The need to live frugally strips one off the inessential. It demands some serious cutbacks and reconsiderations to your provisions of food, clothing, and shelter. But when the going gets tough, the tough get going; thus, innovative thinking is your simple answer to living simple. Cutting down on luxury food items and, instead, opting for simpler ingredients will render handsome savings to your grocery budget. In what follows, we, at Buzzle, have attempted to provide a great solution that can be used for several purposes to improve your culinary outcomes and ease the pressures on your wallet. Vegetable broth is a must-have item in the kitchen pantry. It can be used to make sauces, gravies, and soups. And this isn't an alternative, but an actual frugal ingredient that will save your day. You can choose from the above-mentioned veggies to make your broth. Essentially, whatever vegetable scraps are available at your home can go into your broth. ✔ Heat olive oil in a large crock pot. ✔ Fry garlic and onions just for a bit. ✔ Next, add all the vegetables and pour in water so that the vegetables are properly sunk in with about two cups of water as margin. ✔ Cover the pot with a lid, and reduce the heat to minimum. ✔ Let this mixture boil for about 45 minutes to an hour. ✔ Garnish with some salt, pepper, and oregano. ✔ Remove from heat, strain it into a container, throw the solids, and store it in a jar. *You will need scraps of chicken to make chicken and vegetable broth. Otherwise the ingredients remain the same as above. ✔ Heat olive oil in a large crock pot, and fry garlic and onion. ✔ Next, add all the chicken, and cook it till it turns light pink. ✔ Add the remaining scraps of vegetables, and mix them well with the chicken. ✔ Pour in water so that the meat and vegetable mixture is properly covered with about two cups of water as margin. ✔ Cover the utensil lid, and bring the heat on minimum. ✔ Let this mixture boil for about 45 minutes to an hour. ✔ Add salt and pepper as per taste. ✔ Remove from heat, strain it into a container, throw away the solids, and store the broth made from scrap in a jar. A few simple steps is all that you have to follow to make a delicious vegetable broth. Although vegetable broth is readily available in supermarkets, it is much easier and economical when made at home from scratch. You can add and remove the vegetables mentioned in the above recipes to suit your liking and purpose.