Big Kid
Lunch Boxes Of The Teen And Quirky
Worried that your teen is the only one whose lunch isn’t Pinterest-worthy? Allow me to make you feel a lot better about your life (and lunch) choices.
Food & Home
Our Family’s Favorite Cookbooks
Yeah, we love cookbooks. Not a holiday passes without a cookbook being exchanged.
Holidays
National Pancake Day: Celebrating Shrove Tuesday
Hooray for Pancake Day! Sure it’s not Mardi Gras in New Orleans, but it has its own appeal. Like, no hangover.
Food & Home
Perfect Beets For People Who Don’t Like Beets
I’ve also been able to win over some of those “oh, I don’t like beets” folks with this side/ salad recipe.
Food & Home
When Dinnertime Becomes a Dinnersaga
My husband is a terrific (yet overly ambitious) cook. So we’re eating dinner at 9 p.m. — or even later. There’s got be a way to streamline the family dinner process!
Baby
What To Do With Leftover Baby Food
I’ve got a freezer full of lovely, organic, homemade baby food purees…that my baby is suddenly too grown-up to eat. Help!
Big Kid
Feeding A Vegetarian Kid When You’re A Carnivore
Our family is most definitely composed of omnivores, with a heavy carnivore bent when it comes to cheeseburgers. However, my teen daughter is a vegetarian. This is how we make it work.
Toddler
Going Full Satter: Taking Back Control of Dinnertime
A mom needs a realistic tactical plan for implementing Ellyn Satter’s feeding philosophy to family dinners.
Food & Home
Cooking For (& With) Kids: Citrus Sweet Potatoes, Two Ways
By popular demand, Amalah shares with us the homemade foods that are most popular with her kids and easiest to make from scratch. First up, transforming sweet potatoes into tots and a delicious side serving of mash.
Food & Home
Fool-Proof Tofu (Even If You Think You Hate Tofu)
You think that you don’t like tofu, but that might be because you don’t know how to coax great texture out of it. This simple tofu preparation will convert you.
Products & Services
Best Meal Kit Delivery Services for Families to Solve the Daily Dinner Grind (we tested 9 of the most popular ones)
Wondering which meal kit delivery service might be right for your family? An experienced family cook (of picky teens) tried most of them and gives you the 411.
Parenting
Cooking With Your Young Kids
Not for, WITH! How to safely inspire your kids to get cooking in the kitchen.
Food & Home
Photograph Your Food, Six Tips You Need to Do It Better
Do you want your food to look as good as it tastes? Here are some tips for helping to do a better job photographing your food.
Food & Home
Our Favorite Frittata: A Flexible One-Dish Wonder
Need a looks-fancy-but-it’s-not quick-and-easy dinner packed with veggies and protein? If you’ve got eggs around, you can make a frittata.
Food & Home
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bento Box Lunch
Have a child at home who loves the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Here’s a tutorial for a great and fun TMNT sandwich design for your bento box or parties.
Food & Home
The Tao Of Strawberries (and our favorite recipes)
It’s strawberry-picking season, and that means bonus time with my teens and all my favorite, yummy recipes. Viva la strawberries!
Food & Home
Three Soup Recipes You Should Try This Winter
The weather outside calls for steaming bowls of soup to ward off the winter chill. Here’s a few off-the-beaten-path favorites of ours to try.
Big Kid
I Have Teenagers, Therefore I Cook
The realities of trying to parent teenagers and keep my sanity are sending me more and more often… to the kitchen, where life makes sense to me.
Food & Home
Great Ideas for Cooking with Kids
If you want to let the kids help in the kitchen, we’ve found some cool things that will make it fun for everyone involved.
Food & Home
Alpha Mom Must List: Shop at ALDI
Have you heard of ALDI? They’re a national supermarket that sells the most popular private-label grocery items at insanely good prices, we’re talking like a 45%-50% discount to traditional supermarkets. And, you don’t need to buy their products in bulk to enjoy the savings, which living in an apartment in NYC, where kitchens are galley-sized, that’s super important.