The New Homemaker Newsletter
for September 29, 2007
Dear Readers,
Fall has truly "fallen." An extended rainy spell is setting in. If I didn't know it from the weather reports, I could feel it in my poor old fibromyalgia'ed joints. :PThis puts me in the mood for soup, and tonight I'm going to make a potato-leek soup with bacon. It's going to be rainy and cold and yucky and soup is the ticket on days like that.
Some of you on the site have noted I'm a little down. Yeah, it's the fall. It's my very favorite season, but I have Seasonal Affective Disorder; the drop in daylight brings me down. I'm now sitting in front of my therapy lamp and in a few days I should be better. If you get a little down in the fall and winter I strongly recommend getting a therapy lamp and/or taking cod liver oil. The extra vitamin D can really help.
As we head into cold and flu season, I'm curious: What measures does your family take to stave off the bugs? Write me and let me know. The following recipe is something we do whenever we get the sniffles!
From the TNH Test Kitchen: Garlic Soup
A preview of the "I Love Garlic" Recipe Book, new in the TNH Shop.- 6 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 cans chicken broth
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar (natural)
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This is our BRAND NEW ebook that I spent months compiling--yeah you wondered where I was this summer, this is where. :) I came up with 90 PAGES of garlic recipes for this special ebook, and I'm giving you three other ebooks as gifts along with: Delicious Italian Recipes, Pizza Recipes and Salsa Recipes. Just in time for Halloween! Keep the undead at bay!Use coupon code "garliclove" to get 20% off the usual price of $11.95. This coupon is ONLY good till 10/5/07, so hurry!
The Regular Roundup:
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Beat Insomnia Now
leep can be an elusive thing. Experience a couple nights of tossing and turning in bed, and it's all too tempting to reach for a sleep aid. But before you do, consider that several recent studies conducted at major institutions all over the country show that, despite their ordinary nature, simple behavioral strategies--like going to bed at the same time every night and avoiding afternoon naps--really do work. What's more, over-the-counter sleep medications can leave you feeling sluggish the next day, and "there’s very little evidence that these sleep aids actually result in significant sleep," says Mark Mahowald, M.D., director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center in Minneapolis.
What about prescription sleep drugs? For acute, short-term insomnia--such as that brought on by a stressful event, like a death in the family--experts say these medications can help. "In fact, by treating acute short-term insomnia [with prescription sleep aids] when it first occurs, we can actually prevent the development of long-term insomnia," says Dr. Mahowald. But for the occasional sleepless night, consider the following 10 tips. You may find they help you get to sleep just as well as popping a pill!
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