Tag Archives: cooking with kids

Fakeout Takeout: Pizza!

If you’re watching your waistline, your wallet, or both, takeout or delivery pizza can take you to a place you don’t really want to go. Continue reading

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Homemade Gingerbread Houses

Like snow on Christmas Day, gingerbread houses were one of those things that embodied what I’ll call Christmasyness when I was a child. No one I actually knew ever made gingerbread houses or saw much snow, Christmas or not, but that didn’t stop me from feeling that I was missing out on something spectacular. Continue reading

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Friday Five: Five Tips for Cooking with Kids

Teach your kids nutrition and frugality, while they think they’re just learning to mash potatoes. Here are five tips for cooking with your kids. Continue reading

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The School Lunch Dilemma, Part One

If you would rather brush the cat’s teeth or scour the bathroom tile with a doll’s toothbrush than face the emptiness of another to-be-filled lunch kit, the following suggestions may prove helpful in reducing your dread: Continue reading

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Got 15 minutes? Make these Applesauce Muffins.

I hate dragging out the mixer first thing in the morning, but I love muffins fresh out of the oven. And these are seriously fast- fifteen minutes to mix, twenty minutes to bake, and I’d say about thirty seconds to eat. Continue reading

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