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This sounds really neat, but wouldn't you need to color calibrate your iPhone to whatever the Shermin-Williams color profiles are? And wouldn't a color on an illuminated screen be really difficult to match in pigment anyway?

This sounds like a really neat idea, but I just don't understand how it could be accurate. If it was, I'd be all over it!

There are a few stores I prefer to shop in before I'll go into whole foods (Fairway, Trader Joe's) because they are so overpriced for most things.

However, I feel like i automatically have to discredit that article because the person is stating that high fructose corn syrup will kill you and partially hydrogenated oils "will cause cancer...for sure!" I'd like to see some peer-reviewed studies that prove that. Until then, I'll just keep rolling my eyes.

This is basically where I am in terms of budgeting. I split a CSA farm share with my family, so I get local and organic veggies in the summer (which is actually cheaper than buying them at the grocery store!), but you don't get to pick what you get every week. Other than that, I really can't afford to buy all organic (unless it's on sale!)

I'm a vegetarian, so I don't buy meat, but my boyfriend has tried to find ethically-raised local beef and was unable to (we live on Long Island). He's been able to find organic, but not free-range.

I'm also lactose intolerant and a little allergic to soy milk, so I can't buy organic (although I do get RBGH-free milk).

How is that center one vintage? I've seen lots of people using those.

They are cute, but I wonder how practical they are, in terms of washability and weight.

My apartment is actually my landlord's completely detached garage! Okay, a little bit bigger than a shed, but a pretty nice place to live for a renter out here in suburbia.

The only time I have ever cooked with an electric stove was in my college apartment (i guess they didn't trust us with gas?), and while I am sure they were the cheapest appliances going, they were awful even though they were brand new. I much prefer the control of a gas cooktop, although I am not partial to a gas or electric oven, but I really only use the oven for baking.

My boyfriend and I have a gas stove in our place--I grew up cooking on electric, he had never used a gas stove before, and he certainly seems to be a bit wary of it exploding or killing us with gas fumes or something like that.

While I strongly prefer a gas cooktop, it would not be a dealbreaker for me. I agree with HannahS, mold in the walls and needles in the parking lot are certainly dealbreakers, a stove, not so much. But I can scarcely afford an apartment with a kitchen :)

How do you defrost carmelized onions so they don't get too soggy?

I absolutely love the flavor of carmelized onions but do not have the patience to make them all the time.

I love black for interiors, but I'm not crazy about that first black house...all that architectural detail is lost! Maybe because I grew up in a sea of Levitt and Cape houses with zero that I don't understand why someone wouldn't want to show all that off....

I think it's a good idea, except most people I know tend to bring out the big appliances only used twice a year around the holidays, which might not work out as well, unless you share a food processor with someone who needs it for their Chanukah latkes but will freely let you have it for Christmas cookies or something like that.

Luckily, my parents never have holidays or bake, so I manage to borrow things from them when needed.

In terms of kitchen appliances, the only thing I have that doesn't get used almost daily (like a toaster oven) is a stand mixer, which was a hand-me-down.

From the first linked post: "Then I saw Jamie Lee Curtis in Perfect and thin was no longer good enough; I wanted to be perfect. Enter the Spandex, rice cakes and aerobicizing. I seem to remember Jamie Lee saying that she was battling a raging eating disorder at this point. Funny, so was I."

Great, I was really looking for some "thinspiration" from a fellow Ana! Thanks AT!

Come on guys, if I wanted to hate my body, I'd read Cosmo.