Eating

Seal-a-Meal: An Investment Worth Making

January 31, 2012
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Experts say the easiest way to save money while grocery shopping is to buy in bulk when products that you use regularly go on sale. And so I do. Chicken breasts, ground beef, and other perishable products can be dirt cheap if you shop at the right time of the month, but who needs 5 [...]

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Table Toppers: A Clean Table for On the Go!

January 20, 2012
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How many times have you been at a fast food restaurant with your baby or toddler, only to notice how dirty the table tops are? Or at a restaurant? With twin two year olds, I don’t trust them with a glass plate at a restaurant. They throw those paper placemats right on the floor as [...]

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A Stainless Steel Baby Bottle? Check out The Safe Starter By KidBasix

December 12, 2011
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Plastic bottles, glass bottles, bottles with disposable liners, BPA free bottles . . . if you have ever had to shop for baby bottles, you know that there is a huge and very wide selection of bottles and nipples out there. But have you heard about stainless steel bottles? Yep, Kidbasix makes a stainless steel [...]

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Love To (Or Want To Learn To) Cook? Check Out Everyday With Rachael Ray Magazine

November 30, 2011
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I recently mentioned over at SmartMomStyle.com that I subscribe to a TON of magazines each month, and mentioned 3 magazines worth subscribing to . . . and Everyday With Rachael Ray is definitely one of them. I’ve been a fan of Rachael Ray since I started watching Food Network more than five years ago. She’s got a [...]

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Your Picky Eater Will Adore These Food Face Plates

November 23, 2011
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If you have a picky eater, than you know how difficult it is to get them to eat . . . especially healthy stuff that they know are veggies and other stuff they aren’t interested in eating. I’ve tried to beg, plead, compromise, threaten – just about anything and everything to get my picky eater [...]

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Dinners In A Flash: An Online Dinner Planner

November 22, 2011
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I don’t know how some moms do it. My sister-in-law is one of those moms who had three kids playing three different sports with practices several times a week, and she always had a homemade meal on the table. I am lucky if I can open a box of something some nights and have it [...]

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juiceology: A New All Natural Fruit Drink

November 21, 2011
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Juice. I love it, but don’t want the kids drinking a lot of it. All the sugar and artificial flavors makes me very hesitant to let them ever have any of those boxed drinks or Capri Sun type drinks. On the rare occasions I do allow them to have it, they get 100% all natural [...]

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The Perfect Meatloaf Pan: Is It Perfect?

November 16, 2011
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At our house, one of the most requested things for dinner is meatloaf. Ground beef meatloaf, turkey meatloaf, Mexican meatloaf, bacon wrapped meatloaf . . . just about anyway you can make a meatloaf, we’ll eat it. One thing I’ve always been frustrated by is how if you use ground beef, the meatloaf turns out [...]

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Yo Drops: A Healthy Snack (But Your Kids Will Think It’s Candy!)

November 9, 2011
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I’m always looking for nutritious snacks to get my kids to eat. Things that taste so good that they won’t realize it’s actually really healthy and good for them. Because when they hear those words, they usually end up running the other way. Which is why I think that Yo’ Drops by Revolution Foods is [...]

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Sweet Leaf Iced Teas: The Perfect Sweet Treat!

October 27, 2011
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I’m a huge fan of iced tea, and drink it everyday. While I’m pretty “plain” when it comes to how I like my tea (unsweetened with lots of lemon), recently I’ve been trying new flavors. So when I was introduced to Sweet Leaf Iced Teas, it was like I hit the iced tea lottery! Sweet [...]

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Filtrete Water Station: Convenience of Bottled Water Without the Waste

October 19, 2011
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We drink a lot of water at our house. A lot. And I feel really bad about buying plastic water bottles and then throwing them away. Which is why the Filtrete Water Station is perfect for my family. The Filtrete Water Station provides the convenience of bottled water without the cost and waste of throw-away plastic [...]

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