August 31st, 2007 in Money

How Ice Cube Trays Will Save You 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.

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