A friend of mine recently purchased several chrome accessories for his Dodge Charger. He picked up a T-Rex Hybrid Mesh Grille, some ncie chrome door handles, chrome fender trim, chrome tail light bezels, a chrome gas cap and a pair of chrome fender vents. I didn’t think that the chrome extras would really make the car pop like it did. The car really looks nice now. I’m jealous.
Sometimes it is very difficult to decide on a gift for a lot of people. It makes it even harder when the person has almost everything already and doesn’t need, or want, much. I have started giving gift certificates to wine clubs to some people who are hard to buy for. It makes for such a nice gift if they like to drink wine. The best choice of mine is a club that can deliver two bottles of wine each month. The wine is usually an expensive and great tasting wine. I prepay for three to six months in advance. After that period of time, the person can cancel for no charge or obligation. Makes for a nice gift.
My girlfriend’s birthday is in one month and I still don’t know what I’m going to get her. We went shopping last night so I could get some ideas. She showed me several different things she would like to have. I also observed what she was just looking at. The thing she mentioned most was jewelry. We went into several different jewelry stores. In each one, she showed me a gold chain. They were basically all the same style that she was looking at. I then decided to buy her a gold chain for her birthday. When she opened it, she was so surprised and happy. I’m glad I made that decision.
About three months ago I began dieting and I was looking for a healthier alternative to butter and margarine. I started browsing through the butter selection at my local grocery store and those bottles of liquid spray butters caught my attention. Initially I just assumed that they were very high in fat, cholesterol and calories, but after checking them out (“Parkay” and “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” to be specific) both products claimed to be fat free, calorie free and cholesterol free. Could this be true?, I thought to myself. Surely if they are indeed fat free and have no calories, they won’t compare to the taste that you get out of regular solid butter and margarine. I decided that I would give them a try, as both brands were on sale for a dollar per bottle.
The next day I was hungry for a little mid-day snack, so I decided to fix a can of green beans. Normally, I would just eat the green beans plain, to keep the calories to a minimal amount. I decided that today I would try putting a little liquid butter spray on the green beans to give them a little flavor for a change. I gave the bottle a few pumps and lightly coated the bowl of green beans with the butter spray. After taking the first bite, I loved it. I had finally found the perfect fat free topping to transform the taste of my dull, plain diet foods.
After trying the butter spray for that first time, I was hooked. I was using the stuff on nearly everything that I fixed, and I was using quite a bit more than just a few pumps. You can’t even imagine the taste of green beans smothered in butter if you haven’t tried it. Every time I fixed green beans, I was actually removing the spray cap and pouring the liquid butter over the green beans, coating the entire bowl with a thick layer of buttery goodness.
This went on for about two months. I was using the butter at least two or three times a week, and not in moderation. My main snack since starting the diet was always green beans. Green beans contain about 60 calories per can, making it the perfect snack. You can eat about as many as you want and still lose weight. I was very content eating green beans with my new-found, great-tasting fat free addition. Until about 3 weeks ago.
I had a doctors appointment on March 12th. The appointment was just to get some blood
work ordered, to check my cholesterol and that sort of thing. While I was talking to my doctor, I mentioned that I had been using the great tasting butter spray and how it’s fat free and contains no calories. My doctor was very quick to tell me that he has seen several patients fall for this “fat free” butter spray scam. He began to inform me that a regular size bottle of the spray butter actually contains around 90 grams of fat and that it was anything but low in calories. He told me that the serving size listed on the bottle was about one spray worth of the butter, which might indeed contain no fat or calories, due to the minuscule amount of the butter that you’re actually using in 1 spray. This is why the product is so misleading. People look at the nutritional facts of the butter sprays and see that everything has a value of zero. Zero fat, zero calories, zero cholesterol, zero everything.
Everyone assumes that it truly is a fat free alternative to using butter and margarine, when in fact, it’s just as bad or even worse, considering that people really over use it and think that it’s going to help with weight loss. I’m just glad that I stopped using it when I did. I probably consumed around four to five bottles of it over the span of 2 months time. Someone’s health could really be affected by not knowing that it’s just as bad as eating regular butter or margarine. I personally recommended it to several friends and members of my family after I tried it.
I don’t believe that they should be allowed to advertise these products as containing zero fat and zero calories. They say very bold right on the front of the bottle, “0 Calories”. This would be like a beer company marketing their product as being safe to constantly over-indulge in, without having to worry about the adverse health affects associated with it. It would be no different than a cigarette company telling people that their cigarette is safer than other cigarettes, because they only expect you to take one puff, rather than smoking the entire cigarette.
I hope this will reach a few people who have been duped into using these so-called fat free butter sprays. If you know someone who uses products like these, thinking they contain zero fat or calories, please be sure that they actually research the products before using them. I am sure that other companies try and get by with the same kind of trickery.
If you know of another product that is advertised as being healthy or fat free, don’t hesitate to post a comment and let me know about it. I will check it out if I am able to and write something about it.
I recently purchased a new nice pillow top mattress. After having it delivered, I put the sheets and bed set I already had, on the bed. The only thing I decided to change was the pillows. Everything else was still in good shape and went well with my current decor. While shopping for new pillows, I was shocked to see how many different pillows there were to buy. It was a big decision, but finally made it. Since my bed is a King Size, I chose bigger pillows and much softer ones, too. Just changing pillows made me sleep so much better. I’m so glad I did it.
My girlfriend and I were invited to a Halloween party last year. We had no idea what we wanted to dress up to be. We decided to try to shop for something that we could use for Halloween and be able to get use out of it later, to save money. My girlfriend decided to wear something sexy. We went into a lingerie business and shopped for sexy costumes for her. She found some lingerie that could be used for Halloween and then she was able to wear it on other evenings at home.
I recently purchased a home cheap to renovate and resell to make a profit on. I’m still not sure if I want to sell it to make money or rent it out to my grown children or others. One of the items I had to replace were the door locks and handles. I decided to buy a Schlage deadlock for the main front door. I also bought other door locks for the bedrooms and my back door. I bought the brand of Schlage for those as well. It seemed like a well made brand and the quality was great for the price it costs.
Who does not like Rolex? Even a used Rolex is still worth having. My boss owns a Rolex watch and I’ve been trying to get him to sell it to me for such a long time but he refuses to. I guess if I were in his shoes, I won’t want to sell it either. So anyways, I went to the jewelry store, priced the Rolex watches and the prices are through the roof. I definitely can’t afford it especially on my monthly salary. So I did some research online and I found a place that sells used Rolex for as reasonable as $2,900. The most you will pay for a used rolex is like $35,000. Yeah I know, they are that good. Water-resistant and shock-proofed, who wouldn’t want to own one. I’m saving for the reasonably priced one. Pray that I am disciplined enough to do it and get the watch of my dreams.
I’ve been wanting to buy a new memory foam mattress for a while now. I layed down on one in a mattress store a few months ago and it was the most comfortable mattress I had ever layed on. I have alot of lower back pain when I get out of bed just about every morning and I really think a memory foam mattress would help alot.
About a week and a half ago I picked up a new video camera from Best Buy. I checked out reviews for about ten different cameras under five hundred bucks and I ended up choosing the Panasonic PV-GS320. It’s a 3CCD video camera and picks up colors like no other video camera I’ve seen for under $500. Circuit City had the GS320 on sale for $369.99, but their warranty price and service is junk. I went to Best Buy and had them do a price match for Circuit City’s price and I got a 4 year warranty from Best Buy for $99. So I got a nice 3CCD video camera, a tall tripod, a carrying case and a 4 year warranty for $540 with tax and all. That’s really the best buy I’ve seen on this camera other than buying it from eBay. The video quality from the camera is even better than I ever expected. I can’t wait until we get some sun light so I can really take it out and see what it’s made of.
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