August 31st, 2007 in Money
How Ice Cube Trays Will Save You Money
I had to laugh: this article is entitled, Ice Cube Trays: Your Passport to Huge Savings. Apparently using your ice cube tray to store and freeze left over food items could save you a lot of money.
This is a pretty neat idea for the more thrifty readers. I’ve always found that little bit of left over sauce isn’t worth keeping. Could this attitude change?
Soup Stock: Chicken, beef, vegetable . . . whatever kind of stock you freeze in the ice trays, it’ll make your life easier when preparing recipes that only call for a small amount of stock.
Anyone out there already trying this?
Ice Cube Trays: Your Passport to Huge Savings - [Wisebread]
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Daria Sofiyeva says on August 31st, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Interesting… That’s a little too much for me, although when I buy things like fresh ginger root, that are needed in sauces in small amounts too, I chop them up into small pieces and freeze them. Same concept, right?
Clint says on August 31st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Yep, my wife does this all the time with soup and baby food for our kids. Couple cubes of soup is easy to send in a lunch with the kids. And for baby food, blending your own vegetables and freezing them is way cheaper than buying those little jars of exactly the same mush.
Cindy says on August 31st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Nigella Lawson (A British TV chef/personality) has been advocating this for years. Her best recommendation? Putting leftover wine into ice cube trays. I was dubious, but it works like a charm, and it’s easy to throw a cube or two into pasta sauce, steamed veggies, etc.
Of course, who has leftover wine?!?!
Patch says on August 31st, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Never heard of that one. Sounds like a good idea though, food seems to be coming in bigger and bigger servings and it will help it from going to waste.
Carole in Korea says on September 3rd, 2007 at 1:19 am
We make our extra spicy smooth pizza sauce by the gallon, and freeze it in ice cube trays, later transferred to ziplock bags.
1 cube = english muffin pizza.
3 cubes = regular size homemade crust pizza.
We also do it with the super gallon cans of tomato paste – so many of my recipes call for a tablespoon of it, not a whole little can. Less waste, too.
seks hikayeleri says on February 1st, 2008 at 5:19 am
danke
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Well, how different is this to storing food in tupperware? It’s really the same thing, at the end of the day. Personally, I wouldn’t want to put left over food in my ice-trays. Imagine someone gets mixed up and ends up putting frozen left-over curry in their whiskey for the eve… no thanks! That would be horrible. He he. Might make for an interesting drink, though. I’ll just stick to tupperware.