The cure to empty cabinets

… is of course to go food shopping. BUT if you’re like me and that just never seems to happen (I think I’ve been living off old pasta, chili my dad made when I was at home and grapefruit my grandmother mailed me from Arizona, for like, two months) there’s a Web site for you!

At NotBeansAgain.com, you enter whatever you’ve got in your fridge into its ingrediometer and you’ll get a list of recipes you can make without having to go food shopping. Plus, there’s a “League of Thrift” column on the homepage with the day’s top recipes, so if you have to go food shopping, at least you can try to find something that uses the least amount of ingredients. The current winner according to me? Poor Student Pie (because how could you not relate?) which appropriately calls for 2 potatoes, 1 can of beans, butter, grated cheese and chili powder. So even if you don’t have all of that - you could easily pick up a few things for less than 10 bucks (which it would totally cost to order out) and be set for dinner tonight … and maybe lunch tomorrow.

Now, don’t expect magic or anything people, if you’ve only got lettuce and some pickles, it’s not going to turn out a secret recipe for Filet Mignon, but still, who knew most of your leftovers could be put to use? And when you’re strapped for cash, every day you don’t have to buy milk and eggs or hit up Campusfood.com counts for something.

Everything you ever wanted to know about how you are so not getting a job after graduation

Remember back in October when economists were saying we should prepare for a possible 7.1% unemployment rate by the time May graduation dates roll around? Well, in January the U.S. unemployment rate rose from an already-higher-than-that 7.2% to 7.6%. The highest cuts? The finance industry - not so surprising - Citigroup alone laid off 50,000 workers.

So where are the jobs? Seems like chemicals and pharmaceuticals are the way to go (too bad I almost failed chemistry in 10th grade) and according to sources like Forbes, Businessweek and HRWorld, anyone looking for a quick career-path change should look to technology, healthcare, education and … administrative assistant? Well, if anyone goes for the latter, I could use someone to remind me to blog more often.

Check out WSJ.com for a detailed breakdown of the biggest layoffs by industry sent to me by the last person who reminded me to blog more often. Seriously, go look at it, it’s really cool.