Seafood Sale At My FAVORITE Grocery Store...Festival Foods

Make a splash with mouth-watering seafood from Festival Foods this Lenten season! During Festival’s famous Seafood Sensations, there are dozens of delicious and sale-priced meal options from the sea. Bring home some delicious Fresh Atlantic Salmon Fillets, Peeled and Deveined Shrimp, North Atlantic Haddock Fillets, Matlaw’s Stuffed Clams or Scallops, Alaskan Cod Fillets, Smoked Salmon, or Cobia Fillets… and enjoy their amazing flavor and health benefits! Studies show, regularly eating seafood has protective benefits to the heart, brain, and joints. So whether you choose to pan-fry, bake, broil, or grill your seafood, you’ll bring your family great taste and great health with Festival’s Seafood Sensations. Hmmmm...Shrimp Alfredo Primavera for dinner tonight sounds like a winner!

Dad's Chicken

Looking for a no fuss dinner idea the whole family will love? Well, Festival Foods has just the thing—Dad’s Chicken Breasts! These boneless, skinless, sale-priced favorites come marinated in a variety of flavors like Chili Lime, Teriyaki, Herb and Garlic, Sundried Tomato, and the famous Original variety. Dad’s Chicken Breasts are lean, plump, and incredibly versatile in the kitchen! Just visit festfoods.com and browse through some entertaining cooking videos or use the handy recipe search tool to help spark your creativity. You’ll see how quick and easy it can be to make Thai Citrus Grilled Chicken, Chicken and Basil Stir Fry, Chicken Parmesan, or Smothered Southwestern Chicken with salsa and melted cheese. So, grab some Dad’s Chicken Breasts for dinner tonight! The whole family will love them! And they’re sale priced, this week only, at Festival.

Find out the health benefits beyond why you should be drinking coffee.

Over 18,000 studies have looked at coffee use in the past few decades. Lately more and more are reporting real health benefits for coffee drinkers—but they must be balanced against the brew's possible bitter effects, especially in higher, caffeinated doses. An ideal "dose" of java is hard to determine, since people’s perceptions of "a cup of coffee" vary as widely as coffee-mug sizes do. But the good news is that many of the benefits are associated with around two to four (8-ounce) cups a day—"and that’s what most Americans drink anyway," notes Joe Vinson, Ph.D., a coffee expert at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Some intriguing findings:

Health Benefit 1. Brain Gains

Moderate coffee drinking—between 1 and 5 cups daily—may help reduce risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as Parkinson’s disease, studies suggest. How? Coffee’s antioxidants may prevent some damage to brain cells and boost the effects of neurotransmitters involved in cognitive function, say experts. ­Preliminary studies have noted that as coffee (or tea) intake rises, ­incidence of glioma, a form of brain cancer, tends to drop. Some ­researchers speculate that compounds in the brews could activate a DNA-repairing protein in cells—possibly preventing the DNA damage that can lead to cells becoming

Vigorous aerobic exercise such as fast walking or jogging is great for blasting belly fat, but a total-body weight-training routine boosts results and firms your midsection even more. A 12-week Skidmore College study found that exercisers who did a high-intensity total-body resistance routine combined with cardio lost more than twice as much body fat--in particular, more than 4 times as much belly fat--compared with cardio-only exercisers. The resistance-training group also ate a high-protein diet, while the other group followed a traditional, moderate-protein eating plan. Researchers speculate that the extra fat loss may be due to the stepped-up calorie burn you get after lifting weights and the extra protein. 

Bonus: You'll be less likely to regain lost pounds. "Whenever you lose weight, it typically comes from both fat tissue and muscle," explains Olson. "Resistance training helps maintain or even add muscle mass, which prevents a slowdown in metabolism

Ingredients:

• 4 to 6 chicken breast halves, pounded or sliced, about 1/4 to 1/2-inch thickness
• Salt and pepper
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 tablespoons butter, divided
• 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
• 1/2 cup dry Marsala wine
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon dried leaf basil
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 3 green onions, thinly sliced

Preparation:

Well Guys, our worst holiday is almost here. We never seem to get this one right. We pick out the nicest piece of lingerie, not to mention expensive and we're labeled a "Pig". How about Work Out Equipment? You might as well call her fat. New vacuume cleaner? There's a night on the couch guaranteed!

Look, i'm gonna help get you through this. You're not gonna like it but...SHE WILL! And that my Brotha From Anotha Motha is gonna make your life, a lot more pleasant trust me. Think about it. If you follow this simple recipe which, anyone, even Blockheads like us can, you can score enough brownie points to last all the way through ice fishing season. C'mon, don't be scared now, return that silky french teddy you bought at Victoria's Secret and give this dish a try. It's not nearly as hard as going through a week of complete and utter HELL with the wife and missing out on a perfectly good day on the ice.

Chocolate Raspberry Hearts

Here's what you'll need.

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NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — A former dentist in the U.S. has pleaded guilty to fraud for using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals.

Michael Clair will be sentenced next Monday after pleading guilty last week in a Massachusetts court to a variety of charges, including defrauding a government health program of $130,000, assault and battery, illegally prescribing prescription drugs and witness intimidation.

Authorities say instead of stainless steel posts for root canals, he used sections of paper clips — which can cause pain and even infection — in an effort to save money.

Attorney General Martha Coakley says paper clips can sometimes be used temporarily, but the 53-year-old Clair used the paper clips as a permanent fix.

Instead of Hot Fudge, I made these with a Caramel Topping instead. Tammy & I almost passed out from the richness!!!

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They were ready to play. They were so ready to play that Mike McCarthy had difficulty concealing his delight as last week’s practices progressed. The coach even took delight in having set a record for lowering the temperature in the Hutson Center, and spoke openly of the difficulty of deciding what players should be inactive, a task made difficult by the fact the Packers were in full health.

Make no mistake about it, the coach had his team ready to play. The Packers were healthy, rested and ready. So what happened?

That’s the question Packers fans across Wisconsin and around the world will be asking for the next several days, maybe even the next several months. It’s a question, McCarthy said, that might be best answered over the offseason.

Yeah, this isn’t one of those Monday-review, fix-it-and-move-on jobs. This is a game that’ll be used as a template for achieving lasting improvement. When McCarthy and General Manager Ted Thompson turn to the task of fixing what’s wrong, and there’s not much wrong with these Green Bay Packers, this will be the game they’ll most closely examine.

The Packers’ 37-20 loss to the Giants on Sunday night exposed problems that, frankly, we already knew existed. The Giants finished with 420 total net yards; they had 311 yards at halftime. That’s a problem.

That’s also been a problem the Packers have spent a season overcoming. They won 15 games with a defense that finished the season No. 32 in the league in yards allowed.

What we found out in this game is what happens when the offense doesn’t play at peak performance, which it almost always had. It spoiled us. We came to expect it. But even Aaron Rodgers and the game’s best cast of receivers have off days.

“We just turned the ball over too many times to win. That’s why our season is over,” Rodgers said.

Bingo!

In 2011, and especially in this one-game postseason, winning required that the Packers offense achieve near perfection. It did not achieve near perfection against the Giants.

“You’re on top of the mountain and you forget how bad the feeling is. We had a championship-caliber regular season and didn’t play well today,” Rodgers said. “It’s real. We got beat by a team that played better tonight.”

If you’re looking for something to ease the sting of this defeat, look to the Packers’ reaction to it. They made no excuses. They pointed no fingers. They stood tall, led by their quarterback, of course, and answered questions in an honest and forthright manner.

“It’s tough. I didn’t think it was going to end tonight,” Rodgers said.

This was tough on so many fronts, for last week was anything but a normal week for the Packers. It began with tragedy and ended in defeat. The day before the game involved a decision by Offensive Coordinator Joe Philbin; it’s the kind of decision that is unthinkable.

“Joe called me (Saturday) morning. His family wanted him to be part of the game. He was here all day yesterday to make sure he was ready to go,” McCarthy said of Philbin, who lost his son, Michael, when the week began.

“Tough for him and his family and tough for the guys, too. We wanted to get this one for him and give him some happiness. It didn’t happen,” Rodgers said.

It’s not because they weren’t ready. It happened for other reasons. They are reasons that will be discovered during the offseason. There’s no reason to rush to judgment now.

And let us not forget about the record breaking regular season.