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Holiday Food Safety to Protect You, Those Pregnant and Your Entire Family From Foodborne Illnesses {Healthy Living}

December 19, 2012 by Monica Parlee · Leave a Comment

Holiday Food Safety ~ The festive season is rapidly approaching, in fact it has arrived! Accompanying this fun season is lots of baking, entertaining, and dinners with family and friends. While it’s always important we all follow proper food safety steps, it’s especially important for women to pay close attention to food safety during pregnancy. To protect themselves and their unborn baby, pregnant women should follow the four key steps to food safety: Cook; Clean; Chill and Separate. These … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healthy Living · Tagged With: Chil, clean, cook, family, food, Health Canada, pregnant, safety, separate, tips

Clean your lint screen; it may prevent a potential tragedy!

November 6, 2012 by Monica Parlee · 1 Comment

Photo credit - flickr - Tracy O (CC) My daughter just sent me this and I wanted to share it with you. I read a similar story about a year ago and having been following these recommendations ever since. This is information all households should be aware of! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Interest · Tagged With: brush, clean, dryer, lint, screen

HEALTHY LIVING – Food Safety ~ CLEANING ~

June 6, 2012 by Monica Parlee · 6 Comments

Last week I posted about food handling safety risks at home and how the four easy lessons of cleaning, separating, cooking and chilling can help prevent harmful bacteria from making your family sick. I thought, with the warm weather either already upon us or quickly approaching, it would be a good idea to look at each food handling lesson individually. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healthy Living · Tagged With: chill, clean, cook, food, food safety, rinse, separate, tip, wash

HEALTHY LIVING – Food Safety

May 30, 2012 by Monica Parlee · 7 Comments

The warm summer weather is quickly approaching and that means: picnics, barbecues and outdoor fun! The last thing you want to have happen, is for yourself, or your family and friends to develop a food borne illness. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Healthy Living · Tagged With: chill, clean, cook, food, food safety, separate

The Biannual Blogathon Bash is just around the corner!!

May 27, 2012 by Monica Parlee · 1 Comment

The Biannual Blogathon Bash is a twice yearly event designed for bloggers to get much needed work done on their blog. All bloggers are welcome. The event is 72 hours, you can do as much blogging as you can during this time. The aim for 24 hours total but they are flexible! There will be mini challenges (fun, easy projects that will better your blog) and prizes to be won. … [Read more...]