The country is getting ready to enter prime food time: Christmas! Full of cakes, pies, meats, sauces, heartburn, heart disease, and obesity. Yea… I love it. My mom always used to say that if you’re going to have it, meaning sweets and heavy foods, have it in its entirety with no substitutes. She said this [...]
I got the new menu for my oldest daughters lunch and noticed something strangely new: there were carrot sticks, cucumbers, romaine lettuce and even…oh my goodness…hummus, on the menu! I am a mom who likes to cook but doesn’t love to cook and like many have little time in the morning to prepare a school [...]
“Chocolate begets more chocolate; it never leads to carrots. Or spinach. Or tofu.” – Dina Rose, PhD and parent educator I really like this quote a lot. It’s an essential piece of human nature. Sitting begets more sitting. Moving begets more moving. Reading begets more reading…and so on. Why am I bringing this up? As [...]
My oldest daughter is 8 and in 2nd grade. When she first started school, she began in the Montgomery county summer school program which was free for one month. Hallelujah. She was given free breakfast. Another plus. However, when I went to the cafeteria I was a lot less impressed. Now granted, they were doing [...]
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