With the cost of food going up, up, up, it’s nice to know there are ways to save while eating healthy. I have regularly made chicken soup with a whole chicken, but I’ve never made broth from bones. This recipe is a way to have a nutritious broth (and then soup), at a fraction of [...]
Spring has sprung. And so has springtime viruses and allergies. As an allergy sufferer, I usually don’t look forward to June (actually May, June and July), when grass pollinates. As of late, largely because of changing my diet, my grass allergies have improved, along with my overall health. Yet, allergies are still a concern. I [...]
Using Ground Beef to Stretch Your Grocery Budget? Families are looking for ways to make their grocery dollars stretch. In the past, ground beef has been mothers’ helper. Not necessarily so today. BLMT or Pink Slime is used as a filler in most ground beef sold in grocery stores. As the name suggests, Boneless Lean [...]
With less than 30 percent of kids eating the recommended five servings of fruit and veggies a day, food fights often erupt. It’s no surprise a new study by Columbia University, found that elementary-aged kids eagerly ate desserts with hidden veggies. The kids sampled gingerbread–broccoli spice cake, chickpea chocolate-chip cookies and zucchini chocolate-chip bread. Half [...]
It’s the first week of March, way to early to plant anything, yet. Still, I’m thinking about my garden. Actually, I’ve been thinking about my vegetable garden for almost a year. I watched the sun move over my backyard last summer, trying to find the best spot to plant a vegetable garden. Once I decided [...]
Rising Gas Prices The price of gas is in the news once again. It’s expected to rise over $5 a gallon by summer. Ouch! Presently it’s close to $4 in most states, in some places gas has already topped $4. When gas goes up everything else will rise. In order to get products to your [...]
Kids are creative by nature. Just let them loose in your kitchen and they’ll come up with wonderful ideas. Making edible creations is fun for kids. They get the tactile experience and the pride of a task completed when making edible food creations. You don’t have to be an artist to wash a piece of [...]
Manners Make Family Mealtimes Enjoyable Mealtime manners area taught as soon as baby is sitting in a highchair. Table manners begin before the food is even placed on the plates. Children should wait until the family is seated together before beginning to chow down. One way to accomplish this is to serve your meals family-style. [...]
Twenty-five Percent of Americans Worry About their Feeding Families Results of a nationwide survey reveal one in four Americans worry about having enough money to put food on the table in the next year. The online survey, initiated as part of Tyson’s “KNOW Hunger” campaign, also found two-thirds of those surveyed rated hunger as a [...]
The last few weeks have been unusually busy. Jenny, my third daughter, had a C-section. The C-section was not expected and threw everything into high gear. Not only does she have to heal from the operation and care for newborn, Tyler, but she has a 24-month-old son, Tristan, as well. We kept Tristan with us [...]
