Hostess Cakes' Twinkies Is Back!

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I am so happy that the all-time fave sponge cake of America is now officially back in the store shelves today - 15 July 2013! I am not even from the US but my happiness is sort of jumping out of my skin right now because I can ask family and friends to buy me this tasty and soft treat. (Note: Do eat in moderation though.)

So, if you have missed Twinkies and other Hostess Cakes products, then head to your nearest grocery and buy them before they run out of stock.

Healthy Snack Combo

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If you love eating chips and wash it down with soda then you're doing more harm to your body aside from putting bad stuff in your system.

Here's a quick tip to keep your snacking on the right track - ditch the bad combination of soda and chips and replace it with this fruit and healthy beverage: apple and a glass of skim milk.

An apple is rich in fiber and skim milk in protein. Protein will sustain your energy longer and can alleviate hunger for a couple of hours.

Halloween Dessert

Re-posting to share this cute and spooky Halloween dessert to everyone. This is easy to make and great with kids around to help you decorate your scary Halloween dessert! Enjoy!

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Well, my daughter and I were up to something very ghoulish, if not scary, for our halloween dessert. Halloween is not observed in this part of the world. It is recognized but not really celebrated as we would back home and in the US/Canada areas where you can trick or treat with delight!

So, to make our own Happy Halloween happy as it can be in the Middle East, we decided to make this very easy halloween dessert.

Here are the ingredients:
2 pcs. Gelatin (strawberry or any flavor you like)
15 pcs. of Oreo (crushed including the cream)
Some nice shaped biscuits
Baker's gel for writing stuff
Some gummy candies and sour candy tape (to be cut as grass)
Whipped cream

The how to:
1. Cook the gelatin according to the packaging instructions
2. Pour in a rectangle dish and refrigerate to harden
3. When the gelatin is already firm, put the crushed Oreo on top.
4. Write the word "RIP" on some of the cookies using the baker's edible gel. Just don't crowd the plate.
5. Cut the green sour candy tape to look like grass
6. Put some whipped cream and shape them like ghoulish ghosts and dot some eyes for effects.

So what do you have now??? A nice Happy Halloween dessert complete with ghosts! Boooo! Happy Halloween everyone!

Health Nut - Avoid The Bad Snacks

Two of the worst snacks in the world are chips and soda or those fizzy drinks. They are very high in sodium and sugar which are bad for one's health and weight.

If you are craving for sugary food and empty-nutrient chips, instead, snack on crunchy baby carrots, cucumber slices or throw in some celery sticks for good measure.

Drink green tea instead and enjoy it hot or cold. If you want to add a bit of sweetness to your beverage, just add a teaspoon of honey.

Health Nut - Healthy Snacks

I love eating snack. Sometimes, I even eat the wrong ones like chips and cakes. However, most of the time, I try my best to stick with healthy and filling snacks.

If you are like me who loves to snack but would like to stick with the healthy variety, try to choose snacks that will work wonders for your health. Examples of healthy snacks are:

baby carrots or carrot sticks
cucumber slices
Digestive crackers/biscuits
almonds, sunflower seeds, cashew (unsalted)
cut apples with skin, banana, pineapple cubes, melon
steamed veggies like broccoli and cauliflower
pita crackers
unsalted popcorn and pretzels

How Do You Eat Your Pizza?

I got this from a forwarded mail. It is so nice and informative and I want to share this to all. Credit goes to the author of this article. Great job! (see end credits...)

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Pizza - How do you eat yours?
A lot can be said about a person by the way they eat pizza

Traditionalists
Pizzas in Italy are served whole, rather than being cut into slices before arriving at the table. As such, Italians tend to eat their national dish with a knife and fork, rather than grabbing at it with their mitts.

So……..

Danglers
These are people who want their pizza and want it now. There’s no time for knives, forks or folding, and no qualms about treating their dining companions to views of the back of their throat – it’s simply a case of tilting back the head and lowering the pizza into
a gaping gob. Chewing is optional.

Folders
Not quite as conservative as the traditionalist, but a little more restrained than the dangler, the folder ensures the toppings stay put by folding the pizza slice lengthways before eating.

Crusties
Crusties are a special breed of people who insist on eating the crust first: they usually do so by tearing it off and dipping it in ketchup or some other description of condiment. It’s thought that crusties subscribe to the motto ‘the best things come to those who wait’, because they’re effectively saving the tasty bit of the pizza until last. We just think it’s a bit odd.

Top feeders
Top feeders tend to be children aged four to 11 who insist on scraping the topping (mainly pepperonis) off the crust and eating separately. However, some fail to grow out of this habit and continue to infuriate their dining companions by dissecting their pizza in a most unsightly manner.


Three ways to make an Italian pizza chef angry
1. Rave about American food (‘I just can’t get enough of burgers, hot dogs, and pizza!’ etc). Your life expectancy and/or time left in the restaurant will be reduced to a matter of minutes.

2. Ask for a pineapple on your pizza. Italians just don’t do fruit on pizza. Never. Ever.

3. Apply tomato ketchup. Ketchup was invented by British people to make their rubbish food taste marginally less rubbish. If an Italian chef sees you slather on the red stuff, he’s going to think you have the same regard for his food as you do British food. Not good.


By Oliver Robinson
Time Out Dubai, 12 October 2010

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So, are you guilty? I am! I am a FOLDER. Love eating my pizza that way. :) Hmmmm, this post just made me crave for pizza.