Throw a Labor Day party with leftovers

Summer's almost over, but there's time for one more party — and it doesn't have to cost a fortune. Here's how to use leftover seasonal items — from beach towels to sand pails — to throw a fun and beautiful Labor Day get-together.

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Do you know what’s in your cleaning products?

Like many consumers, Lindsay Allen places a priority on using green products to clean her home, where she lives with her husband and two small children. Her desire to use environmentally friendly products grew out of an incident that happened when she was a young girl: Her father was injured on a job where he was exposed to toxins.

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Spa-tacular! Organic beauty goes virtual

What happens when a cosmetology school dropout named Spirit is unable to open the organic spa of her dreams?

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The season has arrived when home cooks break out the heavy-duty pots and pans, and turn to their cool-weather repertoires, tantalizing families and guests with delectable aromas wafting from the kitchen.

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Mary Peterson of Des Moines, Washington, doesn't believe the vaccine for the novel H1N1 flu has been studied enough to get it for herself and her daughters, who are 1 and 3 years old. Mary Peterson's daughters, 3 and 1, will not be getting the new vaccine, she said.

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Do you want any of the following typical vaccine constituents injected into YOUR bloodstream?

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"It's a five-can day today," my friend Naomi Stern tells me over the phone. We both know what she means — in fact I can almost hear the click-hiss of her first Diet Coke of the morning. blockquote>

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There are two types of ingredients in shampoo. One type cleans your hair. The other type strokes your emotions. I'm holding a bottle of Pantene Pro V, one of the world's most popular shampoos. Of the 22 ingredients in this bottle of shampoo, three clean hair.

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When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, oddly spongy cheeselike stuff known as Velveeta.

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There's WHAT In My Canned Peaches? Del Monte Consumer Affairs Confirms It

I recently picked up some single-serving canned fruits at my local grocery store, which I thought would make a tasty addition to my lunch.

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Calling it "round three" in the ongoing chicken wars, El Pollo Loco this week is airing commercials in select markets pointing out an "unexpected ingredient" in rival KFC's new grilled chicken: beef powder and rendered beef fat.

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Mama Sue's Homemade Strawberry Jam;

Ingredients needed; 8 lbs of strawberries- I usually wait and get them fresh when they go on sale for 99 cents a lb, if you get the lugs,/ big box of em, they are usually cheaper then that. 3 boxes of Sure Jell / pectin; I have found this to work best for my jams, and to th …

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It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head.

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Sales of supermarkets' 'value' products have soared in the recession. But, as Jay Rayner has discovered, the quality is dire. Here he asks why highly profitable supermarkets force the poor to buy and eat such low-grade food

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Excerpt: The smoothie chain Jamba Juice plans to add oatmeal to the menu at its Chicago locations Thursday, the latest sign of how restaurants are trying to give the old-fashioned breakfast food an upscale makeover.

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Excerpt: There is a new sweetener on the horizon that may soon get FDA approval for use as an ingredient in food and beverage products here in the United States. Stevia is a shrub-like plant native to South America and part of the chrysanthemum family.

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Excerpt: Soon, everywhere you turn, someone will hold up a platter and offer you something they swear is the most delicious treat ever. But what if you have dietary limitations like diabetes, celiac disease, kidney disease or food allergies?

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Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. managed to turn a profit in the most recent quarter – despite fears that rising costs for ingredients and fuel would cut into The King Of Beers' bottom line.

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Think your food supply is safe? Did you know that about 70% of what's on your store's shelves contain genetically-modified ingredients? This article focuses on Monsanto, the agricultural company as opposed to Monsanto, the chemical company.

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Ladies, next time you reach for your favourite face cream have a peek at the label because the ingredients might be a little more exotic – or off-putting – than you realised.

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Products containing high fructose corn syrup cannot be considered 'natural' and should not be labeled as such, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has s

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The majority of food additives are safe. But manufacturers still add some ingredients best avoided--often to food products that aren't especially good for you anyway (think soft drinks or hot dogs). "Choose foods in the form closest to nature," advises dietician Joanne Larsen.

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Desserts are meant to sweeten your mouth, but are they also meant to empty out your pockets?

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The Department of Agriculture has proposed 38 ingredients that could be put in "USDA organic"-labeled foods even though they are not grown organically.

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Five ingredients come from rocks.

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Drinking too many calories Be mindful of beverages loaded with sugar, corn syrup, juice, and cream.

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A delicious blend of sugar, wax, and condom lube.

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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," wrote 19th-century French gastronomist Jean Anthelme Brillat-­Savarin. But without a Ph.D.

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