We’ve completed our December pantry challenge! If you’re just getting up to speed, the quick recap of the concept is that each year, J. and I try to offset the costs of holiday shopping and baking by eating exclusively from
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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
I was recently approached by a clinic called BMI of Texas, asking if I’d read and review a children’s book the doctors in the practice had written to help young patients and their families. The entire idea of a doctor’s
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
Loyal readers and followers on social media have probably noticed I’ve been fairly quiet these past few weeks…maybe even months. It’s been a bit of a bumpy road for the RRG family in a few different ways, during this first
Last week, I wrote about the new challenge we’re facing in our household with a schedule that now doesn’t allow us all to sit down together each night for dinner. I shared my thoughts on how to manage that kind
How do you plan for a family dinner routine when not every person can make it to the table? Can you even have a family dinner without the whole family present? That’s a big question these days, I think. I’ve
It’s high time, in my estimation, that we stopped talking so much about “obesity.” It’s a well-publicized public health crisis, the buzzword of the moment, but framing our national dialogues around a measurement of our citizens’ body sizes doesn’t seem
Longtime readers often joke with me about the little carnivores I’m raising — L., in particular, is a lover of eating anything that at one time had a face. It’s true that while I enjoy eating vegetarian meals, it’s not