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LISTERINE® and REACH® Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral Care Challenge

February 21, 2012 By Dealicious Mom Leave a Comment

For the next 30 days the Dealicious Mom family has teamed up with LISTERINE® and REACH® for an exciting new project – the LISTERINE® and REACH® Healthy Habits for a Lifetime Oral Care Challenge.

Did you know that brushing alone misses 75% of your mouth?
Or that 50% of children will have a cavity or filling between the ages of 5 and 9?
I know this sure makes me think twice about what i’m doing as a mom to help keep my mouth and my family’s mouths healthy! Since February is National Children’s Dental Health Month, there’s no better time to start re-thinking how you and your family take care of your mouths.

To help encourage Americans to adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthier lifestyle, the makers of LISTERINE® and REACH® challenged my family to re-evaluate our oral care habits and learn why taking a few extra minutes a day for a complete oral care routine that includes brushing, flossing and rinsing is so important. To complete the challenge, my family just needs to brush, floss and rinse every day, twice a day for three weeks.

Ok so that sounds simple enough… Right? Well, let me tell you a little about my boys. My youngest is two and a half, he loves, loves, loves toothbrushes. It is a sort of odd fascination actually BUT he is not so great with the actual brushing yet…

My five year old was great at brushing for awhile but now the novelty of it has worn off and he speeds through it way to quickly.

I won’t even mention how bad we all are at flossing and rinsing…

After receiving my box of Listerine and REACH products for this challenge. I realized how many truly helpful products there are out there to help improve your own oral care.

Such as:

• The REACH® TOTAL CARE Multi-action toothbrush has multi-directional bristles that thoroughly clean teeth from all directions, removing up to 90 percent of plaque.
• REACH® TOTAL CARE Floss is designed for superior plaque removal and teeth whitening.
• Adding a 30-second rinse with LISTERINE® Antiseptic to your morning and nighttime routines, along with your usual brushing, has been proven in a clinical study to help reduce up to 70 percent more plaque and 36 percent more gingivitis than brushing and flossing alone.

As we set off on this challenge, I am excited. I see this as a much needed lesson and life change for us all. We have the tools and now we need to take the steps. As the parent, I know I have to lead by example and show my boys that not only is oral care essential but it can also be fun – thanks to Listerine and Reach.

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Lion & Tigers & … Life Coaches

February 17, 2012 By Dealicious Mom 2 Comments

I always figured that by the time I was 30 I would have my life all figured out…

Ok stop laughing.

On the surface, I look the part, wife of 8 years, mom of two adorable, perfect boys ( ok I am a little biased), a great, if a bit stressful, job, a student, we have enough money to get by, and all that jazz but yet underneath it all I am a legit mess! Don’t get me wrong, I am a happy legit mess!

Yes, I admit it! A mess!

Laundry piles, disorganized & expired coupons, expired food in the back of the fridge, no real idea of “what I want to do with my life”, a couple… More than a couple, extra pounds to lose – I could go on.

I admit I have looked into a life coach in Riverside, California.

Anyone had one? Maybe you are one?

I wonder if it would be possible for a Life coach to turn me into a June Cleaver type of mom that I have always dreamed of? Now I realize that is a lofty goal but how come it seems like others out there are able to cook, clean, work, and play with their kids and I am only able to do a couple of those sort of partially… am I a fraud or are they?

Somedays I can’t even log on to Pinterest because it makes me feal like I should be doing more!

Tell me I am not the only one out there that feels like this! In reality, I know I am not. Life is hard and no one is perfect as much as we want to be. Being a parent, a wife, a student, a teacher and everything we are is tough! Even the word tough is an understatement…

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Preparing for a Zombie Apocalypse

February 8, 2012 By Dealicious Mom 2 Comments

My oldest asked me if we were prepared if there were to be a zombie attack…

Ummm… No?

How does one prepare for that?

I told him maybe we should look into starting to build up our food storage.

He seemed ok with that idea. Phew! I dodged that bullet! He decided we should develop a plan. I agreed but I suggested we start small especially since we do not have much room to store a lot of supplies an the chance that zombies will attack any moment is quite small…I hope!

I also suggested he stop playing Plants vs. Zombies for a couple days…weeks or months! Lol!

Here is our plan:

Step 1 – Set a goal
We decided we did need a full year of food right away nor do we have room for it! We will build gradually through coupons and deals of coarse! We will start small. My son thought a month would be good to start and when we reach that we can try for more.

Step 2 – What the heck do we need to survive? Find out!
When I first started looking into food storage it was overwhelming. Ok talk about overwhelming! Where do I start? I did a simple Search on google for Food Storage calculator and calculated how much food and water we needed for one month and we were all se

Step 3 – Make Sure Your Supply Stays Fresh

Last thing you need is for the apocalypse to come and all your food to be expired. What a waste of all your hard work! Make sure to rotate out your food and keep track of expiration dates. As Wikipedia states:

“If good food storage guidelines are followed, using and replenishing your food storage should become a commonplace, everyday activity, as normal as preparing meals. Although it does require an initial investment to stock a pantry, eventually it becomes the most economical and convenient way to live. Instead of going to the store when you need something and paying full price for it, you can go to your storage room or pantry to get what you need. Then you replace it next time it is on sale.”

So there you have it. Our simple plan to avoid starving when zombies are after us. My 5 year old is satisfied and actually I am pleased with the plan.

Any suggestions or tips?

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Sticks and Stones… & Medical Bracelets

February 7, 2012 By Dealicious Mom 2 Comments

You can label me a lot of things, a wife, mom, teacher, blogger, student, and even an epileptic but one label I do not want is to be called ” unfashionable”. All my life I have had to wear a medical alert bracelet. I still have my ittty bitty bracelet from when I was a toddler hanging on my key ring.

For years, I wore a tacky bracelet that was simply embarrassing. Recently I went on a search for a more stylish bracelet. It was important to me that if I already had to be “labeled” on sight by someone that atleast I be trendy while they judge me. Of course not everyone will judge or even care about a bracelet but I still worry ( that is just the way I am).

During my search I came across, Medical ID Marketplace, they have 100′s of medical bracelets to choose from. Not just for illness’ but for allergies and other causes plus they are fashionable, trendy and stylish accessories. It’s great for people who are active and health-conscious as well as for those who have an illness that requires them to wear a medical ID (i.e. diabetics, food allergies, etc.) but who do not want to be “branded” by their condition.

I do not talk much about having epilepsy. I am not really sure why… Maybe I should. It isn’t a secret especially now that I have my cute pink bracelet!

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