Go-Kit First Aid
Cute and portable, and you can plan now for Christmas gifting. This is an indispensable tool brought to you by the Pepper Family, an entrepreneurial clan that has just brought this practical safety kit to market. The water resistant zipper case, available in various patterns, fits snugly in your backpack, diaper bag, large purse, totebag, or suitcase. It comes complete with a host of implements: tiny scissors, tweezers, even a tick remover tool. Then there is antibiotic ointment, first aid burn cream, a sewing kit, and moleskin, bandages, and more. So consider when you go camping and accidently get a burn from flying fire ashes. Or if you go hiking and get a tick burrowed into your skin. If you feel a fever coming on, the kit features a disposable thermometer.
It’s great also for international travel, for you never know when you are going to need those nosebleed plugs. When you are walking all day, the contents includes moleskin pieces to comfort your toes or heels from chafing. They thought of everything. Why the GoKit? Young and old, we all get hurt sometime! Super Kit with 270 items runs $74.99; GoKit for Adults runs $41.99 with no kiddie stickers. MiniKit with 70 pieces runs $24.99. KeepGoingFirst Aid.com; 407.305.4290
Just published: Feasts on the Farm
If you love hefty books with images of fields, hearty entrees, flowers, and rustic cheeses, this one is for you. It is more of a love story of food and farming than anything else. It is written to actually be read rather than to be referenced. Learn about Toluma Farms, a 160-acre goat and sheep dairy farm, based in Marin, Calif. and its award-winning Tomales Farmstead Creamery while perusing over sixty kitchen-tested recipes. As always, Chronicle Books publishes beautiful tomes with quality paper and hardbound covers. Enjoy reading it, and if you get a chance, make one or more of its recipes. Only $29.99. Find it on Amazon.com.
Clover Non-Fat Yogurt
We love its mission, and you will too. Clover Sonoma, a local dairy, is organic all the way. It is American Humane Certified which means all farmers treat their cows in a kind way. The company has rejected all forms of rBST, a synthetic growth hormone that causes cows to produce abnormal amounts of milk. Eww! New to the Clover fold is the nonfat Greek yogurt with 22 grams of protein with each serving. You can make yogurt popsicles, yogurt parfaits, and much more. Consider fueling up the family on Clover yogurt before the next road trip. Available at most supermarkets at an average of $9.99 for 32 ounces. For details on the story of Clover Sonoma, see cloversonoma.com.