Dalmo DAKF5F Pull Down Kitchen Sink Faucet Review - Favorite Faucet EVER!

This is Kitchen Faucet, Dalmo DAKF5F Pull Down Kitchen Sink Faucet with Sprayer, Single Handle Touchless Kitchen Faucet with 3 Modes Pull Out Sprayer, High Arc Brushed Nickel Plating Dual Sensor Sink Faucet

Can't say enough about this faucet! WOW! Love that you can turn on, hands-free, at the base of the faucet. Also, pulling down the hand-held sprayer, the water turns on when pulled out... and turns off automatically when it is back in place. The brushed nickel looks great, very easy to clean and really doesn't show spots. If I could change anything, I would have the base sensor off to the side... not directly center. If you are cleaning something large and if you are close to the sensor, it shuts off the water. I have adjusted my positioning in the sink (further away) with the larger items and that has definitely rectified the issue. Out of all the faucets we have purchased this is by far our most favorite! Would purchase again and would definitely recommend!

Here is the link to the product for you to view or buy: Dalmo DAKF5F Pull Down Kitchen Sink Faucet

Cozy Sack 6-Feet Bean Bag Chair Review - With a little work this Cozy Sack is absolutely awesome!

This is Cozy Sack 6-Feet Bean Bag Chair, Large, Earth

 First and foremost, I am not sure where the concept of 6 feet comes in. The must be the minimum size. When we got this, we received a square of compressed matter. You have to let it decompress; so sit back and watch it grow into the thing we call "the blob." Or if you are needing some stress relief, kick the square if you think your karate kind or if you like to box use your fists to break it apart. Reminder while it is decompressing to turn it over and over as it will help with the fluff. I say within 72 hours you will have a "blob" of your own. It will take up a good bit of real estate in your chosen room. Second and speaking of chosen room, definitely pick which room you are going to put it in and leave there. It seems moving it room to room might be a bit much and would definitely take 2 people and hopefully you can compress it back in enough to get it thru door ways. This is not a light weight item; it is heavy, bulky, and cumbersome. Third, hope you like sharing, it seems if you plop down in the blob someone or something is going to join you. Last night it held two adults, 2 very large dogs, and 3 small dogs with space of a toddler or two still available. Therefore, if you are looking for a squishy, extremely large, blob for you, your best friend, and their best friend to sit on and have 8' x 8' of available floor space, you have found yourself a reasonably priced blob that holds up well under rough use!

Here is the link to the product for you to view or buy: Cozy Sack 6-Feet Bean Bag Chair 

Cuckoo Multi Pressure Cooker Review - Supper Cooker

This is Cuckoo Multi Pressure Cooker, CMC-ASB501F, A50 Premium Series 8 in 1 (Pressure, Slow, Rice Cooker, Browning Fry, Steamer, Warmer, Yogurt, Soup Maker)18+ Smart Options, Stainless Steel, 5QT, GOLD

I got this pressure cooker mostly because I wanted something I trusted to cook rice (this one has multiple rice settings and I wanted to replace my rice cooker), and also wanted to pressure cook beans, and I didn’t want something ugly like the instapot.

It’s hard to suss out from the written materials how it compares to the instapot as far as pressure level. I think it’s slightly less but not by much. (If you read the info on electric pressure cookers, they come up to a certain pressure but don’t stay at that highest level. So who knows the real pressure level.)
So far, I really like the machine but if you want to adapt instapot recipes for this, you gotta get a sense for how long something will take to come to pressure. Unlike the instapot, the timer on this INCLUDES the time to come to pressure. So depending on what I’m making and its temp and water level, I end up estimating 10-20 mins to come to pressure. This matters because you set your own cook time on the multi cook function. Other settings work well, like “browning fry” aka sauté. Generally the rice function is good—white rice comes out perfect, gaba rice is ok (a little sticky. I need to experiment). I use the multi cook for beans, max temp/pressure, works just fine.
Not sure what cleaning is like for instapot. This is a bit of a pain with the gasket and all. It does have a self cleaning feature, but of course I remove and clean the inner lid and gasket by hand each time I use it. And don’t even think about putting a metal spoon in this or you’ll scratch the coating—use the spatula/rice paddle they provide.
I hope this helps someone decide if they want the machine or not. :-)

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Organic Food in your meals, is it WORTH the cost?

I grew up on a farm where my parents and farmers used mostly natural anti-parasitic products and never gave anything chemical to their animals. It was almost a sin to buy processed and packaged food in my household. In this country, even the organic certification is not as strict as it is in developed countries, but it often means better quality and less poison in general, so buying organic is imperative for me. I can tell almost immediatly from my body's reactions and issues if  I've had too many animal-derived proteins and fats (organic or not), as well as the bitter after taste of non-organic berries, for example. The problem is really how unaffordable the prices of fruits and vegetables (especially good quality ones) are in this country. 

I am of modest means yet I choose to buy organic because it is the moral thing to do and it supports personal health. It is wrong to contribute to the suffering of others through chemical exposure. Luckily, I have great access to organic food.

Some people often consider on pricing & other issues: Meats, vegetables and fruits have, generally speaking, very tight margins and offer low or modest wages to those employed in the businesses. And grocery store markups have tremendous impacts on the food prices that the consumers actually see. This is because the groceries typically take their food product costs and create sales prices based on a percentage of their product costs rather than as a fixed amount. For example, suppose a grocer buys conventional tomatoes from a distributor at $1.00 per lb. The grocer will then sell the tomatoes at a price based on a markup percentage. Using a 50% markup, the grocer sells these tomatoes at ($1.00/lb.) * (100% + 50%) = $1.50/lb. So the grocer takes in $0.50/lb. for the sale of these conventional tomatoes to cover the costs of selling them and for providing a profit to the store. Now, if the grocer buys some organic tomatoes for, say, $1.40/lb., that same grocer will likely sell those organic tomatoes for ($1.40/lb.) * (100% + 50%) = ($1.40 + $0.70) = $2.10/lb. So the grocer takes in $0.70/lb. to sell those organic tomatoes. But the price difference to the consumer between organic tomatoes and conventional tomatoes is ($2.10/lb. - $1.50/lb.) = $0.60/lb. even though the grocer's COST difference for the two tomato types was only ($1.40/lb. - $1.00/lb.) = $0.40/lb.

Processed foods often have a lot of wiggle room in costs and pricing. For example, suppose one starts with conventional wheat purchased at $6.00/bushel and a bushel of wheat weighs 60 lbs. (Current conventional wheat prices are less than $5.00/bushel.) That wheat then costs $0.10/lb. Suppose you process that wheat and sell it as crackers for $4.00/lb. in the store. The bulk of the cracker ingredients comes from the wheat, and even if you use 1.5 lbs. of wheat to create 1.00 lb. of crackers, you only have $0.15 invested in the wheat for the crackers, leaving $3.85 to cover other ingredient costs, labor, packaging, and retail costs. In that example, only [($0.15/lb.)/($4.00/lb.)] = 3.75% of the retail price goes toward paying the farmer for the dominant food ingredient, namely for the wheat. Let's compare that to the tomato examples:

For conventional tomatoes, the tomato supplier gets ($1.00/lb.)/($1.50/lb.) = 66.7% of the retail price.
For organic tomatoes, the tomato supplier gets ($1.40/lb.)/($2.10/lb.) = 66.7% of the retail price.
Further complicating this is that grocery stores generally buy from distributors, not from the farmers themselves. So the farm share of revenues is generally far below these percentages.

Processed foods also have LONG shelf lives whereas fruits, vegetables and animal products do NOT have long shelf lives. The shelf lives and costs to dispose of "old" foods greatly influence the grocer strategies and overall costs.

I buy organic whenever it is available. I would rather spend more for my food than expose myself to pesticide residues or support their destructive effects on farm workers and environment. Not everyone can afford to do this, though, so we need to work hard to make organics lower in price.

For you more information:: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/5/e1406

For organic products to buy: ORGANIC PRODUCTS