Healthy Homemade Mini Meatballs

I decided to cook up a big batch of healthy meatballs this weekend. I always like to make a big tray and freeze the extras in smaller batches for busy weeknight meals.  We have two meat eaters and one vegetarian so this makes my life easier.  We all thought this recipe turned out super delicious--one of my best ever creations. Let me know what your think!

 Yummy Healthy Homemade Mini Meatballs

1 lb organic ground beef or turkey or chicken (dealers choice!)
1/2 cup Baby or regular carrots chopped up finely (food process is easiest)
1/2 cup fresh parsley bunch chopped finely
1 small to medium sweet or Vidalia type onion chopped finely
Parmesan or Grana Padano cheese grated  or chopped 1/2 cup
1/3 cup ground flax seed
1/3 cup ground oat bran
1/3 cup Panko
2 eggs or eggbeaters
1 tsp dried oregano or more to taste
1 tsp dried basil or more to taste
Salt and pepper to taste


*(If you like you can throw the carrots, parsley, cheese, onion and flax seed all in the food processor together for speediness!)

Mix all ingredients together (clean hands do it the fastest!) if too dry add a bit more chopped vegetables if too mushy add more Panko. Form into one inch balls by rolling with hands.

 Put them on a big tray. I like to use parchment paper underneath to make cleanup easier. I  bake my meatballs first, rotating them on the pan halfway through cooking. After I place them in my sauce and cook them for a few more minutes to flavor the sauce.

Bake at 350 degrees rotating after 15 minutes.

Add them to your choice of homemade or jarred sauce and enjoy with spaghetti or on a grinder roll.  Enjoy!!

Combat Ant Killing Bait Strips Giveaway and $1,000 Sweepstakes Opportunity

 

Well, it is the spring. Lordy knows I do love the warmer weather.  Unfortunately, so do the ants. They seem to spring right up as soon as the warm weather hits. Yucky, yucky, yucky.  I don't like ants in my home.   I dread setting up all those obvious ant houses to get rid of them though.  I was so happy to receive something new from Combat this week through my relationship with Purex Insiders.  Combat Ant & Roach Killing Bait Strips look totally discreet but still are very effective in killing ants. Yay!!! No giant white ant houses.

Combat Killing Baits Strips are super easy to use....and discreet.  Combat gets it.  You just stick the small little strip in the area where the ants are..then the ants find and eat the bait strips. They carry the bait back to the colony and expose the insecticide to the rest of the ants.   It gets the whole colony destroyed.  Perfect. 

You can buy Combat Killing Baits Strips at all major stores including Target, Walmart, Home Depot, and ShopRite.  There are 5 to a package. 

COMBAT GIVEAWAY

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Disclaimer: I received a free sample of Combat Ant Killing Baits Strips in order to review them. As always, my opinions are my own.

Soft Scrub 4-in-1 Toilet Care Giveaway, Sweeps & Review #4-in-1ToiletCare

Maybe you are ofa very different mind than Glamamama so I don't know but I really hate cleaning toilets.  It is just so yucky.  On the other hand, I am a really clean person so I do it more than I like.  There are a million toilet cleaners but most of them involve work on my part. I really do love any kind of product that makes things easier for this busy, working mama though and that goes double for any kind of cleaning products. C'mon, that's right, make it easy for me. I will be polite and say a huge "thank you" too. Soft Scrub recently launched a great new product called Soft Scrub 4-in-1 Toilet Care.  I love it because Soft Scrub 4-in-1 Toilet Care does it all and saves me time.  Minimal work involved with the toilet care.  Who isn't always looking for a good toilet bowl cleaner?  Well, here it is.  Take a peek:

• Cleans Toilets
• Prevents Future Buildup
• Fights Toilet Ring
• Freshens up to 4 weeks

Check out the package here. It comes in two different scents for your personal needs. 

• Alpine fresh with bleach

• Sapphire waters without bleach

I don't know but toilet bowl rings are so gross to me. Who wants to look in the toilet and see some yucky toilet bowl stain?  Not me sister!  Whatever I can do the prevent toilet ring...I will do it. I don't like to clean the toilet but I really like a clean toilet bowl.  See how easy it is with NEW Soft Scrub 4-in-1 Toilet Cleaner and let me know.  You can connect up with Soft Scrub on Twitter.

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Disclaimer:  I received a free sample of Soft Scrub 4-in-1 Toilet Care as a member of the Purex Insiders Program in order to evaluate it for myself. As always, all opinions are my own.

Book Review: THE HAPPIEST BABY GUIDE TO GREAT SLEEP: Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years by Dr. Harvey Karp

I love this...it is like an E-Z instruction book for parents AND babies!  I received a book from One2One Network recently to review by Harvey Karp, M.D. and boy I wish I had The Happiest Baby Guide To Great Sleep Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years a few years ago when my daughter was a baby.  I had to cobble together my own plan by hook and crook.  Thank goodness I ended up with a good sleeper but, wow, having Dr. Karp's book would have made it a bunch easier for me. You are really lucky...Glamamama is kind of jealous but I will tell you more anyway because I know how hard it is as a mom.  I am hoping I can help other moms avoid some of the sleep pitfalls that my friends fell into.

Dr. Karp has some simple but effective techniques.  They are very easy to learn and use in your own home.  No special expensive equipment needed either.  You will learn about the key set of techniques, it's called the "5 S's": swaddling, side or stomach position, shushing, swinging, and sucking. Those five actions re-create the atmosphere in the womb or what Dr. Karp calls the "fourth trimester."





Dr. Karp gives you super simple steps which incorporate the 5S's to get your child to start sleeping great quickly.  That is what we all truly want, I know we agree on that. When the kids sleep well, we sleep well..yay...everyone is happy.  Dr. Harvey Karp has made doctors applaud and parents cheer with his simple but effective solutions to centuries-old problems such as colic and tantrums. Now, in THE HAPPIEST BABY GUIDE TO GREAT SLEEP: Simple Solutions for Kids from Birth to 5 Years (William Morrow Paperback; On-Sale: March 19, 2013; $15.99; ISBN: 9780062113320), Dr. Karp solves the #1 problem plaguing new parents: pure exhaustion.  We all know it, right?  

Dr. Karp’s has some fascinating insights like:

• Train brand new babies to sleep better: Infants can be taught to sleep at least one extra hour from the first weeks of life! Dr. Karp shows how to safely increase baby sleep in just days.

• The best white noise and which ones to avoid: Low pitched and rumbling white noise is the holy grail for good sleep...even with teething...for all babies. Advantage:  Mom and Dad can sleep too!

• Always wake a sleeping baby: Babies must learn how to self-soothe. The best way to teach babies how to fall back to sleep—when they rouse in the middle of the night—is to wake them a tiny bit just as they’re being put into bed.

• All the Benefits and none of the risks of swaddling: Swaddling totally improves a new baby’s sleep.  Smart moms like you should do it and Dr. Karp will teach you how to do it properly and safely.

• Blackout those computer, tv and smartphone screens: Staring at bright screens at night can really do a number on a toddler and a parent’s sleep.

• E-Z “no-cry” tips that end infant and toddler bedtime struggles in less than a week!

With The Happiest Baby Guide To Great Sleep, you can erase from your mind all those horror stories you have heard about months of sleep deprivation.  Forget about your baby having to cry themselves to sleep. Backed by compelling science, common sense and decades of experience, Dr. Karp’s landmark guide pretty much revolutionizes how millions of children will be drifting off to dreamland including your own baby and toddlers. You can order The Happiest Baby Guide To Great Sleep book here.
 
I am participating in a book review campaign with One2One Network. I received this book from Harper Collins for the purposes of reviewing it. I have not received compensation. My participation in the campaign enters me into a drawing for a gift card. All opinions stated are my own.