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Sure, coffee grounds can be useful around the house, but what about tea? Better yet, what about used tea bags? Save money by using tea and leftover tea bags to clean and deodorize your home. You can even use tea to dye your hair naturally. Tea lovers: here are nine awesome ways to reuse your […]
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Instant Pot chili is what you make when the classic chili cravings are strong but time is short. It’s what you make when you still want your chili to taste like it simmered on low all day, but you didn’t have time to get the slow cooker going before work.
If you’ve got an hour to make dinner, from start to finish, and your heart is set on a pot of meaty beef and bean chili that tastes like it cooked all day, skip the stovetop and pull out your electric pressure cooker — everything you desire in a bowl of chili is waiting for you at the end of the Instant Pot rainbow.
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Ah, pizza. The universal language. It’s an easy, fast, and unanimously beloved way to end the day. While you can get a hot, fresh pie delivered to your door with a few taps on your phone, it can be even more fun (not to mention delicious) to make it at home.
And before you say that it never turns out as well as one that you order from your favorite pizza place, we can help with that! We asked some experts for their must-haves for the best at-home pizza experience. And good news: You don’t need all that much.
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When babies start to eat solid foods, watch out. Parents go from “Aw, look at the cute face she makes when she eats a pea!” to “How did you get spaghetti on the ceiling?” in no time at all. And while keeping kids and kitchens clean often feels like a losing battle, a good bib can save you a lot of baths and loads of laundry.
These are some of the best baby bibs on the market, according to moms of super-messy kids.
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I’ve been in meetings with the woman who did lunges in the corner while the rest of us sat around a conference table. I’ve watched a guy lift a kettlebell he kept under his desk every time he took a phone call. There’s nothing wrong with any of that. But not everyone works in a space where that would realistically fly. That said, frequent movement is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It’s the base of the Primal Blueprint Fitness Pyramid for good reason. So, if you’re stuck in cubicle land all day or can only get away for a few minutes at a time, what are some more “covert” ways to fit in some movement in your work day?
The stairwell (if you have access to one) can become an office gym for simple walking or sprints, but add a little imagination for some extra benefit.
Try walking the stairs while carrying something heavy, like a box of printer paper. If your office has gone exclusively electronic, maybe it’s a box of tablets or something. Or a willing co-worker (or, for a tougher workout, a non-willing co-worker).
Switch it up: Skip a step or two as you climb, turning a simple loaded stair walk into a walking stair lunge. Change how you hold the object, too – overhead with two hands, overhead with one hand, in the front rack position, on either shoulder, out in front of you.
Stair Jumps
Plyometric exercises like box jumps are great, but jumping down from the box as many times as you jump onto it can do a number on your joints if you’re not careful. By using the stairs, you’re never jumping down. You’re always going up. That makes it harder (for your muscles, stamina, etc.) but easier (on your joints and connective tissues).
Switch it up: Try single leg jump, single leg landing; single leg jump, double leg landing.
If you’re stuck at a desk for longer stretches of time, you still have options. Engage your glutes and raise yourself up in your chair by about an inch, so you’re just hovering over the chair in a squat position. Hold that squat for as long as you can. Passers-by will just assume you’re furrowing your brow because you’re working so hard. They’ll never suspect that you’re exercising.
Switch it up: Do it single-legged. Lightly, slowly, almost imperceptibly bounce up and down.
Even though it sounds like it wouldn’t work, voluntarily contracting your muscles as hard as you can and holding it can increase strength and size. In a 2013 study, researchers asked trainees to do the following training regimen: hold your elbow at a 90 degree angle and flex your biceps and triceps as hard as you can for four seconds followed by four seconds of rest; do this for 5 sets of 10 contractions, three days a week for 12 weeks. After 12 weeks, trainees had increased extension and flexion strength and added 4% to the size of their biceps and triceps. You don’t have to make this your sole workout routine, but it wouldn’t hurt to do a few contractions during downtime just to keep your muscles primed.
Switch it up: Try doing the same with your legs.
Yep: just stand up. Stand up from your chair and sit back down. Do it a couple more times. Do it again in two minutes. Stand up at least once a minute. There are many ways to do it. The important thing is that you work against gravity on a regular basis. It’s not hard, and you don’t have any real excuses not to. So stand up. Often. It’s probably more effective to do this throughout the day, rather than do a single set of 50 stand ups.
Switch it up: Stand up with one leg, sort of a mini one legged box squat.
This one is obviously an exercise that might elicit attention from those around you, but the results of a recent study were so compelling that I’d say it’s more than worth the gawking of coworkers. Researchers took two groups of office workers with frequent neck and shoulder pain and had one group do resistance band shoulder abductions (video here) for two minutes a day for 10 weeks. The control group merely got health advice for fifteen minutes a day over the same period. In the exercise group, complaints of neck and shoulder pain dropped by 40%, while strength increased by 6%. No such effects were seen in the control group.
Switch it up: No band? Do isometric abduction contractions against the desk using the same arm/shoulder position.
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We write a lot about Costco (because most of our readers love it!), but we realize that not all of you are members. Maybe you’ve been reading all of our recent stories, though, and you’ve been really considering joining in. Should you? If so, which membership should you get?
Keep reading to figure out what’s best for you.
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This recipe came out of my desire for a pizza sauce that’s nearly as easy as buying a bottle of the pre-made stuff but tastes a hundred times better. It’s bright, fresh, and comes together in seconds. The secret is a couple of pantry ingredients and one item that absolutely deserves a spot in your pantry.
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When fresh turmeric started appearing at the local produce market here in San Francisco, it was a revelation worlds away from the powdered stuff in the cabinet. The many uses of this root are only starting to really be discovered in my kitchen, but experimenting comes at a high cost: difficult-to-remove stains on my fingers. Fresh turmeric ranges in color from pale gold to screaming orange, and it’s not the most flattering look. In addition to staining your skin, it also has a nasty habit of adding peach tint to fingernails.
(Note: These methods work for powered turmeric stains, too!)
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By now you’re probably very familiar with the fact that cauliflower is a magical ingredient. It no longer languishes on a sad crudité platter, waiting for some poor soul to dredge it through too much Ranch dressing to mask its rather bland flavor. It was a couple years ago that I first saw people turning cauliflower into rice or pizza crust, and then it became used as a base for mac and cheese and mashed “potatoes.” In other words, cauliflower can be transformed into anything if you believe hard enough. It’s kinda like tofu in that way.
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