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Well let me tell you, this back to school for us was crazy! First, the weather which was super hot in the mornings and awfully hot in the afternoons made it so impossible for my girls to keep up with all the new projects they had. Then our afternoons were so busy between homework, ice skating, and chores that we could not keep up.

Fortunately, I always carry Nestlé® Pure Life® Water in my car, and having this great source in there gives me confidence the I can keep my girls hydrated and healthy all the time.

For us as a family, it is very important to maintain a good schedule on our water consumption. We not only have water in the car, we also carry our water everywhere. I have a bottle in my purse all the time, my husband keeps a stack in his office, and my girls carry at least 2 bottles a day to drink during school hours.

I love to come home from Walmart where I buy all my Nestlé® Pure Life® and put some in the freezer. We love to drink very cold water, especially on a hot day!

Another way I manage to have my girls drink more water is by making them a delicious and nutritious lunch, such as a good sandwich, wrap, or quesadilla with some fruit and water. I make sure it’s super good, delicious, and healthy, too.

Today I want to share with you this delicious and easy Whole Wheat Bean and Cheese Quesadilla. It’s the perfect lunch to make for our kids with some fruit and our favorite drink, Nestlé® Pure Life® Water.

INGREDIENTS

4 whole wheat flour tortillas
1 cup refried black beans
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
½ cup chopped cilantro
2 apples cut into slices

DIRECTIONS

Using one tortilla at a time, place 2 tablespoons of beans, 2 tablespoons of cheese and 1 teaspoon of cilantro in half of the tortilla, and place the other half on top.

Heat up a skillet to medium low heat and spray with some cooking spray. Cook for about 3 minutes on both sides, or until crispy. Cut into any shape your kids love, and make some happy faces on their bottle of water.

Serve with a mini water bottle and four or five apple slices.

This recipe makes 4 quesadillas.

Remember, beans contain fiber and iron which are good for our growing kids. Beans promote healthy digestion and iron is a nutrient for their blood. Cheese made with whole milk is a good source of calcium, and water keep our kids hydrated and helps with healthy digestion, too.

I recently read a survey* conducted by Nestlé® Pure Life® in which moms and kids revealed many surprising insights about their hydration habits. I thought you’d find them interesting as well!

97% of moms think making one healthy choice leads to making other healthy choices.
Kids who drink less than 4 glasses of water a day are more likely to request soda, juice, and sports drinks (76%).
Kids who drink 4+ glasses of water per day are more likely to frequently exhibit healthy habits, such as getting their own water when thirsty, eating their fruits and vegetables at mealtimes without reminders, and requesting healthy food and beverage options for school lunches.
Drinking water is one of the biggest “healthy habit” struggles moms have with their kids (38%), even more than struggles like “eat your fruit” (29%), “get enough exercise” (23%), and “eat your breakfast” (19%).

Here are some great tips from Robin Plotkin to help encourage your family to drink up more often!

Have cups, straws, lids and other drinking “equipment” available to provide to your kids to make drinking water more fun. Empower them to fill their own cups of water and praise them when they do.
Drink a cup when you wake up. Create a routine that involves drinking 1 cup of water upon waking. Simply leave a supply of disposable paper cups near the sink. Much like washing the face and brushing teeth, this will quickly become a regular part of the morning for each family member.

As a proud supporter of the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Drink Up initiative, Nestlé® Pure Life® is committed to helping families make healthier choices, starting with hydration. To help your family Drink Up and be a part of the Ripple Effect – a movement to keep kids hydrated – visit pureliferippleeffect.com and share your tips for healthy hydration using #pureliferippleeffect.

If you want to know more, visit Nestlé® Pure Life® Facebook page HERE.

I’ve shared my tricks with you on how we use Nestlé Pure Life Water to create a delicious back-to-school lunch! What is your favorite way to use it for your family?

You can find Nestlé® Pure Life® at Walmart, visit them on Facebook.

*Online survey conducted in June 2015 of 1,077 moms of kids ages 6-12 overall, including 254 Hispanic moms of kids ages 6-12. 1,077 kids ages 6-12 from the same household were also surveyed, including 254 Hispanic kids ages 6-12. © 2015 Nestlé® Waters North America Inc.

We are definitely very lucky, my girls have food every day to enjoy and we can say the we are super blessed. But there was a time when I was younger and my father struggle to put food on the table, and we all know how incredible difficult as a parent is, to see your child have to fish for food every night. Thank God this lasted just a short time, after a few months my father was able to have a steady job and bring food to the table every day.

But did you know that one in five children in America live in households without consistent access to adequate food, yes we have a lot of families struggling to put food on the table. And this is the matter of what I want to bring your attention to.

We can help this families and end the Hunger, companies like Albertsons Safeway family will be having a national “Hunger Is” campaign.

Taking place September 1^st through September 30^th, 2015 to help aid in the relief of childhood hunger in America. This program is designed to raise awareness, volunteer hours, and funds that will improve health outcomes for hungry children and their families. And is very simple to do it.

TWO WAYS YOU CAN HELP

Donation Campaign: You will be ask by the cashier to donate at register while checking out if you would like to donate to the Hunger Is fundraiser.

Brand Partnerships: You can purchase participant products like ConAgra (Marie Calender’s, Healthy Choice, Bertolli’s and PF Changs), Coke, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Campbell’s, Organics, or Open Nature products and Hunger Is will provide one meal to those in need.

Is not difficult and I’m sure you can do it, just remember how lucky our families are to have food everyday on the table and by helping you will teach your kids how important the value of giving is.

So don’t waste any more time, go shopping today and donate.

If you want to learn more VISIT HUNGER IS

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Albertsons Safeway . The opinions and text are all mine.

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Let me tell you growing up, the education in my county was good but not always accesible for all the kids. Is very expensive and for most of the families once the kid is ready to go to high school they simple send them to find a job to help the family.
We were very fortunate because my father always had a steady job and thus provide us with the education we needed, buena education buen trabajo, that’s what my father used to said.

Now living here my girls enjoy of a good education and they can be sure that for us as a parents education is always first and one of the things you can do help your local school to keep those help programs open is by supporting the Campbell´s Labels For Education® program.

Programs like this are so simple for us because the only thing you need to do in buy products with the Campbell´s Labels For Education® and they add up points for the school to buy any supplies they need. Just look for the label in the product to make sure you are buy the right one.

You can go to Target or Walmart, there you can find all the products that are participating in this campaign and to make it even more easy for you here’s a List of the Products, to help you have a guide when you go shopping. I went to Target and I find all those them.

To make this experience more fun heres a fun way to use those empty cans I know you are going to have a lot, and also a great way to involve your kids and make this experience more united, tell your friends and family too, we all can help with the program.

From August 3 to 9 October Labels For Education ® program has a draw of 1 million Dollars for Education in which 100 schools will have the chance to win $ 10,000. Cut and collect labels to support your school!

DIY PENCIL HOLDER

Is so easy you only need an empty can, some pain, and paper tissue, and of course some creativity.

First remove the label, and clean the can.Once you have pick the colors, star from the bottom I use white so I can place the name later.Without cleaning your brush, add the next color, and then add the next color to finish with the exterior.

In the interior of the can pain heavily and place pieces of paper tissue, this was my little daughter idea, se want it to add a girly touch. Then cut with those fancy looking scissors to give it the final touch.

The last step is to place the name of the child, teacher or just for what you want the holder and is ready. Don’t forget to let it dry first.

Be sure to check out more participant products http://www.labelsforeducation.com/Earn-Points/Participating-Products. I’d love to hear your favorite!

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A while back a dear friend recommended to me a new show the her kids were watching, fun, entertain, and full of great values and lessons of faith.
Of course I was very intrigue and we went directly home that day just to watch the new show.
And let me tell you VeggieTales is not only fun but it is also full of great lessons for my kids, a great understanding of values of faith and a huge deference from others shows too all the snappy songs but you can see how they learn more and more everyday and share with there friends a new way to see the challenges of growing up.

You can follow there adventures on Facebook.

The best news we have this week was to know the now we can have our own VeggieTales at home, and you too, you can fun this funny and amazing characters at your local Walmart and that was exactly what we did.

VeggieTales has been making great songs and shows for years, but now it is time to bring the stories that you love to life with their toys. Your kids will be able to sing and play all day long with the toys available at Walmart.

This was a total adventure definitely going shopping with my girls is really fun. We enter the store and as all of you know it is a BIG store, so we play a game and of course the price was an adorable VeggieTales toy of their choice.

We start our game very easy, first we count the aisle, then we read the list in the aisle and last we look for the toys with the picture I show to the girls, as a good VeggieTales always said, togethers is always easy and better to find the solution, so we play until we find the toys.

My girls were so happy and my little daughter, which “won” the game, was so exited to choose the new addition to the family.

Her favorite caracter is Larry, a good friend and companion to all her adventures and share with her friends the good lessons she is learning thanks to the VeggieTales.

I really encourage you to start this adventure with your kids, go and take home one of this amazing friends and watch with your kids the adventures of the VeggieTales, a fun way to learn.

Take the shows that your kids love from the TV to the home with VeggieTales toys! Share how your kids play with their new friendly veggie. Whether it is during a long car ride or right before bedtime VeggieTales are always there to get your kiddos in the right mindset.

As a mom of two wonderful girls I’m always worried about my family nutrition, and because a good source of calcium, protein and vitamins is essential for our body, I just simply and always give my daughters milk.
Milk is an amazing fuel and we must drink it everyday.
Early on, we are introduced to the daily practice of drinking milk, not just at mealtimes, but also to act as a source of energy throughout the day. The main concern today, is to find the healthiest way to feed the family, and what many may not know, is that milk is an essential food full of vitamins needed to help grow and strengthen our bones and teeth.
An addition to drinking milk every day, we must add daily exercise, this is a great combination for the future!
Personally I recommend, especially because milk is not only great to accompany cereal or cookies and prepare smoothies, drinking a glass of warm milk before bedtime will help you to sleep better.
And you are asking me why should I care? Well my goal is to invite you to get more and more involved in you family nutrition by adding a glass of milk to your table, substitute sodas, juices and other drinks. Milk is necessary and must be part of your daily diet; you can even bring the cow to the table,…Not really, it’s just a joke, but you know what I mean.
And I’m sharing this with you because as I said before, I want my kids to be their strongest every day. Not only my kids, but my husband, my mother, my sister, just everybody in my family, needs to be more and more involved.
I also want to let you know a little secret, in my house I keep 3 different kinds of milk, yes I know, but this is why. I just love cold milk for my coffee, smoothies, and warm at night is delicious; but I also have fat free that I use for my recipes. I make a lot of recipes with skim milk, and 1 percent, just because sometimes I feel dangerous.
Well there you have it, the best way to introduce more and more milk every day to your family.

I also made for all of you a printable so you can print and start creating new ways to share this amazing movement to your family and friends.

If you like it and/or want a different message don’t forget to leave me a comment.

I also want you to check out these links where you can find more info, ideas and facts about the got milk? campaign.

http://www.gotmilk.com

http://www.facebook.com/gotmilk

This post is brought to you by got milk? Drink to a brighter future.

Got Milk

Also here is a printable for you, have fun, wrapping or putting it in your favorite jars.

For a long time now I bean wanting to share this easy recipe with you guys, my daughter loves salad and this is one of her favorites, did I tell you the she is only 5 years old? Well yes, she is in fact a big fan of salad.
So one day she came up with all this things the she like to eat, and we make this super healthy delicious salad.
Is full with vitamin C, have the right portion of fruit, and because is toped with feta cheese, doesn’t need dressing, because the cheese is so creamy by itself, when you mix the salad it comes all together, and the grapes gives it just the right amount of sweetness.
Make it with your children, I’m sure the they would love the idea of a healthy, delicious, salad, made by there on hands.
Enjoy.

INGREDIENTS

3 cups of fresh spinach
1 cup of dice harts of palm
2 tomatoes chopped or 1 cup of cherry tomatoes in half
1/2 cup of crumble feta cheese
1 cup of green grapes in half
1 cup of dice cucumber
Salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS

In a bowl put all the ingredients mix, very carefully, add salt and pepper, and serve.
This salad is great by it self, or as a side dish with any meat, double or triple the recipe and you can take it to a party.
Or just add any other ingredient the you or your kids like.

Yields 4 servings.

Preparation time:	15 minutes
Cooking time:	0 minutes
Level of the recipe:	Easy

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