Tag: food

It’s time for a reprieve. After six weeks of experimenting with a gluten and casein-free diet for L., we’re in the “rechallenge” phase.  Gradually and carefully, J. and I are adding wheat products and dairy products back into his meals,

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Welcome to Rhode Island, where the RRG family is serving up the second course of our Food Revolution Day Progressive Dinner!  I hope you’re not too stuffed after Billy’s delicious date appetizer to enjoy a little soup. I wish I

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I swore I wouldn’t take the bait.  There have been plenty of opinions rolling around the universe about the now-infamous Time Magazine cover, and I wasn’t going to add mine to the mental clutter being churned out daily on the

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Sometimes making lots of different recipes all the time has its drawbacks.  For one thing, when my kids were super-little (not that 3 and 5 are ripe old ages, but you get my meaning), my mother remarked once or twice

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I am SO excited. Those of you who have been hanging around here for a while (and by the way, thanks — I don’t say that enough, probably) may recall that I celebrated Food Day back in October with a

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Note: This is installment #4 in the “Fridge to Fork” series.  Here are installments #1, #2, and #3 for those who may want to read a matched set.  Since at the moment, we’re fully entrenched in a gluten and casein

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It’s that time again, friends — monthly meal plan time.  I was afraid this month’s plan, since it encompasses a significant portion of our 6-week GF/CF challenge with L., would be ridiculously challenging for me to write.  I actually procrastinated

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Three important things have been going on this week that I must share with you: 1) One of my posts was featured on HandPicked Nation!  I’ll spare you the squealing, but seriously, I felt pretty darned cool seeing the Five

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“No bread?” my father inquired, half-facetiously.  “No milk?  No Velveeta?  But these things are the staffs of life!” Dad’s theories about the various foodstuffs that may, at any given time, be considered “a staff of life” are a running family

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When I started writing this blog – just about a year and a half ago, give or take – I was the mother of two typically developing boys in a family with no dietary restrictions whatsoever.  Or so I thought.

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