I received compensation and coupons from Entenmann’s® to facilitate this blog post. The opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not reflect the opinions of Entenmann’s® My wife and I are from a part of the world were those tasty, often colorful adornments regularly found atop ice […]
It would be easy for me to throw open the front door each weekday morning from mid-August to mid-June and send my daughters off to the bus stop with no more effort required than an honest smile and a gentle wave of my right hand. I don’t do this though, […]
You’ll have to take my word for it, as none of the pieces have yet to be published, but I’ve been writing quite extensively about the deep culinary ditch I currently find myself lying semi-unconsciously in when it comes to school lunches…and after school snacks…and dinners. Frankly, I’m not exactly […]
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. Maybe you’ve heard of my school lunch saga. Here it is served up like Campbell’s Condensed Soup: I failed miserably at the end of the ’13-’14 campaign and have approached the dawn of […]
No. Don’t even think it. This is absolutely not the start of a daily “Here’s what I packed my kids for lunch at school today” series of cheery overachieving posts. I’m not nearly that committed…or creative. And certainly not that cheery. As my high school teachers, every single one of them, […]
Soft Pretzels. Cupcakes. Cookies. Candy. Potato Chips. Baby Carrots. There are many easy birthday treat options available to a parent to send into their child’s school. But when your soon-to-be 6-year-old daughter asks for 26 fresh fruit kabobs to be delivered to her classroom on the day she turns 6, […]
The wifey’s family reunion was yesterday, in a park near where I grew up. In fact, pavilion #4 was within a stone’s throw from the gruesome fish-hook-in-my-knee-incident of my youth. And no, I’m not 100% over it. The fish hook that is, not the reunion. That was fine enough. Stupidly, […]
The Bear isn’t a buyer. She’s a packer most days but once a month (or so) when the cafeteria calendar promises an intersection of healthy and fun, she gets to punch in her PIN and be served by the lunch lady. I’m pleased with this month’s selections, they show some […]
