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Nowadays children have really bad eating habits that end up in obesity, diabetes among other diseases. Creating good eating habits is a frugal point while feeding the youngest. Eat This Not That! for Kids!: Be the Leanest, Fittest Family on the Block! by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding is a book that all families with kids should have. This book is a excellent guide to know what kids should eat and what should not eat.

Product Description
It’s no secret that children are getting fatter: 17% of this country’s youth are overweight or obese, and the number of diabetic children has nearly quadrupled in the past thirty years. Now, to help combat the problem, David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health, and co-author Matt Goulding have created Eat This, Not That! for Kids. This must-have guide for concerned parents offers detailed analysis and nutritional tips on thousands of the most popular food choices for kids. Covering the best and worst options available at the most popular restaurants in the country as well as the healthiest—and most harmful—foods in the supermarket aisles, if kids are eating it, this book is probably analyzing it.

Other features include:
-Restaurant Report Cards on the best chain restaurants for your kids
-Drink This, Not That! for Kids
-The 20 Worst Kids’ Meals in America
-10 “Healthy” Foods that Aren’t
-The 8 Foods You Should Feed Your Kid Every Day

School year is starting in two weeks and although the school provides lunch I have to prepare a snack for each of my kids. Healthy food will be the Menu.

You can see more Wordless Wednesday at WW HQ and 5 Minutes for Mom.

Everybody knows that kids are very curious and they tend to touch in every button and holes there are around the house. Electric outlets are very attractive to kids because they have two holes but they can be very dangerous.

To keep our electric outlets protected we should use safety caps and the best ones are the ones George invented. George DeCell is the caring father of a lovely girl that once chocked with a standard outlet plug. Knowing the effects of an unsafe effective electric outlet protection George invented SafetyCaps.

SafetyCaps are electric outlet safety caps that have big dimensions and air holes to prevent kids from chocking. They are made of a clear material that fits in every house decoration.

You can protect your whole house with only $10.99, what’s that compared with your kids safety. If you don’t have kids advise your friends and neighbours about this product and you can earn a few $$.

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Those who have been following this blog for a while probably have noticed my lake of posting. The truth is for the last few weeks (already months) I’ve been very dis-motivated with the course my life is taking. I continue to be happily married, have my wonderful kids but when it comes to work related issues I’ve been quite disappointed.

I’m a full time worker, I work in an office, I have direct contact with my bosses and I must say they don’t treat us, employees, the right way. This is probably an issue in many companies and offices but this has been messing up my mind, my work and therefore my life.

Regarding work motivation mine runs under: “Write this report or you’re fired”.

There are days that I only feel like arriving home, lie down in bed alone and just cry. My back problems haven’t been a great help lately. The pain is worse and the tendinitis and a probable disk hernia have to wait until September to start being treated.

Of course not being happy at work affects my whole family life, I lose my patience quickly when dealing with my kids, I’ve got no motivation to go out, to go through the weekend because I already know I have to go back to work on Monday, it’s like a roller coaster.

Changing jobs is not an option right know, there are many factors involved that do not allow me to do that. Work for myself would be my choice but right now no ideas come up to my mind, especially because it’s difficult to create our own business around here. Many people do it but a few years later they give up because it just doesn’t work, but on the other side I’m also tired of being a whiner.

At work we try to get a smile from a co-worker with a joke or wearing funny t shirts but sometimes that’s not enough. The worse part, all co-workers are also des-motivated.

I’ve got to overcome this I just don’t know how. Any sugestions?

Here is another light and fresh recipe. I use Tuna on a weekly basis with several dishes and I often use salads as a main dish. This time I bring here a recipe from © EatingWell Magazine that is featured on Cooking.com called Tomato, Tuna & Tarragon Salad.

RECIPE INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup diced red onion
• 1/3 cup light mayonnaise
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
• Freshly ground pepper to taste
• 2 6-ounce cans chunk light tuna in olive oil, drained
• 2 stalks celery, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
• 1/4 cup packed coarsely chopped fresh tarragon leaves
• 8 cups torn lettuce or mixed greens
• 1 pound small ripe tomatoes, cut into wedges
• 1 lemon, cut into 8 wedges

DIRECTIONS
Place onion in a small bowl and cover with cold water. Refrigerate for 20 minutes. Drain.

Whisk mayonnaise, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Add tuna, celery, tarragon and the drained onion; stir to combine. Serve on a bed of lettuce (or mixed greens) with tomato and lemon wedges.

Vegetables are great for our health so ,use and abuse of vegetables on your dishes. Lettuce and almost all green vegetables are excellent to prevent and treat anemia, use them very often.

I hope you like the recipe!

This recipe was supposed to be published a couple of days earlier but cable man left me without Internet for three days.

Look at this beauty.
This is a Nokia 5320 XpressMusic that will make us more lazy than we already are regarding technology. This cellphone has special powers and can be controlled with our voice. Without pressing a button it will follow our spoken orders. Clever don’t you think.

Thanks to the “Say and Play” function, this Nokia 5320 is able to find and play any artist and music. It’s like a pocket jukebox.

Here are the Nokia 5320 XpressMusic features:

• Superior audio quality with dedicated audio chip, fast and easy music downloads with HSDPA and USB 2.0, up to 8 GB external memory (microSD card). Music player with Nokia Say and Play application, SMS, MMS, and Xpress Audio messaging, and email  share your life easily from camera and gallery to online services, such as Ovi, Flickr and VOX. .
• Series 60 user interface with Active Standby 8-way NaviTM with select, two soft keys, send, end, clear and menu key Music keys (rewind, forward, play/pause), My Own key for Say and Play, and N-Gage games
• N-Gage is available via download (Games folder) or online at www.ngage.com JavaTM Mobile Information Device Profile 2.1 Macromedia Flash Lite 3.0 Windows Live available via download Flickr Yahoo Go Yahoo Messenger
• Email supports POP3, IMP4 and SMTP protocols SMS text messages MMS messaging with pictures up to 300 KB SynchML (local and remote data synchronization
• HSDPA category 6 (up to 3.6 Mbits/s) GPRS: Class B, multislot class 32 EGPRS: Multislot class 32 Bluetooth 2.0 connection High-speed USB with micro-USB connector3.5 mm AV connector 2 megapixel camera with integrated LED flash Second camera for video calling, supporting the Common Intermediate Format+ with 384 x 320 pixels Music player supporting MP3, M4A, eAAC+, and WMA music formats

You can buy this beauty at Amazon.com.

Wouldn’t it be great if espresso machines could do the same? Especially in the morning…