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Book review: Real Moms Love to Eat
While reading my email from SocialMoms.com I came across a opportunity to review a cook book call Real Moms Love to Eat , How to Conduct a Love Affair with Food and Still Look Fabulous by Beth Aldrich with Eve Adamson. Beth is a Healthy Lifestyle and Nutrition expert, speaker, media personality, and she cracks me up!
Now for my friends reading this, yes I’m writing a review for a cookbook. And yes I’m going to actually cook some of the recipes in the book (I will have pics up soon lol) Now back to the review.
The essence of this cookbook that Beth wrote is about loving food and making lifestyle changes. And if you can have a laugh or two all the better.
This cookbook is broke down into three sections: Flirting with Foods, Getting Serious, and Happy Endings (this sections has recipes).
“For dinner every night, make sure your meal contains two naturally green things, one naturally red thing, and one naturally yellow thing.
(No, a bag of Skittles doesn’t count.)”
This book is different because Beth is having a conversation with all us Moms who struggle with issues surrounding food. She allows the reader to get over their issues with some real life strategies and 21 days of meal suggestion that you wont have you going to a specialty store to make your purchases.
For example, one of the suggestion is to makeover salt, fat and sugar. Their replacements: gourmet salts, canola oil and the occasional pat of organic butter.
“Real Moms can eat salt, fat, and sugar. You don’t have to ditch your dysfunctional friends. You just have to limit your exposure to them—or better yet, give them a makeover.”
Beth Aldrich’s Real Moms Love To Eat is a girls second best friend (diamonds will ALWAYS be first lol). Her cookbook is about living clean and loving food. Just as much as well love ourselves and our families.
Thank you Beth for allowing me to read your cookbook and I will let you know about the changes that I make in my own household.
Disclaimer:
I was given a digital copy of this cookbook to read and complete this review. I was not given any other compensation for this review and the opinion of this review is all mine.
Book review ~ Blogging Success: Tips for Creating Content, Getting Traffic and Monetizing Your Blog
Recently, while on Facebook, I saw a opportunity to do a review of Blogging Success: Tips for Creating Content, Getting Traffic and Monetizing Your Blog by Holly Reisem Hanna. She is the owner of The Work At Home Women and I was one of the lucky ones who got picked as a reviewer.
Thanks Holly! Now on to the book!
After reading this e-book, I became more determined to make some changes to my own site and will do so with the advice written in this book. This book is more like a conversational how to book but provides you with enough detail step by step to turn your bogging into a money making business.
Section one is about creating content and contains everything from sharing your point of view, to defining your niche to having the right hosting (no free sites if you want to have a serious money making blog) to letting you true personality shine through your posts. The “best advice in this section is “blogging is not a get rich quick sport”
Section two is all about getting traffic for you blog. This section covers using word of mouth, social media, email newsletter and even using HARO to get your voice heard and bring them to your blog.
Section three covers monetization techniques (btw, this is the section that really got my attention). In here you will find advice how to use your blog to make money. The best advice in this section…use different venues to bring advertisers and traffic to your blog. But of course your have to do the work in the other sections to make sure that you have the right amount of traffic that the advertisers seek.
And I learned about using Alexa, Sitemap, of course SEO, using ad networks (I had no idea what this was before) and treating my blog like a business by not using free sites and having one that’s self hosted (yup I want this to help start paying the bills). It also covers the advice of tying your name to your blog and meeting other bloggers by attending events, either live or online, as much as you can, reading business books and the like.
Overall, this was a great read and EXTREMELY helpful. I think that only thing that was missing was a section on vlogging but I guess that will be in her next e-book.
You, as either a newbie to blogging or a established blogger, should add this to your collection of books on your e-reader or download it like I did and go to town on it with your highlighter.
Enjoy!
Offer:
Holly is offering all the readers of my blog $10 off her e-book. (Nice!) You can go to http://www.theworkathomewoman.com/products/ and use “THANKS” at checkout for your discount.
Disclaimer: I was given a copy of Blogging Success: Tips for Creating Content, Getting Traffic and Monetizing Your Blog to read and work on this review. The opinions of this post are mine. And I was in no other way compensated for this review.
Upcoming Book Tour
Here at Margs World, we love new books by other mom bloggers and of course, free prizes! Please help to celebrate the launch of “Real Moms Love to Eat: How to Conduct a Love Affair with Food, Lose Weight and Feel Fabulous” (New American Library, a Penguin Books Imprint, January, 2012) by author, Beth Aldrich, Certified Health Counselor.
The book is broken down in three sections, which include a fun and easy-to-follow 10-part plan for moms to implement to make gradual, life-long changes in their approach to food and 21 days of meal suggestions,tips, recipes and lifestyle changes—all to help you continue your love affair with food to look fabulous. Beth’s approach to healthy eating is simple and realistic for busy moms. You’ll learn a lot about the food you eat and how it impacts your body and still have loads of fun experiencing new foods and enjoying your life.
Everyone that participates in this “virtual pre-order launch party” is eligible for randomly drawn prizes. Simply enter the the twice-a-month pre-order book giveaway, hosted by the RealMomsLovetoEat.com site here: (LINK: http://www.realmomslovetoeat.com/sweepstakes/) . You can pre-order the book for one entry AND sign up for Beth’s FREE newsletter for a second entry!
- Winners from this virtual book pre-order party will be chosen on January 3, 2012 through random.org and contacted via email.
Disclosure: I was gifted from Restoring Essence Nutrition, LLC-owner of Real Moms Love to Eat, a free copy of the book, “Real Moms Love to Eat” and a Food Affairiate goodie bag for participating in this virtual tour and writing about this book pre-order contest.
