Foodie is slammed after sharing her money saving trick during the cost of living crisis
Possibly the most ridiculous budget tip you’ll read: Woman comes under fire for her extraordinary money-saving trick: ‘Millionaire mindset’
- A foodie was slammed after saying she decanted soy sauce fish into a large bottle
- Many said it was a waste of time, a waste of plastic and ruined the taste of soy
A foodie has been criticized after sharing her incredibly frugal trick to help save on groceries amid the rising cost of living — but some think she has too much time on her hands.
The woman, named Arielle, posted on Facebook, where she explained that she keeps all the small packets of soy sauce fish she gets with her Asian meals and decants them into an empty large soy sauce bottle at home.
“Millionaire mentality,” Arielle wrote on Facebook alongside photos of her work.
A woman named Arielle said she keeps whatever little packets of soy sauce fish she gets and decants them into a big bottle at home to save money (pictured)
While some were inspired by the idea and wrote things like “my grandpa would be proud” and “awesome,” others said life is too short to decant soy sauce into big bottles.
“Total time it takes to collect and refill the bottle: one hour. So the person charges themselves a labor rate of $3 per hour. Less than the minimum rate,” one wrote.
Another said, ‘How much is my time worth? Oh yes, nothing’.
But people quickly knocked her down saying that she has too much time on her hands, that it is a waste of plastic and that the quality of soy sauce is bad (her bottle filled with soy sauce fish in the picture)
Others argued that it’s not good for the soy sauce because once you open the little fish package, all the soy sauce starts to oxidize and it tastes bad:
“However, it’s better to just leave it in the package if you’re going to do that,” one commenter wrote.
“Once you decant it, it starts to oxidize, so it becomes stale and takes on outside properties, including a bad taste.”
Another said the trick doesn’t work because of the quality of the soy sauce they use in restaurants:
“The only thing is that a lot of the “soy” that restaurants put out is that acid-hydrolyzed soy protein junk,” they said.
Finally, there was a group of people who said it’s just plastic waste:
“Destroy the planet at all costs,” one person wrote.
“Yes, let’s waste all that plastic unnecessarily,” said another.
Arielle responded by writing, “These environmentalists are complaining about the plastic waste – I didn’t make the packages, I already got them from sushi restaurants.”
She continued, “So if you really want to change something, maybe think of a way to address the root cause instead of complaining?” In this case, find an alternative eco-friendly packaging that isn’t made of plastic, or simply ask customers if they want soy sauce in their take-out sushi.”