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• Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

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Top 5 Messy pie recipes just for kids

Children love to cook only as much as adults, especially when there are sweets, chocolate and other ingredients fun part. Here are some cake recipes from the popular kids – sure to be a big hit with little chefs!

1. Creature-shaped cakes
This is a very basic cake with a touch of fun. First, the children decide which animal they want to do. An animal with easy recognizable forms, like a koala, for example, works best. Use any instant cake mix and bake a sheet cake simple. Then cut the simplified forms of individual animals, and place in large bowl. Then comes the fun part, decorating your cake! Children can use jelly beans drop for eyes and nose, licorice whiskers, and sprinkles and colored icing to resemble animal skin.

2. Mucky Mud Pies Juicy worm
This is a classic recipe with a fun additions to your kids will love. This cake has a crumbly crust layered chocolate with rich chocolate sauce, nuts, ice cream, gummy worms and mud that feel authentic. Start with chocolate crust at the bottom of your plate. Then instead of layers perfectly with the other components allow children to dump them in the way they choose. chocolate sauce and ice cream mixed with nuts and covered with colorful gummy worms is sure to please all the time.

3. Pajares delicious caramel
Pajares candy are so fun and easy to do, and only requires a few ingredients. You need pieces of butter, creamy peanut butter, miniature marshmallows and chow mein noodles. Simply melt the butter in the microwave and add peanut butter until blended thoroughly. Add marshmallows and chow mein noodles, stirring gently to avoid breaking the noodles. In a paper wax or freezer lined pan, arrange mixture in a small barn and refrigerate and serve.

4. Lollie s Brownie Cake
This cake done as brownies, except in a larger scale. This is to make some brownies, shooting at any nuts you want. Let children select chocolate bars thumbnail and simply melt in the microwave. Drizzle over cake brownie and top with miniature chocolate chips other bars. This recipe also works on a smaller scale, which is great for parties because each child can create your custom cake using mini chocolate bars of your choice

5. Pizza sweet desert!
For a sweet child, but healthy dessert, try Pizza pie. This recipe calls for dough crust sugar cookie, fruit fresh and softened cream cheese. Bake until cookie dough in a circular pizza pan. Mix cream cheese with some confectioner's sugar, then extend the mixture as a "pizza." Children have a blast decorating the cake like a real pizza. Choose fresh fruit such as pineapples, oranges, sliced peaches, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and half. Cut the cake into wedges and serve.

So there you have it, 5 especially dirty cake recipes for kiddies. Before you start baking, make a list of baked pie products you need and, finally, to start cooking be sure to use hide anything that might be ruined by cake mixes and soil, and dont forget ah to take pictures of their little terrors when they are at their peak dirty!

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As a mother, apart from writing, I love to spend time with my children and I can think of nothing better than getting stuck-in to a spot of messy cake making, here are my tips on how to you can get stuck-in too!

Easy Healthy Kids Snacks Recipes

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• Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

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Jason’s Deli’s Helps Fight Childhood Obesity

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• Monday, December 28th, 2009

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Facing Disaster, Americans would be to Macgyver for Help, Survey Reveals

CHICAGO, September 12, 2007 – If a hurricane, flood or other disaster struck your community and government services were overburdened, so if a hero of the film or TV could reach rescue?

A new McCormick Tribune Foundation disaster preparedness poll finds more than one in four Americans facing a disaster more would like the help of ingeniously clever fi action television hero MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, the self-titled series on ABC-TV. The poll has a lighthearted approach to draw attention to a serious subject – the need for Americans to be better prepared for disasters.

Recent disaster events have shown that essential government services can be disrupted for some period of time and first responders can being overwhelmed.

"While we would like the help of MacGyver or any fictional hero in an emergency situation, the reality is that we must be prepared, "said Brigadier General (retired) David L. Grange, president and CEO of the McCormick Tribune Foundation." By being prepared, individuals and communities can handle the first 72 hours after a disaster and can serve as a temporary alternative to government resources. "

Legendary to escape situations difficult to improvise with readily available materials, MacGyver was the top choice of Americans (27 percent) for help in a fictional emergency. MacGyver beat the movie character Indiana Jones (16 percent), played by Harrison Ford, and John McClane (14 percent), played by Bruce Willis in "Die Hard" movies. Others receiving votes heroes are:
• Movie character Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon (8 percent);
• James Bond (8 percent);
• Jack Bauer, played by actor Kiefer Sutherland or the series "24" (7 percent);
• And Lara Croft in the movie "Tomb Raider" starring Angelina Jolie (7 percent).

The McCormick Tribune Foundation is urging Americans to create their own disaster response plans and assemble emergency kits with essential items like a three-day supply of nonperishable food and water, a flashlight and radio, extra batteries, blanket, first aid kit and cash. Information on how to prepare your family, workplace or community for a disaster can be found in www.mccormicktribune.org and American Red Cross (www.redcross.org) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (www.ready.gov).

Chicago area residents can attend a weekend event Preparedness for Emergencies at Cantigny Park (www.cantigny.org) in Wheaton, Illinois, 10 am-4 pm Sept. 15 and 16. The first 500 families in attendance each day will receive a free starter kit of emergency, a charge shake flashlight, a silver insulated blanket, water purification tablets and a bucket of public services. Walgreens, American Red Cross, Northern Illinois Food Bank, Central DuPage Hospital and others also participate, providing information on how to prepare for an emergency. CPR training, fire safety and evacuation routes help in planning and pet care will include debates, too.

Nearly six in 10 Americans surveyed (61 percent) said they have left out a flashlight, portable radio, extra batteries, a first aid kit, water and several days of nonperishable food. However, taking into account only 30 minutes to collect their belongings before evacuating their homes, only 6 percent of people said it would take your emergency kit.

Respondents said he would make sure to have your legal documents (35 percent), and photographs (29 percent). Only 11 percent said they bring food and only 8 percent would carry the water. Although potentially critical to their health, only 4 percent said they bring their medications, the same percentage who said they would bring a gun or other weapon. The Bible was an essential element of emergency on 3 percent of the respondents.

Over a third (37 percent) of respondents said it was "very likely" you will face a disaster – whether natural or man – in the next decade, and two-thirds think it is at least somewhat likely. Americans, he said the most likely disaster to strike their community would be a tornado (24 percent), followed by a hurricane (18 percent), floods (12 percent) or earthquake (10 percent). Only 6 percent of Americans listed a terrorist attack as the most likely disaster affecting your community in the next 10 years, while only 4 percent mentioned a disease epidemic such as avian influenza, or a toxic or chemical leakage or explosion.

The survey random scientific telephone 1,049 U.S. adults (age 18) was held August 24 to 27, 2007 by Opinion Research Corp. for the McCormick Foundation Tribune.

About the McCormick Tribune Foundation
The McCormick Tribune Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to making life better for our children, communities and country. Through its charitable programs, Cantigny Park Golf, Cantigny First Division and the McCormick Tribune Foundation Museum Freedom, the Foundation is able to positively impact the lives of people and remain true to its mission of promoting the ideals of a free and democratic society. For more information, please visit our Web site www.McCormickTribune.org.

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Erick Laseca
Burson-Marsteller
312-596-3404
erick.laseca @ bm.com

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Erick Laseca works for Burson-Marsteller as Client Executive for the McCormick Tribune Foundation in Chicago.

Rita Maniotis Illinois Green Party State. Rep. 21 Candidate

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• Sunday, December 27th, 2009

children's health insurance program california
Study finds wide gaps in participation in the health insurance program for children across the country searching for the nearly 5 million of uninsured children in U.S. they are entitled to free or low cost coverage through Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program just got a roadmap.
Web Report on Children’s Health Insurance in California

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