Category: Feeding kids

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

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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

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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

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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. 

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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

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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

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Tonight’s Lunch Logic was fun for me to envision.  The ideas here are very simple, but they bring back some of our family’s favorite lunchbox items — favorites both for me, as the lunch-packer; and for the kids, as the

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Tonight I’m excited to announce a new feature for the blog — Red, Round, or Green “Lunch Logic.”  I’ve realized over time that it’s not only dinner planning people need help with, and while I’ve also got plenty of lunch-packing

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Oh, hooray, it’s March at last! I’ve spent much time bemoaning the winter weather, and while I know that March doesn’t exactly bring balmy temperatures to New England (and, in fact, we’ve still got a few weeks left where there’s

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It’s that time again – time to be accountable and show you all what things are like around here if I don’t meal plan or grocery shop for a week.  When I did this no-shopping challenge back in December, it

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