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Money Saving Tips: Revive Your Lettuce

September 13, 2012 - 1 Comment

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Did you let your lettuce get a little wilted before using it?

Don’t throw it away! There’s a solution!

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Just place your lettuce into a bowl of water for a few hours. The water will soak into the leaves and get your lettuce back to being crunchy in no time!

Check out how to regrow green onions. Look at this trick for keeping blueberries fresh.

Money Saving Tips: Butter Substitutes

July 25, 2012 - 1 Comment

If you’re baking and don’t have butter, here are 4 substitutes you can use!

To replace 1 cup of butter use:

1 cup shortening plus 1/2 teaspoon salt
7/8 cup vegetable oil plus 1/2 teaspoon salt
7/8 cup lard plus 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup margarine

*For unsalted butter, use any of numbers 1-3 without the salt.

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Money Saving Tips: Ripen Hard Avocados

June 8, 2012 - 4 Comments

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Have you ever noticed that almost every time you find avocados on sale at the store they are rock hard?

You know they’ll eventually ripen so you don’t mind picking up a few, but wouldn’t it be nice to use them right away?

Here’s a trick to quickly ripen your avocados so you don’t have to wait so long before you can eat them. The good thing is you can ripen as many or as little as you want at a time!

Just place your avocados in a brown paper bag [get one at the store when you buy them] with a banana, fold the bag over, and check it in a day to see how soft the avocados have gotten.

After being picked, bananas and other plants give off a gas called ethylene. The bag traps the gas and that’s causes the avocados to ripen fast!

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Money Saving Tips: Deseeding a Watermelon

May 8, 2012 - Leave a Comment

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Many times, seeded watermelons are cheaper than seedless, but if you hate biting into a piece of watermelon and crunching on seeds, try deseeding the melon before cutting it up.

Here’s how:

Cut your watermelon in half.

Then cut the melon along the seed lines.

All watermelons have their seed veins in a straight line, so once you find where the veins lie, you just have to cut along the line of seeds and that makes the seeds easy to get out.