This isn't my normal type of article for this blog, but it doesn't fit either of my other blogs. It isn't garden related and I am not creating something. Recycling is the "Thing" now. Around our house it has always been the "thing". Life was on the meager side for the first 10 years of married life.
I learned how to make do or do with out. I figured out how to remake and reuse. Today I was tinkering in the kitchen and realized I have a labor saver and reuse hint.
This is the century of boxed and prepackaged items. All this packaging ends up in land fills. Some of it pollutes, never breaking down. I had an elderly friend who always cut apart her cracker boxes to use for dust pans. I picked up on that and started doing the same thing especially if I broke a glass dish.
One day I needed a cutting board to chop onions (mine was in the dishwasher) and I grabbed one of these cardboards. Voila a cutting board which I didn't have to wash. I could just throw it away.
I theorized if it was made to hold food then it was food safe (I wouldn't use the outside of the box because the dyes and inks used to print the box may not be food safe).
I now save all boxes food comes in. I open them out and the large ones cut in half down a seam. Small ones I leave whole. I use them to chop all sorts of veggies on (if your cardboard becomes wet you just get a new cardboard). This saves me time (I didn't need to wash them). Saves money on electric, soap, and water.
The cardboard was going to be trashed anyway, I made it useful before it went in the trash.
I have a time saver kitchen hint. If you make boxed puddings that are the cook type, use your microwave to help. Put the required milk in a pyrex cup. Heat it to extremely hot. Stir the hot milk into the pan containing the mix. Turn on the burner and stir away. You don't have to be standing and stirring forever, the pudding starts to simmer very quickly. You have saved electric and you are not adding as much heat to the house (very helpful in the summer).
From other blogs here you know I have cats. My cat hint for the day: When you wash your litter box, dry it thoroughly and then spray with PAM cooking spray (not the one with flour). It prevents the clumps from sticking, helping the box to stay cleaner longer.
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New Blog about dolls.
blogs about the wildflowers on our farm
Organic methods we use, some cooking and some poetry
New Blogs about seed sprouting.
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