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Here is another great giveaway from Cooked from the Heart, the Pink Together Giveaway!
Click on the photo above to enter the giveaway. Here is what is in this amazing gift pack:
I am trying to maintain a website about our hometown in the Philippines and one of the recent articles I just posted is the possibility that Pozorrubio, a small town in Sison may just be in a position to catch a spot on the lucrative tourist trail. A movement seems to be going on to revive traditional ways of making some of the delicacies like the rice cake pictured above. The novelty about these rice cakes is that the raw rice is woven into these baskets then cooked in sugar cane juice as it is caramelized into raw sugar or brown sugar. It's really a fascinating process.
These rice cakes are fat-free but definitely not calories free for you dieters out there. But they sure are delicious! But like any calorie rich food, I believe that you don't have to totally forsake them. I was reading sensa reviews and they even say that those diet pills are not meant to work for long term solution, that healthy eating and exercise are still your best option for keeping weight off. That, and of course moderation.
I ran across this article today on the true faces of addiction. It is a shocking look at how drug addiction not only changes you from the inside but even much quicker. It's actually quite scary. These people look like they've over dosed on ephedrine diet pills and have some crazy gross skin disease, but they don't. This is what your skin does on drugs.
Scary, yes? If you look at the caption, this change came about in a mere few months. It doesn't take long to hit bottom. It's a drug education program called from Drugs to Mugs supposed to scare kids away from trying drugs. It scares me, but I wonder how effective this really would be for your people?
When I was young I used to love to play house. Whether I only had a cardboard box to play with or an intricate wooden play kitchen set, it would be good enough to keep me occupied for hours! Well it turns out nothing much has changed now that I'm grown with my own kitchen. I still spend hours in there tinkering, experimenting and serving anyone who happens to set themselves down at my table.
When my girls were younger, they were the same way. They loved playing house! We had a whole play house corner set up for them in their room and they would spend hours in there playing! I wish I had known about The Kinder Garden toy store back then. Luckily for the internet, almost every small store now can have a wider audience. They actual store is located in the historic downtown district of Skaneateles, New York. They carry the cutest collection of kid's toys from stuffed animals, wooden toys, puzzles, and these adorable kitchen sets. Oh they also have great dress-up clothes for kids and some of the toys offered on the site are hand-made and unique. It's a great site for anyone looking for unique gifts that are not usually found in your run of the mill department store.
One of my facebook friends shared a link to this recipe and since I had everything on hand, I decided to try it. 
Now this won't get rid of belly fat anytime soon and it might even add to your cache of fat, but it sure is good! Now I like being at a decent, manageable weight, but I also like food too much to deprive myself. I found that eating in moderation is the key. Eating before you are stuffed if you're not sure what moderation is. Eating a balanced meal like this one, also helps. It's ok that you're eating meat cooked in rich coconut sauce but if you balance it out with some vegetables and steamed rice, you have a healthy and very delicious meal! Recipe will follow soon on the food blog.
Are you like many of us who are now in the midst to working to maintain our New Year's resolutions or are you with the group who have fallen off the wagon already? OR are you of the camp who meant to start with a healthier diet but just never even got started?
Well if you're in the third camp, don't feel quite such a loser yet. It's not the end of the world. One quick and easy tip to a healthier diet is to cut out soda. That's right, just one simple thing and you may even end up losing weight! If you're a soda guzzler like some people, just cutting it out of your diet can save you almost a thousand calories a day! That's the equivalent of a whole meal!
Besides, those things are toxic for you anyway. You really should do yourself a huge favor and just cut soda out of your diet. Even sites like www.dietsthatwork.org which sell diet pills will tell you that I'm right.
For instance, did you know that Coca-Cola is an excellent solvent for rust? That's right! Don't bother spending lots of money on commercial rust removers, just pour some coke over your rust problem and scrub the rust off! Coke contains phosphoric acid which dissolves the rust. Now just think what it does to your intestines every time you drink some! If that doesn't make you quit sodas, maybe you're one of those people who claim to have a cast iron gut?
I am a bit behind posting on my food blog since the desktop computers at home finally reached their limit and I am now reduced to sharing a lone laptop with my daughters. Not only is the laptop too small for my taste, that touch pad thing is just a pain. I like having a mouse. Anyway... I finally got around to posting one of my obligations.
I am holding a giveaway for this Olivari Kitchen Essentials Kit on my food blog until the end of the month. It's easy to enter, all you have to do is leave me a comment and you could win a KITCHEN ESSENTIALS KIT which includes:
· One full size, 17 oz. bottle of Extra Virgin Olivari® Mediterranean Olive Oil
· One heavy duty Olivari® garlic press
· An Olivari® recipe card for Fresh Bruschetta
· VIP coupons for you to try other varieties of Olivari® including classic and extra light taste.
So visit my food blog and enter the giveaway here: http://www.kitchen.amoores.com/2011/02/15/giveaway-extra-virgin-olivari%c2%ae-mediterranean-olive-oil/
Have you ever heard of ARTOBIOGRAPHY? If you're an artist, maybe you'll know what I'm talking about. 
The Storm of the i: An Artobiography by Tina Collen is part memoir part scrap book, part portfolio and it is beautifully put together. It is a joy to look at but it is also a joy to read about this woman's journey to self-discovery.
The author, Tina Collen is giving away a signed copy of the book to anyone whose answer to this question she finds worthy:
"Oftentimes the objects we hold onto contain cryptic clues that point towards something deeper about ourselves. Take a look around your house (or your room) at the things with which you have surrounded yourself. Is there anything you are still hanging onto that seems to contain a hidden message for you? What do you think it is?"
Do you have objects that you are holding on to? Perhaps you have a book of stamps, shoes, old appliances, vinyl records, or karaoke machines stored in your basement or attic? Do they hold special meaning or contain a hidden message for you? Go leave your story on the Storm of i review on Found Not Lost and you might win a free copy of the book! It's really amazing. You'll enjoy it.
