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The Difference Between Food Allergy and Food Intolerance
It seems like so many kids these days have a food allergy or a food intolerance. What's the difference...
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April Fools' Day Dinner Idea
Trick your kids with this April Fools Day prank dinner
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Where do you get the majority of your recipes?
Where do you get the majority of your recipes?
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Healthy Breakfast Ideas from Jennie Garth
Healthy Breakfast Ideas from Jennie Garth
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I Can Cook, Too
I don't cook. I feel horribly guilty about it. Maybe it's my Italian heritage. When my daughter was younger...
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Top Foods For Clearer Skin (for Preteens, Teens, and Preggers)
Whether you're a hormonal teen or a hormonal pregnant chick, there's nothing fun about feeling like a...
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Top "Ate" Mood Lifting Foods
Having one of those days? Try noshing on one of these mood-boosting snacks to give yourself a lift. (...
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Top "Ate" Canned Foods (You Shouldn't Feel Guilty About Feeding Your Kids)
Sure you'd love to serve garden-fresh, organic, just-from-the-farmers-market food on a daily basis, but...
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Find Something for Dinner with a New Baby
Find Something for Dinner with a New Baby
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Alaina Huffman on Using Leftovers
Alaina Huffman on Using Leftovers
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Laila Ali's Tip for Cooking for an Entire Week
Laila Ali Cooking tips
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NewTree Tranquility Chocolate Bar
Chocoholics, pay attention: Inner peace and tranquility are available in bar form thanks to NewTree's...
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Do you make more than one meal at suppertime?
Do you make more than one meal at suppertime?
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Kids' Nutrition: How often do you serve fish to your family?
How often do you serve fish to your family?
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Is it important to you to eat locally grown food?
Is it important to you to eat locally grown food?
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Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Maple Brown Butter Frosting
The name of this recipe is a mouthful. The good news is, these cookies are a delicious mouthful!
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Ice Cream Cupcakes by Lisa Whelchel
This is a fun and easy recipe for a cupcake that eats like an ice cream cone. A great idea for kids'...
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Kellogg's Recalls Cereals
You may have to throw out your boxes of Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, Honey Smacks and Corn Pops.
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Yummy Mini Quiches
Real kids do eat quiche! Especially when they're cute little mini ones packed in their lunchboxes!
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Not-Your-Average Tuna Salad
This is not your average tuna salad, for your not-so-average kid.
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Fruit Kabobs with Dipping Sauce
Sticks, dip, fruit, kids? Sounds like a plan.
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Family Traditions and Daily Health
I come from a Sardinian (Italy) family. When I was young, I spent every Sunday cooking the traditional...
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Christi Covington's Zucchini Casserole
Veggies man enough to be called dinner.
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Super-Easy Lasagna
Here's a lasagna recipe that goes together in a flash, so it won't grate on your nerves - just your cheese...
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Corn and Black Bean Salad
This salad works equally well as a side dish or a main course. We love a good multitasker.
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Peanut Butter Club (Double-Decker PB
When one PB&J sammie just won't cut the mustard? Make it a double, or even triple-decker. That'll show...
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Yellow Cupcakes
We think any day that ends in a 'y' is a great day to make cupcakes. (We bet your kids will agree.)
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Classic Chocolate Fudge
Augustus Gloop threatened to cost Willy Wonka a fortune in fudge. Fortunately, the home-baked version...
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Homemade Marshmallows
Marshmallows aren't really jet-puffed. (who knew?) Instead, they're whipped light and fluffy by a hand...
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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
Chocolate and peanut butter. Never has a more scrumptious combo been created. Up the ante with gourmet...
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Pasta Puttanesca
Don't look up the literal meaning of 'puttanesca', just make this delicious pasta and enjoy.
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Chocolate Nut Upside-Down Cake
You can go totally nuts with this recipe, literally: Try adding a toasted trio of hazelnuts, almonds...
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Mexican-Chocolate Pecan Squares
Ever have Mexican hot chocolate? It's the cinnamon that makes it riquissimo. Take that cinnamony, chocolatey...
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Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies
Are there six words that sound more magical together? They bear repeating: Peanut butter. Chocolate Chip...
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Rice Krispie Dogs
Crispy rice cereal, marshmallows, icing…what else could you want?
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Mason Jar Cupcakes
Dress up a gift of cupcakes in this pretty container.
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Creative Quesadillas
From simply cheese to fully loaded, appetizer to main meal, quesadillas rock.
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Pat's Lamb Chops With Orange-Fig-Pecan Relish
Even if you're not a fan of lamb, it's worth giving this unique recipe a try. The sweet relish might...
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Broiled Mediterranean Salmon
Trying to get more omega-3s in your family's diet? Serve up some salmon! (Take our word for it, it's...
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On-the-Go Trail Mix
Traditionally used by hikers to keep up their stamina, trail mixes can give kids the energy they need...
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Costa Rican Black Beans and Rice
This vegetarian meal with international flavor appeals to folks of all ages, and it's one of those dishes...
saltymom
Hearty Spinach and Lentil Soup
A hearty, healthy meal that would make Popeye proud.
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Lemon Meringue Cupcakes
Lemon meringue pie that fits in one hand! Actually, you might need two--you know, so your other hand...
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Italian Meringue Buttercream
There's something very appealing about a recipe that combines the words "Italian," "butter" and "cream...
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Tilapia With Pesto Cream Sauce
This fish dish sounds fancy, but it comes together as easy as 1-2-seafood.
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Fluffy Meringue Frosting
Fat-free frosting that's also marshmallow-y and delicious? You'll think you've hit the junk-food jackpot...
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Cheese, Tomato & Spinach Lasagna
This spinach lasagna is almost as saucy as you are. (And almost as cheesy as that description.)
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Double Frosted Brownies
Every frosting lover's dream.
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Mandelbrot
Why go to the coffee shop and spend a buck and a half on stale biscotti when you can make a fresh batch...
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Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers
Green peppers make great serving "bowls" for a tasty meatloaf-style stuffing.
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Special Pancakes With Very Berry Smoothies
Breakfast for dinner is always a treat! Serve this yummy combo with some turkey or soy breakfast sausage...
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Pasta Pomodorini
Pasta Pomodorini
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Chocolate Almond Fillo Bites
These mini packages of melt-in-your-mouth pastry, creamy chocolate, and rich almond crunch are best served...
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Puff Pastry Pizza Margherita
The puff pastry adds a fresh twist to a classic combination of flavors.
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Orecchiette with Sausage and Spinach
The orecchiette are small, ear-shaped pasta, whose shape deliciously hold the little crumbles of sausage...
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Pesto Tilapia
A vibrant, tasty sauce jazzes up this mild fish.
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20-Lemon Lemonade
This juicy recipe calls for whatever kind of juicer you can get your hands on: a big fancy press squeezer...
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Goat Cheese-Stuffed Hamburgers
Anyone can melt cheese onto a hamburger once it's cooked, but these begin with the cheese on the inside...
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Garlic Parmesan Spread
This spread recipe makes making appetizers so easy it's embarassing. But who has time for embarassment...
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Drink and Make "Beary" Honey Tea
It's tea time for you and your little cub!
craftymama
Lunchbox Pasta Salad
Make this salad easy to pack into a small container or thermos by using small pasta shapes. (In other...
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Jam Triangles
In a jam for what to bake? Make these!
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Big Easy Beignets
Down in NoLa, folks like to have beignets and coffee for breakfast. Your kids will think fried dough...
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Melon Sorbet Soup
Cool down with this melon dessert recipe.
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Italian Sausage Hoagies
People may debate what this classic sandwich should be called depending on where they live - a hero,...
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English Scones
An easy and quick scone recipe that will have you feeling positively English. Now, if only Mary Poppins...
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Fruit Sushi
Raw fish? As if! Have your kid make "sushi" with fruit.
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Kitty Litter Cake
Have your kid make this disgusting-looking (but heavenly tasting) cake.
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What are some healthy options for preparing salmon?
What are some healthy options for preparing salmon?
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