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Inside Motherhood

August 10th, 2008

Lazy Sunday Cooking

One of my most favorite ways to cook is to use my crock pot, especially in the summer. I also tend to be in the mood to cook in the mornings or early afternoons anyway.
I put this in about two hours ago and will make some scalloped potatoes to go with it later. Yay […]

By Heather -- 3 comments

June 24th, 2008

Homemade Granola Bars

During the summer when the kids are out of school I find it easy to slip into lazy snacking. When I pack their lunches during the school year I tend to put more thought into it when I shop ahead, but come summer time we just kind of wing it and that’s not always a […]

By Heather -- 1 comment

May 29th, 2008

Product Review: Hormel Compleats

You’ve seen that commercial on TV where the boss gives the office just a few minutes for a lunch break and all hell breaks loose as everyone dashes around looking for food? I never paid much attention to it until I realized what it actually was - single serve heat-and-eat meals.
My biggest issue during […]

By Heather -- 0 comments

April 27th, 2007

Smash–cauliflower, that is

I was just looking at all the lovely groceries I’ve put away this evening, and I’m particularly amused by the head of cauliflower.
When I was a kid, I couldn’t stand the stinky stuff. But my son loves it. And the secret is … smash.
We steam it til it’s tender, but doesn’t smell like an overboiled […]

By Christina -- 0 comments

February 5th, 2007

School morning muffins

I dropped my kid off for his first morning of before care at school, and he hardly noticed I was on my way out the door. The aide stopped me: was it ok if he had a snack? She rattled the box at me. Little Debby Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches filled with some sort of marshmallow […]

By Christina -- 0 comments

January 27th, 2007

Did you eat your alphabet today?

 
Kate over at Babylune has done it again. She has issued a challenge to us all to eat healthy by sampling our way through the alphabet’s fruits and vegetables.
  
She has some great ideas on how to turn this into an exciting learning opportunity for your kids, too. Veggie charts! Food pyramids! And perhaps a reduction […]

By Christina -- 2 comments