10 Healthy Kid-Friendly Recipes
Getting your kids to eat healthy shouldn’t require scare tactics and sneakiness. Instead, try these tasty, kid-friendly and—yes!—healthy recipes.
View ArticleKitchen Makeover Rules
If you’re struggling with making good food choices, perhaps it’s time for a kitchen makeover. In fact, the arrangement of your kitchen can affect the food choices you make, and you can actually...
View ArticleDecorating Cupcakes for Kids
Cupcakes are nice. But cheap decorations on them? Not so nice. Instead, we love to get creative about decorating cupcakes for kids. Here are the tips we swear by: Sometimes just the right frosting...
View ArticleHealthy in 30: Slow Cooker Recipes
It’s slow cooker season, folks. So break out your slow cookers, because we’re going to load you up with a new slow cooker recipe every day this month!
View ArticleHow to Keep Trash Bag from Slipping into Can
Richard Bailey of Tampa, Fla., was tired of his trash bags slipping down as he filled them. To solve the problem, he cut out the middle of the trash can’s lid, leaving only the perimeter. Now when he...
View ArticleKid-Friendly Thanksgiving Ideas
Looking for ways to keep you kids occupied and entertained while you prepare the Thanksgiving feast? Here are three great ideas. Lights, Camera, Action Inspire little documentarians. Using their...
View ArticleThanksgiving Sides for Kids
“X-ray Vision Carrots?” “Dinosaur Trees?” Give a vegetable a fun name and kids will eat more. Brian Wansink, a Cornell University professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More than We...
View ArticleSlow Cooker Meals
If your holiday schedule is like mine, dinner is often a scramble for whatever I have on hand in the fridge or pantry. I’ve found a way to plan ahead—prepping four slow-cooker meals at one time and...
View ArticleCalcium-Rich Recipes
Everyone knows that calcium builds strong bones and teeth in children, and that milk is rich in calcium. But did you know that adults need almost as much calcium each day as kids, and that lots of...
View ArticleHow to Fold Napkins
Entertaining during the holidays means tables brimming with delicious dishes and adorned with festive trimmings. When setting a holiday table or for any other special occasion, an elegant or...
View ArticleHealthy Kitchen Gadgets
Bodum Bistro Electric Water Kettle $100; bodum.com A kettle on the stove seems so quaint, but realistically, a fast-paced lifestyle calls for something more efficient, and the Bodum Bistro Electric...
View ArticleHow to Carve a Turkey
You’ve bought the fixings and prepared the glorious bird, and all your hard work is about to come together in the apex of the Thanksgiving holiday—the eating of the turkey. Before that delicious...
View ArticleHow to Keep Your Spices Fresh
At one time, only royalty or wealthy people could afford to add spice to their food. Wars were fought over black pepper and other spices that today are taken for granted in developed nations, where...
View ArticleThe Perfect Menu for A Father’s Day Cook-out
This Father’s Day help make a barbeque the father in your life will love, and let the whole family help. June is a good time to go to the local farmer’s market. Select at least four kinds of vegetables...
View ArticleAll You Need, Besides Love, in the Kitchen
Kitchen necessities: Chef’s knife: splurge on this one and you won’t need any other knife! Microplane: for zesting, finely mincing garlic or ginger, and finely grating cheeses like parmigiano...
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