Aloha Friday Recipe!!

Here is another 4 meals in 4 minutes™ meal! I have three children (age 5 and under) and being able to get my meal prepared and cooking quickly is the best thing in the world to me. I really value being able to provide my family with a home-cooked meal and everyone sitting around the table to enjoy it. Homemade Gourmet has allowed me to do this with the 4 meals in 4 minutes™ meals. I also get my children to help. My 5 y.o. son can measure the ingredients. Then both my 5 y.o. son and my 4 y.o. daughter can mix the ingredients together for me using the method below! Plus there is NO MESS to clean up that usually happens when little ones get in the kitchen.

Mahalo & enjoy!!

Hawaiian Pork Chops


Ingredients
3 pounds pork chops*
4 tablespoons Homemade Gourmet® BLT seasoning (or one package)
1 15-ounce can pineapple tidbits
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon soy sauce

Directions
This is another great 4 meals in 4 minutes™ meal!

Place all ingredients into the freezer bag. Seal and SMOOSH!

Before freezing, label as Hawaiian Pork Chops and list cooking options:

BAKE: Thaw and bake (covered) at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

GRILL: Thaw, discard marinade, and grill over medium high heat until chicken juices run clear.

SLOW COOK: Defrost enough to empty contents into slow cooker and cook on low for 4-6 hours.

*You may substitute the chicken with 6 boneless, skinless, chicken breasts for a variation on this recipe . . . make both and fill your freezer twice as fast! This has about 150 calories per serving if using skinless chicken breast!

Brought to you with much aloha by Kimberly Wilson

www.homemadegourmet.com/kimberlywilson

Hawaii WAHMs Blogroll

Some of our Hawaii WAHM members maintain their own personal or business blogs to inform, entertain and update readers on community or business pursuits. Here are a few recently updated WAHM blogs covering diverse topics.

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Hello Kitty Gifts. Hello Kitty is probably the most well-known character from the Sanrio collection of merchandise created for children, teens and adults. Hello Kitty products are both fun and functional. Here are a few children’s birthday or Valentine’s Day gift ideas for you. Read more...

Choices of Maternity Care in Hawaii Weblog
Labor Doula Training on Maui: DONA International Birth Doula Worshop. DONA Birth Doula workshop in beautiful Maui, Hawaii. A three day retreat where you will learn to support the amazing and transformative process of childbirth. Read more...

Ohana Mama
Ohana Mama's Monday Hula Shake Around The Blogosphere. Happy Monday! We're hula shakin' it up for Ohana Mama's Monday Fly-by of the Blogosphere. Here's how it works...Read more...

Please visit our WAHM bloggers for more fun and useful information.

*Hawaii WAHMs created for work at home moms living and working in the Aloha State, who are either business owners or direct sales representatives.*

About WAHMS

Everyone has dreams about working from home. As work at home moms, we get many of our business ideas and inspiration from the things that we have passion for. For example, love that perfume...I bet I could get others to buy it too. Or, I know a lot about books - I'm sure I could promote reading and sell books. But as many experienced WAHMs know, loving a product or service does not make you a successful WAHM.

We have learned that an important element in success is market research. Start from the beginning and do your research. Find out what sells and what does not. You can start by doing research on the internet or even do a Google search on your product and see what kind of competition is out there. By finding about your competition, you'll be aware of the kind of promotion and work you need to do to get your name out into the public eye. Don't assume that your passion will drive others to buy your product. This is knowledge gained through our own personal experiences.

If only we had someone to tell us this in the beginning - before we started! Unfortunately, we don't have the daily support of colleagues and may find ourselves working alone most of the time. And like all parents we juggle the schedules of our family along with our work. When business does not live up to our expectations, we often feel like giving up and many of us do. We don't have encouragement from co-workers or bosses. We don't have the push for training or opportunities to better our skills and knowledge - everything comes from within. Our own commitment and desires push us forward. When you feel like you've hit a dead end, it can be very discouraging not to have answers and not knowing where to go from there.

It's important for WAHMs to network, share ideas and provide encouragement and feedback to each other. We hope if you're a WAHM here in Hawaii, you'll consider joining our group to share your area of expertise with us or maybe you could even learn a little here too.

If you're not a WAHM but know of resources where we can enrich ourselves in this ever changing business environment, we'd love to hear from you!

Thank you to those who read our blog! Thank you to our customers. You are our inspiration and our hope!

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Been a while...sorry!

Hi everyone! So sorry it's been such a long time since I submitted a blog entry...

I actually started my own blog about choices for maternity care in Hawai`i: www.maternitycarechoiceshawaii.wordpress.com/

After seeing the film, "The Business of Being Born" something inside me came alive and now I'm passionate about learning about birth and information that is not always easily available.

So aside from being the sales rep for Moby Wraps which is going very well=), the discussion leader over at hawaiimoms.com, now I've become inthralled with birth!

Another project that I'm working on is, "The Business Case for Breastfeeding". If you are or know of a woman who would like to continue nursing/breastfeeding after returning to work and would like some help approaching their employer, please send me a note!

Here's some info regarding skin-to-skin from the brochure 'Clinical Benefits of the Moby Wrap Baby Carrier:

What is skin-to-skin? - "Skin-to-Skin" is contact between the baby's front and the mother's chest. Usually baby is in a diaper and parent or caregiver is bare-chested.

According to Dr. William Sears, practicing skin-to-skin and babywearing has benefits for the whole family:

• Lowers baby's and mother's stress hormones
• Increases baby's weight
• Increases amount baby sleeps
• Decreases amount baby cries
• Helps prevent colic
• Boosts mom's milk production
• Increases baby's overall health

"The mother's skin is the baby's natural environment, and both physically and emotionally the healthiest place for it to be."-Dr. Nils Bergman

Introduction: Keiki Gift Ideas

Hi Everyone! Thank you for visiting HawaiiWAHMS.blogspot.com. I will be contributing my ideas and writing to you as “Keiki Gift Ideas”. I hope you find my thoughts interesting, fun and useful. I have an Etsy store by the same name where I sell handmade products for children and anyone else “young at heart”. I also share my ideas through tutorials at http://keikigifts.qassia.com/. I hope you have a chance to visit my Etsy shop and work on some projects that I have posted on Qassia. I have been part of the Hawaii WAHMs group since it’s inception in 2005 and have found friendship and support through its members. Please visit our WAHM directory to find products and services unique to Hawaii and come back to our blog again. Mahalo for your support!




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