This month in the Eat Well, Spend Less series I look at how the group introduces new foods to their children, whether they eat the same food, and whether they think any of that is important at all. Lights glare from the bubbles above the dining room table, sending yellowish … [Read more...] about Introducing New Foods to Your Kids: Eat Well, Spend Less
Kids in the Kitchen
Back to the Basics of Feeding Your Family: Eat Well, Spend Less
This month in the Eat Well, Spend Less series we are focusing on getting back to the basics of feeding your family. Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. Dinnertime is ever evolving in our house. This year we embarked on the path of swim club … [Read more...] about Back to the Basics of Feeding Your Family: Eat Well, Spend Less
A Back-to-School Eat Well, Spend Less: ABC Ideas for Your Lunchbox
Looking for inspiration on what to pack in your kids' lunchboxes as they head back to school? Here are a few fun lunchbox ideas to get you through the year (or at least the first half of it) in this month's Eat Well, Spend Less series. I pull the white cotton sheet over my … [Read more...] about A Back-to-School Eat Well, Spend Less: ABC Ideas for Your Lunchbox
Eat Well, Spend Less: Getting Your Kids in the Kitchen
This month's Eat Well, Spend Less is focused on the kids and the process of getting them in the kitchen to cook and eat. With summer vacation looming, this is the perfect time to tackle the terrain. When I was seven I cooked my first meal. I opened up a worn copy of my mom's … [Read more...] about Eat Well, Spend Less: Getting Your Kids in the Kitchen
Holiday Baking 101: Freezing, Including the Kids and More!
Get started now on your holiday baking. A few tips for freezing cookies, baking with your kids, figuring out what to make first and having fun while you do it. Get the Christmas music ready, it's time to bake! Tomorrow it will be December. (If you just recoiled at that … [Read more...] about Holiday Baking 101: Freezing, Including the Kids and More!