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Potato Chips Ranked

Best Original: Lay's Kettle Cooked
Best Salt and Pepper: Dirty Cracked Pepper and Sea Salt
Best Crinkle Cut: Ruffles Original
Best Jalapeno: Deep River Zesty Jalapeno
Best BBQ: Lay's Kettle Cooked Mesquite BBQ
Best Cheese: Kettle New York Cheddar with Herbs
Best Salt & Vinegar: Dirty Sea Salt & Vinegar
Best Sour Cream & Onion: Cape Cod Sour Cream and Green Onion

Healthy Best Plain: Ruffles Baked
Healthy Best Reduced Fat: Trader Joe's Reduced Guilt
Healthy Best Lightly Salted: Boulder Canyon 50% Reduced Salt
Healthy Best BBQ: PopChips BBQ
Healthy Best Cheese: Kettle Baked Aged White Cheddar
Healthy Best Salt & Pepper: Popchips Salt & Pepper
Healthy Best Salt & Vinegar: Kettle Baked Sea Salt & Vinegar

Frozen Blueberry Lemondae

Good recipe for frozen blueberry lemonade. And you can add 1/2 cup vodka for a cocktail.

Beach Tips

Use metal grilling skewers to hold down the corners of your towel or sheet.

Take a bottle of baby powder to the beach, shake a little on your legs and Voila! the sand rubs right off.

Private Sales for Hotels

Sign up for a free account at Tablet Hotels and get weekly private sales up to 60% off of hotels.

Gifts by Text

Choose a gift card or movie tickets at Giiv, enter person's cell phone and they receive a text message to redeem your gift!

Golf Tees

Great idea to mark food at parties: Use colored golf tees!

Pink for cranberry, blue for blueberry, etc.

Or pink to mark rare hamburger patties.

Party Playlist

The average number of songs needed for a three-hour party playlist? 40.

And for more fun, get an account at Songvote and have friends vote and submit on songs for the party. Then it links to iTunes to create the playlist.

Pasadena Farmer's Markets

If you have never been to a Farmers' Market, you are in for a real treat. You'll love the experience of buying directly from the farmer that grows the food. What you'll love even more is the fresh, delicious taste of locally grown, nutritious fruits, vegetables and farm products.

Camping Spots?

Possible Beach Camping Spots:
Sycamore Cove
Thornhill Broome Beach
Leo Carillo State Park - Site 138 or any along that edge

Reservations can be made here...although many of the tent sites are not reservable!

Pasadena Restaurants

Places to try in Pasadena or places to take guests:
Burger Continental
Celistinos
Slaw Dog

Pasadena Food Tour

Here's an interesting idea, Old Pasadena Food Tasting Tour.

Hot Dogs

Fab Hot Dogs...in Reseda!

Pinks in West Hollywood.

Old Pasadena Film Festival

Another to add to the list:
Old Pasadena Film Festival

Olive Tour

A tour to try out sometime: Ojai Olive Grove

Lasagna Verdi

Angelini Osteria in L.A. made the list on "The Best Thing I Ever Ate...Cheesy".

NOLA Crab Au Gratin

Next time we're in NOLA, we gotta try Bon Ton Cafe's Crab au Gratin.

Mac & Cheese

The mac and cheese at Cafe de Artistes made the Food Network list. Guess we gotta go!

Email Invitations

Everyone knows about Evite but here are a few others I try to remember:
PaperlessPost
Pingg (they will also mail paper cards for a fee)
Cocodot

The Whole Enchilada

Played a new game this weekend and need to remember the rules.

1-take no tricks. 10pts each
2-take no hearts. 10pts each
3-take no queens. 25pts each
4-take no king of spade. 100pts each.
5-don't take last pack. 100pts each.
6-whole enchilada.