• @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    514 hours ago

    i have been cutting and keeping one of the little instructions off of boxes of food that i buy regularly fer this vary reason

  • @Mango@lemmy.world
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    314 hours ago

    I’m the quality director of a food packaging company and we have this trash can in the lab for samples we’re done with but maybe not done with. We like to call it our filing cabinet. 🤣 We’re always digging in that trash to check on things.

    • @finderscult@lemmy.ml
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      -114 hours ago

      Unless you know for a fact your local recycling company is good, it truly does not matter, especially in regards to plastics or food contaminated cardboard.

  • @AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
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    502 days ago

    I got tired of doing this so I just started to leave the box on the counter until after I’ve set a timer. And it gives you something else to do while your pasta or whatever cooks.

      • @EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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        52 days ago

        I just make sure the instructions are facing up when they go in the bin. Just needs a quick glance without any extra steps to distract and make you forget. (I got rid of the bin lids as my trash/recycle is usually dry and doesn’t smell)

  • Ham Strokers Ejacula
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    82 days ago

    You can learn to feel the hardness of the noodles through the spoon you use to stir them with, that’s what I do. I can tell if noodles are done just by stirring them in the boiling water. Take a few out to eat to check them and you’re done. Ezpz, no instructions needed.

  • @ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works
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    32 days ago

    Take a photo of the instructions.

    When you forget to do that, look up the product online, the cooking instructions should be there.

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    -122 days ago

    Instead of putting it in the trash, why don’t you figure out what you can put in the box to reuse or recycle it?

    • @lemmyman@lemmy.world
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      302 days ago

      I use pasta boxes to store old pasta boxes. No waste that way, and a great inheritance for my kids.

      • @rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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        31 day ago

        If you stored the pasta boxes at the bank, then, through the magic of compounding interest, you could have double the number of boxes 10 years from now!

    • @egrets@lemmy.world
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      72 days ago

      Unfortunately, it’s difficult to reuse or recycle pasta boxes when their composition includes 50% or higher of fictional materials.

            • @Lumidaub@feddit.org
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              -12 days ago

              I haven’t but I’m aware of it. What I wasn’t aware of is that here, in the comments under a comic making fun of the irrational bullshit adhd brains like to spend their time with, we take everything dead serious and do NOT make fun of the irrational bullshit our brains like to spend their time with. Such as when they start coming up with nonsense that a stupid box might yet be useful for while idling and waiting for the noodles to be done. I apologise for my oversight.

              • @EtherWhack@lemmy.world
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                11 day ago

                No worries as long as the intent wasn’t to be mean. The thought patterns of what goes on in a person with ADHD, ASD, BPD, ect… can be really hard to follow, even for us.

                A lot of the memes here are what we go through every day. They’re just tempered with a bit of cynical humor. It also tends to be an avenue for us to vent about the highlighted issues, of which most neurotypical brains don’t usually have trouble with.


                I guess the best way I can think of to describe the idea the comic is parodying on is that we (people with ADHD) go around life with a microscope stuck to our eyes. In that we can focus extremely painstakingly well on one subject, but as soon as we shift focus or get distracted, we tend to lose our place, sorta like flicking a slide with your finger at 1000x mag and losing that one bacterial cell.

                After years of dealing with this, we tend to subconsciously build very detailed models of how things work or how someone achieved an end-result. This skill gives the appearance that we are gifted at something we just picked up when, in fact, we are just using a model we already built and adapting it to the new thing.

                For the comic, we tend to not absorb a cooking time very well unless we know why it’s at that specific interval -and- what is going on (at a granular level) before it’s reached, along with what will happen after.