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submitted 10 months ago by IonAddis@lemmy.world to c/frugal@lemmy.world

I've noticed sometimes that there's some half-baked videos or blogs or whatever that purport this or that frugal trick, but if you look at the time or math, it's not actually frugal for you.

What are some examples of that you've come across? The things that "aren't worth it"?

For me it's couponing. (Although I haven't heard people talk about it recently--has it fallen out of "style", or have businesses caught up to the loopholes folks used to exploit?)

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[-] Teodomo@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just cook stuff that basically cooks itself. Crockpots, pasta, certain veggies and meats on the oven. After doing them many times I already know the timings for everything so I just put alarms to remind me of turning the fire off/flipping them in the oven once and that's it. Doing something else in between. Technically speaking you spend only a couple minutes actively cooking for each meal that way. Just don't forget to set the alarms or it's burnt (and move the particular meat from the freezer to the fridge the night before)

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