Beware

Easter's coming so I thought, why not?

And a Happy St. Patrick's Day to those who celebrate!

In other news, I received this email first thing yesterday morning from my bank:

'Dear Client,

As per our database update, your online account with us is currently suspended.
If you want to enable your account, please verify and complete your personal information.
To launch the verification process, please follow the link below and follow the proposed procedures.
Please follow the link below to continue,... Your access will be recovered within the next 24 hrs.'

I was honestly alarmed as the email contained the bank logo and seemed quite real. Fortunately, I decided not to click the link and to try logging into my account online. It worked fine. Then I took a closer look at the email and realized it had no real contact information other than this 'link'. Almost certainly this is a dangerous hoax and I have emailed the real bank with a copy of this letter so they can be aware of this incident.

Be careful everyone!

Get your Dark Chocolate!

According to this article, dark chocolate will help ward off pancreatic cancer.  So a single square, an ounce will provide a quarter of your day's magnesium needs!  I think it's reason enough to add dark chocolate to my daily diet how about you?  Magnesium is also found in spinach, cashews, sunflower seed and pumpkins seeds.

Dill Pickles and some other recipes

Here's my favourite chocolate bar of the moment. It's Cadbury fruit and nut dark chocolate. It has just the right amount of sweetness to counteract the bitterness of a dark chocolate. Sort of like finding the perfect coffee, lol. Of course it goes down so easily you might end up eating more of it than you intended. Their burnt almond flavour is also good when I can't find the fruit and nut kind.

Dark Chocolate

If you are a pickle maker, I found a recipe for refrigerator dill pickles - salt free from the Heart and Stroke foundation.

And it's time for those summer salads!

Here's a recipe for potato salad from Whole Foods that I'm going to try.

Here's another easy recipe from Whole Foods for Refrigerator Pickled Slaw that I'm also going to try.