I don’t know who needs to hear this but you’ve probably got vegetables in your fridge that are starting to go a little off so you should probably plan on making a frittata or a pot of soup in the next couple days.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but almost every bit of fresh produce you’ve got that might be about to go off can likely be safely frozen for use later if you want to keep it, and that the amount of waste generated by consumers is a tiny portion of food waste generally and you’re not a bad or wasteful person if you forgot your veggies or you weren’t feeling well enough to cook.
Most fruits and veggies have a bit of a texture change when you freeze them, but if you’re not planning on eating them raw or in a salad that shouldn’t be a huge deal. Onions and garlic lose a bit of flavor when they’re frozen, but onion and garlic powder are cheap and can add that back in while still letting you get the texture and bulk of using the real vegetable.
The way I generally freeze fruit and vegetables is:
Get some re-usable silicone storage bags (I like re-usable, but it is perfectly fine to use ziplock bags or whatever)
Wash and dry the fruit/veggie
Slice or dice the fruit/veggie (you’re going to want to prep these in some way - thawing a whole onion is a huge pain in the ass, but throwing a handful of frozen diced onion into soup is very easy).
If it’s relatively dry - like apples, or onions, or mushrooms, toss the food into a bag and toss that bag into the freezer.
If it’s relatively wet - like bananas or squash, arrange the food in slices or chunks on a piece of tinfoil or waxed paper and put that in the freezer, then come back in an hour or so and peel the food off of the paper and put the pieces into a bag, then back into the freezer.
Fruits and vegetables that are really juicy (watermelon, tomatoes, cucumbers) often don’t freeze well (or at least they don’t thaw well), but can be juiced or pureed and stored for later use (though I’m not quite sure what you’d use cucumber puree for, honestly).
This is ALSO a good place to remember that frozen fruits and veggies are just as healthy for you as fresh produce, and that putting a handful of frozen blueberries in your yogurt or mixing some frozen broccoli in with your mac and cheese counts as getting a serving of fruits or veggies.
“In conversation with the writer NK Jemisin after the news broke, we talked about how sad it is, and about Nichols’s impact on Jemisin’s career. “Without Nichelle Nichols I might have never been a writer, certainly not the kind of writer I am now,” she said. And that’s the thing about trailblazers like Nichols: they create an environment in which the path they opened is widened by those that they affected. Jemisin is widely regarded as one of the best writers of our generation, and though Nichols may not have realized what she wrought in the moment, I hope she knows in some beautiful afterlife that she helped make that possible.”
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“For decades after Star Trek ended, Nichols was known for being encouraging, strong, and razor sharp. She was funny and sweet, and her work was always a presence in any conversation about science fiction or media representation. She was a cultural force that no one could ignore even when she wasn’t technically the focus in a conversation about the importance of inclusion and diversity. Her impact on others ran so deep that she was cited as an example by academics, activists and anyone who knew anything about the world as it had been and wanted to make the world the best it could be.” (Source)
The Lego Movie (2014), dir. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
I’m sorry but The Lego Movie was not the movie that changed the perception of animated movies nor was it when people started to see animation as a “proper art form.” I think we have anime’s like Akira and anything by Studio Ghibli to thank for that. There were a ton of highly praised, highly recognized animated movies before Lego. I think thinking it was is a very Western-centric mindset.
