product review

Mott’s Not Just Applesauce

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Mott's Mott’s has come out with a great new way to eat applesauce,without  using a spoon.

How great is that!  It is called Mott’s Snack & Go Applesauce Pouches.motts-snackgo

A pouch filled with applesauce?  Yes! Convenient cap ensure less mess-even when you’re on the go!  Mott’s applesauce is an excellent source of vitamin C, no sugar added, and the best, wait for it, only 40 calories a pouch.  Really!

OK, I am a little prejudice for I have always loved Mott’s applesauce.  A jar of Mott’s is a staple in my refrigerator.  Never had a fridge with out a jar of Mott’s apple sauce.         Mott's for Tots JuiceMott's Tots Fruit SnacksMott's for Tots Juice   My grandchildren love Mott’s too!  Add a Mott’s to your child’s lunch box and see how they smile. 

Here are some ideas for the lunchbox this school year!

  1. Bean-based soup/stew in a thermos, whole grain crackers and low-fat yogurt.
  2. Turkey sandwich with low-fat Swiss cheese on fiber -rich bread, baby carrots and Mott’s snack and Go Applesauce pouches.
  3. Whole grain roll or bagel with butter or margarine, 2 hard-boiled eggs,bell pepper sticks and a Mott’s apple juice box.
  4. Once in a while, pack 1-2 slices of leftover thin-crust pizza, then include Mott’s Medley’s sauce in the lunch box to get some fruits and veggies in their too!
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Did You Know

Happy Birthday, John Lennon

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John Lennon would have been 71 years of age this October 9th, had he lived.

An ordinary man John was not.  In his early days, Lennon gathered 3 young Liverpudlian lads, and help create a phenomena called…

THE BEATLES…YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!

Lennon was witty and handsome, maybe more witty than handsome.

Lennon was often referred to as the “‘Smart Beatle”.

John Lennon was infamous for his comments, which at times got him into trouble with his fans and then some.  One of his  most famous comments that caused Beatle songs to be band from radio stations, and burnt, was his statement   “The Beatles are more famous than Jesus.”

The funny thing is I  understood what he meant by that comment. I believe Lennon was not making a anti-Christ statement, he was stating a sad fact.

John Lennon was not only a creator of music,  he also created style.  A style that others followed, styles like the Lennon hat,  Lennon glasses.

John Lennon’s songs evoked a sophisticated dream like melody.  Songs such as, Strawberry Fields, In my Life, Rain, Norwegian Wood ( this bird has flown), just to name a few.

The most popular song, that resonanted around the world, till this day,  is “IMAGINE”, voted in 2004 as the world’s third greatest song of all time, by Rolling Stone Magazine.

“IMAGINE” bundled up all the dreams that John had for the world.  Dreams of a  peace that reached beyond our universe.  Dreams that we all dream.  John Lennon taught us to dream these dreams, and hope that a world of peace and love would become a reality…but John forgot one thing…John forgot the one ingredient that causes dreams to be shattered…and that is man himself.

For you see it was man who in the end shattered John’s dreams.  His life was taken by one lone man who had a dream of his own and that dream ended up to be  our nightmare.

On December 8th, 1980, Mark Chapman made a decision to take the life of John Lennon.  To remove him from this world, to stop him from ever saying another witty remark, or create another song for us all to enjoy.

Yes, Mark Chapman stopped John Lennon from reaching a ripe old age.  But Mark Chapman could not imagine that the spirit of John Lennon would live on…in his music, in his style and in our hearts.   Now we are left to imagine what this world would have been like had Lennon lived to become a senior citizen.

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Family

Baby Showers Can Be Fun

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A baby shower is all about babies, yes? However this baby shower was about having fun and showing off the grandma’s to be.

Here is Doris, a childhood friend, standing by her daughter-in-law who is about to, as the generation of today put it, POP!  If you ask me Andrea does not even look like she is having a baby…wish I carried like that.

The sash Doris is wearing does not announce that she is Miss America, it announces that she is the Grandma to be.

Here is little Miss Emma, with Liz.   Emma was the only baby invited, see she knows people in high places.  Her grandma is Doris…

Not to mention that her mom is Amy, Doris’s daughter, and her great-grandmother is, Mary, Doris’s mother.   Emma was so quiet we never knew there was a baby at the baby shower.

The best part of the  shower was the games.

Here Pattie is wearing a string of pins, 5 pins to be exact.  The strings were given out to all the guests.  We all wondered what the string of pins was for…a new type of accessory, maybe?  No, it was for a game.  Interesting a pin game, OK, we will play.

The object of the game, get the pins from the other guests, the guest who says the word  ‘BABY’ .

Are your thinking, who is going to say baby?  To our surprise baby was used by everyone on our table, and more than once.

When someone used the ‘B’ word we all yelled, “YOU SAID BABY” now hand over a pin.

We did have some cheaters, like my mom.  She said baby then denied that she said the ‘B’ word…. she would not give up her pin…Ma, it is only a pin.  

Here is Maryann, she won the fill in the blanks of the nursery rhyme game…amazing, Maryann can still remembers all the words to the  nursery rhymes… word for word…

Liz won a prize as well.  As for me, well, I just walked away with the thank you gift.

 Our table made more noise than Little Miss Emma. See, we screamed with laughter when we won and when we lost, and screamed with laughter even when we cheated.

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