We often buy ready-made products without even realizing how much we overpay.
Crisps
A huge bright pack - and very few chips inside. And judging by the price and the source material (potatoes), it should be packed to capacity. Prepare the chips yourself: it will definitely be cheaper, and you will know exactly what your food consists of.
You can also experiment: for example, make chips from beets, Jerusalem artichoke and other vegetables. And for a snack - homemade fruit chips.
Mix of candied fruits and nuts
This is a bright and tasty concoction that many people buy for a snack. However, if you buy separately nuts and candied fruits or dried fruits and pack them in portions, then you will win in price several times.
Basically, you are overpaying for the packaging and the fact that someone mixed the nuts with candied fruits for you.
Muesli
To save money on their purchase, it is enough to fry oatmeal and nuts in the oven, add dried fruits and sunflower and flax seeds cut into pieces.
You can store the mixture in a glass jar under a tight lid for about 2 months.
Yogurt
Replacing store-bought yogurt with homemade yogurt is a triple benefit.
First, you are confident that it is free of preservatives, excess sugar and other unwanted additives, and its freshness is under your control.
Second, it is cheaper to buy milk and sourdough than cans of yogurt.
Thirdly, you help the environment by not buying yogurt in plastic packaging again.
Spice mix
It is convenient, of course, to buy a spice mix that says, for example, "for meat" or "for salads." But if you carefully read the composition, you can see that there are no special ingredients that you could not purchase separately.
Moreover, they are repeated in mixtures for seemingly completely different dishes.
Buying the most commonly used spices in bulk at wholesale prices is much more profitable than small packets of ready-to-use spices. And you can always mix them for a specific dish yourself.
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