Can You Trick-or-Treat With Food Allergies?

 

If your kids are allergic to certain foods, Halloween is more complicated at your house. This is where the individual wrapping comes in handy.

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Hairy Fingers a.k.a. – Kataifi, a Greek Pastry

 

My husband grew-up eating these cookies. He has always called them “Hairy Fingers,” because that’s what they look like. To me, they look like medium-sized shredded wheat covered in honey….

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Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie

 

It is now clear that I will weigh 5,000 pounds by the end of this Halloween season.

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How to Make Pumpkin Donuts

 

I didn’t even know there were such things as pumpkin donuts. Now I feel I need to eat 20 right away.

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How to Prepare Fresh Pumpkins for Baking

 

Ooh, this is a good tip: “Don’t use those huge pumpkins that are used for Jack-O-Lanterns. The meat is tasteless and dry.” I totally would have been that person at the market with a pumpkin so large, she needs a little red wagon to haul it around.

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Oil Prices Down, Food Prices Still Up?

 

Now that oil prices are dropping, will food prices follow? It seems like a logical sequence of events, since the increases in oil prices has been used as the reason…

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Published in:  on October 21, 2008 at 10:32 pm Leave a Comment
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Recipe: Sugar-Free Chocolate Nut Clusters

 

If you’re a baking fool, and want to keep the sugar in your diet to a minimum, these guys will do the trick. They also happen to look delicious.

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Back to School: Lunches and Snacks Megapost

 

Today I’ve got food, food, and more food on the brain. So enjoy these recipes and tips for packing lunches and feeding school-aged kids and and out of school!7 Peanut-Free…

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Published in:  on September 2, 2008 at 11:29 pm Leave a Comment

Ask the Readers: How Hard Is It To Get a 504?

 

Every so often I hear from people who want to rent planes and skywrite about their school districts, and every so often I hear from people who want…

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Published in:  on August 25, 2008 at 11:24 pm Leave a Comment