Let’s be honest: olive oil is one of those things we know is supposed to be healthy…but beyond that? Total mystery. Sure, you might drizzle…
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The children set out to make coffee pancakes, which would have been a noble pursuit since the majority of the 12 adults in the household did not hide their passion for coffee. Had they chosen to use leftover liquid coffee in place of some of the water or milk in a pancake recipe, the experiment
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Gathering with family for the holidays should be relaxing and joyful but family holidays can be stressful when food philosophies class. Here’s now to navigate family holidays with an extra measure of grace! I’m willing to bet that you don’t eat the same as your extended family. Or your neighbors. Or your church community. In
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This is good advice about husbands and real food, I promise. And no, I’m not upset with my husband and taking it out on men everywhere. It was my husband’s idea, in fact. Ever since I pulled things like serving beef tongue and not telling him (and then successfully doing the same with beef heart),
This post is from Parenting Expert and Author Amy McCready. Ever feel like there should be foreboding background music playing when it comes to dealing with family dinnertime? Trying to serve real food and have real family time – when you’re really just frazzled and overwhelmed? I get it. I’ve been there. But, you know
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Once upon a time my husband and I flew from Missouri to Maryland to look for houses for a week, followed shortly by taking our family on road trip down to Colorado, followed almost immediately by us moving halfway cross country. Out of four weeks, we were on the road (or plane) for a total of
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The following is a post from Georganne Schuch of Mom To Many Girls. Feeding a family, especially a large family, requires the financial savvy of an accountant, the gourmet finesse of a chef crossed with the flexibility of a short-order cook, and the organizational skills of a project manager. And that’s just for starters. Once
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“I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our food restrictions,” my husband admitted to me last week. “What if they offer the kids a juice pouch, or the dreaded freezer pops with artificial colors? And then there’s the
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There’s not a speck of sarcasm there. I am very grateful for my current living situation. Pulling back the curtain of one’s life to millions of Internet users (or thousands of blog readers) certainly opens a person up to different kinds of feedback than life in a normal neighborhood. Since we moved in with my
Can you afford another child? People are really thinking about finances when they make decisions about conception, and many struggle with being a working mother vs. staying at home. I hear this more often that you’d think: “I wish I could make more homemade foods, but I just don’t have time with working all day.”
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something special with your family this week. Special family time doesn’t have to be anything special, just being together and getting silly suffices! What a way to get moving with the kids! After a couple of heavy research and controversy posts last week, a (negative)
