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Eat Well Spend Less: Food Resolutions (Recipe: Baked Brown Rice Pilaf)

by Aimee
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We’re a little over three weeks into the new year which is long enough to put your food resolutions to the test – if you made any. In this January edition of our Eat Well, Spend Less series, we’re taking a look at those goals and how we’re measuring up. I recently shared my intentional [...]

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Entertaining & Holidays

Eat Well, Spend Less: Homemade Substitutes for Holiday Favorites

by Aimee
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You may have noticed the barrage of holiday food items in supermarkets. The towers of garishly colored fruitcake, rows and rows of pale frozen shrimp rings, and battalions of eggnog cartons. As most of these once-a-year items tend to be highly processed and contain unrecognizable ingredients, they never make it into my shopping cart. That [...]

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Kids in the Kitchen

Balanced School Lunches for Picky Eaters

by Katie G
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Written by Katie of Good Life Eats School is just around the corner for us, and I think we’re all glad of that in the Goodman home. We had a great summer and had a fun family vacation, checked out tons of library books, attended swimming lessons, and more. But I think we’re ready to [...]

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Entertaining & Holidays

Eat Well, Spend Less: Wholesome, Homemade Food for Air Travel

by Aimee
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We’ve just returned from a family vacation in the Caribbean where we unplugged, relaxed and enjoyed time with extended family. While the get-away gave us some much needed R&R, the traveling to and from our destination was an adventure! Our boys, now 5 and 3, did amazingly well on the four flights, all things considered. [...]

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Kids in the Kitchen

Simple Tips for Baking with Kids (Recipe: Giant Oatmeal Cookies)

by Lynn
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Written by Lynn of Cookie Baker Lynn. As a parent, one of my goals for my children is that they should be able to take care of themselves after they’ve left the nest. I know a young woman who called home from her first month away at college, asking how to boil water. She had [...]

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