In This Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - MOO Butter Soft; Garbage Compost Bin; MOO Seasoned Dry Breadcrumbs the Easy Way
3. 20th Birthday Membership Sale
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Easy Chicken Casserole
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Stretch Expensive Cheeses
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Butter
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - Lesson 33: Your Peace of Mind Account
11. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Spring is in the air! We had the most glorious weekend here, the sun shone and it was warm. We spent all day Sunday in the garden. It was so warm that, shock, horror, I changed from my jumper to a t-shirt! And I made sure to put on a hat.
The upshot is we have completely redesigned our backyard, including the garden. The next few weekends will be spent swapping out veggie boxes and pots, and digging out uneven ground to level it off.
We've made room for another two veggie beds and these are going to be filled with prunings from the apple tree and lots of wood chips from the firewood that we'll put in too. And the compost box is ready to be emptied. I can't wait! Two extra beds will increase our growing capacity considerably.
And these new beds will have removable shade/hot houses to fit them. Thomas is in charge of drawing up the plans, and then we'll make them. My plan is to use them to keep the bugs off, and protect the veggies from the sun on those horribly hot summer days, and then in the winter and spring to use them as hot houses to start plants off and give them a quick start.
So, Monday and Tuesday I was a little stiff. Not much heavy work has been done this winter and the aches and stiff muscles were letting me know it's past time for me to get more active.
Have you started your spring garden? Have you thought about what you're going to grow this season? Are you extending your garden (the prices of fruit and veggies are just ridiculous - $4.50 for a lettuce, and lettuce grows all year round here, it's not seasonal)? I'd love to know your garden plans and adventures.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
MOO Butter Soft
Approximate $ Savings: $2-3 per week
We used to use a tub of spreadable butter a week and I resented paying $4.50 - $5.50 per 500g, and also did not like the idea of ingesting canola oil in the spreadable butter. My husband got sulky when I would only buy real butter $2.90 per 500g, and once I started making everyone's lunch every day I started to understand, hard butter is no fun on bread, especially in winter. So after reading the contents of the Devondale pack was 27% oil, I thought I would make my own. After some trial and error, here is my recipe: Cut a 250g piece of butter in half length wise to allow it to heat evenly without too much fuss. Also its easier to get a sense of how much to heat it with 250g rather than 500g. Put it in a glass jug or ceramic bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds at a time, you want butter just soft, not melted too much. Too much heat and it will separate - if it does just use it in a moist banana cake or to fry with. Once you can mix the butter with a fork, add your choice of 20-25% olive oil. Stir through. Pour into a container and it will solidify as it cools. Then use it! Saves $2 a week or more in a bigger family and one less item to buy. A 25% mix will stay spreadable in Melbourne's cooler weather. As the weather warms, so does the butter so problem solved! I usually have a few blocks of butter in the freezer, if you do too, bring it to room temperature first, as it is too easy to overheat the edges and separate the butter.
Contributed by Sam
Garbage Compost Bin
A cheap alternative to a tumbler compost bin is a round black plastic garbage bin with a lid. I used this method for composting when I was renting. They cost about $10-15 from Bunning. You put your scraps in and once a week tip it on it's side and roll it round the back yard to mix everything. Place it in a sunny area so it heats up.
Contributed by Erin
MOO Seasoned Dry Breadcrumbs the Easy Way
A great way to use up bread crusts is to put then into your food processor. Then place them on an oven tray and sprinkle in some sesame seeds. Put on low heat in the oven and check regularly. Mix them around to ensure they're all dried out. You now have delicious bread crumbs. It's important to add the sesame seeds at this stage so they pop in the oven instead of when they're cooking in the hot oil.
Contributed by Robyn Stewart
Add a Tip
3. 20th Birthday Sale
If you want to win the Battle of the Bills (and who doesn't?) then the Cheapskates Club is the place to find the resources you need to plan your money saving strategies and attack the bill monster.
Cheapskates Club Members receive:
*Daily tips
*Weekly newsletters and updates
*The Cheapskates Journal e-zine each month - uploaded on or around the 15th of each month
*The Journal Archive - access to back issues of the Cheapskates Journal
*Cheapskates Tip Store - thousands of tips and growing every day
*Exclusive, member only special offers
*Exclusive, member only discussion groups in the Members Forum
*Cheapskates Recipe File with thousands of delicious recipe ideas
*Menu planners and a library of planned menus ready for you to save or print
*Tip Sheets - exclusive to Platinum Cheapskates Club members
*Printables - to help you live the Cheapskates way
To help you get started, the price of new Cheapskates Club membership is just $20.00* for the first year until 8pm, 31st August 2021.
Click here to order your Cheapskates Club membership
4. Share Your Tips
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
5. On The Menu
I LOVE this casserole, that's not really a casserole. It's probably closer to a risotto, but it's not a traditional risotto by any means. This is an adaptation of a dish my mother made, and she adapted it from a recipe she copied from a Huey's Cooking Adventures show. It's good, and even better after a day or so.
Easy Chicken Casserole
Ingredients:
2 chicken fillets, diced into small pieces
1 onion finely diced
1 carrot finely diced
2 stalks celery finely diced
1 cup rice
1 litre chicken stock can be homemade or from a stock cube
oil
Method:
Heat a very small amount of oil in a large pan (I use my electric fry pan) and add the rice. Stir for a couple of minutes to coat the rice with the oil. Slowly add about 1/2 cup of the stock, stirring constantly until the liquid is absorbed. Add another 1/2 cup stock, stirring again until the liquid is absorbed. Add the veggies, stir through and then add more stock. Stir and let simmer until liquid is almost gone. Continue adding stock slowly until the rice and vegies are cooked and the mixture is creamy. This is delicious with a green salad and bread.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb
Monday: Easy Chicken Casserole
Tuesday: Spag Bol
Wednesday: Shepherd's Pie
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Soup & toast
Saturday: Meatball Subs
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Stretch Expensive Cheeses
These days just about any cheese is expensive, especially if you like cheese. We are cheese lovers in our home. Hard or soft, as long as it is cheese, we'll devour it. And that can play havoc with my grocery budget.
I keep the cost of the cheese component of my grocery budget down a number of ways:
1. I buy blocks of tasty cheese ($7.80/kg at Aldi) and grate them to use on pizzas, pasta bakes, potato casserole etc. Grated cheese freezes beautifully and can be used straight from the freezer for casserole toppings. To stop the cheese shards sticking together when they are frozen add a teaspoon of corn flour per cup of cheese when you pack it into containers or bags. Shake it up to coat the cheese and you won't have a problem with clumped, hard lumps of cheese again.
2. I make mozzarella, ricotta and feta. Fresh mozzarella grated in slivers over hot pasta is divine. These are three of the easiest cheeses to make and they are so versatile. Ricotta can be used in dips and cheesecakes or as a spread on bread instead of butter. Feta is delicious on its own and in salads.
3. I buy blocks of the more expensive aged hard cheeses when they are on sale and use my trusty cheese slicer to slice them. This is the biggest cheese cost saver for my family. I never buy sliced cheese. The slices are always much thicker than what I slice myself and at twice the price of a block of the same weight I feel it's money I could use for something else. Slicing the cheese myself and storing it in a Tupperware container.
4. I portion the cheese out. That means when I do my monthly grocery shopping and buy cheese for the month, it is packed into weekly portions and frozen. I take one portion a week out of the freezer and put it in the fridge to use for cooking, sandwiches, salads, snacks and so on. When it's gone, it's gone. I don't get any more out until the next week. We've learnt over the years to make our cheese last or go without.
We get to enjoy the cheeses we like without blowing my grocery budget.
Is cheese a big expense for your family? How do you make it last? Or do you just absorb the cost and buy more when it's all gone?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
MOO Frozen Yoghurt - No Ice-Cream Machine Needed!
Getting the Best Results with Your Cheapskates Washing Powder
My Favourite Cheapskating Habits
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Spider Web Deterrent for Outside
Now I Know Where I Stand
Lemons
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
Show Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Latest Shows
1. Cath's Corner
2. From the Tip Store - MOO Butter Soft; Garbage Compost Bin; MOO Seasoned Dry Breadcrumbs the Easy Way
3. 20th Birthday Membership Sale
4. Share Your Tips
5. On the Menu - Easy Chicken Casserole
6. The $300 a Month Food Challenge - Stretch Expensive Cheeses
7. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge - Butter
10. 2021 Saving Revolution - Lesson 33: Your Peace of Mind Account
11. Ask A Question - Have a question? Ask it here
12. Join the Cheapskates Club
13. Frequently Asked Questions
14. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
Spring is in the air! We had the most glorious weekend here, the sun shone and it was warm. We spent all day Sunday in the garden. It was so warm that, shock, horror, I changed from my jumper to a t-shirt! And I made sure to put on a hat.
The upshot is we have completely redesigned our backyard, including the garden. The next few weekends will be spent swapping out veggie boxes and pots, and digging out uneven ground to level it off.
We've made room for another two veggie beds and these are going to be filled with prunings from the apple tree and lots of wood chips from the firewood that we'll put in too. And the compost box is ready to be emptied. I can't wait! Two extra beds will increase our growing capacity considerably.
And these new beds will have removable shade/hot houses to fit them. Thomas is in charge of drawing up the plans, and then we'll make them. My plan is to use them to keep the bugs off, and protect the veggies from the sun on those horribly hot summer days, and then in the winter and spring to use them as hot houses to start plants off and give them a quick start.
So, Monday and Tuesday I was a little stiff. Not much heavy work has been done this winter and the aches and stiff muscles were letting me know it's past time for me to get more active.
Have you started your spring garden? Have you thought about what you're going to grow this season? Are you extending your garden (the prices of fruit and veggies are just ridiculous - $4.50 for a lettuce, and lettuce grows all year round here, it's not seasonal)? I'd love to know your garden plans and adventures.
Have a great week everyone.
Happy Cheapskating,
Cath
PS: Love our site? We love referrals! Send a note to your favourite newspapers, magazines, radio stations, TV stations, friends and relatives, and tell them about us!
2. From The Tip Store
MOO Butter Soft
Approximate $ Savings: $2-3 per week
We used to use a tub of spreadable butter a week and I resented paying $4.50 - $5.50 per 500g, and also did not like the idea of ingesting canola oil in the spreadable butter. My husband got sulky when I would only buy real butter $2.90 per 500g, and once I started making everyone's lunch every day I started to understand, hard butter is no fun on bread, especially in winter. So after reading the contents of the Devondale pack was 27% oil, I thought I would make my own. After some trial and error, here is my recipe: Cut a 250g piece of butter in half length wise to allow it to heat evenly without too much fuss. Also its easier to get a sense of how much to heat it with 250g rather than 500g. Put it in a glass jug or ceramic bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds at a time, you want butter just soft, not melted too much. Too much heat and it will separate - if it does just use it in a moist banana cake or to fry with. Once you can mix the butter with a fork, add your choice of 20-25% olive oil. Stir through. Pour into a container and it will solidify as it cools. Then use it! Saves $2 a week or more in a bigger family and one less item to buy. A 25% mix will stay spreadable in Melbourne's cooler weather. As the weather warms, so does the butter so problem solved! I usually have a few blocks of butter in the freezer, if you do too, bring it to room temperature first, as it is too easy to overheat the edges and separate the butter.
Contributed by Sam
Garbage Compost Bin
A cheap alternative to a tumbler compost bin is a round black plastic garbage bin with a lid. I used this method for composting when I was renting. They cost about $10-15 from Bunning. You put your scraps in and once a week tip it on it's side and roll it round the back yard to mix everything. Place it in a sunny area so it heats up.
Contributed by Erin
MOO Seasoned Dry Breadcrumbs the Easy Way
A great way to use up bread crusts is to put then into your food processor. Then place them on an oven tray and sprinkle in some sesame seeds. Put on low heat in the oven and check regularly. Mix them around to ensure they're all dried out. You now have delicious bread crumbs. It's important to add the sesame seeds at this stage so they pop in the oven instead of when they're cooking in the hot oil.
Contributed by Robyn Stewart
Add a Tip
3. 20th Birthday Sale
If you want to win the Battle of the Bills (and who doesn't?) then the Cheapskates Club is the place to find the resources you need to plan your money saving strategies and attack the bill monster.
Cheapskates Club Members receive:
*Daily tips
*Weekly newsletters and updates
*The Cheapskates Journal e-zine each month - uploaded on or around the 15th of each month
*The Journal Archive - access to back issues of the Cheapskates Journal
*Cheapskates Tip Store - thousands of tips and growing every day
*Exclusive, member only special offers
*Exclusive, member only discussion groups in the Members Forum
*Cheapskates Recipe File with thousands of delicious recipe ideas
*Menu planners and a library of planned menus ready for you to save or print
*Tip Sheets - exclusive to Platinum Cheapskates Club members
*Printables - to help you live the Cheapskates way
To help you get started, the price of new Cheapskates Club membership is just $20.00* for the first year until 8pm, 31st August 2021.
Click here to order your Cheapskates Club membership
4. Share Your Tips
Share your favourite hint or tip that saves money, time and energy and be in the running to win a one-year subscription to The Cheapskate Journal.
Remember, you have to be in it to win it!
Share Your Tip
5. On The Menu
I LOVE this casserole, that's not really a casserole. It's probably closer to a risotto, but it's not a traditional risotto by any means. This is an adaptation of a dish my mother made, and she adapted it from a recipe she copied from a Huey's Cooking Adventures show. It's good, and even better after a day or so.
Easy Chicken Casserole
Ingredients:
2 chicken fillets, diced into small pieces
1 onion finely diced
1 carrot finely diced
2 stalks celery finely diced
1 cup rice
1 litre chicken stock can be homemade or from a stock cube
oil
Method:
Heat a very small amount of oil in a large pan (I use my electric fry pan) and add the rice. Stir for a couple of minutes to coat the rice with the oil. Slowly add about 1/2 cup of the stock, stirring constantly until the liquid is absorbed. Add another 1/2 cup stock, stirring again until the liquid is absorbed. Add the veggies, stir through and then add more stock. Stir and let simmer until liquid is almost gone. Continue adding stock slowly until the rice and vegies are cooked and the mixture is creamy. This is delicious with a green salad and bread.
Next week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb
Monday: Easy Chicken Casserole
Tuesday: Spag Bol
Wednesday: Shepherd's Pie
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Soup & toast
Saturday: Meatball Subs
There are over 1,800 budget and family friendly recipes in the Cheapskates Club Recipe File, all contributed by your fellow Cheapskates, so you know they're good.
Add A Recipe
Recipe File Index
6. The $300 A Month Food Challenge
Stretch Expensive Cheeses
These days just about any cheese is expensive, especially if you like cheese. We are cheese lovers in our home. Hard or soft, as long as it is cheese, we'll devour it. And that can play havoc with my grocery budget.
I keep the cost of the cheese component of my grocery budget down a number of ways:
1. I buy blocks of tasty cheese ($7.80/kg at Aldi) and grate them to use on pizzas, pasta bakes, potato casserole etc. Grated cheese freezes beautifully and can be used straight from the freezer for casserole toppings. To stop the cheese shards sticking together when they are frozen add a teaspoon of corn flour per cup of cheese when you pack it into containers or bags. Shake it up to coat the cheese and you won't have a problem with clumped, hard lumps of cheese again.
2. I make mozzarella, ricotta and feta. Fresh mozzarella grated in slivers over hot pasta is divine. These are three of the easiest cheeses to make and they are so versatile. Ricotta can be used in dips and cheesecakes or as a spread on bread instead of butter. Feta is delicious on its own and in salads.
3. I buy blocks of the more expensive aged hard cheeses when they are on sale and use my trusty cheese slicer to slice them. This is the biggest cheese cost saver for my family. I never buy sliced cheese. The slices are always much thicker than what I slice myself and at twice the price of a block of the same weight I feel it's money I could use for something else. Slicing the cheese myself and storing it in a Tupperware container.
4. I portion the cheese out. That means when I do my monthly grocery shopping and buy cheese for the month, it is packed into weekly portions and frozen. I take one portion a week out of the freezer and put it in the fridge to use for cooking, sandwiches, salads, snacks and so on. When it's gone, it's gone. I don't get any more out until the next week. We've learnt over the years to make our cheese last or go without.
We get to enjoy the cheeses we like without blowing my grocery budget.
Is cheese a big expense for your family? How do you make it last? Or do you just absorb the cost and buy more when it's all gone?
The $300 a Month Food Challenge Forum
The Post that Started it All
7. Cheapskates Buzz
From The Article Archive
MOO Frozen Yoghurt - No Ice-Cream Machine Needed!
Getting the Best Results with Your Cheapskates Washing Powder
My Favourite Cheapskating Habits
This Week's Hot Forum Topics
Spider Web Deterrent for Outside
Now I Know Where I Stand
Lemons
8. The Cheapskates Club Show
Join us live on YouTube every Tuesday and see how we are living debt free, cashed up and laughing - and find out how you can too!
Show Schedule
Tuesday: Around the Kitchen Table - join Cath and Hannah for a cuppa and a chat around the kitchen table as they talk about living the Cheapskates way.
Latest Shows
9. The Weekly MOO Challenge
Butter
Butter is really easy to make, most Prep or Kindergarten classes make it as an activity at school. It's not a particularly fast process, even with an electric mixer, so you need to be patient to make good butter that will keep.
First things first, get your cream - start with about 600mls. The higher the fat content, the more butter you'll get per litre of cream and the nicer the butter will be, so skip the reduced fat creams and go for a good pure cream, or thickened cream or a full fat whipping cream.
Tip that cream into the bowl of your mixer. You can use a handheld mixer or a food processor - both will turn your cream into butter just as easily as the stand mixer.
Turn the mixer to medium speed and leave it for about 4 - 5 minutes. You'll see the cream thicken, then start to curdle, then you'll notice that it is separating and there will be liquid in the bottom of the bowl. This is the buttermilk. Don't waste it, you can use it in baking in place of milk or water. The creamy, yellow "butter" will be in clumps around the sides of the bowl.
Now you need to get the butter to form one clump and completely separate from the buttermilk. To do this you'll need about 1 cup of ice cold water. I usually put a cup of cold water in the freezer for about half an hour before I start butter making.
Turn the mixer back on and very slowly pour in about a quarter cup of the ice cold water. You'll see all the butter will clump together and there will be even more buttermilk in the bottom of the bowl.
Take a sieve and place it over a bowl. Tip the butter and the buttermilk into the sieve. Now, with clean hands, you need to pick up the clump of butter and gently squeeze. You'll see more buttermilk coming out. Keep squeezing gently, until you can't get any more buttermilk from the butter. The aim is to remove all the buttermilk as the more you can remove the better your butter will keep.
Once you've squeezed all the buttermilk from the butter you're done. You have lovely, fresh, unsalted butter.
To add a little flavour to the butter, stir through a pinch or two of salt. I use a fork to mash the salt into the butter.
Put the butter in a dish and keep it in the fridge for up to eight weeks.
Pour the buttermilk into a jug and it will keep for up to two weeks in the fridge; use it to make pancakes or muffins or even bread.
And there you have it, fresh butter in 20 minutes.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 33: Your Peace of Mind Account
This seems to be the hardest thing for new Cheapskaters, and even some champion Cheapskaters, to understand is that there should never, ever be a bill or an expense that you can't pay as soon as it comes in.
How do you do this? With a Peace of Mind Account, and this week's lesson explains what it is, why you need one and how you use it. This is one Saving Revolution lesson you don't want to skip!
If you've joined the Revolution, It will be in your inbox tomorrow morning, around 11am. Remember, don't skip it, this lesson will change your life.
Log into the 2021 Saving Revolution forum and join the discussions too. They're fun, keep you accountable, and over the course of the year will be an amazing source of valuable hints and tips for you too.
11. Ask A Question
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
12. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $25 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
13. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
We never rent, trade or sell our email list to anyone for any reason whatsoever. You'll never get an unsolicited email from a stranger as a result of joining this list.
How did I get on this list?
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Butter
Butter is really easy to make, most Prep or Kindergarten classes make it as an activity at school. It's not a particularly fast process, even with an electric mixer, so you need to be patient to make good butter that will keep.
First things first, get your cream - start with about 600mls. The higher the fat content, the more butter you'll get per litre of cream and the nicer the butter will be, so skip the reduced fat creams and go for a good pure cream, or thickened cream or a full fat whipping cream.
Tip that cream into the bowl of your mixer. You can use a handheld mixer or a food processor - both will turn your cream into butter just as easily as the stand mixer.
Turn the mixer to medium speed and leave it for about 4 - 5 minutes. You'll see the cream thicken, then start to curdle, then you'll notice that it is separating and there will be liquid in the bottom of the bowl. This is the buttermilk. Don't waste it, you can use it in baking in place of milk or water. The creamy, yellow "butter" will be in clumps around the sides of the bowl.
Now you need to get the butter to form one clump and completely separate from the buttermilk. To do this you'll need about 1 cup of ice cold water. I usually put a cup of cold water in the freezer for about half an hour before I start butter making.
Turn the mixer back on and very slowly pour in about a quarter cup of the ice cold water. You'll see all the butter will clump together and there will be even more buttermilk in the bottom of the bowl.
Take a sieve and place it over a bowl. Tip the butter and the buttermilk into the sieve. Now, with clean hands, you need to pick up the clump of butter and gently squeeze. You'll see more buttermilk coming out. Keep squeezing gently, until you can't get any more buttermilk from the butter. The aim is to remove all the buttermilk as the more you can remove the better your butter will keep.
Once you've squeezed all the buttermilk from the butter you're done. You have lovely, fresh, unsalted butter.
To add a little flavour to the butter, stir through a pinch or two of salt. I use a fork to mash the salt into the butter.
Put the butter in a dish and keep it in the fridge for up to eight weeks.
Pour the buttermilk into a jug and it will keep for up to two weeks in the fridge; use it to make pancakes or muffins or even bread.
And there you have it, fresh butter in 20 minutes.
Get in on the fun and discussions here.
10. 2021 Saving Revolution
Lesson 33: Your Peace of Mind Account
This seems to be the hardest thing for new Cheapskaters, and even some champion Cheapskaters, to understand is that there should never, ever be a bill or an expense that you can't pay as soon as it comes in.
How do you do this? With a Peace of Mind Account, and this week's lesson explains what it is, why you need one and how you use it. This is one Saving Revolution lesson you don't want to skip!
If you've joined the Revolution, It will be in your inbox tomorrow morning, around 11am. Remember, don't skip it, this lesson will change your life.
Log into the 2021 Saving Revolution forum and join the discussions too. They're fun, keep you accountable, and over the course of the year will be an amazing source of valuable hints and tips for you too.
11. Ask A Question
We have lots of resources to help you as you live the Cheapskates way but if you didn't find the answer to your question in our extensive archives please just drop me a note with your question.
I read and answer all questions, either in an email to you, in my weekly newsletter, the monthly Journal or by creating blog posts and other resources to help you (and other Cheapskaters).
Ask Your Question
12. Join The Cheapskates Club
For just $25 a year, you can join the Cheapskates Club and get exclusive access to the Cheapskate Journal, the monthly e-journal that shows you how to cut the costs of everyday living and still have fun.
Joining the Cheapskates Club gives you 24/7 access to the Members Centre with 1000's of money saving tips and articles.
Click here to join the Cheapskates Club today!
13. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name at the top of the page to go straight to your profile page where you can update your details, change your password and find your subscription details.
Not a Cheapskates Club member? Then please use the Changing Details form found here to update your email address.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
Memberships are active for one year from the date of joining. You will be sent a renewal reminder before your subscription is due to renew. You can also find your membership expiry date on your profile page.
When you login to the Member's Centre just click on your name to go straight to your profile page where you can will find your join date and your expiry date.
What will you do with my email address?
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