Frugal Tip / Earth friendly tip

[Missy]

I buy Banquet TV dinners now and then when they are on sale. I can often get 12 or more for 10.00. not too shabby. That's not the frugal tip, read on.

I save the trays, and wash them. There's bunches of uses for these...

Make your own TV dinners, freeze em in these trays. You can nuke em or put em in the oven, I haven't had a problem.

Hold on to them and take them on picnics with you. Instead of paper plates or styrofoam plates. You can take em home and reuse them and they aren't heavy enough to add any more bulk to your picnic basket than the paper ones.

Let your kids use them for mixing finger or poster paints.

Tons of uses in the craft room!

Taking Fluffy on the family trip? How about using these as portable pet food containers?

I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

[pip]

Great ideas, thanks!

[Mom23boys]

Way to put those trays to good use Missy! Great ideas!

[momof42003]

Thanks great ideas.. We too use these more frequently than I would like, so if I could reuse them, maybe I would not be as dis heartened....