Next Week is Safe Baby Week!!!

Safe Baby Week -  March 14 to 20.

I will blog about safe consumer products for pregnant mothers, babies, toddlers and preschoolers. I will also share important tips on keeping them warm, cozy and safe.

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Food Safety - Meat, Poultry, and Eggs; Simple Solutions

Meat

Most meat sold in the U.S come from cattle (beef), calves (veal), hogs (ham, pork and bacon), sheep (mutton), and young sheep (lamb). Meat and meat products are available in several forms such as fresh, frozen, cured, smoked, dried and canned. The greatest source of contamination for meat comes from their feeds. Farmers want to feed their animals cheap and growth stimulating chemicals which are likely to leave residue in the animal. Commercial feeds that animals feed on may contain  growth hormones like I mentioned earlier, coloring agents, fungicides and pesticides, drugs and medicines to treat diseases, and flavoring agents to make the feed more appealing to animals. 

Food Safety – Fish and Seafood; Simple Solutions

Seafoods generally contain high level of water pollution contaminants from the sea. Two pollutants of great concern to doctors and health providers are toxic mercury and carcinogenic PCBs. Radioactive materials are also found in fish and seafood harvested near marine dump sites or oil producing areas.

Seafood is a highly perishable product, hence chemical preservatives are added to seafood to keep it fresh and clean. Common chemicals that can be found are Sodium Benzoate, Sulfites, Polyphospates, etc. These chemicals prevent the breakdown of amino acids into biogenic amines and ammonia.

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Food Safety – Simple Solutions

I know I talked so much last week about starting this month’s theme on food safety and I was unable to fulfill that promise due to loads of school work. Sucks when you are working on this engineering design classes. But I had more time to do my research, so don’t worry, I will be giving you all the tips to staying healthy and keeping your food safe. I tend to use scientific terms, but I will try to limit that and if I do use it, I will explain what it means to you.

Seventh Generation Product Review + Giveaway

PaperMate Review Party

Papermate Biodegradable Pencil

Papermate is a company that manufactures writing materials, which includes pens, pencils, papers, notepads, etc. I had the opportunity to review some Papermate product last week and it was just lovely. I am not too specific as to what type of pen I use, however using the Papermate Biodegradable pencil this weekend, with an ergonomic grip, for the reduced writing fatigue produced by its grip to the hand and also a greener solution, I knew I would have to keep one with me everywhere I go.
It definitely was a smooth writing experience.

Papermate Silhouette - 

The Papermate Silhouette is very functional. As a chemical engineer, I love functionality. Not only is it pretty, it is very comforting. Shaped like an hourglass, so your grip is well positioned and relaxed while writing. Another cool feature is the fact that you click for more pen on the sides, as opposed to the end of the pen, for uninterrupted writing. They have it available in 0.5mm and 0.7mm, so if you ever want to buy this for your toddler or teenager, its very functional.

*I received a sample product from Papermate and did not recieve any form of financial proceeds.

Camille's 1st Birthday

Yesterday was one of the best day of my life. My daughter turned 1 and we had a blast. Words cannot explain how much fun we had, so I am uploading some pics for my readers. So here you have it!!!

{After getting all dressed up........}

Best Blog Award

I am proud to say this blog have been awarded "Best Blog Award" by Busy Little Monkey and I am so grateful for this award. Although this blog is fresh and new, I believe its going places and I hope by the end of the year, this blog goes in the direction that I wished for it to go.