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1		When you buy food (like nuts or berries) that comes in a ziploc bag, after using up the contents save the empty bag to dispose of food waste for a day or two, resealing it to prevent odor. This really reduces bad smells and bugs.	E-mail
2		Bananasicle: Freeze a banana to eat like a popsicle, but much richer, tastier, and healthier.	E-mail
3		Like fish and meat shops, vegetable shops could have counters to clean, cut, and package vegetables bought by customers. Saves time at home and may actually increase the consumption of vegetables.
4		Trans fats contribute to heart disease that may kill several million people a year. Food product manufacturers should be required to put the amount of this fat on food labels.	E-mail
5		It would be useful to have a vacuum packing option at fresh food shops. Keeps food longer.
6		To save time in the kitchen: grind in a (mini) food-processor large quantities (separately) onions, ginger, garlic etc. Put in clean glass bottles and just cover in good (light) oil. Refrigerate. Use as needed and don't add any oil while cooking.	E-mail
7		Colored salt. That way you could see how much salt you put on your food.	E-mail
8		Chinese food is worldwide, except Chinese dessert, like almond cream, sesame shakes, or azuki sundaes with condensed milk. Sell them in big city, where people are willing to try something new. If you try this, please e-mail me. (restaurant,cafe,recipe)	E-mail
9		Encourage the growth of health conscious takeaway food shops, independent or as a part of the supermarkets, to save time on cooking at home every day.	E-mail
10		To help poor people who can't afford the high price of staple foods, we can reduce food prices by cutting demand for food. Let's all eat less rice and other grains and especially less meat, which requires much grain to produce.	E-mail
11		Women who might have children should eat enough folic acid (200 micrograms/day) before and during early pregnancy to prevent neural tube defects, a common type of birth defect.	E-mail
12		Instead of buying products made by huge multi-nationals, actually let free-trade work and seek to buy products made in poorer countries and shipped direct to our stores. Cutting out the middlemen will help the poor producers more. Examples: tea and coffee	E-mail
13		To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stovetop, or add soap and a little water to pan before it cools.	E-mail
14		If your milk flow stops due to a clogged duct during breastfeeding, try holding a warm hard-boiled egg on the site to warm and loosen the clog.	E-mail
15		"Sour Stardust": like Pixie Stix but sour, similar to the sour sugar shaken off from the bottom of a bag of Sour Skittles or Sour Patch Kids.	E-mail
16		Instead of fuel wasting thick-walled pressure cookers with lids needing to be locked on, we can use much thinner-walled cookers with variable weight pressure-liftable lids, to save fuel and preclude excessive pressure build-up and vessel bursts.	E-mail
17		Hamburger gravy: Brown 1 pound ground beef with onions and diced green peppers, salt, pepper, and 1 beef bullion cube, add 1 can mushroom soup, heat thru, serve over canned biscuits or instand mashed potatoes. Yummy!
18		Pressure cookers have fixed mass weights for the pressure release valves. These should be replaced by a set of 3 detachable weights to allow low, medium and high pressure cooking as necessary, depending on the food being cooked, to save fuel consumption.	E-mail
19		When washing dishes in your dishwasher, use white vinegar in the rinse compartment instead of those expensive rinse solutions. The dishes would never be more clean and they would actually squeak.	E-mail
20		To get kids to eat healthy food, feed them only healthy food from weaning: diced or pureed vegetables or fish fillet cooked with rice & extra water (congee), raisins for dessert (never junk food), tiny bread pieces for breakfast (never cereal).	E-mail
21		To keep your refrigerator smelling fresh, put a cut piece of lemon inside the fridge. This reduces the bad odors.	E-mail
22		Almost 80-95% of the fuel used in conventional cooking, even with pressure cookers, is wasted. Most of this can be avoided by using thermally insulated cooking vessels or by transferring the vessels to insulated boxes once boiling point has been reached.	E-mail
23		If you buy a $3 lunch from school every day, pack your lunch for one week every month and become a $19/month St. Jude Children's Memorial Hospital sponsor. This is a simple way to save a dying child's life.	E-mail
24		Produce and market high protein quick meals for the niche market of bodybuilding. There are many supplements available out there, but food is better for you than a supplement. Email me for more info.	E-mail
25		For a simple dessert, slice 20 dates, 10 gms. almonds & grind 4 cardamoms. Boil 1/2 lit. milk & add 200 gms of sugar, the dates & almonds until it thickens. Add the cardamom powder just before taking off-heat. Serve cold with raisin & cherry dressing.	E-mail
26		Sugar that floats so that it doesn't sink to the bottom of the cereal bowl, but would melt in hot coffee.	E-mail
27		Clean Indian fish dishes: Select flaked fish pieces eg. Mackerel, Ling, Cod etc. Marinate in salt and chilli powder over night. BBQ (medium). Prepare a gravy (U like) from a recipe book. Add fish. Cook for 5 minutes. Eat with rice.	E-mail
28		After making a cup of tea or coffee, add an ice cube to cool it faster so that you can drink it.	E-mail
29		For a simple dessert, cut a mango or melon in half, and put a scoop of ice cream in the middle.	E-mail
30		Why not have a new mode of slimming? Donate the money you save on food while dieting/fasting to any site of choice, e.g. freedom from hunger or thehungersite.com	E-mail
31		Try cooking meals that were popular in ancient times. A huge number of recipes can be found here. They include Egyptian, Native American, Roman, and more!	E-mail
32		A battery heated ice cream scoop.	E-mail
33		Stir and boil a cup of milk with 4 spoons of sugar, 2 cardamoms, & 6 crushed cashew-nuts until it's thick. Then cool it. Slice apples & oranges. Sprinkle on a pinch of rock salt. Pour the milk over the fruits just before serving. Dress with mint leaves.	E-mail
34		To open the caps of a new jar, I put a rubberband around it for a firm grip. Putting a little extra torque than usual opens the cap easily. This is my own original tried and tested trick you can use.	E-mail
35		Take several polythene plastic bags, punched with holes, when you go vegetable shopping. Put your vegetables into these bags to save time when you get back, where you can straightaway wash them (the water drains off) and store them in the refrigerator.	E-mail
36		Place sticky (honey, syrup, molasses and oil) containers on plastic lids in the cupboard or fridge to avoid sticky messes.	E-mail
37		To peel garlic cloves quicker, microwave them first for 10 seconds. They pop out of their skin instantly.	E-mail
38		When cooking crab, take off the back shell first. Cut the crab in half, and gut the crab. Then cook it in well seasoned water. Taking out the guts first makes the crab far sweeter. Then use the shell to make the crab look whole in presentation.
39		12345 Chicken recipe: Mix wine, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, water in the proportions 1:2:3:4:5. Chop chicken into pieces with cleaver, and simmer in mix, stirring occasionally, until thickened. Easy to remember: 12345 WSVSW. Email me if you try & like it!	E-mail
40		Opening brand new jars can be a feat in itself. Instead of banging a jar with a knife until it loosens up, just put the cap into warm water (only the cap) and keep on testing it until it opens.	E-mail
41		To bake potatoes quickly, place them in salt water for 15 minutes before baking.	E-mail
42		A delicious way to enjoy a mango is peeled and sliced, with the strips laid in a peanut butter and orange marmalade sandwich on whole grain bread, warmed slightly by microwave. I often eat this for breakfast.	E-mail
43		Peel and squeeze a mango to separate the seed. Then add some yogurt and some sugar and shake well. Add some ice cubes before serving!	E-mail
44		Mango milkshake: Prepare juice from pieces of mango fruit. Add milk in 1:1 ratio along with sugar to taste. Mix it thoroughly. Add a pinch of crushed cardamum. (Note that usage of milk with mango prevents possible loose motion in some cases.)	E-mail
45		To avoid crying, cut the onions into two parts and place them in water for a few minutes before chopping them.	E-mail
46		To prevent formation of ice, rub table salt on the insides of your freezer.	E-mail
47		Develop a gadget to fit the domestic pressure cookers to make good coffee. First steam should pass through the coffee powder and then hot water through the steamed coffee powder to get your coffee.	E-mail
48		Sell a leveling device (anything with a straight edge) with measuring cups and spoons.	E-mail
49		To prevent natural peanut butter from separating into oil and solid, invert boxes of the bottles weekly in factory, warehouse, and store, or sell quickly like perishable items. At home, store upside down to help mix it.	E-mail
50		This is not a new idea, because the Hebrews used to glean food. Sort of like a community garden where people who need home grown vegetables can go pick their own. Fits in well with a barter-based economy.