If you have an invite to a wedding and are going as a guest, then it’s considered appropriate to bring a wedding gift. I’ve updated this older article for 2024 to include issues including the rising costs of wedddings, as well as the onus on guests and their gift choices. That process can be quite …
Is it time to replace your old blender with a new one? Should you toss it out or try and fix it? Well, if you read enough about blenders online you’ll soon see that the common consensus is that you should always replace them. It’s not worth it trying to repair a blender—with some rare …
Of all of the kitchen appliances that you could get, a blender is probably the best gift. It’s even better than a food processor which was normally considered the best “kitchen style” gift. The reason why blenders are a good gift, even better than food processors, is because more people like smoothies and it’s even …
Larger isn’t always better when it comes to blenders. There are plenty of reasons why you would want to buy a smaller blender. It’s not always necessary to spend money on a large and pricey blender. Some people need a large blender but that’s not everyone. What I’m doing here is reviewing what you …
If you love to make coffee at home, then at some point you’re going to want to grind your own coffee beans. You get fresher coffee, and it’s cheaper than having coffee ground at a gourmet coffee supply boutique. You can find great organic coffee beans everywhere now: BJs, Costco and even supermarkets will …
The question seems to come up a lot. In fact, I’ve covered coffee beans and blenders before in recent blog posts. People seem to wonder if they can use a blender to grind coffee beans. Why? Well, not that many people own a coffee grinder. These items aren’t expensive, but they are not common. …
You don’t always need to make a large pitchers worth of a power smoothie! Sometimes you only need a single serve size. And it makes sense from a financial perspective. Making a large batch of green smoothies or fruit smoothies, will add up over time. If you are constantly making large smoothies in your blender, …
When blenders first were introduced to the home market they all has glass blending jars. This was a common design in early model blenders. But overtime most blenders have become designed to have plastic blender jars. Is this a decline in design standards or is it an improvement? Well, there are some people who hate …
When it comes time to make a smoothie, should you add ice or are the smoothie ingredients enough? Well, it depends on what sort of smoothie you want to make. If you’re someone who is making a protein smoothie, then often times you can skip the ice. But that depends on what sort of …
So after years of posting about smoothies, and healthy fruit drinks, I had a lot of friends ask me: what about alcohol? Why don’t you cover frozen drinks with alcohol or discuss what type of blender to buy for that? Honestly, because I’m not a big drinker. So, it wasn’t something that I was …