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MOMents - Thanksgiving Day Memories

Forget the dry meat, remember the day.

My Thanksgiving turkey was dry this year, but that’s not what anyone will remember about the day. It started when I woke up feeling emotional. Thanksgiving was going to be another  “last time” for my football playing children and the teammates they have traveled with, some since kindergarten. Win or lose, it was to be the last Thanksgiving game, the last football game in a 13-year school journey. This one was a highlight. Football has helped them focus, mature into young men, teammates and members of a community.  But, emotion aside, there was still a game to play and a turkey to cook without me there to frequently baste. I bought a bird big enough put in before the game. I wanted the cook time to exceed the game time. I abandoned Grandma …

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Notes from the Lynch Van Otterloo YMCA

Keep your Waistline in Check: 7 Tips for Surviving the Holidays

Lynch/van Otterloo YMCA Personal Trainer Ryan Healy, BS, NSCA CSCS, offers some tips to help your waistline get through the New Year! Find this and other posts from her on our Health and Wellness blog, at http://yhealthandwellness.wordpress.com/.

  Thanksgiving has come and gone and, although it was just one day, there will be many parties and treats between now and New Year’s Eve that can cause your waistline to slowly grow. Not to mention breathing down New Year’s neck is Valentine’s Day and then Easter — both of which are associated with fattening goodies and candies. Here are my tips for keeping your waistline in check during the holidays.   Happy Thanksgiving! Ryan Healy, BS, NSCA CSCS   Find more posts from Ryan on the Lynch/van Otterloo Health and Wellness blog! You can find out more about our health and wellness programs here - check out some of our classes or workshops to help you through the holidays.

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Turkey Talk Leads to Stop & Shop

Our first holiday-related deal is turkey at 58 cents per pound.

We’re talking turkey for our first article on holiday-related deals. Barring misfortune to one of the wild birds that strut in town you’re not likely to find a better deal on turkey than Stop & Shop’s deal. The store is selling Shady Farm frozen birds averaging 10-20 pounds for 58 cents a pound. There’s a limit to one per customer. And you must make a purchase of $25, but that can include the price of the turkey. So, for the mainstay of the T-Day table, Stop & Shop at the Swampscott Mall looks like a winner. The supermarket’s promotion also says that the store will match any competitor’s turkey coupon or turkey price. The store has deals on bags of potatoes and onions and on canned vegetables, too. Stop & Shop is located on Paradise Road. …

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