Grandma's little hints and money saving advice.

Do not read if you don't want advice. hahaha

Squash your roll of toilet tissue when you put it on the roller, it slows down the spinning and saves TP. Now see how easy that was?

My new best friend this year is Dollar Tree. I try not to go in there because I can find too many things to drop a dollar on but they have 2% milk in a box, on the shelf and its so convenient for out here in the Forest. I never worry about running out because of a storm, and its actually good. Probably not the best for you but for a dollar, its a welcome addition to our pantry.

So off to the local bulk food store, which has been my best friend for years, I picked up two little bags, one of corn meal they now call Polenta, and one cream of wheat. We found out, at about a dollar a bag, breakfast costs about 10 cents for breakfast for 2, we eat a bit of milk and sugar on ours. If you pour thecooked cornmeal  in a greased pan and let it cool, cut in squares and fry in a little butter you have something called "Polenta" and they serve it with all sorts of things. We called it corn meal mush. I think maybe the corn is processed a bit, as it cooks in 5 minutes, mama had to cook her ground corn  for much longer than that. Jim says it brings back so many memories, and I sat down with my cream of wheat and remembered "Happy Hank" singing a little song about it, 73 years or so ago. Wow. Call me and I'll sing it for you.

I missed my nutcracker on my vacation! Yup, its what I open bottles of water with. A little pinch and a twist and they're off.

Dear Water Company, please make a small nut cracker out of nylon to carry in my purse, and also 2 ounce "bottle-etts" of water which I can toss in my purse and car to take a pill or "wet my whistle" if I need to. Wouldn't that be nice? Even in public, if I were coughing, I could take a sip, and not have to rely on wondering what's coming out of someone's faucet.

Does anyone cook dried beans any more? If you cook up a big kettle of kidney beans, adding onion, salt and pepper, a couple of carrots and a bit of a chili pepper, you will be amazed at the low cost, amazed at how much better they are than canned, and amazed that you can bag them up in zip lock's and freeze them for your soups and chili. So easy! There are lots of directions online.


Be sure that anything you are going to freeze is COLD before you zip the bag shut, or seal the lid down and put in the freezer. Otherwise, its going to taste funny. 'dunno why!