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I’ve got a brain full of organized posts to write, but tonight is not the night for that.  No, tonight is the night for deep breaths, headlong plunges into the fall routine, and sharing the bits and pieces of clutter

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Hey readers…that lunch-packing post I wrote for “another blog” (very mysterious, right?) is up!  Bettina of The Lunch Tray graciously invited me to write a post about packing lunches for her site, so I came up with what she’s amusingly

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Sorry, sorry, sorry.  For those who don’t know or don’t remember where I’m from…my home base is the lovely little state of Rhode Island, which just got smacked firmly with the effects of Hurricane Irene.  Our home is actually fine —

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Last night I introduced the idea of the add-on system for varying your kids’ lunches, without going crazy cooking tons of extra items, AND without pushing them so far outside the comfort zone of “familiar” lunch foods that they’d start

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Earlier this week I wrote about my very simple lunchbox rule: just provide more than two opportunities for them to make good choices, and the rest will take care of itself.  However, that rule is not, in and of itself,

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It hasn’t escaped my notice that the internet is buzzing right now with back-to-school wisdom, especially in the realm of lunch packing.  Some school districts began the new academic year as early as last week; many others, today; and still

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Lately, I feel like RRG has gotten a little heavy on the rants…a little light on the recipes.  This is not a problem for me, a human being born with too many words to speak or write in a lifetime,

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It was about a week ago now that the shocking news broke: There might be BACTERIA in your child’s school lunch!  And, no, not the one the school serves up in the hot food line — the lunch YOU’VE packed

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It can be done!  Actual food — honest-to-goodness, from scratch, unprocessed food — can be served at a child’s birthday party, and it can be good, and the other kids and their families can eat it and enjoy it.  I

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It’s my blogaversary! I can’t believe it, but exactly one year ago, I published the very first post here on Red, Round, or Green.  So much has changed in my life since those beginning words that it’s hard to even

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