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Back to School: Sandwich Recipes and The Lunch Dilemma
You know how you can look back on something, something you did years ago, and wonder how it came to be? Well, that’s how I am about my high school lunch habit. Except for a handful of times when I...
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Beyond Brown Bags: Avoiding the caloric bomb
I’m just over the moon to introduce a new guest columnist and the regular feature she’ll be sharing with us. Melissa Owens lives in the western suburbs and details her family’s efforts to eat locally...
View ArticleEasy Breakfast Recipe: Eggs and Sausage Casserole
I know we’ve posted a lot of recipes here in the last few days, but I just had to share this one today. My mom has been making this casserole for more than 20 years, and we eat it while we open...
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Getting Kids to Eat Veggies in the New Year
This post was written by the editor of Local Fun for Kids, a new website that is helping bring more attention to locally run parenting sites across the country, including Go West Young Mom. The blog...
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Recipes for Snow Cream and Snow Slushies
I’m starting to think that there was a huge hole in my childhood: I never got to make snow ice cream! Well, with the amount of snow we’re forecast to get over the next few days, I figured it’s a great...
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Simple Recipes: Lentil Soup Keeps New Year's Resolutions Cooking
In place of one of our quick "Weeknight Dinners," today we have a recipe for a delicious lentil soup that is very simple to make but takes a bit of time to come together. It's from one our favorite...
View ArticleSimple Breakfast: Honey Nut Granola
We’re changing it up today, featuring a breakfast recipe from one of our regular contributors, Edith Tarter, instead of one of our “Weeknight Dinners.” Here's an easy, inexpensive and relatively...
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Simple Dessert: No-Cook Ice Cream
One of our regular contributors, Edith Tarter, passed along this recipe for homemade ice cream. The weather has turned cooler recently, but you know we'll likely see the return of ice cream weather...
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Crayons + Cocktails: New England Buck
Boston native Sheila Corcoran-Abraham, who has been writing about her transformation from a city mouse to a country mouse, has launched a stylish design and lifestyle website called Crayons +...
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Crayons + Cocktails: Cranberry Cordial
Massachusetts native Sheila Corcoran-Abraham, who is now making a life for her family in the far western 'burbs, has launched a stylish design and lifestyle website called Crayons + Cocktails. Here...
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