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Here are some helpful ideas that may help you to better utilize your hard earned dollars.

• Buy spaghetti sauce in the jar. Use the jars as storage containers for everyday items like sugar, tea bags and rice (any dried food product). Boil the jars in a large pot of water to remove the labels and glue. Immerse the lid as well.
• If you don’t own one, buy a slow cooker aka crock pot. Cheaper cuts of meat like shoulder roasts and pot roasts tenderize in the process of cooking slowly. It will use less energy than the stove or oven. You can save leftovers in the freezer for later consumption.
• Buy dry food items at the bulk food store and keep in the sauce jars you have reclaimed. Less packaging to go in the recycle bin. (Oatmeal, raisins, pasta shells, etc.)
• Replace metal loaf  & muffin pans with newer silicon type. Use the old loaf pan to grow fresh herbs in the window sill. Use the muffin pan for small items storage for your hobbies.
• Run the dishwasher just before you go to bed. Make sure it’s close to fully loaded. Use electricity in off peak hours whenever possible. Turn off the light switch if the room isn’t occupied.
• Buy the largest size of product you can find for common use items that don’t spoil easily like laundry detergent, dishwasher detergent, garbage bags, etc.)
• Hard boil eggs that are close to the expiry date. (20 minutes starting with the water cold, heat on high, reduce to low when the water is boiling)
• Buy 2 or more of items that are on sale in the grocery store unless it is perishable. eg. Toilet paper, paper towels, soap, shampoo, deodorant, etc.

Save the Earth. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.