Fused plastic grocery bags tutorial!
What a great idea! Check the tutorial out here.
Vegiversary
Either today or yesterday is Shawn & my Vegiversary! We have been vegetarian for one year. Huzzah! I think I we should celebrate some how, but we have to find time. It’s summer, it’s busy!
Use the Bottom of a Water Bottle as a Juicer
Lifehacker blog had this post about a makeshift juicer with the bottom of a bottle. Handy!
Stuff we Love: Tom’s of Maine Peppermint Mouthwash
See all Oral Hygiene reviews at Expotv
Sushi
I love sushi since becoming vegetarian. I just like vegetable sushi so much more than fishy stuff (even when I ate meat). I do wish someone would make spicy veggie rolls though! Like a similar taste to spicy tuna, but use avocado or something.
Last Friday Shawn, Amelia & I had sushi at Maki Express. We ordered Bonsai Tree roll, tempura asparagus roll, tempura sweet potato roll, Inari & “No more meat” roll. Their rolls are a little small for the price, but they’re delicious. We shared them all except I didn’t have inari, I’m not crazy about it.
Now I want more sushi! I want to go on a sushi tour and compare all the local restaurants veggie sushis for size, price, choices, taste. I think it’d be a fun tour!
Wandering Willows
Please check out the post I made about the game Wandering Willows over at GameLuv.com. I’m obsessed!
vegetarian times recipes
Shawn & I have made several Vegetarian Times recipes in the past couple weeks. Not sure what got into us, we really hadn’t done many of their prior…at least that come to mind right now. My Dad bought us a subscription last June after we stopped eating meat, thanks Dad!
We made Baby Bok Choy and Shiitake Mu Shu Wraps , but we made this without mushrooms and just fried tofu. It was really yummy!! We also made Pepper Crusted Cashew Goat Cheese & a Tomato & spinach quiche from the latest issue. Those recipes aren’t on their site yet.
We made a pot of Cincinnati Style Chili with Smart Grounds and a packet spices. It turned out so good. I ate it everyday from Sunday to Thursday. Started with Cheese coneys, then chilitos at work, then just chili & cheese. We still have Chili, Smart dogs and buns, but no cheese. The spice pack doesn’t appear to have MSG either.
Tonight we’re going out to eat with Shawn’s co-worker to Kim’s Korean, our favorite! His friend has never had Korean food, so this will be fun! Tomorrow we’re visiting my family and eating at a veg friendly place called Christopher’s. We enjoyed it the last time we ate with them there.
I found a Boca lasagna that was great for a work lunch too!
13 Reasons why we must eat meat is pretty funny 
Email signature fine print + don’t print this email!
It cracks me up when I get the emails with fine print at the bottom. Here’s an example of one I have received.
“Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer does not consent to email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of the CompanyName companies shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. CompanyName companies are a member of CompanyName For more information on our business ethical standards and Corporate Responsibility policies please refer to our website at *deleted*”
Who would bother notifying the sender, as they say? hee har!
The other one I like is the guilt trip about printing the email. In my work, I print a lot of emails. I have to keep a paper trail for lots of the communication I receive. I don’t have a whole lot of choice about printing some emails. Here’s my favorite signature guilt trip I have seen:
“SAVE PAPER! Before printing this email STOP and think: is it necessary?”
I like to think that no one prints emails they don’t need to print, but I suppose this signature is speaking to the people who print needlessly.
We have recycling bins at work. When I started here I was excited to see they were recycling, but as soon as I expressed this I was told they don’t. The stuff from those bins goes in the garbage too. So I recycle! I bring in a reusable grocery bag and put all the junk paper I come across into it. On Fridays I bring it home & when we go to the recycling station Sunday morning, it goes too.
Video Gamers may find interest
Shawn & I also do the video game site gameluv.com. We branched off into podcasting successfully today. Check it out here.