A Million {Or So} Ways To Use Rice Cakes So That No One Has To Eat Them
Monique | Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 6:06PM Of all the foods people list as a personal favorite; pizza, French toast, clam chowder, Philly cheesesteaks... Spaghetti and meatballs - to me- is the absolute worst of the bunch. I hate spaghetti, I hate the red sauce, I hate it!
Rice cakes, are one of my favorite snacks ever.
Christian and I have opposing feelings about these noms.
Years ago, as a joke, he told me he refused to allow us to pay for "coasters" that I wouldn't let him use as actual coasters, so I told him no more spaghetti and meatballs!
Believe it or not, we both went a long time honoring those ridiculous requests {mostly because neither was willing to back down}, but have since reconciled {mostly because our sons love rice cakes and spaghetti and meatballs and we didn't really have a choice}.
Unfortunately for me, all I can do is whine about spaghetti night while Christian {with the help of our traitorous children} is able to compile lists of creative alternative uses for my beloved rice cakes.
He says no one should ever have to eat a rice cake.
- Coasters, as aforementioned.
- Frisbees
- Brake pads
- Oil and/or coffee filters
- Use as plates to eat something better on.
- Packing material
- Wall insulation
- Insoles for running shoes
- Crumble them for green living wood chip replacement.
- Shave them and use the shavings as sawdust for Spanish supermarket floors, or sawdust to soak up blood.
- Horseshoes
- Dog laxatives
- Go back in time and introduce them to the Egyptians, so they can stop using papyrus.
- Toilet paper; use the smooth side unless you like that sort of thing.
- Bar stool seats.
- Get 100 of them, paint them red: red carpet.
- Target practice
- Spare tires
- Add water, for mortar.
- Bricks, in which to lay the mortar.
- Use as a tip for pipe snakes, to clean toilets and other assorted pipes.
- Urinal cakes.
- Firewood
- Chimney sweeps
- Cup cozies
- Picture frames
- Build a fire place with them.
- Nail polish remover, and nail file.
- Ping pong paddles
- You know those pads that you place under your furniture, so it doesn't scratch your floors when you move it? Yeah.
- Toboggan
- Sell them to mice to use as doors to their mouseholes.
- Wine stoppers/corks
- Drumset
- Emergency life rafts/floaties
- Replacement chalk for classrooms.
- Cloth diaper inserts.
- Fan blades
- Shovel
- Sell it to the major leagues as baseball bats.
- Leather sole replacements.
- Earplugs
- Feminine hygiene products
- Mix with water for hair gel.
- Sponges
- Landscaping material
- Dart board
- Cosplay costume materials.
- Brims for baseball hats.
- Tarpaulins
- Shields for renaissance fair reenactment.
- Attach to the end of a chain for medieval weaponry.
- Bean bag chair filling.
- Toilet brushes
- Use as replacement for cardboard boxes.
- Cut a slit in the top and use as a piggy bank.
I hope you enjoyed this glimpse into the reason why I'm slightly off my rocker...
Reader Comments (2)
We're definitely kindred Aries sisters because I LOVE rice cakes and HATE spaghetti and meatballs. Red sauce ughhhhh. I even get light sauce on my pizza...and hate pizza places that use sweeter more spaghetti like pizza sauce on their pies. Yuck. If you need a 101st thing to do with your rice cakes, please add "Feed them to Cara"
Excellent list! I love popping over here to get all my creative energy :-)