Snacks and Meal Planning
Part 3 – Eat from the Pantry Challenge
Just a quick update — we’re down to our last three dinners from my “Eat from the Pantry Challenge.” (Can you hear my teen cheering loudly!? She even went so far as to ask her Nana NOT to ask us over for dinner anymore so that we can ‘get this thing over already!’)
The dinners have [...]
Time to Check Out Market Day Offerings
If you want to pack something other thank the standard PB&J in your kids’ lunches, Market Day has some great alternatives. And if you like to cook and/or if you’re looking for easy ways to create delicious affordable meals, you need to check out a new collection of herbs, rubs and seasonings from Market Day Gourmet.
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Eat Dinner TOGETHER!
I grew up in a house where having dinner as a family was a regular event. My Dad was a cop, and he worked shifts for much of his career and all of my pre-teen years. If he was on the evening shift, Mom would have dinner ready at 4 p.m. so that we could [...]
22Dec2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued
Grocery Gift Card & Gift Pack Giveaway
With the holidays approaching, Moms everywhere are looking for ways to stretch their holiday meal dollars without sacrificing taste or nutrition. The good news is you can make your entertaining dollars work harder by bringing dairy family recipes and entertaining ideas to the holiday table, compliments of Midwest dairy farm Moms. Dollar for dollar, dairy [...]
11Dec2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 98 comments | Continued
Wii Game Giveaway for Birthday Parties
Did you know that $6.5 billion is spent annually on children’s birthday parties and the average “out-of-home” party costs $350? But if you’re among the 58 percent of parents that hosted their last birthday party at home, you know the planning can be a real bear, to say nothing of the work of entertaining a [...]
4Dec2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 139 comments | Continued
Thanksgiving and Pies and Disasters – Oh My!
I will never forget the first Thanksgiving holiday I hosted. I was a lowly newspaper reporter in Anderson, South Carolina. I was also a transplanted Midwesterner (referred to as a Damned Yankee by many of the locals), among several other 20-something transplants. None of us had enough vacation time or money to go home for Turkey [...]
5Nov2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 1 comment | Continued
$100 Gift Card Giveaway to Help You Make Changes
I’m one of those people who refers to paper towels as Scott towels. I honestly thought that’s what they were called until I got to Journalism School at Mizzou and learned via lost points on an editing class quiz that Scott is a name brand and is only one of many paper towel brands. That shows [...]
14Oct2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 657 comments | Continued
Easy Dinner Giveaway
I recently tried several varieties of Tyson® Fully Cooked Heat ‘N Eat Dinner Meats and I really liked them, as did almost everyone in my family (my very picky teen won’t eat “meat with sauce on it.”) These fully-cooked delicious entrée meats seriously cut down on dinner prep time but let you serve up a meals [...]
23Sep2009 | lipsticktocrayons | 121 comments | Continued
