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A few days ago, I wrote about how I despise the McDonald’s and Coke sponsorship of Olympic athletes. Today, I want to share a few better Olympic sponsorship videos with you.
American Ski Champ and Organic Farmer: Bode Miller
Hockey Players and Egg Farmers of Canada: Hayley Wickenheiser and Kim St.Pierre
Thanks to Lisa from from Borden [...]
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I asked for a treadmill for Christmas and Santa (along with all the relatives who pitched in) came through for me. I asked for it because playing basketball twice per week is no longer cutting it to keep me in shape and I can’t think of any other way to fit in more exercise without [...]
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There was a twitter party tonight where Kraft was promising to donate 50 boxes of Kraft Dinner (KD) for every tweet with the #bluebox hash tag. The goal was to reach one million boxes of KD being donated. Kraft’s donation drive, in conjunction with Feeding America, uses the slogan “Share a Little Comfort.” The thing [...]
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This is one of a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and analyzed.
Question
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Jack Spratt could eat no fat.
his wife could eat no lean.
So between the two of them,
they licked the platter clean.
Sounds close to the tale of my two little monkeys with diametrically opposed taste buds. Ironically, the only thing that appeared on both plates last night is also the only thing neither [...]
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Time to profile a few more Carnival of Play posts!
Play Day (by TopHat @ the bee in your bonnet)
A child’s job is to play.
That is how TopHat starts out her post and I couldn’t agree more! The rest of her post describes an experiment she conducted just for this carnival (I’m so flattered [...]
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Photo Credit: monkeyc.net on Flickr
They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what if you can’t afford an apple?
If you’re in Toronto chances are you can afford an apple (you can get 6 of them for $1.00). But if you’re in Calgary it will cost you $5.02. These are both major [...]
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I own or have flipped through many books on toddler and preschooler nutrition and this one is my favourite by far, so I wanted to share it with my readers.
Overview
Whining and Dining: Mealtime Survival for Picky Eaters and the Families Who Love Them is a great nutrition and recipe book for helping picky kids eat [...]
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For my first blog post of the New Year, I have decided to give back to my followers. I asked on twitter for people to send me links to their underappreciated posts from 2008. Things that they wrote that didn’t get the exposure or recognition that they deserved. I am using this post to give [...]
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