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Just in time for cicada season...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:09:57 -0400

For a few of you, Consumr got a lot slower as more people submitted reviews to the app (100,000 new ratings will do that to your database). Update to the latest version of Consumr Barcode Scanner to speed up your experience.

While we were at, we added some pretty cool stuff:

Location Aware Categories: So you’re standing inside Trader Joe’s. Don’t you wish you could instantly see all of the top rated products at TJs? Now you can with location aware categories! We’re adding new stores weekly. Try loading up Consumr the next time you’re shopping at Trader Joe’s!

Books & Appliances: You asked for books and appliances, and now they’re officially part of the new update. More reviews will be added over time by users like you and from third party sources, but play around with them now and let us know what you think.

Friends: We like how everyone is so friendly, so now you can see who follows you and who you follow easily by tapping on your friends count on your profile. Go ahead, make a new reviewer friend!

Smarter Quick Rate: We crunched some numbers and improved Quick Rate. Now you’ll be able to train our recommendations by quick rating products tailored to you.

We also fixed a lot of bugs. Hopefully your bug was in there. If it wasn’t, hit us up at feedback@consumr.com and we’ll get right on it.

Listverse Top Ten Unusual Uses for Peanut Butter Image by...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:50:47 -0400

Listverse Top Ten Unusual Uses for Peanut Butter

Image by JavCon 117 on Flickr

Consumr rated ★★★★★

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:47:33 -0400

Consumr rated ★★★★★

Try again.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:57:57 -0400

Try again.

Summer is Coming. Get your jewels ready to rock. Image by the...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:13:06 -0400

Summer is Coming. Get your jewels ready to rock.

Image by the awesome Polianarchy on Twitter.

Trader Joe's Top Five Sweet Treats

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:52:23 -0400

Have you ever wandered the aisles of Trader Joe’s aimlessly examining frozen dinners and wondering if they are worth your cash? Consumr review Nathan R’s blog What’s Good at Trader Joe’s fearlessly tastes it all and cherrypicks the best, so you don’t have to. ~Felicia D, Consumr CM

5 Trader Joe’s Treats You Must Try

We here at What’s Good at Trader Joe’s? have reviewed almost 500 TJ’s products in over 400 blog posts over the last 3 years. Trader Joe’s offers a lot of great stuff, but here are 5 sweet items that stand out to us.

1. Speculoos Cookie Butter

This product is so popular, it’s actually hard to find at a lot of TJ’s locations. There’s also a “crunchy” variety, or buy your own Speculoos Cookies and pulverize them into butter yourself!

2. Sutter’s Formula Cookies

We still can’t figure out who “Sutter” is, but he sure makes a darn good cookie. Maybe someday they’ll turn this into “Sutter Butter”.

3. Strawberry Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert

It’s like a bowl of cold, mashed strawberries all swirled together…without all the little seeds. It’s ice non-cream, and it’s deeelicious.

4. Soft-Baked Snickerdoodles

Gluten sensitivity? These cookies’ll make you feel like you ain’t missin’ out on much.

5. Peanut Brittle

It’s old-fashioned candy with over-sized Virginia peanuts. You just might fall in love.

Hair chalk has caught on this spring, riding the tail of the...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:40:40 -0400

Hair chalk has caught on this spring, riding the tail of the bright hues gracing celebrities’ locks. Since bleaching and dyeing hair to achieve bold colors is super damaging, hair chalk can give you a pop without wrecking your tresses.

Australian hair king Kevin Murphy’s Color Bugs hair chalks just got a new, sparkly sibling in Shimmer Bug, which adds bronzy-gold highlights to any color hair. Just swipe the powder over dry hair, then work through to distribute. The gleam lasts until your next shampoo.

Until July 15 in North America, Shimmer Bugs may contain a golden ticket to win a MacBook Pro. Enter the contest!

Instagram photo by _BellaCruz_

A Kindle for our best author in June

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:40:09 -0400

Our workerbees are hard at work certifying the reward winners for our May Leaderboard (it’s not a diet, so no cheating)! In the meantime, here’s what’s up for grabs in June for topping the leaderboards in Consumr for iPhone:

June Great Reviews: Kindle Fire HD ($199 Value)

June Total Points: Nike Fuel Band ($149 Value)

June Total Reviews: $75 Whole Foods Gift Card

June Barcode Scans: $50 Target Gift Card

With Books and Movies added to Consumr this week, it’s even easier to share your opinions about your favorite things! So get writing, scanning, rating, liking, following… well, you get the idea!

Someone stop me, I’m about to spend hundreds of dollars on...

Fri, 31 May 2013 10:24:00 -0400

Someone stop me, I’m about to spend hundreds of dollars on Japanese candy. Tofu Cute is killing me.

needsmoresalt: Today’s breakfast is brought to you by our...

Fri, 31 May 2013 09:49:39 -0400

needsmoresalt:

Today’s breakfast is brought to you by our second loaf of this bread, which is neither life-changing nor particularly bread-like — it’s more like a big loaf of nut-and-seed cracker than anything? — but that we’ve liked okay enough (JMM more than me) to make twice, since after all, the recipe is just stir, wait, and bake.

If you decide to make it: 1. use roasted nuts and seeds instead of raw ones, since even an hour of baking won’t make the weird uncooked fattiness of a raw hazelnut toast into nuttiness, 2. toast the slices really deeply to enhance the crackeriness of it all, 3. consider using two tablespoons of olive oil/ghee instead of three since most that third tablespoon mostly ended up oozing out on the baking sheet, and 4. ask me for the required psyllium husks, since they’re only sold in the world’s most enormous containers at Whole Foods and I have enough for the rest of my life now.

May 31, 2013, 8:58am

Why isn’t more food blog writing like this.

Owls with cat heads. Cats with owl bodies. Source:...

Thu, 30 May 2013 11:17:15 -0400

Owls with cat heads.

Cats with owl bodies.

Source: @JereMysteryTour on Twitter

Winning at wedding-party photos: This couple! Photo by Quinn...

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:54:00 -0400

Winning at wedding-party photos: This couple!

Photo by Quinn Miller

Via @Hudsonism on Twitter

cherry-and-also-bomb: ♡♡♡

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:04:07 -0400

cherry-and-also-bomb:

♡♡♡

Creamy concealer and jelly-shine eyelids — courtesy of an...

Wed, 29 May 2013 13:21:41 -0400

Creamy concealer and jelly-shine eyelids — courtesy of an unorthodox lip gloss application — were deployed by Nars artists to give a “modern medieval” look at the Rodarte SS13 show.

Adding gloss to the center of each eyelid is a flapper trick from the 1920s to add sparkle and depth to the eyes. While surely shiny, the way lip gloss or Vaseline travels makes it less than ideal for real-life wear. Adapt the trend with a newfangled eye gloss or shiny shadow applied wet for more gleam and less goo.

Apply concealer to clean dry eyelids to create a base; then swipe one of these all over the lid:

Clinique Quick Eyes in Sparkling Nude

Jane Iredale Eye Gloss: brown for blue eyes, grey or green for everyone else!

If you can’t live without that super jelly shine, shell out the $46 for Rouge Bunny Eye Gloss in Angel’s Play, either alone or over color.

First exciting manicure of summer!

Wed, 29 May 2013 12:01:53 -0400

First exciting manicure of summer!

minusmanhattan: Beetle Sphere by Ichwan Noor. Created using an...

Wed, 29 May 2013 11:21:34 -0400

minusmanhattan:

Beetle Sphere by Ichwan Noor. Created using an actual 1953 Volkswagen Beetle.

Photos by See-ming Lee.

Fake a beach weekend no matter where you are - with a few key...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:40:35 -0400

Fake a beach weekend no matter where you are - with a few key items.

A-Morir makes ultimate stunna shades for day and night. I need these.

Faux glows don’t get more foolproof than tanning towelettes. Exfoliate energetically then swipe Dr. Dennis Gross’s Glow Pads all over.

Protect your kisser from harmful UV with a lightweight slick of MAC Suntints in SPF 20.

Swig a reviving Pineapple Coconut water from Evolution Fresh to really get the tropical vibes flowing - even if you’re just on your suburban lawn, or city stoop.

Tumblr gives you wiiiiiings

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:29:42 -0400

Tumblr gives you wiiiiiings

The kind folks of What’s Good at Trader Joe’s have...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:00 -0400

The kind folks of What’s Good at Trader Joe’s have us over to talk about the next wave of the coconut oil craze… new Coconut Cooking Spray. Nathan even sprays it directly into his mouth against advisement.

niknak79: I know how you feel

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:38:55 -0400

niknak79:

I know how you feel