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Use wide mouth pint canning jars. regular jars that food comes in are not meant for this kind of use.

Definitely don't iron it. Take it down and lay it on a flat surface and put some weight on it. Leave it for a few weeks if you can. It should flatten out eventually, and then you'll be able to roll it tightly again. Curling is somewhat inevitable if you keep it unrolled all the time.

I understand that a lot of people are really pressed for time in the morning. But what drives me nuts about products like this is that you're taking a food that requires no refrigeration and minimal packaging and turning it into something that has to be transported in refrigerated trucks, kept in a freezer in the store, packaged in plastic, etc. There are environmental implications that we need to be mindful of. It's not that hard to make a big batch of oatmeal once a week. Then you can just heat up a serving of it just as easily as you can heat up one of these things.

If you rotate the cylinder a little bit before each slice, the cookies last half of the cookies won't end up squished.

This post is completely biased. it reads as pure apple industry propaganda. As other commenters have said, apples are in fact the most contaminated type of produce on the EWG's list.

I think the wood cabinets are a huge improvement over the white, but I'm really not a fan of the brown granite. It's just always going to look dirty to me.

pickle juice and whiskey? that's a common pairing?

Thank you, @FANCYD. I was going say the same thing. I've found it disturbing how little mention I've seen of the health of farm workers in this whole debate. They are no doubt being exposed to much higher levels of these pesticides that we ever will be as consumers.

The beauty of storing things in clear jars is that for the most part you don't have to label them because you can see what's inside (different kinds of flours being one of the few exceptions.)

The whole chalk dust thing totally skeeves me out too.

I live a 5 minute drive from a very good food coop which is where i do almost all of my shopping. I also can walk to a small corner store a few blocks away if I just need to pick up one thing. Once or twice a month I drive 15 minutes to Trader Joe's to stock up on certain things. I can't think of anything I can't get locally that would be worth driving 40 minutes for.