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What to Do With Stale Bread

However it got there, I want to use it up. It kills me to throw things away, even when they're growing penicillin cultures.

• How to Make Bread Pudding in a Crockpot
• French Toast With Stale Bread

Can You Cut Too Many Calories?

Believe it or not, I've done this before. My metabolism did not thank me later.

• How Many Calories Do You Need Per Day?
• How to Lose Weight

7 Common Weight Loss Myths ... Busted!

My favorite busted myth in this list: Fat is to be avoided. Of course, our Weight Loss expert wasn't talking about cheese when she discussed healthy fats.

• Find Your BMI
• Do You Need to Lose Weight?

Day-Old Bread Recipes

Prior to the mold culture stage, there's a lot you can do with that leftover bread.

• Allie Prudhomme Fonterot's Bread Pudding
• Tuscan Summer Bread Salad Recipe

Readers Share Their Uses for Stale Bread

My vote, always, is for bread pudding. Just in general. I'd make bread pudding sandwiches if I could.

• Bread Stuffing Recipe
• 5 Uses for Stale Gluten-Free Bread

How to Make Candy Monsters

Occasionally, my sister would be bored and I'd be otherwise occupied. Then she'd explain to Mom that she couldn't use her imagination, because she didn't have one. "Jen has all the imagination, and she won't play," she'd complain, as if I were hoarding marbles or crayons and wouldn't share.

• How to Make Peanut Butter Eyeballs
• How to Make Gummy Worms

10 Ways to Foster a Child's Creativity

It was pretty clear to us that the problem was ours, and that we didn't want to turn it into Mom's. Otherwise, she was liable to cure our boredom with an exciting round of chores, and no one wanted that.

• Travel Games and Crafts for Kids
• Forum: How to Foster Creativity in Kids

10 Ways to Prevent Weekend Weight Gain

This weekend, however, I am going to attempt to exercise restraint. Partly because it's better for me, and partly because I don't want to have to buy new pants on Tuesday morning.

• 5 Ways to Avoid Weight Gain at Work
• Can I Reduce Belly Fat With Sit-Ups?

How to Make Homemade Slime

Her other favorite thing to say was: "Use your imagination." This occasioned much eye-rolling and complaining, at least until it became clear that she wasn't interested in our whining. Then we'd imagine, loudly, what it would be like to have a mom who wasn't so mean, while she stifled hysterical laughter in the next room.

• Top Chemistry Projects for Bored Kids
• How to Make Fake Snot

7 Steps to Get out of Debt

It's easy to get into debt, and not so easy to get out. For one thing, getting out requires effort and planning, while getting in is a natural talent for most of us.

• How to Ask for a Lower Interest Rate
• The High Cost of Using Credit Cards