Frugal Friday
Apr. 11th, 2025 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Welcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed.Rule #1: this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc. I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Date: 2025-04-11 05:59 pm (UTC)https://x.com/WETHEKINGDQMQ98/status/1910456570871247315
Does anyone know whether it is real?
Preserve forever
Date: 2025-04-11 10:49 pm (UTC)Things, edible, that preserve forever that I know are
-salt
-sugar
-honey
-olive oil
-some alcocholic drinks
Olive oil bottles may give a experation date (2 years after production) but in true, if well stored(dark, fresh place) It will last years and years. It loses a bit of flavor and taste with time, but it's good to eat and to cook with for 10 years or more. That only applies to real olive oil, I wouldn't trust industrial mixed vegetables processed oils.
Kind regards,
Tired21
Re: Preserve forever
Date: 2025-04-12 02:32 am (UTC)I should have provided a summary of the link. It says that putting oil around the eggs increase their life by a large amount, because oil stops bacteria to go inside the eggs through tiny holes in the shells.
Re: Preserve forever
Date: 2025-04-12 06:56 pm (UTC)To the contrary, I discovered quite by accident that "industrial mixed vegetables processed oils" will last virtually forever. When we were preparing to move from the city to where we live now, we discovered a moving box, from a previous move 10 years prior, at the back of a closet. Inside was a bottle of canola (rape seed) oil. To my surprise, the oil was not rancid.
This might seem like a good thing but it's not. When I investigated how this could be possible, I found out that part of the "processing" of these oils is to let the oil go rancid, clean it with detergents and then bottle it for sale. It cannot go rancid because it is rancid already!
Needless to say, I only cook with cold-pressed vegetable oils now. It is not healthy for us to consume rancid oils.
Caldathras
P.S. All commercial canola oil, at least in Canada, is GMO.
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Date: 2025-04-12 03:23 am (UTC)We tried some the other day when we ran out of fresh eggs - no discernible difference in scrambled eggs, but I did have the unusually high rate of 4 of 4 eggs slightly crack on their way toward boiled. I was in a hurry that day and not particularly desirous of a boiled egg, so I’m unable to report back on taste or texture other than it fed me just fine. Nothing off putting and no ill effects reported, though they’d only been preserved about 3 weeks which is still in the realm of a safe fresh unwashed egg, anyway.
YMMV and do your own assessment.
preserving eggs
Date: 2025-04-12 12:43 pm (UTC)Around May, I start putting the eggs away. However, I use quart jars and put 6 to 8 eggs per jar numbering the jars as I go, then put 5 jars in a case and have 3 cases, which go down in our root cellar. One heaping tablespoon hydrated lime to a quart of water.
That may be too fussy for most, but I like knowing which are the oldest to freshest-so to speak-and it saves having to dig through a mound of eggs. I have made mayo out of the preserved eggs, using just the yolk. They scramble well and work fine as an ingredient in recipes.
I read recently that to boil the eggs, first make a tiny hole in the shell, otherwise they could burst, since the lime basically seals the shell.
I love not having to go to the store to get eggs.;^)
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Date: 2025-04-13 01:47 am (UTC)