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Monday Menus: A Dinner Party for Everyone
One of the things I think many people tend to struggle with, as they try to eat well, cook real food, and maintain a balance between their food values and their social lives, is how to deal with hosting a … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking, family, feeding kids, food, Household organization, meal planning, party, recipes
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Pantry Challenge Week: Update 2
We’ve done it – our weeklong Pantry Challenge (aka the No-Shop Week) is over, and I have to say…it’s been relatively anti-climactic. Or, as J. put it last night as he watched me assembling dinner: “So far, you’ve come through … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking, family, feeding kids, food, Household organization, leftovers, meal planning
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Pantry Challenge Week, Update 1
We have just finished Day Four of our seven-day No-Shop challenge. If you’re not caught up on what this is about, it’s one way we’re managing the excess spending that comes around at Christmastime each year – by opting out … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Christmas, cooking, family, feeding kids, food, Household organization, leftovers, meal planning
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Get It Done: A Holiday Organization Manifesto
Some people reading this – like my sister, D. – will read that title with a snort and a knowing smirk. They will say that I am exactly the WRONG person to write a blog post about organizing anything, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Christmas, cookies, family, holidays, Household organization, meal planning, milestones, parenting
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Thanksgiving Edition, Part II
Welcome back to Thanksgiving week on Red, Round, or Green! On Monday night I shared two new easy recipes that are still impressive enough to kick off your Thanksgiving meal. Tonight, it’s cold and blustery out and the first snow … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking, family, food, holidays, meal planning, recipes, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving recipes
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Treats at School
After I wrote this year’s Halloween mantras — “The Post About the Treats” – I got a pretty nice response from several people who said that the philosophy J. and I adhere to these days, as far as all that … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Feeding kids, Food culture, Lunchbox, Parenting
Tagged back to school, baking, cooking, family, feeding kids, food, halloween, kids' health, lunchbox recipes, lunchboxes, meal planning, milestones, parenting, pumpkin, recipes, school lunch, what to pack for lunch
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The Post About the Treats
Every year around this time, as people’s thoughts turn to Halloween, I see a lot of questions floating around the internet. What should we do about the candy? Do we let our kids have candy? Why can’t Halloween be done … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking, family, feeding kids, food, halloween, holidays, Household organization, kids' health, muffins, parenting, pumpkin, recipes, trick or treating
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Experimentation: September Meal Plan
The September meal plan can’t really be here. It was NINETY degrees today, for heaven’s sake. It cannot possibly be time to do this again, already. And yet, here I am, faced with a calendar that stubbornly insists that yes, … Continue reading
Preservation: Part Three
TOMATOES. Let’s be honest, kids. We’re all just in this summer produce thing for the tomatoes, right? There’s an unmistakable difference between ANY fresh, in-season produce, and its evil doppelganger, the out-of-season grocery-store version. However, I know I can’t be … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cooking, family, Farmer's Markets, feeding kids, food, Household organization, kids' health, meal planning, muffins, preserving, recipes
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Monday Menus: Lunchbox Edition, Part Two
Welcome to Week Two of our Menu Mondays Lunchbox series! By now, if your kids are not actually back at school yet, the day must be drawing very, very near. I know L.’s practically too excited to sleep these days, … Continue reading
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Tagged back to school, baking, cooking, family, feeding kids, first day of school, food, Household organization, Jamie Oliver, kids' health, kindergarten, lunchbox recipes, lunchboxes, meal planning, milestones, parenting, recipes, school lunch, what to pack for lunch
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