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What are some things you can/should cheap out on?
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It depends. Cheap salt is just fine. And flour, unless you're into baking. But some things can make a difference and you don't necessarily have to pay a lot more for it.
Pasta, for example. Bronze cut pasta absorbs sauce a lot better than "normal" pasta. It looks dull, rough, and pale as opposed to shiny and smooth. It usually only costs a buck or two more. I find it's a big step up taste and texture-wise.
Or butter. The ones without natural flavor taste better. Sometimes it's the store brand that doesn't have added flavor.
And eggs. Orange yolks are way better than the pale yellow ones. But those you do have to shell out for.
Eggs I always buy free-range because yeah it makes a difference to taste (and is so much kinder to the chickens), but in the UK butter is butter. I know in the US you have butter that's practically white but here's it's all yellow and tasty. Flour every brand has plain, self raising and bread flour and those categories are pretty similar across brands.
Milk, the filtered stuff (Cravendale or similar) is nicer but not much nicer so it's not worth the upgrade IMO
Just to reply to "it's so much kinder to the chickens", I hate to break it to you but "free range eggs" is a scam. Here's a (very opinionated) article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/free-range-eggs-con-ethical
"Free range eggs" at the grocery store is a scam.
"FREE RANGE EGGS" on a sign by the side of the road are the best eggs you'll find