Usually, about a week before my food money comes in, we are pretty low on food. Lunches and dinners are based around pasta, and there is not too much else in the house to eat.
I would like to introduce to the idea of making trail mixes from leftovers. This is done by, first, raiding the cupboards. What is available for your use? What do you normally throw away? That do not make up a whole serving, so do not seem worth your time.
Rather than throwing these things out, why not throw them all together and make a trail mix. You can store them in anything. To discourage over-eating, I use snack size plastic baggies if I have any on hand. if not, I just throw it all into a quart-size canning jar.
Here is a list of items that I have used in trail mix:
cereals
small candies
pretzels
nuts
coconut
broken crackers
broken cookies
dried fruit
raisins
granola
This could be enough to last a whole week, or even just a couple of days, depending on how much you have for leftovers in your home.
This will save you money in the long run. It can be a very frugal recipe.
