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     Monday, October 02, 2023
For men, women, and teens

Topic: home life

Chocolate beet cake is a delicious way to sneak vegetables into a cake without ever being able to taste the beets. It just tastes of chocolate cake. The problem is that the beet part of the recipe is time-consuming. Most chocolate beet cake recipes recommend using fresh beets, cooking them, and then grating or shredding them before including them in the cake. If you're thinking this seems like a lot of work before you've even started making the cake batter, you're correct.

So why not try a shortcut with canned beets? Most recipes say that canned beets can in theory be substituted, but that fresh is better. What happens if you try it with canned beets? I put this to the test by making a chocolate beet cake with canned beets instead of fresh. Read on to find out what happened.

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Amazon is a good choice for some things, but shopping there has some significant disadvantages. For example Amazon doesn't have control over their supply chains; lower-value items are often only offered in bulk quantities larger than you need, and a lack of curation means you can become overwhelmed with too many similar products to easily decide between them.

The good news is that there are some excellent alternatives to Amazon, and I've noticed that many of these can actually be cheaper depending on what you're buying. Here are the best Amazon alternatives based on what type of item you're shopping for.

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Are you curious about epilation as a hair removal method? I was too, so I took the plunge and bought an epilator - the Braun Silk-Epil Beauty Set 9-995 from Amazon, which I'm reviewing here.

Epilation removes hair from the root. An epilator looks at first glance slightly similar to an electric razor but it's actually very different. An epilator has a series of automated tweezers which plucks hair as you guide it over your skin. I could literally see the hair root from hair that it removed from my armpits! This product is rechargeable, so after each use you plug it in with the provided adapter plug.

I'll mention a bit about the product first, and next I'll cover what to expect from this hair removal method, including whether it hurts! I'll also talk about the pros and cons of this particular product (yes, there are both).

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