Angela Watts's Profile

Target does the accordion files in the dollar section every couple months. Only the colors and patterns change.

I don't tend to keep my grocery receipts either, as they don't get returned (often). I do keep large expenditures, especially electronics or small appliances. These go in the file cabinet with their user manuals/service plan paperwork.

I do normally keep receipts for a day or so til I get the chance to double check them for accuracy and price. Where they are stacked next to the computer on the dining room table.

I agree, I haven't had a dishwasher in an aprtment or home since the early 90s (depsite that tine frame covering at least 8 homes), so stop assuming we all have a dishwasher to take care of the dishes for us.

I am apt to store them in the empty stove, or possibly in the sink if its big enough or a nice double sink, but I hate them in the sink cause then you can't use it much. I'm more apt to wash as I go so that most are in the drying rack except the last few.

I inherited my grandfathers vintage Vitamix-including his homemade "tamper". I adore it. No need to buy Nutella, I can make my own. I've always been fascinated by the fact that it can make and heat soup. How can you not fall in love with it?

Love the Test Kitchen. I've yet to hate anything they do, even if I won't eat it watching them go through the motions is hypnotic.

I started making a yearly list to help friends and relatives shop for me. Every year it looked more like a wedding registry than a gift list, lol. We bought quite a few things when we got married 8yrs ago and many of them never worked right or broke.
The silicone baking tray liner=sucked. I'd love to buy a silpat instead. I have replaced most of the Made in China cast iron pieces. A couple pots/pans with All Clad won in contests or bought second hand. Baking sheets/cooling racks/cake pans/muffin pans this past year. Love my Nordicware, much of it the Naturals line and the Caphalon non-stick cooling inserts. Cutting boards of blackened bamboo and olive wood. A stand mixer instead of the $10 GE handheld. The Kitchenaid measuring spoons don't always fit in spice bottles, but I make do and they are nice. The measuring cups are lovely, but so aren't the cheaper metal ones gifted when I went to college (with straight sides instead of the curved). OXO for our whisks to repalce those all wire ones that seem to rust when they see water, let alone touch it. Silicone spatulas and pancake turners. Wooden spoons bought through Stonewall Kitchen for college are still lovely and aged looking. Replaced the stainless steel canisters that never did a good job with Sistema canisters just this year.
When we replace an item we donate it. Sometimes to a shelter for battered women, sometimes to Goodwill or Savers. I've been very lucky in finding what I want and need at good prices between thrifting and Home Goods/TJ Maxx.

The paper towel definitely won't survive....and using a rag is more eco-friendly. We don't use ours enough, but I definitely find myself looking for ideas when we do. Thanks for the great idea.

So because whey is good for you we should all eat it on your say-so? I was under the understanding that as an adult in a free country I got to chose what I put in my body, whether its good or bad. I don't like watery yogurt, and so many of the regular ones get HUGE puddles of whey after being opened, even if they had none upon opening. If I was being cheap and buying regular yogurt the last thing I want is something the consistency of salad dressing. So I dump it. I don't want to "eat" it or consume it. If I wanted whey I'd save the whey I get when making ricotta at home.

That being said I've never had any issue with the plain Fage forming whey. I usually stick my spoon through it and then sigh. They need to put the warning on the lid not the side of the cup.

I've never changed the times when using chunky pb versus creamy. We use Peter Pan, as they make the honey roasted chunky that my husband likes the taste of. I do remember baking with natural pb as a child, we used to buy the one you ground in the store. It often had issues, but my mom is no Betty Crocker either.

I work a strange shift all the time. Anywhere from 6am-2:30pm all the way up to a 2pm-10pm. Breaks are generally an hour and a half after you get there, four and a half for lunch and two hours before you leave for a full 8 hour shift. I tend to have something breakfast like before work (since breakfast is great anytime), a snack at each break and a meal at the lunch. If I am still hungry for a third meal when I get home I have something light like a salad or a sandwich.

Skipping meals, not snacking and trying to be "normal" have only made for awkward scheduling, weight gain and spikes in blood sugar.

Dangit....I need to get my Vitamix from my mom. Between this and DIY Nutella I don't think I can exist without it anymore.