Does Your Child Care Center Value Healthy Eating and Fitness? Meet Bright Horizons and its Well Aware initiative.     If you are committed to feeding your family healthy meals and snacks at home, wouldn’t you love to have your kids attend a child care center or preschool with the same priorities? I remember when [...]

Recently I asked Scrambling moms on The Scramble Facebook page what would make their Mother’s Day dreams come true and here are some of the answers you posted: “Laundry, they could do the laundry.” “Clean the house, top to bottom, mow the lawn, and take me out to dinner!” “Let me use the bathroom in [...]

Lately I’ve noticed that the Freebie Friday giveaways haven’t been quite as popular in terms of the numbers of reader responses/entries we are getting for each giveaway. So I’m wondering, are you a little tired of giveaways? Would you prefer I do them just once a month and focus on other content like tips and [...]

Have you resolved to eat healthier, fresher food, and to create more family time around the dinner table in 2013? It’s a wonderful goal, but too often that vision is squeezed out by the everyday realities of crazy schedules, tempting but unhealthy fatty or processed foods, and picky eaters. The Six O’Clock Scramble makes it [...]

                          An Eggland’s Best Recipe Contest Finalist!!   When my family traveled in Israel last year, we were astounded by the endless array of beautiful, healthy and creative salads, even at breakfast. Here I’ve recreated one of our favorites that we enjoyed at Israel’s [...]

Ask your company to buy one for you! Did you know that we partner with companies’ parent support networks and work/life balance programs to offer memberships and cookbooks to employees as a benefit? Want me to come to your office? I also enjoy speaking to employees at companies who want to take dinnertime from stress [...]

With all the abundance of food at our July 4th celebrations this week, it’s easy to forget that one in five children in the US is “food insecure”.  That means they don’t always have enough to eat, especially healthy food like fruits and vegetables.  For food insecure children who rely on free or reduced-price lunches, [...]

It’s hard to believe that I started The Scramble 9 years ago this month.  In those days, the Scramble meal plans, recipes and grocery lists were bundled into a pdf document and emailed to our then small pool of subscribers every Wednesday morning. Back then, I needed to describe “meal planning” and even “online business” [...]

Are you as addicted as I am to that creamy, tangy Middle Eastern dip made from chickpeas, tahini, garlic and lemon juice? You know the one I mean, right? It’s spelled hummus. But I have an awkward struggle with how to say it out loud. Do you pronounce it who-moose? Hum-miss? Hum-muss? Chu-moos (with the [...]

Ahhh, summer is finally around the corner and the hectic school days will be over.  Soon there will be less stress, more quality time,  and NO HOMEWORK to supervise!! But wait! There is still so much to do between now and the end of the year– class parties, recitals, team celebrations. But the most critical [...]