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September is National Honey Month! Cheers to you energy booster, cough suppressant, and beauty ingredient. Your plethora of benefits is why you are the Bee’s Knees! This well rounded condiment/ingredient is easy to eat and portable! Just pack a tablespoon and you are good to go. Of course there are other ways to consume honey, other than by the tablespoon; so be sure check out www.honey.com for all kinds of recipes, tips, and facts. And…since we are heading into that fall weather, we have also included a tasty cider recipe using this diverse and amazing ingredient courtesy of honey.com.
Breakfast of Champion’s! The photo above is the perfect combo of carbs, proteins and fats! You can eat this for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner! Some would beg to differ on the dinner option, but if you are a peanut butter and honey fanatic, you will agree it is completely acceptable!
Have a great Thursday Gables!
Honey Mulled Cider
Makes 6 servings
- 1 large lemon, cut in half
- 1 medium orange, cut in half
- 16 whole cloves
- 4 cups apple juice
- 1/2 cup honey
- 4 cinnamon sticks, 2 inches long
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Cut two slices (1/4-inch thick) from each lemon and orange half. Insert whole cloves into slices; set aside. Squeeze juice from remainder of fruit halves into a medium non-reactive saucepan. Stir in apple juice and honey; mix well. Add cinnamon sticks, ginger and reserved fruit slices. Bring just to a boil over medium-high heat. Serve immediately in a heatproof serving bowl.
Nutrition: 178 Calories * 0 g Fat Total * 1 g Protein * 0 mg Cholesterol * 47 g Carbohydrates * 7 mg Sodium * 1 g Dietary Fiber * 1% Calories from Fat *
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Call for Recipes!
Happy Friday Eve Gables! We have a treat for you…
Every year, we as a company put together a recipe collection compiled from all of our onsite and corporate office associates. This year, we have decided to include our fantastic and loyal residents! The flyer attached will explain the details. In short, we have 4 recipe categories for you to choose from. Send your recipe in, and once the compilation is finished, we will send out for all to enjoy!
Make sure to mention what property you are from. If you would like to keep your name anonymous, you are more than welcomed to; however, it will be harder for you to claim bragging rights and for us to give props for your darn good recipe if we don’t know who you are.
The deadline is October 14thto have your recipes into us; thereby enabling us to prep you for ALL those get-togethers and holiday parties that will soon be coming up!
Bon appetit!!
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Green Halloween-Toscana
As a natural extension of our corporate mission, Taking Care of the Way People Live ®, Gables is dedicated to Taking Care of Our Environment. We are mindful of our impact on the local environment and we hope to spread some of that sustainable living onto our residents.
Below are some great tips gathered we’ve gathered from EarthShare and Green Halloween® on how to green your Halloween!
Green Halloween Costumes
- Reuse or recycle costumes.
- Rent or create a costume out of recycled material.
- Create a Green Halloween box to gather recyclable materials throughout the year. Next year, you’ll have lots of eco-friendly materials to make new costumes.
- Join the National Costume Swap Day revolution!
Green Halloween Treats
- Instead of giving out candy, consider giving coins, pencils, erasers, cookie cutters, crayons, fake jewels, temporary tattoos or stickers. Besides reducing the waste of all the single-serving packaging, you’ll be providing a healthy alternative to candy.
- Other alternatives that are healthy and from eco-friendly companies include:
- Organic juice boxes or pouches from Honest Kids
- Organic apple sauce snack packs
- Real-fruit strips and rolls from Stretch Island Fruit
- Whole food bars such a LARABAR minis
- Bare Fruit trial size packs
Green Halloween Decorations
- Go natural, with gourds, pumpkins, apples and Jack-o-Lanterns! They are great for porches and table tops, and you are not using plastic or paper décor.
- Make window decorations out of recycled paper. Then recycle the paper again.
- Use colorful reusable dinnerware and candles for decoration - preferably soy or beeswax candles!
- Use paper grocery bags to be cut into spooky Halloween trees, masks, and painted white for ghostly effects.
Green Halloween Trick-or-Treating
- Send your children trick-or-treating with reusable buckets, canvas bags or pillow cases. Most folks these days have the reusable grocery bags, try using those!
- Trick-or-treat in your neighborhood and get to know your neighbors. Less driving, more walking.
Green Halloween Party
- Send Evites! Rather than paper invitations through the mail.
- Have reusable dinnerware at your party rather than plastic plates, cups and utensils.
- Use cloth napkins, you can then wash them for the next party.
- Recycle bottles and cans, and compost leftovers.
- Buy local or organic food, little packaging.
- Shop with your reusable totes.
- Get all of your errands done at once.
- Try to cook with less meat.
- Choose foods that are in shades of black, orange and green (that is just for fun).
Green Halloween Cleanup
- Recycle and/or compost if you can!
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Please don’t print this blog post - Show pollution & the demise of the tree who wears the pants on this earth!
So, today is the last day of January which means we are one month into (or out of…) our New Year’s Resolutions! TBQH, (I just learned that means “to be quite honest” in the social media world), it is a recognized fact that a good majority of folks drop their high hopes for change about 3 to 4 weeks in! Well…we got your back. We are going to dedicate a majority of this month’s blogging to getting back or staying on the wagon. Is it just me, or does “the wagon” always make you think of either the buggy from Little House on the Prairie or those old school station wagons with the wood siding? I digress…
First Up: Being more Green
These are easy and good for apartment living. Most of them anyhow…
- 10 Painless Changes You Can Make for a Green Home
- Funny Tips for Going Green(I like the way this person thinks!)
Next Up: Resolution TBD, any ideas from you?
Sources- EHow Home & Real Simple
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Because We Have to Help One Another…
Residents, associates and all followers of our blog, today is Valentine’s Day and to show our love, we have decided to roll out a Breast Cancer Awareness Monthly Buddy Plan! Once a month we will send out a reminder blog with stories and/or info to remind you to “check yourself before you wreck yourself,” in the words of Ice Cube!
We got this brilliant idea from (Safeway/9News.com Buddy Check 9). It’s an email/newsletter that one of our associates gets sent to them monthly, and we think it is great! Ergo…we are going to use our social media channels as a means to get the reminder out to YOU!
OH YES! You can be part of our blog!
Besides sending this to everyone you know as part of the obvious “buddy system”, we encourage those of you who have personal stories similar to the one in the link above to send them to us so that we can add them to OUR monthly blog. One instance shared could end up saving another person’s life. If you wish to tell your experience or the experience of someone close to you, email marketing@gables.com.
Why we are doing this:
- We want to remind you to perform routine breast self-exams, and depending on your age and health history, to schedule clinical breast exams and mammograms. Your health is precious and you only get one body, so it is imperative to be proactive with it.
AND, because
- 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, &
- Over 30% of women are diagnosed after breast cancer has spread beyond the localized stage.
THAT, my friends, is why we are so passionate about this.
Now for a shout out…
- Ladies in your 20’s, start self-examining.
- Women in your 20’s and 30’s get a clinical breast exam about every three years.
- To all our 40+ year olds, have a clinical breast exam and a screening mammogram every year (as long as you are in good health).
Sources: www.EmoryHealthCare.org and the National Cancer Institute
Put yourself first and take care of business peeps. It’s worth it.
