Your Cheapskates Club Newsletter 44:17
In this Newsletter
1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Potato Bulks Out Recipe; The Miracle Liquid Washing Detergent; Budget Friendly, DIY Fly Screens
3. Share Your Tips
4. On the Menu - Chocolate Muffin Mix
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy - Making Room in The Freezer Update 3
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. Member's Featured Blog - Time for a feed - the Cheapskates Way!
8. Last Week's Question - Can anyone tell me how to cook in an electric pressure cooker?
9. This Week's Question - Help this bloke with his laundry dilemma
10. Ask Cath
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
What is with this weather? Sunny and warm one day, cold, wet and windy the next, it's all over the place. A lot my pantry when I think of it. The shelves are stacked high and it looks like there's enough food in there to feed us for at least 12 months, but I can't really be sure it's in such a mess!
This has stirred me to action. It's time for a Bare Bones Grocery Challenge. We haven't had one for a long time and I'm going to aim for a $15 grocery shop this week, hopefully it will be less :) https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/p-the-bare-bones-grocery-challenge.html
The first (and) biggest part of this challenge will be to do an inventory of the pantry, fridge and freezer and see exactly what is what. Then I can cross reference with the meal plan to see what I need to buy. I think I may adjust the meal plan if I can, so I don't need to buy anything special. Once I know exactly what is in the pantry and what is needed to stick to the meal plan I can make up the shopping list with exactly what we need on it. Looking at that pantry right now there shouldn't be much on that list.
So, who's going to join me in a Bare Bpnes Grocery challenge this week? The more the merrier I say. Let's see if we can all do a $15 grocery shop this week and cause a panic in those supermarket bigwigs!
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
Potato Bulks Out Recipe
One way I find to bulk out mince for hamburgers or rissoles and as an added bonus they stay moist and soft rather than dry, is to add one finely grated raw potato to the mince, onion, herbs etc. and then roll out your rissoles or patties as usual.
Contributed by Lisa Zachary
The Miracle Liquid Washing Detergent
I have been using the washing powder for a long time and it is great, and have been using miracle spray for about8 months, trying it out on different things, and have found its great as a laundry pray for stains, especially biological stains.
Now sometimes you have stuff that is really bad (school clothes, towels for the car, sports stuff) and it took me forever to spray everything and let it sit then wash and wait to see if I needed to put stuff through another cycle.
I am now putting a 1/2 measure of powder in the pre-wash, and 50ml (a laundry scoop) in the main wash, and everything comes out clean and beautiful, and not musty, and not still yuck and stained with mud and oil. I even put through a few old tops that I can’t wear out because of oil stains and now the stains are gone.
Contributed by Denise Scotford
Budget Friendly, DIY Fly Screens
Our home is an old Melbourne brick, with the original windows. After getting a couple of companies to quote for fly screens I was told our windows are not suitable for flyscreens. Not to be deterred, I searched the Internet and made my own with flyscreen wire and Velcro. I simply measured around the window frames, sewed a seam around the flywire and put the Velcro on the corners and in the middle. Voila my flyscreens are done. They work and best of all they are easy to remove for window washing and cleaning.
Contributed by Fran Buick
There are currently more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Submit your tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
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!
Submit your tip
4. On the Menu
Chocolate Muffin Mix
We are quickly moving to the time of year when life gets crazy, even if you're following the Own Your Christmas Challenge. Days seem to get shorter and busier. We need something delicious and special to take to get-togethers and parties. These chocolate muffins are perfect. Make the mix up now, then when you need to have something fresh baked, cook your muffins.
The mix makes a perfect gift-in-a-jar too. I find jars at op shops, bring them home and give them a good clean; I rarely pay more than 20 cents for a jar, occasionally, if it is a special jar, I'll go to 50 cents.
Chocolate Muffin Mix
Ingredients:
2 cups SR flour
1 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups chocolate chips
1-1/4 cups sugar
Method:
Combine all of the above dry ingredients in a large bowl. Divide the mixture into 2 equal portions and pour into some kind of air-tight storage container - jars with screw top lids or ziplock bags or vacuum seal.
This Chocolate Muffin Mix will store for up to a year if kept in a cool, dry place with the lid in place.
When you are ready to make Chocolate Muffins with your mix, you will need:
1 Egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup sour cream
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
Combine all of these ingredients with the contents of one packet of the mix. Stir well until all ingredients are combined, and no dry ingredients remain.
Scoop into a greased or lined Muffin Tin with a muffin scoop. Each packet should make 12 regular sized muffins.
Bake the muffins at 180 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of one of the muffins comes out clean. Enjoy warm.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb
Monday: Fish, wedges, coleslaw
Tuesday: Spag bol
Wednesday: Kransky, hot potato salad
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Haystacks
Saturday: Pan-fried sandwiches & salad
In the fruit bowl: lemons, mandarins
In the cake tin: Chocolate muffins
There are over 1,600 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Making Room in The Freezer Update 3
Welcome back to the food challenge.
Over the last few weeks I've been on a mission to make more room in my freezers. I'd like the room to store Summer garden produce and Spring legs of lamb when I see a bargain price.
In my last update, the space I made was quickly taken up with little blessings that were given to us. Although we were very grateful for the blessings, it felt like one step forward and one step back in the " Great Freezer Challenge ".
Thankfully this week I can report that space HAS been made. YAY!!! Darren and I have continued to eat out of the freezer as much as possible. A freezer dedicated menu plan has helped us achieve this much needed space. We've eaten leftover freezer meals a few times which has been wonderful for those busy days.
More room was made by taking out a couple of bags of frozen raspberries from last Summer's crop (from our garden). I also defrosted a 1.5 kilo bag of plums from last Summer also (a blessing given to us). These fruits were made into 10 jars of plum jam and 8 jars of raspberry jam. The recipe calls for lemon juice which also came from the freezer. Some of the jam will be given as Christmas presents this year.
Our daughter Megan did a big cook up of lunches to take to work. Yes, she has taken up freezer space but that is in our side by side fridge / freezer. I'll be making sure she takes one of those lunches to work every day to keep the stocks going down.
How is your freezer challenge going?
Have you made any room in your freezers?
What will you be doing this week to make room?
Have a great week and BE ENCOURAGED!!!
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
Most popular forum posts this week
The Bare Bones Grocery Challenge
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/forumdisplay.php?61-The-Bare-Bones-Grocery-Challenge
Mixed Dried Fruit Ideas?
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?3639-Mixed-Dried-Fruit-Ideas
Stockpiling - Small Wins!
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?3591-Stockpiling-Small-Wins!
Most popular blog posts this week
How to Make a Quillow
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/11/how-to-make-quillow.html
Keeping Track of Books
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/06/keeping-track-of-books.html
Bathroom Cleaning Quickies
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2013/11/bathroom-cleaning-quickies.html
7. Members Featured Blog
Platinum Cheapskates Club members have their very own Cheapskating blogs, and they are wonderful and inspirational and encouraging and even funny. This week's featured blog is written by Sherry.
Time for a feed - the Cheapskates Way!
What a week of amazing discoveries! The first was Tip Top Butchers from another member's tip. I signed up for the newsletter thinking that okay, we can't even afford steak so I'm not sure what items of interest they might have for me, but boy, was I interested when the first email came! One of my favourites are those little lamb chops with the curly tails but at $24 a kilo at the supermarket, they only ever earned a Drive by Drool from me. At Tip Top? $10.99 a kilo, so I bought 3 kilos, and am hording 2 kilos for special occasions (like Saturday nights instead of pizza). The butcher also had premium mince $6.99 a kilo, which is cheaper than regular mince at Woolworths. $100 later, I had enough meat for a month's worth of meals right there in the chest freezer.
Dog food - 4kg chicken mince from the local chicken shop for $8 makes 24 dinners for our greyhound (who eats a lot more than a skinny dog should). This is compared with $6 every 3 days for a doggy roll from the supermarket. Nice saving me and thank you to the tip poster for that one! Fat Dog is also eating Homebrand mixed veggies and our leftovers stirred through and thinks he's in Doggy Heaven! We have an $800 bill coming next week for his health problems and some teeth extractions (I told him to brush and floss regularly!), so it's nice to save money somewhere.
Living nice and close to the beach and Werribee River means we are catching and eating our own fish - something that has provided a lot of entertainment, as well as free food. Plus, I discovered in the clearance section of the meat aisle at Woolworths (the only cabinet we buy meat from now), they also put clearance vegetables. These veggies are a couple of days off their use by date and look perfect to me, so we buy them daily to go with dinner. Gotta love half a kilo of fried, sliced mushrooms for only $2 to go with your lamb chops!
Login to read more Cheapskates Club Member blogs
8. Last Week's Question
Last week's question was from Margaret who wrote
"I have just purchased an electric pressure cooker (Fast & Slow) and the recipe book that comes with it is not every day basic recipes. For example, I wanted to cook a piece of silverside in it, but was unsure of how long to cook it. Does anyone have any good easy recipes or know of a good recipe book?"
Marlin Litlle answered
Two ways: firstly, using Google, log on to the manufacturer's website and you will probably find a book for the machine; or secondly, go to Google again and look for recipes for a slow cooker for silverside.
Jill Crutcher answered
I have purchased two electric pressure cookers from Aldi and I also found the recipe ideas were not great. However, having used other pressure cookers for at least 45 years of our married life, I still cook my silverside with vinegar and onion and brown sugar and you could add mixed herbs if you like with a tiny sprinkle of curry and mustard and I then cook silverside for 45 minutes after the valve starts to rotate if it's a medium size and it's perfect. Any normal stews I still cook on 25 minutes after the calve rotates. I do these things just on the normal pressure cooker cycle and with any soups I cook them on the soup cycle for around the 25 minutes, again after the valve starts to rotate. I haven't had a problem at all with any of my stews or soups or silverside. I hope this helps you out.
Lisa Noomford answered
Join Pinterest as its free and has so many sections on it about everything. Just look up electric pressure cooker recipes and I am sure you would find all you need to keep you busy for a while. I look up stuff on there for anything and everything I want info on and you can even look up specific cultures recipes as well which I love to do. It's all a bit addictive when you get on it though. Enjoy.
9. This Week's Question
Bill writes
"I have just bought my first front loader and going through the pains of MOOing stuff to wash the clothes. It all gets a bit confusing, and remember I am only a bloke, so if anybody has a sure-fire way of doing the washing easily and cheaply, please let me know."
Do you have the answer?
If you can help Bill (who is a long-time Cheapskater and member) let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send your answer
10. Ask Cath
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
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day 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!
12. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
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.
Read our privacy policy
How Did You Get on Our List?
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13. Contact Details
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1. Cath's Corner
2. In the Tip Store - Potato Bulks Out Recipe; The Miracle Liquid Washing Detergent; Budget Friendly, DIY Fly Screens
3. Share Your Tips
4. On the Menu - Chocolate Muffin Mix
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy - Making Room in The Freezer Update 3
6. Cheapskates Buzz - Cheapskaters are talking in the Forum and on Cath's blog
7. Member's Featured Blog - Time for a feed - the Cheapskates Way!
8. Last Week's Question - Can anyone tell me how to cook in an electric pressure cooker?
9. This Week's Question - Help this bloke with his laundry dilemma
10. Ask Cath
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
12. Frequently Asked Questions
13. Contact Details
1. Cath's Corner
Hello Cheapskaters,
What is with this weather? Sunny and warm one day, cold, wet and windy the next, it's all over the place. A lot my pantry when I think of it. The shelves are stacked high and it looks like there's enough food in there to feed us for at least 12 months, but I can't really be sure it's in such a mess!
This has stirred me to action. It's time for a Bare Bones Grocery Challenge. We haven't had one for a long time and I'm going to aim for a $15 grocery shop this week, hopefully it will be less :) https://www.cheapskatesclub.net/p-the-bare-bones-grocery-challenge.html
The first (and) biggest part of this challenge will be to do an inventory of the pantry, fridge and freezer and see exactly what is what. Then I can cross reference with the meal plan to see what I need to buy. I think I may adjust the meal plan if I can, so I don't need to buy anything special. Once I know exactly what is in the pantry and what is needed to stick to the meal plan I can make up the shopping list with exactly what we need on it. Looking at that pantry right now there shouldn't be much on that list.
So, who's going to join me in a Bare Bpnes Grocery challenge this week? The more the merrier I say. Let's see if we can all do a $15 grocery shop this week and cause a panic in those supermarket bigwigs!
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
Potato Bulks Out Recipe
One way I find to bulk out mince for hamburgers or rissoles and as an added bonus they stay moist and soft rather than dry, is to add one finely grated raw potato to the mince, onion, herbs etc. and then roll out your rissoles or patties as usual.
Contributed by Lisa Zachary
The Miracle Liquid Washing Detergent
I have been using the washing powder for a long time and it is great, and have been using miracle spray for about8 months, trying it out on different things, and have found its great as a laundry pray for stains, especially biological stains.
Now sometimes you have stuff that is really bad (school clothes, towels for the car, sports stuff) and it took me forever to spray everything and let it sit then wash and wait to see if I needed to put stuff through another cycle.
I am now putting a 1/2 measure of powder in the pre-wash, and 50ml (a laundry scoop) in the main wash, and everything comes out clean and beautiful, and not musty, and not still yuck and stained with mud and oil. I even put through a few old tops that I can’t wear out because of oil stains and now the stains are gone.
Contributed by Denise Scotford
Budget Friendly, DIY Fly Screens
Our home is an old Melbourne brick, with the original windows. After getting a couple of companies to quote for fly screens I was told our windows are not suitable for flyscreens. Not to be deterred, I searched the Internet and made my own with flyscreen wire and Velcro. I simply measured around the window frames, sewed a seam around the flywire and put the Velcro on the corners and in the middle. Voila my flyscreens are done. They work and best of all they are easy to remove for window washing and cleaning.
Contributed by Fran Buick
There are currently more than 12,000 great tips in the Tip Store
3. Submit your tip
The Cheapskate's Club website is over 3,000 pages of money saving hints, tips and ideas. Let's get together and make the Cheapskates Club Australia's largest online hint, tip and idea library. Share your favourite money saving, time saving or energy saving hint and be in the running to win a one-year membership to The Cheapskate Club. We publish a Winning Tip each Thursday, so enter your great money, time or energy saving idea now.
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!
Submit your tip
4. On the Menu
Chocolate Muffin Mix
We are quickly moving to the time of year when life gets crazy, even if you're following the Own Your Christmas Challenge. Days seem to get shorter and busier. We need something delicious and special to take to get-togethers and parties. These chocolate muffins are perfect. Make the mix up now, then when you need to have something fresh baked, cook your muffins.
The mix makes a perfect gift-in-a-jar too. I find jars at op shops, bring them home and give them a good clean; I rarely pay more than 20 cents for a jar, occasionally, if it is a special jar, I'll go to 50 cents.
Chocolate Muffin Mix
Ingredients:
2 cups SR flour
1 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups chocolate chips
1-1/4 cups sugar
Method:
Combine all of the above dry ingredients in a large bowl. Divide the mixture into 2 equal portions and pour into some kind of air-tight storage container - jars with screw top lids or ziplock bags or vacuum seal.
This Chocolate Muffin Mix will store for up to a year if kept in a cool, dry place with the lid in place.
When you are ready to make Chocolate Muffins with your mix, you will need:
1 Egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup sour cream
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
Combine all of these ingredients with the contents of one packet of the mix. Stir well until all ingredients are combined, and no dry ingredients remain.
Scoop into a greased or lined Muffin Tin with a muffin scoop. Each packet should make 12 regular sized muffins.
Bake the muffins at 180 degrees Celsius for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of one of the muffins comes out clean. Enjoy warm.
This week we will be eating:
Sunday: Roast Lamb
Monday: Fish, wedges, coleslaw
Tuesday: Spag bol
Wednesday: Kransky, hot potato salad
Thursday: MOO Pizza
Friday: Haystacks
Saturday: Pan-fried sandwiches & salad
In the fruit bowl: lemons, mandarins
In the cake tin: Chocolate muffins
There are over 1,600 other great money saving meal ideas in the Recipe File.
5. The $300 a Month Food Challenge with Wendy
Making Room in The Freezer Update 3
Welcome back to the food challenge.
Over the last few weeks I've been on a mission to make more room in my freezers. I'd like the room to store Summer garden produce and Spring legs of lamb when I see a bargain price.
In my last update, the space I made was quickly taken up with little blessings that were given to us. Although we were very grateful for the blessings, it felt like one step forward and one step back in the " Great Freezer Challenge ".
Thankfully this week I can report that space HAS been made. YAY!!! Darren and I have continued to eat out of the freezer as much as possible. A freezer dedicated menu plan has helped us achieve this much needed space. We've eaten leftover freezer meals a few times which has been wonderful for those busy days.
More room was made by taking out a couple of bags of frozen raspberries from last Summer's crop (from our garden). I also defrosted a 1.5 kilo bag of plums from last Summer also (a blessing given to us). These fruits were made into 10 jars of plum jam and 8 jars of raspberry jam. The recipe calls for lemon juice which also came from the freezer. Some of the jam will be given as Christmas presents this year.
Our daughter Megan did a big cook up of lunches to take to work. Yes, she has taken up freezer space but that is in our side by side fridge / freezer. I'll be making sure she takes one of those lunches to work every day to keep the stocks going down.
How is your freezer challenge going?
Have you made any room in your freezers?
What will you be doing this week to make room?
Have a great week and BE ENCOURAGED!!!
The $300 a Month Food Challenge
The Post that Started it All
6. Cheapskates Buzz
Most popular forum posts this week
The Bare Bones Grocery Challenge
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/forumdisplay.php?61-The-Bare-Bones-Grocery-Challenge
Mixed Dried Fruit Ideas?
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?3639-Mixed-Dried-Fruit-Ideas
Stockpiling - Small Wins!
http://www.cheapskatesclub.com.au/memberforum/showthread.php?3591-Stockpiling-Small-Wins!
Most popular blog posts this week
How to Make a Quillow
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/11/how-to-make-quillow.html
Keeping Track of Books
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2011/06/keeping-track-of-books.html
Bathroom Cleaning Quickies
http://www.debtfreecashedupandlaughing.com.au/2013/11/bathroom-cleaning-quickies.html
7. Members Featured Blog
Platinum Cheapskates Club members have their very own Cheapskating blogs, and they are wonderful and inspirational and encouraging and even funny. This week's featured blog is written by Sherry.
Time for a feed - the Cheapskates Way!
What a week of amazing discoveries! The first was Tip Top Butchers from another member's tip. I signed up for the newsletter thinking that okay, we can't even afford steak so I'm not sure what items of interest they might have for me, but boy, was I interested when the first email came! One of my favourites are those little lamb chops with the curly tails but at $24 a kilo at the supermarket, they only ever earned a Drive by Drool from me. At Tip Top? $10.99 a kilo, so I bought 3 kilos, and am hording 2 kilos for special occasions (like Saturday nights instead of pizza). The butcher also had premium mince $6.99 a kilo, which is cheaper than regular mince at Woolworths. $100 later, I had enough meat for a month's worth of meals right there in the chest freezer.
Dog food - 4kg chicken mince from the local chicken shop for $8 makes 24 dinners for our greyhound (who eats a lot more than a skinny dog should). This is compared with $6 every 3 days for a doggy roll from the supermarket. Nice saving me and thank you to the tip poster for that one! Fat Dog is also eating Homebrand mixed veggies and our leftovers stirred through and thinks he's in Doggy Heaven! We have an $800 bill coming next week for his health problems and some teeth extractions (I told him to brush and floss regularly!), so it's nice to save money somewhere.
Living nice and close to the beach and Werribee River means we are catching and eating our own fish - something that has provided a lot of entertainment, as well as free food. Plus, I discovered in the clearance section of the meat aisle at Woolworths (the only cabinet we buy meat from now), they also put clearance vegetables. These veggies are a couple of days off their use by date and look perfect to me, so we buy them daily to go with dinner. Gotta love half a kilo of fried, sliced mushrooms for only $2 to go with your lamb chops!
Login to read more Cheapskates Club Member blogs
8. Last Week's Question
Last week's question was from Margaret who wrote
"I have just purchased an electric pressure cooker (Fast & Slow) and the recipe book that comes with it is not every day basic recipes. For example, I wanted to cook a piece of silverside in it, but was unsure of how long to cook it. Does anyone have any good easy recipes or know of a good recipe book?"
Marlin Litlle answered
Two ways: firstly, using Google, log on to the manufacturer's website and you will probably find a book for the machine; or secondly, go to Google again and look for recipes for a slow cooker for silverside.
Jill Crutcher answered
I have purchased two electric pressure cookers from Aldi and I also found the recipe ideas were not great. However, having used other pressure cookers for at least 45 years of our married life, I still cook my silverside with vinegar and onion and brown sugar and you could add mixed herbs if you like with a tiny sprinkle of curry and mustard and I then cook silverside for 45 minutes after the valve starts to rotate if it's a medium size and it's perfect. Any normal stews I still cook on 25 minutes after the calve rotates. I do these things just on the normal pressure cooker cycle and with any soups I cook them on the soup cycle for around the 25 minutes, again after the valve starts to rotate. I haven't had a problem at all with any of my stews or soups or silverside. I hope this helps you out.
Lisa Noomford answered
Join Pinterest as its free and has so many sections on it about everything. Just look up electric pressure cooker recipes and I am sure you would find all you need to keep you busy for a while. I look up stuff on there for anything and everything I want info on and you can even look up specific cultures recipes as well which I love to do. It's all a bit addictive when you get on it though. Enjoy.
9. This Week's Question
Bill writes
"I have just bought my first front loader and going through the pains of MOOing stuff to wash the clothes. It all gets a bit confusing, and remember I am only a bloke, so if anybody has a sure-fire way of doing the washing easily and cheaply, please let me know."
Do you have the answer?
If you can help Bill (who is a long-time Cheapskater and member) let us know. We'll enter your answer into our Tip of the Week competition, with a one-year membership to the Cheapskates Club as the prize too.
Send your answer
10. Ask Cath
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
11. Join the Cheapskates Club
For just 10 cents a day 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!
12. Frequently Asked Questions
How do I change my email address?
This one is easy. Members can update their email address or any other details by clicking on "Edit Profile" directly under their membership number after they have logged in to the Member's Centre. Subscribers to our free newsletter can use the Change Your Address form (under Customer Service in the menu) and fill it out. Once you've filled it in click the send button and we'll do the rest. Please remember to include your old email address so we can find it in the list as well as the new one.
How do I know when my membership should be renewed?
When you login to the Member's Centre you will be told how many days of membership you have left once you have 30 days left. Just click on the link to renew and your membership will just continue on, uninterrupted.
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.
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