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Your Weekend Guide from RI Blogger!

With Christmas just around the corner, this weekend is loaded with a variety of indoor and outdoor holiday events, activities and attractions. From Christmas classic theater productions, ugly sweater contests, visits from Santa to holiday concerts. The weekend has something for everyone. Highlights include a Holiday Concert with jazz legend, Greg Abate at Linden Place in Bristol, Holiday Light Train Rides at Harmony Products in Chepachet, Breakfast with Santa at Hometown Tavern in Warren, Santa’s Workshop Festival with crafting, music & Santa at Pump House Music Works in Wakefield and a Holiday Sweater Party & Tree Lighting at Twelve Guns Brewery in Bristol. Here’s everything that’s happening this weekend and beyond! New events are being added every day, so check...

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Christmas Themed Veggie Tray – Buddy the Elf

Christmas Themed Veggie Tray – Buddy the Elf A Christmas themed veggie tray is the perfect item to take to a holiday party. It’s festive, tasty, AND good for you! What’s not to love!? I’m Bri, your Healthy Hostess and party stylist, from Parties With A Cause and I love finding ways to make healthy party food more fun. Creating simple food art is my favorite way and I’ll show you how to re-create this Buddy the Elf tray today. Disclosure Simple Christmas Veggie Tray Ingredients Choose your favorite veggies for this healthy Christmas themed tray, then finish it off with some black olive Elf shoes and red pepper feather! Green Veggies: Broccoli Sugar Snap Peas Celery Cucumber Green Bell...

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Healthy Sesame Mushroom, Tofu, and Asparagus Stir-Fry [Vegan, Gluten-Free]

This hearty stir-fry is made with fresh, crisp-tender asparagus, savory mushrooms, and tofu. The stir-fry sauce is made with hoisin, soy sauce, chili-garlic sauce, and some cornstarch while black and white sesame seeds add nuttiness and some crunch. The post Healthy Sesame Mushroom, Tofu, and Asparagus Stir-Fry [Vegan, Gluten-Free] appeared first on One Green Planet.

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$100 a Month For Groceries – Week 50 of 52

We woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow on the ground, which was nice… but I feel like it’s really not officially winter around here until there’s at least a good 6 inches or more on the ground.  Oh well, a girl can dream, right?  I didn’t buy anything from the grocery store last week, mostly because I have everything I need {we bought milk last week} but I did scan the Hannaford ad for this week and found a few gems. Avocados $0.89 each Oranges $0.89 a pound Asparagus $2.69 a pound {Shaw’s has it for less but you have to jump through hoops to get it at the lower price.} $2.69 a pound while not...

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HAL Nieuw Statendam

Click here for picturesThe ship can hold 2666 passengers and 1036 crew. Our captain was Noel O’Driscoll (from Ireland), the hotel director was Mustafa Gulbahar, Food and Beverage Director was Niek Van Der Kolk and our Cruise and Travel director was Bettyann Chun. We had open seating for dinner and had to make a reservation every night. Our cabin was 8047 and our cabin stewards were Adi and Egen.Day 1 Saturday, December 03, 2022, EmbarkationWe got to the port around 10am and checked in easily. We were in Group 1. We got on the ship around 11:30 and got our cabin keys which were in the mail slot by our cabin. Then we went to the Lido deck for lunch....

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