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Sweet tea has no lemon in it. I love it now, but didn't like it as a child.
All the tips here are great!
Keep 'em coming!
All the tips here are great!
Keep 'em coming!
Haggis said:If possible don't do a big weekly shop (note: this does not apply to pantry staples and dry goods) in which you get all your fresh produce (including meat and seafood).
You don't know what your going to feel like 6 nights from now, so why buy all your produce forcing you to use it whether you want to or not (unless of course you have planned to do a certain dish on a certain night). Much better to cook according to your moods, and picking up what you feel like on the day helps this along.
The sports bottle idea is cool.Corinne said:Here's a couple of my favorites:
1. Chop up a big pile of onions or red/green bell peppers all at once. Freeze individual portions in ice cube trays. When the cubes are fully frozen, remove from trays & place in Zip-Loc freezer bags. Remove a cube or 2, as needed. This means that I always have onions & peppers ready when I need them & I'm not throwing onions & peppers away because they've gone bad. I also seem to use less onions than I would if I was chopping them fresh.
2. Thoroughly clean a "Sports Bottle" (Dasani/Poland Springs, etc.) after you drink the water. (Sports bottles are the ones with pull-up or twisting openings.) Fill with oil to use for cooking. I have one for olive oil & one for vegetable oil. I buy large containers of oil at BJ's & keep refilling the bottles. When I need some oil in the pan for sauteing something, it's so easy to just squirt as much as I want into the pan.
How interesting! I didn't know about Sprite but I knew lemon juice kept apples, avocadoes and eggplant to turn brown...purrfectlydevine said:Don't think I posted this before, but if you dip cut fruit like apples and bananas in Sprite or Diet Sprite, the fruit won't turn brown as quickly.