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Warm up a fruity jam, add some hot pepper flakes, and serve this over cream cheese for a deceptively elegant appetizer

To clarify: If your compost begins to smell bad, you need to add browns. If it isn’t composting fast enough, you need to add greens.

So, I spent $12 to make a compost bin from a 32-gallon latch tote and it only took about 15 minutes. This is the easiest DIY ever. 1. Drill 6–12 holes in the bottom of your bin, then drill a few holes in each side. 2. Then, put the lid on the bin to provide a little bit of stability. Finally, drill another half dozen or so holes in the lid of the bin.

Cheese freezes well, but you should expect it to crumble instead of slicing when it thaws.

When you feel like you require less, in turn you are happy with less.

One of the most certain ways to destroy your budget is to eat food prepared by other people