The cost of food is stressing New Zealanders. New data out this week has confirmed what we all know. Grocery bills are soaring.
I’ve honed my ability to eat on the smell of an oily rag - often learning from readers’ tips. So over the next two weeks I’m going to share those ideas. Not all work for everyone. But I find new ideas can be winners if I approach them with the ‘how can I make this work’ attitude instead of writing them off automatically.
Shop your pantry
Most households have hundreds of dollars worth of food in their pantries, fridges and freezers. I know, because we once lived for five and a half weeks just eating down our supplies.
Lockdown programmed some people into thinking they need sufficient food to last a nuclear winter. For the minority, like me, it encouraged eating up what we had and we became used to a more empty fridge/freezer and pantry. I was staying with friends recently who, a few weeks earlier, had totally run out of cash. They stopped buying groceries, ate their pantry, and rode out the financial crisis. Eating out of the cupboards can actually be fun. We have some family favourites like baked bean cassoulet pie, which was invented for our pantry project.
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