If you are like many American families, dinnertime has gone the way of the rotary phone, typewriter and dodo bird: Extinct. Cooking has truly become optional in the past 20 years, as corporations … [Read more...]
Sugar: 5 Sweet Steps
Picture the grocery store as your very own real-life Candyland game. Here are 5 Sweet Steps to navigate your way through the aisles. - Sugar is for treats - Add your own sugar to drinks - Buy … [Read more...]
Menu Madness: Kids and Restaurants
We enjoyed plenty of restaurants over Spring Break. It would be hard not to when there many an awesome restaurant downtown mall Charlottesville that we just couldn't say no to. I wish I could say we … [Read more...]
The Red Herring Diet—Thoughts on Dieting and Weight
My third-grader’s math homework reminds me of dieting and weight loss. A problem such as this got me thinking: “Meg drives 200 miles to lunch. She drives 50 miles after lunch. She takes a wrong turn … [Read more...]
How to Shop at Costco—for Adults and Kids
Here’s my sort of the good, the bad and the ugly on Costco shelves—plus a bonus of 7 Costco-based quick and easy dinners. Please note that my rankings are only comparisons of what Costco sells—I’m not … [Read more...]
Bread!
In the beginning of Les Miserables, hero Jean Valjean is arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. Like Jean Valjean, humans have subsisted on bread for hundreds of years. Yet … [Read more...]