Ways Archive - Better.Cheaper.Slower.

Rainforest Snacks: Patacones Lite

February 5, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

About 10 cents for a very flavorful and satisfying bite-size snack. With lots of Vitamins A and C from your fresh, homemade plantain chips topped with sour cream and pineapple or chorizo. Could be the Super Bowl snack of choice here in Costa Rica.

Onion Panade: Soup & Sandwich-In-One

February 4, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Put this on your Top Ten list of winter dinners. Warms your mouth, your stomach and your heart. Luscious, hearty and satisfying. Thoroughly pleasing to eat. Slowly. Less than $1 per serving.

Moving Monday: 1 minute for your neck

February 3, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

The Perfect Valentine's Day exercise. C'mon, get necking. Because even if you exercise vigorously for an hour daily, too much sitting the rest of the day significantly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity. So when you're in front of your TV or computer, do this for a minute, every hour or two.

Slower Sunday: Up Against the Wall

February 2, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

They should make this an Olympic event.

A Month’s Worth. In the pantry.

February 1, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

What it costs to eat Better and Cheaper on a moment's notice. For a month. About $100 per person. Ladies and gentlemen, stock your pantries.

Walking & Eating in Beijing

January 31, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Could be an all-day 26-mile hike. Could be a 4-mile spin around the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Could walk a mile inside the Farmers Market or through 4,000 cypress trees to get to Heaven. Whichever way you turn, this is a delicious way to see the sights while you burn way more calories than you consume.

Skinny Egg Rolls

January 30, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Not an authentic egg roll. More like a really thin egg pancake wrapped tightly around quickly sauteed vegetables. Do it all in one pan in five minutes. Which leaves plenty of time to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Not Spare Ribs

January 29, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Intensely fragrant, sweet and spicy. It's the powdered mustard, ginger and cinnamon. And the fennel and anise seeds. The opposite of spare ribs. Rich ribs. Chinese Short Ribs for the Lunar New Year.

Jasmine Rice for the Year of the Snake

January 28, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Today's the day for this one-pan jasmine rice and vegetables preparation. You do next to nothing. Cook the vegetables right in the pan with the grains. It's all in the timing. Happy Chinese New Year.

Stronger Monday: Keeping the resolution

January 27, 2025
Dick Sandhaus

Because it's good to be a little stronger. So it's easier to pick up packages and climb mountains. And because I made a resolution to help you find the easiest Ways to feel better and stronger every day. Not like Arnold. Just stronger than you are now.