Category Archives: Feeding kids

Lunch Logic: May 2013, Week Two

There’s a reason I’m never without a jar of marinara sauce in my refrigerator.  Really, it’s true.  Some people talk about “never-ending stock;” I continually replenish my “never-ending sauce.”  When it’s down to the dregs, I dump them into my … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week Four

I have to laugh at myself a little bit tonight. Here I sit, writing a “Lunch Logic” post that supposes you’ll have plentiful leftovers from which to manufacture lunches, and I’m currently in possession of a nearly barren refrigerator.  Oh, … Continue reading

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Family Dinner Conference Recap and Making Changes

I’m back! Most of you know (because I didn’t stop talking about it for weeks) that I was in New York City last Thursday, presenting a talk at the first-ever Family Dinner Conference.  The event was organized by the unbelievably … Continue reading

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After Boston: Family Dinner Matters

Today I am thinking about two things that are not a secret to anyone. First, I’m thinking about – preparing for, excitedly awaiting, nervously anticipating – the Family Dinner Conference, which will be happening on Thursday in New York City.  … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week Two

This week’s menu is a menu absolutely rife with lunch-packing possibilities.  Some weeks are like that; you practically don’t have to think at all to make home-run lunches that the kids will Hoover down happily.  With a Sunday meal of … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: April 2013, Week One

This week’s Lunch Logic is really all about planning ahead.  Oh, I know most of what I post here on RRG is focused on planning (that’s one of the side effects of sharing a monthly “meal plan,” ahem), but this … Continue reading

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Monday Menus: Great Grilled Chicken

It actually hit 60 degrees here in Rhode Island recently – today, in fact, and yesterday, and another day before that.  It won’t stay that way, because the Atlantic Ocean makes our weather entertainingly unstable (that’s my positive-spin outlook on … Continue reading

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Meal Plan for a Busy, Busy April

I’m quietly freaking out.   Except…now that I’m writing about it on a public blog, I guess it’s not so much “quiet” anymore, right?  So now I’m PUBLICLY and NOISILY freaking out. It’s all good stuff that’s making me this way.  … Continue reading

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Lunch Logic: March 2013, Week Four

Tonight’s Lunch Logic seems, well, uber-logical, at least to me.  I guess what I mean is that many of these ideas are the types of things I would toss into lunchboxes on my most tired, least inspired mornings.  It’s all … Continue reading

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Monday Menus: Charlie Bucket and the Easter Baskets

Did you ever read “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?”  I remember that book very clearly, as I remember most books from my childhood that made it onto the “read over and over” shelf.  One of the things I remember best … Continue reading

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