Summer time warmth, salad components may result in picnic poisoning | ‘Hints from Heloise’
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Expensive Heloise: Each summer season we see plenty of people who find themselves affected by meals poisoning as a result of they didn’t retailer their meals correctly. Gadgets equivalent to laborious boiled eggs, potato salad, fish or shellfish, or something containing eggs or oil can develop into rancid in the summertime warmth. These are gadgets that ought to be saved in an ice chest with a lot of ice surrounding the container. Meals poisoning can destroy a trip or a sunny day on the seaside. That is only a reminder to remain protected and keep wholesome! — Janet H., Daytona Seashore, Florida
Expensive Heloise: My husband and I had been having some wine at a good friend’s house after they introduced out a shrimp unfold that was scrumptious. After I requested the hostess the place she bought the recipe, she mentioned, “From Heloise.” Apparently, she despatched away for one in every of your pamphlets and mentioned she had made each one of many recipes in it. Nonetheless, the shrimp unfold was her all-time favourite. So now I might prefer to get a duplicate of this pamphlet from you. What do I must do to get a duplicate of the shrimp unfold? — Hillary U., Milpitas, California
Hillary, it is actually very simple. Go to www.Heloise.com to order one. Or you may ship $5, together with a stamped, self-addressed, lengthy envelope to: Heloise/All-Time Fav, P.O. Field 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. You may discover some tasty, easy-to-make recipes inside, together with my Quick Shrimp Unfold. — Heloise
Expensive Heloise: Each morning I give every of my three kids (ages 9, 12 and 13) a chewable vitamin. My husband thinks nutritional vitamins are pointless for youngsters, however I do not assume they will eat sufficient to get all of the nutritional vitamins they want whereas they’re nonetheless kids. Though my three children are very lively in sports activities and have wholesome appetites, I nonetheless imagine chewable nutritional vitamins are good for them. Which of us is appropriate? — Tina W., Pineville, Kentucky
Tina, first verify together with your physician to see in the event that they assume your kids must take nutritional vitamins. In the event that they assume it is a good suggestion, use nutritional vitamins designed in your kid’s age group. And by no means name chewable nutritional vitamins “sweet” or exceed the really helpful dosage. Most consultants, and that features the American Academy of Pediatrics, favor to not supply an official opinion on nutritional vitamins for teenagers as a result of every youngster and every scenario is completely different. To additional examine nutritional vitamins in your kids, you may need to go to www.hopkinsallchildrens.org or www.mayoclinic.org. — Heloise
Expensive Heloise: My household loves do-it-yourself lemonade or iced tea on a very popular day. The one drawback was that the ice watered down our drinks. To resolve this drawback, I now freeze an ice dice tray of lemonade and one other one in every of iced tea. Typically I decide mint leaves whereas the leaf continues to be small and place one mint leaf in every dice of ice to assist in giving our tea a slight minty taste to the tea. — A Reader, by way of e-mail
