Tag: lunchboxes

My kids are food snobs, I think.  Or maybe I should amend that to: L. is becoming a food snob, and P. is either a super-discriminating gourmet, or just thinks it’s funnier to watch my expression when he eats scraps

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Whenever you spend time with good friends, I think, there’s an unwritten rule of the universe that dictates that you will think about those people continually for the following several days.  I know that’s certainly been the case with me;

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Yesterday’s post caught you all up on the dramatic goings-on in the RRG house these days — in short, we took L. to the pediatrician because we suspected some problems, and the brief rundown of the result is: 1) She

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Sometimes, in the grand scheme of this crazy culinary life of mine, there are days that can only be well-passed if spent in the pursuit of bread.  Any bread will do: quick breads, yeast breads, sweet or savory, but bread,

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It’s been a heck of a week.  P. came down with a raging case of Coxsackie virus, and an ear infection to boot (talk about adding insult to injury!), prompting his doctor to advise us on Monday: “Don’t let him

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Yesterday, as I wrote grimly about the lapse in judgment that led J. and me to a processed food coma, and the better head that prevailed when I redeemed myself by creating the soft pretzels that are tucked safely into

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It’s the last day of the First Week Back at School.  Here on RRG, we’ve covered the good, the bad, the ugly, and everything in between when it comes to the food my kids’ former and current preschool/daycare programs are

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In this first week of school for so many kids, I’ve been reflecting a bit on the feeding of my little guys and how the school environment and home environments differ.  In short, I think I’m chewing on the question:

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People who know me in real life know that I love the preschool/daycare program my boys currently attend.  I mean, I LOVE it.  I love the staff, I love the families, I love the cute little building (it’s in what

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I’m a little choked up this morning, so forgive me — today is the first time that the “First Day of School” has meant anything in our little household.  Although we walked through the doors of the same building that

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