Monday, October 20, 2008

Peanut Butter Bars!

Wow!! I almost don't dare to post on the blog after the ridiculous intrusion on the last one! However, I promised Kristin and I think a couple other people I would post the recipe of these delightful...

Peanut Butter Bars!
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups quick oats
2 cups flour

Cream butter and sugars, blend in eggs, peanut butter and then dry ingredients. (will be sticky).
Press into a greased jelly-roll pan and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Than sprinkle with chocolate chips and let them melt the nspread. After they cool a little put on the frosting.

FROSTING:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
4-8 T. evaporated milk.
Mix well then drizzle over the chocolate chips!
Then you have heaven!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Fluoride = Poison?

Kim Swain here and I have an experience to share.
I am always amazed at the astounding ignorance of Utah County citizens when it comes to the subject of water fluoridation. So I was at church this morning and one of the ladies in my ward told me that she can no longer fill her prescription for fluoride supplement tablets for her children at the pharmacy. Why?? Because almost every other area of the country except Utah County has fluoridated water and the extra supplements are no longer being produced.
I just find it ironic that the place with the highest concentration of Mormons in the entire world, the nucleus of super-moms is so ignorant and backwards on the subject of oral health. We are supposed to take care of childrens' physical well-being, right? And we have more kids here than almost anywhere. Yet, it's a government conspiracy and unsafe to add Fluoride to our public water sources. Even though it is the most cost effective cavity prevention and reaches the at risk population the best out of any method available. It is toxic and unnatural and they don't want it.
We all hear stories all the time about moms taking their kids to the dentist and finding out his teeth are rotting out of his head and the traumatic dental experiences that follow. Of course, putting fluoride in the water isn't a cure all but we all know many of those horrible experiences could be avoided if people here would just realize what the rest of the country has already figured out.
Ok, obviously this is a sore subject for me and gets me very irate and I just wanted to rate to people who understand what I'm talking about.