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If you're planning the perfect three-year old's birthday party a.k.a Upsherin a.k.a. Chalakah, here is the perfect party favor! I discovered this delicious sweet just by accident while I was looking for gummy worms online. I ordered them and I tell you, not only are they sweet, moist and tangy but they are so darn adorable!! The Aleph Bet Gummies are small, round gummies with raised letters of the Hebrew alphabet. They come in an assorment of colors and flavors. I must tell you though, that you can't be guaranteed which letters you will actually get in the assortment cuz they are all mixed up.

It's a great snack with which to play games, give them out and have fun with!
My son also loves crocodiles and dinosaurs, as any boy probably does! So guess what I found as well? The cutest gummies in the shapes of crocodiles and dinosaurs. They are about 12" long and come in different colors. I found that the green and yellow crocodile one is so realistic looking that I left it out in my son's bedroom and he started yelling in excitement that he found a baby crocodile!! They are delicious and chewy gummy texture.

According to Wikipedia the use of Medjool Dates for food is as follows. Dry or soft dates are usually eaten out-of-hand, or can be pitted and stuffed with fillings such as almonds, walnuts, Pecans or cream cheese. Pitted dates are also sometimes referred to as stoned dates. The Fancy Medjool Dates can also be chopped and used in a large range of sweet dishes, from tajines (tagines) in Morocco to puddings, ka'ak (types of Arab breads and cakes) and other dessert items. Dates are also processed into paste, spread, and cubes, date syrup or "honey" called "dibs", powder (date sugar), vinegar or alcohol. Recent innovations include chocolate-covered dates and products such as sparkling date juice are used in some Islamic countries as a non-alcoholic version of champagne, It’s used for special occasions and religious times such as Ramadan.

Dates fruits can also be dehydrated known as dried fruits, ground and mixed with grain to form a nutritious stock feed. Dried dates are fed to camels, horses and dogs in the Sahara. In northern Nigeria, dates and peppers added to the native beer are believed to make it less intoxicating.

Young date leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable, as is the terminal bud or heart, though its removal kills the palm. The finely ground seeds are mixed with flour to make bread in times of scarcity. The flowers of the date palm are also edible. Traditionally the female flowers are the most available for sale and weigh 300-400 grams. The flower buds are used in salad or ground with dried fish to make a condiment for bread