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When my fellow Pinterest junkies and I think of weekly meal prepping, we think of cute, glass rectangular containers with snap-on lids and neat rows of fitness-friendly clean eating food, like rice, diced sweet potatoes, perfectly sliced chicken breast, and steamed vegetables. While this is a super fun way to eat, and I will never hate those of us organized enough to pull off cute meal prepping, for most of us, this isn’t practical. First, we’re feeding a lot of people, and at least some of them are picky eaters (or selective eaters, as Katie likes to say!) who make...

How to reuse old things. Are you taking this old ice tray to the trash bin? And these old sneakers too? Please, don't - old things can have amazing new uses. Or you can sell this seemingly useless stuff online and earn a fortune! So if you're looking for repurposing ideas, we got something interesting for you. Did you know, for example, that a simple piece of paper you don't usually hesitate to throw away can be sold for thousands of dollars several years later if it's related to some important event, for example, a remarkable baseball match? You can...

For those of you who have been reading since I was pregnant with Sam, you may recall that I use a really easy, no-fuss approach to stocking our freezer. The idea of doing a mass shopping trip and spending a whole day preparing freezer meals is just really overwhelming to me. So instead, I simply duplicate (or triplicate or quadruplicate) any meal we’re already having for dinner and put additional sets in the freezer. This not only allows me to use up extra ingredients that might otherwise go to waste; but over time, I build a really solid freezer stash...

Thanks for joining us for Cookware Week! In case you missed it, we shared our favorite cookware sets, accessories, and kitchen appliances, plus intel on how to care for all of it, and the best recipes to make with every piece. Ever struggle to line a circular cake pan with parchment paper? There’s an easy way to do it and have it fit perfectly every time! There’s also an easy way to line a small square pan with parchment, without dealing with wrinkly corners, and a few tricks for preventing rolled parchment paper from curling up on your sheet pan....

For those of you who have been reading since I was pregnant with Sam, you may recall that I use a really easy, no-fuss approach to stocking our freezer. The idea of doing a mass shopping trip and spending a whole day preparing freezer meals is just really overwhelming to me. So instead, I simply duplicate (or triplicate or quadruplicate) any meal we’re already having for dinner and put additional sets in the freezer. This not only allows me to use up extra ingredients that might otherwise go to waste; but over time, I build a really solid freezer stash...