Starbucks Card with benifits

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Register your Starbucks Card

And get great benefits in mid-April

Brew coffee refills with no charge
syrup and milk options with no charge
Complimentary tall beverage with
whole bean purchase

https://www.starbucks.com/card/default.asp

https://www.starbucks.com/card/default.asp

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Free Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone has been the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers for a while -- next week they are unleashing a brand new curriculum, and you can WIN the *all new* Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3… FOR FREE!

This is a $219 program (and believe me it's worth every penny!) and the winner gets to pick from any of these 14 languages: Spanish (Spain or Latin America), English (American or British), Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Hebrew, or Russian.
This will also include a headset with microphone, and students will participate in lifelike conversations and actually produce language to advance through the program. Rosetta Stone still incorporates listening, reading and writing as well, in addition to speaking. Many homeschoolers requested grammar and vocabulary exercises, and with Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3, they're included! For parents, the new Parent Administrative Tools are integrated into the program and allow parents to easily enroll students in any of 12 predetermined lesson plans, monitor student progress, and view and print reports.

To win this most excellent program -- in the language of your choice -- copy these (blue) paragraphs and post it in (or as) your next blog post -- then to enter the contest, go to the original contest page HERE:

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/JenIG/501132

and leave a comment with the link showing where you blogged about it. And please make sure the link works to get back to the original contest page when you post it. And good luck! The winner will be picked randomly on March 26, and will be notified thru the link they left to their blog pg. And if you have more than one blog, you can post them and enter those separately for more chances to win. Yay for free stuff

http://not2many.blogspot.com/2008/03/free-rosetta-stone-i-have-to-post.html

Healthy Eating

TEAS

• All true teas contain polyphenols, powerful antioxidants believed to protect against heart disease, certain cancers and stroke.
• The various levels of fermentation affect teas in different ways. Recent studies have shown drinking green tea might boost metabolism, oolong teas can lower blood sugar, and black teas can promote oral health.
• Tea contains half the caffeine of coffee.
  

OILS

• Olive oil is an excellent source of heart-healthy monounsaturated fats that may lower the bad cholesterol and raise the good cholesterol.
• It contains Vitamin E and antioxidants.
• It's an excellent replacement for unhealthy saturated fats like butter.

FRUITS

• Orange and yellow-hued veggies greens contain carotenoids, a pigment our body converts to vitamin A. Eating lots of these vegetables will help maintain healthy skin and hair, protect against prostate cancer, promote healthy vision and even provide protection from sunburn.
• Lycopene, the plant chemical responsible for the ruby red of tomatoes and watermelon, is believed to fight cancer and promote heart health.
• Green vegetables are sky-high in potent anti-cancer compounds like sulforaphane and quercitin.
• Although garlic and onions they contain diallyl sulfide and saponins, compounds that add distinctive flavors to our recipes and fight cancer and heart disease.

Check out Ellie Krieger's Healthy Recipes
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_hl_nutritional_all-stars/0,3100,FOOD_27396,00.html

HOMEMADE DAWN DIRECT FOAM

For the past 5 months I have been making my own
Dawn direct foam soap.
Just by adding regular or Dawn dish soap and water to
the top of my old dawn direct foam container,
try several squirts of dish soap. (I prefer 5 squirts)
Watch the foam come out after the first or few squirts.