Saving Money in the Kitchen

There are a lot of ways to saving money in the kitchen, here are a few of my favourites:

·         Only buy basic cereal such as Cornflakes, Rice Bubbles, Rolled Oats and Weetbix then from time to time treat kids to something special.

·         Collect all the crumbs from the bottom of the cereal packets that no one wants to eat and store them in an airtight container.  Once you have a few cups of cereal make a tasty chocolate slice.  Here’s my favourite simple chocolate slice recipe.  Make the slice, cut into pieces, wrap and freeze for a chocolate treat.

 Ingredients

 

1 ½ cups Cereal

1 cup Self Raising flour

1 cup Coconut

1 teaspoon Vanilla

½ cup Sugar

4 Tablespoon Cocoa

100g Butter

½ cup milk

 Method

Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl.  Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add melted butter and milk to dry ingredients, mix well.  Press into a greased oven tray.  Cook in a moderate oven for 15 – 20 minutes.  Ice while hot.  Icing: mix water, cocoa and icing sugar.  Sprinkle with coconut.

 

 

Here is some more money saving ideas:

 

*Make homemade muesli using oats, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, oat bran and  sultanas.

                    *Use powdered milk for cooking and in your coffee if you like the taste.
                  * Popcorn seeds – place in a saucepan and cover, pop your own seeds and add some melted              butter - another great snack and just as quick as the packaged microwave popcorn.