Occasionally I share questions and feedback from Scramblers here in the newsletter. I welcome your thoughts, concerns and questions any time, as they help The Scramble improve and evolve. Please weigh in, especially on the tuna question below. Optional Ingredients Dear Aviva, I was curious about whether the optional ingredients (like the chicken, steak or [...]

Last weekend for my birthday I asked my family to join me in a neighborhood cleanup of the local park and stream where we walk our dogs every day. We collected a trash bag full of candy wrappers, plastic bags, and countless Styrofoam and paper coffee cups that people had either tossed or that had [...]

One thing that really drives me crazy is wasted food. I’m not one of those clean-your-plate moms, which I know can lead to overeating or eating disorders, but I am one of those don’t-order-it-if-you-can’t-eat-it parents. Last month on an extended family vacation, my 8-year-old niece was very unhappy that I wouldn’t let her order spaghetti [...]

Do you have babies or young children who like to eat squeezable snacks out of pouches? Does all the waste of throwing away all those single use packages start to bother you? If so, I am thrilled to introduce you to Squooshi reusable food pouches. Squooshi was created by Shannon Waldis, a mom in New [...]

Tomorrow Halloween will be over; the kids will be coming down off of their sugar highs, you’ll be removing spider webs, bats and ghouls from your front yard (don’t forget to save them for next year) and trying to resist eating all their candy.  Your pumpkins will be shaking off the festivities by starting to [...]

  After we finished remodeling our kitchen this summer, my friend (and Scramble CFO) Robin Thieme dropped off a kitchen-warming gift, a box of colorful cloth napkins. Robin and I have known each other for many years, and she knows how obsessed I am with trying to protect the earth’s environment, so she was surprised [...]