Posted by: lambeaulady on: December 26, 2008
Kitchen Companion – Features & Benefits.
Kitchen Companion’s Top Features
| The smart way to manage your kitchen. Kitchen Companion includes the portable scanner and software in one box — everything you need to track groceries, nutrition, and recipes, automatically, with your PC or Mac. |
| Scan, Connect, Shop. Keep the scanner in your kitchen, scan groceries as you throw them away, then connect to your computer when you’re ready to shop. Print off a list and you’re ready to go shopping, or send the list to your iPod, Palm or Phone. |
| Send to iPod, Palm, or Phone. Shop smarter with an iPod, Palm OS-based device, Treo, or Bluetooth-enabled phone? Send your scanned shopping list to your portable device so you can’t forget it. |
| 300,000 reasons to shop smarter. Kitchen Companion features an integrated, 300,000 barcode database of grocery items — the average grocery store has just 35,000. It’s the ultimate, keyboard-free time saver. |
| Track quantities and locations. Kitchen Companion keeps tabs on you product purchasing history, and knows where you keep your items — so finding the right spice is a quick search away.. |
| Create a base inventory. Kitchen Companion lets you choose how you want to organize. You can simply use the scanner to build virtual shopping lists, or keep an inventory for scan in/out flexibility. |
| Integrated USDA Nutrition Database. Kitchen Companion has a built-in Nutrition Browser, making it easy to find the nutritonal value of thousands of foods. You even get a standard Nutrion Facts label.. |
| My Recipes stores your favorites. Kitchen Companion’s integrated recipes database stores your recipes for reference, then provides a color-coded viewer and Full Screen recipe browser. |
Posted by: lambeaulady on: December 22, 2008
“18 Top Tips for Buying Used Clothes” (GetRichSlowly.org)
A fantastic personal finance blog, GetRichSlowly.org, has an excellent post “Embracing the Thrift-Store Ethic: 18 Top Tips for Buying Used Clothes”. The author’s article, J.D. (who is also the founder and owner of the website) states at the beginning that, “if the national media is any indication, more people are embracing the notion of buying used clothing from thrift stores and consignment shops.”
And J.D. also notes that you can find more than just clothes at thrift stores. “If your budget is pinched,” he writes, “they’re an excellent place to find furniture, to pick up kitchenware, and even to find inexpensive entertainment. A large part of my personal finance library has been purchased from the local Goodwill (for about $3 per book).”
Here are the headlines for the first five (of 18) tips listed, but you should click through to see the full list, as well as the excellent commentary associated with each:
1. Set a budget.
2. Discard your prejudices.
3. Go with a friend.
4, Try things on.
5. Examine each item thoroughly.
via “18 Top Tips for Buying Used Clothes” (GetRichSlowly.org).
Posted by: lambeaulady on: December 22, 2008
Posted by: lambeaulady on: November 12, 2008
| Day 1 in Week | Target | 20 |
|---|---|---|
| Food | Points | Count |
| Coffee with coffeemate | -3.5 | 16.5 |
| Fruity Cheerios with skim | -3.5 | 13 |
| PB Jelly on white | -3.5 | 9.5 |
| Pear jello cup | -1 | 8.5 |
| LF Pringles | -3 | 5.5 |
| Pork tenderloin | -3 | 2.5 |
| Rice | -3 | -0.5 |
| Snap peas | -1 | -1.5 |
| Sprint 8 Elliptical 20 mins | 2 | 0.5 |
| Total: | 21.5 | |
| Weekly points used: 5 – Remaining: 30 – Overall: Great Day! in Week | ||
Table provided byRoni’s Food Journal Generator.
Posted by: lambeaulady on: November 10, 2008
Posted by: lambeaulady on: November 2, 2008
Monday: Electronics, Kids clothing and stationary (Cards, gift wrapping paper, etc.).
Tuesday: Domestics, women’s clothing, pets and Market (food items, etc).
Wednesday: men’s clothing, toys, lawn & garden, health and beauty items.
Thursday: House wares, lingerie, sporting goods, shoes, music, DVDs, books and luggage.
Friday: Auto, cosmetics, hardware, and jewelry.
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Posted by: lambeaulady on: November 1, 2008
The Ingredients.
–1 pound lean ground beef, browned and drained
–1/2 large red onion, chopped
–1 cup carrots, chopped
–2 celery stalks, sliced
–2 cans (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes (and juice)
–1 can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
–1 can white beans, drained and rinsed
–4 cups beef broth (check label for gluten!)
–1 jar (16.5 oz) pasta sauce
–2 tsp oregano
–1 T Tabasco sauce
–1/2 tsp salt
–1/4 tsp black pepper
–1/2 cup dry pasta, to add at end of cooking time (I used TJ’s brown rice fusilli)
The Directions.
Use a 6 quart or larger crockpot, or cut the recipe in half. This makes a lot.
Brown the meat on the stovetop, and drain well. Let it cool a bit.
Chop up the carrots, onion, and celery. Add it to the empty crockpot.
Drain and rinse the beans, and add them. Add the whole cans of tomatoes, and the pasta sauce. Add the beef broth. Add the salt, pepper, oregano, and Tobasco sauce. Stir in your meat.
Cover and cook on low for 8 hours, or high for 4. When the vegetables are tender, stir in the 1/2 cup of dry pasta.
Cover and cook for another hour on low, or until the pasta is tender. It will swell quite a bit.
Serve with a bit of parmesan cheese if you have it.
Posted by: lambeaulady on: November 1, 2008
Yipee! I finally did it, the first time EVER. Sean made a good point as we were waiting in the hour long line – it’
Posted by: lambeaulady on: October 29, 2008
Posted by: lambeaulady on: October 29, 2008
via Simplify shopping with kids by taking pix for the “wish list” | Parent Hacks
My standard response to my kids’ pleas of “Can we buy this?” is: “Put it on your wish list!”Michelle’s simple hack takes it a step farther:
Shopping with kids is never an easy task. The kids are always begging for this or that. To quiet this I let them take pictures with my phone of what they want to ‘put on their wish list’. w\Works like a charm every time!
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