FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Certain Jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter

Please read if you or someone you love uses this brand

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FDA News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE P07-21 February 14, 2007

Media Inquiries: 301-827-6242Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Certain Jars of Peter Pan Peanut Butter and Great Value Peanut ButterProduct May be Contaminated With Salmonella

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to eat certain jars of Peter Pan peanut butter or Great Value peanut butter due to risk of contamination with Salmonella Tennessee (a bacterium that causes foodborne illness). The affected jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter have a product code located on the lid of the jar that begins with the number "2111." Both the Peter Pan and Great Value brands are manufactured in a single facility in Georgia by ConAgra. Great Value peanut butter made by other manufacturers is not affected.

If consumers have any of this Peter Pan or Great Value brand peanut butter in their home that has been purchased since May 2006, they should discard it.

Symptoms of foodborne illness caused by Salmonella include fever, diarrhea and abdominal cramps. In persons with poor underlying health or weakened immune systems, Salmonella can invade the bloodstream and cause life-threatening infections. Individuals who have recently eaten Peter Pan and Great Value brand peanut butter beginning with product code 2111 and have experienced any of these symptoms should contact their doctor or health care provider immediately. Any such illnesses should be reported to state or local health authorities.
FDA's warning is based on a just-completed epidemiological study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the states and local health agencies, which links 288 cases of foodborne illness in 39 states to consumption of varying types of Peter Pan peanut butter. This report was provided to FDA on February 13.

The outbreak appears to be ongoing and the first consumer may have become ill in August 2006. The cause of foodborne illnesses can be difficult to identify. As a result of extensive epidemiological testing and recent case control studies, CDC was recently able to identify Peter Pan peanut butter as the likely cause of illness. Great Value brand peanut butter beginning with product code 2111 is manufactured in the same plant as Peter Pan peanut butter and, thus, is believed to be at similar risk of contamination.

ConAgra is recalling all Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter beginning with product code 2111 that already was distributed. The company also is destroying all affected products in their possession. The company will cease production until the exact cause of contamination can be identified and eliminated. ConAgra will advise consumers to destroy any Peter Pan and Great Value brand peanut butter beginning with product code 2111 in their possession. To assist in this endeavor, FDA has sent investigators to ConAgra's processing plant in Sylvester, Georgia where the products are made to review records, collect product samples and conduct tests for Salmonella Tennessee.

FDA will provide regular updates as more information becomes available.

Consumers who have questions should contact ConAgra at 866-344-6970.

http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01563.html

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

graphic by: Country Patch Collections

I hope everyone is having a Happy Valentines Day!!

I finished my sons room around 1 this afternoon. He had a special surprise at school today. I called Grandma and had her pick him up. He just loves it when she does that! His Valentine surprise is his favorite snack(Goldfish), a paper fire truck filled with his favorite candy(m&m's), and a bouquet of lollipops! I also cut out about 60 hearts and taped them all over his room! My husband says I'm weird. I say I love showing my son how much I love him!!

I'm Back!!!

I know I have been MIA the last few days, but there has been so much going on.

I finally finished putting the kids clothes together for the area kids sale. I packed the car and took it all to the sale site today. I had over 100 pieces! I am hoping to make over $100 this time.



I also had to make something for my sons class for Valentines day. Money has been tight the last 2 weeks, so I had to come up with something I already had. I checked out the Martha Stewart website and found a great idea for lollipop flowers. I had all the materials needed so I decided to do it! I traced and cut out 80 hearts to make 20 flowers. I even added green straws for the stems!

The only problem I came across was trying to do these and get the kids clothes ready all at the same time. There were never enough hours in the day to get it all done!!

Now I am ready to make my sons Valentines present. It is a big surprise that will be waiting for him when he gets home from school. I will post pictures tomorrow!!

February's Book

My husband has a client that purchases real estate and rents the property out for a profit. He makes very good money doing this. My husband is now excited about the idea! His client gave him a book to read, and he in turn gave me the book to read. I know that my husband is very busy with work, so I will gladly read it for him! ( This goes right back to what I read in the January book about putting my husbands needs before mine!) I have chosen to make it February's book. Not the kind of book I normally read, but I will give it a chance! The guy that wrote this book has been on Oprah, and I was impressed by his ideas on the how the average person can save money for retirement. I am hoping this book has some great ideas for the real estate world. We will see!!! I will list my notes at the end of the month!

January Book.....Done

OK, I have finally finished the book! I should have read 2 chapters a day to make sure I would finish in time. Anyway, the book was amazing!! I learned so much about men, and my God given wifely role. I recommend this book to anyone that wants to improve their marriage. Below I have written little snippets that went to heart while reading. It is not the whole book. There is much more than what I list. I recommend reading the whole thing. It is heart changing!!

Making Your Husband Feel Loved


Chapter 1: Accept the Challenge Admit that you are not perfect, and admit that your husband is not perfect.

Chapter2 : Little Things Mean a Lot Learn to stop, look, and listen to your husband.

Chapter 3: Loving Him His Way You have to tell him and show him you love him in ways he can understand.

Chapter 4: Learn What to Expect From Your Relationship Our relationships with each other reflects our relationship with God.

Chapter 5: Quityerbellyaching! Count your husbands blessings, not his shortcomings.

Chapter 6: Taking Care of Daddy We should not take on the responsibility for the relationship between father and child.

Chapter 7: Six Ways to Say " I Love You" 1.Let him know he is your primary interest 2. Avoid criticism 3. Stress simplicity 4. Honor him 5. Practice unconditional love 6. Apply the golden rule.

Chapter 8: Respect Him If you want respect, give respect.

Chapter 9: Pray With Him Many problems in marriages exist because they don't depend on God for everything.

Chapter 10: Pray for Him Instead of nagging your husband, take it to God.

Chapter 11: Encourage Him A wife should be Chief Encourager to her husband.

Chapter 12: Minister Peace to Each Other Be quick to forgive, slow to anger, patient, and kind.

Chapter 13: Get Yourself a Black Negligee If you put your heart into your marriage your body will follow.

Chapter 14: Fitness is Appealing An appealing wife is one who is energetic, positive, youthful, attractive, healthy, exuberant, and full of vitality.

Chapter 15: Stay Attractive Real beauty stems from something deep inside, something God puts there, that comes through even the plainest shell.

Chapter 16: The Beauty of Holiness The most wonderful gift a wife can give her husband is to be a lady of fine character.

Chapter 17: Having Fun Together Learning to enjoy the differences instead of grinding your teeth can go a long way in your marriage.

Chapter 18: Through Tough Times Focus together on agreeing with the word of God and with each other.

Chapter 19: In Control - And Hating It Our wifely role is not to be head of the household. That is our husbands role as given by God. Trust God to build your home.

Chapter 20: When Opposites Attract Through discussion and loving compromise you may discover each others needs and how to meet them.

Chapter 21: My Brothers Middle Name is Sandpaper It is important to talk about what makes you angry and deal with it before the day is over.

Chapter 22: When He Doesn't Talk to You The greater language is the language of the heart.

Chapter 23: When He's Not a Christian Don't talk to him about God, talk to God about your husband!

Conclusion: In marriage we are not individuals. We are a team, partners for a purpose. Many times unrest in a marriage should not be blamed on your husband, but on the enemy, Satan.

Copyright © 1997 by Betty Malz.

Kindred Spirits Journal - Grocery Shopping

Today's email from Kindred Spirits Journal. This is a good one!
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Two Methods of Grocery Shopping

1. Needs shopping - You buy what you need now at the best price possible and enough to last until you go shopping again.

2. Reserve shopping - You buy what’s on sale even if you don’t need it now so that you don;’‘t have to overpay for it when you do need it. Reserve shopping is the process of building a small in-house grocery store. When it’s time to make dinner you visit your own store.

Needs shopping is, in my opinion, a flawed system. Even the most diligent shopper - who shops with cash, builds the week’s menus around what’s on sale, and is careful to avoid all impulsive purchases - will eventually need something that is not on sale. That’s what the stores count on. When you pay full price for some of the items in your cat, the store’s plan works. They win. Mission accomplished.

Consider this needs shopping dilemma: You need mayonnaise. The best price today is $2.99 a quart for the store brand. You need it; you buy it. It’s not a horrible deal but it’s not great.

Four weeks ago at the high-priced supermarket across town where they do crazy things like double coupons to attract shoppers, the quart size of Hellman’s mayonnaise (aka Best Foods, the Cadillac of mayonnaise among those who rate their condiments), was on sale: 2/$5. That same week there was a $.75 manufacturers coupon for Hellman’s mayonnaise in the Sunday paper.

Here’s the way that deal would have played out had you been aware of the sale and clipped that all-important coupon: $2.50 for one quart, less $1.50 for the coupon ($.75 x 2 = $1.50). Final price for the Hellman’s: $1. That beats your store-brand deal by 66%.

As a needs shopper this is your dilemma: You need it now. The coupon has long expired and the sale is over. So you pay $2.99 for the off-brand mayonnaise because that’s the best deal at the time you need it. To make matters worse, you discover that your friend, a reserve shopper, bought three quarts of Hellman’s for $1 each and won’t have to restock until it goes on sale again.

Reserve shopping is the best way I know to consistently pay less than half price for nae-brand groceries. This method requires a minimal investment of time and energy. It’s a reliable system - you can count on it to work for you week after week. You will enjoy a wide variety of foods in all of the food groups, including meat, produce, dairy, and household cleaning products and personal care items. Rather than coming up with menus before you go shopping, you look to the store’s sale cycles to determine your food purchases. You create menus after the fact once you go shopping in your pantry’s stockpile.

Reserve shopping is an ideal grocery method for singles, families with kids, big families, little families, seniors with no kids - for all situations. You are not narrowed into narrow selections but have lots of freedom to choose the foods you want to buy. The amount of food is limited by the amount of money you wish to spend. You simply spend up to the limit and stop.

Eventually you will have a month’s worth of groceries on hand. This insulates you against wild price fluctuations at the grocery store. You won’t find yourself running to the store for one or two things, forced to pay highly inflated full price.

When challenges come your way - you lose your job or get sick; there’s a blizzard; you’re hit with unexpected car repairs - whatever the setback, with food in the pantry, hard times are less hard.

(Excerpt from "Live Your Life for Half the Price" by Mary Hunt)


Kindred Spirits A ministry of Kindred Spirits Journal & www.biblicalwomanhood.org
...teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." Titus 2:4,5

January Scarf.....Done!

I am so glad to have the scarf finished! I didn't devote the time needed in the beginning of the month to ensure it would be completed by the end of the month. I used a basic knit stitch and made it very long.
So, you may be wondering where this scarf will go. Well, my son snatched it up! I think I was a quarter way through it when he said he really liked it and wanted it. He was so excited to get it today!
February will be red, or maybe pink. I don't know! Something Valentine colored. I am also going to choose a nicer stitch. I want this one to be girly!!

Closed the Shop

I closed my Ebay store last night. I just haven't had the time to list items. I am a week behind on housework and on my personal to do list. I am working on my website and hope to have it up and running soon. It didn't make sense to list items in my store for $15.95 a month plus $.06 per listing when I have a website for $4.95 a month. I can list as many items as I want for free! I will still run auctions through Ebay, but will list long term items on my website. It is such a huge weight off my shoulders!! And more profit!

Down Memory Lane

There are 2 women in my area that hold a semi-annual kids sale every year. I participated 2 years ago and made about $70 selling my sons baby clothes. This year I have decided to participate again.

As I was going though my sons clothing yesterday I was actually remembering when and where he wore each outfit! I can't believe that 5 years has gone by. They grow up so fast! There are certain things that I can't force myself to sell. Like the first outfit he wore in the hospital, and the first pair of shoes we bought when he was learning to walk. My husband thinks I'm crazy! But these items are very special to me. I have decided to place them in a container so that when/if my son has a son he will have them. What a joy it is to have so many happy memories!

Friday Pictures

We have several squirrels in the neighborhood, and they are pretty cute!

But there is 1 squirrel that has chosen my yard to store his groceries.

This is what I found in my front yard this morning! These are 3 separate

spots in my front yard!
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My husband came to me with this 2 days ago and asked me to make a bag!

I made an outline of the base for a pattern and came up with this!

He wasn't excited about the fabric, but I thought it matched well with the construction theme!
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I slept on the couch while I was sick with the Flu.

This is where these 2 stayed the whole time I was sick!

How sweet of them to stay with me!