Today, April 13th, is National Make Lunch Count Day. Do you ever find yourself rushing through your lunch breaks at work, or do you work through them or even skip them altogether? While that may be tempting, it’s not good for you and your body. You should try to use your lunch breaks as just that – a break from work. To make your lunches count, leave the workplace if you can, pack a healthy lunch to take with you, resting, and getting the whole office involved in making lunches count.
Click HERE to learn more about National Make Lunch Count Day.
We celebrated the many foods that have national holidays today (9/20) on the Morning Thing. If you’re looking for a good snack, or lunch or dinner ideas today, try pepperoni pizza, fried rice, string cheese, or queso. Yum!
Check out these links for these food’s histories and for fun ways to eat them:
This morning we shared some 5 ingredient slow-cooker recipes to help make meals a little easier. Some of these meals take 30 minutes and others take 7 hours! Thanks to All Recipes for these awesome meals!
We kicked off this morning by sharing good news stories. A huge thank you to Good News Network, Today, All Good News, ABC 6, the Facebook page of Church of the Nazarene Eurasia, and MSN for all of the great stories. Here are the stories we shared this morning. We also shared an update from Nazarene Compassionate Ministries about how Nazarenes are helping in Europe in response to the needs of those being displaced by the conflict in Ukraine.
Motorists Stranded By Floods Set Up Food Kitchens For Fellow Travelers
Today we talked about food for the holidays. First we talked about “Traditional Christmas Food From Around the World”. It is so interesting to see the different traditions that others have. Some of these things may look like something you would try and others not so much.
Bacalao, the Traditional Mexican Christmas Food
The Traditional Christmas Food in Germany: Christmas Goose
A Traditionally American Christmas Dessert: Fruitcake
The Surprising Japanese Christmas Tradition: Fried Chicken
To read more and to see pictures of these meals click HERE.
We also talked about some pantry-friendly dinners for the family around the holidays. Thank you to All Recipes for this article! Here are some of our favorites…
Today, we kicked off a week focusing on FOOD! It is essential for life. So let’s have some fun looking at something we all need.
On Monday, we shared 7 Brain foods – choices that help kids stay sharp. As the school year wraps up, these food choices could help your kids face the end of the year projects and exams.
Click HERE to read the full article from patch.com The article has Parent Tips for each food choice!
The Morning Thing got to share some awesome ways to spend time with family. Just in time for spring break!
Hunter & Lexie love the ideas from their source, http://www.allprodad.com. check out the article they read from HERE.
They also mentioned camping! Both Hunter & Lexie are both enthusiastic about camping and think it would be a great bonding experience for spring break coming up!
The Morning Thing got hungry this morning sharing an abundance of delicious egg recipes. Marcy & Lexie got the chance to enjoy sharing these tasty treats and reminiscing on foods they ate from years ago! Find a recipe to remember for generations HERE
This morning on the Morning thing we talked about hydration and how to make it simpler. We know that hydration can seem like a huge task when we look how much water we should be drinking through the day.
We explored ways that not only to get hydrated by drinking water, but also eating it. There are several fruits and vegetables that can help with hydrating you.
If you missed it HERE are 10 fruits and vegetables that you can eat to help you stay hydrated.
We also talked about creative ways to drink more water throughout the day which can help keep you hydrated. If you missed any of these creative ways click HERE
Today on The Morning Thing we talked about the fruit of the spirit and how we can put the fruit into use in our own lives.
We found several verse about the fruit of the spirit and a great article that talks on each fruit. If you missed anything check out the article HERE.
We also talked with Ken Shaffer about he and his wife’s celebration of their 60th anniversary with an exhibit, which will be featured at tomorrow evening’s First Friday. If you missed any of that talk with Ken click HERE