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Filed under: Snacks , Newspapers , America , Fast Food , Summer It's obvious after reading posts like Marisa's ode to Philly Water Ice that the treat is a well-deserved one after a long, hot day in the city. But should we be using it - along with pizza Read More...
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Filed under: Lunch , Snacks , Culinary Kids , Candy , America , Health & Medical , Local Eating And you thought the green-beret'd Girl Scouts and their cookies were enterprising little kids? In Victorville, CA, the latest trend at schools is an underground Read More...
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I have absolutely no new food adventures worth writing about at the moment, but Elijah and I do continue to watch hilarious food-themed Electric Company videos on YouTube. This is a current favorite. We revel in the evisceration of the snack-food industry, Read More...
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Elijah's school has parent-teacher conferences at the back end of this week, slicing my already short days by another hour. Usually, when I pick up the boy, he's practically gnawing his arm with hunger. He gets a little excitable at lunch and sometimes Read More...
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When I picked Elijah up from school yesterday, along with his usual take-home items, he proudly presented me with a navy-blue plastic bag. "What is this?" I asked. "It was ******'s birthday today," he said. "We had cupcakes." "That's great," I said. "What's Read More...
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Most Fridays, Elijah meets his friends at the park for "sports class." Some enterprising parents from his preschool found a private coach who comes to the neighborhood with a bag of balls. For the first few months, it was all tee-ball, all the time, and Read More...
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The wife and son came home bearing vegetables. The CSA had moved our pickup to Wednesday. There was the usual early-fall assortment of tomatoes and potatoes, Swiss chard and Romaine, some anorexic-looking carrots and a couple of obscure heads of greenery Read More...
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Filed under: Culinary Kids , Recipes , On the Blogs When I was a kid, my mom was one of those health-conscious parents* who refused to pack chips, twinkies or Halloween candy in my lunch. Occasionally, my sister and I could wear down her resistance enough Read More...
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Of all my many food loves, none trumps cheese. I host cheese tastings at my house and send cheeses back at restaurants if I don't like them. I've read The Cheese Bible cover to cover several times, and have pretty much memorized Steven Jenkins' Cheese Read More...
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When Elijah got home from kindergarten yesterday, Regina made him a snack tray and served it to the boy while he, exhausted and numb-eyed from a hard day at school, watched a couple of episodes of The Tick, which I rented for him on Netflix. Counting Read More...
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Filed under: Snacks , Dessert , Fruit , Spirit of Summer , Raves & Reviews , New Products Del Monte 's brand new Fruit Chillers line is sure to be a hit with both kids (and adults) this summer, even though it is a little on the cold side right now Read More...
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Filed under: Teas , Snacks , British Isles , Culinary Kids , Food Oddities , Health & Medical All sorts of safety issue plague parents and children these days. Playground equipment and activities are carefully monitored and toys are painstakingly Read More...
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Filed under: Snacks , Culinary Kids , Trends , Did you know? , America , Health & Medical To say that the awareness campaign against childhood obesity has been a big one is something of an understatement. There are healthy vending machines getting Read More...
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Filed under: Snacks , Culinary Kids , Fruit , Did you know? , America , Light Food , Health & Medical Over the course of the last year, schools have come under fire for putting unhealthy options in on-campus vending machines, prompting some states Read More...
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Filed under: Lunch , Snacks , Nuts/seeds , Culinary Kids The entries for Jif's Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich contest have closed and it looks like all of the participating kids worked really hard to get their entries just right. Jif has compiled Read More...
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