With each new year comes the perennial resolution:  Eat better, live better.  For some, that means cooking at home more often instead of eating take-out. For others, it means going organic and reducing processed foods. These are laudable goals, but how many of us truly live as healthfully as we’d like?

Being parents, we’re pulled in a dozen directions at once - and often that means making a choice between the healthy option and the easy option. Unfortunately, in spite of our resolve and good intentions, the easy option usually wins.

Wouldn’t it be great to find healthy options that are actually easy too?

Kroger’s new website is ready to help you do just that. You don’t have to be located near one of their supermarkets in order to take advantage of the benefits of their site, such as:

• Hundreds of recipes, including nutritional information
• Guidance on the selection, preparation, and storage of fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood
• Food preparation safety guidelines (far too few families do what they should!)

What does your family plan to do differently in 2008 to live more healthfully?

Going organic? Cutting back on fast food? Incorporating more fruit and vegetables into your daily diet? We’ve all got goals - we want to hear about yours!

1) Write a post on your blog discussing this topic with your readers anytime before midnight PST today, February 1.

2) Make sure to link http://blog.parentbloggers.com in your post.

3) Additionally, please link to Kroger via this link somewhere in your post:

http://www.kroger.com/Pages/default.aspx?cid=pbn200801 

* This link is different than the link that we sent in our email blast*

4) Email us the link to your post (parentbloggers@gmail.com) and we’ll be rounding them up all day right here.

What can you win? One of FIVE $50 Kroger gift cards! That’s right - you’ve got five chances to win.  Use the gift card yourself, or if you don’t have a Kroger nearby, you can donate it - either via the Kroger site or to a charity of your choice.

We look forward to hearing about your goals for healthy living!

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And congrats to PBN Principal and Co-Founder Julie Marsh and her new son, Oliver, born yesterday afternoon. Mom and baby are doing well!