Saving money : Beat the Credit Crunch : Money saving

Did you know how much money is wasted in the average kitchen?

The average family throws away an amazing £650 of food a year. In reality this means that we have carried in £650 worth of food into our home, only to throw it in the bin.

Fed up with the cost of throwing away good food?

Fed up with trying to cram wasted food into an already overfull bin bag?

Fed up with replacing kitchen appliances after only a few years?

Fed up with throwing money in the bin bag?

It's time to find out ways of saving money, reducing the amount of food you waste, improve your diet and beat the credit crunch.

We cover a wide range of cooking related money saving ideas including appliance care, kitchen utensils care, food waste reduction and storage and how to make the most of the food you buy.

By using our simple ideas, the appliances in your kitchen with run more efficiently. Our tips will also help you to cut down on your appliance running costs and ensure that you don't have to replace these costly items unnecessarily. With the average cost of a new fridge freezer at about £250 and a cooker £300, the savings soon add up.

Our tips and ideas will also help you to prolong the life of the grocery items you buy and cut down on the amount of food you waste.

For example, we explain:-

how to tell if an egg is past its best how to ripen fruit double the shelf life of your milk eat healthily and cut down on food waste revitalise a lettuce a crafty way to ensure that you use up all the sauce in a bottle help onions last longer help tomatoes last longer save a meal if you use too much salt while cooking save soup if you use too much salt while cooking keep potatoes from budding and sprouting so they last longer half marshmallows easily heat up leftover pizza and keep it crispy easy devilled eggs, no waste, no mess optimise your cooking with a range cooker (like an AGA, Esse or Rayburn) optimise your cooking with a conventional cooker how to avoid unnecessary heat loss when cooking save money on bread save money on cheaper cuts of meat cut out over 90% of leftover food improve food storage to eliminate waste cut down on electricity and gas prevent build up of burnt on food in an oven eliminate vegetable waste completely make fresh herbs go twice as far easy meat loaf, no waste, no mess easy way to tenderize meat make bread last longer and stay fresh save a homemade soup if it's too greasy a simple tip to guarantee delicious fluffy rice make biscuits last longer marinate meat in this liquid to make it softer and more tender reuse cooking oil with no aftertaste from the previous meal never throw out leftover wine, a simple trick to help your cooking burnt the gravy, no problem. This tip will save you throwing it away burnt the rice, no problem. This tip will save you throwing it away how to quickly resoften hard brown sugar simple way to get rid of cooking smells from your hands prevent a soggy sandwich and much, much more

Our 'Everyday-Life' pdf has hundreds and hundreds of tips and ideas on cleaning, cooking, shopping, repairing and living.

All our quality tips will help you save a combination of money, time, effort and reduce the level of chemicals you use in your home.

In fact our Market Research has assessed that by following our ideas the average family will probably cut their living expenses by up to 50%.