If you want to diet, be healthier, or just make better choices, Fooducate is the app for you. I have been using this app for over six months now, and it is a really smart app to take with you to the grocery store. You can scan a food item you want to buy, and it will grade it immediately, and give you healthier choices to make regarding the same food. I also use it to scan my pantry before going to the store, then I already know what substitutes I want to try to get rid of all the bad choices in the pantry, and believe me, there have been many a bad choice.

On the Fooducate main page, it fills your message box with coupons and articles on living healthy.

From Fooducate website:

Are you confused by ingredient lists, nutrition labels, health claims and marketing hype? Fooducate is here to help. We are a team of parents, dietitians, and techies. We realize that at the supermarket you have very little time to analyze food labels and extract the information that is important to you. We’d like to help you make better choices for you and your family.

Get the Fooducate mobile application and use it to:

• Automatically scan a product barcode
• See product highlights (both good & bad)
• Compare products
• Select better alternatives
• Dig deeper and learn more about food and nutrition

Features:

• Created by dietitians and concerned parents
• Uses your mobile’s camera to effortlessly scan UPC barcode
• Over 200,000 unique products and growing daily
• Simplified information helps you make better choices
• Works on iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android OS version 2.2 and up

“… Fooducate is like taking your own personal dietitian to the supermarket…”

Fooducate analyzes information found in each product’s nutrition panel and ingredient list.

You get to see the stuff manufacturers don’t want you to notice, such as

• excessive sugar
• tricky trans fats
• additives and preservatives
• high fructose corn syrup
• controversial food colorings
• confusing serving sizes
• and more…

Just pick up a product from the shelf, scan it, and let Fooducate do the rest.

Fooducate is NOT funded or influenced by food manufacturers, supplement companies, diets, or any sort of magic pill.

 

Give this app a try. I think you will be as surprised as I was about how many choices of food products I thought would be graded an “A” or “B” by Fooducate, only to find out they were graded a “C” or even the dreaded “D”. Even if you are not dieting, you want to make the healthiest choices for you and your family, right?

Fooducate is a free app. There is another version, “Fooducate Plus”. It appears the only difference is that you can add the choices to a built in shopping list. If there are other advantages to the paid one, please let me know in the comment section.

Another find from Dr. Oz. See the line on the jar? You know, the one that says, “visibly reduces fine lines and wrinkles”? I swear I buy almost everything that says that. I do not buy everything Dr. Oz recommends, I promise, because if I did I would be buying stuff daily. And I did not win the big lottery this week, so that’s not going to happen.

St. Ives is a drugstore line that is very inexpensive. I have used this at night, and sometimes during the day when I am not going to put on makeup. It happens. I have searched the website, and my jar, and see nothing about SPF protection, and I am all about SPF protection, so I don’t wear it if I know I am going out. That’s just me. That being said, I love the price (less than $5 for a ten ounce jar) and smell.  It is lightweight and it leaves my skin feeling soft without being sticky or gloppy. I switch it up with moisturizers, so if you are like me, this is a good one to have. If you only use one, I would not recommend it simply because it doesn’t have the SPF protection, and I want to take care of you!

What is your favorite moisturizer? Do you go for expensive brands or drugstore brands? Leave me your thoughts in the comment section.

You know I love a personalized gift. Geezees.com is the place for you to create your own canvas print, using your own words, a poem, a favorite passage from the Bible, a quote, or even your wedding vows.

How neat would it be to use a photo of your child along with a story he or she wrote at the time for school? I have a cute story my son wrote framed. Do you ever do that?

A picture of a trip, along with your memories of the trip!

Grandparent gift:

The ideas are endless!

Be sure and check out geezees.com gallery of photos for inspiration.

Do you love how coffee houses make those yummy, frothy lattes? It’s my favorite part! When I received this Aerolatte Frother as a gift, I was thrilled.  It froths up the milk and makes you feel like a barista. The frother runs on batteries, has a cute stainless steel stand for storage. I have found that if you warm the milk first, it makes more froth.

There are several types of frothers available on Amazon, so I am giving you a link to those here. There range in price from $6 to the one featured above, which is $30. You can also choose a colored frother, or even a frother with a cow print!