THE WHAT: Hamilton Beach Bébé Mini Blender and Hamilton Beach Bébé 3 Cup Food Chopper THE HOW: Dishwasher safe, this mini blender and food chopper are the new parents’ best friend. Small enough to fit on the kitchen counter without being cumbersome yet powerful enough to get the job done. THE WHY: Because making baby…
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Mother’s Day Recipes | Life Made Delicious
Happy Mother’s Day to all! Tho I’m not big on Mother’s (or Father’s or Grandparents’) Day (call me grumpy) I am big on family brunch. Take all afternoon on a Sunday, eating, hanging, playing, ignoring the laundry…is what I call a day well spent. So Mother’s Day Recipes alert! Get your Quiche on this Mother’s…
Lunch Box List
Below is the essential Parent Club Lunch Box List – feel free to bookmark, print, comment or share with the club! Crunchy Category cut vegtables: carots, celery, broccoli, cucumber, peppers pretzels, fish crackers, rice crackers, popcorn, crackers dry cereal cereal bar crunchy fruit: apples, grapes Soft Category yogurt, cheese soft fruits: pears, banana, clementines, orange…
Back to School Tips
I, for one, am fairly excited it’s back to school season. It’s been a great summer. It’s been fun. But it’s time to move on (seriously…let’s move on). And I have been busy writing back to school themed articles… These were for the good folks at everythingmom.com Building Homework Habits Tips on How to Organize…
Product Review: Dr. Oetker Shakers
THE WHAT: Dr. Oetker Shakers THE HOW: Dr. Oetker introduces Shaker: Just add milk or water, and shake to make delicious cupcakes, muffins, and pancakes. • Just add milk, shake and pour.• No time wasted, no measuring, no extra ingredients to add• Best of all… no cleanup!• 0 Trans Fat, Source of Fibre, Prebiotic THE…
Just listen the 1st time
Last night, as I was making dinner – my prince decided to start playing guitar. At the kitchen table. Then gave guitar to Thing 1 to practice. At the kitchen table.(the kitchen table is our eating place, homework nook, craft area, reading corner and all around bowling alley). My prince then started to dust-bust the various…
Parent Club tip: Kids decide dinner
Take the guess work out of dinner by letting the kids choose what to eat tonight (a Friday food shake-up). Let the kids decide dinner (within healthy reason). Cereal + toast? Grilled cheese? Pizza? Nutella + english muffins? (can you tell we are carb heavy in my house…) Allowing your kids to decide what to…
Pillsbury Baking Challenge – My Cinnamon Heart Twists
The What: Pillsbury Baking Challenge encouraging Moms to get creative in the kitchen with minimal effort. The Grand Prize: a dream suite of kitchen appliances courtesy of Whirlpool®, cleaning services for a full year courtesy of Molly Maid®, and a year’s worth of groceries, all valued at over $11,500. There are also fan-ta-bu-lous category prizes…
Parent Club Review: PC Home Grown (+ Recipe)
Buying ‘home grown’ (i.e. foods grown locally) is an important thing. Imported foods have food miles on them (food miles = the number of miles that item has travelled from farm to your table — if an apple is picked in New Zealand and is flown to Canada — it travels about 7,300 air miles…
Parent Club Review: Bagel Os
The Parent Club Test Panel has been at it again… The What: Brand new, bite-size bagels filled with gourmet cream cheese. The delicious bites come in four flavours (herb and garlic, plain, blueberry and smoked salmon)and are kosher and completely nut-free. They’re available across Canada in Shoppers Drug Mart, Wal-Mart and Giant Tiger. The Review:…
Kids Birthdays with Meaning
You have never seen children so happy as when they are clubbing a Care Bear piñata to death with a plastic baseball bat at a child’s birthday party. This past weekend we celebrated another birthday party chez nous – and again trying to do it with some meaning. This year’s theme was ‘ol skool –…
Armpit Fudge
As posted, tweeted and promised here is Armpit Fudge. The recipe comes via Loblaws cooking camp – it is so loverly easy and kids (well my kids) like the armpit part just as much as the eating. Armpit fudge is great for the cottage, camp or birthday parties (birthday party post alert – coming next…