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Get a Belly Full of Jelly

In a previous blog, Factory Tours Are Fun And Free!, I talked about how friendly factory tours are for both families and their budgets. I am such a big fan of factory tours for their fun, frugality and educational value, that I will be highlighting some of the best tours around. When I asked the question about favorite factory tours in the Families.com Family Time Forum, the one tour that kept coming up was the Jelly Belly Factory Tour in Fairfield, California. So many members reported having a great time there. There is also a Jelly Belly Factory tour in … Continue reading →

How to Fight the Belly Bulge

It’s Christmas time and while we are all especially fond of the image of the jolly Santa Claus with his bowl full of jelly image – it’s not one that we may want for ourselves. Luckily, there seems to be new research out there that indicates you may just need to eat a few more oranges in order to bring your belly back under control. People who carry a lot of extra weight around their midsection are usually at a higher risk for heart disease, diabetes and obesity. These different conditions can actually sap your body’s vitamin C resources. Vitamin … Continue reading →

Oh My Arm!

I lost my arm last week. My third arm. It was severed by the door to a third grade classroom. Who knew the first day of school would turn me into an amputee? My daughter and I shared an amazing summer together, but like all good things our season of fun has come to an end. Our blissfully relaxed summer days have been replaced by a stringent school schedule. Our carefree morning strolls succeeded by a stressful morning commute featuring a frustrating intersection with a left turn light that allows exactly 1 1/2 cars to inch forward before turning red. … Continue reading →

Chocolate Tours: Fun and Free

Rich, creamy…..chocolate! For this next blog in my series of factory tours, I thought I would do a little research on chocolate tours. Do you believe that there are more than 40 tours around the nation that have something to do with chocolate? Below are just some of the highlights. Hershey’s Chocolate World, Hershey, Pa Hershey is the absolute king of chocolate tours. In fact, visiting Hershey is more like visiting an entire theme park. The tour part is really a visitor’s center. There is a 3D show, a trolley works, rides, a large marketplace (we stocked up on Halloween … Continue reading →

Give Yourself Weight Loss for the Holidays

It’s the holiday season and while Santa may be a jolly old soul with a belly that jiggles like a bowlful of jelly, that doesn’t mean the rest of us are interested in the same. So it’s time to make a few lifestyle changes in order to give yourself some weight loss instead of weight gain for Christmas. The average person puts on about 5 pounds between Thanksgiving and January 1st. 5 pounds sounds like a lot, but it’s really not. To burn one pound, you need to burn 3500 calories, you can do this in 7 days by putting … Continue reading →