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How To Get Cheap Meals At Popular Restaurants

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You can get excellent cheap meals for less than $5 -- some for as little as $3.99! Here are the best ways to get cheap meals at popular restaurants.

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Kitchen Chopper Reviews ~ Find The Best Food Choppers

These are the best food choppers on the planet. Just check out the reviews! One or more of these kitchen choppers may be just what you need to put that professional touch to your next gourmet dinner.

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Everyday Uses For Kitchen Shears & Reasons To Use ‘Em Instead Of Knives

Why risk using large ultra-sharp knives when a good pair of kitchen shears are better, easier, faster, cleaner, and safer?! What's YOUR favorite way to use kitchen shears?

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Yes, Quick Healthy Meals Are Possible Even When You Have No Time To Cook

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With these tips, quick healthy meals can be served up at home -- even when you have no time at all! Plus, there's a video that demonstrates some products that can make it even easier.

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VIDEO: Proof That Bottled Drinking Water Is No Better Than Tap Water

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As seen in this video, it's a proven fact that bottled drinking water is no better than tap water. Here are all the reasons you need to stop wasting money on bottled water.

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How To Get Rid Of Fruit Flies Using Homemade Fruit Fly Traps

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Fermenting fruits, fruit juices, and similar sweet things attract fruit flies to your kitchen. To get rid of fruit flies, you need to eliminate their food source: moist garbage combined with fruity foods. Try these homemade fruit fly traps!

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How Restaurant Menu Design Affects What You Order & How Much You Spend

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See how restaurants use fancy techniques to trick you into ordering what they want you to order -- the highest-priced, highest-profit items on the menu. Here's how to turn the tables on the restaurants by understanding the basics of restaurant menu design before you order!

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Nutrition Labels Hide Bad Facts Behind Confusing Numbers

Buying / GrowingHome & Garden

It's hard to trust nutrition labels when they hide bad facts with confusing numbers. Serving sizes can be ridiculously small just to make it look good in the percentages. Making your own nutritional labels for food that you prepare at home is the best way to get a handle on what you're eating and the foods' nutritional values.

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How To Plant Your First Organic Vegetable Garden

Buying / GrowingHome & Garden

Whether you pick a small spot in the backyard for a vegetable garden or you try container gardening, here are some tips for getting a successful harvest from your very first organic vegetable garden.

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Best Fried Chicken Recipes & Restaurants With The Best Fried Chicken

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A collection of the best fried chicken recipes that you can make at home: pan fried chicken, oven fried chicken, deep fried chicken, and more!

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Superfood You Should Be Eating (…If You Want To Be Healthy & Live Longer)

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A superfood is one that provides multiple health benefits when it is included in your diet. Superfoods are often overlooked. This video will introduce you to many superfood items from around the world.

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Oh No!… You Don’t Make These Restaurant Dining Mistakes, Do You?

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You will enjoy your restaurant dining experience even more if you can avoid these 10 common mistakes that restaurant goers frequently make. Plus, here are some mistakes when dining out with children that you don't want to make either.

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Sugar & Sugar Substitutes Both Have Health Issues You Need To Be Aware Of

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Is sugar really that bad for us? Aren't sugar substitutes better? We explore these questions, while touching on the most popular artificial sweeteners used today. Here are 20 things I bet you didn't know about sugar and sugar substitutes!

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Fun Facts About Franchise Donuts I Bet You Didn’t Know

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When you need your daily fix of fresh warm donuts, you can find all you care to eat on virtually every corner, thanks to numerous franchise donut shops in the U.S. Want to make some extra money? As a doughnut lover, you might even think about opening your own donut concession stand!

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Chocolate Dipped Crickets & Other Unusual Chocolate Covered Foods

Fun Food StuffHome & Garden

Chocolate dipped bugs -- including chocolate covered crickets and chocolate covered grasshoppers -- are the latest food sensation that everyone's buzzing about. Here's where to buy them, and ways to make some unusual chocolate dipped foods yourself.

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3 Ways That Dark Chocolate Benefits Health: It’s A Superfood!

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Chocoholics rejoice! There are 3 new reasons that dark chocolate benefits health enough to raise it to superfood status. Finally, the chocolate bar with almonds is recognized for all of its health benefits.

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Reasons To Avoid Food Products From Factory Farms & Try Organic Instead

Buying / GrowingHome & Garden

Do you know where the food you ate today originally came from? Chances are most of the food you eat comes from factory farms. Here are some reasons to consider buying organic food, or growing your own. It's healthier, among other things!

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Side-By-Side Comparison: Do Restaurants’ Frozen Dinners Taste The Same At Home As They Do In The Restaurants?

Your favorite sit-down restaurant may offer frozen versions of the same meal. Find out from this video how well restaurants' frozen dinners measure up when compared to the same meals served inside the restaurants.

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