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Spiced Tea Photo Credit: 123Rf.com Christmas greenery Photo Credit: MaryCaliendoPhoto2020 If you're like me sometimes you get sick and tired of the same old sugary laddened recipes, mainly made for the kids, here's an article I wrote a while back that contains the recipes to make Spiced Tea and apricot bread. They both remind me of a slower time and Christmas. Hot cocoa and hot chocolate bombs are all the current rage, and tea is the less likely choice. This, however, is a very refreshing choice and one of my grandmother's new year favorites. Tea helps us slow down a bit during the hectic chaos of the last minute Christmas rush. Apricot bread is a fulfilling tasty morning or mid-day snack. Can be eaten warmed gently in the microwave and buttered or with a topping of apricot jam or jam of your choice.. Yum. Please feel free to click on my link below to check out the entire article and recipe. It's an easy recipe for both and a highly aromatic pleasant sce...

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Happy Holidays! Well if you're still on your weight-loss journey or on Ketogenics for health reasons, welcome to phase I of the holidays. (I just made up these phases to illustrate my thought processes LOL) Phase I of the holidays is in my mind simply passing the first holiday with some assemblence of eating the keto-friendly diet you were adhereing to previously. So with Phase I down, we now are approaching Phase 2 (Christmas) and that consists of so many, many ways to cheat; I do love Christmas cookies and all the fun desserts; they were truly a downfall for me. But remember to try really hard to not beat yourself up for partaking in a few of the treats. It's hard to be on a specific lifestyle when the whole house is not. This year I will include a small container of keto-friendly Christmas cookies for myself while I'm baking for everyone else. I've Included a very easy recipe for what I call Cheese Tidbits. These tasty little things can act like a chip or ...

What ever you can give of yourself; please do. So many organizations are hurting. 2020 had been a difficult and unprecedented year. The pandemic is a global one and if you can give at all, whether it is of time, talent or money. It is not always monetary, or business that come through with the donations. It is the grass roots on-the-ground people who are assisting at food pantries, boxing and passing out food, produce and supplies. It is people answering phones taking in the donations. It is passing out leaflets, and checking on the elderly through an organization that helps. Basically, it is or could be you. I just gave to my local food pantry and I will give a monetary donation to my local women's shelter for Domestic Violence for whatever they could need. For them it is triple the probelms; domestic violence, no work because of covid19, and the Christmas season. My heart goes out to them. We can hope and pray that people will continue to give full knowing that need is...

I am so excited to present you with the easiest project yet. I like easy, I like zero to low cost, and I always find ways to upcycle something. This craft willhelp you enhance your Halloween decorations, even at this last minute. I have seen this done in numerous ways with numerous materials. It's up to you what type of creepy things you like to use, the ideas could be endless here. I have dubbed this easy craft decoration "The Bone Colector". I will display the "disclocated" skeleton body amongst the moss under glass; sound intriguing? The Supplies Needed As you can see here I have used two identical old sauce jars (if you don't collect jars you should, I have used them in so so many ways craftwise, recipewise, and giftwise)and the bonus here their lids were both in black so no paint was needed either. I had one hanging skeleton, a handful of rocks and a large handful of moss, a pair of house scissors. Once I gathered all the things I thought I...

I am forever searching for ways to include "regular" life into my Ketogenics journey.For a while there, and especially when I started this low carb lifestyle, I had no idea that at times I'd feel left out. This I personally think is where people just go: forget it, I can't do this! Then they just go back to not feeling well, gaining weight or having tummy troubles. When I say feeling left out, I meant just snacking like everyone else. I used to be a chip eater; any chips like potatoe,tortilla,and other snacks that contained a salt or sweet combination...fresh kettle corn or carmel corn, a huge downfall. So I came upon this recipe for the "granola" and I held it for the longest time and never made it! So I've had this for awhile and I do not know where or from whom did I get it, so I cannot credit the Keto Cook. I will mention named brand items in this recipe, but I am not an affiliate for any of them; but I use them. KETO GRANOLA CLUSTERS ...

You don't have to be a crafty witch to make DIY for your home.It's so easy it's spooky! There are so many ways to decorate for Halloween. For this article today, I'm revamping things I have in my house already that I either dislike or are on the verge of giving away; and it is so easy with my handy dandy can of spray paint. Yes, spray paint and a desire to NOT buy anything new and to just use what you have on-hand. For today's article I'm showing how to do two very easy crafts for Halloween and then I'll put them into a vingette for pictures, but these will become part of a large Halloween tablescape that I will later highlight. **Take these two things, these over indulgent and highly over-the-top opulent candlesticks (can you believe I actually liked that kind of stuff) and this dollar store 4" x 6" golden frame; usable but not loved anymore and rethink them into Halloween.** So I always save any piece of gigantic cardboard to use as a...

*Forgiving, A Topic That Is Difficult* Let’s face it our relationships with each other are highly complex. We have friends and family surrounding us that all have different personalities, each one carrying different levels of pain and happiness. While I am no psychiatrist or doctor, I am a good friend and a better family member. I pride myself on listening to others as part of the reasons my situations don’t get out of control. I am, however, not a perfect human. I have had arguments and negative emotions toward others and I know that perhaps others have felt that around me too. The key, I feel, to having great relationships, whether it is with a sibling or friend or extended family member is to learn about forgiveness. I have personally learned that forgiveness is really truly letting a burden go, a weight that lifts from your shoulders, and then and only then can a healthy relationship be discovered. *How To Forgive* Most of the therapists I have come into co...

*Keto Journey & Cream Stuffed Peppers Recipe* The Ketogenic Lifestyle is based on a high fat and low carb diet. When I started this plan, it was to one, simply lose weight and then two, to find a greater ease into fitness. I have lost weight while on this diet lifestyle, but it is hard to maintain. I use that line for all the, oops…I ate that birthday cake and chicken nugget mess ups…because to err is human, and well that I am! But I get right back on to the keto bandwagon and chalk up my mistakes to that fact that maybe there wasn’t anything available for me to eat, which surprisingly happens all the time. Precovid19 there were so many gatherings, weddings, birthdays and dining out that the menus should just be printed saying, which carb ladened thing do you want? I do now see so many companies and small businesses bringing the Ketogenic lifestyle to the forefront. In A Nutshell This lifestyle is very doable. Don’t give up if you haven’t seen results; ...