Live Rich and Eat for Cheap Part 1- The tools.

January is a pale month. The holiday lights come down, the belt comes out a notch, the 1099’s hit the mailbox and the tax dread begins.

To celebrate such cheery times, we here at the How to Eat (that) studios worldwide are focusing this week’s entries on how to, with ease, eat better and waste less food, energy and water.

The first thing you’re going to need to do is buy a set of Pyrex Storage containers

The overall advantage to Pyrex is that it makes the kitchen work more efficiently:

Less Trash: They last longer than plastic.
Better Food: Glass doesn’t take on the flavor of the food they are storing.
Easier: They wash up in the dishwasher, where as plastic always comes out of the dishwasher wet.
Faster: You can cook in the same container you store food in and visa versa. Pyrex glass is tempered you just pop them in the oven or (arg) microwave.
Cheaper: The less food you have to transfer from container to container, the less you have to wash and the less water and soap you have to use.
Prettier: Let the shelves of your refrigerator be vain and look classy.

I used to cook a small whole chicken every Sunday, in a large Pyrex Deluxe container and store it in the same container for the week. Now that Erik and I have joined forces there is far too much food to explore and chicken is rarely on the menu these days.

Still, the Pyrex is used for everything from storing sauces to baking beans.

Tomorrow:
Homemade Stock
The Next Day:
Sardines– 3 bucks 14 cents of Glory