The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More

OS X doesn’t really come with a great utility for quick batch image conversions. You can do it in Preview, but it’s not exactly a quick operation.

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Snap Converter Is a Fast, Simple, Drag-and-Drop Image Converter [Mac Downloads]

Unless you’re a kitchen ninja that can plan and measure out the exact portions for every meal you make it’s likely you find yourself wasting good food because you didn’t plan right, you forgot about it, or you just had no idea what to do with it. Thankfully, it’s not too difficult to cut down on your kitchen waste. Here’s how to do it.

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Ways to Stop Wasting So Much Food in the Kitchen [Food]

Chrome: If Chrome’s built-in new tab page looks a little plain to you, or if you like the look of Microsoft’s Metro UI, MySites is a Chrome extension that changes the new tab page into a start page decorated with a web search bar and colorful tiles that you can click to go straight to your most commonly accessed sites and favorites. More

If you’re a fan of seafood but you’re tired of buying frozen fish filets, you might benefit from heading to your local seafood market or fishmonger (if you have one in your neighborhood) and buying whatever fresh catch they have in stock. The trick though, is looking over what’s in the counter and deciding what looks good and fresh, and once you get it home, preparing it so you don’t wind up picking bones out of your meal. Thankfully, it’s not too difficult.

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The Right Way to Choose and Fillet Fresh Fish [Do It Right]

When you get those fresh veggies home from the farmer’s market or the grocery store, naturally you’ll want to give them a good scrub down before cooking them. Sure, you can use plain water, but if you’re trying to get the grit out of the nooks and crannies of leeks or you’re dealing with an unwashed head of lettuce, don’t spend money on a commercial vegetable wash—especially when most of them are pretty much baking soda and water anyway. Make your own

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Mix Baking Soda and Water For a Cheap, Effective DIY Vegetable Scrub [Household]

If you want to go out of town without your garden plants wilting from neglect, you can easily turn plastic 2-liter soda bottles into a makeshift irrigation system.

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Repurpose a Soda Bottle Into a DIY Irrigation System [Gardening]

Next time you’re cutting a loaf of unsliced bread turn that loaf over and start the cut from the bottom—you’ll have an easier time cutting as the bottom is softer than the crust and since you’ll cut easier you can avoid squishing the bread. More

Last year we covered a recipe to make a Margarita-like popsicle using Mike’s Hard Lemonade but just in time to plan for your Cinco de Mayo party culinary author Karen Solomon gives us a real version with real tequila.

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DIY Margarita Popsicles [Video]

If you have a tiny apartment and rarely need an entire dining table you may want to consider buying a folding table and hanging it on the wall with bicycle storage hooks when not in use. More