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--To sharpen your disposal blades, periodically toss a handful or two of ice in the disposal and run the disposal with minimal water until it runs smooth.  To clean and freshen, throw all of your citrus peels and grind them.

--To make buttermilk, put 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar (distilled or cider) into a measuring cup, then add milk to the 1 cup level.  Let sit for 5-10 minutes, and you'll have buttermilk.
I never keep buttermilk around, but this way I have some for biscuits or pancakes if I decide to make it at the last minute.

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Steel is harder than ice – you’re not sharpening your blades. HOWEVER – that’s how I clean my garbage disposal and gets rid of smells.

+1 on the buttermilk tip

Pound chicken breasts flat before cooking – when it’s all the same thickness, it cooks more evenly and you don’t end up with an overdone side and a under cooked side. To keep raw chicken juices from going everywhere, put plastic wrap above and below the breast and get the sides to stick together. Make sure your plastic wrap is much bigger than the chicken.

To not cry when chopping onions, put the onions in the fridge for 20 min before chopping. But I really just keep my onions in the fridge. I use them all the time, so they’re never in there for more than a few days.

Frozen veggies are as nutritious as several day old fresh veggies. I only go grocery shopping once a week – early in the week we eat fresh veggies, later in the week we eat frozen. Took some trial and error to determine which veggies are still yummy when frozen (ex - stir fry mix, broccoli, peas, spinach)

To keep Tupperware from flipping in the dishwasher, weigh it down with tongs or a spatula. We always have a few of them in there anyway.

To more easily roll out pie crust, do it between wax paper. The wax paper will peel right off w/o messing up the thin pie crust and it’s much less messy than flouring the counter top.

For easy to peel eggs, steam instead of boil. Google it. Changed my life.
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