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Grow Your Own Green Tea

Well it’s the beginning of a new year. This is the time that we are going full steam ahead with our new New Year’s Resolutions. More times than not, that includes wanting to eat right, exercise, and watch your weight. Well I can fully attest to the value of adding green tea to your diet. Though I was not trying to lose weight, rather increase my antioxidant intake, I began noticing a leaner me. I didn’t do anything differently, except add one cup of green tea to my daily shot of Mona Vie and I’m a happy camper. The cool thing is I never knew they had kits to teach you how to grow your own green tea. So if you drink tons of green tea like me and would rather grow your own…Click Here!

The Go For the Juice Challenge Begins 02/01/10

2010 is the year for eating healthier and living healthier. In doing so, I have decided to challenge myself to talk small steps that will make major positive impacts on my life. I challenge you to join me.

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Simplify Cooking by Doing it Once a Month!

I think this should be titled the Frugal Cook. I know someone who needs to have someone cook once a month for them so they can eat healthier. It’s sad that we live such busy and complex lives that we don’t even have time to sit down and prepare a good meal. We’re too busy rushing off to work, meetings, taking the kids to football, getting things together for this project and doing everything but being healthy. There are many simple, easy, and effective ways to make your life simpler, healthier, and tastier…

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Healthy Urban Kitchen Cookbook

It’s no secret that doctors and pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to be too healthy. If you were, then they would be out of a job. It’s no wonder that the foods we’re eating these days now seem to be the culprit in making us sicker. However, they want us to eat healthier. The funny thing of it is, in order for us to eat healthier we have to spend more. It costs far less to eat a greasy burger w/Cheese and fries than it does to eat a healthy Chinese Chicken Salad. Why is that? While you think about it, click here…

Bacon Flavored Vodka?


www.bakonvodka.com

I had to see it to believe it. Then I had to click it to check it out. Yep there it was. A bottle of bacon flavored Vodka. After checking out the website, I can see that this specialty liquor has its place.

Bakon Vodka is a superior quality potato vodka with a savory bacon flavor. It’s clean, crisp, and delicious. This is the only vodka you’ll ever want to use to make a Bloody Mary, and it’s a complementary element of both sweet and savory drinks.

Bakon Vodka is also a great Bar-B-Q companion. Use it in a marinade or sip it chilled with a steak. Check out our recipes section for more ideas.

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Acai Berry the Superfood of Mona Vie

A superfood is described as any food that contains non-essential nutrients that scientific studies show are highly beneficial for human consumption. We are often times in such a hurry to get to work, or that next appointment, drop the kids off at sports, or picking up the dry cleaning that sadly, our diet suffers. We try to pick up anything quick and simple to scarf down on the way to the next destination. This means fast and often times greasy foods. We don’t take the time to make sure that we get the vitamins and nutrients our bodies need to work at optimum levels. If you’re a business person, entrepreneur, or someone who uses critical thinking, analytical, or decision making skills on a regular basis, your diet could be playing a major role on how effective and efficiently you are able to do your job. This is where superfoods can be extremely beneficial.

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