{"id":289,"date":"2009-03-12T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2012-02-07T18:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:30:59","slug":"a-tip-for-your-freezer-and-chicken-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"A Tip for Your Freezer &#8230; and Chicken Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, &#8230; now everyone is trying to save on the food budget and stretch the dollars a little farther.  So now I just appear normal, and my budget friendly habits seem timely.  Whereas before, I believe the word &#8220;cooky&#8221; might have been slung in my direction.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tip for your freezer.  If you eat vegetables at your house, you probably don&#8217;t always finish the dish.  For plain vegetables (served with butter and salt &#8211; or alone) toss the extras in a gallon sized freezer bag in the freezer door.  Every time you have some leftovers of this nature, toss them in the bag.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if they&#8217;re different.  You&#8217;re making a collection of veggies.  When the bag gets to capacity &#8211; you&#8217;re ready to make vegetable or chicken soup.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose Chicken Soup, here&#8217;s another money saver.  Use inexpensive thighs or legs to make your broth and provide the meat for the soup.  These pieces are less popular, but they make a much richer base for your soup; no one can really tell what part of the chicken little shreds of meat came from in the bowl anyway.  As a bonus, you can usually get those cuts of meat for MUCH less than cut up birds or chicken breasts.<\/p>\n<p>Happy cooking!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, &#8230; now everyone is trying to save on the food budget and stretch the dollars a little farther. So now I just appear normal, and my budget friendly habits seem timely. Whereas before, I believe the word &#8220;cooky&#8221; might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/?p=289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-going-green","category-life-on-the-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}