Pete Osman, President and Chief Executive Officer for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation Is Talking With Us About How We Can Help Make A Child's Christmas
The holidays
offer a time of hope and excitement for children across America. Unfortunately, with the economy still struggling and unemployment and foreclosures running rampant, millions of American children risk disappointment Christmas morning. Their parents are increasingly turning to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, who is receiving an increased number of requests for gifts this year. But while requests are rising, donations are declining because fewer families have the extra resources to purchase toys for donation.Here To Give Us 500 Quick Meal Options Is Author Of Robin Takes 5 And Celebrity Chef Robin Miller
Robin Takes 5: 500 Recipes, 5 Ingredients or Less, 500 Calories or Less, 5 Nights a Week at 5:00 PM. Everyone’s hungry and it’s takeout or fakeout, meaning grabbing a processed meal from the fridge or freezer and giving it a zap in the microwave. She offers a third option—actually 500 of them, in Robin Takes 5. Robin has fifteen years of experience as a food writer and nutritionist and is the author of the bestselling cookbook Quick Fix Meals. She is the host of Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller.
Robin's recipes and nutrition features can be seen regularly in Cooking Light, Health, Shape, Men's Fitness, and Toddler magazines. She also provides recipes to the American Heart Association, The American Institute for Cancer Research, and Weight Watchers.
Robin has been a guest on hundreds of local and national television and radio programs. She has hosted home videos (for Jane Fonda), cable television vignettes (for Food Network and a variety of food companies) and spoken at media events in various markets nationwide. Currently, she appears on local, network and cable television. Programs of particular interest include: The Early Show) (CBS), Regis & Kelly, The View, The Today Show (NBC), Good Morning America (ABC), CNN, ABC's Eyewitness News, CBS Evening News, Fox News Channel, Food Network, Discovery Channel, Health Network, and Joan Lunden's Women's Supermarket Network.
She has written eight books: Robin to the Rescue (Taunton, 2008), Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller (Taunton, 2007), Picnics (Clarkson Potter, 2005), Verdure (Clarkson Potter, June 2001), The Newlywed Cookbook< (Sourcebooks, 1999), The Daily Soup (Hyperion, 1999), Jane Fonda, Cooking for Healthy Living (Turner, 1996), and The Newlywed Cookbook (R&E Publishers, 1991).
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