Tide Coldwater @SheSpeaking Review Program
I always use cold water to do my laundry. I feel that it extends the life of my clothes, plus its cheaper on the bills.
So imagine my delight when I learned that Tide Coldwater existed! It is detergent specially formulated for use in cold water!
WhaPOW!
You can use Tide Coldwater on all your laundry - stains, bright colors, and whites.
Through SheSpeaks review program, I was given a full sized bottle of Tide Coldwater to try.
Since I am pro-cold-water-washing in the first place, I feel super special to use Tide Coldwater. I don’t have to worry about it not dissolving or being activated properly, and it smells magically delicious.
I am happy that Tide Coldwater came into my life.
Tide Coldwater is part of Proctor & Gamble’s family of “Future Friendly” products. By using cold water on your laundry you can save energy, and save money, too.
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Eating, Moving, and Being Healthy and Stuff
SunRidge Farms offers a wide variety of delicious and sustainably-made organic and natural snack mixes, nuts, confections and more.
I like that SunRidge Farms products are available in bulk, which means less cost and less waste in packaging.
SunRidge Farms has a commitment to natural ingredient sourcing, and provides nutritious products that are free of unhealthy refined sugars, hydrogenated oils, artificial colorings and preservatives.
All SunRidge Farms’ products are manufactured in a facility that is powered by 70 percent solar energy at peak usage, making these products eco-friendly AND magically delicious.
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Wacky Apple features an array of certified organic apple juices and sauces that stretch from straight-ahead apple to versions blended with organic cinnamon, apricot, cherry, berry and mango fruits.
Wacky Apple also makes a line of organic pocket-ready “flat fruits.”
The Wacky Apple Line is a unique entry into the rapidly growing organic foods trade.
In addition to being certified organic, kosher and free from pesticides, Wacky Apple items are naturally higher in fiber and vitamin C. Why? They include the healthy apple peel typically removed in products made with non-organic apples. Wacky apples are also naturally sweeter thanks to the chilled air that floods down from the Rocky Mountains each night.
Yums.
Dr. James W. Anderson is a Professor of Medicine and Clinical Nutritionist at the University of Kentucky, and his science based method is simple, effective, and inexpensive.
By taking advantage of easily found meal replacements to supplement daily fresh fruits and vegetables, he has created a total meal plan that can be bought at the supermarket for an average cost of $61 per week!
The Simple Diet: A Doctor’s Science-Based Plan includes comprehensive recommendations for frozen meals and snacks from brands like Lean Cuisine, Slim-Fast and Banquet, recipes for fresh homemade shakes and smoothies, guidelines for a healthy mix of meal replacements and whole foods, suggestions for eating out at restaurants without derailing progress, and worksheets to chart your progress.
Stay on a budget even cheaper than fast food!
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Phil and Amy Parham, contestants from NBC’s The Biggest Loser: Families, season six, offer a solution for parents in their new book, The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children.
Using principles and practices they’ve used successfully in their own family, Phil and Amy equip parents with the tools they need to help their children become healthier and happier.
The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children is about raising fit kids and sharing a healthy lifestyle together for a more closely knit family.
The guide is both inspirational and easy-to-follow.
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Top Three Sexiest Uniform Kits in UEFA 2011-2012
In order to prove my theory that Barcelona has the sexiest uniforms in all of the UEFA, did some research to cull the three sexiest kits from the 48 UEFA Europa League teams.
So I’m sharing this with you, in case you know nothing about soccer, you can have something to get excited about. Eye candy.
Obviously the sexiest:
1). Barcelona.
These uniforms are like Chuck Norris. Each one is made from like 15 recycled bottles, so when they make a jersey, the earth rejoices.
Black (away), Red/Blue (home), Yellow (practice)
2.) Sevilla
What can I say, I’m a purist.
Clean and not spammy. I also dig a v-neck.
3.) Juventus. I wanna take your pic-cha!
Dishonorable mention:
1) Getafe: Um. Your athletic shirt says “Burger King” quite giantly in the center. Gross!
Not even in an ironic or hipster sense.
2) Real Betis: NO ALIBI!
Kit so ugly, they mama slapped theySELF.
3) Marseille, say what!?
1992 nightmare.
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Centrum Multivitamins and @One2OneNetwork Made My #NutritionPossible
One2One Network and the makers of Centrum multivitamins introduced me to ProNutrients™ – a select line of supplements designed to naturally work with your multivitamin to further support your health every day.
I’m don’t eat meat, and I developed a dairy allergy after my second pregnancy. I think A LOT about what nutrients I might be lacking in my daily diet.
Centrum is part of a new website called NutritionPossible.com that offers trusted information from health sources, nutrition experts AND guided information through a unique self-assessment tool – for free!
The new ProNutrients line includes different products, including Omega-3, Probiotic and Fruit & Veggie supplements, each offering a different health benefit.
- ProNutrients™ Omega-3 goes beyond heart health to also support your brain and eyes.* It comes in an ultra-concentrated MiniGel, which is smaller than most other brands, so it’s easy to swallow.
- ProNutrients™ Probiotic goes beyond digestive balance to also support healthy immune function.* It’s designed in a powder form with probiotics that arrive active and ready to work. The flavorless powder easily dissolves into any cool food or beverage like smoothies, yogurt or cereal.
- ProNutrients™ Fruit & Veggie MiniTabs harness the power equal to a serving of a blend of fruits and vegetables and is 100 percent naturally sourced from grapes, blueberries, raspberries, plums, carrots and tomatoes.
I was sent a package of ProNutrients™ Omega-3, ProNutrients™ Fruit & Veggie, and ProNutrients™ Probiotic.
I was also sent a Centrum Specialist™ product! I got Centrum Specialist™ Energy. Centrum Specialist is a new line of enhanced multivitamins that is aimed at specific health priorities adults want to target.
These supplements are easy to add to your daily routine. Personally I make smoothies quite often, so its no problem to add a little tasteless powder to the mix for an extra boost of nutrients.
POP QUIZ!
Which gives you the same amount of omega-3 fatty acids as one serving of ProNutrients Omega-3 supplement?
A. 34 ½ cooked shrimp
B. 1 palm size portion of fish
C. A can of tuna
D. 5 oysters
How many active probiotic cultures does ProNutrients Probiotic have per serving?
A. 100 thousand
B. 2 billion
C. 1 trillion
D. 1 million
Which fruit or vegetable is not a part of the ProNutrients Fruit & Veggie formula?
A. Banana
B. Tomato
C. Blueberry
D. Plum
I took the assessment on NutritionPossible.com and learned that I need to eat more beans and dairy. It also recommended some supplements for me to take, and gave me a $10 off coupon!
Take the assessment on NutritionPossible.com, and share something you didn’t know you were lacking.
I am participating in a Centrum ProNutrients campaign hosted by One2One Network. I received nutritional product and compensation. While all opinions stated are my own, I make no claims about Centrum ProNutrients as a product or it’s effectiveness.
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@Ford ’s Innovation & Design Fantasy Camp #fordnaias
This is a guest post by Manzell Blakeley, who attended the Ford Innovation & Design Fantasy Camp event on behalf of MomMostTraveled.com. Manzell was a guest of Ford, but was not compensated for his time. These opinions were not boughten. Follow him on twitter.
Ford flew myself and many, many (147) other bloggers out for their media preview event before the North American International Auto Show.
There were many different flavors of bloggers - auto bloggers (@tunedtech); urbanism and design bloggers (@inhabitat; @underworldmagz); and social media professionals (@fatih_gunar) from all over the world - the US, Canada, Germany, South Africa, Turkey, and other nations were represented.
The big news from Ford was their unveiling of the newest iteration of the Ford Fusion.
It’s a mid-size Sedan, and it’s success is very important because it’s the largest automobile market.
Unlike the 1970’s and 80’s when US automakers continually produced putrid watertrash and were getting creamed by Japanese manufacturers, today American cars are totally competitive with the imports like the venerable Civic, Accord, Camry, et al.
The Fusion was introduced in 2005 and essentially replaced the Ford Taurus - a vehicle which we were told by various Ford exec’s “saved the company” with it’s success in the late 1980’s.
The 2013 edition of the Fusion represents the “2nd generation” of the model and is more than just a year-to-year tweaking of style and engine specs. Ford has begun to make many of its cars on a identical “platforms”, which the Fusion shares with the Ford Fiesta, Focus, and Mondeo; it’s related to Ford’s “One Ford” concept where they are trying to unify their various units across the corporation.
Some of the main features are Ford MyTouch (fascist child-rearing techniques whereby parents can limit the car to whatever speed they like when the kid is driving), Lane Assist (so you can fall asleep at the wheel safely), and a voice system where you can blather like an idiot and the system will tell you where the nearest starbucks is. It can bluetooth with your phone and stuff, I guess that’s nice.
More interesting to me were the engine options. They’re offering both a traditional gas/combustion option; a battery-hybrid, and plug-in electric hybrid engine option.
With their EcoBoost on the gas engine, they get a pretty good 37 mpg on the highway. The regular hybrid is a bit better and gets 47 mpg; but the plug-in electric version gets an excellent 100 mpg “equivalent”.
Traditional hybrids recharge batteries using excess energy from a gasoline engine and during braking, so that all electric energy is ultimately gas-powered.
Plug-in hybrids recharge their batteries from the electricity grid which is why the are so much more gas efficient. Personally, I think 100mpge (miles-per-gallon equivalent) is transformative and given time to permeate the market, will drastically reduce auto-based emissions over the next 20 or 30 years.
The 2013 Focus is the first production vehicle to offer all 3 engine options standard and except for a small exterior badge, the vehicles are identical in trim, options, and appearance. This should be common for all 2014 models in my opinion.
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This is a guest post by Manzell Blakeley.
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I Wrote Myself A Love Letter
I have my self-esteem valleys. I have mountain tops, too. Oddly they seem proportionate to strange and unrelated things, be it weather, laundry, food, or entertainment options available to me.
One of my favorite friends is big into positive thinking. Normally I am a skeptic but she was so sincere and kind that she won me over in the 2 years we worked together. So now I trust her to recommend those “how to be more awesome” books and gurus.
Yesterday I read about writing a love letter to yourself.
It sounded stupid.
But I did it.
It felt a little like an assignment from Dr. Leo Marvin in What About Bob?.
I addressed my insecurities in the letter as if i was head over heels in love with myself.
I emailed it to myself, and even though I know its from me, it makes me smile. I read it a couple times last night, one of those “I can’t sleep” nights.
If you struggle with your self worth or self esteem or if you feel like everyone treats you like crap, try it.
Here is mine.
Dear Candice,
I am so lucky to have you in my life. Every thought of you fills me with joy and pride. The moment we are together i feel a smile inside of me that bursts out of my heart and onto my face. I love you and think of you constantly. I love your adorable mannerisms, your sexy body, your quirky and endearing world view. I love the way you cook, the way you sing, the way you remember things, and the compelling way you retell them. You make me feel like the most important person in the world. You brought direction to my life and move me toward my goals. With you I can do and be anything that I want. You are amazing. I love you, I love you, I love you. Thank you for letting me share in your beautiful life. You encourage and complete me. Thank you.
In love,
Candice
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I shared my letter with a few people. One sweet lady said, “That makes me want to love you, too!”
The good news is, there is plenty of me to go around.
I got the following email from a mentor in awesomeness. He said to share it.
Read it, then go totally ninja on your week. BOOM.
Hey Cancan,
I’m sitting on an airplane thinking about what the best performers and most successful people do to continually outperform everyone around them.As we enter what I hope will be the single best year of your life yet, I’ve come up with 35 Tips that I invite you to concentrate on. Share these tips, reflect on then, post them where you can see them - and allow them to infuse your mindset:
- Remember that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.
- Keep the promises you make to others - and to yourself.
- The project that most scares you is the project you need to do first.
- Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.
- Stop being busy being busy. This New Year, clean out the distractions from your work+life and devote to a monomaniacal focus on the few things that matter.
- Read “The War of Art”.
- Watch “The Fighter”.
- In a world where technology is causing some of us to forget how to act human, become the politest person you know.
- Remember that all great ideas were first ridiculed.
- Remember that critics are dreamers gone scared.
- Be “Apple-Like” in your obsession with getting the details right.
- Take 60 minutes every weekend to craft a blueprint for the coming seven days. As Saul Bellow once said: “A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.”
- Release your need to be liked this New Year. You can’t be a visionary if you long to be liked.
- Disrupt or be disrupted.
- Hire a personal trainer to get you into the best shape of your life. Superstars focus on the value they receive versus the cost of the service.
- Give your teammates, customers and family one of the greatest gifts of all: the gift of your attention (and presence).
- Every morning ask yourself: “How may I best serve the most people?”
- Every night ask yourself: “What 5 good things happened to me this day?”
- Don’t waste your most valuable hours (the morning) doing low value work.
- Leave every project you touch at work better than you found it.
- Your job is not just to work. Your job is to leave a trail of leaders behind you.
- A job is not “just a job”. Every job is a gorgeous vehicle to express your gifts and talents - and to model exceptionalism for all around you.
- Fears unfaced become your limits.
- Get up at 5 am and take 60 minutes to prepare your mind, body, emotions and spirit to be remarkable during the hours that follow. Being a superstar is not the domain of the gifted but the prepared.
- Write love letters to your family.
- Smile at strangers.
- Drink more water.
- Keep a journal. Your life’s story is worth recording.
- Do more than you’re paid to do and do work that leaves your teammates breathless.
- Leave your ego at the door every morning.
- Set 5 daily goals every morning. These small wins will lead to nearly 2000 little victories by the end of the year.
- Say “please” and “thank you”.
- Remember the secret to happiness is doing work that matters and being an instrument of service.
- Don’t be the richest person in the graveyard. Health is wealth.
- Life’s short. The greatest risk is risk-less living. And settling for average.
I genuinely wish you the best year of your life.
Stay Great.Robin
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If Parenting Was Like Hosting A Children’s Show
Yesterday I made grilled cheese sandwiches with leftover spaghetti sauce in it for my kids’ lunch.
I was cutting a muffin in half for them to share for dessert, and I had this rush if inspiration and confusion
I thought, “Why do children’s shows address the audience in that psuedo excited yet condescending way? I taught preschool and I never talked to the kids like that. But….supposing I DID!? What would happen?”
Yeah I thought all of that while slicing through a muffin.
So I opened up the MacBook, pressed record, and did this:
I’m not sure what I learned from my experiment. But I think I want to do that again.
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Bathroom Time is Me Time @Ivory #IvorySoapDish
I love the smell, the fact that it floats, and I felt super special when I was at some kind of camp and we got to carve a bar of Ivory soap. I made a whale.
A white whale.
I am a fan of Ivory, and Ivory is a fan of moms. They did a survey and found that 66% of moms lock themselves in the bathroom to steal moments of “me” time.
Or “you” time…its not “Candice Time” its personal time, ya dig?
The survey of more than 1,000 moms reveals that 80 percent of American moms think motherhood is actually more complicated today than it was 20 years ago.
And while they may be more stressed out and busier than ever, almost nine out of 10 moms think they’re doing a better job balancing it all than their mothers did.
The complete survey questions and results will be shared throughout the “Soap Dish” Facebook community. You can be a part by visiting http://www.facebook.com/ivory!
You know that chick that plays Molly on the show Mike & Molly? Her name is Melissa McCarthy, and she is the Soap Dish spokes-lady. She is likeable. I wonder if she uses Ivory soap and thus smells 99.44% pure? You can “dish” with her and other moms on Ivory’s “Soap Dish” forum.
You might be surprised to learn that Ivory comes in three scents now! There is aloe, lavender, and original.
I love original, but I also give props to the aroma-therapeutic properties of lavender!
Lets carve a whale!
I definitely use the bathroom as my sanctuary.
That doesn’t guarantee that I can always be alone in there…but I do try.
I have exaggeratedly time consuming self-care tasks that I don’t rush through, such as flossing and exfoliating.
Whatever it takes, my friends. I need to be alone with my thoughts from time to time.
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CanCan Wants To Be @DuaneReade VIP #DReade #cbias
If you haven’t been to New York City, chances are that you haven’t been initiated into the magic that is Duane Reade Pharmacy.
The Magic comes from all of the amazing amenities contained within the various Duane Reade stores.
Depending on the location, a given Duane Reade could have a Photo Kiosk, Digital Photo, Film Processing, Skin Wellness, Moneygram, Blockbuster Kiosk, Look Boutique, Walk-in Clinics, Fresh Food, Growler Bar, or Sushi bar.
Duane Reade currently has an open call for 10 NYC-dwelling VIP bloggers to partner with for 2012. This is exciting to me because, to be honest, I think Duane Reade is awesome and I wanted to visit all of the super cool locations anyway.
As a VIP blogger, I would have a legitimate reason to trek out to the Chelsea Duane Reade and eat sushi. Otherwise, I might have to just do that in secret and not tell anyone, lest they judge me for spending my free time exploring a hyper-local chain pharmacy.
In this video I tell the story of how Duane Reade was a part of my initiation into New York City living.
The first time I ever flew to New York, my ear drum ruptured as the plane was landing. I had to make an emergency clinic visit, and then stumbled around Manhattan confusedly until I finally found a Duane Reade where I could get my prescription filled.
That was my first time.
Initially I was wary, because Duane Reade was new and different. But, I had nothing to lose, except my consciousness if I continued to wander around confusedly on that hot summer day.
At the moment, I wasn’t ready to appreciate all of the Duane Reade perks and extras, but they took care of me in my time of need, and I will never forget that.
I work in Murray Hill, and I live in Clinton Hill.
That might sound intimidatingly hilly (it is 95% less hilly than the Appalachian foot hills wherein I was raised), but it means that, wherever I am in my normal daily routine, one of the over 250 Duane Reade locations is within easy striking distance.
My Personal Duane Reade Bucket List includes these tasks:
-obtain my workday lunches from Duane Reade, every day for one week
-obtain perfectly manicured nails using only Duane Reade supplies
-eat Duane Reade sushi
-celebrate holidays, both large and small, using supplies from Duane Reade
-make appropriate use of the Growler bar
-take weekend field trips to all of the super special Duane Reade locations, including the new Chelsea locale, the Broadway at 35th street locale, the Bedford Ave store in Williamsburg, and the flagship store in Union Square.
-buy an eco-friendly bamboo cutting board (hey…I didn’t say all of the tasks had to require a lot of effort or anything).
I hope to lead you as your fearless Duane Reade VIP in 2012!
Think you have what it takes to be one of ten Duane Reade VIP Bloggers? Enter now by writing a blog post telling us why you love Duane Reade and why you should be chosen to be a 2012 Duane Reade VIP Blogger. As a VIP Blogger you’ll receive:
- $200 in Duane Reade gift cards per month
- Exposure from Duane Reade via Facebook and Twitter.
- Exclusive knowledge on Duane Reade promotions and products
- Opportunity to be featured in the Duane Reader, the circular and new website.
- Opportunity to attend executive level meetings
- And much more!
As a VIP Blogger, you’ll be expected to write up to 2 blog posts a month, share content via Twitter and Facebook, and participate in corporate meetings, in-store events, and serve as a brand advocate.
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@ZocDoc Came To My Traveling Rescue #ZocDocRocks #spon
As you might have noticed, I travel a lot.
Once upon a time, in 2010, when my plane started its decent to JFK airport, my ears were in a lot of pain. You know, that is normal when flying. But this time was more severe.
I had a party to attend that night, and I tried my best to have conversations while my ears felt like we were under water.
That night my ears hurt so badly, I couldn’t sleep at all. At about 5am I got up and took a shower. Around that time I noticed my ears were bleeding.
As much as I usually try to “tough it out” when it comes to illness, this was new and scary territory.
I went online and used ZocDoc.com to find a walk-in clinic and made an appointment. I did this around 6 or 8 am, on a Saturday, and got an appointment at a clinic on Madison Ave. by 11 am.
The doctor said that he didn’t see a tear in my eardrum, but it might be torn, but it is definitely irritated.
He prescribed an antibiotic, nose spray, recommended Motrin, and a decongestant.
After a rest on the exam table (I think that made the doctor nervous) I stumbled around the streets looking for a pharmacy.
In the meantime I felt super weak and had a rest in a cafe in the middle of 9 NYC construction workers. They didn’t pay me any attention but I was entertained by their animated conversations and crazy thick accents.
After one false start at some kind of homeopathic pharmacy (“We only have weird stuff” the pharmacist said.), I found a “real” drugstore and got what I needed.
I spent the rest of the day in bed.
Gradually my hearing returned after a round of steroids.
ZocDoc really helped me out of a scary situation. I had no idea how to find a doctor and make an appointment, and I needed help ASAP. It wasn’t quite an “emergency” but I was out of my mind with pain! ZocDoc came to my rescue.
That was 2 years ago, and ZocDoc has even more fancy ways to help and advise now.
There is a ZocDoc Facebook page, which often hosts giveaways, a ZocDoc app, and you can search doctors by specialty, city, procedure, and insurance accepted.
I was selected for this sponsored review by the Clever Girls Collective. To learn more about ZocDoc, please visit their website.
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