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  • What to Toss Out When You Lose Power 9-21-11

    By Heather - Whether from a heat wave, a cold snap or a huge storm, power outages can mean that your food spoils.  Wondering what to throw out when the power goes out?  Here are some guidelines to keep you food-safe. According www.homefoodsafety.org: During power outages, food spoilage can be a serious problem when refrigerators and freezers lose [...]

  • Things You Should Never Buy Used 9-19-11

    By Whitney - I’d venture to guess we’ve all picked our kids up from daycare or school to discover we had “let them out of the house in THAT?” Pants that don’t reach the tops of their shoes or socks that are irreparably grimy are par for the course. They just grow so fast – this morning I [...]

  • Sharing responsibility for healthy eating 8-26-11

    By Whitney - I try hard to provide healthy food for my family. Sometimes I feel so paralyzed by all the no-no’s that I can hardly put anything in my shopping cart. But we cannot survive on hummus and sweet potatoes alone. The newest fear that has crossed my radar is food dyes. You know, the stuff that [...]

  • Lice prevention and treatment 8-25-11

    By Heather - First, let me tell you about my great friend Whitney. This morning, she brought her handy dandy Terminator lice/nit comb to my house and combed through my long curly hair strand by strand. That is true friendship. Now, let’s rewind. A few weeks ago, her son brought lice home and she spent a week battling [...]

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