Tag: back to school

As I enter the final push of preparation for the school year, I’m looking back at my own lunch photos to help get some inspiration. As I do, I’m reminded of the lunches that were popular with RRG readers last

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In just 19 days, my kids go back to school — 1st and 3rd grades this year. I know some of my readers in other parts of the country are already back (and to you I say, SORRY, every year

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I’ve never been much in the habit of doing a year-end post here on the blog – I don’t know if it’s pure laziness or the fact that I tend to be more “unplugged” during the final few weeks of

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Today I had ample opportunity to think about the things that matter. Yesterday felt like The Day of Crap News About Feeding Families. There was the ongoing internet dust-up over whether home cooking and family dinner really are soul-sucking drudgery

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Seriously. You guys. It’s September. (Well, ALMOST.) And I never even posted the meal plan for August! I had one. You know I had one. I can’t function without a meal plan. But, well, AUGUST. It was a month of

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Big News! You’ve probably already heard about the fantastic back-to-school organizing guide I put together with my friend Bonnie from The Joyful Organizer.  To recap, it’s a downloadable e-guide with over 100 pages of amazingly helpful content.  In its pages,

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It’s back-to-school season! I know some people around the country already have kids back in school; others are starting this week; and others, like my boys, will be going back in a couple of weeks’ time (major jealousy, by the

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I’m so excited today to announce the launch of a new project that I’ve been practically SLAVING over (yes, picture me, back of hand to my forehead) with my friend Bonnie from The Joyful Organizer.  The two of us have

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If you’ve hung around this blog for any length of time, you may know that about a year and a half ago (gosh, that long???  Really???), our family had to undertake a serious gluten-and-dairy-free challenge as part of evaluating L.’s

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In the past couple of days, I’ve gotten quite a number of requests for two recipes: my homemade chicken nuggets, and my spelt zucchini muffins.  Both of these items have shown up in L.’s first-week-of-first-grade lunches, which have been posted

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