While meal prepping over the weekend is a great way to ensure you have lunches to pack through the week, things don’t always go as planned. Sometimes Sunday gets ahead of you and you realize you’ve got nothing to bring. Don’t worry! You won’t have to resort to buying lunch all week if you turn to these quick recipes. They require minimal ingredients and can even be pulled together in the morning before you head out the door.
Snake plants, also know as mother-in-law’s tongue or sansevieria, have become increasingly popular, and rightly so. With their striking lines and hardiness, they’re the houseplants even black thumbs can show off. They also act as air purifiers to improve your home’s air quality.
Here’s how to keep them happiest.
It’s no secret that we love a smart storage solution. A storage solution that looks smart too? Well, we just lose our minds over that kind of stuff.
And so explains our current obsession with YAMAZAKI home. Do you know the brand?
My mom taught me how to arrange flowers, negotiate the purchase of an antique rug, and wear a black turtleneck year-round. I taught her how to shop for groceries. And recently, her lesson moved on from regular grocery stores to one of my favorite places to hunt for specialty foods: HomeGoods.
My mom claims visiting the store feels like “shopping in our basement,” which refers to the mishmash of furniture, clothing, and knick-knacks you have to sort through before you find the thing that was worth the work it took looking for it. But catch me in the right mood and I’m thrilled by the prospect of wandering those aisles only to emerge with all kinds of delicious things to cook with or eat.
My mom joined me on my latest trip and these are the tips I passed along.
We all have different standards of how we wish to maintain our homes. But sometimes, no matter how good our intentions and how hard we try, we just cannot keep on top of our spaces the way we’d like to.
Here are some reasons you might be getting stuck, and some fixes to help hoist you out of the rut.
Unlike the grocery store, I typically show up to the farmers market without a list in hand. While I have an idea of what’s in season and what vegetables to expect, I stick with buying what’s fresh and looks good at the moment. Then comes the fun (and sometimes overwhelming, tbh!) part of deciding how to turn it into dinner. From pasta and stir-fries, to salads and casseroles, here are 25 easy recipes to turn your produce into dinner.
Vanilla ice cream doesn’t have the best reputation in the frozen dessert world. For starters, it’s an insult to call something “vanilla,” as the suggestion implies that whatever you’re referring to is essentially boring AF. Now we are about to add insult to injury with some cold-hearted facts: Nearly one in five store-bought vanilla ice creams doesn’t even contain vanilla, according to U.K. consumer insight organization Which?. Even worse, they don’t contain fresh cream or milk either — hallmarks of what actually constitutes ice cream.
At this time, we’d like to take a moment and channel our inner Ina Garten to say that sometimes store-bought is not fine.
I remember reading a list once about the top 25 cardinal sins of interior design homeowners make, and situated somewhere near the top was having fake plants. Fast forward to the present, when designers and influencers seem to be advocating for artificial flora with increasing frequency.
Is it true? Have fake plants turned the corner from faux pas to fashionable?
I will be the first to admit that I do not drink enough water during the work day. It’s not for lack of good intention — I start the day strong, but by mid-morning I slowly start falling off track. I’m certain that the culprits (okay, excuses) are the same ones that plague you (i.e., not getting up from my desk enough to refill my glass, forgetting to keep a glass on my desk, or when I do, simply forgetting about it).
No more excuses! Here are seven easy ways to drink more water during the work day (and stick with it!).
Those little tools, utensils, and gadgets in your kitchen drawer somehow add up to quite a large sum of money. Ten bucks on a pizza cutter here, 12 on a grater there … before you know it, you’re spending hundreds of dollars stocking (or restocking) a single drawer.
Luckily, some companies — like Brandless and Tobox — are hoping to help you change that, selling all sorts of kitchen gear for just $3 a pop. See, these two sites cut out the middlemen (read: stores) by selling their products directly to consumers. They also keep costs low by having little to no advertising budgets. So, we thought we’d do our part to help get the word out about Tobox (we’ve written about Brandless before).