes, tartlets or a large form for baking different dishes.
- Instead of cottage cheese, when baking classic cheesecakes you can use previously prepared fruit jam. The taste of cheesecakes will be somewhat different, but very pleasant.
- For a beautiful and original salad decoration, you can use grated cheese, cherry tomatoes, olives cut into rings, canned vegetables such as beans, carrots, corn, peas and mushrooms, as well as fresh herbs of dill and parsley and boiled to hard boiledeggs.
- If you add a little lemon juice to the water in addition to salt while boiling the rice, the cooked rice will turn out to be crumbly and bright. And if you also put a little carrots and dill, then an unusually tasty and inexpensive garnish for lunch or dinner will come out.
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