I'm better at saving bacon grease....
I'm even saving dryer lint.
I wash out all my gallon freezer bags, if not previously filled with raw meat, and I reuse them...
little things to save with this inflation...
we're not poor....we could afford new freezer bags, its just the principle of the thing....
re generators...we too have a big generator...not a generac...
however if you are the only ones with power you do become a target, so I would suggest slumming it a bit with off and on again timing....to make it look like you're just "getting by"....
I clean out ziplock bags too. They’re expensive really. If nothing else, you can clean them and use for utility purposes. Put some hardware in them or some other non food item. We save our aluminum cans in big black trash bags and I save and reuse those too as many times as I can. We don’t get trash service here so I save dog food and other feed bags to put glass bottles and jars and other non burnable items in to save up for a dump trip.
We keep sugar and other things in a 4 gallon frosting bucket. The grocery store sells them for $2/ea but I just go out back and check the dumpster every time I go shopping. They can’t sell them all so they throw them away. I bring a stick with a nail in the end to snag them out of the dumpster. The round ones have a rubber o-ring seal. Requires very hot soapy water to clean the leftover frosting out of them.