Do to my California siesta we had no Mondays with Marjie last week. We’re making up for it today with this amazing link Marjie sent me to an Anderson Cooper article featuring a nutritional breakthrough and the research of Doctors without Borders relief group.
It’s cheap, easy to make, and even easier to use. What is this miraculous cure? As CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports, it’s a ready-to-eat, vitamin-enriched concoction called “Plumpynut,” an unusual name for a food that may just be the most important advance ever to cure and prevent malnutrition.
This inexpensive, peanut butter flavored, non-refrigerated miracle paste seems to be the answer to one of the world’s largest problems of malnutrition.
My heart beats for solving global poverty and hunger, so reading about this wonder plumpynut-potion makes me want to donate every tub of Jiff in my cupboard to Doctors without Borders. [I wonder if they can do anything with my extra navy beans?]
Here’s the UNICEF video of the wonder paste, aka “plumpynut”
July 7, 2008 at 3:42 pm |
*brought to you by the makers of Vitameatavegamin*
i’m just sayin.
July 7, 2008 at 4:03 pm |
i’m sorry. was that mean?
i was just having an “i love lucy” moment. that’s all.
that doesn’t silence my “big yay” for ways to stop malnutrition.
July 7, 2008 at 5:06 pm |
I know it was not the point of the post…
but I am slightly in love with Anderson Cooper…
July 7, 2008 at 5:07 pm |
and by slightly, I mean, if he asked me to, I would marry him…
July 7, 2008 at 5:09 pm |
and by marry him I mean.. like for real if he could be the spritual leader of our home.. and not work so much.. and …. I have a very unrealistic cruch on Anderson Cooper… did I ever tell you that I wanted my radio name to be Julie Cooper? Because of that… I think that if it wouldn’t crush my parents I would change my name to julie cooper…
What do you say doc?
July 7, 2008 at 7:10 pm |
i need to “ditto” julie cooper.
anderson is one fine lookin’ man.
and i just wonder why they couldn’t come up with a better name than “plumpynut” for the answer to the world’s nutrition problems.
July 7, 2008 at 10:42 pm |
Oh mandy mac! Way to bring in the ever-fun-lovin life of lucy!!! Did you know she and I share birthdays! I heart her gloriously!!!!!!! And I’m hearing your big-yeah and raising you a woot-woot.
Julie Cooper…I like it. That hottie would make me a good brother-in-law… Just in case you needed the approval.
HA! Alece, you are sooo right on w/ that thought. I also wonder what they call it in Niger. I like my idea of calling it Miracle Paste. [In honor of the taminator, "I'm just sayin'"]
July 7, 2008 at 11:00 pm |
uhhh…mark just informed me that Anderson Cooper, uh, plays on a different playground…um, so Jules, we’ll find another, for better or worse!
July 7, 2008 at 11:47 pm |
no way. are you sure? i know someone who’s going to be heartbroken at that news…
July 8, 2008 at 1:15 am |
Yay!!! Great new post!
Me? Yell?
It was just a gentle prod for more meat to chew.
Thank you for delivering.
I ♥ your ♥
Seriously.
July 8, 2008 at 8:07 am |
alece, aren’t you already married???????
the other lucy – the one from peanuts – the brat – well, i’ve been nicknamed after her. and alece seems to like that name for me. twisted blogworld we live in.
July 8, 2008 at 9:55 am |
i’m not the one who’s going to be heartbroken… calm down, lucy-pants.
oh so much love floating around the blogosphere…
July 8, 2008 at 1:20 pm |
but you ditto-ed her!!! and she said she’d marry him.
*cough* *cough* *ahem*
lucy-pants.
that’s a keeper for dang sure.
and you can be leecy-pants. k?
ps: how did you bold yourself up there? teach me the code, please ma’am.
July 8, 2008 at 1:42 pm |
alright, alright, alright…
and… here’s my trick:
and then the stuff you want to bold
but don’t put the spaces in the code. i just did that so you could see what the code is.
give it a try…
July 8, 2008 at 1:43 pm |
dangit.
even with spaces, it converted it to code. smart, wordpress… smart.
you know those lovely little code brackets ()? use that with a b in the middle of them (like a b bracket sandwich) to start things off. then type whatever you want bolded. then do the b bracket sandwich again, but before the b type a /.
that seems like such a confusing way to explain what is really not that difficult…
July 8, 2008 at 1:44 pm |
holy crow. it ate my brackets. i had brackets in those parenthesis.
it’s the less than and greater than symbols.
maybe separate lines will work:
bold
July 8, 2008 at 1:44 pm |
dangit.
this wordpress is too smart for its own good.
i give up.
July 8, 2008 at 1:50 pm |
HAHAHAHA!!!!
wow.
that was too stinkin funny.
thank you for trying.
July 8, 2008 at 4:16 pm |
Did you ladies all know I was suppose to be a stand-in look-a-like for Anderson Cooper. You can call me at 1-800-hot papa !!
P.S. I hate peanut Butter!
July 8, 2008 at 4:35 pm |
1-800-hot-papa!?!? THAT is so great! thanks for the laugh.
July 8, 2008 at 4:35 pm |
p.s. i love peanut butter.
July 8, 2008 at 5:49 pm |
HOT PAPA!!!!!!!!!!!
does mama know you have your own 1-800 number, sir?
July 8, 2008 at 7:35 pm |
i’m peeing my pants over here.
you guys keep me young.
oh. wait.
i’m younger than all of “ya’ll”.
ha!
and papa…your 800 number is rock-star amazing!
p.p.s…I only like peanut butter w/ it’s strawberry counterpart. Do you think plumpynut comes w/ strawberry preserves for pb snobs like me?
July 8, 2008 at 7:36 pm |
alece…you formatting genius…wordpress just does this to keep you humble, you know that, don’t you?
July 8, 2008 at 7:43 pm |
Ohh brother…
and he is NOT…
I can’t keep up with the rest…
but he IS NOT…
Mark needs to shut up…
July 8, 2008 at 7:49 pm |
glad you got a good laugh out of all us old folks.
and yeah, i’ll take off my humble badge now.
July 8, 2008 at 8:13 pm |
julie…just remember that the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain. that’s all.
Alece…you should read my most recent book, “how to be humble like me” it should be a best seller!
July 8, 2008 at 8:18 pm |
i wrote the foreword for it, what are you talkin’ about?!
July 8, 2008 at 9:21 pm |
michelle, did I tell you that I heart your heart too…i didn’t want to miss that one! I do, sweet thang, I do! And I’m so thankful for your prodding…you make me feel loved and appreciated every single time!
July 8, 2008 at 9:22 pm |
it’s true, alece! I totally forgot…it was also funded by mandy mac’s latest album, “sing like me”. Great reviews on amazon, really.
July 8, 2008 at 10:06 pm |
???
July 8, 2008 at 11:34 pm |
whaaaaat?
July 9, 2008 at 1:02 am |
we have a whole “like me” collection, don’t we? we should start a jabez-type marketing strategy, complete with “be like me” bracelets, bookmarks, journals, coasters, and candles.
July 9, 2008 at 7:53 am |
oh, alece, what would I have done w/o you?!?! Promise me we’ll have corny-too-many-flowers-and-overly-girlish designed mugs! Please!!!
July 9, 2008 at 8:08 am |
“sing like me”
“be like me”
no, ladies.
i wouldn’t buy it…
i don’t even wanna be like me.
July 9, 2008 at 8:10 am |
well, i would buy them if they said something upbeat like:
“I think I’d like myself better if I were someone else.”
i’m sorry. i think i’m having a hormonal moment.
might need to warn drew to stay away today, for fear of biting his head off.
wait.
i already did.
dang it.
now i’m gonna have to apologize.
July 9, 2008 at 11:11 am |
cathi — a big YES to the mugs!!
mandy — “i don’t even wanna be like me.” i say that very same thing. a lot. sorry to hear about your icky morning…
July 9, 2008 at 11:53 am |
leecy-pants: let’s come up with a new mantra! want to???
July 9, 2008 at 12:09 pm |
sure. whatchagot?
July 9, 2008 at 1:10 pm |
ummmm……….
well.
i’m thinking.
hhhmmmm…
dang.
nuthin’
i got nuthin’
July 9, 2008 at 1:10 pm |
OH!
How ’bout:
Don’t Believe the Lies!
I’m as Perfect as Apple Pie!!!
July 9, 2008 at 1:11 pm |
but, wait,
i don’t really like apple pie. even when it’s smothered in vanilla icecream.
i guess that just brings me right back to where we started.
maybe you like apple pie???
July 9, 2008 at 1:18 pm |
i love apple pie. appley desserts are my favorite kind and only available to me here in america (or when i make them from scratch back in SA). whenever possible, i order appley desserts anytime i can.
but… since you don’t like apple pie, that can’t be our mantra.
July 9, 2008 at 1:48 pm |
uh oh.
we don’t have a mantra.
what are we gonna do??!!!
where’s cathi to rescue us?!?
July 9, 2008 at 5:00 pm |
I got it!!!
We’ll bring in philosophy and have our mantra as “if i weren’t me, who would I be?”
July 9, 2008 at 9:39 pm |
catchy.
hmmm.
this sounds much more reflective than affirming…
nonetheless, it’s much better than my sad suggestions!
[i promise i haven't been critical and negative all day. i don't exist as Eeyore anywhere else in life right now. i promise.]
July 9, 2008 at 10:54 pm |
eeyore was always my favorite, you should know.
July 10, 2008 at 12:09 am |
there’s no better place to be eeyore than here!
[just avoid the jumpers w/ the characters jumping out of the pockets...those make me want to gag]
July 10, 2008 at 12:45 am |
“no jumpers.”
there’s a motto for ya.
July 10, 2008 at 8:50 am |
‘no jumpers’
‘no jumpers’
‘no gagging’
‘no gagging’
so – i woke up with “every rose has it’s thorn” playing in my head this morning. does that make me crazy?
and, leecy-pants, i hope you don’t mind that i genuinely laughed that eeyore was your favorite!
July 10, 2008 at 10:40 am |
i don’t mind one bit.
July 10, 2008 at 10:55 am |
does it make me crazy that i don’t know what song that is???? (GASP!)
July 10, 2008 at 11:10 am |
so, I just read this…and again, I’m so ultimately AMAZED & SHOCKED that we had the same stinking song stuck in our heads this morning. Mark said it was on the tv show that I watch for pure guilty pleasure [the OC] last night…did you watch that too, or are we just kindred spirits separated by 10 hours of asphalt?
Alece, Eeyore can be our mascot! I’ve always wanted a mascot!!!!!!!!!!