I’ve been doing the frugal thing all my life, but I’ve noticed that the dollar menu items at fast food places are getting hard to beat.
Yeah. I’ve been doing the frugal thing all my life, cooking from scratch and the dollar menus are appealing to me more and more all the time. We’ve never been expensive restaurant people, so we go to the mom and pop restaurant down the road more often now. I’m just sort of tired of cooking, but am cooking more simple stuff now. Tossing a whole chicken into a roaster, salting and peppering it, sprinkling some McCormick’s all purpose seasoning on it and you can eat off that for about three meals and then put the bones on to boil and make some soup broth. (Add a tsp. of vinegar to pull the calcium out of the bones.) Leave a little meat on those bones and you can fix some chicken noodle soup worth eating. Add chopped celery and onions. Someone suggested adding a tsp. of plain gelatin to add body to shorter cooking soup stocks.