The Animal Kingdom — Food

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Posted by Katy Stager on

The holidays are upon us! ‘Tis the season for festive parties and scrumptious treats. With all of the holiday hustle and bustle, it’s not hard to wind up in a pinch, desperately raiding the cabinets and frantically scouring the Internet for a delicious, easy, and (if you’re me) CHEAP recipe to bring to the office party or the family get-together.

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Happy Birthday Peacock

Posted by Katy Stager on

To my beautiful baby peacock, your first birthday has arrived. I have a couple of wishes for you, baby girl. Twelve wishes, to be exact. One for each beautiful “first” month, and they go a lil’ something like this…

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Theme This: A Baby Shower

Posted by Lindsay Williamson on

 

This past weekend, I helped host a dear friend's baby shower. It's not often that I actually get the opportunity to be crafty, but I do love a good party… party planning process, that is. I'm a planning fanatic! Give me a theme and I run with it…

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The Siren Song of Pumpkin

Posted by Sara Carlson on

Fall is here, that magical time of year when the leaves turn into swaying and cascading art, a little chill crisps the air, and pumpkin flavored everything takes over the restaurants and stores. If you’re at all like me, you can’t resist the siren song of pumpkin cookies, cakes, lattes, gnocchi, ravioli…

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Cookie Love

Posted by Sara Carlson on

I'm constantly trying to sneak nutritious treats into their Green Eats Snack Bowls. We have our favorite quick bites, the standard grapes, apples, carrot sticks, cheddar cheese, but these snacks don't really cut it for the after school set. 

Instead, I rely on a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies that my boys love. The ingredients made me very skeptical and hopeful. If I could infuse cookies with extra protein, load them full of chocolate chips, and have the kids inhale them? A huge win for mom, but who on earth eats cookies made from chickpeas. I mean, really?

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