When baking, toss a few potatoes or winter squash into the oven, or cook a pot of rice alongside. You’ll save energy and generate leftovers.
Category: Food and Drink
Inside Out Bags
In the bulk bins at the natural food store you’ll find scoops or tongs to put the bulk food into plastic bags. There’s an cleaner, easier and faster way to get the food into the bags. Turn a bag inside out and wear it like a glove. Grab a handful of the food in the bin, and then turn the bag inside out. The food will be in the bag, you never touched the food in the bin, and never had to struggle with the scoops and tongs.
To Drink More Water
Food: Trying to drink more water? Try adding a few drops of fresh lemon juice to the water. The water will become far more appetizing. However, the water will spoil, so drink it soon after adding the lemon juice.
Cleaning Plastic Dish Drainer
Can’t get your plastic dish drainer clean? Place it in your dishwasher with the soap and vinegar. It’ll get really clean. You can disinfect your sponges, brushes, and other hard-to-clean items the same way.
Cleaning Sinks
Cleaning the sinks: Sprinkle some baking soda and salt in the sink and mix a few drops of dishwashing liquid and scrub. Rinse it with white vinegar to freshen the drain.
Oil Your Bowls
Oil your mixing bowls before mixing batter, and you’ll find the bowls are much easier to clean. Oil measuring cups before measuring molasses, honey and other sticky liquids.
Chopping Salad
The fastest way to reduce lettuce, spinach and other greens to salad-size pieces is to simply chop the leaves with scissors in the salad bowl.
Getting Children to Eat Vegetables
How do you get them to eat enough vegetables? One way is to make the vegetables unavoidable. Chopped up broccoli makes a nice addition to hamburgers. A bit of kale in a fruit smoothie tastes great. You can mix lots of small bits of spinach with scrambled eggs. Sweet rice with salad bits is still sweet rice. Rice with salad bits, and other treats, like diced ham, is even better. Start with small quantities, and add more veggies as time goes on.
Words for Drunk
According to the “Guiness Book of World Records,” there are as many as 2,241 synonyms for the state of being “drunk.” How many can you list? Seriously, how many can you list? Go ahead and leave your synonyms for ‘drunk’ in the comment area below. When we have enough of them, I’ll publish the list.
Tipsy
Smashed
Wasted
Plastered
Sloshed
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Hammered
Buzzed
Sauced
Pickled
Inebriated
Humorous
Swimming in gin
Feeling no pain
Seeing double
Having a chat with the floor
Danced with Dionysus
Holding onto walls for dear life
On a liquid diet
In the bag
Turned into a karaoke monster
Brain marinated in whiskey
Regional Slang
Trollied (UK)
Langered (Ireland)
Maggoted (Australia)
Bladdered (UK)
Pished (Scotland)
Off your face (UK)
Rotten (New Zealand)
Arseholed (UK)
Munted (NZ/Aus)
Paralytic (UK)
Obscure or Old-Timey
Three sheets to the wind
Well-oiled
In one’s cups
Pie-eyed
Half-seas over
Stewed
Blotto
Tight
Juiced
Tanked
Medical or Formal
Intoxicated
Under the influence
Experiencing ethanol impairment
Exhibiting symptoms of alcohol toxicosis
Impaired judgment
BAC elevated
CNS depressant activated
Alcohol-positive
Neurologically uninhibited
Liver-challenged
Animal Inspired
Drunk as a skunk
Buzzed like a bee
Soared like a bat
Waddling like a duck
Sloshed like a fish
Stumbling like a newborn foal
Rabid raccoon energy
Eyes like a barn owl
Mooing like a drunk cow
Oinking through karaoke
Vehicle or Mechanical Metaphors
Off the rails
Spinning the wheels
Out of gas, full of wine
Clutch slipping
Running on booze fumes
Leaking oil
Headlights off
In a tailspin
Crash landed
Shifting without a clutch
Food and Drink
Marinated
Pickled
Fermented
Soaked
Battered
Breaded and deep-fried
Drenched in spirits
Whiskey-braised
Wine-glazed
Beer-battered soul
Descriptive Phrases
Not walking a straight line
Lacking vertical loyalty
Speaking in slurs
Laughing at nothing
Red-faced and rambly
Brain swimming
Senses foggy
Volume at 150%
Emotional and confused
Loosened tongue
Mythical & Magical
Hexed by hops
Elven-wine drunk
Wizard-whiskey whammied
Goblin-mode activated
Cursed by ale
Under the mead spell
Dragon-breathed
On a unicorn bender
Satyr-influenced
Bacchus-blessed
Literary & Poetic
Drenched in dusk-colored wine
Floating on amber tides
Mind adrift in barley clouds
A symphony of slurred syllables
Thoughts swimming through molasses
Smiling through fogged glass
Drunk on stars and bourbon
Lips dripping poetry and vodka
Slurring through Shakespeare
Marooned on merlot shores
Modern & Internet-Inspired
Glitched out
Lagging IRL
Buffering badly
Full emoji mode
TikTok stumble star
Drunkposting
Podcasting from the floor
Autocorrect in real life
Streaming sideways
IRL screenshot fail
Visual Metaphors
Blurred like an old TV
Candle in a wind tunnel
Cross-eyed at the moon
Eyes in disco mode
Face in Picasso formation
Seeing with beer goggles
World on spin cycle
Legs on spaghetti setting
Lights on, everyone partying
Jello-legged
Music & Sound
Volume maxed
Singing off-key with confidence
DJ Vodka took over
Echo chamber in the brain
Doing the two-step on one leg
Waltzing with wobble
Speaking jazz
Soundtrack: chaos
Dissonant monologue
Karaoke heroics
Pop Culture References
Tony Stark at a press conference
Homer Simpson after Moe’s
Bridget Jones on a breakup night
Jack Sparrow swagger
Stumbling like a sitcom dad
Ron Swanson, but on wine
Tyrion Lannister level
The Hangover: live edition
Thor after mead
Wario cart driving
Situational
Clinging to a lamp post
Talking to a fire hydrant
Arguing with a pizza
Hugging strangers
Crying at commercials
Dancing with shadows
Toasting to no one
Walking like a crab
Singing to an ATM
Laughing alone in the mirror
Objects & Elements
Liquid lightning inside
Whiskey-tornado brain
Fog-machine internal
Corked up emotions
Glass full of bad ideas
Carbonated decisions
Wine-slick soul
Firewater madness
Bubbly brainstorm
Iceberg-level tipsy
Surreal & Absurd
Cheesed and confused
Moonwalking through molasses
Astronaut without gravity
Talking in cursive
Wearing invisible roller skates
Brain on vacation
Internal earthquake
Rodeo of regrets
Wobble-dimensional
On a first-name basis with gravity
Clever Wordplay
Chardonnay-shay
Gin-giggled
Cognac-comatose
Tequila-vision
Vodka-vaporized
Rum-rattled
Brew-boozled
Ale-ments of confusion
Martini-mushed
Scotch-guarded memory
Just Plain Weird
Emotionally sticky
Conducting invisible orchestra
Body on shuffle
Stomach singing show tunes
Conversing in whale
Napping while standing
Flirting with chairs
Horizontal ambition
Sense of time: melted
More spirit than man
“Drunk Father,” by George Bellows
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Large Chicken Egg
The largest chicken egg ever laid weighed over one pound (450 grams).
Best Diet
Science and common observation have proven time and again that a low-sugar, natural, mostly vegetarian diet gives you the most energy, longest life and most mental clarity. Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian, and was known not only for his intelligence, but for his strength. People used to come from miles around to witness his physical demonstrations.
There are obstacles in learning to eat well. It is difficult to eat with less-well informed friends. There are few restaurants that cook with good ingredients. However, if you can eat well for a couple of months, you will feel a transition occur. You will actually seek out the good food by choice. Sugar and salt become less important automatically, and after a while, you will no longer seek them. You will start to feel a confidence when conversing with friends about food, and maybe even help them to eat better and live longer. Soon you will feel a pride in knowing that you have done something good for yourself, and will learn that you can more easily make the major changes you want.
For more information on how to enjoy eating well, see the Keto Food Chart.
Mind Your P’s and Q’s
A long time ago in an English pub, someone told the bartender to mind his P’s and Q’s. What he was saying was to keep out of the customer’s business, and mind his own businesses, which was inventorying P’s (pints) and Q’s (quarts).
Potatoes and Aphrodisiac Qualities
There was a time and place where plain old potatoes fetched over $1,000 per pound. Until the mid 16th century, Spaniards had never seen potatoes and for a while it was assumed that they had aphrodisiac qualities.
Early Chewing Gum
In the 1850’s, some people used to chew paraffin wax the way we chew gum today.
No One Would Consider Eating An Orange
Oranges used to be popular in England as decoration, much as gourds are today. At that time, however, no one would ever consider eating an orange!
Cats and Beef
An American house cat eats more beef per year than an average person in Central America. Guess where much of the beef is grown? Right, in Central America.
Preservatives
Because of our modern diet of food preservatives, undertakers have been noticing that dead people do not deteriorate as fast as they once did.
King Henry VIII
Worst Diet
King Henry VIII of England, long known for his many wives and culinary gluttony, died at age 56, probably from scurvy, a condition of dietary deficiency. It was fashionable in his time for wealthy people to eat mostly meat, and very few vegetables, because ‘vegetables were for peasants.’
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