Show-And-Tell Saturday: Ten Pin Plan Report

If you remember back to the 16th of this month (or look back if you have to), I came up with my 10 Pin Plan. This was a list of 10 pins I was going to test over two weeks and then I'd report to you today on the successes, failures, and in-betweens. I've been working hard to get all the pins done and I'm excited to share the results with you! 

So, in the order that these pins got done, I give you my Ten Pin Report: 

Pin Report #1:

http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2009/07/crockpot-italian-chicken.html

My friend made this recipe way before I did and said that it was so salty that they had to throw it away. It sounded so good from the recipe though that I still wanted to give it a try. So I did. The recipe calls for 1-2 cans of cream of chicken soup. I figured that was where a good amount of the sodium was coming from, so I did half Cream of Chicken and half Cream of Mushroom soup (I don't find Cream of Mushroom to be as salty as Cream of Chicken). I knew that would change up the flavor some, but if it made it so we could eat it, that was fine. I do know that some brands of Cream of Chicken soup have a higher sodium content than others as well, so when you're making this, take that into consideration. Another thing we did, following a tip in the recipe, to cut back on the salt and to thin the sauce/gravy down to a more preferable consistency was to add some milk.

In the end, the flavor was good and it wasn't unedibly salty. You definitely didn't need to add salt, but it wasn't inedible. It reminded us of a mix between the gravy for Hawaiian Haystacks and cheap alfredo sauce. It really wasn't a bad meal at all, just not one of our uber favorites.
I thought about taking a picture, and I probably should have...but really it looked about like the picture (only we had ours on rice, not pasta). It's just a cream sauce with chicken. Another picture would kinda be overkill. That's how it looks. 

Pin Report #2:

http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/04/how-to-clean-your-top-loader-washing.html

Again...I didn't take a photo. Partly...I didn't think to take a before shot, so it doesn't do much good to show you the after shot as you won't know the drastic improvement. But...this works fantastically. It's not uncommon for me to forget a load in the washer and have to rewash it because it went sour. After enough times of doing this, along with the general grime build up, my washer looked and smelled less than pleasant. Not something you want to put clothes in to try and get them clean. Now, my washer smells so nice and fresh, the clothes came out smelling fresher than they have for a while, and it looks so clean and wonderful! This was really easy to do and it's made a difference in my washer and laundry. I'd recommend it!

Pin Report #3

http://www.ohnuts.com/blog/cinnamon-bun-pecan-pie-recipe/

This one I do have pictures for. I decided that I wanted to do the apple pie in the cinnamon roll crust because apples were on sale and it just sounded yummy. I had this pinned to test the crust out anyway. So I followed the directions to put the cinnamon roll style crust together. The directions said you can use pre-made crust, or make your own from scratch, so I turned to my trusty pie crust recipe (it really is simple and really yummy). I did a double batch of pie crust dough for the bottom so I would be sure to have enough and it ended up being perfect. It really was easy to put the crust together, the directions are simple. Here's what my crust looked like after getting it in the pan:

Then, this is the recipe I used for the pie. I'm not normally a huge apple pie fan, but I love this recipe and it's so easy. Cut up the apples, put the lattice top on, and then you make a caramel sauce and pour it through the lattice. SOOOOOoooo yummy and easy. For the lattice top I rolled out the plain dough, then spread some melted butter, cinnamon, and sugar on top. I then smooshed the dough back together gently (because you don't want to mix it too well), and rolled it out again to get a sort of cinnamon/sugar marbled effect going on. Then I cut my lattice strips and put the top on. Here's the pie right before going into the oven:

And here's the finished product!

So we know it looks cool, but what about the taste? Let's just say that I will forever do my apple pie crusts like this now. It's adds such a subtle but yummy yumm yummy flavor to the pie. And I apparently didn't get the bottom crust flattened as thin as I thought so I ended up with a thicker crust (which I LOVE) that is extra yummy to eat because of the cinnamon in it and the pie filling soaked in. This one is WELL worth the time it takes to make it. MMMmmmmmmm.


Pin Report #4

http://www.dumpaday.com/random-pictures/funny-pictures/funny-picture-dump-of-the-day-54-pics/

This one was hilarious. I drew the eyebrows on my nephew right before my baby shower started and then let him ham it up during the shower. His facial expressions were hilarious. But anytime I pulled out the camera, I got this face:


My sister and I tried and tried to get a good reaction when I had the camera out and he just wasn't going for it. But it was hilarious just watching him during the baby shower. Here are the 5 best shots I got of him during the day:

So this one is hilarious...but catching the hilarity "on film" may be another issue.


Pin Report #5

http://www.thesmallthingsblog.com/2012/10/casual-half-up-hair-tutorial-polka-dots.html

I have been waiting since last August to have my hair long enough to pin up, pull up, ponytail, leave down, etc., and finally it is reaching a doable length. But now that it's long enough to put up...I just don't know what to do with it. I've had this hairstyle pinned for a while now. Most half-up, half down do's make me look like I'm 11, but this one looked like a more grown up version of the half up/down do so I thought I'd give it a try. It looked simple enough. After getting the layering and texturizing my thick head of hair needed (thanks Em!), I knew it was time to try this out. From bed head to this do it took me about 20 minutes. That's brushing out my hair, giving it a light curling job, and then following her instructions. Here's what I ended up with this morning:

It really did go up pretty simple. I think I have thicker hair than Kate (the lady from the pin), but I was able to make it work and my layers were just long enough for this. Because I have a ton of hair, I ended up using about 8 bobby pins in the back to hold the hair in place. So the actual assembly of this do was pretty simple and doable. Then I decided I wanted to see how it held up during a day of laundry, dishes and sewing (don't you love the days where you get to play catch up because you've been gone all day every preceding day of the week?). Here's how it looked at 4 pm (6 1/2 hours later):

It's held up remarkable well. I don't know how it'd do out on a super windy or rainy day, but not many hair styles withstand that very well. But, for shopping, social events, church, etc., this would work out great! Yea for a new do!

Pin Report #6

http://www.sevenelles.com/tutorials/day-3-the-coolest-spot-in-the-house-just-became-even-cooler-fridge-coasters-tutorial/

So I've had this pinned to do for forever. I thought it looked genius. I was hoping to just use what I already had at home to keep this cheap. I didn't have placemats, but I did have non-adhesive shelf liner. But when I pulled that out this past week, I realized it wouldn't work. It wasn't smooth top liner, it has built in holes. Like this:

So I could put that down on the shelves, but any liquid or anything would just flow through the holes to the shelf and then I'd have the liner and the shelf to clean. No thanks. Luckily I thought ahead and then measured the shelves before I want to Wally World. My fridge is the normal upright kind with the freezer on top and the fridge on bottom. Which means the shelves in the fridge are wide. Wide enough that they don't make placemats that big. I thought about doing a few placemats side by side, but I imagined them shifting around, spills going in the cracks and under the mats and then stinking. It just wasn't going to cut it. So then I thought about a tablecloth, but to get one that would work well was more than I wanted to spend on fridge mats. So I scrapped this project. I did try, but it just isn't really all that feasible in my fridge. If I had a side-by-side fridge with more narrow shelves, this would work just fine I'm sure. 

Pin Report #7

http://www.agirlandagluegun.com/2012/03/oh-walti-love-you-aka-disney-printables.html

It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to do this, and then I came up with an idea I loved. I have this ceramic "canister" on the kitchen window sill above the sink. We use it to hold our scrub brush. It's handy, but it's not the most beautiful thing:

So I thought I'd paint it with that ceramic paint I used on my mug garden project (update on that...it's going great! One succulent died. That's when I realized I'd forgotten to water them for a while...oops), but the other 3, including the bamboo, are thriving. I got out my light blue and started painting away. After 2 coats of paint, and not enough paint left in the bottle for a third coat, the canister looked like this:

That wasn't going to cut it. I just couldn't get the paint smooth with any kind of brush/sponge, and there wasn't enough paint to give it a thick enough coat that the original color didn't show through. So...that idea had to be scrapped. Luckily that paint washes off super easy before you bake it so I was able to just wash off the blue paint and restore the ceramic back to the gold/brown it originally was. 

But that left me still with an unfinished project, and I was bound and determined to make this one work somehow. I rummaged through my art supplies and found a 5x7 scratchboard that I hadn't used yet and decided that was it. So I got on the computer and played with fonts until I found what I wanted. I ended up with this "picture":

I printed it, covered the back in graphite, taped it to my scratchboard, and used a pencil to trace the letters and transfer the graphite to the scratchboard. Then I scratched away and this is what I ended up with:

I figured since it looks chalkboard-ish I'd put it by the awesome chalkboard piggy Em and Camille got me for my Birthday. And, it's right at the entryway to my kitchen which is where some of my least favorite chores happen (and I carry the laundry through there to get to the utility room...so I'll see it when I do laundry too). Plus, it helps hide our internet box, so that's happy too!

Pin Report #8

http://theseamery.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/fit-to-a-t-baby-romper-tutorial-part-2-making-the-pattern-and-cutting/

I went through my t-shirts, picked out the 5 I wanted to use, and came in eagerly to read the directions before jumping into this project. As the only garment of clothing I've ever made is a simple skirt, I wasn't sure what some of the terms meant and, I'll be honest, I was a little intimidated by the tutorial. So I looked around on Pinterest and found a similar idea that seemed much more along my confidence lines (perhaps doing one of these more simple patterns will give me the confidence to try this romper pattern). 

So, here's the pin that I switched to:

http://thismamamakesstuff.com/tutorial-rockin-baby-gown-t-shirt-refashion/

Their instructions were decently easy to follow, just pay attention to the words and the pictures. Here's what I ended up with after about 2 hours of work on it. That includes printing the pattern, cutting the fabric, sewing, a snack break, and running back and forth between the dining room table where my sewing stuff was set up and the living room where the computer is to read the directions. Now that I know how it works I'm sure these'll be super quick and easy to pump out. 

Pin Report #9

http://askannamoseley.com/2012/02/getting-rid-of-that-boy-smell-in-the-bathroom/

Well, I did this. My bathroom doesn't smell lemony at all. It just now smells like vinegar and pee. Maybe I'm missing somewhere else where the pee smell is coming from? I scrubbed the toilet, I got the floor all around the toilet. I got the wall/cabinet by the toilet. And I still just smell pee. Where else could little girls get pee?!

Someone commented on my Mix-It-Up Monday post when I said I was going to do this that "Lemon juice and vinegar are both acids, so soda should fizzle when you mix it with the lemon juice; when the reaction is finished, there is no way for it to re-fizzle when you add more acid." The baking soda did fizzle when I added the lemon juice, but I was able to get it into a pancake batter-esque consistency, so I figured I'd just keep going. I let it sit for the 15 minutes it required, and then sprayed vinegar on it. It did fizzle again when I sprayed the vinegar on, so there was enough soda left in the paste to still do the work with the vinegar. But my bathroom still smells like pee. Either this didn't work or I've got some other pee problem area. Blech. 

Pin Report #10

http://www.thecampuscompanion.com/party-lab/2011/10/21/aurora-drink/#.UjdiOcaTiqg

I'm sure this is the one you've been waiting for. And I saved it for last, bwahahahaha. We had some nasty-gram comments (which we didn't publish because of the profanity content, as the disclaimer in our comment box says) saying we were dumb for thinking that galaxies would show up. I know the galaxies are photoshopped into the picture. But that's part of what we're showing. The directions of the pin do say this though: "it is a drink that is pink in natural light, but glows aqua-marine in black-light." So, the idea of testing this pin was to show that, yes, the galaxies are shopped in, and to see if the color change happens with the pinned caption containing the non-alcoholic drink (someone else will have to test the alcoholic version). 

I mixed up the drink (doing 1/9th of the recipe because it's just the two of us and if it was nasty I didn't want to have gallons of this on hand). So what did we find out? 

The mixed up drink under normal light:

Pretty and delicious looking!

The mixed up drink under a black light:

No galaxies. No aqua-marine glow. 

The taste? Kinda weird. Not one we'll be remaking. 

So I don't know if we need a more powerful or high-tech black light, if it was the non-alcoholic version that just didn't work, or if this never actually works...but it definitely didn't work for us. 


So there you have it! My 10-Pin Report. I actually didn't know if I'd get through all of them, so I'm feeling rather proud of myself right now. It helped that I knew I was going to have to report to you all...so thanks for that pressure! I hope you all have a great final September weekend! Hooray for Fall!!

Dyed Memory...

So...in the spirit of New Mexican politics, today I'm keeping the post all in the family and giving them preferential treatment because I just get to do that. :)  My younger sister Carolyn submitted a Pinstrosity that she ended up with when she tried an activity from the blog about baby/toddler playtime activities that another one of my younger sisters writes. 

I am the oldest child and got married first, but 2 of my younger sisters soon caught up, got married, and passed us in the "family development" department and I now have 3 nephews between them. This has worked out great for me because for once I don't have to be the pioneer. I get to watch what they do and learn from their adventures in kid-land! My sister Diedre has a degree in Early Childhood Education and started a series on her personal blog about what kids learn from various playtime activities. We all convinced her that she should start a separate site/blog specifically about these activities and it has been fun to watch her build the site, add the activities, and to learn what these activities help babies/toddlers learn from just normal playtime activities. My sister Carolyn has used some of those activities with her 2 boys and I'm sure I'll use some with Merle when he comes along. Carolyn was looking for something to do to entertain her oldest boy (2 yrs old), and turned to her Pinterest boards and found one she had pinned from Diedre's Playing to Learn blog and decided to try out this activity:

The Original Pin:

http://weplay2learn.blogspot.com/2013/04/rainbow-spaghetti.html

Rainbow Spaghetti! For eating, for playing, for discovering. She had read through the directions when she first pinned it and figured she could recall the process from memory. She did pretty good, but got two steps jumbled together instead of keeping them separate. The instructions say to boil the pasta with food coloring, adn then afterwards add some oil to keep the noodles from sticking together. Carolyn added the oil while the noodles were cooking instead. She said, "So I separated the pasta into thirds, added a few drops of coloring, red, blue, and green, and about a half tablespoon of oil.  I started to mix it together and the color didn't spread very well.  The problem was that the oil kept the color from spreading well."

The Pinstrosity:

So the coloring process didn't work real great, but she forged on anyway. After the pasta was done cooking and half dyeing, Carolyn says she "mixed all the colors together in my large pot, and placed it on the floor.  It took a minute or two for Wyler to get in there and play with it.  But when he did the spaghetti was flung across the kitchen floor. No big deal, vinyl floors are easy to clean... except picking up angel hair spaghetti, that is a little oily isn't the easiest.  Especially when a two year old empties the pot before you can put a handful back in the pot.  So now my floor is nice and oily.  Next time I am going to put a sheet down first.  Keep the oil mess contained better, and I can shake the pasta off into my compost pile."

So this was a great activity for Carolyn and Wyler...they both got to learn, lol. Most of us on here are guilty of just winging a project we read the directions for way back sometime...and sometimes it works out and other times we end up having to improvise or throw away. But that is part of the learning process, and there's nothing wrong with it. I end up having to improvise quite often, but I have learned some great new things to do (and things not to do) that I wouldn't have learned otherwise. I know there are some of our readers who are driven batty when someone wings it, but personally I think it's a great part of life to be able to explore, exercise our brain, and adventurize. I'll probably wing things my whole life. Now, I'm not saying throw out the instructions every single time...trust me, I love a set of well written instructions. But sometimes you just have to deviate a little. Are you not the wing-it type? That's okay. We like you just as much as we like the wing-it lovers. We all have our own method of learning, discovering, and creating.

I hope you all have a great Thursday! I'm off now to get my house ready for Diedre, our Mother-in-Law (Diedre and I married brothers), and my nephew to come visit for a few days. Mostly that just means making sure I put away my craft paints and Cameron's knives out of Erik's reach. It's liking going on a treasure hunt through my house, hahaha.

No Heat Curls...Will We Ever Learn?!

It's Tuesday!! Look alive people! The week has just started!

 

 

With that being said its that time of year again, school time! School has just started (or is about to start) for everyone and that means that all inevitable morning rush. Now all you in the working world know what I am talking about, that rush that have you have due to sleeping in just 5 minutes longer everyday that will either make you or break you. It either gives you that boost you need to get through the morning or you are just completely thrown off and now your day has gone to heck in a hand basket!

 

Never fear though! Pinterest has all sorts of quick hair fixes for us ladies.

The most popular as of recently is the No Heat Curls using a headband and a good nights sleep. Lets see how this turned out for Cristin.

 

The Original

http://repinly.machsrichtig.com/2012/09/finally-a-good-use-for-those-headbands/#rssowlmlink

 

We have featured this type of pin before and the results are just all over the place!! Sometimes it's beautiful, sometimes its a disaster!!

Here are some of the related posts to this topic:

A Hair Raising Experience

Chaos and Curls

Hairy Situations

Crummy Curls

and

(This one isn't no heat, but I just really love this pin) Tin Foil Curls, Myth Foiled or Fantastic

 

Here we have a Pinner with naturally curly/wavy hair  that I thought had an interesting experience with this pin. Check it out!

 

The Curly Haired Pinvestigation

 

 

 

 

I just want to point out a few things here, she did a really great job twisting her hair around the headband!! I even have a hard time doing that on myself because its hard to reach the back of your head! So she did awesome with that!

 Cristin said that maybe this pin worked a little too well for her wavy/curly hair. I will add that once she used her fingers to brush it out a little and she pinned it half pinned up I think it looks quite lovely! She said her hair is just WAY too thick to leave it all down, and I can see that in her picture...

 

 She said it was a bit more poofy than she cared for at that point however I think a little smoothing serum would do the trick. I would recommend Paul Mitchell's Super skinny serum, or Bed Head's Dumb Blonde ( I have worked with these products for a while and I love them both, and no we aren't sponsored by them I just really believe in the product!).

Cristin's main reason for trying this pin is to try and style her curly/ wavy hair without using a lot of product, so my suggesting those products might defeat the purpose, but my next tip might work for you curly haired gals who aren't big fans of product. Try using a dryer sheet, running it through to your ends, this should help control he frizz and will give you an added super fresh sent ;) 

 

Alright curly haired gals (and guys?) what are your tips to help each other out. I have curl but my hair is so short that I don't do much with it...Do you have any tried an true methods to help each other out?! Leave your comments and suggestions below! We love to hear your feedback!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Sponge Spillage

I had a lovely Birthday yesterday. And thanks to Em for the sweet post yesterday. I got projects planned, some of the house clean, made 2 cheesecakes (tried to make one a prickly pear cheesecake...it tasted yummy but didn't set up so it was cheesecake soup), and then Cameron and I spent the evening out at my Aunts house with her family, my cousin and his family, and my sister and her family. It was such a fun way to spend the day. Nothing huge and fancy, but it was perfect. I even got to have leftover cheesecake for breakfast this morning (that may be my favorite part of making cheesecake...eating it for breakfast the next day). 

Speaking of cake...I opened up the email this morning and read over some of our recent submissions and I found a great cake related one for you today. Today's submission comes from Cathy in the UK. She started her email off like this: "My name is Cathy, I'm from the UK and my brother first pointed me to Pinstrosity last year. I love the site and oddly enough seeing so many projects go wrong has encouraged me to try out some crafty things myself. Since following Pinstrosity I have learnt how to sew, visited craft fairs and tried out more recipes (including the cookie bowls that you tested out, thanks to your instructions they turned out perfectly!)." I can't tell you how happy that made me! She gets the point of Pinstrosity! YYEEEAAAA!! Okay, carrying on with her story.  "In fact so many of my projects have turned out well, I was disappointed that I didn't have a Pinstrosity to submit....until yesterday. "

That day she found the following pin and was inspired to get baking:

The Original Pin

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/48/9a/44/489a44491418042448850a9434cce0cc.jpg

As this photo didn't link to an actual recipe, Cathy looked around and found a great recipe on the BBC website that she used:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/532634/grannys-victoria-sponge

This is a Victoria Sponge Cake (it looks HEAVENLY!). Cathy says, "It's a staple British cake recipe and is meant to be very easy."

She whipped it all up and "It was all going so well. I thought I had made a pretty good looking (if slightly messy cake)."

https://redrosestyle.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/cathys-kitchen-victoria-sponge/

"I went to get my husband Rob to show him and by the time I got back, disaster had struck!"

The Pinstrosity

https://redrosestyle.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/cathys-kitchen-victoria-sponge/

"I had not waited long enough for the cake to cool down, which the instructions told me to do. Oops! So now the cake was very very messy! But it didn't stop me sharing the cake with my family, and it didn't stop my family from eating it all up! And despite the spillage, it still tasted great and I can recommend the recipe, you just have to follow it exactly!"

I think this is a boo boo many of us cake newbies make at least once. I know I have...a few times. You think, "Oh, it's cool enough!" only to have your icing or filling to start running and oozing. Luckily, as Cathy pointed out though, it still tastes great even if it doesn't look magazine perfect. As my cousin Missy (who ran a cookie bakery for a while) says, "Taste before beauty!". 

Thank you Cathy for sharing your story and photos (and the recipe! I definitely need to try this one out). Happy Wednesday everyone, I hope it's fantastic. 

"Hooo" dat?

I came into work early today, where the internet still reigns. On one hand it's nice to be disconnected, but on the other hand, it's a pain in the neck. It was fun today because there were a ton of new Pinstrosity submissions that I hadn't seen yet (having been offline for nearly a week now). I'd like to share one of those with you today. 

One thing I love about Pinstrosity is that I've been able to cyber-meet some really neat people. There are a few that I've started corresponding with here and there and it's been really fun to find these new friends. One of these ladies is Kendra. She's bold, talented, super-mom, and just plain fun. This past week we received a great email from her with her first Pinstrosity submission and I had to share it with you. You'll like this!

Kendra's Pinstrosity:

I have read every Pinstrosity post since way back when Jen from Epbot recommended it to us, and I always wanted to participate. But I don't have as much time for Pinterest browsing and crafting as I'd like, and when I do attempt something I'm a real stickler for doing the research, following the instructions, and using the proper supplies. So (dare I thought?) I couldn't ever end up with something worthy of Pinstrosity.

But, I did.

And I think I've even come up with a new category: The Thing in My Head Wasn't on Pinterest For a REASON.

Let me back up. My daughter wanted an owl party for her fourth birthday. No problem. Pinterest has tons of great ideas for that. I made a board, I got my supplies, I executed all the pins I decided on pretty successfully.

Especially great were the owl baby cupcakes . . . 

The Original Pin:

http://www.thelittlestylefile.com/2013/04/03/owl-party-ideas/

Mine:

My daughter loved the cupcakes, but she was worried about all those baby owls not having a mama. I couldn't find any mama owl cakes on Pinterest that looked like I could make them quickly and easily and with supplies I had on hand. So I decided to wing it. (dum, dum, DUM)

I had an idea in my head of what it would look like. But without being able to see someone else's completed work on Pinterest, it was all just a guess.

I wanted to make a chocolate peanut butter Rice Krispy Treat owl, with eyes made of powdered sugar donuts and Hershey's kisses. I thought it would give the same big eye look that the baby owls have.

But again, I didn't use Pinterest. I was flying blind here. And what I made is the stuff of nightmares. I give you the Rice Krispy Owl . . . OF DOOM:

So, obviously, since I didn't want my four year old to start wearing all black and listening to Marilyn Manson, I had to take those terrifying donuts off and start over. My second try used open-faced Oreos for the eyes, and a half Oreo on top of each eye that was meant to make the horns, but it ended up looking exactly like Groucho Marx. You'll have to take my word for it, I don't have a photo.

My third try still isn't my favorite thing ever, but it had a cute barn owl-quality to it, and my daughter liked it, so that's what we went with. 

But the moral of the story is, if you can't find what you're thinking of already on Pinterest, it MIGHT be because you're a creative genius, or it might just be because it isn't a very good idea.

The rest of the photos from the party, with all of my successful pins, are up at www.CatholicAllYear.com!

 Personally, I think the owls look great (especially that last one! Way to go Kendra!), but we are always our best and worst critic. Her post did remind me though of one of our first posts here on the blog...The Wise Owl Says "Just Go Buy a Cake":

The Original Pin

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/cakes-cupcakes/theme-cupcakes/night-owls-cupcakes-984215/

That was the pin Em was going for...but when she went to make it her computer was being fussy and she couldn't get a picture up to look at. So, she went off of memory. 

The Pinstrosity

The Big Cake

The Little Cupcakes

Let me tell you...these were scrumptious. A little creepy looking, but since it was Halloween, that was perfectly fitting. And since they tasted so good, all was well anyway. Tasty is better than pretty when it comes to food!