Join my Watkins team! No-obligation details at http://www.vanillasage.com
Eleisia Whitney
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Charles Schultz Philosophy!
"The Charles Schultz Philosophy!"
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.
4. Name any ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor.
6. Name the last decade's World Series winners.
"How did you do?"
The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Anatomy of a Prospect’s Mind
Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you.
"Easier?"
The big lesson
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care.
Written by "Peanuts" Creator, Charles Schultz. The SAME man who couldn't get a cartoonist job at The Disney Corporation. Some 'boss' at Disney told Charles he lacked talent and was not creative.
Key Point: Don't let others 'label' you. Mr. Schultz didn't. Follow his lead. Follow your heart. Live your life for "You".
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.
4. Name any ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor.
6. Name the last decade's World Series winners.
"How did you do?"
The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish.
Achievements are forgotten. Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Anatomy of a Prospect’s Mind
Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with.
6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have inspired you.
"Easier?"
The big lesson
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones that care.
Written by "Peanuts" Creator, Charles Schultz. The SAME man who couldn't get a cartoonist job at The Disney Corporation. Some 'boss' at Disney told Charles he lacked talent and was not creative.
Key Point: Don't let others 'label' you. Mr. Schultz didn't. Follow his lead. Follow your heart. Live your life for "You".
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Free Digital Photography for Bloggers Guide – Get Your Questions Answered
Free Digital Photography for Bloggers Guide – Get Your Questions Answered
If you’ve wanted to share photos on your blog, but you weren’t sure how or don’t feel confident in your photography skills…here’s a great guide to help you get started.
This guide covers:
- Benefits of using photos on your blog.
- 9 ideas for adding photos to your blog.
- How to add & position photos on your Blogger Blog.
- How to add & position photos on your WordPress blog.
- Answers 20 common digital photography questions.
Some of the questions include (from beginner to advanced):
- How to decide on the right digital camera.
- How to decide is a picture is worth taking.
- Advantages/disadvantages of raw vs. Jpeg format photographs.
- What are the best settings for low light/nighttime conditions?
- What is hyperfocal distance?
- Time lag from the time you take a picture until it is on the memory card.
- How to avoid redeye in dim light.
- Small object close up pictures.
- How to take pictures into the sun and avoid lens flare.
…and more.
Get the answers by downloading your free 35-page guide:
Click here to get yours.(PDF)
It is a PDF document and you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software to view it. If you don't have this software, you can get it here.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Coming in 2009 — Natural Remedies!
Coming in 2009 Natural Remedies!
Take a sneak peek at what our Product Development Team has been hard at work developing! Keep an eye out for reformulated natural remedies sometime in 2009, as a few of our tried and true remedies get a natural face lift. Watkins Liniment will be one of the first to enjoy this natural transition with a natural formula that excludes F,D,& C red #40. This natural product sports a ruddier color, the natural color of the formula! Be one of the first to see the proposed product packaging for this line.
Going Green - Reducing Your Carbon Foot Print
If you've turned on the radio or television lately, you've probably heard the term Green more than once. Seems that these days everyone is going Green and reducing their carbon footprint. But what do these terms really mean? They are buzzwords that we are going to continue hearing a lot about, so let's find out what all the BUZZ is about!
Green is a shorthand phrase referring to sustaining Earth's resources. It is a vague term that can be used in many different contexts. But footprints are a bit of a different story. Think about the way you live your life. How much water does it take to support your actions each day? Do you enjoy half-hour showers or are you a get-in and get-out kind of person? Doesn't seem like it makes much of a difference, but it does add up and the longer your showers the bigger your ecological footprint. Ecological footprint, what's that? It is the amount of water and food needed to meet your daily needs throughout your lifetime. Now, what about your carbon footprint? This is another term we hear about almost on a daily basis. What it boils down to is really very simple, it is the amount of energy you consume to conduct your life. Imagine how much electricity, natural gas, and gasoline you use to run your home, power your car and even get that morning bowl of cereal to your table. It all adds up and just a few small steps can help to reduce it.
We can go into an in depth discussion about footprints and being Green, but lets focus on carbon footprints.
Your carbon footprint is the amount of energy you use to live day-to-day. By reducing your footprint, not only are you conserving energy and the planet, but you are also saving money. Checkout these simple carbon footprint reducers…who knew cutting your carbon footprint could also save you money?
- Turn off televisions, stereos, home theater systems, and other electronics when not in use. Try this: plug your televisions and other home theater electronics in a power strip with an on/off switch. When you turn your television and other electronics off for the night, flip the switch on the power strip and totally eliminate wasted power.
- Save over 50% on your homes lighting cost when you replace a standard incandescent bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb. They last longer too!
- Always wash clothes in cold water. Not only does this preserve the color longer, it saves you money and conserves energy.
- Use your consumer power! Support companies that are making an effort to improve communities and the environment through Greener manufacturing practices, charitable support, and product offerings that are safe for your family and the environment. Watkins offers a full line of natural, eco-friendly spices and extracts, personal care and home care.
Shop for Watkins Natural Products
http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
History of Watkins Products
Watkins was founded in 1868 by J.R. Watkins. That’s 140 years ago. In 1868, the Civil War had just ended and was a recent memory to everyone at the time. Andrew Johnson was President of the United States taking over from Abraham Lincoln who was recently assassinated. A few things that did not exist yet include the telephone, the light bulb, airplanes, and the Suez and Panama Canals. There were just 37 states in the union and they were all in the same time zone since there was only one time zone. General George Custer and Geronimo were still alive and well. And J.R. Watkins, living in Plainview, Minnesota had a dream, a recipe, and a kitchen where he created Watkins Red Liniment.His Watkins Red Liniment launched a company that has created careers for hundreds of thousands of Watkins men and women over the years. In 1869, J.R. Watkins established America’s first Money-Back Guarantee. He put a Trial-Mark on the Liniment Bottles and told customers that they could use the product down to that line and if they didn’t like it, he’d give them their money back.
By 1885 the production of Liniment had outgrown his home and the town of Plainview, so he moved the company to the booming lumber town of Winona, Minnesota, which boasted five railroads and was already an important port on the Mississippi River. In Winona, Watkins incorporated his company as the J. R. Watkins Medical Company. The company expanded its product line to include products such as Petro-Carbo Salve, Vanilla, Black Pepper, and Cinnamon. By 1915 Watkins was the largest direct selling company in the world and had the majority of the spice and extract market for decades.
For 140 years, Watkins has been America’s pioneer in natural living, utilizing the finest natural ingredients in our product line from apothecary to spices. Since the beginning, Watkins specialized in home remedies using natural botanicals—like camphor, menthol and herbs—to help people feel better and live healthy lives.
To this day, Watkins adheres strictly to the same quality standards set forth by J.R. Watkins. With our J.R. Watkins Natural Apothecary line of natural personal care, we use only natural, environmentally friendly ingredients from renewable resources, avoiding chemicals like parabens, sulfates, phthalates.
Watkins now aims to make household chores a little easier and environmentally friendly, with our newest line of natural home care products - J.R. Watkins Natural Home Care - that are safe for your home and family. A re-introduction of our way to clean, playing our part in the way to green living.
Do you remember how wonderful your Grandmother’s cooking was? And your Great Grandmother’s cooking also? The traditional home-cooked meal by our ancestors were almost always cooked with Watkins Products, almost exclusively. That, and a pinch of love is what made those old-time traditional home-cooked meals so delicious and wonderful! Our Watkins products are what almost everyone used up until the 1950’s. When people think fondly back at all those wonderful meals, Grandma’s wonderful cookies, Great Aunt Mabel’s amazing roast they are thinking fondly of how wonderful Watkins products are!
So spread the word and don’t forget how special Watkins Products really are. Why do you think so many great people are involved with Watkins? Not just the wonderful income opportunity and the great products - but also the great family values and traditions that are synonymous with Watkins.
Since its beginnings, Watkins has been family owned and operated. J. R. Watkins’ descendants—Watkins and Kings—guided the company through its first 110 years. In 1978 Irwin L. Jacobs purchased Watkins, and the Jacobs family continues the Watkins’ tradition of manufacturing the highest quality products and providing outstanding service that exceeds expectations.
Watkins commitment to natural ingredients, sustainability and respect for the environment and the community is their heritage. And as they learn and grow with consumers, they continue to meet customer’s needs for a clean, natural, healthier lifestyle.
Become a part of Watkins' history today! Become a Watkins Associate and begin building your home-based business. As a member of the Summit Group you gain access to training and years of knowledge that will lead you to a profitable business. Join now or get more details at http://www.vanillasage.com
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Watkins Good Tastings Event/Party Plan Changing to Living Naturally
Begining January 2009 the Good Tastings Event/Party Plan is changing its name to Living Naturally Not only is the Good Tastings program getting a new name and a new look, it is getting some new assortments and materials.
Available January 2009
88009 US/88010 Canada Living Naturally Upgrade Assortment
$69.95 USD/$81.95 CDN (100 pts) includes:
Master Catalogs
Customer Order Forms
Recap Forms
Invitation Postcards
Training Manual
Organic Vanilla
Organic Pepper
Organic Cinnamon
Organic Chicken Seasoning
Mango Body Cream
Berry Charming Lip Tint
Peppermint Foot Cream
Lemon Lotion
Aloe & Green Tea All Purpose Cleaner
Lemon Hand Soap
Traditional Favorites
88011 US/88012 Canada Get the Party Started Pack $36.00 USD/$38.00 CDN (36 pts) includes:
Good Tastings Bread Mix (4)
Garlic & Parsley Grapeseed Oil
Invitation Postcards (2 packs)
Customer Order Forms
Recap Forms
Monthly Highlights Catalogs (10 each)
88020 Traditional Favorites Dips Sampler $7.99/$8.99
Salsa & Sour Cream Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Cucumber & Dill Dip Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Crab Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Chicken Soup Bases Samples (4)
88021 Heat it Up Dip Sampler $7.99/$8.99
Blazin' Cajun Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Bacon & Horseradish Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Tomato & Horseradish Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Onion Soup Base Samples (4)
88022 Cool it Down Dip Sampler $7.99/$8.99
Garlic & Dill Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Garden Vegetable Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Bacon & Cheddar Snack & Dip Seasoning Samples (4)
Beef Soup Base Samples (4)
Become a Watkins Associate and start Living Naturally!
http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
How to Grow Your Business through Sponsoring
How to Grow Your Business through Sponsoring
The key to success and the only way to grow your business is to constantly sponsor and introduce fresh faces to Watkins. The day you stop talking to new people is the day your business stops growing. As a matter of fact, business never maintains in this industry — you move forward or you slide back. A strong business needs width (people you personally sponsor) and depth (people sponsored by your downline). Setting the example for those on your team and leading the pack is key to your success in duplication. Never rely on your downline to carry your business.
Here are some key rules to be cognizant of as you sponsor and grow your business, to ensure you continue to advance.
Rule #1: Sponsor in numbers. There is security in numbers. People come and go. Some stay a long time, others a short time. Some perform higher and others lower than you expect. Some will, some won't, so what. NEXT! The more you have to work with, the better.
Rule #2: Balance. Balance comes from having enough personal recruits (width) to insure you against the stellar performance of one person in your business. Don't rely on one or two "stars" to produce volume and advance you on the compensation plan and keep you there. The more people you develop, the higher you advance on the compensation plan.
Rule #3: Focus on Business Builders. As you continue to recruit new members into your team, look for the people with a desire to sponsor and advance on the compensation plan. Those interested in moving up the ranks quickly. The best way to build a strong business is to surround yourself with the best people that you can find. Raise your expectations and business builders will come. Make sure you sell the business and the potential it has to change lives. Don't just focus on the discount.
Business prospects can be found anywhere — expand your reach. Plug into business and professional associations, wellness centers, medical suites, fitness centers, and spas. Fill your calendar with activities that ensure you're meeting prospects and promoting your #1 product - the Watkins business opportunity.
From Watkins Incorporated
If you would like to join my Watkins team of associates, purchase products at a discount, and share our quality products and life-changing business opportunity with others, find out more and sign up at Watkins Home-Based Business
The key to success and the only way to grow your business is to constantly sponsor and introduce fresh faces to Watkins. The day you stop talking to new people is the day your business stops growing. As a matter of fact, business never maintains in this industry — you move forward or you slide back. A strong business needs width (people you personally sponsor) and depth (people sponsored by your downline). Setting the example for those on your team and leading the pack is key to your success in duplication. Never rely on your downline to carry your business.
Here are some key rules to be cognizant of as you sponsor and grow your business, to ensure you continue to advance.
Rule #1: Sponsor in numbers. There is security in numbers. People come and go. Some stay a long time, others a short time. Some perform higher and others lower than you expect. Some will, some won't, so what. NEXT! The more you have to work with, the better.
Rule #2: Balance. Balance comes from having enough personal recruits (width) to insure you against the stellar performance of one person in your business. Don't rely on one or two "stars" to produce volume and advance you on the compensation plan and keep you there. The more people you develop, the higher you advance on the compensation plan.
Rule #3: Focus on Business Builders. As you continue to recruit new members into your team, look for the people with a desire to sponsor and advance on the compensation plan. Those interested in moving up the ranks quickly. The best way to build a strong business is to surround yourself with the best people that you can find. Raise your expectations and business builders will come. Make sure you sell the business and the potential it has to change lives. Don't just focus on the discount.
Business prospects can be found anywhere — expand your reach. Plug into business and professional associations, wellness centers, medical suites, fitness centers, and spas. Fill your calendar with activities that ensure you're meeting prospects and promoting your #1 product - the Watkins business opportunity.
From Watkins Incorporated
If you would like to join my Watkins team of associates, purchase products at a discount, and share our quality products and life-changing business opportunity with others, find out more and sign up at Watkins Home-Based Business
New Watkins 2009 Master Catalog Available Now
The new Watkins 2009 Master Catalog is available now.This beautiful 48 page catalog features on the cover Simply Sweet Cinnamon Strawberry Shortcakes. You'll find many delicious recipes and product tips.
From Watkins award-winning vanilla and cinnamon to health and pain remedies, all-natural lotions and creams, and Watkins new line of green cleaning products, this 2009 Watkins catalog will delight products users across North America.
If you would like to receive a free Watkins catalog or learn more about the Watkins home-based business opportunity, request your free catalog and visit my business information web site.
For information about both product specials and our home-based business opportunity visit EveryDayNecessities.com
Friday, December 05, 2008
Watkins December Specials
Watkins December Sales Specials
Shop at http://www.notjustvanilla.com
View complete Online Catalog or choose Monthly Specials on side menu.
You may also call 1-800-928-5467 (1-800-WATKINS) to place an order. Please give my name and ID#, Eleisia Whitney 335001, as your Watkins Associate.
Stock up now for holiday baking, entertaining, and gift giving! Watkins recommends you order by December 9th for guaranteed "before Christmas" delivery.
December's prize is a jar of Menthol Camphor Ointment (known as Medicated Ointment in Canada), helps relieve that stuffed-up, congested feeling of a chest cold and helps to suppress the cough. Provides temporary pain relief from backache, strains, sprains, and arthritis. Place an order this month and I will choose one customer's name at random and announce on my web site the first day of next month. I will also email the winner for mailing instructions.
November's winner is Brenda from Montana. She won a Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix, a Shortbread Cookie Mix, a jar of Cinna-Cream Sprinkles, a Cookie Sprinkles set, and a Cookies for Santa plate.
US and Canadian Catalogs are available at http://www.notjustvanilla.com
Watkins Seasonal Favorites Holiday Gifts are now available! You'll find these products under Gifts on the menu.
US Prices Shown - Canadian Prices at online catalog
01007 Double Strength Imitation Clear Vanilla Extract, 11 fl oz - Save $1.00
Regularly $9.99 - Special $8.99
Dessert and Frosting Mixes
21012 Banana
21013 Butterscotch
21014 Chocolate
21015 Coconut
21016 Lemon
21019 Vanilla
Regularly $5.99 - Special $5.49 each
21017 Rice Pudding
Regularly $6.49 - Special $5.99
21018 Tapioca
Regularly $7.49 - Special $6.99
Gourmet Extracts and Flavorings, 2 fl oz
21392 Butter
21398 Chocolate
21385 Maple
21388 Peppermint
21391 Rum
21375 Vanilla (Clear)
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
21390 Vanilla (Original Double Strength)
Regularly $5.49 - Special $5.09
21364 Caramel
Regularly $5.99 - Special $5.59
01039 Baking Powder
$3.99 or just $1.99 with the purchase of one Cooking Spray (#01040) and one Baking Cocoa (#01038)!
01169 Steak Sauce
Regularly $6.99 - Special $6.29
01168 Meat Magic
Regularly $8.99 - Special $8.29
01056 Inferno Sauce
Regularly $8.49 - Special $7.99
01057 Tropical Salsa
Regularly $8.49 - Special $7.99
01058 Calypso Hot Pepper Sauce
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.49
01046 Jalapeno Hot Pepper Sauce
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.49
21173 Roasted Turkey Gourmet Gravy Mix
Regularly $8.49 - Special $7.79
USDA Certified 100% Organic Spices
00503 Basil
00591 Chili Powder
00598 Cinnamon
00592 Cumin
00505 Curry Powder
00509 Dill
00500 Garlic Powder
00595 Ginger
00596 Mustard (dry)
00501 Onion Powder
00594 Oregano
00593 Paprika
00508 Parsley
00504 Rosemary
00506 Sage
00502 Thyme
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
00507 Cloves (ground)
Regularly $5.99 - Special $5.59
00589 Nutmeg
Regularly $6.49 - Special $6.09
USDA Certified Organic Seasonings
00510 Beef Seasoning
00511 Chicken Seasoning
Regularly $5.99 - Special $5.59 each
00515 Spice Rack
Regularly $21.99 or just $11.99 with the purchase of 12 Organic Spices!
01141 Purest Granulated Black Pepper, 12 oz/340 g - All-Natural - Save $1.00
Regularly $15.49 - Special $14.49
All-Natural Gourmet Peppers and Blends
02005 Lemon Pepper
02006 Onion and Garlic Pepper
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
Gourmet Seasoning Blends
01960 All-Purpose Seasoning
01963 Chicken Seasoning
01972 Grill Seasoning
01973 Ground Beef Seasoning
01977 Omelet and Souffle Seasoning
01981 Poultry Seasoning
01985 Soup and Vegetable Seasoning
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.59 each
Gourmet Snack and Dip Seasonings
02050 Bacon and Cheddar
02051 Bacon and Horseradish
02068 Bacon and Onion
02069 Blazin Cajun
02054 Crab
02055 Cucumber and Dill
02057 Garlic and Dill
02062 Salsa and Sour Cream
02065 Tomato and Horseradish
Regularly $8.79 - Special $7.99 each
05206 Special Edition Collectors Nutmeg - Save $3.00
Regularly $12.99 - Special $9.99
Limited Edition Extracts, 2 fl oz
05407 Anise
05405 Hazelnut
05539 Irish Cream
$4.99 each or buy all three at $4.59 each and save $1.20!
Food Colors
05807 Blue
05814 Green
05804 Red
05809 Yellow
$2.99 each or buy green, red, and yellow, get blue for only $1.49!
Natural Body Creams - Save $1.50
40507 Aloe and Green Tea
40508 Lavender
40509 Lemon Cream
40516 Mango
40510 Vanilla
Regularly $7.99 - Special $6.49 each
Natural Body Oils, 2 fl oz - Save $1.00
20505 Aloe and Green Tea
20514 Lavender
20515 Lemon
20506 Mango
Regularly $5.99 - Special $4.99 each
20553 Head to Toe Kit
Regularly $15.99 - Special $14.99
Natural Hand and Body Lotions, 11 fl oz - Save $1
20470 Aloe and Green Tea
20486 Lavender
20487 Lemon Cream
20520 Mango
20474 Vanilla
Regularly $9.99 - Special $8.99 each
20478 Rejuvenating Foot Cream - Save $1.00
Regularly $10.99 - Special $9.99
20479 Smoothing Foot Scrub - Save $1.00
Regularly $10.00 - Special $9.99
20225 Pucker Up Two Pack
Regularly $9.98 - Special $7.99
22345 Hand Care Gift Pack
Regularly $24.97 - Special $22.99
20534 Total Body Gift Pack
Regularly $23.97 - Special Price $21.99
Dry Oil Body Mists
10472 Aloe and Green Tea
10476 Vanilla
Regularly $8.99 - Special $8.49 each
10484 Ultra-Rich Hand Cream
Regularly $6.49 - Special $5.99
02358 Menthol Camphor Ointment
Regularly $8.99 - Special $8.49
60491 Icy Blue Ointment
Regularly $4.99 - Special $4.49
60492 Analgesic Balm
Regularly $5.99 - Special $5.49
02317 Watkins Liniment - Save $2.00, 11 fl oz
Regularly $11.99 - Special $9.99
20498 2 oz. White Cream Liniment
$5.99 or just $2.49 with purchase of 11 fl. oz. Watkins Liniment (#02317)!
02350 Pain Relief Spray - Save $1.00
Regularly $9.99 - Special $8.99
02268 Fruit/Veggie Complex - Save $1.00
Regularly $17.99 - Special $16.99
02272 Rezist Plus - Save $1.00
Regularly $19.99 - Special $18.99
02270 Skin, Hair and Nails - Save $1.00
Regularly $14.99 - Special $13.99
02269 Eye Care Formula - Save $1.00
Regularly $13.99 - Special $12.99
20536 Pomegranate Spice Sink Set - Save $1.00
Regularly $17.99 - Special $16.99
Natural Room Spray
16724 Orange Citrus
$5.99 or just $2.99 with the purchase of one each of Orange Citrus Product: (#16784, #16774, and #13053)
Natural Room Fresheners
16721 Aloe and Green Tea
16723 Lavender
16722 Lemon
Regularly $5.99 - Special $5.49 each
Many other products are highlighted in the December Sales and Promotions Catalog and December Specials Online.
Holiday Cooking Helplines
Crisco Pie Hotline: (877) 367-7438
Butterball Turkey Talk-Line: (800) BUTTERBALL or www.butterball.com
Empire kosher poultry customer hot line: (717) 436-7055 or www.empirekosher.com/index.htm
Fleischmann's Yeast Baker's Help Line: (800) 777-4959 or www.breadworld.com
Foster Farms Turkey Helpline: (800) 255-7227 or www.fosterfarms.com
General Mills: (800) 248-7310
King Arthur Flour Co.'s Bakers Hotline: (802) 649-3717 or e-mail questions to bakers@kingarthurflour.com
Nestle Toll House Baking Information Line: (800) 637-8537
Ocean Spray consumer help line: (800) 662-3263 or www.oceanspray.com
Perdue consumer help line: (800) 4PERDUE or www.perdue.com
Reynolds Turkey Tips Hotline: (800) 745-4000 or http://www.reynoldskitchens.com/
Happy Holiday Shopping!
Eleisia Whitney
Watkins Independent Associate #335001
Shop at http://www.NotJustVanilla.com
http://www.everydaynecessities.com
Start a Watkins Home-Based Business and receive a $20 gift certificate from me! Business details at www.vanillasage.com
Building for Long-Term Success
Building for Long-Term Success
How to Build a Strong Organization for Long-Term Success
· Understand, manage, and exceed the expectations that others have for their business. Don’t trade short-term gain for long-term wealth by inflating what’s possible. Let others know that they can expect to succeed if they are willing to do the work. Create the expectation of growth, not maintenance.
· Build strong relationships with all your team members – customers and team builders. You’ll see team builders remain committed to their goals, develop long-term customers who order each month, and see business builders emerge from your pool of loyal customers.
· Discover the needs and wants of each person you encounter. First seek to know what they want, then help them to get it. Some of the most successful leaders go so far as to maintain a profile of each new recruit, detailing personalities, desires, and personal information.
· Strive to help others get off to a fast start, which will help them withstand the onslaught of external negative force. Help each new team member develop three short stories: Why this company? Why these products? Why this business system?
· Study your retention data, which holds clues to how you can improve.
· Make a point to reward longtime customers and team builders to foster an environment of loyalty.
Excerpts from Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts
How to Build a Strong Organization for Long-Term Success
· Understand, manage, and exceed the expectations that others have for their business. Don’t trade short-term gain for long-term wealth by inflating what’s possible. Let others know that they can expect to succeed if they are willing to do the work. Create the expectation of growth, not maintenance.
· Build strong relationships with all your team members – customers and team builders. You’ll see team builders remain committed to their goals, develop long-term customers who order each month, and see business builders emerge from your pool of loyal customers.
· Discover the needs and wants of each person you encounter. First seek to know what they want, then help them to get it. Some of the most successful leaders go so far as to maintain a profile of each new recruit, detailing personalities, desires, and personal information.
· Strive to help others get off to a fast start, which will help them withstand the onslaught of external negative force. Help each new team member develop three short stories: Why this company? Why these products? Why this business system?
· Study your retention data, which holds clues to how you can improve.
· Make a point to reward longtime customers and team builders to foster an environment of loyalty.
Excerpts from Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Watkins - Strength During Challenging Times
The following is a recent letter from Watkins president regarding Watkins and the economy.
In this time of great economic uncertainty, I wanted to encourage you to leverage all that Watkins offers to help make life a little bit better for everyone. Whether it's our natural comfort products or our opportunity to build a Watkins business, Watkins offers something that can positively impact everyone's lives during these challenging times.
Everyday we are bombarded with news of the great economic challenges before us. Although we are without question facing a serious global recession, we can all take comfort in the fact that Watkins products and business opportunity have stood the test of time. Throughout our incredible brand history, which has included many recessions, several World Wars, and the Great Depression, Watkins has remained relevant and strong. Even during this challenging year when consumers have been spending considerably less, Watkins' sales are on track to finish up approximately 15% over 2007, and our sponsoring of new Associates is up approximately 5%.
As was once said, "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste," and today's economic crisis is no exception. People from all walks of life are feeling financial pressures and are looking for ways to supplement their income. What better way is there to develop additional income than to start a Watkins business based on high value, high quality products that are timeless? Although today's consumers are spending less, recent data shows that the demand for natural and healthier products is continuing to rise even in this economy. More importantly, even though the consumer is cutting back on the bigger purchases, they still need to treat themselves to life's little necessities and indulgences, and they will still maintain the tradition of gift giving. Watkins offers all these at affordable prices. Also, the return to healthier cooking at home is pushing up demand for our organic spices and extracts, and we are seeing a substantial increase in these product lines.
As we all work with our friends and loved ones to manage our lives through these challenging economic times, we can take comfort in the enduring strength of Watkins. In our 140 year history, the world has faced countless obstacles considerably more challenging than today's economic uncertainty. Fortunately, with some freshly baked cookies made with Watkins Original Vanilla, along with a bit of Watkins Liniment to ease our aches and pains, and some Watkins Natural Hand Lotion to get us through winter, we can all get through these challenging economic times. Once the economy has settled down, which it will, we will be that much more thankful that Watkins helped us get through another challenging time in our history.
Eleisia
http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
In this time of great economic uncertainty, I wanted to encourage you to leverage all that Watkins offers to help make life a little bit better for everyone. Whether it's our natural comfort products or our opportunity to build a Watkins business, Watkins offers something that can positively impact everyone's lives during these challenging times.
Everyday we are bombarded with news of the great economic challenges before us. Although we are without question facing a serious global recession, we can all take comfort in the fact that Watkins products and business opportunity have stood the test of time. Throughout our incredible brand history, which has included many recessions, several World Wars, and the Great Depression, Watkins has remained relevant and strong. Even during this challenging year when consumers have been spending considerably less, Watkins' sales are on track to finish up approximately 15% over 2007, and our sponsoring of new Associates is up approximately 5%.
As was once said, "a crisis is a terrible thing to waste," and today's economic crisis is no exception. People from all walks of life are feeling financial pressures and are looking for ways to supplement their income. What better way is there to develop additional income than to start a Watkins business based on high value, high quality products that are timeless? Although today's consumers are spending less, recent data shows that the demand for natural and healthier products is continuing to rise even in this economy. More importantly, even though the consumer is cutting back on the bigger purchases, they still need to treat themselves to life's little necessities and indulgences, and they will still maintain the tradition of gift giving. Watkins offers all these at affordable prices. Also, the return to healthier cooking at home is pushing up demand for our organic spices and extracts, and we are seeing a substantial increase in these product lines.
As we all work with our friends and loved ones to manage our lives through these challenging economic times, we can take comfort in the enduring strength of Watkins. In our 140 year history, the world has faced countless obstacles considerably more challenging than today's economic uncertainty. Fortunately, with some freshly baked cookies made with Watkins Original Vanilla, along with a bit of Watkins Liniment to ease our aches and pains, and some Watkins Natural Hand Lotion to get us through winter, we can all get through these challenging economic times. Once the economy has settled down, which it will, we will be that much more thankful that Watkins helped us get through another challenging time in our history.
Eleisia
http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Million Dollar Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
Carolyn Gurtz of Maryland recently won Pillsbury's annual million dollar prize for baking with her innovative peanut butter cookie recipe.This wonderful recipe that Carolyn calls her Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies, is described by Carolyn as "crunchy and sweet on the outside, creamy on the inside."
How does a peanut butter cookie become creamy on the inside while staying crunchy on the outside? Carolyn had a wonderful idea of wrapping Pillsbury's cookie dough around a ball of creamy peanut butter mixed with powdered sugar. The cookie is rolled in a mixture of granulated sugar, Watkins Cinnamon and chopped dry roasted peanuts before baking.
I recommend that you use Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon with the sugar and peanuts when making the coating for the cookies. Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon contains no foreign matter or fillers and has a minimum of 2% natural essential oil that gives it a wonderfully sweet flavor.
Million Dollar Peanut Butter Cookies
1/4 cup Fisher Dry Roasted peanuts, finely chopped
1/4 cup Domino or C&H Granulated Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon
1/2 cup JIF Creamy Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Domino or C&H Confectioners Powdered Sugar
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury Create 'n Bake refrigerated peanut butter cookies, well chilled
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. In small bowl, mix chopped peanuts, granulated sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
2. In another small bowl, stir peanut butter and powdered sugar until completely blended. Shape mixture into 24 (1-inch) balls.
3. Cut roll of cookie dough into 12 slices. Cut each slice in half crosswise to make 24 pieces; flatten slightly. Shape 1 cookie dough piece around 1 peanut butter ball, covering completely. repeat with remaining dough and balls.
4. Roll each covered ball of cookie cough in peanut mixture; gently pat mixture completely onto balls. On ungreased large cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart. Spray bottom of drinking glass with Watkins Cooking spray; press into remaining peanut butter mixture. Flatten each ball to 1/2 inch thickness with bottom of glass. Sprinkle any remaining peanut mixture evenly on tops of cookies; gently press into dough.
5. Bake 7 to 12 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
I couldn't find Pillsbury Create 'n Bake refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough at my grocery store so I used homemade peanut butter cookie dough and the cookies tasted yummy!
Purchase Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Purest Ground Cinnamon - 6 oz/170 g -#01115
http://www.watkinsonline.com/productdetail.cfm?Product=01115&gcatalogLocale=USA&ECredit=335001
How does a peanut butter cookie become creamy on the inside while staying crunchy on the outside? Carolyn had a wonderful idea of wrapping Pillsbury's cookie dough around a ball of creamy peanut butter mixed with powdered sugar. The cookie is rolled in a mixture of granulated sugar, Watkins Cinnamon and chopped dry roasted peanuts before baking.
I recommend that you use Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon with the sugar and peanuts when making the coating for the cookies. Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon contains no foreign matter or fillers and has a minimum of 2% natural essential oil that gives it a wonderfully sweet flavor.
Million Dollar Peanut Butter Cookies
1/4 cup Fisher Dry Roasted peanuts, finely chopped
1/4 cup Domino or C&H Granulated Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon
1/2 cup JIF Creamy Peanut Butter
1/2 cup Domino or C&H Confectioners Powdered Sugar
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury Create 'n Bake refrigerated peanut butter cookies, well chilled
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F. In small bowl, mix chopped peanuts, granulated sugar and cinnamon; set aside.
2. In another small bowl, stir peanut butter and powdered sugar until completely blended. Shape mixture into 24 (1-inch) balls.
3. Cut roll of cookie dough into 12 slices. Cut each slice in half crosswise to make 24 pieces; flatten slightly. Shape 1 cookie dough piece around 1 peanut butter ball, covering completely. repeat with remaining dough and balls.
4. Roll each covered ball of cookie cough in peanut mixture; gently pat mixture completely onto balls. On ungreased large cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart. Spray bottom of drinking glass with Watkins Cooking spray; press into remaining peanut butter mixture. Flatten each ball to 1/2 inch thickness with bottom of glass. Sprinkle any remaining peanut mixture evenly on tops of cookies; gently press into dough.
5. Bake 7 to 12 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
I couldn't find Pillsbury Create 'n Bake refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough at my grocery store so I used homemade peanut butter cookie dough and the cookies tasted yummy!
Purchase Watkins Pure Ground Cinnamon at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Purest Ground Cinnamon - 6 oz/170 g -#01115
http://www.watkinsonline.com/productdetail.cfm?Product=01115&gcatalogLocale=USA&ECredit=335001
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Around the Kitchen Table Newsletter - November 2008 Issue
Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table!
Great news! Watkins Natural Personal Care product line has earned the seal of approval from the Natural Products Association! Read more in this newsletter.
Have you started planning for the holidays - activities and parties, baking, gift giving? Check your pantry and cupboards for cooking ingredients, vanilla and other extracts, cinnamon, nutmeg, snack and dip mixes, soup bases, dessert mixes, sauces, herbs and spices.
Vanilla, Black Pepper, and Cinnamon
Watkins Original Double-Strength Vanilla in the 11 fl oz/325 ml bottle is on sale for $2 off.
Watkins Purest Granulated Black Pepper in the 6 oz/170 g tin is on sale for $1 off the regular price. This granulated pepper (not ground) is the most flavorful pepper you can find on the market today.
Watkins Purest Ground Cinnamon has been a best seller for more than 100 years! The 6 oz/170 g tin is on sale for $1 off!
Have you seen our new personal care gift sets?
Are you using natural cleaning products that are safe for your home and your family?
Watkins brings you all of these quality products. Shop our November product specials and our Seasonal Favorites Holiday products. You'll find them under Gifts and Monthly Specials at my Watkins Online Catalog.
Recipes this month include Chesapeake Appetizer Spread, Caramel Apple Dip, Crockpot Chicken and Mushrooms, Honey-Rosemary Chicken with Yukon Gold Potatoes, Oatmeal Apple Crisp, Glazed Apple Bars, Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust, Graham Cracker Crust, Pumpkin and Apple Crisp
Enter this month's contest. Read this issue and find out what you could win!
Have you seen our new personal care gift sets?
Are you using natural cleaning products that are safe for your home and your family?
Watkins brings you all of these quality products. Shop our November product specials and our Seasonal Favorites Holiday products. You'll find them under Gifts and Monthly Specials at my Watkins Online Catalog.
Recipes this month include Chesapeake Appetizer Spread, Caramel Apple Dip, Crockpot Chicken and Mushrooms, Honey-Rosemary Chicken with Yukon Gold Potatoes, Oatmeal Apple Crisp, Glazed Apple Bars, Ginger Pumpkin Pie with Graham Cracker Crust, Graham Cracker Crust, Pumpkin and Apple Crisp
Enter this month's contest. Read this issue and find out what you could win!
Read this issue http://www.everydaynecessities.com/november1-08newsletter.htm
Make your house a Watkins home.
Until next issue,
Make your house a Watkins home.
Until next issue,
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Herbed Turkey
Herbed Turkey
• 1 (12 lb) whole turkey
• 1/4 cup Watkins Original Grapeseed Oil
• 2 tbsp Watkins Garlic Powder
• 2 tsp Watkins Basil
• 1 tsp Watkins Sage
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp Watkins Black Pepper
Preheat oven to 375° F. Clean turkey (discard giblets or cook for gravy) and place in a roasting pan.
In a small bowl, combine oil, garlic powder, basil, sage, salt and pepper. Using a basting brush, apply the mixture to turkey.
Bake for 2 to 2 ½ hours, or until the internal temperature of the thickest part of the thigh measures 160º F.
Remove bird from oven, and allow to stand for about 30 minutes, internal temperature will rise.
Shop for Watkins Grapeseed Oil and Herbs at www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
J R Watkins Natural Apothecary Line Earns NPA Certification
This highly regarded seal represents the national standard for truly natural products and is carried by only two other brands. This seal makes it easier for your customers to identify quality natural products.
J R Watkins Natural Apothecary packaging will be updated within the next few months. The first products approved by the NPA include our Natural Apothecary Lemon Cream Body Cream and Vanilla Body Cream.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Watkins Home Business Opportunity
Let me tell you a little about Watkins and myself.
I grew up on a farm and my mom, grandmother, and aunts used Watkins vanilla and other extracts, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, and salves. Several years later after working as a teacher and office supervisor I learned that I could become a Watkins associate and buy products at a 25% discount and also sell the products and receive a 25% commission, I joined immediately.
I'm starting my sixth year with Watkins and am just as excited today about the products my family and I use in our home and the business opportunity as I was the day I showed my first catalog!
Through the years Watkins has expanded their product line to include over 350 superior quality products. They listen to the needs of their associates and customers and develop products that enhance everyone's lifestyle. This year Watkins introduced all-natural plant based personal care products and cleaning products that won't harm you, your family, or the environment. Watkins also offers 100% organic vanilla, herbs, and spices. As with the very first product J. R. Watkins introduced to farmers on the prairie 140 years ago, each of today's products comes with a 100% money back guarantee.
If you are considering the Watkins home business for yourself, I would like to sponsor you. Since it is important for you to use Watkins products in your home to experience their quality and goodness, I will give you a $20 Watkins gift certificate if you join Watkins with me as your sponsor.
If you would like to view Watkins Summit Group home business information, starter assortments, and enrollment informaton please go to my web site http://www.vanillasage.com
When you join with me as your sponsor you will become a member of the Summit Group and gain access to an extensive online training web site, a free recruiting web site, messsage boards, and weekly conference calls.
Sign up at the business information web site mentioned above or at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney under Join Us - As an Associate, or call the Membership Line 800-928-5467 and give our name and ID# 335001 as your sponsor.
If you have any questions about starting a Watkins Home Business or our products do not hesitate to ask. Send me an email. eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
Join now and share our wonderful vanilla, extracts, spices, herbs, lotions, and salves with your friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, and business associates to make their holiday baking and gift giving the best!
I would like to sponsor you!
Eleisia Whitney
Watkins Independent Manager #335001
Gourmet Ingredients, Remedies, Home Care
Order Products http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Or call 1-800-928-5467 or 1-800-WATKINS and give ID# 335001
Start a Home-Based Business for $39.95
Ask me how! http://www.vanillasage.com
Watkins Summit Group
Having Fun. Helping Friends.
Creating Wealth. Reaching Dreams
I grew up on a farm and my mom, grandmother, and aunts used Watkins vanilla and other extracts, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, and salves. Several years later after working as a teacher and office supervisor I learned that I could become a Watkins associate and buy products at a 25% discount and also sell the products and receive a 25% commission, I joined immediately.
I'm starting my sixth year with Watkins and am just as excited today about the products my family and I use in our home and the business opportunity as I was the day I showed my first catalog!
Through the years Watkins has expanded their product line to include over 350 superior quality products. They listen to the needs of their associates and customers and develop products that enhance everyone's lifestyle. This year Watkins introduced all-natural plant based personal care products and cleaning products that won't harm you, your family, or the environment. Watkins also offers 100% organic vanilla, herbs, and spices. As with the very first product J. R. Watkins introduced to farmers on the prairie 140 years ago, each of today's products comes with a 100% money back guarantee.
If you are considering the Watkins home business for yourself, I would like to sponsor you. Since it is important for you to use Watkins products in your home to experience their quality and goodness, I will give you a $20 Watkins gift certificate if you join Watkins with me as your sponsor.
If you would like to view Watkins Summit Group home business information, starter assortments, and enrollment informaton please go to my web site http://www.vanillasage.com
When you join with me as your sponsor you will become a member of the Summit Group and gain access to an extensive online training web site, a free recruiting web site, messsage boards, and weekly conference calls.
Sign up at the business information web site mentioned above or at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney under Join Us - As an Associate, or call the Membership Line 800-928-5467 and give our name and ID# 335001 as your sponsor.
If you have any questions about starting a Watkins Home Business or our products do not hesitate to ask. Send me an email. eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com
Join now and share our wonderful vanilla, extracts, spices, herbs, lotions, and salves with your friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, and business associates to make their holiday baking and gift giving the best!
I would like to sponsor you!
Eleisia Whitney
Watkins Independent Manager #335001
Gourmet Ingredients, Remedies, Home Care
Order Products http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Or call 1-800-928-5467 or 1-800-WATKINS and give ID# 335001
Start a Home-Based Business for $39.95
Ask me how! http://www.vanillasage.com
Watkins Summit Group
Having Fun. Helping Friends.
Creating Wealth. Reaching Dreams
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Watkins Soup and Gravy Bases
Soup Bases - Versatile!
Watkins Soup and Gravy bases are among the products on sale in October. If you've never tried any of the Watkins Soup and Gravy bases, you should! They might look similar to any old can of soup, but these are NOT the same as typical condensed soup that makes one or two servings. These are dry mixes, that make up to 50 servings or more. So they are very economical.
Plus, they have so many uses for flavoring all kinds of dishes other than soup and gravy.
You can get these Soup and Gravy Base flavors:
Beef
Cheese
Chicken
Cream
Mexican
Mushroom
Onion
Six Onion
And these two Gourmet Gravy Bases:
Country
Gourmet Roasted Turkey
Additionally, Baked Potato Soup is part of this year's Seasonal Favorites line.
Here is how Watkins associates use these bases:
• I don't make much soup, so this may sound strange, but my favorite Watkins cooking products are the soup bases. I use them for so many things, sprinkling on chicken when I bake it, simmering it with rice, tossing it in with roasted potatoes. The uses are endless, and the results make the simplest dish seem like you really know what you're doing.
• I love the Chicken Soup mix! It got my kids to eat veggies after my mother-in-law used it in the cooking water.
• One of my favorite products is the Beef Soup Base. Before trying this product my children would not eat roast and after several days we would have to throw away left overs. Now we.re lucky to get one meal out of a roast with my kids.
• The Mushroom Soup Base is a huge time saver for making homemade spaghetti sauce. Instead of cooking my sauce of hours I know add a few tablespoons of Mushroom Soup Base. It thickens my sauce and adds a lovely light mushroom flavour that even my picky step-daughter can deal with.
• My single most favorite product is the onion soup. I like being able to fix a cup of good soup instantly. My favorite soup is a pack of ramen noodles (throw away their seasonings), some pepperoni (turkey is best, less fat) and two teaspoons of the onion soup. It's delicious and ready in a couple of minutes.
• I take a bag of frozen green beans or green peas and I mix in 1 Tbsp of butter/margarine, 1/2 tsp of cinnamon, 1 Tbsp splenda (or sugar if you prefer), a couple shakes of Garlic Liquid Spice, 2 Tbsp of water and 2 Tbsp of the Six Onion Soup base, then microwave for about 5 minutes, and sprinkle with Minced Green Onion right before serving.
• We have a customer whose step-dad recently had part of his tongue amputated due to cancer. Due to the chemo, his taste buds are about shot. My customer said that she needs more Beef Soup base, that she is almost out. You see, the only thing that the family found that dad will eat is our Watkins Beef Soup Base, because, it is the only thing that he can taste and he LOVES the flavor.
• I just returned from a Good Tastings party and I made a Six Onion Cheese Ball, What a hit! Everyone loved it. I have also tried the Six Onion Mashed Potatoes and are those yummy! (find recipes on www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney).
Product Tips:
• You can find other great recipes for the Soup and Gravy bases by going to www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney, then click Recipes (in the left-hand column), and use the Recipe Search box to enter the item number of a Soup or Gravy flavor (for example, 21175 for Beef or 21176 for Chicken).
• If a recipe calls for a cream soup, like cream of mushroom or cream of chicken, just whip up one of the Watkins bases according to the gravy directions, which would typically be about the same consistency as a cream-style soup.
Watkins Aloha Fruit Dip
1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1 jar (7 oz.) marshmallow cream
1 tsp. Watkins Ginger
2 tsp. Watkins Rum Extract
1/8 tsp. Watkins Orange Extract (optional)
Dash Watkins Nutmeg
Combine all ingredients and beat until smooth. Place in serving bowl and sprinkle a small amount of nutmeg on top for garnish.
Serve with assorted pieces of fresh fruit placed on cocktail picks.
Shop for Watkins Products at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
1 jar (7 oz.) marshmallow cream
1 tsp. Watkins Ginger
2 tsp. Watkins Rum Extract
1/8 tsp. Watkins Orange Extract (optional)
Dash Watkins Nutmeg
Combine all ingredients and beat until smooth. Place in serving bowl and sprinkle a small amount of nutmeg on top for garnish.
Serve with assorted pieces of fresh fruit placed on cocktail picks.
Shop for Watkins Products at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
New Seasoning Blends - Garlic Herb and Barbecue
Great news!
Our newest seasonings are available immediately!
01913 Barbecue Seasoning (2.1 oz/60 g)
01912 Garlic Herb Seasoning (1.5 oz/43 g)
$4.99 each or buy Barbecue Seasoning (01913), get Garlic Herb (01912) for $3.99!
Meet the newest members to the Natural Gourmet Seasoning Blend line! Spice up your cuisine with these convenient, pre-mixed blends. Our garlic herb blend boasts a combination of savory herbs with a splash of garlic. Use as a rub for chicken, pork, and turkey. Our new barbecue blend combines all the smoky, sweet flavors you've come to expect from a backyard barbecue. Rub generously on chicken, beef and steak - enjoy! Both offer the perfect complement to your mouth–watering beef, chicken pork or turkey recipes.
Garlic & Herb Chicken
4 chicken breasts, boneless skinless
2 tbsp/30 mL Watkins Original Grapeseed Oil
3 tsp/15 mL Watkins Garlic Herb Seasoning
Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC. Place chicken in a shallow roasting pan. Rub Watkins Original Grapeseed Oil on each chicken breast. Sprinkle with Watkins Garlic Herb Seasoning. Cover and bake for 30 to 40 minutes.
Shop at http://www.notjustvanilla.com/
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Versatile Soup Bases
Watkins Soup and Gravy bases are among the products on sale in October. If you've never tried any of the Watkins Soup and Gravy bases, you need to! They might look similar to any old can of soup, but these are NOT the same as typical condensed soup that makes one or two servings. These are dry mixes, that make up to 50 servings or more. So they are very economical. Plus, they have so many uses for flavoring all kinds of dishes other than soup and gravy.
Watkins Soup and Gravy Base flavors:
Beef
Cheese
Chicken
Cream
Mexican
Mushroom
Onion
Six Onion
And these two Gourmet Gravy Bases
Country Gourmet
Roasted Turkey
Additionally, Baked Potato Soup is part of this year's Seasonal Favorites line.
Here is how associates and cutomers use these bases:
- I don't make much soup, so this may sound strange, but my favorite Watkins cooking products are the soup bases. I use them for so many things, sprinkling on chicken when I bake it, simmering it with rice, tossing it in with roasted potatoes. The uses are endless, and the results make the simplest dish seem like you really know what you're doing.
- I love the Chicken Soup mix! It got my kids to eat veggies after my mother-in-law used it in the cooking water.
- One of my favorite products is the Beef Soup Base. Before trying this product my children would not eat roast and after several days we would have to throw away left overs. Now we're lucky to get one meal out of a roast with my kids.
- The Mushroom Soup Base is a huge time saver for making homemade speghetti sauce. Instead of cooking my sauce of hours I now add a few tablespoons of Mushroom Soup Base. It thickens my sauce and adds a lovely light mushroom flavour that even my picky step-daughter can deal with.
- My single most favorite product is the onion soup. I like being able to fix a cup of good soup instantly. My favorite soup is a pack of ramen noodles (throw away their seasonings), some pepperoni (turkey is best, less fat) and two teaspoons of the onion soup. It's delicious and ready in a couple of minutes.
- I take a bag of frozen green beans or green peas and I mix in 1 Tbsp of butter/margarine, 1/2 tsp of cinnamon, 1 Tbsp splenda (or sugar if you prefer), a couple shakes of Garlic Liquid Spice, 2 Tbsp of water and 2 Tbsp of the Six Onion Soup base, then microwave for about 5 minutes, and sprinkle with Minced Green Onion right before serving.
- We have a customer who's step-dad recently had part of his tongue amputated due to cancer. Due to the chemo, his taste buds are about shot. My customer said that she needs more Beef Soup base, that she is almost out. You see, the only thing that the family found that "dad" will eat is our Watkins Beef Soup Base, because, it is the only thing that he can taste and he LOVES the flavor.
- I just returned from a Good Tastings party and I made a Six Onion Cheese Ball, What a hit! Everyone loved it. I have also tried the Six Onion Mashed Potatoes and are those yummy! (Six Onion Cheeseball recipe). Choose Recipes - Appetizers.
- You can find other great recipes for the Soup and Gravy bases by going to Watkins Online, then click Recipes (in the left-hand column), and use the Recipe Search box to enter the item number of a Soup or Gravy flavor (for example, 21175 for Beef or 21176 for Chicken).
- If a recipe calls for a "cream" soup, like cream of mushroom or cream of chicken, just whip up one of the Watkins bases according to the "gravy" directions, which would typically be about the same consistency as a cream-style soup.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Living Naturally
These days, everyone is making a greater effort to conserve the planet's resources. Words like carbon footprint, sustainability, and Green have become common place. We are all taking a closer look at how our day-to-day activities impact the resources we leave for future generations. Watkins has been a pioneer in living naturally and we want to share with you what Living Naturally means to Watkins and more importantly what it means to you and your customers.
So what is Living Naturally to Watkins?
So what is Living Naturally to Watkins?
A way of life. Watkins is striving to be the most trusted natural products company and Living Naturally speaks to all of our product categories. From sourcing raw materials, to manufacturing, and delivery, Watkins is working toward sustainability in every aspect of our business!
What Living Naturally means to our Associates and Customers?
Living Naturally means each of our customers can expect consistent products and service at an affordable price, all with the sustainability of our planets resources in mind.
With internal expertise, we can assure you that Watkins natural products have been developed, manufactured and delivered with dedication to environmental sustainability. We have taken the burden off your shoulders so that you can make an anxiety free purchase since Watkins natural products are made in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
Watkins has been a pioneer in natural living, utilizing the finest natural ingredients since 1868. We continue our commitment to you and the environment by implementing processes that reduce waste and conserve energy.
Watkins promise is to continue our Living Naturally philosophy for generations to come.
Watkins 2008 Seasonal Favorites and Gift Giving Ideas
Each year during the fall holiday season Watkins offers their associates and customers a special assortment of products. These products are designed for holiday baking, entertaining, and gift giving.
Here is a list of products, uses, and gift ideas.
Anise Extract
Use in making holiday anise cookies or springerle cookies (one of Germany’s most famous holiday sweets).
Use in making biscotti.
Recipe at www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney under Gift Line recipes:
Crystal Cut Candy
Gift Idea
Wrap Crystal Cut Candy in cello bag and give as a gift, along with Anise Extract and recipe card. Wrap in festive cello with raffia or in a festive tin with bow.
Gift Idea
Fishermen put Anise Extract on bait to attract fish. They tell us it works like magic! Place Watkins Anise Extract, Lemon Pepper, Insect Repellent and Sun Block in a tackle box, or wrap them in netting (like a fish net) and attach to a fishing pole.
Hazelnut Extract
Add to coffee (best when extract is added to coffee grounds before brewing).
Add to iced coffee or cappuccino.
Add to whipped cream, cream cheese or whipped topping for a dessert, coffee topping or fruit/bagel spread.
Add to oatmeal.
Add to fudge and brownie recipes.
Recipes at www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney under Gift Line recipes:
· Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse
· Chocolate Truffles
· Hazelnut Toffee Crunch Pie
· Carol’s Drop Cookies
Gift Idea
Prepare truffles and give as a gift in a decorative package along with the recipe and extract.
Gift Idea
Give extract along with coffee.
Irish Cream Extract
Add to coffee (best when extract is added to coffee grounds before brewing).
Add to iced coffee or cappuccino.
Add to fudge and brownie recipes.
Add to ice cream and ice cream drinks.
Recipes at www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney under Gift Line recipes:
· Chocolate Truffles
· Irish Cream Caramels
· Irish Cream Pie
· Vanilla Custard Tarts with Irish Cream Sauce
· Carol’s Drop Cookies
Gift Idea
Prepare truffles or caramels and give as a gift in a decorative package along with the recipe and extract.
Gift Idea
Give extract along with coffee.
Seasonal Favorites Bread Mixes
The following bread mixes are simple and easy to prepare and make a great breakfast or the perfect snack for an office, class party, or a wonderful welcome to a new member of your neighborhood. Add the pumpkin butter or a compatible recipe for dip spread, along with the required Watkins ingredients, and you’ll have a lovely gift giving set.
Orange Spice Bread Mix
Gift Idea
Combine the orange spice bread mix with some ginger, rum & orange extract
with the Aloha Fruit Dip recipe www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney to use as a delicious spread. Wrap in a festive tea towel.
Apple Spice Bread Mix
Gift Idea
Give Apple Spice Bread Mix along with Watkins Cinnamon.
Pumpkin Bread Mix
Gift Idea
Pair this delightful bread with Watkins Cinnamon and Nutmeg.
Snickerdoodles Cookie Mix
Gift Idea
Pair with anyone of the Hot Cocoa Mixes and a Mug.
Pumpkin Butter
This sweet, rich spread is wonderful on Watkins Good Tastings Bread and anyone of the seasonal favorites bread mixes.
Gift Idea
Wrap with Pumpkin Bread Mix in a festive cello wrapper and tie with curly ribbon.
Limited Edition Hot Cocoa Mixes
Peppermint Stick Cocoa
Gift Idea
Package with mug and chocolate dipped candy canes or peppermint sticks for stirring.
Gift Idea
Pamper with Peppermint – Place Peppermint Stick Cocoa, Watkins Peppermint Foot Scrub and Foot Cream in a decorative basket with a decorative towel.
White Chocolate Almond Cocoa
Gift Idea
Wrap White Chocolate Almond Cocoa with a DVD you know your gift receiver will love along with a small bag of almonds or popcorn. Everything needed for a perfect movie night!
Raspberry Hot Cocoa
Gift Idea
Package with mug and a small box of Raspberry Truffles.
Cinna-Cream Sprinkles
Sprinkle on toast, oatmeal, French toast.
Mix with sour cream for a perfect fruit dip.
Mix with cream cheese for a bagel spread.
Sprinkle on apples or use in baked apples.
Add to coffee or coffee grounds.
Gift Idea
Wrap Cinna-Cream Sprinkles with Watkins Hazelnut Extract and your favorite coffee. You have just treated your gift-receiver to a hot cup of coffee that only tastes expensive.
Cream of Tartar
Gives a creamier texture to candy and frostings.
Will stabilize meringues in pies and cookies.
Essential for the perfect angel food cake.
The secret ingredient for making the best gingerbread houses.
Great for making candy canes and divinity.
Bread puddings and Irish soda bread will taste even better.
Gift Idea
Wrap with Hazelnut Extract. This will be perfect for baking fans on your list!
Nutmeg, 6 oz Collectable Tin
Great value size just in time for everyone’s baking season. Convenient tin is great for eggnog, custard, hot drinks and spice cookies.
Gift Idea
The perfect host gift during the holidays.
Baked Potato Soup
Use for making potato soup and cream sauce.
Use to flavor mashed potatoes, vegetables and meat.
Use for making cream sauce and onion gravy; use for biscuits and gravy.
Use to flavor hamburgers, meatloaf and meatballs.
Gift Idea
Package Soup Base with soup bowls, Good Tastings Bread Mix, Watkins Pepper and crackers.
Gold Medal Sampler
Gift Idea
Gift giving made simple. This assortment is packaged and ready to wrap, add a bow, or give as is.
Turkey Rub
Make seasoning your turkey a littler easier this year. This convenient pre-mixed rub is full of herbs and spices to enhance turkey’s flavor.
Gift Idea
Combine with Watkins Grapeseed Oil - makes a great host gift for the holidays.
Food Coloring, 1 oz. trial mark
Available in red, yellow, green and blue.
Add a teaspoon into frosting mix for the perfect piping for all your holiday sugar cookies and cakes.
Gift Idea
Pair them with a frosting recipe or with Cream of Tartar and a recipe card for Watkins play dough for the “young at heart.”
Watkins Cooked Playdough
2 cups/500 mL all-purpose flour
1 cup/250 mL salt
2 Tbsp/30 mL Watkins Cream of Tartar
2 ½ cups/625 mL water
¼ tsp/1.2 mL Watkins Food Coloring
2 Tbsp/30 mL cooking oil
Watkins Extracts of choice: Anise, Peppermint, Almond, Strawberry, Orange, Banana, Coconut
Combine dry ingredients in a saucepan. Add water and oil. Heat stirring constantly until the
dough comes away from the side of the pan and forms a ball. Cool. Divide in half and knead in
food coloring and 1 tsp/5 mL extract of choice until smooth. Store in a plastic bag or container in
the refrigerator. Keeps for months! Makes 4 cups.
Home Care Sampler
Our #1 selling sampler kit for the season and a great way to get customers hooked on the J.R. Watkins Natural Home Care line.
Gift Idea
Gift giving made simple – just add a bow or ribbon and you’re set to go!
Pucker Up 2-Pack
The dynamic duo that’s a must for every stocking stuffer. Combination of the Tickled Pink and Simply Mauve-lous Lip Tints that are 100% natural with a hint of color and the sensation from
the peppermint oil is fantastic! Watch your repeat business fly with this pairing – they’re highly addictive!
Gift Idea
Stocking stuffer, host gift, teacher’s gift. Pre-packaged so all you need to do is add a bow or some raffia.
Total Body Gift Pack
Full size products of mango fragranced personal care. Complete with body oil, hand & body lotion and body cream.
Gift Idea
Great host reward, raffle item or door prize at your next Good Tastings event, open house or customer appreciation event. Perfect gift for everyone you know that could use some extra pampering.
Pomegranate Spice Sink Set
Complete with both natural liquid hand soap and hand & body lotion fragranced with the sweet aroma of pomegranate and a hint of winter spice. Don’t forget to replenish this sink set with
Watkins Natural Hand & Body Lotions and Liquid Hand Soaps.
Gift Idea
Combine with a bath/hand towel set.
Shop for holiday baking, entertaining, and gift giving at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Here is a list of products, uses, and gift ideas.
Anise Extract
Use in making holiday anise cookies or springerle cookies (one of Germany’s most famous holiday sweets).
Use in making biscotti.
Recipe at www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney under Gift Line recipes:
Crystal Cut Candy
Gift Idea
Wrap Crystal Cut Candy in cello bag and give as a gift, along with Anise Extract and recipe card. Wrap in festive cello with raffia or in a festive tin with bow.
Gift Idea
Fishermen put Anise Extract on bait to attract fish. They tell us it works like magic! Place Watkins Anise Extract, Lemon Pepper, Insect Repellent and Sun Block in a tackle box, or wrap them in netting (like a fish net) and attach to a fishing pole.
Hazelnut Extract
Add to coffee (best when extract is added to coffee grounds before brewing).
Add to iced coffee or cappuccino.
Add to whipped cream, cream cheese or whipped topping for a dessert, coffee topping or fruit/bagel spread.
Add to oatmeal.
Add to fudge and brownie recipes.
Recipes at www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney under Gift Line recipes:
· Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse
· Chocolate Truffles
· Hazelnut Toffee Crunch Pie
· Carol’s Drop Cookies
Gift Idea
Prepare truffles and give as a gift in a decorative package along with the recipe and extract.
Gift Idea
Give extract along with coffee.
Irish Cream Extract
Add to coffee (best when extract is added to coffee grounds before brewing).
Add to iced coffee or cappuccino.
Add to fudge and brownie recipes.
Add to ice cream and ice cream drinks.
Recipes at www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney under Gift Line recipes:
· Chocolate Truffles
· Irish Cream Caramels
· Irish Cream Pie
· Vanilla Custard Tarts with Irish Cream Sauce
· Carol’s Drop Cookies
Gift Idea
Prepare truffles or caramels and give as a gift in a decorative package along with the recipe and extract.
Gift Idea
Give extract along with coffee.
Seasonal Favorites Bread Mixes
The following bread mixes are simple and easy to prepare and make a great breakfast or the perfect snack for an office, class party, or a wonderful welcome to a new member of your neighborhood. Add the pumpkin butter or a compatible recipe for dip spread, along with the required Watkins ingredients, and you’ll have a lovely gift giving set.
Orange Spice Bread Mix
Gift Idea
Combine the orange spice bread mix with some ginger, rum & orange extract
with the Aloha Fruit Dip recipe www.WatkinsOnline.com/eleisiawhitney to use as a delicious spread. Wrap in a festive tea towel.
Apple Spice Bread Mix
Gift Idea
Give Apple Spice Bread Mix along with Watkins Cinnamon.
Pumpkin Bread Mix
Gift Idea
Pair this delightful bread with Watkins Cinnamon and Nutmeg.
Snickerdoodles Cookie Mix
Gift Idea
Pair with anyone of the Hot Cocoa Mixes and a Mug.
Pumpkin Butter
This sweet, rich spread is wonderful on Watkins Good Tastings Bread and anyone of the seasonal favorites bread mixes.
Gift Idea
Wrap with Pumpkin Bread Mix in a festive cello wrapper and tie with curly ribbon.
Limited Edition Hot Cocoa Mixes
Peppermint Stick Cocoa
Gift Idea
Package with mug and chocolate dipped candy canes or peppermint sticks for stirring.
Gift Idea
Pamper with Peppermint – Place Peppermint Stick Cocoa, Watkins Peppermint Foot Scrub and Foot Cream in a decorative basket with a decorative towel.
White Chocolate Almond Cocoa
Gift Idea
Wrap White Chocolate Almond Cocoa with a DVD you know your gift receiver will love along with a small bag of almonds or popcorn. Everything needed for a perfect movie night!
Raspberry Hot Cocoa
Gift Idea
Package with mug and a small box of Raspberry Truffles.
Cinna-Cream Sprinkles
Sprinkle on toast, oatmeal, French toast.
Mix with sour cream for a perfect fruit dip.
Mix with cream cheese for a bagel spread.
Sprinkle on apples or use in baked apples.
Add to coffee or coffee grounds.
Gift Idea
Wrap Cinna-Cream Sprinkles with Watkins Hazelnut Extract and your favorite coffee. You have just treated your gift-receiver to a hot cup of coffee that only tastes expensive.
Cream of Tartar
Gives a creamier texture to candy and frostings.
Will stabilize meringues in pies and cookies.
Essential for the perfect angel food cake.
The secret ingredient for making the best gingerbread houses.
Great for making candy canes and divinity.
Bread puddings and Irish soda bread will taste even better.
Gift Idea
Wrap with Hazelnut Extract. This will be perfect for baking fans on your list!
Nutmeg, 6 oz Collectable Tin
Great value size just in time for everyone’s baking season. Convenient tin is great for eggnog, custard, hot drinks and spice cookies.
Gift Idea
The perfect host gift during the holidays.
Baked Potato Soup
Use for making potato soup and cream sauce.
Use to flavor mashed potatoes, vegetables and meat.
Use for making cream sauce and onion gravy; use for biscuits and gravy.
Use to flavor hamburgers, meatloaf and meatballs.
Gift Idea
Package Soup Base with soup bowls, Good Tastings Bread Mix, Watkins Pepper and crackers.
Gold Medal Sampler
Gift Idea
Gift giving made simple. This assortment is packaged and ready to wrap, add a bow, or give as is.
Turkey Rub
Make seasoning your turkey a littler easier this year. This convenient pre-mixed rub is full of herbs and spices to enhance turkey’s flavor.
Gift Idea
Combine with Watkins Grapeseed Oil - makes a great host gift for the holidays.
Food Coloring, 1 oz. trial mark
Available in red, yellow, green and blue.
Add a teaspoon into frosting mix for the perfect piping for all your holiday sugar cookies and cakes.
Gift Idea
Pair them with a frosting recipe or with Cream of Tartar and a recipe card for Watkins play dough for the “young at heart.”
Watkins Cooked Playdough
2 cups/500 mL all-purpose flour
1 cup/250 mL salt
2 Tbsp/30 mL Watkins Cream of Tartar
2 ½ cups/625 mL water
¼ tsp/1.2 mL Watkins Food Coloring
2 Tbsp/30 mL cooking oil
Watkins Extracts of choice: Anise, Peppermint, Almond, Strawberry, Orange, Banana, Coconut
Combine dry ingredients in a saucepan. Add water and oil. Heat stirring constantly until the
dough comes away from the side of the pan and forms a ball. Cool. Divide in half and knead in
food coloring and 1 tsp/5 mL extract of choice until smooth. Store in a plastic bag or container in
the refrigerator. Keeps for months! Makes 4 cups.
Home Care Sampler
Our #1 selling sampler kit for the season and a great way to get customers hooked on the J.R. Watkins Natural Home Care line.
Gift Idea
Gift giving made simple – just add a bow or ribbon and you’re set to go!
Pucker Up 2-Pack
The dynamic duo that’s a must for every stocking stuffer. Combination of the Tickled Pink and Simply Mauve-lous Lip Tints that are 100% natural with a hint of color and the sensation from
the peppermint oil is fantastic! Watch your repeat business fly with this pairing – they’re highly addictive!
Gift Idea
Stocking stuffer, host gift, teacher’s gift. Pre-packaged so all you need to do is add a bow or some raffia.
Total Body Gift Pack
Full size products of mango fragranced personal care. Complete with body oil, hand & body lotion and body cream.
Gift Idea
Great host reward, raffle item or door prize at your next Good Tastings event, open house or customer appreciation event. Perfect gift for everyone you know that could use some extra pampering.
Pomegranate Spice Sink Set
Complete with both natural liquid hand soap and hand & body lotion fragranced with the sweet aroma of pomegranate and a hint of winter spice. Don’t forget to replenish this sink set with
Watkins Natural Hand & Body Lotions and Liquid Hand Soaps.
Gift Idea
Combine with a bath/hand towel set.
Shop for holiday baking, entertaining, and gift giving at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Watkins Autumn Contest
Watkins Autumn Contest
Autumn arrives Monday September 22nd so it's time for our Watkins Autumn Contest! Autumn makes me think of apples and pumpkins! Use these products to make delicious goodies for your family. Besides Watkins products I threw in a Vanilla Bottle-Shaped Kitchen Timer, a small pumpkin-face bowl for candy or nuts, a pumpkin-shaped jello mold, and a trivet.
This assortment includes
Pumpkin Bread Mix
Pumpkin Butter
Original Double-Strength Vanilla, 2 fl oz/59 ml
Purest Ground Cinnamon, 2 oz/56 g
Pumpkin Pie Spice
Cinna-Cream Sprinkles
Apple Bake Seasoning
Cinnamon Cocoa
Poultry Seasoning
Vanilla Bottle-Shaped Kitchen Timer
Small Pumpkin-Shaped Bowl
Silcone Pumpkin-Shaped Mold
Silicone Trivet
The value of the assortment is $70.97! All are full-sized products, not samples.
This contest is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.
To enter:
Place an order for Watkins products with me and you will automatically be entered in the drawing for the Autumn assortment. My Watkins ID# is 335001. Place your order at http://www.watkinsonline.com/eleisiawhitney, by phone (Watkins order entry 1-800-928-5467), or by mail to Watkins Incorporated, P.O. Box 5570, Winona, MN 55987-0570. Please give my ID# 335001 and name as your Watkins Associate. When I receive your order confirmation from Watkins I will send you an email acknowledging your order and entering you in the contest.
Or
1. Write a post about the Watkins Autumn Contest on your blog.
2. Leave a comment below that you have posted about the giveaway on your blog.
3. Send an email to eleisiawhitney@watkinsonline.com giving me your email address so I can contact you if you are the winner.
I'll choose a winner at the end of the day on September 30th and post the winner here on October 1st!
Contests and prizes are offered by me and not Watkins, Inc. or other Independent Associates.
The Pumpkin Bread Mix, Pumpkin Butter, and Cinna-Cream Sprinkles are available only during the fall and winter holiday season (September - December). You'll find them under Gifts at my Watkins Online web site. The Pumpkin Butter tastes great on pumpkin bread, muffins, bread, toast, bagels, biscuits, or Watkins Good Tastings Bread. And here’s a recipe for cupcakes that uses Pumpkin Butter as an ingredient.
Pumpkin Butter Cupcakes
2 1/4 cups/560 ml all-purpose flour
1 tbsp/15 ml Watkins Baking Powder
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml baking soda
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml salt
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Cinnamon
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Ginger
1/2 tsp/2.5 ml Watkins Nutmeg
1/2 cup/125 ml butter, softened
1 1/3 cups/325 ml sugar
2 eggs
1 cup/250 ml Watkins Pumpkin Butter
3/4 cup/180 ml milk
3/4 cup/180 ml chopped walnuts
In medium bowl stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. In large bowl cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs. Blend in pumpkin butter. Stir in dry ingredients and milk, blending until batter is smooth. Stir in chopped walnuts. Spoon batter into paper lined muffin tins. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake at 375 degrees F/190 degrees C for 18 to 22 minutes. Makes 16 cupcakes.
Brown Sugar Frosting
1/4 cup/60 ml butter
6 tbsp/90 ml brown sugar
6 tbsp/90 ml half-and-half
2 cups/500 ml powdered sugar
1 tsp/5 ml Watkins Vanilla
In 2 quart/ 2 liter saucepan melt butter over mediumj heat. Add brow sugar and ahal-and-half. Continue cooking, strirring occasionally, until mixture comes to a boil (2 to 3 minutes). Let cool to spreading consistemcy (5 to 10 minutes). Frost cupcakes.
Start blogging or place your order now!
Eleisia
Watkins Independent Associate
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Natural Lip Care
What's In? 100% Natural Lip Care!
Protect your lips with renewable resources from Mother Earth! Watkins natural lip care offers unsurpassed protection and because it is formulated with natural beeswax, not petrolatum (a petroleum by-product) like those other lip balms, you can rest assured earth's environment is protected too! Our light weight, natural formula contains vitamin E and natural shea butter to provide a protective barrier against dry, chapped lips.
With our natural Lip Tints you get all the benefits of our 100% natural beeswax lip balms, with a hint of color! They go on smooth and are perfect for your morning makeup routine or on the go.
Choose from four attractive shades:
20223 Berry Charming
20222 Simply Mauve-lous
20221 Strike-a-Rose
20220 Tickled Pink
Naturally flavored with pure peppermint oil.
(.0.9 oz/2.55 g)
$4.99 each
Pucker Up Two Pack
Two of our most popular 100% natural lip tints are coupled together to offfer you or the one you love a perfect pucker! The special two pack contains Tickled Pink and Simply Mauve-lous.
Makes a perfect stocking stuffer
Lip tints provide all the benefits of our Natural Beeswax Lip Balm
20225(.0.9 oz/2.55 g each) Regularly $9.98 Special $7.99
Shop at www.NotJustVanilla.com
Be Label Savvy!
From 1901 to 1918 and 1934 to 1948 Watkins published an Almanac and Home Book filled with valuable information for all Watkins customers. Times have changed but Watkins still loves to share helpful tips that are safe for your home and the environment!
In the personal care segment many companies are applying "natural" to their product labels. Without a governing agency to set natural standards for personal care, any brand on the market can call itself natural, regardless of its ingredients. Definitely deceiving to consumers!
Without set standards it is easy to see why consumers are confused! With Watkins you can trust our entire line of 95% and above natural personal care products are natural. But just how do you decipher the truly natural products from impostors? Watkins Natural Personal Care Product Manager Andrea Buckner sat down with me to explain and offer a few helpful tips.
What makes a personal care product natural?
The ingredients in a product determines if a product is truly natural or not. At Watkins, we believe that in order to call a product natural, the product as a whole needs to be formulated using natural ingredients. In an ideal world, all of our products would be 100% natural, and that is something we are striving for; however, there are circumstances when a natural substitution is not available. We take into consideration the origin of ingredients, as well as the processes that it may under take to be a useable ingredient in personal care products. Just because a product contains one or two natural ingredients, doesn't mean it's truly a natural product.
What are the clues we should be looking for on the label that tell us the product is not truly natural?
Because the market is not regulated, being label savvy is really important when it comes to natural personal care products. If you see parabens (Methyl-, Propyl-, Ethyl-, Butyl-), petrochemicals (petrolatum, mineral oil, paraffin), chemical sunscreens (Oxybenzone/Avobenzone),or phthalates, you can be sure the product is not natural. Also, be apprehensive when you see a personal care product that says all-natural, made with natural, contains natural. . . .etc. Check the ingredients!
What if a product contains a natural ingredient? Is it natural?
Definitely not! There are companies out there who do this exact thing. Their lotion contains natural lavender oil, so they call it a natural lavender lotion. This is very deceiving to the consumer, but because natural personal care is not regulated, companies get away with stuff like this. This is why we put our natural percentage bar on each product that we have. We are honest with the consumer.
But it says "natural" or "organic" on the label.
Correct, and legally the companies can call it what they want. Recently, however the Natural Products Association (NPA) has stepped forward with a set of guidelines that have defined what 'natural' means. At Watkins, we are in the process of having all of our natural personal care products certified by the NPA, which will allow us to put a seal on each product. This seal ensures the consumer that the products they are purchasing are truly natural. It also helps to separate those who are not natural companies. I encourage everyone to visit their website at www.naturalproductsassoc.org it contains a wealth of information on natural personal care.
What ingredients should we steer clear of?
As mentioned above, there are a handful of ingredients that natural products steer clear of. At Watkins, we have developed what we call our Freedom Code. We adhere to this code in the development and formulation of J.R. Watkins Natural Apothecary.
Parabens
Chemical Sunscreens
Petro Chemicals
Glycols
Phthalates
DEA/TEA-synthetic stabilizers
Formaldehyde Donors
1,4 Dioxanes
Polymers
Acrylates
Carbomer
PVP
Chemical Preservatives
Silicones
Quats
Talc
Bottom line, read your labels! As the old saying goes, you can't always trust a book by its' cover, or in this case, a natural personal care product by its' label.
Shop for Watkins Natural Products at www.NotJustVanilla.com
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Sweet Potato Bread
Sweet Potato Bread
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons Watkins Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon Watkins Nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon Watkins Cinnamon
1 teaspoon fresh orange peel or 1/2 teaspoon Watkins Orange Peel
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup butter (optional-leave out for low fat)
4 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 cup cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
Grease bottom of two loaf pans. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and spices in mixing bowl: stir in the sugar, and walnuts. In separate bowl, combine eggs, applesauce, milk, (butter if adding) and mashed sweet potatoes, stir to blend well. Add wet mixture to the dry ingredients and mix with a large spoon just until the mixture is moistened. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake at 325 for about 1 hour 10 minutes (check with toothpick insected in middle comes out clean.)
Orange Cream Spread
Blend 1 tablespoon of orange juice and 1 teaspoon grated peel (or 1/2 teaspoon Watkins Orange Peel) into 3 ounces of cream cheese. Spread over top of Sweet Potato loaf or on slices of bread.
This Sweet Potato Bread is low in fat, easy to make and delicious.
Shop at www.NotJustVanilla.com
Friday, August 29, 2008
Crab and Onion Cups
Crab and Onion Cups
1/2 cup/125 mL (1 stick) butter, softened
2 tbsp/30 mL Watkins Onion Soup Base
1/2 tsp/2.5 mL Watkins Lemon Pepper
1 1/3 cups/325 mL all-purpose flour
2 cups/500 mL (8 oz/227 g) shredded sharp cheddar cheese, room temperature
Blend butter, soup base and lemon pepper thoroughly. Stir in flour and cheese, knead until well-mixed. On a floured surface, roll out dough use a round cookie cutter and cut rounds. Spray muffin tin with Watkins Cooking Spray and place cut rounds in a muffin tin and press to create cups. Bake for 8 — 10 minutes in a preheated 350ºF/180ºC oven.
Filling
1 package (8 oz/227 g) cream cheese, softened
3 tbsp/45 mL Watkins Crab Snack & Dip Seasoning Mix
2 tsp/10 mL Watkins Organic Garlic Powder
1/2 cup/2.5 mL finely chopped bacon, prepared
1/2 cup/2.5 mL Watkins Minced Green Onion
8 oz/227 g imitation crabmeat, chopped
Combine cream cheese, snack & dip mix, and garlic powder. Add bacon, onion and crabmeat. Fill cooled onion cups with crab mixture.
Simply the Best Assortment
Watkins has put together a great assortment for you - Simply the Best Assortment!
The assortment contains:
Original Double Strength Vanilla (59mL/2 fl.oz.)
Purest Granulated Black Pepper (170g/6 oz.)
Calming Bath Soak (400g/14 oz.)
Watkins Red Liniment (325mL/11 fl. oz.)
Aloe & Green Tea Natural Room Freshener (120mL/4 fl. oz.)
Value Priced at $38.99 (save over $4.00!)
Shop at www.NotJustVanilla.com
J.R. Watkins Natural Home Care Line is Growing!
Introducing J.R. Watkins Orange Citrus Line
Everyone loves our J.R. Watkins Orange Citrus Tub and Tile cleaner. Customers say the sweet sent of natural essential orange oil offers an unmatched clean scent. We've answered the call with our new J.R. Watkins Orange Citrus line. Our natural plant-based dish soap, hand soap, all-purpose cleaner, all-purpose cleaner concentrate and room spray will be available in this Orange Citrus scent! Enjoy the same great cleaning products you've come to love, but now in a fantastic new scent!
Look for these new products in the second half of 2008 in the Sales and Promotions catalogs.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Watkins is Improving Your Community and Your Life
The need for companies to practice “green” manufacturing is more important than ever. Watkins has been a pioneer in natural living, utilizing the finest natural ingredients since 1868. We continue our commitment to you and the environment by implementing processes that reduce waste and conserve energy. Together we can make a positive impact on our environment.How does Watkins reduce waste and make a positive impact on the earth?
- Offer a full line of natural personal care products with formulas that are at least 95% natural, with many 99% or more.
- Offer a full line of plant-based home care products that are free of pollutants and biodegradable.
- Offer a full line of USDA certified 100% Organic Herbs and Spices and All-Natural Pure Extracts.
- Adhere to a strict paper, plastic, and aluminum recycling program.
- Utilize biodegradable packing materials.
- Use soy-based ink in our printed marketing materials.
- Employ e-communications and encourage customers, Associates, and vendors to obtain information online instead of in printed form.
- Gravity fed filling processes: We fill our bulk dry mixes using time-tested gravity feeds. This allows us to conserve energy that would normally be used to power a pneumatic or conveyor system.
- Use lighter weight product packaging. Simply reducing our plastic bottle weight for various products has saved thousands of pounds of plastic from waste.
- Encourage vendors to use renewable energy and cut waste.
- Utilize Lean business and manufacturing practices to help eliminate waste and streamline operations.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
How to Read a Vitamin Label
Watkins offers a wide range of supplements for a healthier lifestyle. Watkins' comprehensive dietary supplement program, combined with a sensible eating and exercise regimen, will boost your efforts and help you get long-lasting results; results you can see and feel!
Shop for supplements at my Watkins Online web site.
Balanced Ginseng
Brain Plus
Children's Chewable Vitamin
E+CoQ10
Eye Care Formula
Female Formula
Fruit/Veggie Complex
Garlic Oil Softgels
Inner Cleanse/Restore
Linimax™
Male Formula
Mood Plus
Osteogen
Rezist Plus
Skin, Hair & Nails
Superfood Multiple Vitamin
Aloe Vera Gel Capsules
Aloe Vera Juice
Labeling supplement bottles presents a challenge to manufacturers: a great deal of information about a complex product must be squeezed into a tiny space. Through necessity, abbreviations and verbal shorthand are used, and their meaning can be lost on the consumer. Use this handy guide to understanding vitamin labels.
% of Daily Value: The "Daily Value," or DV, shows the percentage one serving supplies of a total DV. If the value is more than 100 percent, it suggests that the vitamin formulator sees an advantage to exceeding the DV.
Serving Size: This indicates how many of the units - tablets, soft-gels, capsules, etc. - need to be consumed in a day to reach the percent of daily value listed on the label.
Units of measure. These reflect the standard reference units for each kind of nutrient. "I.U.," stands for "International Unit" and is the standard for measuring fat-soluble vitamins, which include vitamins A, D, E and K.
Double asterisks: If these are in place of DV listings, it usually means that DVs have not been established for these nutrients.
Other ingredients (or inactive ingredients): This is a list of compounds that do not directly contribute to the nutrient DVs in the supplement, but instead aid in functions such as tablet integrity, proper digestion or preservation of shelf life.
Note: Serves to warn consumers of potential adverse effects the supplement could present to some individuals (such as women who are pregnant or lactating, people taking certain prescription medications, or those with allergies to specific ingredients) as well as storage information.
Here’s a guide to understanding supplement labels. The print is a little small so compare it to one of your vitamin bottles.
1. "% of Daily Value": The "Daily Value," or DV, was created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for labels on foods and supplements, and implemented in 1994. It is based on two sets of references: Daily Reference Values, or DRVs, and Reference Daily Intakes, or RDIs. DRVs are for nutrients for which no set of standards existed previously, such as fat and cholesterol. RDIs replaced the term "U.S. Recommended Daily Allowances" (RDA), which were introduced in 1973 for labeling of vitamins, minerals and protein.
If the "% Daily Value" listed is "75%" that means one serving supplies 75 percent of the entire DV for that nutrient. If the value listed is more than 100 percent, it suggests some advantage to exceeding the DV. In this case, it reflects the view of Dr. Weil and his science advisory board that the DV established by the FDA is below the optimal dosage. This illustrates the difference between "what you can get by on" and "what is the amount that may provide the most benefit."
2. "Serving Size": This indicates how many of the units - tablets, soft-gels, capsules, etc. - need to be consumed in a day to reach the percent of daily value listed on the label.
3. Units of measure reflect the standard reference units for each kind of nutrient. “I.U.,” stands for “International Unit” and is the standard for measuring fat-soluble vitamins, which include vitamins A, D, E and K. The abbreviation "mg" stands for milligrams, or one-thousandths of a gram, and “mcg" stands for micrograms, or one millionths of a gram.
4. Double asterisks in place of DV listings mean that DVs have not been established for these nutrients. The nutrients are included in some Weil dietary supplements because studies suggest they have scientifically validated health benefits and are safe to consume at the amounts contained in the supplement.
5."Other ingredients": This is a list of compounds that do not directly contribute to the nutrient DVs in the supplement, but instead aid in functions such as tablet integrity, proper digestion or preservation of shelf life.
6. "EXP" indicates the expiration date; that is, the date by which the supplements in the bottle will have degraded to the point that the percent of DV listed on the label is no longer accurate. Consuming supplements that are past their expiration date is usually not harmful, but since the full nutritional value is not received by the consumer, it is recommended that supplements that have passed their expiration date be replaced with fresher ones.
7. "LOT" is a number that identifies the specific manufacturing lot that included this particular item. It is useful in the unlikely event that questions arise about the integrity of ingredients or manufacturing processes used to create that lot.
8. "Directions" provides information to help the consumer safely obtain maximum value from the product.
9. "Note" serves to warn consumers of potential adverse effects the supplement could present to individuals such as pregnant or lactating women, people taking certain prescription medications, or people with allergies. This section also contains information regarding how to store the supplements.
10. Manufacturer's information tells which company made the supplement, and where the company has its headquarters.
11. "For more information" provides contact information should purchasers or potential purchasers have questions about the product.
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Labeling supplement bottles presents a challenge to manufacturers: a great deal of information about a complex product must be squeezed into a tiny space. Through necessity, abbreviations and verbal shorthand are used, and their meaning can be lost on the consumer. Use this handy guide to understanding vitamin labels.
% of Daily Value: The "Daily Value," or DV, shows the percentage one serving supplies of a total DV. If the value is more than 100 percent, it suggests that the vitamin formulator sees an advantage to exceeding the DV.
Serving Size: This indicates how many of the units - tablets, soft-gels, capsules, etc. - need to be consumed in a day to reach the percent of daily value listed on the label.
Units of measure. These reflect the standard reference units for each kind of nutrient. "I.U.," stands for "International Unit" and is the standard for measuring fat-soluble vitamins, which include vitamins A, D, E and K.
Double asterisks: If these are in place of DV listings, it usually means that DVs have not been established for these nutrients.
Other ingredients (or inactive ingredients): This is a list of compounds that do not directly contribute to the nutrient DVs in the supplement, but instead aid in functions such as tablet integrity, proper digestion or preservation of shelf life.
Note: Serves to warn consumers of potential adverse effects the supplement could present to some individuals (such as women who are pregnant or lactating, people taking certain prescription medications, or those with allergies to specific ingredients) as well as storage information.
Here’s a guide to understanding supplement labels. The print is a little small so compare it to one of your vitamin bottles.
1. "% of Daily Value": The "Daily Value," or DV, was created by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for labels on foods and supplements, and implemented in 1994. It is based on two sets of references: Daily Reference Values, or DRVs, and Reference Daily Intakes, or RDIs. DRVs are for nutrients for which no set of standards existed previously, such as fat and cholesterol. RDIs replaced the term "U.S. Recommended Daily Allowances" (RDA), which were introduced in 1973 for labeling of vitamins, minerals and protein.
If the "% Daily Value" listed is "75%" that means one serving supplies 75 percent of the entire DV for that nutrient. If the value listed is more than 100 percent, it suggests some advantage to exceeding the DV. In this case, it reflects the view of Dr. Weil and his science advisory board that the DV established by the FDA is below the optimal dosage. This illustrates the difference between "what you can get by on" and "what is the amount that may provide the most benefit."
2. "Serving Size": This indicates how many of the units - tablets, soft-gels, capsules, etc. - need to be consumed in a day to reach the percent of daily value listed on the label.
3. Units of measure reflect the standard reference units for each kind of nutrient. “I.U.,” stands for “International Unit” and is the standard for measuring fat-soluble vitamins, which include vitamins A, D, E and K. The abbreviation "mg" stands for milligrams, or one-thousandths of a gram, and “mcg" stands for micrograms, or one millionths of a gram.
4. Double asterisks in place of DV listings mean that DVs have not been established for these nutrients. The nutrients are included in some Weil dietary supplements because studies suggest they have scientifically validated health benefits and are safe to consume at the amounts contained in the supplement.
5."Other ingredients": This is a list of compounds that do not directly contribute to the nutrient DVs in the supplement, but instead aid in functions such as tablet integrity, proper digestion or preservation of shelf life.
6. "EXP" indicates the expiration date; that is, the date by which the supplements in the bottle will have degraded to the point that the percent of DV listed on the label is no longer accurate. Consuming supplements that are past their expiration date is usually not harmful, but since the full nutritional value is not received by the consumer, it is recommended that supplements that have passed their expiration date be replaced with fresher ones.
7. "LOT" is a number that identifies the specific manufacturing lot that included this particular item. It is useful in the unlikely event that questions arise about the integrity of ingredients or manufacturing processes used to create that lot.
8. "Directions" provides information to help the consumer safely obtain maximum value from the product.
9. "Note" serves to warn consumers of potential adverse effects the supplement could present to individuals such as pregnant or lactating women, people taking certain prescription medications, or people with allergies. This section also contains information regarding how to store the supplements.
10. Manufacturer's information tells which company made the supplement, and where the company has its headquarters.
11. "For more information" provides contact information should purchasers or potential purchasers have questions about the product.
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