News for today's 2018: 03/01/12

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgYrfk9LtfzoPQTFXelc8zoos0i9fqGgQrEOGTeNqepROkdrWsnZk88z5U6-yiRBfcVTt4FFVRUTfKMIwdUIalf77ukjjGD_yrHZyOdrtX1eo5SRjxbWXhaGeh4bLV0yjPiQpc2pKA_z9i/s1600/0428117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgYrfk9LtfzoPQTFXelc8zoos0i9fqGgQrEOGTeNqepROkdrWsnZk88z5U6-yiRBfcVTt4FFVRUTfKMIwdUIalf77ukjjGD_yrHZyOdrtX1eo5SRjxbWXhaGeh4bLV0yjPiQpc2pKA_z9i/s320/0428117.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">ALTERNATIVE MEDIA on Argentine topics</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Argentina – Stretching Bonds with China</span></b></div><span style="font-size: large;">Argentina’s relationship with China is currently deepening due to larger interest by the Asiatic giant in soy and agro-food.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Both countries have just signed reciprocal agreements in order to increase economic exchange last week. A delegation of Chinese businessmen and officials were welcomed by the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the President so as to reinforce the commitment and find different others industries to develop in conjunction.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">According to data released by the Pekin’s custom, Argentina exported 461,000 tons of soybeans to China in January 2012 – five times the amount in January 2011 –.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Both countries also signed a sanitary protocol which will allow the Argentina to export of maize products to the Asian nation.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: blue;">CORPORATE MAINSTREAM MEDIA on Argentine topics</span></span></b></div><div style="color: red;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Argentina spending more than it produces; “default situation” can’t be discarded</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Diana Mondino  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Argentina currently consumes more than it produces and only with strong growth can it avoid another default situation since liabilities continue to increase, warns economist Diana Mondino.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> “Argentina has already consumed its assets in energy, agriculture, pension funds, central bank and expenditure continues to expand” points out Mondino adding that government spending has ballooned in the last decade but particularly in the last two years, “well above the production and growth capacity of the economy”.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Social Security, Anses, already consumes almost a third of GDP, leaving aside law and order, education, health, which means the fiscal load must be particularly burdensome to meet those expenditures, 40% tax pressure, one of the highest in the world, except for Scandinavian countries.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">“And in spite of the taxing pressure the government had to appeal to some of the ‘jewels of the crown’, such as energy, agriculture, pension funds, Central bank reserves, and yes what we managed was a consumers’ boom”.</span><br /><h1>  <span style="font-size: large;">Diana Mondino at S&P Argentina!!!</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the first 18 months after Diana Mondino and Viviana Zocco had sold their credit rating firm to <b>Standard & Poor's (S&P)</b>, business had soared. The young entrepreneurs had not only received a decent sum for their company, they had also received considerable support to grow their business and their own talents. All of the analysts, including the two managing directors, were participating regularly in S&P's <b>highly regarded educational programs</b>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Comment:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">T</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o be associated with Standard & Poor's means the author of above article promotes international financial and economic institution doctrines which in many cases have proven devastating for countries applying such measures. These international vulcher financial institutions are trying everything to force Argentina into adhering to their doctrines. </span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Since Argentina has been defying these doctrines successfully, powerful international financial institutions use every possible means to combat Argentines’ resistance and thus use mainstream media and finance lackeys, reporting and distorting humbly what Corporate Media and the power elite tell them to do. </span></i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Predicting” the possibility of Argentina defaulting once more is pure tactics and manipulative journalism, initiated by above mentioned institutions in order to create panic and cause economy turmoil.</span></i></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Just for the records, the so famed soya commodity prices are soaring once again and will continue to do so, not to mention the rest of Argentina's agriculture commodities......</span></i></span></b><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Argentina expects higher crop output for 2012</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Via Agriculture News</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Argentina is on track to produce about 21.3 million metric tons of corn and 46.2 million of soybean during the 2011-12 seasons, based on surveys conducted by <span style="font-size: x-small;">AGROCOM</span>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Argentina is the world's third-largest soybean exporter and ranks No.2 in corn exports.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exports of grains, soybeans and related products are a significant source of government tax revenue and a major contributor to Argentina's <b>trade surplus, which totaled $10.35 billion last year</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange said that rains in recent weeks have helped the soy crop to recover from drought conditions in December and January that damaged corn fields.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Estimates for Argentina's 2011-12 crop production in million of metric tons. Sunseed area is measured in million hectares (HA). One hectare equals 2.47 acres.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">                     </span>Wheat<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">      </span>Soy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>Corn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>Sunseed </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B.A. Cereals Exch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>14.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>46.2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>21.3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>3.5 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ag Ministry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">          </span>13.4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>43.5-45.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>20.5-22.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>3.7 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">USDA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">                 </span>14.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>48.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>22.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>3.2 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rosario Grain Exch<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>13.7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>44.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>19.8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>--</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Argentina's historical production in millions of metric tons, according to the USDA:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wheat<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">      </span>Soy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>Corn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>Sunseed </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2010-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>15.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>49<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">          </span>22.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>3.6 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2009-10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>9.6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>54.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>22.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>2.3 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2008-09<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>10.1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>32.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>15.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>2.9 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2007-08<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>18.6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>46.2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>22.0<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>4.65 </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2006-07<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span>16.3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">       </span>48.8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">        </span>22.5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">         </span>--</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: blue; 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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

ALTERNATIVE MEDIA on Argentine topicsArgentina – Stretching Bonds with ChinaArgentina’s relationship with China is currently deepening due to larger interest by the Asiatic giant in soy and agro-food.Both countries have just signed reciprocal agreeme…

BRICS prepares world banking revolution

<div class="lettrine"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFCEYukR4Oa-N_rgixXIlsXSP9srha7-lOxrk9-kofaiVkkN8EflqWQupvlp33v4eB48_XR0laIExKsGAIL4dbW8N_NVGGZ4wzFjGNsF9dFNaYBlz-MICnnIYwxqBu62IyTAHoI985S2O/s1600/arton172935-fa002.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFCEYukR4Oa-N_rgixXIlsXSP9srha7-lOxrk9-kofaiVkkN8EflqWQupvlp33v4eB48_XR0laIExKsGAIL4dbW8N_NVGGZ4wzFjGNsF9dFNaYBlz-MICnnIYwxqBu62IyTAHoI985S2O/s400/arton172935-fa002.gif" width="400" /></a></div><h1 class="titre_serif_1 crayon article-titre-172935 noprint entry-title" style="margin-bottom: -10px; margin-top: -2px; text-align: center;"><br /></h1><div class="lettrine"><br /></div><div class="lettrine"><b>BRICS member-states are preparing a world banking revolution</b>. They are planning to nominate an alternative candidate for  the post of the Chairman of the World Bank for the first time in  history. BRICS also demands redistribution of quotas in the  International Monetary Fund in the near future and intends to study  India’s initiative on creating a South-South Bank.</div><div class="lettrine"><br /></div>Representatives of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa  proposed a reform of the world financial system at their meeting in  Mexico City which took place during the conference of G20 finance  ministers and heads of central banks.<br /><br />  BRICS financiers are annoyed with the private rule that the head of  the World Bank is always a representative of the US. They believe that  candidates should be assessed based on their merits and not citizenship.   BRICS member-states are convinced that it is essential to create  competition for the US candidate, either from a BRICS country or from  Europe. It has been decided to prepare a declaration on a coordinated  position on this subject in the next two weeks. Candidates for the post  of the head of the World Bank should be determined by the 23rd of March.<br /><br />  On the 29th of March BRICS leaders are expected to launch the  mechanism of coordinating opinions on India’s proposal to create a  South-South Bank. It is to become a support institution for countries  with developing markets. BRICS member-states will be playing the main  role in it, according to the quotas of votes. In this context they will  have to assume serious financial responsibilities. The project looks  promising but needs detailed studying, President of the Russian  Financial Corporation Andrey Nechayev says.<br /><br />  "<i>There are a lot of unanswered questions at the moment. Who is  going to provide capitals for this bank? Who will be able to get money  from it? There may be a lot more of those who want to take a loan than  those willing to give loans. The new institution meets the requirements  of world development. BRICS member-states need investments and not only  cash but new technologies, methods of corporate management and  innovations. At present it is not quite clear how this bank, if it ever  opens, will help to solve this problem</i>.”<br /><br />  In any case, India’s initiative on creating a South-South Bank is an  attempt by BRICS member-states to offer their mite to the establishment  of a new world financial system. They are planning to take a place in it  according to their global weight. The rate of the Brazilian, Russian,  Indian, Chinese and South African growing economies in world production  exceeds 21% and these countries’ currency reserves exceed $4trln.<br />  The latter fact gives these countries grounds to dispute the  financial tradition set by the west. BRICS member-states intend to  upgrade their role in the IMF.<br /><br />They are ready to discuss the  strengthening of the Fund’s resource base, in particular, for helping  the EU to get out of the debt crisis. At the same time, they demand  redistribution of the Fund’s quotas, which means both the realignment of  world financial flows and the rearrangement of votes when the IMF makes  decisions. At present, almost half of the votes belong to the EU and  the US, while BRICS member-states have about 10%. In 2010 BRICS raised  its quota a little but its potential is still underrated. The West will  keep trying to hamper the IMF reform, so as to prevent countries with  growing markets from strengthening their positions. Meanwhile, the need  for replenishing the IMF resource base will apparently make the  management of the Fund respond to the BRICS initiative.

BRICS prepares world banking revolution

BRICS member-states are preparing a world banking revolution. They are planning to nominate an alternative candidate for the post of the Chairman of the World Bank for the first time in history. BRICS also demands redistribution of quotas in the I…

Clearing Out the Pantry

My appetite has started to come back now, and the eating choices haven't been great over the last several days.  <br /><br />Now that I'm pretty much back to having an actual desire to eat something, I must start cooking again and prepping my meals for the week.  I went on a small hiatus from the New Year's Resolution I made of not eating out through the week.  I had no desire to cook whatsoever, and therefore almost every meal consumed over the last 2 weeks has been of the restaurant variety, and usually not the healthiest of choices.  Did this really affect me?  Well obviously not, given that I weighed in just days ago at 227.1.  Still, that lifestyle simply is not sustainable for me – eventually I will go overboard and gain – neither of which I want to see happen.   It’s time to get my rear back in gear and on to making some better choices.  <br /><br />I have a lot of food in my pantry and freezer, and so my goal over the next few weeks is to use up what I’ve got with very minimal trips to the grocery store.  If I have to go to the grocery store, I’m going to challenge myself to spend no more than $25 per week. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qSn6XxTZftIU80K2oVUhuBq_owX9lrIBIhbXJRV644qdyhl_McnKXLbqW7C9Ou7NxAzrvG6dXXIUPKj65uE9JK7dMxW0uiJpbS2yukWWKXowOR91CMV-32OtHyznwN4P3SfTp2owfbI/s1600/pantry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qSn6XxTZftIU80K2oVUhuBq_owX9lrIBIhbXJRV644qdyhl_McnKXLbqW7C9Ou7NxAzrvG6dXXIUPKj65uE9JK7dMxW0uiJpbS2yukWWKXowOR91CMV-32OtHyznwN4P3SfTp2owfbI/s400/pantry.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><br />I love cooking and I tend to go overboard when I head to the store.  I almost always buy stuff that isn’t on my grocery list and this is how I end up with an extremely full pantry.    <br /><br />For the remainder of the week, here are a few things I plan to whip up to start dwindling down my stockpile:<br /><ol><li><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/green-beans-and-bacon-recipe/index.html%20" target="_blank">Green beans with bacon.</a>  I’ve got many cans of green beans and two packages of frozen turkey bacon that needs used up.  I think I’ll take the Neely’s recipe and modify it to be a little more WW friendly.  Should be easy peezy!  </li><li><a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/spinach-cheese-tortellini/" target="_blank">Spinach Cheese Tortellini.</a>  I’m thinking about doing a variation of this, but cutting back on the butter somehow.  I have some packages of frozen tortellini and this recipe has received great reviews! </li><li><a href="http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/RecipePage.aspx?recipeid=203061&tab=2" target="_blank">Kielbasa Baked Ziti.</a> This is directly from WW... at 11 PointsPlus.  Rather high but we'll see what happens.  </li><li><a href="http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/07/easiest-pasta-and-broccoli-recipe.html" target="_blank">SkinnyTaste Easiest Pasta and Broccoli</a>.  I have tons of pasta waiting to be eaten.  Pasta is hard to consume when  trying to limit your caloric intake, but everything in moderation,  right? </li></ol><b style="color: #351c75;">Are you like me when it comes to grocery shopping? </b><br /><ol></ol>

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My appetite has started to come back now, and the eating choices haven't been great over the last several days. Now that I'm pretty much back to having an actual desire to eat something, I must start cooking again and prepping my meals for the week.…

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