This time of the year I’m freezing the last remnants of my garden. I still have some tomatoes, peppers, squash, and cabbage growing in my garden. One thing I say I’m going to buy every year is a vacuum seal system to use when I’m freezing my fruits and vegetables.

I’ve been looking at the FoodSaver® Vacuum Sealing System with SmartSeal™ Technology. It sounds fairly technical, but looks fairly easy to use. I think it would also be great to use when I try to do once a month cooking and put some extra meals in the freezer for later.
The latest …read more

So, once you commit to getting your kitchen remodeled, you suddenly realize that there is a lot of prep work involved. One of the biggest chores is probably sorting and packing your pantry. For this week’s Tidy Tuesday, I am involved in helping someone else do exactly that.
First up was going through every item and sorting it into one of three piles:

Expired
What was I thinking when I bought that?
Keep

The keep pile was neatly boxed up and labeled and then placed in a dry area out of the way. The What was I thinking pile was sorted into “Doesn’t Alice eat …read more

I’ve been using the Tetra Water Wonders 1.5 gallon aquarium for a single Betta for almost a month now. Overall, I’m happy with my purchase. I paid around $23 for it at Target, but it’s available at other retailers as well.

I’ll cover the annoying stuff first.
Dislikes/Considerations:

Part of the promised goods were missing. The box says the kit comes with water conditioner and fish food. Those two things were missing from mine. I contacted Tetra and they sent the food and water conditioner. However, I was deceived by the photo on the box. I thought I would get a bottle of …read more