Top 5 Things You Should Know When Preparing Healthy Recipes

1.       Preparing a healthy recipe that will be loved not only by children but also by adults. Making some healthy recipes that will be appreciate by all members of the family at the same time can be challenging. And most of time, readymade recipes can also be hard to find.  This is why we have to really come up with something that will be make everyone in the family east and enjoy.

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Survival Cache, What It Is and What It Should Be

Survival Cache, What It Is and What It Should Be
A survival cache (some people say Cash-a and others Cash) is just about what it sounds like. It is a store or stockpile of something of value you can use in the future for you and your family to survive if needed.
This is not like life insurance or a traditional investment program; this is "no holds barred", "rip the meat from the bones" hard cash storage of money (or valuables) that you can get at in a moments notice while a dramatic situation is happening.
What is a survival cache? What should a survival cache be?
These are two very important questions and they can only be answered by you. Your situation and foresight will determine these answers.
If social and / or political instability are issues, or if there is a possibility of a government collapse, the storing or hording of paper cash from your country is probably not the best solution. Confederate dollars, old Russian money, Yugoslavian "Yugo's" and pre 1971 Argentina Peso's are a perfect example of paper that is worth less than newsprint.
With the fluctuation in prices of major "global" currencies, their true value is in question also. If you follow the value of your home currency against the foreign currency market, that is a good indicator that you are too "heavy" in your local paper.
The price of gold and silver has not changed for the last 2,000 years. WHAT did I just say? Do you think I am crazy when silver has climbed thousands of percent and gold hundreds in recent times?
Since recorded history, one ounce of "fine gold" (probably 90% pure or higher) was the cost of a fine suite, which it is today. One ounce of silver was the daily wage of a laborer, which it is today.
In today's world the price of precious metals does move up and down a lot and sometimes quite violently, but with the total deterioration of a banking system and society in general the value of these metals will show their true colors.
There is a very real possibility that at some point in the future, the value of the Euro or the Dollar will be the same as the old confederate money and you will need to run to the bakery with a wheel barrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread before the value drops so much you need to run there with 2 wheel barrows full.
The value of gold and silver on the other hand never changes. Your paper may go up and down in price, but the price fluctuations are against the value of the metal vs the demand. The price of a loaf of bread is still 3 grams of gold, the only thing that changed was the value of your Dollars.
If I was putting together a survival cache, I think I would probably try to focus more on gold and silver than I would on paper. I would really be disappointed if the piece of paper I held yesterday was worth an ounce of gold and today it is not even worth using to light the fire because the electricity has been shut down.

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Recipe Card Organizer - 3 Tips On Why You Should Use One

Every time someone in your family ask you what is for dinner, your response is limited to a page torn from a magazine, a hand scribbled recipe written on the back of an envelope or an entry from a cookbook. It is hard to plan meals for your family when you are stuck with thumbing through recipes that are in different formats. Cooking could be less stressful if you replaced all of these items with a digital recipe card organizer. Imagine the convenience in taking all of your favorite recipes (both the passed down from generation to generation family recipes to those that you read in the latest cooking magazine), and having them in one location and in one uniform format.

By digitizing the recipes, you have the ability to ensure that you will not only prevent them from being lost, but that they will be "at your fingertips" in the kitchen where you most need them. Just think about how many times you have went searching for the recipe of one of your favorite meals, and weren't able to remember which cookbook you saw it in or where you place the note card that you had written it in. With a digital recipe card organizer, you don't have to face those issues.

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Here are 3 tips on why you should use a digital recipe card organizer:

Tip #1: Easy Access

No longer will you have to rummage through stacks and stacks of paper to find a recipe for Aunt Joan's meat loaf. All your recipes can easily be search and accessed. Recipes can be grouped together by ingredients or by category like breads, vegetables or chicken. Uploading new recipes is as easy as filling out some simple forms. And for most digital recipe card organizers, your are able to store thousands of recipes, therefore providing adequate storage for just about everyone.

Tip #2: Menu Planning

A recipe card organizer can assist in creating a daily, weekly or monthly menu plan for your family. You can tell the program what food items you currently have on hand and it will give you a list of recipes that match your list. The program can scale recipes up or down based on the number of people being served. Also, many digital recipe card organizers can provide suggestions if you are missing ingredients for a meal.

Tip #3: Organization

Once you have uploaded your recipes, browsing though them is a breeze. You can group together meals by the main protein involved (ie. chicken recipes, beef recipes, etc.) or you can search by specific ingredient. So if you had a bag of potatoes that needed to be cooked, you can search for all recipes that include potatoes.

A digital recipe card organizer can provide easy access to all of your recipes while making the daily menu planning process more enjoyable. By knowing the ingredients that you have available, you can quickly search through the recipes that you are able to make. Plus, you'll never have to waste another minute trying to find one of your recipes. All of them will be conveniently located in one place.

Recipe Card Organizer - 3 Tips On Why You Should Use One

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Marketing Strategy - Should You Market With Celebrity Endorsements?

When it comes to marketing, should you play the fame game? 

The 2008 Beijing Olympics has been a fascinating study in marketing, advertising and public relations.  From great ads for big brands to the major (if sometimes faltering) public relations campaign of the Chinese government, it's been a wild ride.  We've also seen many companies venture into the land of celebrity endorsements.  One of the more interesting endorsements?  Gold metal swimmer Mark Spitz for Botox.

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Of course, most marketing professionals will never face the challenge of choosing a celebrity to endorse their brand.  In fact, we may spend most of our time advising against it.  Celebrities (even aging Olympic athletes) have their share of scandals.  It's hard to tell when a grainy, compromising photo of your squeaky-clean spokesperson may show up in a tabloid.  And, a few will choose to badmouth your brand after their contract has ended.  It happens.

On the plus side, certain celebs may have strong pull with your target market.  For example, Mark Spitz tested well among the Botox-buying set.  The best bet when choosing a celebrity to endorse your product?  Don't get caught with stars in your eyes.  Test the spokesperson carefully with your consumer groups, choose them for a good reason and vet them as you would a vice presidential pick. 

Once you have your celebrity on board, be sure to keep them happy -- even if they have signed a tightly-worded contract.  And once their contract is up, try to maintain a relationship with them.  Celebrities give a lot of interviews, and what they say (or don't say) can make a big difference for your brand. 

Marketing Strategy - Should You Market With Celebrity Endorsements?

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Why I Believe in Holistic Financial Planning and You Should Too

When you engage the services of an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) you may receive two different types of service, transactional or holistic, in years gone by you probably wouldn't even be given the choice odds were that the adviser you were dealing with probably only offered one kind of service and that's what you received. If you have seen an IFA in the past, do you know what type of service you received?

Transactional or Holistic Advice?

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Traditionally Independent Financial Advisers, in the UK at least, have offered primarily a transaction based service. "Transaction" doesn't sound like a nice word, it sounds like the kind of service you get from Tesco, and I bet you are thinking that's not what I get from my adviser, "we have a good relationship, we exchange Christmas cards and stay in touch, I know I can turn to him/her when I need help."

Odds are however that you are receiving a transactional service, let me tell you what a transactional service is so we can see if that is what you currently receive. In a transactional relationship, you have a problem, concern or issue and your adviser pops a long and helps you work out or resolve the matter usually by finding the best financial product available to take care of it. Then you will go back to exchanging Christmas cards etc. until you need help again, or the adviser makes a note to get back in touch when your policy comes up for renewal or some other key event like the end of a deal he arranged for you. Does this sound like your adviser relationship?

Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with offering transactional based financial advice the majority of my clients, many of whom I now consider friends, come to me on a transactional basis they have a problem and I solve it everybody is happy.

But there is another way, holistic financial planning, the key word here being planning. When you get holistic advice your adviser takes a big picture view of your finances and your personal goals and aspirations, he or she deals with the issues a transactional adviser would but in the context of the "bigger picture". When it's over the adviser and you will agree a schedule for him or her to return so that you can carry out financial reviews that are not based around solving a problem or selling you a new plan or policy, at these reviews the adviser will give you advice on issues that will often be ignored by a transactional advice process, for example which funds your company pension plan should be in, a transactional adviser will rarely give you advice on something like that as they wont receive a commission from your employer, and there is no possibility of a product sale, so they would have to charge you a fee just for that.

If holistic advice is so good, then why do people still opt for a transactional service ?

I have pondered this one for quite some time, firstly I think that there are a large proportion of people who either don't realise that holistic advice exists as an alternative, or they think that they are already receiving it.

I also think that engaging an IFA to come and see you at regular intervals is perceived as something that only the very rich can afford to do, when in reality it is not the case at all. Added to this of course many people don't actually want to deal with their personal finances but prefer to wait until an actual problem appears before they do anything!

What are the big advantages of going down a holistic planning route?

There are a number of common sayings that cut straight to the core of why I believe in the long term everyone would be better off taking a holistic approach to the their financial planning, "Failing to plan is planning to fail", "It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark." and my personal favourite "If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's" There is a reason that saying's like this fall in to common day to day language, it's because we all know they have truth in them whether we want to admit it or not. Think about it does a General ever go in to battle without a plan? Does any business big or small ever succeed without a business plan? Why should the long term financial security and well-being of you and your family be any different? As Thomas Edison said "Good Fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."

I know what you are probably thinking, I don't really have enough money or income to need holistic planning this sort of thing is for rich celebrities and not for little old me. Well think about this, income is not the be all and end all of financial planning, if you doubt me on this just think for a moment about people you know in your own life maybe they're a little older than you are now, but they've worked in similar kinds of pay brackets as you do, and they are comfortable financially maybe more comfortably off than you are, maybe they're thinking about retiring early or they have a couple of holidays a year. Do you think they got in to that position by accident, or do you think they arrived at this position because they have taken care of their finances over the years?

If income were everything we wouldn't have an endless list of celebrities with mega incomes going bankrupt, go on Google "bankrupt celebs" and see what you come up with. I found this little list, Kerry Katona, Stephen Baldwin, Gary Coleman, George Best, Larry King, Marvin Gaye, MC Hammer, Toni Braxton, Don Johnson, Henry Ford, Meat Loaf, Michael Barrymore, Mike Tyson, Bill Roache, Burt Reynolds...... the list goes on and on. All of these people have or had mega incomes but things still went wrong for them many of them learned hard lessons and went on to make it all back. Donald trump for example who had to put his Casino business in to bankruptcy in 2004 has said "I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present." that quote more than any other I have come across sums up holistic financial planning, plan for what you want in the future based on what you have now!

In the end if you want your financial adviser to come and see you to make the best of your available resources to help you achieve your long term goals and work with you to regularly review the situation and help smooth any bumps in the road, without needing to sell you something to cover the time they spend doing, then holistic financial planning is certainly the way you should go.

If you would like to discuss anything in this article then please feel free to get in touch.

Why I Believe in Holistic Financial Planning and You Should Too

John Bloomfield is an Independent Financial Adviser, who works with individuals, families and business's that wish to organise their finances now to achieve their goals in the future.
http://www.pwfs.co.uk

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