Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Create & Build Your Life Dishwashing Tip # 1: Use Your Spoon Or Fork to First Put Away The "Clean" Dry And Moist Foods

Use your spoon or fork to scoop out the "clean" "dry" food like rice, pasta and grains and then the "moist" food like boiled cooked vegetables before using your spoon or fork to scoop out (spaghetti) sauces, cooked meat or any food that would "dirty" your spoon or fork (i.e. "kitchen utensils") so you do not have to use a second spoon, fork or any other kitchen utensil.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Create & Build Your Lip Gardening Tip # 2: Buy Vegetable,Fruit And Flower Seeds At The Dollar Tree Store

You can buy fruit, vegetable seeds in a group of four (4) packets for a $1.00 (0.25 cents per packet) at the Dollar Tree store.

This is a good deal as from personal experience I have seen the seeds effectively bud and start to grow as soon as the seeds were planted and water appropriately as needed.

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Create & Build Your Life Kitchen Tip # 1: Use Leftover Dishwater To Wipe Off Food Residue On Dirty Dishes

Use leftover dirty dishwater to wipe off the food residue and cooking oils on pots, pans and kitchenware with the dishwashing towel and/or scrubber and then take the “washed-off” kitchenware out of the sink and put back on the dirty dish side of the counter.

After the dirty dishwashing water is let down the drain, start a new round of clean, dishwashing hot/warm water with liquid soap detergent and/or baking soda mixed in the hot/warm dishwater.

Create & Build Your Life Food Tip # 1: Put Cranberry Sauce On Your Ham And Turkey Sandwiches

Spread cranberry sauce on your sandwich bread slices with a butter knife as an alternative sandwich “commodity” when you are out of jam or jelly preservatives to put on your ham or turkey sandwich.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Personal Observation: The Consumer Marketing Strategy of Lay’s Potato Chips Brand®™ From a Customer’s Perspective

I chose a bag of Lay’s Cheddar Sour Cream Potato Chips and Lay’s Hickory Smoke Barbecue Chips and first noticed the bright, crisp, detailed pop-up images of the chip’s crunchy texture and shape that caught my eyes’ attention.
 

The aluminum plastic packaging itself did not get my attention but the neat, clear and bright (i.e. “good-looking”) display of the potato ships bag product caught my attention. I then proceeded to open the bag of potato chips encountering a “top-off” of air filled in the top of the bat that was there as a strategy to sell less of the potato chips about a little over half the bag instead of filling up close to the end of the bag with more potato chips to avoid  selling more product that would be included for the sales price.

The crisp, fresh and savory aroma of fried potato chips oozing from the aluminum bag followed in sync together with the look of the crisp, crunchy texture of the potato chips felt sliding on my fingers and hands made my mouth water and mentally “hungry to eat” even if I did not really feel like eating at the moment and was full from earlier.

The addictive fried, oily, salty, somewhat savory flavorful taste of each flavor of Lay’s Potato Chips was “catchy” to my taste buds and the feelings of my mouth as I crunched and felt the savory taste in the texture of the potato chips before swallowing them in instant self-gratification of the “pleasurable taste and filling” of eating the potato chips…

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Let’s review.

What consumer marketing strategy tactics were most effective in persuading this consumer to eat Lays Potato Chip Brand®™?
  1. Sight – the eye-catching bright “blowed-up, professional-looking” image design on the bags showcasing the bright, colorful texture of the potato chips caught this consumer’s mouth-watering hungry interest and attention.
  2. Aroma – the pleasant savory aroma smell of the potato chips’ flavor caught his nose’s attention. (Endnote: Now eyes and nose are paying attention in agreement to the self-satisfying delicious product.)
  3. Selectivity – this consumer had options to choose from various kinds of Lay’s Potato Chip products; from texture (e.g. “regular, wavy or ‘ruffle-shaped’”), flavor taste, smell and color of the potato chips (e.g. “Cheddar Cheese & Sour Cream yellow potato chips and reddish, light brown Hickory Smoke Barbecue potato chips”).
  4. Familiarity – Lay’s Potato Chips is a classic, famous and familiar American household name brand used in a lot of daily living situations: from family barbecues, everyday lunches with sandwiches, TV commercials and American artwork and symbols (i.e. “graffiti”). This consumer knew from popular and past experience that Lay’s Potato Chip’s Brand is a proven, trusted and satisfying product for the purpose intended.
  5. Convenience – This consumer could buy Lay’s Potato Chip’s at almost any store or place in America; be it Walmart, Fred Meyer, Walgreens, Albertson’s, Costco; virtually any convenience store at a gas station; public snacking vending machines, social occasions be it parties, lunch breaks at work, community events, family barbecues, potlucks…
  6. Taste – The crisp, oily and fried taste of potatoes as “chips” is an appealing irresistible, unique, delicious savory taste complimentary to a variety of different food products ranging from hotdogs, hamburgers, fried chicken and sandwiches.
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Lesson: know and understand the “background” strategies at work of marketers to produce and sell your own products and/or services; though in a godly, “Christ-honoring” honest way.

You might ask: “Why the detailed analysis about potato chips?”

I say because you get to understand the variables used by greedy marketers to exploit materialistic, instant self-gratifying behavior of wicked selfish generations into making them (the marketers) “fat in bucks” and Americans and Westerners “fat in debt” over junk food and personal obesity epidemic.

Food addiction is a real major obstacle and challenge in many people’s lives today. Look around wherever you are in public and you see.

Nevertheless, when YOU the consumer learn through experience the ways marketers do their best to influence your purchasing decisions you can subconsciously make “better buys” that may actually BENEFIT YOU in the future instead of someone else’s greedy schemes.
 

Friday, October 31, 2014

Create & Build Tip: Food Conservation

Ration eating small portions of food as needed. If you can fast in prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ for at least a day, two or three days straight; (sometimes even without water, if you are at that level of faith...) you need not worry how you will manage to eat to sustain yourself.

The Lord knoweth ye have need: KJV Matthew 6: 25-34,
 
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Trust in the Lord and He will set you free.