Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2007: Part Two“0 Comments”
steve | 6:38 pm | October 7, 2007 | Gifts for Mom, Electronics, Gifts for Daughters, Gifts for Nieces, Gift Baskets, Chocolate, Snack Food
Two of Fannie May’s signature products, which have been sensations in the Chicago area for decades, and are now starting to be discovered by the rest of the country, are their Mint Meltaways and their Pixies.
Mint Meltaways are small, bite-size square chocolates that have a rich, chocolate center, surrounded by a minty outer shell. 
Pixies are a mouth-watering blend of milk chocolate, silky caramel, crunchy pecans, covered by an outer chocolate shell.
For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Fannie May has produced two pink versions of these signature chocolates. 10% of proceeds will go to support Chicagoland cancer organizations, including the Cancer Wellness Center, the Jennifer S. Fallick Cancer Support Center, Wellness House, Wellness Place and Gilda’s Club Chicago. And thanks to the generosity of The Coleman Foundation, your 10% will be matched by another 10%, for a total of 20% that will be donated.
As much of a Chicago treasure that Fannie May Chocolates is, Cheryl&Co Cookies are equally a treasure in the state of Ohio. Their Cookies for a Cure collection contains six incredible assortments of bakery-fresh cookies, brownies and cakes, snacks, and gift baskets. And of course, their famous frosted cut-out cookies.
You can choose an entire sampler of tasty treats, or get a box of their heart-shaped frosted cut-out cookies. They’re all dressed up in pink to support breast cancer research at two distinguished cancer research and treatment organizations in Ohio: the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and the Richard J. Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University.
Last, but certainly not least, Problem Solvers by Plow & Hearth has this great pink desk lamp. A stylish way to remind yourself or a loved one to support breast cancer research and to get screened for the disease once a year.
10% of proceeds go to the National Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Everyone here at 1-800-Flowers.Com, Inc. is pleased to be part of the nationwide campaign to strike out breast cancer. Even if you don’t send one of the gifts above, we do urge you to please donate generously to the causes listed above, and to remind yourself or the important women in your life, especially those over 40, to get screened for breast cancer early.
Great Gift for an Indoor Gardener“1 Comment”
steve | 5:23 am | September 6, 2007 | Gifts for Gardeners, Electronics
I love to cook, but one of the things I can’t stand is when a recipe calls for 10 basil leaves or a teaspoon of parsley or something. At the local supermarket, they sell things by the bushel, not by the teaspoon. So what tends to happen is, I buy a ton of fresh herbs, snip off a little to use in my recipe, and watch the rest go bad in my refrigerator. That, or spend weeks eating parsley soup, parsley sandwiches, parsley-ka-bobs, etc.
Living in an apartment, I don’t have the luxury of having my own herb garden. I tried container gardening, but can never seem to find good light for them and remembering to water them.
When I first heard about the Aerogarden, I literally gasped. It’s like having a garden right in your kitchen that provides its own sunlight, waters itself, and to boot, you don’t have to deal with weeds or bugs. If your recipe calls for a spring of a fresh herb, you can just snip it off and have the freshest herbs around. Not only this, you can grow cherry tomatoes, salad greens, and other things by buying different “seed pods”.
My sister just moved from her big house (with her huge rose and herb garden) in Davis, California to an apartment in New York City. I plan to get one of these for her birthday. For the apartment-dweller in your life, treat them to a virtual backyard. The Aerogarden is available at Problem Solvers.
Next to the McGriddle’s sandwich, I think this is the greatest invention I’ve seen in the past five years.