I’m slightly obsessed with Pinterest. As with, most social media I was a late adopter, but boy oh boy it did not take me long to fall in love. It jump started my journey into clean eating, cleaning up my beauty products, and starting this blog. I love that it provides a place to easily store all those recipes you might try, places you might go, and DIYs you might make. I’m a bit pin crazy. I’m going to let you in on a little secret…I have about 3,000 pins on my personal board. That is the main reason I started a separate account for the blog because: a. I have too many pins and don’t plan on stopping 😉 b. I don’t want to overwhelm my blog followers with random pins and it is a bit embarrassing. I pin while we watch TV, it is hard for me to just sit there and only watch tv…it gives me a little something to do that does not require too much brain activity.
At least half of my personal pins are food related. Most of the meals we cook are new recipes. Every Sunday I share on the blog the meals we have cooked that week. Since I started this blog, I’ve shared 82 pins on my Food Board, at least 70 of these are new meals for us, probably more. I use Pinterest exclusively to plan our meals. I have a secret board labeled “meals this week” and pin the meals we are planning for that week, then at the end of the week I delete those pins and start over. This makes it easy to find the meals we are cooking without having to scroll back through all the pins on various boards.
I’m planning on increasing the boards for Food, Booze, & Baggage by adding boards about blogging and photography. Currently, I have these on my personal account as secret, but I want to start sharing tutorials and articles I’ve found helpful with building this blog and learning photography. It is a bit silly not to share with you guys. You have been warned, I’m stepping up my pinning game!
Ok, so why am I babbling on about Pinterest? Well, to introduce the 6th prompt of the Nectar Collective (of course), “When Pinterest Comes to Life”-where Melyssa challenges us to make something we have pinned.
I chose to do something that is on my 101 in 1001 list: # 83~Make Peanut Butter. Ok, guys this is stupid simple….all you do is dump the peanuts in the food processor, hit on, and watch the magic happen. I have a particular purpose for my peanut butter so I did add sweetener but next time I’m trying some honey. Clean-up was easy enough and this gave me a reason to use my new green mason jar. I only used 2 cups of peanuts which gave me about half a pint sized jar, so 4 cups should give you close to a full pint. I like to read several recipes when attempting something new, and then decide which one sounds best. Below are the ones I read before making my peanut butter.
Confessions of a Bright-eyed Baker: DIY Peanut Butter
Serious Eats: DIY Simple Peanut Butter
Aggies Do It Better: Make Your Own Peanut Butter
Make sure to visit the Nectar Collective Wednesday to add more lovely pins to your DIY boards! Better step-up your pinning game, you don’t want me to be out pinning you. Competitive pinning it’s a thing right? Competing for Queen Pinner, Gold Medal in Pinning or what about this….
I wish I could claim credit for this, but no….found it on Pinterest 🙂
I am such a big Pinterest addict! And most of my pins are of recipes & food! lol.
I’ve also made homemade peanut butter– easy & delicious!
I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one! I can’t wait to mix up some new flavors now i know how easy it is!
Sounds tasty and easy – my favorite kind of recipe! I too use Pinterest as my go-to recipe finder, and it’s yet to let me down! Pinning the recipes for the week to a separate board is a genius idea – I’ll definitely be trying that out soon. Thanks for the idea! 🙂
It works great for us! Thanks for stopping in Meredith!
I love it when I post my Creative Collective Right after yours Food, Booze, & Baggage cuz I know I am going to love an comment on your post anyway 😉
This is great! I use Pinterest everyday for my design business and its like visual crack. Addictive! My DIY board on Pinterest has more FIOY (Figure It Out Yourself) than DIY but I love teaching myself new things. So much fun!
Aww thanks Jon! I always love your posts as well! I love all the possibilities that Pinterest shows you for so many projects.
I definitely have to give this a try! I love how easy it sounds.
It was SO easy! I really cannot believe I put it off, because it was so easy!
It was SO easy; I feel silly for putting off trying it!
haha i love pinterest too. i can’t stop. i think i’m the same way. i need to pin and watch tv at the same time.. or pin pretty much during any activity. 😛 i wish i would actually take some of those ideas and put them into action though. so far i am starting on some recipes… SLOWLY…
I have a pinterest addiction for sure! x
Pinterest is like Pringles to me… once you start you can’t stop. Most of my boards are dedicated to food porn!
i try to stay off pinterest unless i need something because it’s SO EASY to blow hours on there and not even know it!
-kathy | Vodka and Soda
Pinterest is so good but so bad. Ugh love it. So excited for what you’re doing!
Pinterest has stolen my soul, and I don’t even want it back.
Girlfriend, I have 2618 pins. It is ON! Mine are a delightful mix of nature, animals, fashion and wise words, and just a few recipes thrown in here and there to make me more credible as a (sometimes) cooking woman.
Can’t believe you outpinned me!
That trick you do with pinning while you watch TV? I used to do that.
And then I stopped.
And now I will start again. 😉
May the odds be ever in your favour!
Very cool that you made your own PB!
I like the idea of actively meal planning on Pinterest then deleting and starting over. Kind of brilliant, actually.