If you’ve read a recipe in the newspaper and quietly wondered where you would find some of the ingredients, the New York Times has found a new way to solve that problem. They’ve partnered up with Chef’d, an ingredient-delivery service, to create a branded meal subscription that combines the convenience of having your dinner delivered with the cachet of the New York Times brand, yet the inconvenience of having to cook the food yourself. [More]
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Nike Exec Sees A Future Where Shoppers Could 3D Print Their Own Sneakers At Home
By 10.7.15
Making your own footwear at home won’t have to include cardboard, duct tape and those slippers you refused to throw out soon enough: A top executive at Nike says he thinks customers will someday be able to 3D print their own customized sneakers at home (or in Nike stores, for those without 3D printers at home). [More]
Girl Scouts Cookie Oven Is A Real Thing You Can Use To Stuff Your Face With Homemade Thin Mints
By 2.24.15
For many, Girl Scout cookie time is the most magical time of the year — the boxes come a’tumbling off the cookie wagon, bringing mouthfuls of sugary joy for as long as they last in the hands of greedy customers, and all is well… at least for a little while. But what if you could make your own Girl Scout cookies at home, no matter the season? [More]
Man Decides To Make His Own Kingdom So His Daughter Can Be A Princess
By 7.14.14
The only way to make getting your kid a pony seem like a yawnable event? Claiming a swath of land as your own kingdom, thereby turning your offspring into royalty. And heck, once you’re a princess, the ponies will come to you. [More]
You Can Make Your Own Aereo At Home, But Is It Worth It?
By 5.31.14
While cord-cutters around the country wait impatiently for the Supreme Court to make up its mind about the legality of Aereo — the subscription service that collects local over-the-air broadcast TV feeds and streams them to paying users over the Internet — we’ve been looking into what it would take to replicate something close to Aereo that couldn’t be shut down by SCOTUS. [More]
You Can Make Your Own Greek Yogurt At Home
By 5.5.14
If you like the texture and protein content of Greek yogurt, but don’t like the prices and want to avoid products thickened with milk powder, there’s another option that is often cheaper: make your own at home. No, we don’t mean fermenting your own yogurt from scratch, though that isn’t very hard either. Start with plain regular yogurt and strain it yourself, which somehow still costs less per ounce than buying a whole container of Greek yogurt. [More]
Don’t Order Last-Minute Flowers: Make Chocolate-Dipped Bacon Roses
By 2.13.14
Maybe your planned flower delivery is delayed. Maybe the nasty weather has you stranded at home and unable to head outside to shop for gifts to mark the holiday. Or maybe you have a package of bacon and some toothpicks sitting around the house and some time to kill. It doesn’t matter. You don’t need a justification to make bacon roses. You don’t even need a holiday. [More]
Make Your Own Candy Sprinkles At Home
By 2.7.14
I’m not a fan of candy sprinkles: to me, they taste like wax-covered blah. Are people like me consigned to a dull-sprinkle-free existence, though? No! Using a few simple ingredients, a pastry bag, and your choice of flavors, it’s possible to make your own sprinkles at home. [More]
Chicken Noodle Soup Taste Test Results: Just Make Your Own At Home
By 12.4.13
Our warm and comforting colleagues over at Consumer Reports taste-tested different brands of chicken noodle soup, and came to a conclusion straight out of this site’s comments section: consumers are better off taking fifteen minutes to make their own soup at home. [Consumer Reports] [More]
This Exists: Taco Bell Brand Make Your Own Choco Taco Kit
By 10.4.13
Have you always secretly dreamed of making your own dessert tacos at home? …No, neither had we, until Taco Bell turned it into an option available to every consumer, right on our grocery store shelves. Since today isn’t just Friday but also National Taco Day, you can celebrate by picking up this kit. But do you want to? [More]
How To Make Your Own Sidewalk Chalk At Home
By 6.3.13
Okay, so we’ve established that painting your own crosswalks is a terrible idea, but there are other ways to decorate your driveway and the street in front of your home. If you’re a kid, anyway. Or very eccentric. Chalk can get expensive, though, especially if your kid shares with the entire neighborhood. Is there a cheaper way to get it? Yes, there is. [More]
Make Your Own Automatic Pet Feeder With A Litter Bucket And A Pie Tin
By 4.16.13
Do you have pets who won’t eat an entire bag of kibble in one sitting? If so, your household might be a good candidate for an automatic pet feeder. What you might not realize is that you can make your own auto-feeder out of ordinary products that you probably have sitting around the house. [More]
4 So-Called "Essential" Cleaning Products You Can Ditch For Good
By 8.20.10
Chuck these four disposable “essential” cleaning supplies and replace them with these alternatives that do the job better, are cheaper, kinder on the environment and you can reuse or make yourself. [More]
How To Make Your Own Frappuccino On A Stick
By 8.19.10 — Updated: 6.3.13
The Starbucks Frappuccino is a refreshing, wonderful, caffeine-filled, and calorieriffic treat, but it has two major flaws. First, it’s quite expensive. Second, it doesn’t come on a stick. Fortunately, a contributor to Instructables has devised a Frappuccino-ish frozen espresso treat on a stick. Now it’s summer. [More]
Make A DIY Meat Smoker Out Of Some Flower Pots
By 6.30.10
Meat smokers are expensive, but apparently you can make one that works just fine out of some unglazed terra cotta flower pots and various other cheap and readily available supplies. When you’re done, remember 5 out of 7 Consumerist editors love BBQ. [More]
