To fight off the lunch-packing frustration, we are sharing a list of our favorite tools for packing healthy school lunches. These will help to make it faster, easier, and more appealing for your kids. Are there any parents who actually enjoy packing their kids’ school or daycare lunches? Most parents I talk to admit that the daily grind of packing their kids’ lunches is one of the things they dread most about school starting back…
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How to make delicious homemade bread crumbs from Aviva Goldfarb, The Six O’Clock Scramble
Staycation Idea for Families: Explore the World through Food 2020 was supposed to be a year of travel for my family. For Spring Break, we had planned on a road trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles along Route 1. That didn’t happen. Then, my husband and I had planned on traveling to Europe this fall to celebrate our 15-year anniversary. That’s out, too. This summer has definitely not turned out the way many of…
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Healthy Breakfasts with Less Work I like to think of myself as a down-to-earth, reasonable, practical kind of person and I think that for the most part I am, but I do have this one tendency that regularly leaves me feeling like a naïve schmuck: I always believe that when summer starts things will slow down and I’ll make progress on my “to do” list. This year, as we limped (staggered?) to the school finish…
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10 ways to liven up plain steamed rice
