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Use Dates For a Natural Sweetener

by mom on January 21, 2009

My son is not permitted to injest added sugar due to digestion issues. This posed a problem since his favorite meal was breakfast and Quaker Cinnamon and Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal. The other day I decided to sweeten regular oatmeal with dates as I had them leftover from Christmas baking. I boiled them for 5 minutes and blended them with a hand mixer, adding some of the boiled water. I then mixed them in with the oatmeal; the oatmeal was sweet and looked the right color- VOILA!- Works For Me!

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Home Made Remedies- Frugal Solutions

January 14, 2009

This post is inspired by my mom who told me to put a bar of hand soap at the bottom of my bed to help with my aching back. WHAT? Yup, a bar of soap. “Soap in the bed remedy” is said to cure restless leg syndrome and leg cramping. My dad has had a [...]

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Your Baby Can Read- Dr. Titzer

December 17, 2008

Dr. Robert Titzer has developed a program to get infants to read  as young as 18 months! I wouldn’t enroll my child such a program or try to teach my baby to read as I truly believe that they have enough to learn. Let children be children; they go to school early enough at 4. [...]

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