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What’s in YOUR Medicine Cabinet?
It’s October, and Fall is in the air. I’m loving the cooler temps and getting to wear jeans again. I’m not loving the sound of my daughter coughing. It means that she’ll soon have a runny nose, and she’ll likely give her new kindergarten cooties to her little brother, who will likely take it up a notch by incubating an ear infection. With two kids at different schools and a husband who works in a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood, Not the Dishes
Healthy Happy Meals
McDonalds recently announced that they will be taking steps to make their Happy Meals healthier. They are reducing the fry portion size and adding apple slices to all Happy Meals. Does this mean lunch at Ronald’s is a nutritionally sound choice? I’m going to vote NO. On the other hand, I make the healthiest happy meals around. See? Don’t these lunches look happy? They make my kids happy too. I started making “happy meals” as a way … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood
Time to Kick the Can?
Yesterday, my friend Nicole sent me an email asking if I knew that most aluminum cans used to store food have linings that contain BPA, a chemical that’s been linked with cancer and other health problems. I responded that I did know, and then started to feel guilty that I knew and didn’t tell her. On the one hand, the studies on BPA are somewhat controversial – some say BPA isn’t harmful at all – … Read entire article »
Filed under: Around the House, Go Green, Health, Health & Fitness
There's a Word for That: Dasani
Dasani is a brand of water bottled by Coca-Cola. I did a little research into the origins of the word Dasani and found that it originates from the Coca-Cola marketing team. There is no definition for it, although one exec tried to insinuate that the word Dasani conjured a “Roman God of Water”. For me, though, Dasani conjures visions of home, of my kids playing in the bathtub, of my sweaty yard man (hubby) drinking from the water hose, and even, *gasp* of me doing the dishes. You see, Dasani is bottled here in Little Rock. From tap water. Sure, they filter it (so do I, with a Brita pitcher), and they add some salt and potassium chloride (you know, the stuff in the chemical cocktail used for lethal injections) to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Around the House, Around the Town, Go Green, Health, Health & Fitness, Spending Less, There's a Word for That
Hungry Kids
Friday we were running a little behind in getting ready for school. Carina generally doesn’t like to eat breakfast until she’s been awake for an hour or so. When it came time to leave, we had run out of time for breakfast, and Carina wasn’t hungry anyway. I handed her a granola bar and asked her to please eat it on the way to school. 15 minutes later, as I unstrapped her from her car … Read entire article »
Filed under: Health, Health & Fitness, Mommyhood
Local Food and Cloth Diapers
In January, I posted about the One Small Change project. This is my February report. In January, I pledged to start feeding my family more local food. Turns out that January is not the most ideal time of year to make such a change. No farmers markets open, not much being grown locally, and my family was out of town nearly half the month. I did sign up for the Basket a Month (BAM) program through … Read entire article »
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