The last little bits?

[big brown horse]

Ok, sounds like it's time for a fat lesson thread!!! In a few days when I have time!!! Saturated fats are very stable and can be re-heated. Veg oils are not and become free radicals that are very harmful to your health. Don't be afraid of animal fat! It is what we are made of and our bodies recognize as food.

Science to come on another thread.....

I was going to ask you for this!

Can't WAIT!!!

Before I joined this forum if I had read your post about chicken fat I would have had the same reaction.

I think a fat lesson thread will be soo beneficial to us all!!

 

[ORChick]

Great responses! I love getting the little hints for frugal things to do; the bigger ones are easy to find, but the little ones aren't talked about as much. I love the idea about pickling the carrots in the hot pepper vinegar. And I (and my mother before me) have always saved the bacon fat - its great for sauteed potatoes - but, you know, it didn't even occur to me to mention it. One of those "but doesn't everybody do that?" moments - but of course "everybody" doesn't do it, and many are horrified at the thought. Rendering fat from scraps of meat, or collecting it off the top of broth is an economical, and delicious, way to make full use of the meat we buy; I look forward to your science lesson freemotion.

(Not using up the last bits really - though I suppose it is in a sense - but I bought several pounds of leaf lard from an ethically raised pig a few months ago, and rendered it out. It makes the very best pie crust!)

 

[2dream]

If there are not enough leftover vegies to make a full packed lunch or just a few left in the pot after making lunches I keep a plastic ice cream bucket in the freezer and dump them in. juice and all. When the bucket is about half full I get it out and make soup.
I am so stingy I will even keep bits and pieces of pork chops, chicken, roast etc and dump them in the freezer soup bucket.

If I have enough meat scraps in the bucket I don't even have to add extra meat. Just a can of tomatos.

Don't tell my 88 year old mom that re heated fat is bad for you . She won't believe it. LOL You can even use it in an emergency for lamp oil. I think leftover veggie oil works better but any leftover oil will work.

 

[big brown horse]

These are such great ideas! I love the idea of leftovers in the plastic icecream container!

 

[big brown horse]

With the little bits of bar soap I used to put them in the end of a stocking or tights, tie a not and hang it by my hose at the horse barn to wash and scrub (the tights do that) my hands.

I love this thread!

 

[2dream]

BBH soap in a stocking. What a great idea. I need that.

 

[OkieAnnie]

I love the soap in stocking idea. I will have to implement that. I love this thread!

 

[Lovechooks]

Ok, sounds like it's time for a fat lesson thread!!! In a few days when I have time!!! Saturated fats are very stable and can be re-heated. Veg oils are not and become free radicals that are very harmful to your health. Don't be afraid of animal fat! It is what we are made of and our bodies recognize as food.

Science to come on another thread.....

Sorry I wasn't very clear, I meant you shouldn't be reheating any oil, but for health reasons not eating animal fat, obviously when eating meat that's unavoidable but I just can conprehend actually cooking in animal fat. I'm speaking from a cardiovascular health point here not a re heating oils point.

From a health point of view olive oil is the best oils to use as it's full of healthy fats as opposed to animal fat which isn't healthy at all. But yes you shouldn't be re-heating olive oil either.

 

[freemotion]

After much research, I changed my mind on that one. I'll share the research on another thread. I will have to find a big chunk of it first....

 

[ORChick]

If there are not enough leftover vegies to make a full packed lunch or just a few left in the pot after making lunches I keep a plastic ice cream bucket in the freezer and dump them in. juice and all. When the bucket is about half full I get it out and make soup.
I am so stingy I will even keep bits and pieces of pork chops, chicken, roast etc and dump them in the freezer soup bucket.

If I have enough meat scraps in the bucket I don't even have to add extra meat. Just a can of tomatos.

This reminds me so much of a comment made by M.F.K. Fisher in her book "How to Cook a Wolf". Fisher, if you aren't familiar with her, is a wonderful writer, writing mostly of food. The above mentioned book is an interesting read, having to do with eating well within the limitations of the rationing during and after WW2. Not exactly frugal, per se, but dealing with limitations with grace; I recommend it highly. Anyway (and remember, this is from the 1940's), she talks of having an empty gin bottle in the refigerator for leftover juices from cooking veggies, or drained from canned veggies, or from a broth made from veggie skins and herb stalks - all kept together in that gin bottle, and used as a base for the next soup. And, of course, a second gin bottle for fruit juice leftovers. They tended to drink gin more often then, and freezers weren't the norm, but this is such a good idea, as 2dream has spoken of. If you like to read, and are interested in food, look for her books - and from a self sufficient point of view, look specifically for this one.