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"Especially if you save your scraps to make broth โ€” I love adding my ginger skins to that! canโ€™t do TOO much or else itโ€™ll become bitter but so far my natural ratio of using fresh ginger to other veggie/meat scraps is just fine."

"A splash of black tea will also lighten coffee and make it slightly sweeter without sugar.

Adding a tea bag to steeping grounds for cold brew is also quite good."

"And then if you toast it, even better still."

"OMG yes, just a pinch to cut the acid's sharpness and it's soooo good."

"I donโ€™t buy brown sugar anymore. I make it. Brown sugar is white sugar with molasses. A jar of molasses stores much easier. You just add somewhere between a tsp to a tablespoon for a cup or two of sugar depending on how dark you want your brown sugar."

"Also, you can make your own powdered sugar from plain white sugar. Just put it through a coffee grinder, no sense in spending extra money when you can whip up what you need. I guess you could even make powdered brown sugar."

"Thank you!!! I was just thinking of this because I saw that like $30 mason jar that opens on the side for easier access to eat your salad, and I was thinking 'soโ€ฆ a bowl?!'" ๐Ÿ˜‚

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