Posted November 6, 2009 - 07:00 by Tisha Tolar
Food and Drink
We all can make mistakes in the kitchen. Instead of throwing out what we think we have ruined, there are some handy tips that are so easy to do and can save an entire meal from the trash can.
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Posted October 30, 2009 - 07:00 by Elizabeth Sanberg
Food and Drink
Want to save $100,000? A great afternoon project is a do it yourself taste test. In fact, many manufactures produce the store brand products in additional to their own national brand.
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Posted October 29, 2009 - 06:00 by Max Wong
Food and Drink, Budgeting
Having no money has never kept me from having a good time. Over the years I’ve developed several pot luck-style parties that are not only easy to tweak for just about any location or age group, but are beneficial to me, my friends and my community. Here are the five parties I’ll be hosting between now and the New Year.
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Posted October 28, 2009 - 06:00 by Healthy Theory
Food and Drink
Not everything we eat gets absorbed and used by our body. Our cooking and digestive process destroys and degrades nutrients before our body can use it. The amount of nutrients that is actually absorbed in our system is called bioavailability. Understanding how different foods react with one another can help you get more nutrients from your meal. Here are 5 ways to get more from the food we eat.
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Posted October 26, 2009 - 06:00 by Nora Dunn
Green Living, General Tips, Food and Drink
The giant kitchen-beast that is your oven is not the most energy-efficient way to prepare your food. But sometimes only the oven will do the trick. Here are 19 ways to improve your oven’s efficiency, all the while cutting your costs and saving your money.
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Posted October 22, 2009 - 05:00 by Myscha Theriault
Food and Drink
We all need a little something to get us by between meals now and again. Healthy snacks are a way to ward off hunger without getting too far off track calorie wise. Problem is, if you listen to all the ads and hype, you might think keeping a few appropriate items on hand has to cost big bucks. Here are six healthy snacks that won’t break the bank.
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Posted October 19, 2009 - 05:00 by Jeff Yeager
Food and Drink, DIY
Americans buy more than one billion pounds of pumpkins at Halloween, and the vast majority of those end up in the trash. But at my house, we eat our jack-o-lantern, every last bit of it.
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Posted October 15, 2009 - 07:00 by Paul Michael
Health and Beauty, Food and Drink, Consumer Affairs
Yes. Well, that's just my humble opinion, but I really don't see why this has so many people throwing their arms up in the air with shock. We tax liquor and cigarettes, neither of which are essentials in life. Why not tax something that is bad for our health, preventing more people from buying it and generating much-needed cash in the process?
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Posted October 1, 2009 - 06:00 by Anne Louise Bannon
Shopping, Food and Drink, Budgeting
We all know it saves time and money to plan a weekly dinner menu. You're also more likely to eat a healthy diet and less likely to cop out and pick up a Big Mac, because you know you're going to pull together a nice chicken Caesar salad when you get home from work.
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Posted September 29, 2009 - 13:29 by Carrie Kirby
Food and Drink
I ended my worries over where our beef comes from by investing in a quarter cow and a chest freezer. I considered the cost of the freezer as the cost of having the hormone-free, non-feedlot meat I wanted on hand, but what I didn't realize was that I would save so much, I paid for the freezer!
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