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The Essential List Of Healthy Ingredients You Need In Your Kitchen

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We’ve all been given diet advice many times before, and that’s not what this article is. I’m not about to introduce you to some new ideas on dieting and eating healthy. Instead, I want to talk about certain healthy ingredients you should always have in your cupboards or in your fridge at home. They serve so many purposes and will always help you stay healthy! (Photo source: http://bit.ly/2qfpA5Q ) Coconut Oil When you hear the word ‘oil,' you don’t think of something very healthy. We’re led to believe oils are bad for us and should be avoided. This is partially true as a lot of oil can be calorific. However, coconut oil is fairly low-calorie, and incredibly healthy too. In provides you with the good fats you get from other oils but has many other health benefits too. It can help improve your hair health and give you lovely locks, as well as being great for your skin too. So, having some in your cupboard will come in handy for many scenarios.

Scrapbooking 101: A Craft For The Whole Family

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Getting stuck into crafts together as a family is beneficial for just about everybody. Not only do you get to enjoy some quality time together, you all develop your artistic skills and end up with something beautiful that you can treasure forever. If you’ve ever thought about creating a family scrapbook, you’ve come to the right place. Scrapbooking can be immensely rewarding and help your family to keep all of the little trinkets and memories that you’ve picked up on your adventures. You can use it to display pictures, ticket stubs, sweet wrappers, pressed flowers, and just about anything else you think you might want to look back on together. Let’s talk about how your family can start creating a scrapbook: Picture

3 Reasons to Install a Smart Thermostat

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If you live in a climate where you are constantly relying on your heat and AC, your thermostat can be your best friend or worst enemy. It can take years to figure out the perfect settings that will keep your home comfy without wasting energy. Smart thermostats take away some of the guesswork and have a number of benefits that you will love. Here are three reasons to install smart thermostats. Control Your Thermostat From Anywhere image via  Flickr  by Jeff Wilcox

How To Keep Healthy On A Budget

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Image Source Keeping healthy in this day and age can be hard. We all lead very busy lives and have very tight budgets, which means that we often end up buying things that are easiest and cheapest to cook but actually turn out to be bad for us! Ready made meals may seem good at the time but they can be bad for your body. To the untrained eye it’s hard to find things that are good for you, but if you carry on reading you’ll not have to worry about it!

Small Changes That Can Massively Improve Your Health

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Picture Source We’ll all bombarded with information on a daily basis about what we should be doing to make ourselves healthier. It’s so confusing and overwhelming, though, because a lot of the information seems to conflict with other pieces of advice. We’re told that we shouldn’t eat too much but we should eat a lot of the right things. However, people seem to disagree on what the “right things” to eat are. It all depends on the individual, at the end of the day. Here are some small changes that are universally applicable to all humans and can massively improve your health.

K-Beauty Shopping @AltheaKorea

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Online shopping is one of my most fave things to do. And whenever my mind and body is fraught with stress and feel tired, online shopping becomes therapeutic, hubby says I sound rational, lol. Myself entails a retail therapy, I deserve a threat for working soo incredibly hard, good mommies need that! grins. At the top of my list that I love to get online are skincare and makeup products. I always explore for different online shops to try but the highest level of inquisitiveness goes to Althea Korea! So I did a little research and decided to fill up the shopping cart.  

New School, New Rules: Helping Your Child Transition

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Changing schools can be frightening for any child. They might be changing because they're transitioning between school levels, such as from elementary to middle school, or it could be because of moving home. Some children might start a new school because they have been expelled from their old one, or perhaps because the new one is a better environment. Whatever the reason for the change, it can be daunting to be surrounded by new people in a new place. Fortunately, there are ways you can help your child to adjust so that everything doesn't seem as frightening. Try these techniques to help make them happier. Prepare Your Child You can start by helping your child get ready for their new school . One of the things that can help is to arrange a visit so they can see what it's like. If they're moving into a new school with classmates, they might have already attended an open day or a visit. However, if they're starting a new school alone, a trip to see the school