Jamie Lynn had her babe & 17 Girls all make a Pact to Make a Baby!

"As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers." READ STORY HERE

First, Jamie Lynn Spears had her baby at 17 and she had a little girl and her name is Maddie Briann. Yes, nice long run-on sentence LOL. Anyway, Jamie Lynn got pregnant I guess by 'accident' (which if you never use protection then its NEVER by accident unless you were on Birth Control) . I think her seeing Britney Spears with her babies left her a little careless to have her own child.

Then turned into a domino effect because some small town twits thought it would be smart to all be pregnant instead of pursuing their careers...and most likely in 3 years their children will end up either with their own parents, abused, in an adoption agency or anything else above, with a 1% of those children will be living a pretty normal lifestyle. I think they got the bright idea from Jamie Lynn Spears and thought it would be best for them. Whateva..!

Its not easy being a mother, its not a game...its real life. Children depend on your for EVERYTHING! Food, Shelter, Care and MOST IMPORTANT LOVE!

You say Tomato, I say Salmonella

"CHICAGO (AP) — McDonald's, Wal-Mart and other U.S. chains have halted sales of some raw tomatoes as federal health officials work to trace the source of a multistate salmonella food poisoning outbreak." Read Story Here

Ok first I wanted to just this is just sad. :( I Love tomatoes and I always cook with them - I usually make salsa and tacos. Now the removal of them at restaurants, means it must be really serious. I hope that they are at least investigating where the outbreak of salmonella and which farmer this had started from.

In the meantime, I have to look for tomato alternatives in my cooking. So far I am looking into Mexican Chiles (such as sauce used in Mole etc..I love Mole!) or tomatillos (green tomatoes), frozen tomatoes, tomato paste, or anything else that may work. So far I may do a couple of those things listed above. Plus you can also grow your own or buy organic tomatoes, which we may do also. So maybe its not a complete loss...I hope this goes away in a couple of months.

I also wanted to add this is not good with the economy in bad shape - besides rising cost of food and gas, people are trying to find the best means to live. A lot have even looking into alternative options like SPAM. (see post below)

Till the outbreak is over you may as well just wait it out and use alternatives.

SPAM - Its whats for Dinner!

"MILWAUKEE — Love it, hate it or laugh at it — at least it's inexpensive. Sales of Spam — that much maligned meat — are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch meats and other lower-cost foods to extend their already stretched food budgets." Read More Here

I am just amazed the fact that people decided to turn to SPAM because of the rising cost of food. Usually eating or talking about spam - it gets easily mocked by society. But not anymore, since the rising cost of food and fuel, spam has had an increase of sales of at least 14%!

I have always loved Spam. So the increase in sales of it just made my day and amused me. I love spam because it brings back memories of my dad making it on a toasted sandwich with mustard. So one year they had you can earn a shirt with proof of purchase for their 70th anniversary, so I bought a few and then got my free shirt.

To celebrate, I had decided to buy more Spam and take a picture (as you can see).

And buy Spam at a Grocer near you. ;)