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I’ve always wondered how to buy a pineapple.

Nobody likes mushy watery lettuce.

General tips for storing cooked foods.

Did you know most tomatoes are picked green and gassed to ripen at the store. Shopping locally will give you fresher vine ripened tomatoes.

Never refrigerate! And obviously don’t guy tomatoes from a store that keeps them cool.

Consider when and how you are going to use it while purchasing bananas. Don’t refrigerate unless you need to ripen green bananas really overnight.

Keeping the berries unwashed in the plastic containers or cartons in a brown paper bag in the fridge (not the crisper drawer).

Sick of mushy apples? Brown paper bag in the crisper drawer does the trick.

Not all vegetables go in that “crisper” drawer. Christi Ferretti discusses where and how to store a cucumber.

Keep food in it’s original packaging even when packing it further for the freezer. Don’t forget first in first out and labeling.

Whether you grown your own herbs in backyard garden or buy them at the grocery store, make sure you keep them fresh.

Did you know heated plastics can release carcinogens? Glass is a better storage choice when you know you are going to be reheating in the same container.

Do you rotate your groceries as you buy them?

Devoted Firefox user tries Google Chrome and loved it so much he made his Firefox browser look just like it. Find out why.

Customers come from the people who have never done it before and people who have done it before but are unhappy with the way they are doing it. You aren’t going to steal a competitors happy customers and the unhappy ones won’t come unless you offer something unique.

Take some tips from the professionals (coupon clippers that is) and save big when you shop.

You’ve got the employees. Now what? Most employers assume that the employee know how to do the job. But in order to do a good job (which most employees want to do) they need to know what you are expectations are.

How you position your company is vital to understand and your decision to make.

Some tips on how to manage your books so that you stay on top and find success.

Setting up the books. Data entry and filing. Analysis of what that data means.

It costs a lot more to hire a new employee than to retain good employees. How do you keep them happy and at their jobs. It’s not as simple as throwing money at them.

You really need to know what goes into the profit loss statement AND what the balance sheet is telling you. Where is the money?

You’ve decided to take on employees. Now you have to decide if you are going to deal with employee turn-over or if you want to keep good employees for the long haul.

What is your role as the business owner in bookkeeping. It’s more than entering the data. You can pay someone to do that.

How do you design a compensation system for your business. Daniel Diener covers some of the basics to get you started.

How do you keep good employees? If you want to keep them, make sure they know what they are supposed to do. Make sure you know. And treat them well.

Daniel Diener discusses the importance of small business bookkeeping. Not just for taxes and payroll, but in helping to determine your most profitable product and improving the marketing of it.

Build a personality around your brand and be earnest.

Donnie Hoyle escapes life’s struggles through Photoshop. In this episode Donnie dreams of his upcoming vacation. (NSFW)(#1 )

Donnie Hoyle escapes life’s struggles through Photoshop. In this episode Donnie preps a photo for ebay. (NSFW)(#1 )