Here are some ideas to help you make do with less in kitchen!

Stretch a meatloaf by adding oatmeal, or rice.

Always try to make your oven do double-duty when you heat it up. Bake some potatoes alongside those cookies, or biscuits with meatloaf, etc. Or simply cook two pies or roasts instead of one. The second goes in freezer for another time.

When boiling potatoes always save water. If you're making mashed potatoes, use it instead of part of milk. Or, you can cool it and water your houseplants.

Save up to $1.00 per pound on boneless chicken breasts by doing boning yourself using a sharp knife.

Learning to cut up a whole chicken can save you money, too. All you need is a good sharp knife and a little practice.

If you have freezer space, buy an extra turkey at Christmas or an extra ham at Easter when they are on sale, probably at lowest price all year!

As I was growing up on Cape Cod I would go to fish pier every Sunday morning with my Dad to pick up a fresh fish.. Part of ritual would be to stand on dock and watch boats unload. While men all exchanged their secret language of growl and spit, I would stand off to one side watching fisherman prepare their fresh catch. Many times a fish would jump box and lay flapping around on deck of boat. The fisherman would pick it up, push a fish knife into lower belly, and with a quick twist of wrist fish’s internal organs would come bursting out and hang down like grapes. The fisherman would then pull innards from fish, toss fish in lift bucket and off it would go to market. The ghastly smelling innards were tossed to irrepressible seagulls hovering and shrieking above.