Category: Feeding kids

Ack!  Last-minute School Bake Sale!  Resolution to lay off the muffins fails!  Mommy goes into a tailspin! OK, not really so much with the tailspin part — but there WAS a last-minute school bake sale today, which of course I

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It occurs to me that I haven’t much talked about breakfast at our house.  I assume that regular readers have made a few cognitive leaps by now and connected at least the following dots regarding the morning meal in RRG

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All I can think this morning is: God bless you, Slow Cooker. Seriously.  This weekend would have been food mayhem if it were not for the magical gift to humankind that is the slow cooker.  I’ve had mine for not

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I must confess: I screwed up with the lunch thing this week.  Truly, monumentally screwed it up. It’s not that I screwed up in the sense that my kids haven’t had decent lunches.  They’ve been okay.  But I screwed up

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After a brief hiatus from the topic of “how others perceive the way the Red, Round or Green family eats,” I’m back on track today.  I said I’d talk at some point about how people outside of our extended families

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Some of you faithful readers may recall that I’ve mentioned my choral rehearsals, which happen on Tuesday nights.  Yes, I work full-time, have two kids, and sing with a pretty serious choral group, among other things.  Yes, I’m insane.  But

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I haven’t posted in a few days, I know — I sort of “unplugged” over the long weekend to enjoy some wonderful, exhausting, and practically mandatory Fall activities with J. and the boys.  Between picking apples and pumpkins, visiting with

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An astute reader asked me recently what other people in our lives think about the way our family eats.  She commented that when she’s at work, even if her lunch is no more radical than, say, some homemade hummus, other

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If you check the “Drinking the Kool-Aid” page on this blog with any regularity, you know that I use it as a place to simply post interesting things to read with regard to kids and food.  Today I’ve posted something

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Two things happened yesterday in my kitchen that are worth blogging about today, I think.  One is the easier/less complex of the two: after giving you all a glimpse into the weekend schedule at the RRG household, in an attempt

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