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I like adding things to my icecream, usually peanut butter and frozen fruit. Got to thinking that if I added oats I could actually increase the volume without impacting the flavour all that much (I like oats). I could probably use floured starches or something like that.

Are there other things you "fill"? I think juice + water is the most familiar example. What about something like adding 20% dehydrated milk to fresh milk? Substituting some butter for oil?

Sometimes I find when I'm making my own stuff it ends up being more expensive than buying the packaged variety from the store, but maybe fillers are a way to balance that out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dried foods are the best value, I would experiment with that. Rice is famously filling and cheap

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In the same area, beans and lentils can be added to everything to stretch it out including the aforementioned rice lol. I feel like everyone knows this by now though. Frugal staples are dried bulk rice and beans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Dried mushrooms are also significantly cheaper than fresh.