How to Plan Food for a (Really) Large Group: Taco Bar Prep for Graduation Party, Wedding, Shower, Etc.
I love a challenge, and although you wouldn’t know it if you visited my house, I can organize an event like nobody’s business (just not…
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Welcome Back to School: Sustainability, Lunch Ideas, and More!
Head Back to School Sustainably in 2024 It’s the time of year when school supplies seem to have taken over my house and I’m scouring…
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High School Graduation Party Planning Ideas
When I started planning the graduation party for my oldest, my college roommate came to mind. When she graduated high school, she lived in a…
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Easy and Healthy Snack Ideas for Athletes
I’m so committed to healthy snacks for kids, including after team sports, that I simply can’t just go with the flow and buy single-serve processed…
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Healthy Snack Swaps for Kids’ Sports
It seems inevitable that if your kids are in sports, they’re going to be served snacks by other kids’ parents. It also feels inevitable that…
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5 Surprising Ways for a High-Schooler to Cut Weight for Wrestling (That No One Is Using)
Apparently, we grow our kids short and slim, so when my very skinny freshman son decided to join the high-school wrestling team, he was quite…
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Use Your Leftovers: 30+ Dinner Recipes to Use for Easy School Lunches
When I think about easy school lunches to pack, I know the world would tell me to buy a Lunchable. Not my style. I’d rather…
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45 Easy Non Food Birthday Celebration Ideas for School
“My husband thinks food and treats are going to get some child killed someday,” says the wife of a school principal. He thinks that lawsuits…
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Why Treats at School Should Have Been Banned Decades Ago
We live in a frighteningly litigious society, don’t you think? I’m looking at you, burglars who sue homeowners because they got injured during a B&E…and…
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Valentine’s Cards Without Candy
I get really tired of the sugar fest that is Valentine’s Day, the Hallmark holiday co-opted by the sugar and flower industries. Why can’t Valentine’s Day…
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Quick and Easy {NO SUGAR} Elementary School Halloween Party!
Fed up with the school birthday treats? Me too. Here’s everything you’ll need for a quick and easy NO SUGAR kid Halloween party idea. Games,…
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Packing a Lunch: Healthy Food to Go
I feel like I’m always looking for more easy lunch packing ideas for my kids! I don’t want to make special lunch recipes – I…
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Healthy School Christmas Party Ideas – Fun Games and Food for Kids but NO Sugar!
If you’ve followed me for a while, you probably already know how I feel about school birthday treats and sugar (not to mention kids’ sports…
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On the Go Kid Food Made Healthy
The anchors asked us yesterday on live TV, “What is something you like to eat that’s more fun? Do you ever want things in your…
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10 Easy Tips for Packing Real Food Lunches
There’s nothing better than a kid messing up and earning a consequence. Don’t believe me? I didn’t pack my 5th grader’s lunch almost the entire…
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The Best Real Food Allergy Friendly Lunches {Portable & Easy}
School is right around the corner (I said it…don’t throw tomatoes). Depending on where you live it could be a month, a couple weeks or…
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I Hate Preschool Snack Time
We feed our kids all day long in this country. And then we wonder why child obesity is becoming a problem, why picky eaters are…
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Homemade Lunch Meat Recipe
This post is from KS contributing writer Mary Voogt of Just Take A Bite. Warning. You may want to cover your ears. I’m going to use…
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How Many Birthday Cupcakes Can One Kid Eat?
There will be some who will say that I’m trying to ruin birthdays, that I’m an out-of-season Grinch, my heart clearly two sizes too small…
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Healthy School Treat Ideas when You’re Not Allowed to Make “Homemade”
As a former elementary school teacher, anything having to do with kids and healthy food grabs my interest and I get pretty passionate about it.…
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