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Recipes -
Specialty Menus Ideas
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Written by kathleen
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It's possible to indulge in delicious food packed with flavor and still eat healthy. It just takes some smart cooking.
 Chef Nick Stellino is a cookbook author and television host who feels every meal can be a celebration with the right - and healthy - ingredients. He creates interesting and mouth-watering new ways of introducing one of the world's oldest and healthiest menus to your family table with ease (and applause). "Mediterranean cuisine is filled with aromatic olive oils, fruity vinegars, crunchy nuts, exotic spices, whole fruits and vegetables, lean meats and fish and legumes," he says. "It's all delicious and healthy!"
Olive oil and fruity vinegars are staples of Mediterranean cooking, and Chef Stellino loves some of the new flavor combinations available. "I like using Pompeian OlivExtra Plus with Omega-3 DHA because it delivers added health benefits along with great flavor from its blend of robust-tasting Pompeian Extra Virgin Olive Oil and milder-tasting canola oil," he says. "Also, Pompeian Açai Pomegranate Infused Red Wine Vinegar and Blueberry Pomegranate Infused Red Wine Vinegar are enriched with antioxidants and offer two unique flavors that add zest to salads, vegetables and marinades."
Adding bold, bright flavors to healthy foods you'll love to eat - now that's smart cooking. |
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Family, Friends, Stories of Life -
Parenting Tips & Ideas
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Written by Jean Tracy, MSS
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 If money burns a hole in your pocket, chances are you save very little. If you don't want money to burn a hole in your child's pocket, there are things you can do. Inside you'll find parenting tips to help your child become a saver, build character, and spend money on small presents for others too. Why not teach your children to follow the money - all the way to the bank. Become a model for saving. Begin by paying yourself first. That means save what you can.
I remember counseling a single mom. She told me "Money is so tight." She'd gather her children together; show them the bills she had to pay, how much she could put in savings, and the $20 they could spend for fun that month. She became an expert at teaching her children to build character by being responsible with money. Even if money is tight for you, model paying yourself first.
William Somerset Maugham, the English short story writer once said, "Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five senses without it."
Seriously, being poor is not a virtue. Being wise about money is.
One mom, an accountant friend, taught her 11 year-old daughter how to choose stocks. Her child chose her favorite kids' restaurant in which to invest some money. Within a year that stock earned one-thousand dollars. It taught her daughter a new meaning to that old saying, "A penny saved is a penny earned."
So what can you do?
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Smiley of the Week -
Laughs
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Written by LuAnn
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 A little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened.
Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00.
When the postal authorities received the letter to God , USA , they decided to send it to the President.
The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill.
The president thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note to God, which read:
Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through Washington, DC., and those buttholes deducted $95.00 in taxes.
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Family, Friends, Stories of Life -
Parenting Tips & Ideas
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Written by Dr. Marilyn Heins
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Everybody I know is scared and worried. Scared and worried about the economy. Scared and worried about losing everything from jobs to homes to retirement funds.
Whenever there is a disaster, either a natural one like a hurricane or a man-made one like the economic tsunami, the worst thing is that we have no control over what is happening. We are at the mercy of powerful external forces about which we can do nothing.
But wait. We can't tell the Secretary of the Treasury to give us a bail-out package. But when we are overwhelmed by external events there are things we can do.
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