Because most of us spend the majority
of our time indoors, NASA conducted a
Clean Air Study to determine which
common houseplants are the best for
filtering harmful toxins like ammonia
and formaldehyde from the air.
**Please note: Several of these plants are known to be toxic to cats, dogs and other pets. If you are a pet owner, please do check the toxicity of plants before introducing them to your home.**
, Ok, so I know a lot of yall out there are fresh to adulting, and actually going to the grocery store is like….a lot. I remember just kinda….wandering around grabing random stuff and ending up with a lot of junk at the end and no real meals.
So here’s a basic guide of how to do it.
1. Start your list with stuff that doesn’t need recipes.
These will be your fast breakfast/pre-made meal stuff.
I divide my shopping lists into: Produce, Meats, Fridge/Frozen, Spices and Shelved. So this might look like:
2. Pick out some easy recipes.
We’ll do 3, just to see how this looks. Depending on how many dinners youre making at home/storage space/etc, you may have more or less. There’s tons of recipe websites out there. They are free.
Once you’ve been cooking a while, you’ll find that you have lots of recipes you want to repeat. I recommend printing these out.
3. Ok, so now, double check the serving sizes on your recipes and add the ingredients to your shopping list, one recipe at a time.
4. The next step is to take this list into your kitchen. Is there anything you already have and don’t need?
So I already have salsa, soy sauce, canola oil, and cheddar cheese. Don’t need to rebuy those!
5. Now you can print this out and go shopping.
Because we’ve arranged the list this way, you should encounter the items you need roughly in order. Just check them off when you find them.
Just to add to this a little.
Stuff to always have in your kitchen:
– Salt
-Pepper
-Red pepper flakes
– Rice. Dry rice is magical. Easy, cheap, and calorie dense.
– Canned chicken/veggie stock (use it to make your rice. I’m not kidding)
– Boxed stuffing, mashed potatoes, canned green beans. These are easy sides that take 0 time and effort and can really fill out a meal.
-I honestly really recommend Slim Fast shakes or similar meal replacement shakes. They often last forever, are really easy on your stomach if you are sick, and have enough calories to make up a meal if you just don’t have the time/energy to make something bigger. The vanilla ones are the best if you ask me.
Some additional pantry stables
-vegetable oil (very useful if you are cooking things in a skillet or don’t have nonstick baking pans)
-beans (last for a long time, very cheap, and you can easily make rice and beans)
Good additions!
Also Meals you can generally make with stuff you have laying around:
Stir Fry: Any veggies you have (Fresh is best. frozen is fine. Canned generally works if you drain and rinse them first.) oil + soy sauce over rice.
Quesadilla: Tortillas + Cheese of some kind + any filling that might be good? (salsa, bell peppers, beans)
Ramen+: Ramen noodles + an egg (I like it fried) + a slice of lunch meat ham or turkey + red peper flakes or hot sauce
Pasta time: whatever pasta you have + butter or olive oil + red ppeper flakes + salt. Add sausage or veggies if you have them.
Honestly fried egg + anything is pretty good. Fried egg + avacado? Perfect. Dash some hot sauce on and you’re perfect-er. Fried egg + rice: excellent. Add soy sauce. Fried egg + toast is great. Fried egg and cheese? Lazy omlet. I’d add salsa. Fried egg and refried beans? Throw that on a tortilla. Fried eggs level up anything.
Planning out your meals like above is generally cheaper than having lots of just generally usable stuff on hand (especially fresh veggies. If I don’t have a plan for them, they tend to go bad.) But it doesn’t hurt to have some “oh crap I don’t have time to go shopping, what is in my pantry” fallbacks. Don’t starve. Please don’t starve.
recuva – accidentally deleted something in the recycling bin? recover it back with this program!
speccy – tells you the specs of your computer, among other things
defraggler – defrag the SHIT out of your hard drive and clean it right up
This is a great post what makes it even better is that most of these you can get from Ninite which will download and install the latest versions of all available software ALL AT ONCE without you having to worry about adware or the annoying clutter (toolbars, changing your default search engine) that sometimes comes with their individual installers. So, yeah. Have at it folks.
If you’re like me and constantly running low on space because you are never deleting old files and have no clue what is taking up all of your space then this is for you. It scans your hard drive and shows you which files are taking up space, what kind of file they are, and where they are located so you can easily take care of them.
Example (not mine):
It’s a life saver!
As someone who’s well acquainted with open source applications, I’m surprised Abiword isn’t on this list.
And for reading ebooks and even comic books, there’s always Calibre. It sadly isn’t on mobile, however.
Here’s a free video editor, as well; I’ve never done any video editing so I can speak on if it’s any good, but here it is regardless. It’s called Kdenlive and it’s a project of the same people who made the above Krita.
And obviously there’s always the option of ditching Windows altogether and using Linux :^)
London-based student Lewis Hornby is a grandson on a mission. When he noticed that his dementia-afflicted grandmother was having trouble staying hydrated, he came up with Jelly Drops—bite-sized pods of edible water that look just like tasty treats.
Each of these colorful “candies” is made up of mostly water, with gelling agents and electrolytes making up just 10% of their composition. Available in a rainbow of colors and presented in packaging reminiscent of a box of chocolates, Jelly Drops are an easy and engaging way to avoid dehydration—a common problem for those suffering from degenerative neurological diseases.
“It is very easy for people with dementia to become dehydrated,” he explains. “Many no longer feel thirst, don’t know how to quench thirst, or don’t have the dexterity to drink.” With this in mind, Hornby set out to find a solution. In addition to seeking advice from psychologists and doctors, he opted to “experience” life with dementia himself through the use of virtual reality tools and a week in a care home.
Once he was familiar with what dementia patients need, he brainstormed what they want. “From my observations, people with dementia find eating much easier than drinking. Even still, it can be difficult to engage and encourage them to eat. I found the best way to overcome this is to offer them a treat! This format excites people with dementia, they instantly recognize it and know how to interact with it.”
Case in point? Hornby’s own grandmother’s reaction: “When first offered, grandma ate seven Jelly Drops in 10 minutes, the equivalent to a cup full of water—something that would usually take hours and require much more assistance.”
Second of all, I’d like to remind everyone that Jell-o counts as a fluid.
That is, many doctors prescript Jell-o, and Gelatin treats to children and adults who, for whatever reason, have trouble keeping hydrated. Maybe they have jaw issues. Maybe dementia, or they are on a fluid-only diet and drinking broth for weeks is mind-boggling boring.
Jell-o brand in particular has a lot of sugar added to the packets, however it’s quite straightforward to buy plain gelatin and make low-sugar jelly blobs to snack on for that sweet fruit-pop of hydration.
Soo~ Here we goooo~
2 cups juice – Orange juice, grape juice, whatever you want.
Fuck, you could even use your favorite blend of tea, or coffee (though coffee,
in my experience, needs a little more gelatin to set properly)
Low heat until juice is hot, but before it starts to boil – once
you see a bit of bubbles rising, add 2 tablespoons gelatin, and stir gelatin into hot
juice until totally dissolved.
Turn off heat
Add another cup and a half of juice (or whatever), stir for
another minute or so, then pour into a mold.
You could pour it into ice cube trays, a Tupperware container,
or any sort of silicone candy mold.
Cover it, stick in the fridge overnight, and viola~
Bite-sized taste snacks, full of water.
Gelatin is broken down very easily and put to use once in
your gut, so it’s fine to eat loads of it, and otherwise you’re just taking mouthfuls of juice… or tea or
whatever.
If you want it a bit more sweet, feel free to add sugar or honey to your hot juice… or hot…whatever…
I was pondering about the guy’s electrolytes worked and now I’m paralyzed with the idea of turning Gatorade into jell-o.
Don’t use pineapple juice for this!!! The enzymes break down the gelatin and you’ll be left with soup.
Right on, forgot about that! Kiwi, Pineapple, Figs, Ginger, Guava, and Papaya have an enzyme that flips the bird to gelatin.
Apple, Grape, Strawberries, Orange, Cherries, Blueberries, Blackberries, Lemons, Peaches, Raspberries, and Cranberries all make great gelatin snacks, though.
an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks
the scarlet ibis
marigolds
the diamond necklace
the monkey’s paw
the open boat
the lady and the tiger
the minister’s black veil
an occurrence at owl creek bridge
a rose for emily
(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)
the cask of amontillado
the yellow wallpaper
the most dangerous game
a good man is hard to find
some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15
add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma’am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”
wHat did I just put my eyes on
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned
and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.
Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.
An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)
Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger
The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.
Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.
In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.
I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.
i scrolled straight to the bottom of this post to reblog it and save it for later, but i cannot BELIEVE with so many replies, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” is the bottom-most addition
y’all didn’t even add a tutorial of how to do this so imma put one right here
1. type in cmd.exe into your windows search and right click on Command Promt search result and select “Run as Administator”. 2. Type/Copypase in
net.exe stop “Windows Search” and make sure Windows Search is in quotations. It should then respond saying “The Windows Search service is stopping” and then tell you it’s stopped.
This is only a temp fix though, if you want it switched off permanently then do THIS:
1. Press the Windows key + R at the same time and type in services.msc.
2. Scroll until you find Windows Search and double click it to enter its Properties window.
3. Change the Startup type to Disabled. Apply this change and you can exit out.
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