5 dairy-free ice cream recipes (and 1 store-bought) so good they can be a staple in any home.
Though hard to find, it turns out that great dairy-free ice cream is not a culinary unicorn. It is possible! It is real! And when you find the one that satisfies you, you’ll want the ice cream recipe on hand all year long. Because even dairy-free folks know that...
The best ice cream recipes to help you celebrate National Ice Cream Day. Because we’re nice like that.
With my birthday coming up, I almost forgot to mention that July 20th is National Ice Cream Day. Thankfully I remembered in the nick of time, because the guilt of forgetting to tell you guys that eating tons of ice cream is your patriotic duty on National Ice Cream...
Summer camp care package ideas so cool, the kids might even miss you. Maybe.
If your kids are headed to camp this summer, sending them a cool summer camp care package will make their day. Or week. Even if they didn’t even look back to wave when you dropped them off. We’ve got a whole bunch of fun ideas for care package goodies...
Here come more healthy kids snacks, if the Goodkid Kickstarter takes off.
We’re always searching for new delicious and healthy kids snacks, and we found another snack bar to add to the list. Goodkid bars are made with a short list of simple ingredients and I like that they have only 6 grams of natural sugar. For perspective,...
Sweet Loren’s: Frozen natural cookie dough as delicious as the so-not-natural at all stuff.
Hold onto your baking sheets, cookie lovers. Sweet Loren’s all-natural cookie dough for ready-to-bake cookies has arrived and will make eating your favorite sweet treats way easier and with less guilt. Packed with 100% whole grains, natural sweeteners, and...
5 healthy chicken nugget recipes. Because sometimes you’ve got to go there, and not just for the kids.
As an outspoken proponent of healthy, homemade family food, I often find myself dispelling the myth that my family and I live on quinoa and kale alone. Though we’re fans of both (well, most of us), we also love burgers, pizza, and, like plenty of American...
Steve’s Ice Cream delivers. In more ways than one.
As a college student in Boston, I remember the lines around the block for Steve’s Ice Cream, the originator of Heath Bar Crunch and the first place I had ever heard of mix-ins which now…well, what gourmet ice cream brand doesn’t offer them? So when I...
Healthy snacks for kids: Our favorite homemade granola bars for any diet
At the beginning of the school year, the web is brimming with recipes for healthy snacks for kids. I love kicking the year off with tons of lunchbox and after-school inspiration, but spring is about the time when I run out of steam. These easy homemade granola...
KIND Healthy Grains Bars: Think healthy snacks you hide from the kids
I’m generally not stingy with my healthy snacks–or any snacks, for that matter–but since I discovered the new KIND Healthy Grains Bars, I love them so much that I hide them very strategically from my children. Yes, they’re just that good. I am...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz!
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