Look! Up in the sky? No! Down on the sidewalk! Is it a Mouse? Is it an alien? No! It's ... your favorite. Somewhere down there. Just keep walking and watching.
The perfectly balanced diet of champions: burn as many calories as you consume while you sightsee and taste the town. If you've never spent a whole day walking, well, think of it as a whole day of eating with beautiful walks in between meals.
80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. Daal bhaat tarkari: lentils, rice, curried vegetables. The staple meal of Nepal and much of India. Fragrant curry and Better Cheaper protein.
I have no idea what's on the menu. This is a contest. I get 30 minutes to turn a mystery box of vegetables into a winning dish. The only guarantee: it'll be fun and funny. Pretty good chance it'll be tasty.
Two of this year's big revelations in my kitchen were: sauces. Sauces that are deeply delicious and highly aromatic. Sauces that elevate simple ingredients to super satisfying main courses. One's cheap and easy. The other's free and easy. Here's to a tasty 2016 in your kitchen.
I'm delighted to use the year's final Monday to pass on a great idea from a BCS subscriber, the self-described Better Slower Cheapskate. That person who came up with what might be the Better Cheaper Way for you to keep a New Year's resolution in 2016.
All of them. Nothing up there. At all. Doesn't matter that the weather's crazy warm for this time of year. Press Play. I think you'll get a kick out of this.
Totally free, totally clean, totally cool energy. The Little LED Lantern That Could. And the D.Light: a tiny, bright emergency backup system that charges your phone. Both spend the day sunbathing, converting and storing sunlight.