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Top 10 Money Saving Tips From Sandra Lee
Published on: May 20, 2009 – 9:56 am by Jillian Madison 
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Even though the Food Network has only aired two episodes of Money Saving Meals, one hilarious trend has already presented itself: Sandy’s dispensing of painfully obvious advice. Last week we learned “boxed pasta is cheaper than fresh pasta!” and two weeks ago we were taught “store brands are cheaper!” With advice like that, we can’t help but wonder what tips she’ll be sharing over the upcoming weeks.
TOP 10 MONEY SAVING TIPS WE’LL MOST
LIKELY HEAR FROM SANDRA LEE
10. Water that comes out of your faucet is much cheaper than bottled water!
9. Refrigerated food stays fresher longer!
8. You can put leftover chicken in the freezer and eat it in the FUTURE!
7. Cook over candle flames – it’s cheaper than gas!
6. You can use stale bread to make croutons!
5. You can find some perfectly edible food in dumpsters for FREE!
4. Don’t pay for expensive utensils; stir hot foods with a stick from your back yard!
3. Sometimes, you can save money by buying in BULK!
2. Your supermarkets have different items on sale every week!
1. COUPONS SAVE YOU MONEY!
Other posts on Food Network Humor:
---Sandra Lee’s Money Saving Tips O’ The Week---Sandra Lee’s Money Saving Meals: FNH Review
---More Dumb Advice From Sandra Lee
---The Ten Commandments Of Money Saving Meals
---SANDRA’S MONEY SAVING MEALS: Coming Soon
THIS WEEK: Ina Garten's "beginner" recipes, new Food Network shows starting in September, thumbing through an issue of Semi-Homemade magazine, Rachael Ray's daytime talk show, Aarti's "accountability group", Claire Robinson on Big Daddy's House, another sensual reading of Alex Guarnaschelli's tweets, sink or swim voicemail, and much more.
My favorite line was how “… this AMAZING salt adds great flavor!”
@Tatiana… I forgot about that one. That was hysterical. Salt adds flllllavor! Who knew!
I bet next week we will all learn that you can buy soda in 2-liter bottles, to save money at parties.
“Buy unpopped popcorn kernels and pop them yourself! It’s 26% cheaper than bags of pre-popped popcorn!!!!!”
There was also that great tip: “Use what’s in your refrigerator!” Gee, I always thought my refrigerator was just a mold factory.
Lest we forget, “Use leftovers to make meals the next day.” No!
Lordy! This was probably the worst show (next to the Neeley’s) that I forced myself to watch. And I am SOOO glad she mentioned that you can use food the next day – I am going to save thousands this year alone.
And just when I thought 5 Ingredient Fix was the worst show on the network (salt and pepper being two ingredients) this one is worse. Good work Food Network!
The sad thing is, she will most likely use this list! What’s next, she tells us that instead of using real vanilla extract, just to use the generic one?
“Fancy Feast makes an excellent, low cost filler for meatloaf. And you can use the cans to serve appetizers on!”
You’re giving her too much credit.
Or, if you run out of blue curacao, you can substitute the tidy bowl water to make that delicious vodka cocktail!
Purchase items from the sales circular then use the paper for serving.
“Steal packets of sugar from restaurants to use in baking – they’re FREE!”
Really, anybody picking up “tips” from this show is a grade A dumbass.
One of my beefs was that she made American chips instead of European “chips” (fries). WHORE!
Why do I always want to mutter in an Alton-esque way “Oh Bother!” whenever she offers one of her tips?
She actually has advocated buying in bulk on the show’s website, specifically citing buying a 5lb bag of onions. Because her magical onions never go bad or anything….
I have never heard of spaghetti-and-meatball calzones before. Is this a treat I’ve been missing all these years? Does Pepe’s serve them?
> 6. You can use stale bread to make croutons!
In a similar vein, SLop oh-so-thoughtfully told us to keep the rest of the loaf of bread we used to make bread crumbs. Thanks, SLop!
I was laughing so hard reading this, my daughter ran in here from the other room, wanting to know what was so funny. I want to poke things in Sandra’s eyes.
Maybe if I was drunk like her, I’d appreciate her show more.
LOL!!!!! This post was hilarious. I also like the “flllavor” bit.