[ReprintArticles-Paradise] Plan your Leftovers
Plan your Leftovers By Monica Resinger Using leftovers not only saves money by using up foods that you have on hand, therefore decreasing shopping trips, but it can also save time. The most obvious way you can save time using leftovers is that the dish is already cooked and all you have to do is warm it up the next evening for a meal. This, however, can get boring. Another, more exciting way to use leftovers is to plan your leftovers. To plan your leftovers means to plan on cooking more of something in your current meal to use for an upcoming planned meal. For example, if you are having roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, and roasted vegetables for dinner tonight, you could plan on cooking double the amount of roast beef that your family normally eats so you can use the extra in tomorrow nights dinner which is planned to be open faced, hot roast beef sandwiches and green salad. You could even go the extra length and make double the amount of mashed potatoes and roasted vegetables to make potato pancakes and pasta salad with sliced roasted vegetables to go with the open faced hot roast beef sandwiches. You would have most of your upcoming meal already prepared for you. Of course, this takes a little time to plan, but cooking this way will save you a lot more time than what it took to plan it and as a bonus, youll be saving oodles of money! Planning will ensure that you have the right ingredients on hand for your planned meals. To plan your leftovers, you just need to think about the way you use your leftovers. You could sit down with a notebook and pen and write down all the ways in which you use leftovers and ad to it when you find new ideas. Make a few pages for each different type of leftover such as 'chicken', 'beef', 'potatoes', 'bread', 'vegetables', 'pasta', etc. If you'd like to skip this part or need more ideas for what to do with your leftovers, check out my e-book The Leftover Recipe E-book here: http://homemakersjournal.com/leftovers.htm Once you have written down all the ways you use leftovers, you can then plan your meals for the week in either your notebook (this is a great idea because you can use it over and over again) or on a calendar. Say you want to have chili and cornbread this week. Plan on making a double batch of chili to use the next night for chili dogs (or maybe even a triple batch so family members can use some for lunches). Once you have your menu planned, then youll need to make a shopping list to ensure you have all ingredients needed. Have fun with it and save lots of time and money! About the Author: Monica Resinger is the creator of 'Homemaker's Journal E-Publications' where you will find many fun and informative home and garden related e-books, tip sheets and how to sign up for her FREE home and garden newsletter! Click here to visit: http://homemakersjournal.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ReprintArticles-Paradise] Distribute Your Self-Published Book - Part 1
Publishing Guidelines: You are welcome to publish this article in its entirety, electronically, or in print fre.e of charge, as long as you include my full signature file for ezines, and my Web site address in hyperlink for other sites. Please send a courtesy link or email where you publish to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Title: Distribute Your Self-Published Book - Part 1 Author: Judy Cullins Copyright 2005. All Rights Reserved. Bio: Judy Cullins, 20-year Book and Internet Marketing Coach works with small business people who want to make a difference in people's lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. Author of 10 eBooks including Write your eBook or Other Short Book Fast, Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market Your Book Online, The Fast and Cheap Way to Explode Targeted Web Traffic, and Power Writing for Web Sites That Sell, she offers free help through her 2 monthly ezines, The BookCoach Says..., Business Tip of the Month, and blog Q A at http://www.bookcoaching.com/opt-in.shtml and over 170 free articles. Email her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Article URL: www.bookcoaching.com/freearticles/article-69.shtml Article Autoresponder: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author Contact Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Category: Writing / Publishing / eBook Description: Where is your book now? With a distributor? In a book store? Or, did it already die an early death after a few months? This Online promotion method is good for the long haul and costs you little time or money. I encourage you to try this kind, gentle, and easy way to get your print or eBook into your audience's hand. Keywords: Judy Cullins, book coaching, San Diego, eBook, book writing, self-published book, book publishing, bookcoach, epublishing, titles sell books, how to write a book, publicize and promote your book, market your book online, ebook promotion, book selling, book profits, free promotion, information products, writing ebook, epublishing Words: 998 Thanks, Judy Cullins, M.A. P.S. To receive a complete list of over 170 free articles with autoresponder addresses go to www.bookcoaching.com/freearticles.shtml. == Distribute Your Self-Published Book - Part 1 Judy Cullins 2005 All Rights Reserved. Where is your book now? With a distributor? In a book store? Or, did it already die an early death after a few months? New self-published authors often believe they need a distributor to sell a lot of books. They want to use Ingram or Baker Taylor because they think they need to get their book into the brick and mortar bookstores like Barnes and Noble. Authors go through many hoops and snags to accomplish this--what I call the traditional publishing nightmare of inefficiency and lack of support for authors. Usually the author only gets around 15% royalties. So many hoops, some give up. So many authors I speak with have gone this route still have hundreds, even thousands of unsold copies littering up storage space. Talk about discouragement. Distributors Can be Dangerous to Your Book's Health and Your Wallet One author wrote, illustrated, and marketed six beautiful children's books. Her books were well received and reviewed. For some time, the profits rolled in until her distributor went bankrupt, owing her $160,000. After she stopped crying, she decided to take her books on the road to local fairs and talks where she could keep all the profits. Distributors take quite a chunk of money from the author's profits too. They charge the author for storage, and when books are returned, the author loses those sales, and has to pay the distributor too. Authors lose from the bookstores because they pay late or are unreliable. Some authors wait way beyond 90 days. In fact, many just don't get paid. Writers are not always good at collections either. These middlemen not only take most of the author's profits, they cause much stress too. How Can Self-Published Authors Distribute? Self-published books include: print books (perfect bound, comb bound, print on demand or print quantity needed, or stapled), eBooks, printable eDocuments sent over Email through Word, or eBooks, the electronic version only to be read via computers. Local Distribution. For each venue, make sure to include ordering information such as your Web site URL, company address, toll-free 800 number, local phone number, and an order page to fill out for fax or phone orders. 1.Distribute through the Press. -Create a Power Press Release (include tips or how-to's) -Get a Feature Story from the Media -Write a how-to article and submit 2. Distribute through a local Radio and TV Talk Show as a guest speaker. Give your own teleclass, or guest speak for another person's teleclasses. In just a phone call away you can reach 100's of people interested in your book's topic. Teleclasses are for anyone, conveniently heard at your home office--with email backup. Guests call a pre-arranged conference number and
[ReprintArticles-Paradise] What Is Good Health
Title: What Is Good Health Author: Loring A. Windblad Word count: 1,936; 65 characters per line Contact e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Category: Health Autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Article URL: http://reprintarticles.com/what_is_good_health.php Author URL: http://reprintarticles.com/Loring_Windblad.php Terms for reprint: 1. You must publish the article AS IS. Do not modify, alter or edit it. 2. The author's resource box must accompany the article at all times. 3. The link/s must be active or clickable. 4. Notifying the author is not required, but doing so is appreciated. This article is distributed as part of the ReprintArticles.com Featured Author service at http://reprintarticles.com/featuredauthor.php - What Is Good Health by Loring A. Windblad There is no universally agreed definition of health. Its meaning has changed through the ages and in different cultures. The term derives from the Anglo-Saxon word haelth, meaning safe, sound or whole. In medieval times haelthing meant sharing a few drinks with one's friends, having previously meant hello and holiness. In recent decades, health has been taken to mean the absence of disease. The term disease generally refers to a diagnosable physical abnormality while illness means the personal experience of sickness, or the perceived suffering due to a disease. Changing views of health Since the mid-1900s, medical practice has been dominated by a biomedical model that focuses more on curing than preventing illness, dividing diseases into categories -- for example, targeting a cirrhotic liver or ischemic heart for treatment. This method tends to separate physical from psychological or emotional problems, which are sometimes dismissed as all in the head, not meriting medical attention. However, views of health are undergoing radical changes. The absence-of-disease concept is being supplanted by an image of well being for body, spirit and mind. The emerging bio-psychosocial model regards mind and body as an intertwined unit and suggests that people be treated as whole persons, taking into account economic, social and psychological factors. In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well being, encompassing the ability to achieve full potential, deal with crises and meet environmental challenges. In other words, health -- or wellness, to use a trendy term -- is the capacity to undertake physical effort, to live within one's own potential and carry out tasks with vigour and alertness, leaving enough energy for unforeseen emergencies. The more recent Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion goes further, suggesting as fundamentals for health: peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice and equity. For example, people can't easily stay healthy if they're starving, if the air is polluted or during wartime. Today's key buzz words are disease prevention and health promotion, rather than trying to treat the symptoms of illnesses (as is practiced by most medical practitioners nowadays) that are largely preventable. Unfortunately, despite lip service, prevention is often a hard sell as it takes both personal and community action. Yet studies show that even a few words of advice from health professionals can often help to prevent disease by motivating people to modify their lifestyle. Many of us are the worried well Although North Americans have an increasing life expectancy, many worry unduly about health. As U.S. physician Dr. Arthur Barsky writes in his book Worried Sick: Our sense of physical well being has not kept pace with improvements in our collective health status...there is a pervasive atmosphere of dis-ease. Many feel constantly out of sorts -- with vague undiagnosable ailments -- worriedly scrutinizing everyday actions for their health effects. For example, foods may be dubbed good (life-prolonging) or bad (health-harming) -- instead of being regarded as enjoyable nourishment. Many are confused, even stressed, by trying to keep up with the latest medical pronouncements -- eat margarine instead of butter (or not); drink red wine (one glass or two?); take antioxidants -- vitamins C and E (or don't); shun coffee, drink decaff (or what?). The main determinants of good health Biology - the genetic make-up (genes inherited from mother and father). Lifestyle habits - such as a nutritious low-fat diet; enough exercise; sufficient, sound sleep; avoiding misuse of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs; motor-vehicle and traffic safety; healthy (safer) sexual practices; and stress-reduction. Emotional balance - good self-esteem, feeling in control and able to forge intimate relationships. Economic and social well being - sufficient income for food and shelter; supportive networks (family, friends, colleagues). A health-promoting environment - e.g., not excessively
