Giving New Meaning to Parenting

My husband works with computers for a living, and I’m a blogger. You would think that with all the time we spend on our computers that surely our kids must be playing computer games. The answer is no. It’s not that we have strong opinions against kids playing computers games. It’s [...]

Once you’ve gotten your house ready and your gifts planned, the next hurdle on the holiday prep list is food. The strategy is pretty simple, really:

Decide what food you want to cook
make a list of ingredients required
purchase them in advance.

Bonus points awarded to individuals who start purchasing shelf-stable ingredients over time, thus [...]

Do you ever get bored with food? I get bored with food. And yes, you may call me a picky eater. Or maybe… I’m a fad eater. I get hooked on one recipe or another and enjoy it for a while, then I don’t want to make it [...]

Yet another strategy for saving money on food is to make it yourself. Whenever you purchase something pre-made at the store, you’re going to pay for someone else’s labor.
Earth-shattering revelation, no?
Never mind, don’t answer that.
My boys are currently fond of the Lunchables brand of ummm, lunch thingies. I only buy [...]

A couple of years ago a friend and I decided to learn how to do the bulk cooking thing.  We looked at Once a Month Cooking, read several cookbooks on the subject, and also referred to the 30DayGourmet site.  Early attempts included a long day of cooking together and resulted in a lot of casseroles [...]

I like to think of parenting as a multi-disciplinary job.  Some things I do involve direct interaction with the boys, while other things are more indirect.  How I manage the house, for example.  That is an important facet of my parenting, yet it’s something that goes on behind the scenes, as it were.  Well.  It’s [...]

I’ve written boatloads about various fruity ideas for the past 3 weeks, today I want to finish the series by discussing some ways to preserve summer vegetables.
Common ways to preserve veggies are canning and freezing. Drying is also a good method; however I have no experience with drying foods so I will leave that [...]

My stomach turns at the smell of most baby food. Not so much the first stages; bananas and apples are pretty non-offensive. Once they move on to the pureed version of turkey and noodles, though, I can’t quite conceive the yellowish gelled glop as food. Combine the smell of this epicurean treat [...]

For the second year in a row, I have helped organize the Book Fair at our local elementary school. We use a local shop, rather than Scholastic, and the Fair always has amazing books I’ve never seen before. This is not a fund raiser for the school- we pass on the discounts to [...]