Dine In: Thanksgiving Favorites
What’s your favorite family meal? Is it an event like a picnic or Super Bowl Party? Is it reoccurring like Wednesday night church dinner? Maybe it’s an annual meal like Thanksgiving. Check out some of these special Thanksgiving meals, then think about a favorite meal...
Healthful – and Yummy – Holiday Treats!
It may seem like the year has barely started, but the holiday season is here! A little bit of planning now can go a long way toward avoiding that, “I blew my diet and need bigger jeans” feeling. Believe it or not, there are holiday treats that are nutritionally...
Cleaning Your Refrigerator After a Power Outage
After an extended power outage, your refrigerator and freezer may develop unpleasant odors from spoiled food. To get rid of these odors, remove all food items and clean the inside, including drawers and bins, with a mild cleaning solution of dish soap and water. You...
Dine In: Uncle Eddie
Uncle Eddie wasn’t actually my uncle. He was my grandfather. But to most everyone in the small town in Connecticut where I spent many summers growing up, he was known as Uncle Eddie. Every Saturday morning, Uncle Eddie got up at some ridiculously early hour and headed...
Peanut Butter Helps Hurricane Victims
You want to help but don’t know how? Maybe you don’t have much money and you don’t have skills, time, or transportation to get to hurricane Michael victims for clean up or rebuild. One easy, low-cost way to help is peanut butter. Yes, peanut butter helps hurricane...
After the storm, recovery begins
Hurricane Michael was a storm of historic proportions, slamming into the Florida Panhandle and wreaking havoc on millions of people across the Big Bend region. Now that the storm has passed, the recovery phase has begun. Damage assessment, debris removal, structural...
10,000 Pounds of Peanut Butter
What would you do with 10,000 pounds of Peanut Butter? How about change the lives of hungry families. What’s It All About? The annual Peanut Butter Challenge has begun for 2018. Unopened jars of peanut butter are collected throughout the Florida...
A is for Apple
October is National Apple Month. "A" is for Apple. We have all heard this childhood saying as well as other apple idioms. The Fall season has arrived and along with cooler weather, shorter days, and autumn leaves comes the bounty of Fall………apples. In Autumn, apples...
Making Veggies More Kid-Friendly
Kids and vegetables have an historically love-hate relationship. It is not clear why this came to be, but it is clear that many kids claim to dislike vegetables even when they have not even tried them. There are many reasons children may not have tasted vegetables....
Get Hooked on Seafood
Fish and shellfish are easy to prepare and swimming with nutritive value. Fish and shellfish have become an even more important part of the diet as people turn to more healthful eating. People are choosing fish and shellfish more frequently for several reasons. It...