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Hmm, I've been super happy with my big piece of plastic baby tub. I received it as a gift, if I was buying it myself I might have looked for something less space intensive like that cool Danish one. My daughter is almost two and she bathes in it because I don't want to waste water filling up the whole tub. We fill it in the bath tub and just bathe her in the baby tub in the big tub. We store it in the big bath tub (after the bath, dump the water and rinse).... if someone is using the big tub/shower the baby tub just gets leaned against the bathroom wall temporarily. No hassles, minimal water usage.

There's a heck of a lot of difference between noise (and I absolutely agree that loud dogs are annoying) and a plume of known carcinogens. How bout this, when your smoke gets into my face, I'll just throw some uranium dust at you, cool? Then we're even on the lung damage.

I'm not strongly against the sale of it, but don't seek it out myself. Sure, people drank it in the day, but a lot of them did get sick and die!! Certainly not all from milk, but advances in hygiene and pasteurization have brought the infant and child mortality rates down by a lot. I agree with previous comments that even a very trustworthy farmer could still let some bad milk through the cracks unintentionally.
Also, the breast milk comment is ridiculous and offensive to me as a nursing mother. First of all, I don't have to worry about breast milk cause my baby drinks it from the source! Probably most of the dairy milk contamination comes from the processing equipment - milkers, tubing, etc. I also used to donate some excess breast milk to a local milk bank which DOES pasteurize it before its given to premature babies who desperately need it. So I'm not sure what's "funny" about your comment.

@Francine ... hear you on the pregnancy requiring more meals, now I am breastfeeding and that seems to ramp up my appetite even more than pregnancy did. I had oatmeal for breakfast, 2 cheese sticks at around 10. Lunch part A (apple and sandwich) was at 12, and I'll eat something else at around 3 probably.
My 8month old daughter is now getting about 700 calories from my breastmilk, so that's basically 2 extra meals in my book. Luckily I love eating! Best part is that it got rid of the pregnancy weight right quick!

Thinly sliced kohlrabi "chips" (chip sized slices) are the perfect vehicle for hummus or really any dip. Only caveat is that it oxidizes rather quickly so best not to prep ahead.

This is kind of random, but I have a kitchen trash can from Simple Human. Not super expensive, purchased at Target almost five years ago. The pedal that opens the lid just broke, and I checked their website to see if it could be remedied. To my delight, they have an easy to use tool to identify what trash can you have and sent me the replacement part free of charge and within days, along with easy to follow instructions to change it. I couldn't believe it!

Also Savory Spice Shop in the Denver metro area (and expanding to some more locations) is just great. The personnel are soooo helpful and the products are wonderful.

I'm surprised about the kind works for Kitchenaid, they did NOT replace our ice cream maker attachment or even offer any sort of discount on a problem that was pretty clearly a defect.

I just pre-ordered the adagio one that heats to different temps (for tea) and can hold a temp for 20 minutes. No, I don't need it, but it's a graduation present to myself... I could get by without one, sure, but I use our current crappy plastic one it at least twice a day! And my husband always steals it and brings it to the bathroom for shaving, so now, the plastic one will live in the bathroom and be exclusively for shaving!

I'm too pregnant to eat a lot at dinner right now - if I eat what I used to consider a large dinner, I can't sleep. So I eat a larger lunch spaced out from about 11am to 4pm. Example - fruit at 11, sandwich and soup at 12:30, hard boiled egg at 3:30. Then I don't need to eat so much dinner. I might keep the trend post baby.

Agreed on the yuck factor, you must have cleaner cabinets than me. I also want that type of thing in easier reach than having to pull out a step stool. Mine wouldn't look as nice cause there's a lip so anything up there is lower than the edge of the cabinet. Also lentils would probably be fine, but grains are better kept in the dark, no?

As a science teacher I've done a fair amount with classroom cooking ... teaching technology in the context of cooking doesn't seem quite as natural to me but that's prob why I'm not a technology teacher! I guess it depends what your goals are but here's a few ideas:
-Convert a bare bones recipe into a blog/tv cooking show type format (like suggestion 2)
-Start a wiki of class recipes - ask each student to bring their 4 favorite recipes - maybe from their mom's files or a random cookbook - then have them try to figure out a consistent way of formatting them and making them searchable and classifiable for the wiki. Bonus points for simple features like making a little program that converts the ingredient list to a shopping list (with the vegetables listed together...etc.)