The Home Economic Hacks To Simplify Your Life

These tips from Mairlyn Smith will help you in all areas of your kitchen:

• Make your own spreadable butter: 1 cup butter to ¾-1 cup oil add ¼ tsp salt to preserve it.
• Sweet potato fries – Ever try to get all of the sweet potato fries the same size? Use an Apple slicer to score and give you a template so you can cut them all the same for uniform cooking.
• Always have homemade cookies – Freeze cookie dough in rolls, slice when needed – win mom of the year homemade cookies
• Cheese – grate and freeze nubs of cheese, when you have enough make a cheese sauce or sprinkle on veggies…
• A little bit of Mayo left in the jar – add apple cider vinegar for an instant salad dressing
• A little bit of Jam – add soy sauce and shake becomes a cooking sauce for chicken
• Freeze ginger ends- grated for tea or freeze chunks and grate into recipes.
• Make citrus fruits juicier by placing them in the microwave for 15-20 seconds.
• Give bananas a longer life by separating them and wrapping the ends in plastic wrap.
• Remove a strawberry stem by placing a plastic straw through the bottom end (point) of the strawberry and pushing it straight up to remove the leaves.
• Slice herbs with a pizza cutter, bunch them up and wheel it back and forth until desired consistency.
• Place bacon on a rack over parchment and cook it in the oven to avoid splatters happening or cook in a waffle maker.
• Add Vinegar to soup bones when making broth or stock = more calcium
• Clean stainless-steel appliances with baby oil and dish soap
• Stop throwing out celery, clean and pay dry, separate the leaves from the rest and store in an airtight container, it lasts at least 3 times longer.
• Detox garbage by using lemons or limes