Buying staples in the size and format that actually gets eaten.
A pantry built for a leisurely Sunday looks impressive and fails on Wednesday. A pantry built for the worst week you actually have looks sparse and feeds you every night....
Three bags of oats sit on the same shelf, look almost identical and differ in price by a factor of four. The difference is how much the grain has been...
A jar of ground cumin is dead within six months and nobody notices, because the powder still looks like cumin. Whole seeds in the same cupboard are still potent two...
A three litre tin of good olive oil costs about the same per litre as two small bottles. A three litre tin that goes rancid before you finish it costs...
A tin of beans goes into the trolley without a second thought. A bag of dried beans sits in the cupboard for a month while you decide whether the soaking...