This month we look to Watkins for ideas to bring out the best of the season ... camping "essentials" for you and the environment; quick and easy summer recipe ideas; and healthy ways to "Watkinize" your summer diets ... so here we go!

What's on special in June? ....        

Did you know ....

Green, leafy veggies actually help to prevent bone breakage due to osteoporosis, according to a study announced by CNN.  What a great time of year to learn about this!  With summertime come LOTS of SALADS - and with salads come Watkins Salad Dressings!!  Our Garlic and Spice Blend, Italian Blend, and Deli Blend are so convenient - and healthy!  With all of the flavour packed into the pure spices and herbs in each bottle, YOU choose the oil and vinegar blend that is best for you!  (Of course, we recommend Watkins Grapeseed Oils ).

that Health Canada has a list of products that have been registered and approved by them?  Click on the link below to see all the Watkins products that are listed!
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/drug2/company/c5446.html

the idea for an official Father's Day celebration came to a married daughter, seated in a church in Spokane, Washington, attentive to a Sunday sermon on Mother's Day in 1910 - two years after the first Mother's Day observance in West Virginia! 

The daughter was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd.  During the sermon, which extolled maternal sacrifices made for children, Mrs. Dodd realized that in her own family it had been her father, William Jackson Smart, A Civil War veteran, who had sacrificed - raising herself and five sons alone, following the early death of his wife in childbirth.  For Mrs. Dodd, the hardships her father had endured on their eastern Washington farm called to mind the unsung feats of fathers everywhere.

Her proposed local Father's Day celebration received strong support from the town's ministers and members of the Spokane YMCA.  The date suggested for the festivities, June 5, Mrs. Dodd's father's birthday - a mere three weeks away - had to be moved back to the 19th  when ministers claimed they needed extra time to prepare sermons on such a new subject as "Father".

Father's Day, however, was not no quickly accepted as Mother's Day.  Members of the all-male Congress felt that a move to proclaim the day official might be interpreted as a self-congratulatory pat on the back.

It took 62 years for Father's Day to become permanently established!  In 1972, President Richard Nixon declared it official.  Historians seeking an ancient precedent for an official Father's Day observance have come up with only one:  The Romans, every February, honored fathers - but only those who were deceased!

(Excerpt from 'Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things', Charles Panati)

For a delicious touch of cream to your soup recipe, add 1 frozen cube of cream (about 2 TBSP).