Everything’s better with bacon! That applies to crispy cooked bacon, or the delicious bacon fat (AKA bacon grease) that you get when cooking bacon. Using bacon fat in your recipes is an easy way to add a lot more flavor! If you want to give cooking with bacon fat a try, check out these 8 Delicious Ways to Use Bacon Fat! Of course, bacon fat isn’t necessarily the healthiest fat to add to your recipes. You could substitute it with other forms of fat like vegetable shortening, lard, ghee, or even coconut oil, but the flavor wouldn’t be the same. Sometimes… [Read More]
7 Reasons Penny Pinchers Save Bacon Grease
Yes, a post about saving bacon grease! Back in the day, one of Grandma’s old fashioned money saving tips was to be very careful about using everything up! So even though this particular post is about using up bacon grease, the greater lesson here is that you’ll save money by not wasting. That is a concept you can apply to many areas of frugal living. Penny pinchers have been saving bacon grease for decades, knowing that it still has use even after the bacon is long gone. If you love bacon (and who doesn’t) and find yourself with the leftover bacon fat,… [Read More]
