When I need a good laugh sometimes I head over to the spam folder to see what new and creative ways spammers scumbags are trying to get around my filter.
This one gave me the greatest laugh yet.
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PS. Dont be an ASS, this is NOT spam
Ah man I am still laughing my ASS off.
Here in Arizona Shamrock Farms is a pretty popular milk brand because they are local, but if you don’t live here you can find their milk in Subways across the nation.
I’ve heard this tour is a lot of fun for kids and anywhere there is ice cream I am there, so a friend and I took the hour drive over to Shamrock Farms yesterday. The tour itself is about an hour long and you are on a tram for most of the time. They take you into this building where you can view the milking process. I have to say I was pretty impressed. I’m the kind of girl that it breaks my heart to see the documentary’s on TV that show the mistreatment of animals but Shamrock does seem to have a top rate facility and the cows seem to be treated well. Although I’m sure they wouldn’t show you the bad stuff if it does exist.
It’s obvious they take a lot of pride in the cleanliness of their facilities and the precautions they take with their milk. The cows do get milked 8 hours a day but it is not a continuous thing. They get a lot of breaks where they are allowed to step out of the line up, do their business, eat, drink, get sprayed down, and their utters disinfected before going back in. I do try to buy organic milk as much as I can so it was neat to see the organic part of the farm too. They showed us the cows that are given free range to graze all day and said they only get milked twice a day instead of 8 hours a day. That made me feel kinda bad for the regular cows.
Something I always wondered about was how they stand the heat in our hot summers but the tour guide said they keep the facilities at 72 degrees all year long.
The most impressive thing for me was hearing that they do not give any of their cows hormones or antibiotics unless they are sick (but then they don’t milk them until it is out of their system), and the organic cows don’t get antibiotics ever.
At the end of the tour you get to pick a flavor of milk which I chose dulce de leche and it was Deelicious! We also had ice cream which was equally delicious of course.
Eva loved it. She loved seeing the baby cows, playing with the milking machines, saying “moo” all day, and eating ice cream (of course).
I know not everyone lives this close to a dairy farm but I encourage you to find whatever is close in your area and do it. Do all of it while they are still young.
Description from their website
-“Real Farm. Real Fresh. It’s the way Shamrock Farms has done business for more than 80 years. A real farm with more than 10,000 cows, Shamrock Farms is one of the largest family-owned and operated dairies in the United States. A premier manufacturer of extended shelf life (esl) dairy and refrigerated liquid products, including beverage milk, non-dairy creamer, half & half, heavy whipping cream, and seasonal products such as egg nog, Shamrock Farms is a leader in the industry. And all of our products are free of the growth hormone rBST.”
you can just treat everybody else like crap.
But I am thankful for you.
Because you remind me to be a little bit nicer to people…even when they are annoying me. You remind me to smile at my neighbors even though they erected a volleyball net literally in the middle of the street for the third time this week. To act appreciative to the sales guy standing outside the grocery store even though I am uncomfortable when he offers to help me get a cart. You remind me to compliment someone instead of criticize them even if I didn’t get enough sleep last night.
So…thank you.
I think I am about 2 Reese’s peanut butter chocolate eggs away from a sugar induced coma. I woke up this morning after a day of stuffing myself with candy and cupcakes and downed an ice cream float then traced it with Butterfingers. This left me feeling even more sick and lethargic than when I first work up (it took me an hour just to get out of bed) plus I was feeling really dehydrated and had a funny taste in my mouth. It got me thinking just what are the effects of sugar overload on the body? So I consulted a book I’ve been reading on child nutrition called Picky? Not me Mom! by Karla Heintz.
She has a great chapter on energy level in which she addresses ADHD and ways you can alter your child’s diet that may help with their hyperactivity. Lucky for me in this chapter she also addresses the association between sugar and energy level. The book explained perfectly why I continued my sugar binge this morning. Apparently after we eat sugar our bodies create insulin to try and bring blood sugar levels back down to normal. Often times it creates too big of a drop in our blood sugar which is why we then crave more sugar. It is also why the big increase in energy can quickly be followed with lethargy. This totally explains why Eva woke up this morning BEGGING me for candy. She would not stop and now I feel really guilty because I let her eat so much candy yesterday. Poor thing her little body is just trying to balance itself back out.
Another important point she makes in the book is that many “white” foods such as pasta, rice, bread, potatoes, and flour can have the same effect because they have a high glycemic index value. Heintz suggests instead of feeding your child sugary or processed cereals for breakfast give them something high in protein and fiber such as an egg with whole grain bread or fruit with yogurt. (The book states that is better to give actual fruit instead of fruit juice because the juice lacks fiber.)
She questions the research that shows no relationship between energy levels and sugar consumption, which is something I always wondered about. Instead Heintz suggest observing your child’s behavior after consuming large amounts of sugar and challenges you to test the theory for yourself.
Let’s play “How many grams of sugar are in that?”
A teaspoon of sugar Is 4 grams. The USDA recommends no more than 12 teaspoons (or48 grams) of sugar be consumed a day (on a daily intake of 2200 calories). Sadly most Americans consume well over this amount…about 47 teaspoons of sugar every day. Think about that for a second, 47 teaspoons of sugar in a day! Think about pouring 47 teaspoons of sugar in your mouth every day! That is insane!
I pulled some things out of my pantry and sadly I wasn’t really surprised how much sugar some of the things had.
5 Reese’s Peanut Butter chocolate eggs = 19 grams of sugar = 4.75 teaspoons
4 large marshmallow’s = 20 grams of sugar = 5 teaspoons
1/4 of jellied cranberry sauce = 21 grams of sugar = 5.25 teaspoons
1 small serving of angel food cake = 23 grams of sugar = 5.75 teaspoons
1 cup of Kellog’s Smart Start cereal = 14 grams of sugar = 3.5 teaspoons
1 serving of cornbread = 15 grams of sugar = 3.75 teaspoons
8 oz of Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey = 17 grams of sugar = 4.25 teaspoons
2 tbsp of Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey BBQ sauce = 15 grams of sugar = 3.75 teaspoons
1 fruit punch flavored Caprisun = 18 grams of sugar = 4.5 teaspoons
ETA – Some popular drinks
1 can of coke = 40 grams of sugar = 10 teaspoons
1 bottle of powerade = 60 grams of sugar = 15 teaspoons
What I don’t understand is WHY? Is it really that necessary. I know when making things from scratch I don’t need to put anywhere near that amount of sugar to make something taste good. Do company’s do this so that we become more and more addicted to their products. Makes you wonder right?
Well Eva had a great time last night, as I knew she would. This girl is obsessed with everything Disney.
My favorite part was when the Jungle Book monkey’s and Baloo danced to “I wanta be like you”. It was pretty cool. Of course Eva’s favorite part was when Mickey and Minnie made their grand entrance. I thought she was gonna have a seizure.
If you are a fan of The Incredibles then you will like this show. In this version of Disney on Ice Disneyland Adventure, The Incredible family is taking a trip to Disneyland and they run into a lot of excitement along the way on many of the attractions and the main street parade.
If you live in the Phoenix Area the show will be here for 3 more days…
- Friday, April 10th 10:30a.m., 7:30p.m.
- Saturday April 11th 11:30a.m., 3:30p.m., 7:30p.m.
- Sunday April 12th 1:30p.m., 5:30p.m.
Don’t forget when you go to ticketmaster to enter the coupon code MOM in the MC promotion box for your 4-pack of tickets for only $44.
