Disco Cairo 2011 New Year Party

Dec 29, 2011 | events, lifestyle, new year party | 0

Posted by : Fajar.A

so, what's your doing on New year night?nothing??that's not cool!!c'mon lets get the party started here :

Peach Drop 2012 - New Year's Eve Countdown
Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:00AM to 4:00AM

Underground Atlanta
50 Upper Alabama St.
Atlanta, GA
4045232311

Join us as we ring in the New Year with a full day of family fun and an evening of top-notch entertainment! Underground Atlanta will buzz with activities for the entire family! Festivities begin at 11:00am with family-friendly games and activities as well as music on the Budding Peach and Kenny's Alley stages! As 2012 nears, the main stage will light up with live performances and the 800 pound Peach will begin its decent just before the clock strikes midnight. Those looking to keep the party going can celebrate into the night, as the bars, restaurants and nightclubs of Kenny's Alley are open until 4:00am! Packed full of excitement, the Peach Drop is Atlanta's favorite way of ringing in the New Year!

http://www.peachdrop.com

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New Year's Eve Dance Party Gwinnett Dec 31st
Saturday, December 31, 2011 8:00PM

Thirsty's Bar and Grill
3907 Burns Road
Lilburn, Ga
678.304.7343

Are you looking for a place to bring in the New year near the Gwinnett area? Don't drive all the way to Atlanta this New Year's Eve and deal with all the traffic and crazy Atlanta crowd. Come join us at Thirsty's Bar and Grill in Lilburn, we will have a fun friendly crowd. We will be playing your favorite Old School Salsa, Bachata and Merengue hits, but we will also mix in some of the good old fashion dance hits from across the decade. A little electric slide, or Michael Jackson, an Elvis hits here and there. It's going to be a fun New Year's Eve party so bring some friends and come out and join us!
-- Champayne Toast and New Year's countdown at midnight and we will be following the Peach drop in Atlanta on the TV.
-- Appetizer buffet available and included with the cover charge from 8pm - 10:30pm so arrive early.
$15/person -- All Night
Like us on Facebook and rsvp for this event by Dec 30th and get in for $10/person

http://www.meetup.com/dancing4fun/events/40053752/

http://www.facebook.com/Latindancinggwinnett

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Cavalia: Odysseo
Saturday, December 31, 2011 3:00PM

Under the White Big Top - Atlantic Station ®
Spring Street and 8th Street
Atlanta, GA
1-866-999-8111

Cavalia returns to Atlanta to premiere an all-new equestrian adventure, Odysseo, a new tribute to horses and the relationship humans have shared with them for thousands of years. Odysseo is an invitation to dream, to travel beyond the boundaries of time and space and to journey toward the mystery of new horizons and cultures. The show opens December 7 and performances are scheduled through to January 8, 2012. Ticket prices begin at $69.50 (+ applicable fees) with additional packages offered that can be customized for an extended experience, including a Horse Lovers Package that lets patrons tour the Cavalia stables after the show. Please visit www.cavalia.net or call or 1.866.999.8111 for more information, as show dates and times vary.

http://www.cavalia.net

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New Year's Eve hosted by Sheer Atlanta
Saturday, December 31, 2011 8:00PM to 3:00AM

Shout at Colony Square
1197 Peachtree St NE
Atlanta, GA
404-846-2000

11th Annual Sheer Atlanta Social Events New Year's Eve party. Join 100's of young professionals to ring in the new year in style. Hosted by Jonathan "Jona" Sheer - the "Kevin Bacon" of Atlanta! Friends and friends of friends all all welcome (New friends too).

DJ entertainment on both levels. Cash bar. Shout is entirely taken over for this private event, only Sheer Atlanta guests will be in attendance.

Singles and couples are welcomed. Dress to impress.

http://www.sheeratlanta.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sheer-Atlanta-Social-Events/130621457012338

More events in Midtown

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King's Ball: NYE 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:00PM

Westin Atlanta North
7 Concourse Parkway
Atlanta, GA

An all-inclusive homecoming event as
Spiral Entertainment's legendary New Year's Eve party
returns to the Westin Atlanta North!

-open Bars everywhere
-Gourmet buffets with carving stations for that perfect piece of meat
-Party hard and ring in the new year with Live Music from Moby Dick
-DJ Jazzy and DJ Wats
-Midnight Balls Drop (yes, two of them)
-Over a thousand hottys looking for smooch at stroke of 2012 -69,000 pounds of CONFETTI blowing you in the face at midnight
-3000 hats, tiaras, horns, glasses, beads, and flashy things
-Tasty midnight treats

Use code "atlantabuzz" for discount!

http://www.SpiralEntertainment.com

How to Drive Safely While Using Your Cellphone

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By Adam Dachis

How to Drive Safely While Using Your Cellphone

The National Transportation Safety Board has voted to recommend that states ban the use of cellphones while driving. This controversial decision has some people upset and others pleased, believing that banning the use of cellphones will reduce the risk of accidents. We believe that cellphone use can absolutely pose a risk to safe driving, but that it doesn't have to. Through a mix of studies, statistics, and often-ignored common sense, we can help you drive safer without giving up the use of your cellphone. Here's how.

Illustration by hkannn (Shutterstock).

Important Safety Note: You are responsible for your own safety. This article is designed to help you drive more safely, but obviously isn't a guarantee that you'll never get in another accident again. While these tips should work well for most people, it's important to assess what is and isn't safe for you specifically. If talking on the phone while driving may cause a significant distraction for you, for example, you shouldn't do it. Others may not have that problem. Be honest with yourself about what is the safest course of action for you to take, even if it means you shouldn't use your cellphone at all.

What Studies and Statistics Believe to Be Dangerous While Driving

A Car and Driver study found that texting while driving can slow your reaction times more than alcohol. Another study from the University of Utah shows that talking on the phone will impair your driving ability just the same, whether you're using a hands-free headset or not. The problem isn't that your hands aren't on the wheel, but that your mind isn't on the road. The common argument against the dangers of talking on the phone while driving is that it's not believed to be unsafe to talk to passengers who are physically in the car, but there's a reason that's considered a much lower risk. Also in the study from the University of Utah, a passenger is believed to offer a second set of eyes to see what the driver might miss. This helps to somewhat negate the distraction of conversation:

[W]hen you take a look at the data, it turns out that a driver conversing with a passenger is not as impaired a driver talking on a cell phone," he says. "You see bigger lane deviations for someone talking on a cell phone compared with a driver talking to a passenger. You also find when there is a passenger in the car, almost everyone takes the exit. But half the people talking on the cell phone fail to take the exit."

Strangely, I've had the opposite experience. I've been driving for over a decade and have been in two accidents, both of which were caused because I was distracted by a passenger. (The same passenger, in fact.) On the other hand, I talk on my phone (using a headset) frequently and have never been in an accident for that reason. I actually have a much harder time paying attention to the conversation than I do to the road, so I've always been a little skeptical of the claims that everybody is impaired by conversation. For me, it's not much different than listening to music, an audiobook, or a podcast. When I'm on the phone I miss my exits and get lost less, whereas things get much worse with actual people. While I'm sure it's at least mildly safer to drive in silence with nothing but your mind on the road, that assumes that your thoughts won't wander and your passengers are essentially ghosts. We're always going to have distractions and, realistically, your cellphone is going to be one of them. You'll have to decide what you believe is the safest choice (as using your phone is believed to be unsafe for the large majority of people), but in the following sections we'll offer some tips to try to minimize distractions should you choose to use your phone while driving.

Configure Your Phone for Safer Driving

The most important thing to remember is that your eyes need to be on the road whenever possible. Obviously you can't see everything behind you, in front of you, and to your sides at all times, you have to blink, check your current speed, and occasionally glance away from the road for a brief moment for a variety of reasons. That said, you're going to get yourself into trouble if you're adding additional distractions when operating a moving vehicle. Most of us know this, but we tend to neglect safety to answer a text message or call because it feels urgent. To avoid these distractions, it's best to set up your phone to make sure you don't even know they're happening.

Silence your phone while driving to avoid hearing text messages that will distract you. You want to answer a text or call because you're aware of it, so don't let yourself know. If you don't respond immediately, the world is not going to end.

Do everything on screen before you depart. If you feel it's safe enough for you to make a call on your cellphone (and it's legal where you're driving), start the call before you depart. If you're listening to music, set up and start your playlist before you leave. The same goes for your GPS, your audiobooks and podcasts, and anything else you plan to do to help you get to your destination or just avoid boredom in the car. If you set everything up ahead of time you won't need to look at your phone's screen which means you can keep your eyes on the road at all possible times.

Buy a headset or use remote control functionality to change the music on your phone and answer calls. Again, the key is to not look at the screen or interact with it in any way. If you have a little button hanging from your ear or integrated with your vehicle's dashboard or wheel you can change songs without the need to look around. Some cars even come with voice-activated systems so you can simply say what you want. Any of those options can keep you from interacting with your phone directly.

Put your phone in a case or sleeve so you can't see the screen. Don't make it easy to use your phone while driving. If it's difficult to get to, hopefully you won't bother. If you're the type of person who will go through the trouble, however, you might consider not using your phone in the car at all.

If you can minimize your distractions you should find it much easier to pay attention to the road and drive safely without ditching your cellphone. If you've got any other handy tips for keeping cellphone distractions to a minimum, share 'em in the comments.

How to Turn Your Dumbphone Into a Smartphone Using Nothing But SMS

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By Whitson Gordon

How to Turn Your Dumbphone Into a Smartphone Using Nothing But SMS

The smartphone revolution may be in full swing, but there are still a lot of you out there rocking a basic, inexpensive phone that doesn't have any "smart" features—or so you've been told. If you want to get email, Facebook, driving directions, and other web features on your phone, you can cheat a little bit and get them through SMS messages. Here's how.

Image remixed from an original by Jezper/Shutterstock.

Note that you'll probably want an unlimited text messaging plan if you're going to use these often. While none of these tricks will incur any extra charges, you will be charged for each text message sent and received, which can pile up pretty quickly. For just a few bucks a month, you can get an unlimited plan that will let you search the web, send email, and check Facebook and Twitter as much as you want.

Search the Web with Google

Update: It seems that Google's SMS search service is currently down. It was working yesterday, but as of right now all searches are returning empty results (great timing, Google). Hopefully it will be back up soon, and we'll update this post when it is.

When you're out and about and you need quick info—whether it's the weather forecast, word definitions, unit conversions, or language translations, you can get just about any information you need from Google's SMS Search. Just like Google on the web, it can often detect what you're looking for and give you a straight answer right then and there. Just text your query to 466453 (GOOGLE) and they'll text you back the results. Here are some of the things you can search for:

Get Movie Times: Just search for movies in a city (e.g. movies los angeles ca to see showtimes for all the movies in your area. You can also search a specific zip code if you prefer.
Restaurants and Other Businesses: Similarly, you can search for local places in a certain city with something like burgers 90028 or Home Depot Los Angeles.
Word Definitions: Search for these just like you would on Google with the define operator, e.g. define defenestrate. You can shorten this to just d, e.g. d defenestrate.
Translations: to use Google Translate from your non-smartphone, just use the translate operator. For example: translate hello to french.
Unit Conversions: You don't even need an operator for this one. Just type in your conversion, like 1 us pint in liters to get an answer.

To get help with any command, just type help and the operator in question, e.g. help definitions. For the full list of operators you can use (and an emulator that will let you test it out), check out Google's SMS Search page.

So, you probably know a lot of these. However, Google has one more operator that makes open-ended searches very easy: the web operator. Just type web and then your search terms to search for just about anything. Can't remember which one was Anne Frank and which one was Hellen Keller? Look one of them up with web anne frank. Want to know the difference between apple cider and apple juice? You can even search web difference between apple cider and apple juice and you'll be able to settle that debate with ease.

Note that any links it gives you will lead you to a mobile browser, where you will incur data charges. Usually, you'll be able to at least get some information from the text message—like that for the most part, apple cider and apple juice are the same. Were you to read the full article, you'd get more detailed information (like that some states define cider as unfiltered apple juice with "pulp" in it), but for searches with short answers, you can get everything you need with a quick text.

Get Driving Directions

If you've freed yourself of a GPS dependency, you're probably pretty used to getting driving directions before you leave the house. If you get lost, though, you can always get instant directions from Google via SMS. Just text directions and your starting and ending addresses to 466453, like so:

directions 123 maple st pasadena ca to 321 main st los angeles ca

It will send you a series of texts afterwards (seriously, it'll be quite a few messages) detailing the entire route for you, so you won't get lost.

Send and Receive Email via Gmail

Our favorite way to use email on our non-smartphones is the webapp-supercharging ifttt service. By choosing Gmail as your first step and SMS as your second step, you can create a task that sends you a text message whenever you get a new email from a specific person, or with a certain label.

What's also really nice about this method is that you choose how the text message is formatted. So, if you don't want to see the message's label, you can remove that from the message, and if you do want to see the beginning of the email's body, you can add that to the SMS from the ifttt interface.

You can also send messages with ifttt, though it isn't quite as simple. Basically, you create a task that sends an email to someone when you send ifttt an SMS message with a specific tag. So, for example, I could make a task that, when I text ifttt a message with the tag #emailadam, it will send that message to my friend Adam's email address (via my Gmail address). You'd have to create a separate task for each person you might want to email, so you won't be able to reply to any email you get, but it can be very handy when you need to send a quick message to someone.

Update and View Your Calendar

If you use Google Calendar, you can use Google's built-in SMS service to view events, and ifttt to add new events. All you need to do is make sure your Calendar is linked to your phone number in Google Calendar under Settings > Mobile Setup. Then, to see your events, you can send any of the following messages to 48368 (GVENT):

NEXT: Will reply to you with your next scheduled event.
DAY: Will reply to you with your schedule for the current day.
NDAY: Will reply to you with your schedule for tomorrow.
STOP: Will opt out of the Google Calendar SMS service.

To add new events, we like to use ifttt. Make your first action a tagged SMS message with whatever tag you want (something like #cal should work). For your second action, choose the Quick Add Event from Google Calendar. Whatever you type in that box will be the message it uses for Google Calendar's Quick Add feature (which you can test on the Google Calendar page, if you're not familiar with how it works). Using {{Message}} as your Quick Add Text should be sufficient, so hit Create Action when you're done.

Then, to add a new event, just send an SMS message to ifttt with your event info and the #cal tag. You want the event info to be formatted in a way Google Calendar's Quick Add understands, e.g. Dinner with Adam at 6pm at Din Tai Fung. Google calendar will parse out the location (Din Tai Fung) and time (6pm) and add it as a new event. If you're unfamiliar with Google Calendar's Quick Add feature, head to Google Calendar's main page and click "Quick Add" in the upper left hand corner to see how it works.

Note that you can also use GVENT to add new events to Google Calendar: just send GVENT a message with your Quick Add text and it'll go into your default calendar. What's nice about using ifttt is that you can create multiple tags, each for a different calendar—like #personalcal, #workcal, and so on—and then send events to whatever calendar you want on-the-go.

Update and View Your Social Networks

Depending on what social networks you use, you have a few choices in linking them to SMS on your phone. Most have SMS features built-in, but you can also use ifttt for some things if you want more control. Here are a few examples.

Facebook

To turn on SMS support for Facebook, head to Facebook's Mobile Settings and register your phone with Facebook. Once you've done so, you can edit a few different things:

Notifications: This lets Facebook send you SMS notifications when someone comments on your status, posts on your wall, adds you as a friend, or anything else (you can further refine these settings under Facebook's Notification settings, if you only want messages for specific types of notifications). You can also set specific times of day for Facebook to stay silent, and tell it to stop sending you messages if you're using Facebook at the time.
Messages: You can get SMS notifications when someone messages you on Facebook, or choose to have Facebook only send notifications when someone specifically messages your phone from Facebook.
Daily Text Limit: If you aren't on an unlimited plan, obviously this can eat up a lot of money. Here, you can tell Facebook to limit the number of text messages you receive a day, so you don't go over budget on your phone bill.

To update your status from your phone, just send your status updates to 32665 (FBOOK), and it will post them on your profile.

Alternatively, you can create a new task in ifttt that, whenever you send a tagged SMS to ifttt, sends that to Facebook as a new status. The main advantage of using ifttt instead of Facebook's official method is that you can manage it from the same page as your Gmail, Calendar, and other ifttt tasks. However, using Facebook's official route is easier since you can add it as a separate contact, rather than having to remember a tag.

Twitter

To set up Twitter on your phone, just head to Twitter's Mobile Settings page and register your number with them. Once you do, you can manage your notifications from that page—that is, choose whether you get notifications for tweets from certain users, direct messages, and mentions, among other events. Like Facebook, you can also tell Twitter to stop sending you messages at certain hours of the day.

To send tweets or perform other actions from your phone, just text 40404 one of the following commands:

Texting 40404 without a command will tweet whatever message you send.
Follow: Sending this followed by a username (e.g. follow WhitsonGordon will follow that user on Twitter.
Unfollow: Sending this followed by a username (e.g. unfollow WhitsonGordon will unfollow that user on Twitter.
On/Off: Turn all Twitter notifications on or off. If you follow the command with a username (e.g. on WhitsonGordon) will turn mobile notifications on or off for a specific user.
Get: Followed by a username, this will show you the latest tweet from any given user.
Retweet: Followed by a username, this will retweet a specific user's last tweet.
Favorite: Followed by a username, this will favorite a specific user's last tweet.
DM: Followed by a username and a message, this will send that message to a specific user as a private direct message.

If you use multiple social networks, there's no need to text your statuses to both Facebook and Twitter, either. Remember that with a combination of services, you can post to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ all at the same time if you so desire.

Putting It All Together

Now, while you could use Google and ifttt for pretty much everything, we recommend using official services whenever you can. That way, you can add each individual number as a contact in your phone—like 40404 for Twitter—and just send SMS messages to those contacts whenever you need to do something.

The only hard part, of course, is remember all of the above commands. When you're on the go, you may forget if you need an operator to do unit conversions, or what the operator is for getting the latest tweet from a certain user. I've found the easiest way to remember these is to copy the above information into the "Notes" or "Comments" section on each contact—Google, Facebook, Twitter, ifttt, and whoever else. That way, when you need to do something, you can just look up the contact and find everything you need to know right there.

This obviously isn't quite as easy to use as a smartphone might be, but it's pretty shocking how much you can do with a few well-crafted text messages. Don't forget that you can get even more out of your non-smartphone with Google Voice, and if you're willing to pay for a smartphone, you can always use a smartphone without a data plan too (after all, Wi-Fi is everywhere these days). Got any other tricks or services that work over SMS? Share your favorites with us in the comments below.

DrugCite Tells You the Side Effects of Nearly Any Medicine and Provides Helpful, Relevant Statistics

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By Adam Dachis

DrugCite Tells You the Side Effects of Nearly Any Medicine and Provides Helpful, Relevant Statistics

DrugCite is a useful database of information about the prescription and over-the-counter medication, allowing you to look up the possible side effects of specific drugs and see statistics about their reported problems.

If you were to look up the allergy medicine Allegra, you'd find that the highest number of problems with the drug were reported around 2005, and that the majority of problems were neurological. DrugCite provides simple graphs that break down the number of reported issues related to the medicine in question and cross-reference that information to provide other useful statistics. Each drug report will also tell you its age, the number of adverse reports over its lifespan, and a gender breakdown of that report. Over 40 years, Allegra only received 2,710 reports. That's only about 68 per year, and that's out of millions of people. While low numbers don't guarantee you anything, and these statistics are only related to reported issues, if you're worried about taking a specific type of medication it can help to see how rare certain problems are to make yourself a little more comfortable.

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Eat Nutritiously to Fight Holiday Depression

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Eat Nutritiously to Fight Holiday Depression

by Leanne Ely, C.N.C

We are completely entrenched in the Christmas season and for so many, also completely entrenched in holiday depression. Having gone through holiday bouts of depression myself, I will never discount anyone's depression. I will tell you however, there are things you can do to fight the oppression of depression. Even if you don't "feel" like it, you can take action against it.

One of the most effective things in battling any sort of depression (and it is a FIGHT!) is feeding yourself right. Poor eating actually helps fuel depression. In the midst of all the scurrying around during the holidays, we end up shortchanging ourselves and eating poorly. We "save up" for the Big Feasts or parties and starve ourselves or eat fast food because we're too busy.

Having a plan really does make a difference. We have a great Christmas menu that gives you a menu for the big meal, recipes and the itemized grocery list to keep the panic level at bay. But even with lists and plans, there's still a lot to do that can cause stress, which only contributes to that downward spiral.

Add poor eating to that and you're going to be struggling big time to keep your chin above water.

To fend off bad eating, make yourself a big pot of soup (in your large Crock Pot) to keep yourself from "going there." You need something easy, delicious and nutritious to get you through.

Below is a recipe for a major Crock Pot full of phytochemically rich veggie soup that you can tweak here and there with the variations I have added to keep you from getting bored. Once the soup has been initially cooked, put it in the fridge and heat up what you need in a small saucepan. The soup is vegetarian and low-carb friendly, too.

And while you're running around over the next few days finishing up your last-minute shopping, remember to drink your water. Water is a nutrient, not a beverage. Drink a lot of water and keep yourself hydrated.

Leanne's Basic Veggie Soup
Serves 12

1 tablespoon olive oil, or as needed
1 large onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, pressed
2 large carrots, chopped
2 small celery stalks, chopped
1 medium turnip, chopped
1/4 head cabbage, chopped
2 small russet potatoes, peeled and chopped
2 cups green beans, cut in 1-inch pieces
1/2 teaspoon thyme
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 (28-oz.) can diced tomatoes, undrained
6 cups low sodium chicken broth (or vegetable broth)

In a large soup pot, heat the one tablespoon of the olive oil over medium high heat. Add the onion and cook till nearly translucent, now add the garlic. Don't let the garlic brown and saute another couple of minutes.

Add the rest of the chopped veggies, sauteing for just a minute or two; use extra olive oil if you need it for the rest of the veggies. Remember-you're not cooking them- just sauteing them for the wonderful flavor this quick step will infuse in your soup. Add the thyme and salt and pepper while sauteing. Now put the veggies in the crock-pot, add the tomatoes and broth. Cook on low 7-9 hours (depending on your crock-pot) or high 4-6 hours. Just before serving, gently mash some of the potato chunks against the side of the crock-pot to thicken the soup, give it a stir and serve.

Nutrition Per Serving: 94 Calories; 3g Fat; 7g Protein; 12g Carbohydrate; 3g Dietary Fiber; 0mg Cholesterol; 286mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 2 Vegetable; 1/2 Fat. Points: 2

SERVING SUGGESTIONS: Grilled cheese sandwiches on whole grain bread and a spinach salad.

Quick Fixes for Variations on the Basic Veggie Soup

Now remember, don't do these to the whole pot of soup! Just the little bit you pull out to fix yourself for lunch, etc. so that you can do all the Quick Fixes.

Quick Fix #1: Tex Mex Veggie Soup. Add some (eyeball it-how much do you want?) black beans (drained and rinsed), a little bit of cumin and chopped cilantro. Top with some tortilla chips and cheese, or serve with a quesadilla.

Quick Fix #2: Tuscan Veggie Soup. Add some (eyeball it again) cannellini (white kidney beans) or white beans (drained and rinsed), a little bit of Italian seasoning and some chopped kale. Cook till heated through and the kale is tender.

Quick Fix #3: Minestrone Veggie Soup. Add some cooked pasta, a little dried basil and top with a fresh grating of Parmesan cheese.

Quick Fix #4: Autumn Veggie Soup. Add some diced acorn squash or butternut squash, a handful of cooked brown rice, a sprinkling of nutmeg and some chopped parsley.

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Cooking with Kids: Enchilasagna

by Leanne Ely, C.N.C.

http://www.savingdinner.tv/featured/cooking-with-kids-enchilasagna/ A cross between enchiladas and lasagna! This dish is sure to please. Be sure to check out our Kids Cooking Club for MORE great ideas!
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Saving Dinner cookbook..... Everything that I have made so far my family liked and would eat it. It's super easy and My favorite so far is Mexican Lasagna. Thank you so much for all of your hard work that makes our lives better. - Lori

Thanks, Lori! You know, the Saving Dinner cookbook would make a great gift... Have Amazon ship it directly to them and it wouldn't be too late :)

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Thank you so much for this added bonus of Five Freezer Chicken meals! I have always wanted to try some of those freezer meals, but felt like it would be hard to get started. I looked the recipes over and I think that I was making it harder than it had to be.
Thanks for blessing us with these free freezer meals that are sure to please and come in handy on a busy day.

Gratefully, Deanie

You're welcome, Deanie!

Have YOU tried our freezer menus yet? They start at $5 and the peace of mind knowing there are healthy dinners waiting for you in the freezer is well worth it in our opinion. We include categorized shopping lists, assembly and cooking instructions, lots of tips, and even step-by-step preassembly so you can be ready to go faster!