Thrive to 105

Yes, I’m a day late with my “information”…sorry!  So let’s not delay any longer…

• I loved this heading from one of my medical newsletters…”Garlic protects women’s hips”. Visions of cloves of garlic stuck all over my hips suddenly filled my head.  I mean, garlic is one of my favorite food items, and I knew it could help my heart…but my hips?  Well, apparently researchers in England found that women who ate a lot of garlic and onions had a lower incidence of hip osteoarthritis.  Of course, no one can stand to be in the same room with them after a meal!

• Now, I have used hummus in place of mayonnaise on a turkey sandwich in the past, but I recently ran across a suggestion for other healthy spreads for sandwiches that sound worth trying.  The three examples are:

1. Black beans with balsamic vinegar and tahini
2. Kidney beans with apple cider vinegar and basil
3. Lentils with sesame ginger dressing

Put three parts of the vinegar with one part of the cooked legumes in the blender, doctoring it until it suits your fancy.  Not only is it suggested for  sandwiches, but also as a veggie dip and sauce for pizza and pasta (I’m not so sure about that one).

• I thought this was pretty cool…there are actually websites out there that will buy your unused gift cards from you.  Personally, I don’t think I’ve ever NOT used a gift card; but apparently it happens a lot, to the tune of $2.5 billion of unused cards in 2010!  Be forewarned that more money is paid for the cards from the more popular retailers out there, i.e. Walmart, Home Depot, Macy’s, the Apple Store, etc.  Of course, they aren’t going to give you the face value of the card, but it’s certainly better than having them gathering dust in a kitchen drawer.  Not only can you sell the cards you won’t use, but you can buy discounted cards from these sites for a retail outlet you might want or even trade.  The sites I looked at were Cardpool, Giftcardrescue, Giftcards, and Monstergiftcard.

• Thanks to AARP (again!), I found this site that, in actuality, my children would be using for me if I wasn’t the wonderfully tech savvy person that I am (try to keep the laughter to a minimum).  The website was developed by Google (of course), and is a way for “kids”, as they call them, to email techie instructional videos to their parents who need help with such things as copy/paste, how to change the screensaver or wallpaper on the computer, how to find directions or have a video chat.  The format is very humorous, but not condescending enough to be insulting.  If my mother had a computer, I might even send her a few.  If you know someone who needs “help”, check out TeachParentsTech.org.

That’s info junkie for this week.  I think I’ll go eat some roasted garlic now while I search my kitchen drawers for old gift cards!

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