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I wish I had more time and energy to dream up ways to reuse items that come in to our house, especially the pesky containers and/or packaging that surround the desired item. We live in a municipality that mandates recycling, so we have already diverted some solid waste from the landfill, but I am sure we can improve. The best idea I’ve come up with on my own so far is to make an ice pack out of a sturdy zipper bag that previously held animal crackers. It’s not glamorous, but it gets the job done, and my daughter doesn’t mind looking at it.

Because I work for a living and don’t have time to be that creative, I have several feeds in my Yahoo! Mail feed list that deal with creativity as it relates to reduce-reuse-recycle. One of these days I’ll get around to adding the list to this blog. In the meantime, please check out TipNut’s Ketchup Bottle As Pancake Batter Dispenser.

I think the basic concept is good; however, I think I’d much rather use one of those squeezeable jelly bottles rather than a ketchup bottle. You know how difficult it can be to get tomato stains off plastic, and sometimes plastic traps the odor of whatever it held last. Just imagine: ketchup-scented (or worse, ketchup-flavored!) pancakes! I’d much rather have strawberry jam-scented pancakes. I also don’t know how well this concept would perform with pancake add-ins such as blueberries or chopped apples (two of my family’s favorites). The add-ins would have to be very finely chopped in order to fit through the hole in the lid.

If you have any suggestions for a better pancake batter conveyance, please feel free to post a comment!

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