Looking for fast, easy and HEALTHY lunches and snacks you can pack for your kids or yourself or add to your weekly menu plan?  Our popular chart 25 Ideas for Healthy Snacks and Lunches” allows you to mix and match fifty healthy options. Print it out here and post on your refrigerator so you’ll never [...]

Guest column by Jackie Kelley, professional home organizer Staying organized in the home is a battle that we fight daily.  For most of us, a little “picking up” is about all we can manage during the busy week!  But in your quest to deliver quick, healthy meals to your family, have you considered how much [...]

Peanut Butter & Co. mixes up all natural, non-GMO delicious peanut butters in 10 fun flavors, like Dark Chocolate Dreams, White Chocolate Wonderful, The Bees Knees, and Cinnamon Raisin Swirl. They also have mini “peanut butter portables” for true addicts (like me!) who need their peanut butter fix on the go. This Friday we are [...]

              I first tried these healthy, great-tasting snacks at Expo East and like the company – they rock! Rock-n-Roll Gourmet is a company of music lovers and musicians who create healthy-yet-delicious snack alternatives that are: All-natural Low-calorie Low-fat No trans-fats No MSG Gluten-free (currently, Hippie Chips and Rock & [...]

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Natural Foods Expo in Baltimore, which is essentially a giant convention center filled with samples of foods and drinks made from all natural ingredients. I spent a whole morning tasting new products from vanilla espresso peanut butter to quinoa crunch burgers (urp).  During the month of October [...]

  Guest post by Carrie Witkop In my urban neighborhood (which is also Aviva’s neighborhood), just outside of Washington, DC, and just inside the large freeway known as the Beltway, Aviva has told me that I am known as the composting queen and an environmental pioneer because of some of the ways I save resources [...]

Parents, can we ever get enough creative, healthy lunch ideas, especially ones that inspire us to pack school and daycare lunches for our kids that will nourish them during the day? I know I am always searching for new ideas. That’s why I am so delighted to be a contributor to the new fabulous cookbook [...]

Last week the Mid-Atlantic states were hit with a major storm. The unusual storm, called a “Derecho” had hurricane like winds that knocked down so many trees and branches that millions of us, including my family, had no power for 5 days or more. During this period, temperatures were near or above 100 degrees every [...]

Guest post by Teacher and Tutor Marina Koestler Ruben School’s out for summer!  But learning continues year-round, and what better place for it than at the dinner table? If you’re looking for a way to use the table to whet your children’s appetite for learning, the following ideas will provide food for thought: Use food [...]

Lately I’ve been more than a little obsessed with kale because of its powerful health properties, low cost, and because it is so easy to grow in my garden. So, when long time Scramble recipe tester and subscriber Debbie Firestone sent me her recipe for pasta with kale I had little doubt I would love [...]