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Avocado Oil For Popcorn

Avocado Oil For Popcorn

If you have not heard about Buddha Bowl Organic Popcorn that uses avocado oil for popcorn then you are missing out on the perfect healthy snack. It can be found in Whole Food stores as well as Amazon and other online stores. I have seen it in a few health food isle but it is not easily available to the average shopper.

Why Choose Popcorn With Avocado Oil?

Popcorn in itself is a healthy snack especially for calorie counting dieters until adding flavored powders and butter. Popcorn without toppings is dry and tasteless. I have always thought those who have tried to eat popcorn without salt and butter are not being totally honest with themselves. A diet snack needs to be enjoyable for the diet to last.
Avocado oil lowers cholesterol because it’s high in monounsaturated oleic acid which is beneficial to the heart and weight loss. You want this type of fat in your diet. Avocado oil is also slow to burn and is a healthy oil for high-temperature cooking.

 

Why Buy When You Can Make It Yourself?

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There are two ways to make popcorn healthy. Avocado oil is the best oil to pop popcorn.

Popping Popcorn on the Stove-top

-1/4 cup of avocado oil in the bottom of a large sturdy pot
-1/2 cup of popcorn kernels
-Cover the pot and turn the temperature to medium
-When you hear the fist pop shake the pot back and forth (using oven mitts)
-When the Popping slows to one pop to every few seconds take the pot off the burner and let it stand until all the popping stops

 

Avocado Oil as a Topping

The easiest way to pop popcorn is to use an air popper or to microwave. Without a good topping, the popcorn will taste like dried bark.
-Heat the avocado oil on low heat
-Add steak spice or another favorite seasoning to the oil
-Test the temperature of the oil by placing a popcorn kernel in the pot. The oil will be the right temperature when the oil sizzles around the kernel. If the oil starts to smoke it is too hot and should be treated with care.
-Pour over freshly popped popcorn

 

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Popsicle Recipes – How to Make Popsicles

Popsicle recipes can be used as a summer activity and healthy treat. Popsicles can be full of sugar and ice cream but there are also many recipes that are sugar-free or fruit based.

How to Make Popsicles

You can make homemade popsicles using icecube trays or store bought popsicle trays. Pour juice or flavored water into a tray and add a popsicle stick, which can be purchased at craft stores. Fruit or candy can be added to make custom made popsicle recipes. Those pieces can be layered. The liquid and fruit poured into the tray over time, until the tray has been filled to the top. Once frozen the popsicles should easily release from their tray.

Popsicle Recipes

Pina Colada Popsicle: Mix pineapple juice and coconut water with pieces of pineapple

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Rocket Popsicle: Freeze your popsicles in three layers with each layer being completely frozen before the next. Use water flavored with sugar-free flavors. Blue raspberry for the first layer on the bottom, lemon in the second freezing and strawberry for the final layer.

Creamsicles: Pour orange flavored juice into the tray then plop a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the center.

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Crazy Candy Pops: Combine cranberry juice with gummy bears, layer the juice and candy over the freezing time.

Ice Lollies: Mix lemon-lime soda with orange juice and freeze.

Pudding Pops: Add an additional 1/4 cup of milk to an instant pudding mix then freeze in a popsicle tray.

Yogurt Swills: Scoop vanilla yogurt into the tray and take a spoon full of raspberry jam and swirl the jam around the yogurt.yogurt popsicles, popsicle recipes, how to make popsicles

Watermelon Ice Pops: In a blender mix watermelon pieces, lemon juice and raspberries with a sweetener then pour the mix into a tray.

Have Fun

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New Wonder Woman – Wonder Woman Personality

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New Wonder Woman

It is a great time for the New Wonder Woman to return. She first appeared during WWII as a comic hero when women were working in factories, driving ambulances and taking care of their homes while husbands and fathers were fighting a war. She next entered the common cultural consciousness in the late 70ies and early 80ies with Linda Carter playing the hero on a network tv show. At this time women were “trying to have it all”, and succeeding. Women were striving to have both a career and family. Wonder Woman is again appearing at the right time in a major summer blockbuster motion picture series. The first woman presidential candidate has just lost her election and women are afraid their rights are in danger. The Wonder Woman personality is again needed to see us through hard times and to inspire women to fight the best way we know how to fight. With their hearts and minds and through inner strength and assuredness.

Wonder Woman Personality

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The Wonder Woman personality is one who knows she is strong and a hero. A real wonder woman is not trying to overcome, she does not need to brag because she is living strong. We have very few female archetype role models that show physical, emotional and intellectual strength. This Amazonian princess lives in every little girl and woman who are living their strength. This will be different for each woman, but I know when I am Wonder Woman and so do you.

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Summer Beauty Tips

Summer Beauty Tips

The sun is shining and everyone is planning their vacations and searching for summer beauty tips. The change in weather and abundance of sunshine requires a different beauty routine. The first beauty tip is to always wear suncream in the summer, not just for the season but to prevent permanent damage. Staying hydrated prevents swelling and the appearance of bloating.

Summer Beauty Tips

10 Summer Beauty Tips

  1. Use fake tanning lotion to even out your skin tone
  2. Exfoliate your skin after a swim or long bath.
  3. Moisturize your skin daily.
  4. Use UV Ray protection on your hair and scalp. There are hair product sprays that add shine and protection from the sun otherwise put sunscreen lotion on your hair before going to the beech.
  5. Use lip gloss instead of lipstick.
  6. Use tinted facial cream instead of foundation for a lighter look.
  7. Keep your makeup light and use a white liner to highlight your eyes.
  8. Use a mask of aloe every night to heal sun damage.
  9. Use a contour to give a glow to your skin.
  10. Go for a daily 30-minute walk to tone your body.

 

Summer Beauty Tips

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Lavender – Potted Plants

When choosing the right potted plants for your home consider the multipurpose Lavender – Potted Plants. Lavender will thrive in a pot outdoors in the summer and will easily transition indoors at the end of the season. Its’ beautiful small purple-blue flowers will add color and texture to your garden with a calming classic scent.

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How to Take Care of Potted Lavender

Lavender needs at least 8 hours a day of full sun. They don’t like to be over watered so allow the soil to dry out between waterings. The plant likes heat and the sunshine but will wilt if allowed to go too long without water.

How to Use Fresh Lavender

  • Use lavender in soothing and calming bath salts to relieve tension, stress, and insomnia
  • Make lavender infused sugar
  • Lavender tea is calming and refreshing and very easy to make, add to hot water and steep for five minutes. This can help to ease a mild headache.
  • Ward off bugs by crushing lavender onto your arms and legs
  • Make lavender talcum powder
  •  Apply the lavender directly to your skin as aromatherapy.
  • Cleaning Tip – Mix fresh lavender with baking soda and toss over your carpet and vacuum it up an hour later to get rid of animal smells.

Early Spring Gardening Tips

Planting Begonias – Where to Plant Begonias

Tulip Season

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Natural Fake Tan – Sunless Tanning Solution

Sunless Tanning Solution

It is time to wear skirts, dresses, and shorts thus we need a natural fake tan. No one wants to risk life-threatening sun damage but we also like to have that look of sun-kissed skin. It is unthinkable to wear nylons on a hot summer’s day so finding a sunless tanning solution that looks natural and is easy to apply is on many women’s minds.

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Tanning Beds and sun tanning can cause cancer while spray tanning is expensive and inconvenient. The best solution to getting sun tanned skin is to use one of the fake tan brands available over the counter.

  • Kiehl’s Sun-Free Self-Tanning Formula
  • Clinique Self Sun Body Tinted Lotion
  • Idea Village Salon Bronze Airbrush Tanning System
  • Clarins Self Tanning Instant Gel
  • Banana Boat Summer Color Self-Tanning Lotion
  • Dior Bronze Auto-bronzing – Self-Tanner Natural Glow
  • Lorac Tantalizer Body Bronzing Luminizer

 

Natural Fake Tan – Summer Beauty Tips

It is very easy to give yourself a splotchy and streaked tan using any of the above tanning creams but there a few tricks to getting that tan you want.

  1. Exfoliate and moisturize your skin prior to applying the fake tanning lotion. The lotion will collect in the creases of the rough skin.
  2. Use less of the cream or gel on those areas with rough patches, knees, and ankles.
  3. Moisturize your skin daily to keep the bronzers from streaking and to ready your skin for the next application of tanning lotion.
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Painting Loose In Digital Art

Combine realistic objects with fun and intuitive lines when painting loose in digital art. This painting style is about design and texture. Warm colors will give a rich and cozy feeling but loose brushwork adds intimacy.

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Painting Loose In Digital Art

First, choose a realistic object to anchor your painting. Place it in an area of your composition that you want to be the focal point.  Sketch out the details with a focus on details emphasizing the highlights and shadows. Once comfortable with the look and feel of the focal point stop relying on the source inspiration and visual references.When painting the background and surrounding objects glance for color and texture references. Trust that you know the form you are painting and begin moving your mouse or stylus pen as you would when gesture drawing. This is when you can play with textures and your”brushwork”. The final step is to balance your focal point with the composition as a whole.

Balance:

The equal weight of colors and textures across the painting or an asymmetrical balance where the elements are not equally weighted but are arranged to give the appearance of balance.

There are ways to work from home as a digital artist. First, create an online presence with a blog and facebook page. This online presence is essentially your resume. Bid on freelance jobs and gain a reputation as a digital artist.

 

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Planting Begonias – Where to Plant Begonias

Where To Plant Begonias

When Planting Begonias find shady places such as under trees or in pots under porch roofs. Where to plant begonias is very important because they will dry out if exposed to direct sun. They are also sensitive to cold and can not be placed outdoors until the danger of frost has passed. Annual begonias are a good choice for almost every garden since they will stay in bloom from spring to fall if taken care of properly.

Begonia Plant Care

  • They need plenty of water.
  • The plant will not survive being dried out.
  • A begonia needs to be dead headed which is the removal of dead blooms to make room for new flowers.

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 Planting Begonias

1.) Fill a flat box or small pot with potting soil.

2.) Peat moss soil mixes retain moisture and create the acidic conditions begonias need.

3.)  Keep the soil moist but do not over-water before abundant growth appears.

 

Begonias are native to moist subtropical and tropical climates so they thrive best in warm and moist conditions.

Benefits of Walking Everyday

Benefits of Walking – Walking as a Beauty Tip

Benefits of Walking

The benefits of walking are in a stronger heart, disease prevention, and weight loss. As a hobby or exercise, it can increase exposure to UVB rays which is the best source of vitamin D. The Cardio and muscular impact is low thus the perfect exercise for the aging and chronically ill. A daily 30-minute walk is good for your overall wellbeing.

Walking Health Benefits

  • Weight Loss
  • Reduce risk of a stroke by preventing high blood pressure
  • It is a cardio exercise which lowers the levels of bad cholesterol while increasing levels of HDL (good) cholesterol.
  • Lowers the risk of type 2 diabetes
  • Walking prevents dementia
  • Prevention of some forms of cancer (colon, breast, womb)

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A walking exercise routine is great for toning muscles and gives a glow to the skin. Boosting circulation increasing the oxygen supply and helps you to feel awake and alive. Your overall mood will improve and reflect on your facial expressions and energy level. One of the benefits of walking every day is it increases metabolism, burning extra calories and by preventing muscle loss. Those extra few pounds you want to loose to fit into a favorite pair of jeans will melt away after going for a daily walk over time.

 

 

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Tulip Season

Tulip Season

The month of May is the start of the Tulip season in Canada and starts in the middle of March in Holland, the home of the tulip. The length of the tulip season depends on the weather but for the most part, lasts for up to a month. It is worth taking the time to plan vacations around the season especially if you are planning to go to Ottawa or Europe.

Tulip Festivals

The Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa runs from May 12 – 22 and is a spectacular display of flowers. It crosses the city with multiple grand tulip gardens. The festival includes artistic displays, walking tours, street performances and most of all ends with a Victoria Day fireworks display.
In Holland, there are tulip displays and festivals across the country. The tulip season begins in Mid-March and ends in Mid-May.

 

Plan to Participate

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If you forgot to plant tulip bulbs in your garden make sure you are ready for next fall. The best time to plant tulips is 6 to 8 weeks before the first hard frost. When to plant tulip bulbs depends on your climate zone.

What you Need to Know

  • Plant the bulbs right away after purchasing them
  • In warmer climates, the bulbs should be chilled before planting (refrigerated 12 weeks)
  • Plant in area that has shade in the morning and sun in the afternoon
  • Tulips need soil that has good drainage preferably on a raised flower bed
  • Plant bulbs 4 to 6 inches apart 8 inches deep
  • Water once after planting