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Healthy Recipes & Nutrition

22 Healthy high-protein snacks

The task of ramping up an exercise routine, recuperate from surgery, or building a healthy baby while pregnant may leave you...

Healthy Recipes & Nutrition

Quick ways to sneak protein into a school meal

Do you worry that your kids aren’t getting enough protein in their daily diet? Though some days it may seem that they eat nothing...

Healthy Recipes & Nutrition

What's wrong with school meals?

With 17 million children going hungry in the U.S., school breakfasts and lunches may be one of the only ways these children get well...

Family Recipes

Easy nutrients to pack into a school lunch

Regardless of age, kids can be picky eaters. Your first grader may not want to eat anything green while your middle schooler may...

Gluten Free Recipes

Gluten-free after school snacks

Though a gluten-free diet poses dietary restrictions for popular snacks that contain gluten such as pretzels, crackers, nutrition...

Winter Recipes

Why food matters on Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day is a time for lovers to eat together and focus on each other. Throughout history many people have tried to create...

Entertaining

Sunny Anderson's Super Bowl Recipes

Sunny Anderson, host of the Food Network show, “Cooking for Real,” doesn’t want to talk about the Super Bowl. “The (New...

Cooking Tips & Trends

Make a perfect soufflé with Joanne Weir

People are frightened to make soufflés. It seems that whenever they see a soufflé recipe in a cookbook or online, they run in the...

Dieting & Nutrition

Clean food: Healthy eating in the New Year

A new year has started, and if you're like me, you over-indulged a bit too much over the holidays. But we all want to look better,...

Dieting & Nutrition

5 Foods that are bad for your health

We're all familiar with the tale of Jack Sprat who ate no fat, and we all know his wife who ate no lean. What I bet you didn’t...

Entertaining Checklists & Tips

Expert holiday entertaining tips: Stress less and cut costs

Want to approach your holiday gatherings like a pro? Be it your first time inviting holiday guests into your home or your annual...

Organic Foods & Recipes

Foodzie: Fab food finds

There are many fabulous artisan food producers out there, but unless you are a jet-setter heading across the country (and world) in...

Food & Recipes

10 Tools (and foods) for making baby food

One of the things that makes homemade baby food seem so daunting is the need for kitchen tools and gadgets. There are many parents...

Fall Recipes

Homemade baby food recipes for fall

Fall ushers in the harvest of pears, apples, and winter squash like butternut, hubbard, and acorn. These foods make some of the most...

Healthy Recipes & Nutrition

Healthy snacks and lunches for kids

As part of a healthy diet, your child should eat 3 main meals and 2 to 3 snacks a day. Snacks are an important part of daily food...

Family Recipes

Lunch box survival & recipes

It can be a big challenge for parents to create lunches that are reasonably healthy and tasty. The more you involve your children in...

Food & Recipes

Tips for shopping with kids

Despite what you might think, it really is possible to shop with kids and not go nuts. To paraphrase Honest Abe, “You can do it...

Cooking Tips & Trends

10 Tips for cookie decorators

Don’t those cookie decorating tutorials in magazines and on television make it look like anyone could decorate cookies like a pro...

Children's Health

Lunches that give your kids energy at school

Kids need energy and brain power to perform well in school. However, despite your efforts of picking out fresh fruits and veggies...

Dieting & Nutrition

4 Food label myths debunked

While the front of packages and Nutrition Fact Panels on foods provide a wealth of information, the label lingo can get confusing....