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PowerHouse Hit The Deck Workout Cards

November 13, 2009 By

PowerhousePowerHouse Hit The Deck is a workout system you can do anywhere with no fitness equipment.  You get 35 color-coded cards and an interval timer,  each card has a picture and description of a cardio or strength training exercise and a level of difficulty. Choose from no sweat (easy), I’m glistening (medium), and sweating buckets (hard), as well as five warmup/cooldown cards.

When you are ready to workout, choose a warmup card and perform as many repetitions as it takes for you to feel warmed up. Set the timer for the number of seconds/minutes you want to do each exercise, 30 seconds is a good start. Then draw a card and perform as many reps of that exercise as you can before the timer goes off, and repeat.

What’s interesting about PowerHouse Hit The Deck is that you can really customize your own workout. You can arrange the cards so that the intensity goes from easy to hard, or you can choose to alternate levels to keep your body guessing, or just shuffle the cards and do a totally random workout.  Because no fitness equipment is needed, this is the perfect way to take your workout with you when you travel.  Buy it from PowerHouse Performance Coaching for $19.99 plus shipping, and you can pay by PayPal as well as major credit card.

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Baskin Robbins Candy and Bee M.D. Throat Drops Giveaway

August 10, 2009 By

I recently had a chance to sample delicious ice cream-flavored hard candy from Baskin Robbins, and organic honey throat drops from Bee M.D., and I asked if I could do a giveaway so I could share these yummy and healthy treats with you!  How could I resist the chance to give two lucky readers two bags of Baskin Robbins ice cream flavored hard candy and throat drops made with honey? I couldn’t :)

The Baskin Robbins site really says it best:

Baskin-Robbins Smooth and Creamy Hard Candy brings the fun of your favorite ice cream treat to your pocket. Made with real cream, these delicious hard candies are the perfect way to enjoy classic Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors in a whole new way. Available in four flavors, and a sugar free line sweetened with Splenda® brand, these mouthwatering hard candies are the best way to satisfy any ice cream craving. Scoop some up today — your sweet tooth will thank you!

baskin robbins cookie 'n cream hard candies

baskin robbins cookie 'n cream hard candies

There are four flavors- Cookie ‘n Cream, Pralines ‘n Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Espresso ‘n Cream.  I received Cookie ‘n Cream and Mint Chocolate Chip.  Each bag contains individually wrapped candies so you can throw a few in your pocket or purse to enjoy anytime.  My kids were VERY enthusiastic testers for this review! We liked both flavors equally, although the Mint Chocolate Chip candies were eaten faster because my husband helped “test” those too :)  I like that there are sugar-free options as well.

Bee M.D. has a fantastic website and I hope you click one of the links in this post and pay them a visit. Bee M.D. throat drops are made with organicBee MDhoney, a natural healing and antibacterial product that has been in use for thousands of years. Studies are now showing that products made with honey are a better cough suppressant than over the counter medication! And they taste GREAT, too.  The drops come in Organic Honey and Organic Honey Lemon flavors.  Bee M.D. is concerned about the environment as well and uses recyled material in their packaging and store displays as well.

WIN IT: Two winners will each receive  two bags of Bee MD and two bags of Baskin Robbins hard candies! Open to U.S. 18 + only.  Enter by Monday August 17th at 4:00 PM EST.

MAIN ENTRY: Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite ice cream flavor AND your favorite way to enjoy honey. Your comment can NOT have keywords instead of a real name or blog name, if it does, I am deleting it. No entry for you! So please, follow the rules.

BONUS ENTRIES: I’ll give you one extra entry for each of the following that you do or have done. Leave a separate comment for each.

  • Subscribe to my feed in a reader or by email.
  • Follow me on Twitter or let me know if you already do. Tweet (or ReTweet) the giveaway link.
  • Mention this giveaway in a blog post and link to this post. Leave the URL in your comment in case Comment Luv misses it.
  • Visit the Baskin Robbins Candy site, then come back and tell me in a comment which of the four flavors you would enjoy the most.
  • Visit the Bee M.D. site and tell me one thing you learned (it’s packed with info!)

Thanks for entering and good luck everybody!

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Why We Choose Milk

August 5, 2009 By

banana_delight_largeWe have always been big milk drinkers in my family. My parents served milk with dinner, and now I serve milk with dinner. Even when Chris and I were broke college students, we bought milk (to make macaroni and cheese of course) and had at least a glass a day. When Nathan was a toddler, he wouldn’t drink milk. Until I saw a commercial for Ovaltine and bought some. THEN he would drink all the milk I would let him have!

The website Why Milk? has a ton of great information, and I was asked to check it out for a campaign with Mom Central. Here’s information from the site that I personally think is critical. In Michigan, we have months where the sun is so weak or hidden behind clouds, that our doctors advise us to take vitamin D supplements. And drink milk if we can. Here’s why:

Many Americans are missing out on vitamin D. In fact, vitamin D deficiency in this country is being called a silent epidemic.

Why is this so alarming? Well known for its role in keeping bones strong, vitamin D is now being hailed for so much more. There’s an abundance of new research suggesting vitamin D is a super nutrient, offering an array of health benefits.

New and emerging research reveals that vitamin D, nicknamed the “sunshine vitamin,” may help support a healthy heart, normal blood pressure, healthy aging and help regulate the immune system.

Even though vitamin D is basking in the limelight, Americans of all ages are still coming up short. Our bodies can make vitamin D from the sun, but you can’t always count on it to supply what you need — especially in the winter or if you wear sunscreen.

Milk is one of the few food sources of vitamin D – in fact, it’s the leading source of vitamin D in the diet. It’s practically Liquid Sunshine® !

A serving of milk is the same for everyone, eight ounces. To help kids (and adults) get the recommended three servings a day, try this yummy-sounding recipe from WhyMilk.com:

Banana Delight

Makes 4 servings, 4 ounces of milk per serving.

Ingredients:

2 cups fat free milk
1 cup fat free yogurt
4 diced bananas
6 tbsp. chocolate syrup

Directions: Blend ingredients well and portion into 4 servings.

Nutrition: 260 calories; 1 g fat; 0 g saturated fat; 10 g protein; 57 g carbohydrates; 4 g fiber; 5 mg cholesterol; 120 mg sodium.

Nutritional and Economical Value – A Single Serving costs less than 75 cents per glass.

Check WhyMilk? for more recipes including one I want to make ASAP, “Mom’s Mocha Indulgence Smoothie”. Yum!

this post is part of a campaign for WhyMilk? and Mom Central. All opinions are mine. I am receiving a blender as thanks for my participation.

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