June has finally arrived. The month of new growth, tanned faces and the end of school!

As June marks the beginning of picnic season, we've added two easy picnic recipes for this month and coupled with that is a guest article o­n saving money when you buy food. That's something great knowing any time of the year!

Often if people need to move they wait until the school year is finished. More people move in June and July than in any other time of the year. This month we share with you an article o­n easing the trauma of relocating for children.

My "ramblings" section is a little different this month not dealing with a parenting issue at all. After I'd heard a few comments about pop ups o­n this site (trust me, we have none) I thought it was time to let the average user know that not o­nly does ParentsWorld.com not use pop ups but to explain the programs that are forcing pop ups o­n you and threatening your security.

As usual, I'd like to take this moment to welcome all of our new subscribers and bid a 'welcome back' to our returning o­nes.

• June's Recipes [4]
  • Carne Asada
  • Pineapple Picnic Salad
    
• Saving Money o­n Food - Mom’s Way [5]
• How to ease the trauma of relocating for children [6]
  
• Ramblings [7]
  • ParasiteWare

By L. C. Peterson

In a “gotta have the newest gadget world” some “old” ways are perfectly useful in today’s kitchen.
In this “gotta have the newest gadget world” let us not forget some “old” ways are perfectly useful in today’s kitchen. I recently recalled techniques my Mom used to save money and time. In this article I share some of those tips. Use the ideas that apply to your situation. Brainstorm your own.

1. Learn to serve less expensive meats; slow cook, tenderize, use a pressure cooker, etc.. Today's appliances for this type of cooking are much easier to work with than in the past.

2. Serve reasonable helpings. This prevents waste especially if your family doesn't like leftovers. Reasonable helpings keeps your weight down. It is also more healthy.

3. Buy bread at the "day old" store. You can't tell a difference especially when toasting. If you can't use fresh bread quickly enough before spoilage occurs, freeze it.

4. Save time o­n repeat items. Mom made enough homemade biscuits at breakfast for supper too. We refrigerated the made-up biscuits in a pie plate at breakfast, near supper left them out for a few minutes to room temperature, then cooked them.

5. Bake o­ne and freeze o­ne. Enjoy desserts? Make two pies, freeze o­ne and eat o­ne. o­ne of our favorite pizza dough recipes allows us to freeze o­ne dough ball, and cook another.

6. Buy no junk food and prepare "good" deserts; cobbler, crisps, fruit pies. We grew up with no weekly consumption of candy, sodas, potato chips, etc. These were saved for special occasions if we ate any at all.

7. Avoid convenience costs. Buy a whole ham and slice it yourself. Buy a chicken and cut it up yourself. Bake your own snacks and freeze in serving size.

These are just a few ways to eat better and save money o­n food. Adjust these tips to fit your location and lifestyle.

E-mail: bookpublishing@yahoo.com [9]
Author's URL: http://www.lcpeterson.com [10]
Peterson writes in a variety of fields from freelance writing and marketing, family issues, home office topics, software/computer choices, web site success tips, family issues, and o­nline research resources.
Peterson has a M.ED. in Education and works as a small business consultant.

Carne Asada

The first time I ever had this was at my sister's in San Diego. She bought the steaks pre marinated but I've been searching for a recipe since then as we can't buy such a thing here in Calgary.

Marinate a minimum of 1 hour but it's best if you can do it for 1 - 2 days.

• Cut the limes in half and squeeze the juice over both sides of the steaks.
• Rub the garlic into the steaks.
• Sprinkle the chilies, pepper and cumin over the steaks.
• Cover steaks with plastic wrap and place in refrigerator to marinade for 1 hour to 2 days (the longer the better)
• When done marinating, pre heat the grill to medium – hot temperature.
• Brush the steaks with oil and grill 7 minutes o­n each side for medium doneness.
• When the steaks are is cooked, dice the steaks into strips and add the cilantro.
• Eat as is or in fajitas or a salad

Every child's delight! If it's got Pineapple and whipped topping, they're going to love it.

• In a large bowl, whip the undrained pineapple into the cream cheese.
• Stir in the vanilla pudding mix.
• Fold in the drained pineapple chunks and whipped topping.
• Cover and chill till ready to serve at the picnic
  

To date, ParentsWorld.com has never used pop ups/pop unders for advertising of any sort o­n our website. If you are visiting a page o­n ParentsWorld and you get an annoying pop up then you are infected with what is known in the industry as "ParasiteWare" (sometimes referred to as "Spy Ware")

The technical definition of it is as follows:

ParasiteWare™ [15] - is technology (including, but not restricted to, browser helpers, browser plug-ins, toolbars and pop ups/sliders) that knowingly or unknowingly undermines or removes another affiliate's ability to compete by changing, intercepting or redirecting an affiliate link. Parasiteware™ may be installed knowingly or unknowingly by the end user, altering their normal web browser functions and/or installing a third party application that works through the user's altered browser. (from http://www.parasiteware.com/ [16] )

Common names like "Gator", "Hot Bar", "Incredimail", "Kazaa", and many others not o­nly provide you with some neat "free" feature for your computer but it installs ParasiteWare.

What the ParasiteWare then does is to gather information about you, your surfing habits and even your buying habits. What it does to webmasters is it quickly scans a page that you are viewing, sees an affiliate link (and ad which the webmaster gets paid for if you buy or order something) and pops up their own ad for the same store. Suddenly, the webmaster's hard work has been taken over and this scum gets their commission -- yes, it's like stealing.

This site makes very, very little off of affiliate advertising so it's really not a huge deal money wise. What worries me is that people will see the pop ups and think I've added them. Again, I'd like to state that ParentsWorld.com has NEVER used pop ups of any sort and we certainly don't plan o­n ever using them in the future.

Do follow the link to http://www.parasiteware.com/ [17] and see what these less than honourable people are putting you the user at risk for. If you have any further questions, the above link has a forum or you can email me any time.

Well folks, that's it for another month. As usual, if you have any suggestions or contributions let me know [18]! We're always up to suggestions and recipes sent in also have the chance to be included o­n the website.

Jill Lassaline, editor
Single Parents World