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Easy New Year’s Resolutions: Try an AB&J!
iStock Peanut butter and jelly is the go-to spread for a sandwich that kids (and their parents) love. But you can boost your calcium, iron and vitamin E intake by giving almond butter a try. Almond...
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28 Days of Slow Cooking: Spicy Sloppy Joes
When it comes to greatness, like the immortal Sloppy Joe sandwich, the most brilliant American comfort food since mac and cheese, people always fight for the credit. Which is why more than one Joe...
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Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: What’s the Secret?
Proust can have his madeline — for most average Americans, it’s the perfect grilled cheese sandwich that can set off a whole chain-reaction of nostalgia. I can actually make my toes curl with the warm...
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Valentine’s Kids Lunch: Little Lovesick Pirate
Ahoy me HEART-y! It’s February, which means Valentine’s Day is right around the corner! Class lists come home from school, the boxes of valentine cards are purchased, and your table is covered with...
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Stellar Kids Lunch: Spaceship Sandwich
With meteors entering our atmosphere, a man jumping from space, and a seventh grader successfully sending Hello Kitty almost into orbit, I thought a spaceship would be appropriate for this week! It’s a...
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McDonald’s vs. Subway Smackdown: McD’s New Secret Weapon?
McDonald’s The new chicken McWraps from McDonald’s hardly look like lethal weapons, but the mega fast-food chain is hoping they’ll deal something of a knock-out blow to another burgeoning fast-food...
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Galloping Kids Lunch: Horsey Sandwich
Out of all the fun food animals I have made, I realized I haven’t made a horse! Crazy! Horses are so fascinating, with their agility, power, beauty, strength and generally loving nature. Whenever I see...
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Purr-fect Kids Lunch: Green-Eyed Kitty
Our kitty, creatively named Kittie-Pie, isn’t a fan of our new family member, which happens to be a fluffy puppy! She’s convinced our home is now a house of horrors, and she can’t seem to escape the...
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31 Days of Great Grilling: Hot Dogs and Texas Tomato Chutney
When it comes to great “on the grill” recipes, nothing beats the Great Outdoors (i.e., your Backyard). Or the Great State of Texas. In fact, if you’re looking for easy grilling to please the kids and...
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31 Days of Great Grilling: Peachy Po-Boy Sandwiches
A great grilling recipe for a BLT! Or, more accurately, a grilled BSP — an amazing sandwich with bacon, grilled shrimp, and peaches — with what a bad menu-writer might call “a bit of Cajun flair.”...
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MyPlate Meals: 5 Easy, Healthy Take-to-Work Salads
There are so many good reasons to bring your lunch to work. For starters, you save money; even if you only spend $5 a day on lunch, that’s $100 a month! BYO, and you can easily cut that in half....
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Blazin’ Kids Lunch: Sunshine Quesadilla
My family had a blast over Memorial Day weekend. It was great to soak up the rays, splash in the cold pool, grill out with friends — and generally enjoy being out in the sun! (Especially after a pretty...
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Cuban Sandwiches — Impossibly Easy 30-Minute Meal
This recipe for oozing-with-cheese Cuban sandwiches is not just easy, it seems too good to be true — a dish with only 5 ingredients that takes only 24 minutes to make. But, ah, what ingredients:...
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Easy Summer Lunch for Kids: Lighthouse Sandwich
I love the ocean. I don’t enjoy getting in it, but I do love it’s bigness, the smell, sounds, color, sea life, and especially when I come across a lighthouse! And the seafood! I went to college right...
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Healthy Lunchbox Treats The Kids Won’t Toss
Does your kid’s lunch room look like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange? When I was in grade school, I remember myself and all my friends bargaining, haggling, and trading the contents of their...
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Healthy Back-to-School Muffins Kids Will Love: Best of the Blogs
If your kids are muffin-mad, begging for those baked treats all day long, then you’re going to want to pay attention to this wonderful recipe for Peaches and Cream Muffins with Almond Crumble. It’s...
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Quick & Easy Lunch Box Specials
For no good reason, packing my children’s lunches was one of my most-hated chores. I always left it until the last minute, when I invariably discovered that we were out of bread or some other key...
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Mayonnaise: Buy It vs. Make It
This edition of “buy it vs. make it” filled me with dread and trepidation, and I avoided it as long as I could. Not on purpose. I got all the ingredients well ahead of time; I discussed it with my...
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Christmas Kids Lunch: Jingle Bell Reindeer Sandwich
Silver bells ring-a-ling, sleigh bells tingling, and jingle bells jingle all the way. Oh yes, the sounds of the holiday season, when nine soaring reindeer dress in their best, pull a sleigh through the...
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Dishing on Love and Food with ‘Top Chef’ Alum Brooke Williamson
Years before she was runner up on Top Chef: Seattle, Brooke Williamson fell in love with her sous chef, Nick Roberts, whom she’d hired at Zax Restaurant, in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. To...
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