EVENT: Kids Food Festival: November 3rd & 4th

Kids will discover that healthful foods are exciting. Image courtesy Kids Food Festival.   It’s tough to get kids to establish healthful eating habits. Aside from all the media messages, there’s peer pressure and the ubiquity of not-good-for-you food and beverage choices. But what if good eating could be presented as a fun activity? That’s…
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TIP OF THE DAY: “Zig-Zag” Baked Potatoes

Do you like to get creative with food design? Bring fun to the dining table? Next time you bake a potato, zig-zag the cut edges. We baked the potato, then sliced it across the top and used a kitchen scissors to create the zigzag effect. There’s no wasted food: We added the cut-out portion, along…
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PRODUCT: Yoga Cookie Cutters

For yoga fans, cookie cutters that can transform many foods—including this piece of cornbread—into yoga poses. Photo courtesy YummyYogi.com.   Our fast-paced society is stressful. Work pressures, managing family and household and inescapable digital demands don’t leave us with much quiet time. Some 15.8 million Americans—6.9% of the adult population—practice yoga to de-stress. Yoga quiets…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Eliminate Microwave Spatter & An Excellent Gourmet Pasta Sauce

No need to spatter sauce all over the microwave. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   To save cleaning a saucepan, we often microwave sauces in the bottle or jar. Dessert sauces are thick and don’t spatter. But pasta sauces can create microwave spatters that take more time to clean than the saucepan. Here’s…
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