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Pumpkin Cupcakes for Halloween – When Else?

Sarah — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:19:54 +0000

These adorable pumpkins cupcakes will be the center of attention at your next Halloween bash.

Featured on Martha Stewart, this pumpkin cupcake recipe is perfect as a Halloween project you can do with your kids.

Super nutritious and almost healthy for you in this cupcake verison, pumpkins are loaded with vitamins A and B, iron, potassium, protein, fiber — and are low in fat and sodium.

The perfect addition to your Halloween desert spread.

You can even line your serving platter with some beautiful fall colors. Collect some large oak leaves that have just begun to turn red, rinse them off and you have a gorgeous Halloween platter worthy of being in a magazine!

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Don’t Play With Your Food Kids! How to Get Your Toddler to Eat Their Veggies & More!

Sarah — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:56:26 +0000

If you have trouble getting your kids to eat their veggies or anything edible for that matter, like I do, this absolutely clever plate will do wonders for your feeding times.

My daughter loves to decorate the character’s face in imaginative, clever and fun ways. Hey, I even like to do it myself.

You can find this item on this site: Scents of Delight. ** Note **, I have not been paid or sent a free sample to endorse this product. It’s simply unique enough and makes lunch & dinner time almost bearable with a picky toddler!

Now I just have to figure out what to cook that will have entertained enough to eat and play and miss the broccoli and asparagus on her plate! HA!

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Big Salads For Big Butts – 101 Simple Salads for the Summer Season

Sarah — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:53:35 +0000

Yummy yummy! I don’t know what it is about salads, but I LOVE THEM!

When I was pregnant, I swear I could devour a salad 3 times per day. Something about the mouth-watering juicy feeling of eating something light and healthy just had me all over it!

The funny thing is, my daughter LOVES salad as well. She can gulp down tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, strawberries, cherries like it was J-O-B!

Nowadays, I eat salad so I can lose the 60lbs I gained during the pregnancy that I am STILL not anywhere near getting rid of.

Check out this NYTimes article on 101 different salad recipes for the summer season. YUM YUM YUM!!!

I love salad recipe collections like this to keep your menu and palate fresh.

So chop chop! Get busy eating some healthy veggies and fruits!

You can thank me later.

Do you have a favorite salad recipe? Share it below in the comments!

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Healthy Snack Sucks

Gigi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:12:39 +0000

There are a lot of really overweight kids in this country. It is a true statement, and a sad one, because it is really the easiest to be thin when you are 5 – you know when running around the yard at top speed for two hours isn’t a chore, but a favored past time. But the truth of the matter is, that that our kids are not overweight because Max brought cupcakes to school for his birthday, or because they had ice cream after lunch on a hot summer day. Today, it was our turn to bring in snack. Okay – cool. I can swing that. I went to the food store, I got ingredients, I googled (yes!!) the recipe, I was set. Max and I made the cutest little cupcakes with oreo ears to look like panda cupcakes (HELLO!?! MOM OF THE YEAR AWARD). Anyhow, all joyous and bubbly we bounce into school this morning with a cupcake tower and enough panda cupcakes for a wildlife preserve scene. I proudly walk up to the teacher to give her the cupcakes (did I mention we even colored coconut to be the color green to look like bambo?! I know so cute right!?) Anyway, we walk up to Miss B, and you know what she says?! Not wow, not how cute, she didn’t even praise me for my fine attention to my children (bitch LOL) but says this is not “healthy snack”. I was then told healthy snack is carrots, wheat germ, organic asparagus, etc. Okay seriously WTF?! I have to bring in celery for Max and Ty’s birthday instead of a cupcake because some lazy ass mother gives her kids McDonalds five times a day, and his best sport is video games?! Yeah, I am sure for this kid, my CUPCAKE IS REALLY THE PROBLEM…riiiiight. Are you serious? My ONE cupcake is the nail in the coffin?! Of course, I voiced my opinion rather politely and you know what happened of course. The teacher stood firm, I bought carrot sticks and Max cried. (Then Ty started to cry reminding me how fun it is that when there is a birthday dissappointment we get it times two with twins!!) Rest assured however, that when their crying stopped I told him we will be having Panda cupcakes for dinner. All 20 of them. So go ahead – call Deyfus now…my kids eat cupcakes and I think “healthy snack” sucks.

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