Plain kosher salt and whole pepper
Instead of seasoning blends
~$5 for three pounds against ~$8 for two ounces
Read a blend: salt is the first ingredient, and usually most of what is in the jar.
A seasoning blend is salt with a small amount of dried aromatics and a large markup, sold by weight at something like twenty times what the salt inside it costs. Buying the salt and the spices apart costs less and lets you move them independently, which matters because salt is the part you want to adjust.
Blends are genuinely faster, and a good one is a real convenience on a weeknight. This swap spends your time to save money, which is the opposite trade from most of this page.
What to get
- Kosher saltCoarse, no anti-caking agent, three pound boxAmazon ~$5
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