Bug Repellent Band

This is fabulous!

A bug bracelet scientifically tested and proven to repel mosquitoes and other flying, biting insects. Bug Bam products use a 100% natural, food-grade formula and materials.

All repelling products are non-toxic, waterproof, sweat-proof and tested to repel for up to 100 hours.

Each product comes in it’s own specially designed vapor-barrier bag to extend the life of the product. Use one of our products for 4 hours? Just place it back in the re-sealable bag, seal tightly, and when you take it out again, you’ll have up to 96 hours of repellency left.

No liquids, No DEET

Suitable for both adults and kids, one-Size fits all wristbands measure: 250mm (9.8 inches) long x 12mm (0.47 inches) wide and are adjustable to 178mm (7 inches) long.

Sold through the BugBam website, for $3.95

Ricotta Pancakes....Fluffy and Velvety!

I woke up with a taste for pancakes... fluffy, velvety ricotta pancakes! I've just tested this recipe, and it is beyond wonderful! Especially when you add blueberries or dark chocolate chips.


Ricotta Pancakes

Servings: 4 pancakes

• 1 cup ricotta
• 1 cup plain yogurt 
• 3 eggs
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• Salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
• Butter or grapeseed or other neutral oil as needed.

Beat together the ricotta, yogurt and egg yolks. Combine baking soda, flour, salt, sugar and eggs.  
Heat a griddle or large skillet over medium-low heat while you finish batter. Stir flour mixture into cheese mixture, blending well but not beating. Stir in lemon juice and zest.
Add about 1 tablespoon butter or oil to griddle or skillet and coat surface. When it is hot, add batter. Cook until lightly browned on bottom, 3 to 5 minutes, then turn and cook second side. Serve immediately with maple syrup (and have some blueberries, peanut butter or dark chocolate chips on top!).

Yet Another Reason to Read Your Labels!

Check out this insane list of ingredients in top brand products, largely distributed as healthy. Gotta read your labels, people!!

 

Yoplait Original 99% Fat Free (various fruit flavors)

Yogurt is another should-be healthy snack that has been hijacked by the food industry. Many yogurts are made to be low- or non-fat but are loaded with added sugar and other ingredients that are completely superfluous.

 

Whereas a product like Fage 0% is made of only “Grade A Pasteurized Skimmed Milk, and Live Active Yogurt Cultures,” Yoplait Original includes sugar, modified corn starch,high fructose corn syrup, kosher gelatin, and tricalcium phosphate — yet no live and active cultures, which is one of the main reasons to be eating yogurt in the first place!

 

Serving Size: 1 container (170 grams)
Calories: 170
Total fat: 1.5 grams
Saturated fat: 1 gram
Sodium: 85 milligrams
Sugars: 26 grams

Mott's Original Apple Sauce

This applesauce might just as well be called "high fructose corn syrup sauce," given that HFCS is the second ingredient after apples. Why do that to perfectly good apples? Apples aren't sweet enough?
 

Serving size: 1/2 cup (128g)
Calories: 110
Total fat: 0
Sugars: 25 grams

 

Instead, opt for the Mott's Natural Apple Sauce (No Sugar Added) version, which has only 50 calories and 12 grams of sugar.

Shocking....

Source: Mother Nature Network

RECALL ALERT: Ground Beef with Salmonella

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2012 - Cargill Meat Solutions, a Wyalusing, Pa., establishment, is recalling 29,339 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The products subject to recall, sold wholesale and for further processing:

• 14 pound chub packages of "Grnd Beef Fine 85/15", packed 3 chubs to approximate 42-pound cases.

The products subject to recall bears the establishment number "EST. 9400" inside the USDA mark of inspection. While the use-by date has passed and these products are no longer available for retail sale, FSIS and the company are concerned that some product may be frozen in consumers' freezers. These products were produced on May 25, 2012, and were shipped to distribution centers in Connecticut, Maine and New York for further distribution. t is important to note that the above listed products were repackaged into consumer-size packages and sold under different retail brand names.


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