February is a short month, but it always seems like a long time to get through it. The weather is unpredictable, but the crafts are fun.
Here’s what we did last month at SuzerSpace!
To Remember
Teeny Tiny Tip: Lunch
Quick, tasty lunches for work used to be a challenge.
I’d look for the best prices on frozen entrees, but they tended to either be good but expensive or cheap and disapppointing. And almost all of them seemed high in carbs and sodium.
Those cups of instant mac ‘n cheese seem tempting, but they also fall into the expensive and high sodium camp.
My solution is to do a batch cook on Sunday afternoon of one type of meal. Once it cools, part it out into 5 or 6 lunch-serving sized zip bags into the freezer. If you do this every other Sunday, and vary the meals you make, you end up with a variety of freezer entrees to choose from on days when dinner doesn’t yield nice leftovers. It’s also good in a pinch on a weeknight when you are starving and just don’t feel like cooking.
I don’t have a big deep-freeze. I just pack the bags flat to take up less room. And it isn’t really very time consuming – I have a couple of easy meals I make that don’t require much hands-on time, so I can craft while they cook.
And the math ends up as amazing – this box of maccaroni and cheese was 29 cents. To make it a more interesting meal I added lentils to the water as it was boiling before adding the noodles and then added a bit of a low-sodium taco season packet when I made the cheese sauce. With the addition of the lentils, this made six lunches.
Sunday Scrolling: February 26, 2017
- I didn’t even know this kind of fabric paint existed. Definitely want to try a project with it.
- As a papercrafter, I’m probably going to make my own version of this, but their ideas are great and would make a great gift even if you didn’t want to DIY.
- Sitting hunched over a keyboard all day isn’t that great for your body. Take a few minutes and undo some of that damage.
Sunday Scrolling: February 19, 2017
Looking for a little happy this week – here’s what I found:
- Handy with Scissors has a great pen holder craft.
- Via swissmiss – A guy in Philadelphia filled a crack in the road with sprinkles.
- Mia the Beagle didn’t win the agility competition this year at Westminster. But she won every dog owner’s heart.
Teeny Tiny Tip: Folded Plastic Bags
Just about everyone has a bag/box/drawer full of plastic bags from the grocery store. And there is no denying they have a seemingly endless list of uses (dog pick-up bags and trash bag liners for small trash cans are my top two).
But storing them in that tangled mess is not great.
Fortunately, if you ever went to fourth grade and played flick football, you already have a solution. Or we can call it origami and sound much more upscale! 🙂
Flatten out each trash bag and fold it in half so the loops line up.
And fold that in half again.
And then start folding in a triangle from the non loop side.
Twist the loop over the finished football shape and you are done. A pile of these takes up much less space than a pile of squished up bags.
