Grill Warning: Use These Tips To Stop Grease Fires

Grease fires are unfortunately an all too common danger in the cooking, and especially the barbecue, and live fire outdoor kitchen environment. Meats marbled with fat, and poultry dripping oil directly on to an open flame can cause real problems for the apathetic pit master. When you set out to grill use extra caution with high fat content meats like ground beef, sausages and skin on meats like chicken and pork.

Of course you should never leave any open flame unattended. It takes mere moments for flare ups to run out of control. By the time you walk inside the house to get a beverage in the refrigerator you could have a blaze on the kettle grill.

First, if you expect dripping oil or any pooling grease at all consider using a drip pan and an indirect heat source (off set flame or coals) before you cook.

Place a sturdy aluminum pan filled with water (juice or beer may be nice) under the grate beneath the meat or drips. This will avoid major flare ups and protect succulent meats from over cooking. Indirect heat like this is usually desired for cuts thicker than the palm of your hand.

Second, make sure you start with a clean grill. A dirty grill can mean pooling oil and grease that can ultimately flare up.

Third, have a dry chemical fire extinguisher handy whenever grilling. It's O.K. to use the one temporarily from the kitchen (you DO have one in your kitchen right)? Baking soda can also be used to stop a small grease fire. You may need a lot (and baking flour!)

Fourth, NEVER spray water on a grease fire. It will most likely flare up and spread.

Fifth, In the kitchen you can often cover a grease fire with a pan lid. to cut off oxygen. This is very difficult on a grill grate. A heavy wool or flame retardant blanket can sometimes smother a flame.

And finally do not try to move the flaming material. Turn off the burners and if all else fails get away and call 911.

Flare ups can be a real danger with live fire cooking. Keep charcoal grills off wood decks and all grills clear of vinyl siding. In fact its good practice to remove any and all flammable material at least ten feet away from active and hot grills and barbecues. This includes the ground (dry grass can catch fire in an instant in the dry summer months). Use some advance planning and keep it safe. Visit Barbecue Tricks for more tricks and tips to make your cook out fun, delicious, and danger free.

Is Your Lawyer or Law Firm Bragging That They Have You or Your Company As a Client - Loose Lips

Social networks can be dangerous if you are someone who owns a small business. It's far too easy to give important information away, details about your company that your competition can use against you. I am always amazed at how many small business owners list their clients, and have their customers come and post information about themselves on their profile page. As soon as they do that, they just alerted the competition that they are a buyer of those types of goods or services, therefore the competition might try to "friend them" and steal them away.

Of course, this is not the only thing that business owners and entrepreneurs do that can hurt them in the competitive world of business. Often business owners talk too much about their future plans, and what they are doing to their vendors, customers, employees, government inspectors that come in, and even their law firm. Oh, now I have your attention. You probably thought that lawyers have a strict code due to the "client privilege rules" well, I would suggest to you that you shouldn't kid yourself.

Lawyers and law firms often brag about their client lists and even if your lawyer personally never mentions that you are a client, someone else at the law firm might mention it. They know things about your business that you don't want your competition to know, and they are liable to spill the beans in casual conversation at the bar, the local watering hole that is, if not the actual bar. And they do it all the time. In fact, I noted that one of the law firms I used when I was in business, often bragged about its client in its brochures, even listed a few on the website.

They were actually using the brand names of larger corporations which they represent as proof that their law firm was worthy of taking on new clients. Perhaps even worthy of charging you increased legal fees for services. This can be a real problem in a competitive world, and I would submit to you that loose lips sink ships, and it is often people you don't suspect that are giving away your company's most important information and intellectual property.

A lawyer at the law firm you use could discuss a negotiation with a new vendor, and upcoming merger, or any of a number of things that can hurt you competitively in the marketplace. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

What Are the Benefits of Eating a Salad Every Day?

Salad recipes with chicken is a popular type of salad at home and in restaurants as well. Eating a salad a day could be a simple thing to do but it can change your life dramatically while enjoying the rich menu of salad choices.

To start with, a salad normally contains vegetables and it does not matter which salad you prefer, you will find this as the best way to provide your body the veggie and fruit that you need. There are lots of people who are not comfortable eating vegetables and fruits. To solve this issue you can create salads recipes with chicken that may contain these vegetables and fruits which can really help boost your health.

Being part of your total health a salad can likewise help lower the danger of having cancer. Because there are lots of vegetables that has antioxidants a salad a day can essentially help lower the possibility of having this life threatening illness.

Another great benefit of eating salads recipes with chicken a day is weight loss. Are you aware that those who include salad in their diet will feel hungry less frequently? This is because of the high fiber content of the salad. These high fiber foods do not only help to improve the function of the digestive tract that can aid in lowering your weight but it may also help boost your metabolism while acting as a natural colon cleanser. Because most individuals do not have enough fiber in their diets a salad every day could be a great help in your bowel movement.

Naturally, salads recipes with chicken are low in calorie that helps you complete your plate with lots of other healthy foods. Of course it is best to eat a low-calorie dressing and make sure that you use it with moderation. It might look like as a healthier alternative but fat free dressing blocks some of the best benefits of consuming that salad. It is best if you choose a dressing which has at least some fat for best health benefits.

If you are thinking of making some healthy changes in your lifestyle and are not actually certain where and how you will start, eating salads recipes with chicken for lunch every day is a good start. By doing this you will have a better chance to get a healthier body and likewise gives you lots of choices for the ways that you will be satisfied and a chance to eat out at various restaurants. Consuming a salad a day could simply beat out the apple as the best way to keep the doctor away.

Renting Property and How to Find Letting Agents in Milton Keynes UK

Background on Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes is one of the foremost up and coming places to live in the UK, with excellent road and rail links not only to London, but to other major cities in the UK including Manchester and Birmingham. Milton Keynes has so much to offer and attracts people from a multitude of different backgrounds which in turn brings a broad cultural and exciting environment to live, work and play. Situated in the middle of the UK you are never far away from the countryside whilst you can also experience all that city life has to offer.

Milton Keynes can boast excellent employment opportunities, living environments and recreational facilities in one of the UKs fastest growing areas. If you want to know more about what Milton Keynes has to offer then a good starting point is MKweb.

Useful Links

MKweb website with Information on Milton Keynes and surrounding area.

Multimap - Where is Milton Keynes?

Renting in Milton Keynes

There is a wide range of property available within Milton Keynes, everything from 1 bedroom maisonettes and bungalows, town houses suitable for growing families to large detached properties. All these range in price ensuring that no matter how much income there is available you should find a home in Milton Keynes.

The first thing to do before starting your rental search is to know how much you can afford to pay each month/week. Once your budget is decided then you can begin your research. The first and most obvious place is the internet. It is essential that you know what you can get for your money per month or per week before contacting the letting agents.

A good idea is to get a broad view of what property you can get for your budget, the best way is to check the online property portals. These offer properties that are available from a number of letting agents and give a vast selection so you will be able to get a general idea of costs from a number of letting agents in one place (saving time on trawling through 10s of websites). All of them offer either:-

Multiple Emailing Service

Email service to all agents advertised on the site, sending details of your requirements. The agent then contacts you with property details that may apply.

and/or

Property Specific Email Service

Email service to send directly to the letting agent your interest in a specific property advertised.

and/or

Website Click Throughs

Click through to advertised letting agents own websites.

A good example of a portal is Rentright Residential Property Letting Portal - Milton Keynes Page from here you can either email agents directly about your general requirements or you can refine your search and send email about specific property advertised on the site.

Rentright is only one of many property portals, if you do not find what you require from one then you may find it on another.

What to do next?

Make a note of the areas that you have found interesting property and then you can begin on the second phase of planning. This is the "area" research. People will always have different requirements of what they want, for example some people want quick access to the Motorway, or need to be on a bus route to the City Centre or maybe the local schools are important and the catchments areas. To find information like this then I would recommend a website such as Upmystreet, from here you can find a whole host of information to aid you in your decision of whether you would like to live in that area and it meets your requirements.

Shortlist

Once you have researched the areas and feel confident of the suitability then, if you have already found a property/properties of interest on the internet contact the letting agent and arrange a viewing. If not then you may consider visiting the agents websites directly and registering your details or making a trip to the town to visit the agents personally. Remember that it is also best to visit a property at different times of the day in order to get the overall picture of the area.

Top Tips

Fix your budget Research available property on the internet Research the areas where you have a property interest for suitability Contact Letting Agents to arrange viewings Re-visit an area on different occasions

The Cost Of A Winter Holiday

It's something that one assumes everyone knows, namely how much is a week's skiing? But I watched something with Eddie Edwards (yes, "the eagle") some woman and some PR bloke from Austria and it dawned on me that perhaps people might like to be told.

Skiing (when I say skiing I mean sliding on snow holidays, boarders don't get your noses out of joint, it's just skiing is a shorter word to type) has always been considered expensive, there was a democratising of price that went on during the eighties and until quite recently, but now you'd be lying to say it was cheap, although perhaps we had more money then.

The papers and PR mouthpieces always try and say "good value yada, yada" - do not believe it, in truth I reckon you're looking at the best part of a grand in any currency for a week per person.

There are three ways you can do the holiday: a hotel - up to you how much you spend, self catering or package. The latter former: A week's ski is usually about GBP500 a head (could be a bit less, could be almost double on the busy half-term week) but as a yardstick a monkey is what you're looking at. This includes flights, transfers, an evening meal (with booze) with breakfast and usually an afternoon tea after leaving the pistes.

Now, when you see 500 it looks to be a deal, BUT (do you like big buts?) this does not include lunch (usually), does not include a ski pass - Eur200 and does not include ski hire - Eur100. There is also one night a week where you will not get fed as the chalet staff are entitled to one night off - perish the thought that enough staff be employed to cover this contingency.

So there you go, the best part of a grand, but this will come with peace of mind. Now the other type of holiday is your self-catering. I'm going to say for a two bedroom apartment in some comfort (such as Alice in Monetier) you're looking at Eur1000 for low-season and say Eu1500 for higher, more if it's half term. Of course you can squeeze your mates in on the sofa-bed, but aren't you getting a bit old for that? I's not 18-30 you know. So let's say Eur300 p/p for a bed.

Flights say Eur100 p/p, could be less, could be more, but as a working figure it's about right. Transfers: Eur50 each way p/p. Or a hire car. The airports that serve Serre Chevalier are Turin and Grenoble with Lyon only 20 minutes beyond that. Car hire is about Eur150 a week.

So we're up to Eur400 right there. Ski pass and hire brings you to Eur700 and I'd say you'd get change out of Eur100 for a supermarket shop for a week, with booze, you do get the ability to make a lunch up, so that makes up for paying rather a lot for food on the hill.

I wish I could say eating on the piste is good value, but you're probably looking at Eur20 p/p per meal. For a family of four that's Eur480 over the week. Yes you can have a sandwich and a bowl of onion soup, always the most economical and hearty, in which case you can pay less. Not certain kids would understand why they can't have a can of coke, but there you go.

Chuck in lessons, that's another Eur100 for the class. There are some places that do bundles lessons, ski-pass and ski hire, such as the Serre Che-based Ski Connections, this can help shave points off the price and are worth investigating. There are some deals to be had, but for the packages these are usually in January or April, the price soars in school holiday times - and anyway why be on the slopes when they are full of kids?

In truth skiing is expensive, but man is it worth it.

Natural Pain Management!

Life in today's hectic society is going more and more in the direction of fast foods, sugar in all sorts of foods you would never think should be there, trans fatty acids, preservatives and pesticides, which we consume in large amounts every year. We even go so far as to invent foods, such as artificial sugars which your body may or may not recognize as actual food.

We are bombarded with hormones in most of our meats and dairy products. There is mounting evidence that many girls are maturing physically at a much younger age because of this.

With all this going on, it's no wonder that our immune systems are on overload and physical ailments are growing in leaps and bounds. Pain in some cases, is what some people's lives revolve around.

Lets look at pain. It is your signal that injury, disease or too much strain has occurred on the body. Without it you wouldn't know that something needs to be addressed. Even mild pain can limit your activities, which in turn can lead to a loss of strength, endurance and flexability.

Chronic pain can be on and off or be consistent. If you are like most people, you'll reach for over the counter drugs or prescription drugs. This is what the drug companies would love for you to do.

If you suffer from pain there are many more options for you to explore than drugs or surgery. With vitamins, minerals and herbs lacking in our daily foods, you may want to consider a nutritionist to assist in establishing healthy diet and exercise program. Supplements, and organic foods, may improve your immune system's ability to repair the body and should reduce pain.

There are also other natural remedies that can enhance your nutritional handling such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, relaxation techniques such as deep breathing or yoga.

I hope this helps.