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Sneaky Ways to Make Hated Vegetables Taste Good

Posted by Kiri Blakeley
on May 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM

We all know we're supposed to eat vegetables. They should be the staple of any healthy diet -- even the majority of a healthy diet. But what if you simply don't like them? What if your kids don't? What if the very sight of an artichoke or stalk of broccoli makes you wanna holla, "Gimme a slice of cake!"

There's some good news. You can gussy up veggies so that they taste better or you barely even taste them at all. Seems bizarre to me, since I love veggies, but I get it that there are people with veggiephobia.

Here's some ways of getting those veggies down and loving it:

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In The News Twisted

Mom Stabs Boyfriend After Getting Too 'Cheap' a Mother's Day Gift

Posted by Ericka Sóuter
on May 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM

flowers and cardOn the day the world celebrated its mothers, one mom stabbed the father of her two kids to death. Why? Because the Mother's Day gifts he bought her were too cheap

It's almost unimaginable, but this is the sickening reality two young Beaumont, Texas boys face after a deadly Mother's Day brawl. Paige Parkerson was charged with first degree murder after killing her boyfriend Clifton Barkin.

It was a horrific turn in what Barkin likely thought would be a sweet Mother's Day celebration. After picking up flowers and a card at Walmart that evening, he went home to Parkerson, who reportedly went ballistic over the low-budget gifts. According to Barkin's mother Evetta Wright, Parkerson expected something more expensive, like jewelry.

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Entertainment This Just In

Kim Kardashian's Producer Addresses Her Most Scandalous Rumor

Posted by Kiri Blakeley
on May 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM

Jonathan Murray is considered one of the founding fathers of reality TV. He created The Real World for MTV, and he's behind a bunch of other reality shows including The Bad Girls Club and Keeping Up With the Kardashians and its spin-offs. Now he's putting to rest one of the biggest rumors about the Kardashian series: Whether or not Kim's marriage to Kris Humphries, which lasted a mere 72 days, was staged for the cameras. Says Murray:

Kim did not seek us out as to who she should marry, nor should she. All we're doing as producers is saying, "Kim, we want to cover it." We want to shoot the marriage, hell, if they'd let us we'd go on the honeymoon with them. (They didn't let us.) We're just the people who document what happens. I would not want the responsibility of telling Kim what to do in her romantic life.

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Entertainment Flicks

Kristen Stewart Details the Hot Vampire Sex in 'Breaking Dawn: Part 2' (VIDEO)

Posted by Maressa Brown
on May 16, 2012 at 5:58 PM

kristen stewart on graham norton showAlthough the Fifty Shades of Grey flick(s) may be a ways off, we don't have to wait that much longer for sexy on-screen action between Twilight leading lovers Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart! Before heading off to Cannes, KStew appeared on the U.K. "chat show" (aren't their terms just so much more charming than ours?) The Graham Norton Show. Maybe it's because she has a thing for the Brits (obviously her BF is one!), but she didn't mind spilling on the steamier scenes we have to look forward to in Breaking Dawn: Part 2.

Apparently, the traumatic delivery of daughter Renesmee and transition to being a vampire doesn't take a toll on Bella's libido. Oh no, it has quite the opposite effect. For Edward, too! Kristen laughed while confessing to Norton that post-baby Bella is just as "randy" as she was before she becomes an undead mama.

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Technology

4 Ways Your iPhone Can Save You Money at the Store

Posted by John Biggs
on May 16, 2012 at 5:42 PM


Clipping coupons is, arguably, quite boring. So why not spice it up with a few cool iPhone apps that help you save money in stores as you jet around town? 

Coupon apps come in two varieties -- location-based, which pick up deals depending on where you are, and deal-based, which appear daily and include well-known chains and stores in your area. All of them can save you a few bucks, and most are free.

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Entertainment GossipMonger

Raven Symone May Be Gay, But Hold the 'Coming Out' Party

Posted by Maressa Brown
on May 16, 2012 at 5:39 PM

raven symoneRaven Symone has basically been famous since she could walk, so I'm pretty sure the woman doesn't really know what life is like to not have a camera in your face 24/7/365. For that reason alone, I'm sure she's not having a total cow right now about being "outed" as a lesbian by the rumor mill.

Yep. According to various gossip sites, a story is set to be published in The National Enquirer which will report that Symone is "dating androgynous model AzMarie Livingston, who competed on America's Next Top Model." Raven and AzMarie are reportedly living together in a NYC condo, and Raven's totally out to her closest circle.

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In The News That's Criminal

George Zimmerman's Injury Details Only Prove One Thing

Posted by Kiri Blakeley
on May 16, 2012 at 5:29 PM

From the beginning of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I haven't been as certain of what happened that night as a lot of other people seem to be. There are really only two people who know what happened that night, and one of them is dead. The other one thinks he knows, but he only knows his version of events. Now a medical report has been leaked to the press that says that George Zimmerman, who was arrested for the second-degree murder, suffered a "closed fracture" broken nose and two black eyes.

The Martin family has their suspicions about the medical report, which was made a day after the incident by Zimmerman's family doctor. They note that Zimmerman never went to the hospital or received medical treatment on the scene.

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In The News That's Criminal

58 Dogs & Baby Found Covered in Feces in Texas Home

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on May 16, 2012 at 5:28 PM

dog sheleterThere's vile, and then there's vile. A family of five in Parker County, Texas was arrested after authorities discovered they had 58 dogs in their small home who had been completely neglected. Thirty-one of them were discovered in crates coated with their own urine and feces, and the others were just running around without any access to food. The police were tipped off by a neighbor who could smell the decay and dishevelment from the street. Unfortunately, that's not the worst part.

In the center of the mess was an 18-month-old lying in a crib surrounded by his own waste.

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In The News Heartbreaking

Mom Who Killed 4 Kids & Self Had a Motive We'll Never Understand

Posted by Jeanne Sager
on May 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM

cemeteryA murder/suicide plot is always unsettling. But police are still struggling to find a motive for Tonya Thomas, the mom in Brevard County, Florida who killed her own children this week, before turning the gun on herself. Is it any wonder everyone and their brother are grasping at straws and second guessing them?

It goes against everything that we hold dear about motherhood. Moms are supposed to be their kids' chief protectors. Moms don't just kill their kids. But Tonya Thomas apparently did that. She killed Pebbles Johnson, 17, Jaxs Johnson, 15, Jazzlyn Johnson, 13, and Joel Johnson, 12.

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Home & Garden LOL

Yankee 'Man Candles' Are Missing These 10 Smells

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on May 16, 2012 at 4:45 PM

man candles

After Yankee Candle did a quick survey of their stores and discovered that the longest any man has stayed put within their scented shop was 0.02 seconds, they decided to develop some man-friendly aromas. Who knows if times are tough for the venerable candle makers or if they just got bored with putting gardenia in everything, but the company has come up with four new candles that are sure to entice the fellas.

No need to jump in your car and head to the nearest outlet mall because, good news, these bad boy scents are in stock and sold online. Now, in a matter of seconds, you could be the proud owner of a jar of wax that smells like "Man Town" (spices, wood, and musk), "First Down" (orange, patchouli, vetiver, and leather), "Riding Mower" (freshly cut grass), or "2x4" (freshly planed wood and sawdust).

But why stop there?

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