For busy people a microwave is very useful and it is actually a great energy saver too. It takes far less electricity to cook a dish in the microwave than on the stove, and there is the added benefit of retaining good vitamins that are usually destroyed during cooking. Vegetables lose a lot of vitamin C when cooked using conventional methods, but microwaving preserves most of this vitamin.
Some people just do not like microwave cooking, and for those people a nice alternative would be the toaster-oven. This is ideal for baking small or single dishes. It saves a lot of the energy that is wasted when cooking on a single shelf in a larger oven. That is because the oven is made to heat fairly consistently throughout its interior, even when only one shelf is being used.
My first boss in New York was very into health and for Christmas, he gave me a very good juicer. The best ones automatically separate pulp, which can go into the compost heap or you can mix it into the soil of your pot plants. For the recipient’s sake, try to choose a juicer that is easy to take apart and clean. This is one present that will help keep both the recipient and the earth healthy. There are also some great hand juicers that a very small, use no electricity, and are much easier to clean than the electric juicers. You can juice tomatoes, watermelons, mangos and many other fruit you could not normally juice with a traditional citrus hand juicer. Those home-made juices are addictive – I started using mine every day for some months.
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