arts/craft, Family

Ombre Valentine Heart – Pinterest Inspired DIY Craft

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Ombre Valentine Heart

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What you need:

New pencil
Construction Paper
Red Ink Pad
Heart shape cut out of cardboard

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Trace heart shape to construction paper
Dip your pencil eraser lightly on ink pad

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Press firmly with your pencil for each dot (you can color outside only or inside only) Have fun
Create a nice ombre effect by starting on the edge and working out or around
Write your message of love

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Inspired by Pinterest

recipe

Pesto Double-Stuffed Potatoes

February is National Heart Month, and a reminder to everyone to take care of their hearts.

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Pesto Double-Stuffed Potatoes

Ingredients:

  • 4 large Idaho® potatoes, baked
  • ½ cup part-skim ricotta cheese
  • 1/4 cup prepared pesto
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ¼ tsp. pepper
  • Non-stick cooking spray

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 450° F.
  2. Cut ½ inch from long side of each potato into bowl; scoop inside of potato, leaving a ¼ inch-thick shell. With fork or potato masher, mash cooked potato in bowl. Stir in ricotta, pesto, salt and pepper until well blended. Spoon potato mixture into potato shells, divided evenly, heaping on top if necessary.
  3. Lightly spray cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray; place stuffed potatoes on cookie sheet. Bake until golden brown and heated through, about 10-15 minutes.

Source: Idaho Potato Commission

 

Did You Know, Food and Health

MYFITNESSPAL

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I want to talk about  MyFitnessPal app.

My daughter in law told me about it, she claimed that it was helping her lose those unwanted few pounds.  You know those pounds that we just cannot seem to shake off.

So I downloaded MyFitnessPal app .  I am so happy with it.  Now everything I put in my mouth I can get a calorie count.  It tells me how many calories I can consume daily.   MyFitnessPal is so user friendly.  If you have an i-phone it counts your daily steps.  Did you know that you need to take 10,000 steps daily.  The best is that when you do a cardio work out, it adds back calories to your daily program.

  • Medical studies show that keeping a food journal DOUBLES your weight loss!
  • Quickly add and log recipes from across the web
  • Easy and fast
  • Completely free, with no strings attached

Myfitnesspal gives  your daily breakdown of carbs, protein and fat.  I will have just finished my first full week with myfitnesspal this Saturday.  I have to say, even without the app telling me, I know that I have done right by my body with the help of myfitnesspal.

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Nickelodeon’s Wallykazam!

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Nickelodeon serves up a whopping, word-tastic episode of Wallykazam!

with the debut of the hour-long special, “The Big Goblin Problem,” on Friday, Feb. 6, at 12:00 p.m. (ET/PT).  Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) guest stars on the hit animated preschool literacy series as Wally’s Uncle Steve, a master dragon rider who goes on adventures and stops trouble.  Wallykazam! ranked as the number-one preschool series in its time period during fourth quarter 2014.

Wallykazam! follows the adventures of a troll named Wally and his pet dragon, Norville, who live in a forest with giants, goblins, ogres, sprites and other mythical creatures.  Wally uses his magic stick to make words come to life on screen that playfully transform the world around him.  Wallykazam! is Nickelodeon’s first preschool series that embeds a literacy curriculum into a full-length story, introducing skills such as letter and sound identification, rhyming, vocabulary development and comprehension strategies.

Click the below link to get a sneak preview of WallyKazam!

https://www.hightail.com/download/UlRUa3ZGT005NVc1aWNUQw.