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.
Rule #2: this is not a place for you to sell goods or services, period. Here again, I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
Rule #3: please give your tip a heading that explains briefly what it's about. Homemade Chicken Soup, Garden Containers, Cheap Attic Insulation, and Vinegar Cleans Windows are good examples of headings. That way people can find the things that are relevant for them. If you don't put a heading on your tip it will be deleted.
Rule #4: don't post anything that would amount to advocating criminal activity. Any such suggestions will not be put through.
With that said, have at it!
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.