Ohio County Living Well – Raising Kids, Eating Right, Spending Smart Volume 6, Issue 3 March 2018

Cooperative Extension Service Ohio County P O Box 66 1337 Clay Street Hartford KY 42347 270-298-7441 Fax: 270-298-4660 Email:tiffany.calvert@uky.edu http://ces2.ca.uky.edu/ohio/

Healthy Drinks Peanut Butter Banana Breakfast Shake Recipe provided by Jennifer Meyer, RD, LMNT, Director of Nutrition Education, American Dairy Association and Dairy Council of Nebraska.

Nifty Ideas…for spring decor

Got some burlap laying around from an old project? Make this cute burlap bunny table runner. Article from KellyElko.com

Recycle vegetable or soup cans to make these Bunny Planters. –article from weknowstuff.us.com

Makes 1 serving • 1 cup fat free or low fat milk • ½ cup frozen banana slices • 1 tablespoon peanut butter • ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract • Sweet cocoa powder (optional) Combine all ingredients together in a blender and blend until smooth & creamy. Pour into a tall glass & garnish with a sprinkle of cocoa powder, if desired.

Nutritional Facts Per Serving for individual food recipe: Calories: 270; Total Fat: 9g; Saturated Fat: 2 g; Cholesterol; 5 mg; Sodium: 220 mg; Calcium: 35% Daily Value; Protein: 15 g; Carbohydrates: 35 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g

https://food.unl.edu/my-favorite-smoothie-one-easy-recipemany-variations#walnut

Freeze banana slices by slicing banana(s) & placing the slices in a single layer in a shallow metal pan.

March 2018 Flowers of the month are Violets and Jonquils

"The Crafted Gardener" Curley. Louise. 2015. is the second book by exceptional new talent, Louise Curley, who shares her passion for natural garden craft with a wider audience. These thirty or more projects and techniques will give everyone a chance to feel clever about their creativity, as they

transform twigs, sprigs, berries and stems into baubles, bunches, decorations and works of art. These are projects for indoors and out, arranged by the season, with galleries of projects to inspire, step by steps projects to copy and technique masterclasses to help readers develop their own skills. "The Crafted Garden" is about bringing the outdoors in and being inspired by nature. It's about recapturing the joy of making daisy chains, of nature tables of foraged finds as an antidote to modern life. This book relies on home-grown and foraged plant material to open up the imagination and capture seasonality, whether that's to add a touch of individuality to a dinner party or for making the perfect housewarming gift. Reuse, recycle recreate are the ideas behind each project. Louise has a growing audience through her widely read blog, readers of" The Simple Things" for magazine. Her first book, "The Cut Flower Patch," has received many plaudits, reviews and extracts, and the combination of Louise's inspiration and Jason Ingram's photography makes a compelling package. Crafting projects using garden gatherings is an increasingly popular area of interest, as people extend from grow-your-own to make-your-own. The green credentials of this book, as with" The Cut Flower Patch," will be self-evident."

Roll Call – What is your favorite sign that the Spring Season has arrived in the month of March? Quote For the Month –The stormy March has come at last, With wind and cloud, and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies. –William Cullen Bryant Dates to Remember: March 17- Quilter’s Day Out 9am-3pm; New Assembly Church March 27- Homemaker Leader Lesson Daviess County March 27 & 28- Body Walk @ OCMS March 29- Keys to Aging 1:00p.m March 29- International Tea @ Daviess Co. Extension Office 2:00p.m. April 12- Homemaker Council 9:30 a.m. April 28- Celebrate the Child- OCHS

The KEHA Cultural Arts entries must be brought to the Ohio County Cooperative Extension office no later than Friday, April 6.

Once items are judged they will be available for pick up at the Extension Office on Monday, April 16.

For more details visit the KEHA website at keha.ca.uky.edu.

Sincerely, Tiffany Calvert County Extension Agent For Family & Consumer Sciences Education

~Recipe Corner~

Ohio County Beekeepers Inc. Honey Bee School Saturday April 14, 2018 8am-4pm Ohio County Extension Office 1337 Clay Street Hartford, KY 42347 For more information contact Kristi Willoughby 270-775-2446

*Classes ranging from Beginning Beekeeper

to Queen Rearing *Something for all

stages of beekeeper skills