Been sitting here reading through my little “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)” book and found a question I’ve thought about many times. The question is:
If you could invent something that currently does not exist, what would it be?
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(Trouble is the thing I’ve always thought about MIGHT actually exist and I don’t know it. If it does, and you DO, could you please send me a link!!!)
What I’d invent is a computer program into which I could put all the foods, seasonings, etc. my family ACTUALLY likes, and the program would spit out dozens of recipes using only those ingredients. It would be so cool to be able to stock a kitchen with the foods you would NORMALLY use instead (for example) of having to buy huge bottles of some obscenely expensive exotic spice just to use 1/4 tsp. to make some recipe my family isn’t going to like anyway! I want to be able to build a menu for a month and know that everything I’m going to need is at hand.
I kid you not, I DREAM about being able to do that! Planning meals and buying groceries are two of the things I hate most in life. Doesn’t help that I have a picky family.
What about you? Is there something YOU’D invent to make your life a little easier? Or someone else’s life?
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Great post, Calen. And thanks for the “crumbs” from my blog to yours. Sent me over right away. 😀
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I have a local grocer that carries spices in little bags. About two tablespoons. Perfect for when you need the odd ingredients – like juniper berries. I only use those every few years to make gravlax.
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Gravlax… I had to look that up! I didn’t know juniper berries were edible. How interesting!
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I’d like to invent a way to deactivate radioactive waste, reverse the damage caused by nuclear accidents. While I was at it, I’d safely dismantle every nuclear bomb on the planet and erase people knowledge of how to build them.
If I had time to spare after that, I’d invent a way of making Japanese Knotweed into a product that tastes and can be used exactly like sugar, but is incredibly healthy in every way.
But I’d do the nuclear thing first.
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What a laudable achievement that would be! Well, the nuclear stuff. Not sure about the Japanese Knotweed since I don’t know what that is!
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It’s a virulent plant which was imported from China by the Victorians. It can grow through the foundations of houses and destroy them, and it’s hard to kill.:( Experts charge a fortune to carry out three-year eradication programmes.
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Sounds like a secret weapon!!! But then ivy will do the same thing to a brick house.
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I’d like to invent a bike key, just like a car key, so that a thief can’t just come along and saw through the cable/lock and ride it off, but the whole bike would be out of action and unrideable unless you had the key.
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Well I’m surprised no one has one that yet! It’s a fabulous idea. Seems like it would be a great deterrent.
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Shut up and take my money!
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Like that one, eh?
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I want to be able to teleport – anywhere and everywhere 🙂
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When you get that worked out come on over and we’ll give you a tour of Utah!
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It’s on my list of places to go, definitely! That and Texas, and Canada, and Ireland, and the pyramids, and…. I’d just be flitting here, there and everywhere! I’d settle for a Harry Potterish portal 🙂
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How about a Star Trek transporter?
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Nice idea. There is a website allrecipes.com where you can input certain ingredients and relevant recipes will pop up. Far more basic than your idea though. I think you’re on to a winner there 🙂
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I love allrecipes.com. I subscribe to the magazine as well. It’s pretty good, too.
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I’m not very good on apps, but that does sound like one that many people would find useful. I have lots of ideas for inventions. An easy one to explain is toothpaste. If you go to a store and try to pick one out they all seem almost exactly the same with much the same ingredients and claims. Even the brand packaging is similar – blues, whites, reds, with metallic touches on the more expensive ones. I want more of a reason to buy one tube rather than another.
I would like us to be able to buy daytime toothpaste and nighttime toothpaste that are different formulas. They are used in completely different contexts – the night one can work some magic while I sleep, the daytime one will be assailed by coffee with a touch of honey in it as soon as the water cools down enough to drink, to say nothing of the food I’ll eat. The night one could be more of a soothing flavour not a refreshing ‘wake yourself up’ flavour.
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Well that doesn’t actually sound too hard of a thing to do. AND it sounds very reasonable. You’re right. They all look the same.
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I would invent a love-gun. It would reconfigure the neurones in a person’s brain so that the pathways that create hate were transformed to ones radiating love.
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Wouldn’t that be great! What would world peace and love actually look like… Nice to think about. 🙂
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great idea…..I hate food shopping too
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It’s a curse! AND it’s expensive…
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exactly………not to mention menial and boring to boot!
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There has been one time I actually enjoyed grocery shopping. It was like 10:30 at night and storming like crazy out. Only time I had to go get them. No kids. Was boppin’ down the aisles and the power went out. The emergency lights came on and it was totally hushed while I finished shopping. The registers had backups. That was actually relaxing!
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Check out this site. It’s close: http://www.supercook.com/#/recipes
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Thanks, Judy! I’ll go have a look!
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That is a great idea, Calen!! I’ve never heard anyone propose it before.
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Obviously I have a food obsession. 😀
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