10 Sandwiches to Jazz Up Your Lunchbox


Updated 06/03/11 10:24 PM · Posted by · 5 comments

Sandwich Recipes

Portable and delicious, the sandwich was virtually made to be enjoyed at lunchtime, and everyone from the average kindergartner to the president of the United States has been known to eat them come noon. I'm a fan of bringing my lunch to work and am always looking for ways to make the sandwich more exciting. To encourage you to pack a lunch instead of purchasing one during the workweek, here are Read more

A Whole Lotta Lil in This Week's Links


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Baby and Parenting News the Week of Jan. 29–Feb. 4

Tori Spelling shared her daughter's Hello Kitty birthday party with us! Want to explain natural birth, VBAC, and breastfeeding to your tot? There's a doll for that! These white nurseries are anything but boring! Sending your tot off to school on Valentine's Day? Pack a Valentine's Day lunch to keep the celebration going all day! Still planning your Super Bowl menu? Try these kid-friendly Read more

How to Go (Almost) Meatless


Updated 01/23/12 7:32 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

How to Eat Less Meat

Maybe you've realized that all your meals are built around a slab of meat, or maybe you've read about the benefits of a vegetarian diet, but if you've been feeling like you should lay off the animal protein but don't want to make an entire lifestyle change, you can still benefit from tweaking your diet to eat less meat. Here are four ways to go almost meatless with your diet. Meatless Mondays: Read more

Meet My New Favorite Spinach Salad


Updated 03/17/11 1:10 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Moroccan Chickpea and Spinach Salad

During the work week, I try to eat a veggie-packed salad for lunch everyday. Yesterday's was so delicious, I snapped a photo and decided to share the recipe with you. It's a spinach salad with roasted red peppers, garbanzo beans, and sautéed eggplant. The thing that makes it especially flavorful is the vinaigrette — it's a mixture of sherry vinegar, Dijon mustard, and smoky harissa. Although Read more

Organize Your Life: Add Brain-Boosting Recipes to Your Repertoire


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Brain Food Recipes for Kids

Brain food! Everyone knows that good nutrition is essential to just about everything regarding tots' development — mental and physical. Feeding lil ones a balanced diet is a good rule of thumb, but there are certain foods that have proven positive benefits for healthy brain development. Unfortunately, telling kids that something is "good for them" isn't the appetite stimulant parents would hope Read more

6 Digital Etiquette Tips For 2012


Updated 01/20/12 10:46 AM · Posted by · 2 comments

Phone and Digital Etiquette Tips For 2012

There's still time to break the bad habits of 2011 and kick off the year with a fresh take on the tech etiquette that may be driving your co-workers crazy and even have consequences to your health. Be a considerate digital user in 2012 by breaking these six technology habits. Walking or driving while texting — we've seen the ad campaigns warning against distracted driving, but it seems every Read more

Creamy Swiss Chard Soup With Vegetables


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Creamy Swiss Chard Soup Recipe

Creamy wintry soup can have a lot of calories, but reader JuicyNoelle slashes the fat by using cauliflower puree instead of cream in her recipe for Swiss chard soup, which she posted in our Healthy Recipe group. I love thick and creamy vegetable soups. But I don’t always love the calories. So this week I decided to substitute heavy cream with a smooth cauliflower puree instead. If you are Read more

Soup's On: Easy French Onion Soup


Updated 02/10/12 2:45 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Fast French Onion Soup

My new favorite weeknight meal is a soup recipe that comes together in minutes. It's a very abbreviated version of French onion soup, which traditionally begins with yellow onions, cooked down and reduced for hours until dark and sweet. This quick and dirty version begins with our butter-braised onions, which I always keep on hand, and calls for little more than broth, bread, and cheese. It may Read more

The Carriage House: Home to Hot and Flaky Southern-Style Biscuits


Updated 12/30/11 4:20 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Southern-Style Biscuits

In the South, homemade biscuits are a staple for any household or Southern restaurant. Natchez, MS, a small town on the Mississippi River, is known for its Antebellum homes and unbeatable Southern cuisine. Stanton Hall, an official National Historic Landmark and one of the largest and most prominent Natchez mansions, was built in 1858. On the grounds of Stanton Hall, toward the back of the Read more

Save on Eating Out in 2012 With These 12 Realistic Tips!


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Save Money in Restaurants

One of the hardest thing to budget in the past year was eating habits, according to SavvySugar readers. Of course, there is always the simple solution of just eating at home more often, but you can still cut your food bill here and there when you're eating out. We've given you plenty of tips in the past on how to save when eating out so we're rehashing some of the best ones as well as throwing Read more