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Looking at that bottom picture while watching a Dirty Jobs episode brings up horrible associations... Still, a fun idea. I'll have to give this a try.

My little girl loves "stealing" the apple peels from me when I'm peeling apples to bake. I guess she thinks it's a special treat I'm making an exception to let her have. Oddly, the same child keeps eating her apple slices without eating the peel.

I showed this book to my 5-year-old daughter at Barnes and Noble. I thought she would find it interesting to look at, because she loves the comic format. Before I knew it, we'd read at least 1/3 of it. Everytime I finished one, she begged for the next. Definitely a hit.

I make something a little like this sometimes. I essentially make a smoothie - frozen banana, Nutella, a bit of Ghiradelli sweetened cocoa, plain yogurt, and milk, all pureed in my food processor. Then I put it in the freezer, check it every 10 min or so and stir it, until it hits the ice-creamy consistency I want. It's my "I need chocolate but I want to be semi-healthy about it" dessert. I don't really know if it qualifies as healthy with the Nutella and the cocoa, but I can at least pretend. Sometimes I grind up some hazelnuts first, adding an interesting (weird?) texture to it.

Our playhouse was an easy pick - it was put out in the trash and we were driving by!

I second that, nycgreenmomma. I love that bed. I would love to know where it's from.

Amy, can I be your friend? I promise I won't ever find chocolate-dipped strawberry gifts predictable.

We have 2 sets of Blik graphics in our daughter's room. One is a permanent one, and the others are reusable. She can't reach either, so I can't comment on whether she would peel them off, but the reusable ones are on her ceiling. I would think if any would peel, it would be ceiling ones! We haven't seen any signs of peeling off, and they've been up about 2 years now.

I think you just greatly improved my life! I could eat roasted garlic all the time, but don't often have the foresight to make it. I think my freezer will soon be filled with roasted garlic cloves.
(By the way, I'm curious about the picture, too!)

This doesn't seem like such a ridiculous question to me. It's kind of like finding a product on sale for a great price (imagine 10 cents for a worthwhile amount of anything!) and then finding a way to use it all.
My family is on WIC, and often have too much milk, because they put two gallons on one of our checks and only one quart on another. That alternates us between too much and too little milk (1 gallon at a time works perfectly for us.) Freezing works fine for us, but I love the hot chocolate idea. I should do that - right now!