Trying to lose weight but running out of creative things to make for lunch or breakfast? Try giving cottage cheese a starring role in at least one meal a day…suping it up with various fruits and vegetables to make it more interesting. Whole, large curd cottage cheese is cheap (about $3 for a large tub [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 26th, 2009
It might sound crazy to tell you to wash your garbage before you throw it out, but that’s only because it is sort of crazy, in a Martha Stewart meets Joan Crawford by way of being mad at the dirt sort of way. But, think about it. You’ve just finished a Yoplait thick and [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 22nd 2009
No matter how much you’d want to, you can’t put everything into the dishwasher. Besides not being the best environment for, say, golden retreivers, dishwashers aren’t safe for many household items either. Certain types of pots, pans, plates, glasses, and knives should always be washed by hand with gentle cleaning products because of the [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 17th 2009
Use lemon juice and salt to get rid of the smells on your wood cutting boards. The lemon juice’s acidity kills the bacteria that’s thriving on the board…and the salt is a natural abrasive that will get into the grooves of the wood and force that bacteria out. Once again, these [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 14th 2009
Use a lemon to clean your microwave. Just take the lemon, juice it, and add it to a microwave safe container. Add water to the container and put in the microwave — set the microwave to high and microwave the lemon water for 10-15 minutes so that enough of it is turned into steam to [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 13th 2009
Clean your shower heads with distilled white vinegar — another eco-friendly cleaning tip. Fill a sauce pan with enough vinegar to cover the shower head entirely. Place the saucepan on your stove and heat until the vinegar gets warm and starts to boil. Remove from heat and let shower head sit in hot vinegar for [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 12th 2009
Use banana peals as natural, organic shoe polish. Bananas have oils and potassium in them that are similar to the makeup of shoe polish. Eat the banana, but leave its skin for the shoe polishing. Take the skin and rub it on your shoes the way you would shoe polish. Once the shoes are nice [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 11th, 2009
You really don’t need to buy any expensive or fancy toilet bowl cleaner — not when a can of Coke honestly gets the job done just as well, at a fraction of the cost. There’s a reason Coke has that battery-acid after taste that we all know and love so much…and that dentists hate [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 10, 2009
When cleaning out someone else’s refrigerator, it’s always a good idea to make sure they don’t have any exotic fruits or vegetables inside that you might mistake for garbage. Which is surprisingly easy to do. Such is the case with persimmons, which look like funky, orange, rotten tomatoes – but, they aren’t. They’re actually [...]
Household Hint of the Day: September 7th, 2009
Do you have any pots or pans with nasty, caked-in or burnt food stuck to them? Think they’re hopeless and debate throwing them out and starting over, with new pots (or better, less Cajun-inspired recipes)? Well, before you waste all that money, here’s a trick we used on a job today that REALLY worked [...]
