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Recipe: Warming Winter Carrot & Lentil Soup

With the arrival of cooler weather, I decided to make soup the other night. I wanted to make a soup in the crockpot and chose this recipe for carrot and lentil soup from Joan bishop’s New Zealand Crockpot and Slow Cooker Cookbook. Ingredients: 1 onion, chopped into...

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Colds, Flu and Winter Ills

On the whole, I'm a fairly healthy person. I don't catch many colds or flu-type bugs. I think a lot of it is because I don't have children. When we were kids we were always sick, and I've noticed that people with children tend to get sick more. There are a lot of bugs...

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Reasons I Dislike Winter

Last week author Jess Dee blogged at Samhain about 15 reasons she hated winter. Since it's winter here in New Zealand, I thought I'd borrow her timely topic and do a list of Thirteen Things I Dislike About Winter. 1. It's cold. 2. The cold means I have to dress in...

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