food

Krazy for Krazy Ketchup

June 2, 2009

Ah, ketchup. How would our little angels survive toddlerhood without it? Hot dogs, potatoes, eggs, meatloaf, cheese, even carrots. Kids seem to eat nearly anything if they can dip it in ketchup. But there’s a reason kids love it – most mass-market ketchup is chock-full of sodium and sugar. Let’s go back a few years…two [...]

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Staying Cool With Skinny Cow

May 29, 2009

I love my ice cream in the summer. Actually I love ice cream all of the time, chocolatey and smooth or chunky and fruity. I don’t like feeling guilty after eating dessert though. It’s hard to find frozen treats that provide the same enjoyment that ice cream does. The first time I heard of a [...]

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Make a Restaurant Meal at Home

May 7, 2009

Preparing a high-quality, delicious, and healthy meal can be difficult for busy parents. After getting home from a busy day at work, the last thing any of us wants to do is prepare a meal and then clean up. The chefs at Romano’s Macaroni Grill have inspired a whole new line of dinner kits, that [...]

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Stouffer’s Let’s Fix Dinner Blogger Roundtable – Fixing Family Dinners

May 4, 2009

As you may have heard, this week, Stouffers hosted a Let’s Fix Dinner blogger roundtable event in Solon, OH, and I attended with fourteen other bloggers. The topic, Let’s Fix Dinner, focused on how families can overcome some of the barriers to sitting down to dinner as a family, and featured some amazing speakers, such [...]

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Loving Your Vegetables with Hidden Valley

December 12, 2008

As an adult, I love veggies. As a child, not so much. It came upon me slowly…adding mushrooms to sandwiches (or as I’ll be saying for the next few weeks, grinders), onions to pizza, and peppers to casseroles. I definitely needed more persuasion as a child to enjoy my vegetables. Some were smothered in cheese [...]

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