I recently became more into cooking and trying new dishes. With that came a lot more work in preparing foods. My blender sucked and I didn't have a food processor. This does exactly what I need it to do with no effort. I've used the blender to make smoothies, dressings, sauces, ice cream and the food processor to make cauliflower rice, date power balls, tofu meatballs, and just chop veggies for things like salsa in no time. It's small which is great for storage.