Pill organizer. Start when you take just 1 once or twice a day, get used to filling it each week and checking on it until it becomes a routine. It’ll keep you from double dosing and save fretting if you remembered to take your meds or not. Then when you’re taking multiple pills multiple times a day you’ll prep them 1/14th as often, and open<5% the bottles you would be. For a 1 time 3 dollar investment (you can find them with logos for free quite often) save yourself a few minutes a week, hours a year, days of your life.
A cheap digital kitchen scale, never fret with converting oz to grams again, just click the button and it’s changed it’s units, some even do liquid measurements so long as the liquid is similar density to water. And food cooks more consistently (therefore tastes better) if you use consistent ingredients, and how can you do that if you’re using a “more or less” system? Get your accuracy to half a gram really cheap, a tenth of a gram (more than enough for cooking) for not much more.
Full agree on the cheap digital kitchen scale. Eyeballing stuff often takes longer than pulling out the kitchen scale and measuring it out.
I use mine specially when seasoning meats, souring cabbage, making simple breads, and splitting portions to freeze. It’s also handy as I’m trying to lose weight, it gives me a way to control how much potato/polenta/rice I’m eating per meal.
Pill organizer. Start when you take just 1 once or twice a day, get used to filling it each week and checking on it until it becomes a routine. It’ll keep you from double dosing and save fretting if you remembered to take your meds or not. Then when you’re taking multiple pills multiple times a day you’ll prep them 1/14th as often, and open<5% the bottles you would be. For a 1 time 3 dollar investment (you can find them with logos for free quite often) save yourself a few minutes a week, hours a year, days of your life.
A cheap digital kitchen scale, never fret with converting oz to grams again, just click the button and it’s changed it’s units, some even do liquid measurements so long as the liquid is similar density to water. And food cooks more consistently (therefore tastes better) if you use consistent ingredients, and how can you do that if you’re using a “more or less” system? Get your accuracy to half a gram really cheap, a tenth of a gram (more than enough for cooking) for not much more.
I’m baffled that there are many people who don’t use a digital kitchen scale
Probably because many American recipes only use cups and spoons as a measurement.
Dials make it easier to visually compare weights.
And metric makes things so much easier.
Full agree on the cheap digital kitchen scale. Eyeballing stuff often takes longer than pulling out the kitchen scale and measuring it out.
I use mine specially when seasoning meats, souring cabbage, making simple breads, and splitting portions to freeze. It’s also handy as I’m trying to lose weight, it gives me a way to control how much potato/polenta/rice I’m eating per meal.
I used to hate my digital scales, I used them so infrequently that the batteries would be flat every time I pulled it out.
This bad boy is a game changer, and it was only a bit more expensive. You just spin the wheel to generate enough power for a few minutes -