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Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition

Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food

by Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research

Grocery prices are projected to increase again in 2008 – that’s following 2007’s highest annual increase in 17 years. But surviving these tough economic times doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.

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91 Ways to Save on Almost Anything

Here's how to stretch your dollars -- and pinch your pennies 'til they scream -- while you feel little or no pain.

by Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

Want to save a buck? How about a few hundred or a couple thousand?

We took a look at eight spending categories in your budget and identified dozens of ways you can keep more money. Whether you need to plug leaks in your spending, learn where to find the best deals or even trick yourself into shaving expenses, we've got something for everyone.

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Basic Legal Recommendations for Women

by Michele Howe

According to Toledo attorney, Stephen Pennington, there are some fundamental legal concerns that every woman should understand, plan, and prepare for in order to best protect her financial assets in lieu of a possible divorce, death of a spouse, or for simple common sense financial survival.

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10 Tips for Improving Your Family's Eating Habits

With today’s busy lifestyles, families don’t always eat as healthfully as we would like. But by practicing healthy eating habits at home, you can make it easier for your family to eat right. Try these 10 tips designed to encourage healthy eating habits:

1. Be a good food role model. Telling children to eat nutritious foods is one thing — showing them is better. If you offer nutritious foods regularly — and if they see you eating them — your children likely will learn to like them.
2. Serve a variety of fruits and vegetables daily. In addition to bananas and apples, try something new like kiwi or papaya. Add vegetables to stir fries or casseroles.
3. Schedule a snack time and stick to it. Space snacks at least two to three hours before a meal.

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Lunchables

Reading nightly with your kids is crucial and fun. But did you know that more than a third of U.S. fourth graders are reading at or below a basic reading level?
Lunchables, along with non-profit literacy organization First Book, have created the Million Page Mission to help bring 4,000 books to children in needy communities. All parents have to do is log onto www.lunchablesmom.com to take a pledge to read 100 pages with their kids. For every pledge received, Lunchables will donate $1 up to $10,000 to First Book.
You can also download our free children’s book “The Adventures of Alpha Team” on our website www.lunchablesmom.com. It’s a really cute story about three kids who attend space cadet training and must complete various missions together to earn their merit badges.

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Jennifer Snyder, M.A.

Personal Coach & Motivational Speaker


She is a personal coach and workshop leader for divorced women who cannot wait to proclaim their own power. She's been written countless of articles and given speech nationwide. Her professional life began as a classroom teacher and school administrator. It was a rewarding career and helped her discover my true passion working with groups and empowering individuals.

"I have experienced years as a single mother and as a married woman. I once allowed others to determine my fate until transforming my life and recognizing that I had always possessed the power!" Said Snyder.

Please visit her Website at www.TimeOfYourLifeAfterDivorce.com and www.SelfCareForWomen.net.

She can be reached at:
919.414.7197
Email: Time-of-Your-Life@nc.rr.com


Mom Advice Column - Tips for Single Moms


Angels We Have Heard and Seen

by Jennifer Snyder

My favorite part of the holiday season is its steady reminder of angels. Christmas cards reflect angelic gatherings in star-filled night skies. Ancient carols tell of angels spreading great joy, or watching over shepherds and sleeping children. Decorative angels are prominently displayed on neighbors’ doors; swathed in gold and surrounded by a sea of fragrant greenery.

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The Genius of Your Inner Wisdom

by Jennifer Snyder

Contributed by Jennifer Snyder - Stop everything you’re doing for a moment…Erase all of those racing thoughts and fragmented to-do lists from your mind. Take a nice, deep breath… and another. Feel your heart rate slowing down. Now, whisper to yourself, “What do I most need in this moment?” Feel your excitement and hopefulness rise at the prospect that you’re finally focusing on your own needs. The notion almost brings goose bumps to your skin, doesn’t it? “What do I most need in this moment?” Wait a minute... don’t allow your mind to race ahead, or give you seventeen reasons why you can’t take time for whatever answer might be coming forth. You can take time... perhaps you must take time...

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Baby Steps or Giant Leaps

by Jennifer Snyder

As summer days drew to a close this year, I found myself feeling not quite satisfied and at loose ends. I recognized that uncovering the cause of these feelings would require me to stop and take note, but I was willing to give these sluggish feelings the attention they deserved. My heart and head had been sending distinct messages, and it was time for me to listen.
What baby steps would feel like giant leaps toward getting unstuck, and bring you closer to your personal definition of success?

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Back-to-School Lessons and Supplies for Mom

by Jennifer Snyder

Each year, by early August, discount stores across the country prominently display back- to-school supplies for children of all ages. It is an exciting time to be a student and, as long as one can navigate shopping carts down crowded aisles and find required items, the ritual can be a happy one for their parents.

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Rebuilding: Being Authentically “You”

by Jennifer Snyder

I once read a fascinating, but all too realistic, story about a woman who opened her closet door and out tumbled various pieces of sporting equipment and memorabilia. While these possessions represented the last decade of her life, she didn’t realize until putting them all away that she felt no connection to anything in her closet. You see, this poor woman had put aside her own interests for the hobbies of a long line of significant others. Standing before her newly straightened shelves, she recalled relationships with Partner A in the water skis, Partner B in the bicycle helmet, and Partner C with a paintball gun. She asked herself, “How could I have given up so much of myself so that nothing in my closet reflects my own interests?”

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Choosing Family

by Jennifer Snyder

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” - Jane Howard

 

Earlier this month I stumbled upon this quote by Jane Howard and it has stayed with me. Women going through separation and divorce need support. They need a tribe or a safety net of people to put them back on their feet or lift them up. Do you remember the gymnastic endeavor where individuals line up around a big piece of fabric and hold the edges then lift together, sending the person standing in the middle of the cloth high into the air? I think this is an excellent analogy for the kind of support that enables us to build a life after divorce.

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Rebuilding: Proclaim Your Power!

by Jennifer Snyder

This is the mantra I’ve been exclaiming since I began coaching and facilitating workshops for separated and divorced women. These three words are written in every email and letter that leaves my office, and expressed verbally to every woman whose path I cross. Susan Cowsill can be heard singing, “Nothing can stop me now, and it never could anyhow…” on the website’s introduction.

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How to Turn Your Life Around with Powerful Thoughts

by Jennifer Snyder

I hate to admit it now, but after my divorce, I spent more than one Sunday afternoon in bed playing “Uber-Damsel in Distress”. Growing older and wiser may result in a plethora of gray hair, but am I ever glad that those days are over. A script similar to my own dramatic whining will follow later in this article. This isn’t the first commentary I have written about acknowledging one’s power, but this is the first article I’ve penned with a film and scientific data to support my motivational claims.

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10 Ways to Spring Forward

by Jennifer Snyder

The whole notion of setting my clock ahead an hour each spring usually leaves me feeling a little resentful. An hour lost; don’t they know what I might have accomplished with an extra sixty minutes of work, or a little more sleep? This year, however, was different. Anxious to leave winter behind, I didn’t focus on the loss of an hour but took delight in the promise of warmer temperatures, and even contemplated how my coaching clients could use this season to “spring forward”.

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Top 8 Tips for Reducing Kids Screen Time This Summer

Reducing time spent in front of televisions and computers is one of the easiest ways to improve your family's health. Here are eight simple ways to limit screen time so you can help crank up your kids’ energy, re-charge their minds, and improve their health.

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What would you change?

Weekly Column, by Annette Bridges

Change -- some people dread it, and others can’t get enough. It may be much like the idiom, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” When it comes to what we would alter or why we would make a modification, the answers vary because we all have different things we value, want, need and consider important.

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Being a Role Model

by Laurie Cesario-Overton

If I had to choose one sentence that would best describe what I feel parents need to learn, it would be this: Be your child's BEST ROLE MODEL in all the ways that truly count. Be your child's HERO. Whatever you do, do it for all the right reasons.

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How to Find the Best Car Loans for Single Moms

Financial Advice for Single Moms

The best car loans for single mothers might be just around the corner at your local car lot.

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3 Money Rules for Stay-at-Home Moms

As we all know, life is unpredictable. We lose jobs, get divorced and even become widowed...
Here are three steps stay-at-home parents should take to better manage their own and the family’s finances.

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You May Have Too Much Debt But You Also Have Options

How Life Works

If you feel like you're in over your head with personal debt, you're not alone. Millions of Americans have become overextended, many as a result of easy credit and the recessions. Credit cards, medical bills, personal loans and raising interest rates do not make a good financial mix.

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Could fat babies mean fat toddlers?

A new study from Harvard Medical School found that babies who gained weight quickly had a sharply higher risk of obesity. The study followed close to 600 babies and found those in the top quarter of weight for their length at 6 months had a 40 percent higher risk of obesity by age 3 than smaller babies.

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Crystal Bowersox - A Single Mom And A Real American Idol

Read how the amazing Crystal Bowersox. the runner-up of American Idol Season 9, handles fame and life as a single mom, raising her 17 month old son.

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5 Ways for Single Moms to Save Money

Single moms are always looking for ways to save money, and for good reason... It’s important to find ways to cut corners on the little things that perhaps you don’t think about too often, because those are usually where your biggest money drains are.

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Suze Orman's Recession Rescue Plan - helps you survive in times of financial crisis

OPRAH.com

Do you know what your family would do if you lost your job - or worse, your home? Financial expert Suze Orman is ready to help you devise a recession rescue plan to survive - and possibly thrive - during this deepening financial crisis...

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Your Just-in-Case Emergency Plan

by RealSimple

Who do you call if you can't make it home in time to meet the kids' bus? Who do you trust to take in your mail when you're on vacation? Who do you trust with the extra set of keys to your house?

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How to save $10,000

By Liz Pulliam Weston

If you were hoping for a list of small tweaks you could make in your spending to save $10,000 a year, sorry. The reality is that $10,000 is a lot of money. And saving big money usually means making big changes in the areas where we spend the most, such as: Housing, Transportation, Food.

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The Super, Sexy, Single Mom on a Budget

by Renee Rayles

A quick reference guide designed for the busy, single mom who has

little time to read while running the mom taxi, cooking dinner, helping with homework, and trying to fit in a date night every now and then.

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Single Mothers &
Male Role-Models / Mentors

Single mothers carry an enormous load of responsibility, especially those having sole and/or primary custody of minor children. They nourish, they nurture, they teach, they discipline, they shelter, they protect, and they provide… all without the assistance of another equally-invested adult.

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Mom's Obesity Raises Newborn's Heart Risk

from the National Institute of Health

The more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the likelihood that her newborn baby will have a congenital heart defect, a new study suggests. The finding raises concerns because 1 in 5 women are obese at the start of pregnancy in the United States.

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The 10-Ingredient Shopping Trip

By Tara Parker-Pope and Mark Bittman

... In his latest “How to Cook Everything” segment on the Today Show, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman makes it surprisingly easy to cook a week’s worth of dinners with just a 10-ingredient shopping trip.

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Your 5-minute guide to protecting your identity

20 steps to protect yourself from identity theft, and seven ways to clean up things if you become a victim.

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TheOnlineMom.com offers parents and consumers a guide to the top-rated, age-appropriate, kid-tested and parent-approved tech toys and gifts.

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Single Moms in the News

6 Best Celebrity Single Moms
Read about Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Kimora Lee Simmons, Mary-Louise Parker... read more

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

by Jeff Kinney

For those wondering why tween boys don’t read very much, the answer is that more books aren’t like this...

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