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Beautifully Simple Multi-Fruit Salad
Fruit salad anyone? Fruit salad is a cinch to make and will work with any combination of fresh fruit, unsweetened dried fruit, and unsweetened frozen fruit. Sweet tooth? Let’s enhance sweetness without adding sugar: Use very ripe fruit. It’s naturally sweeter. Very ripe bananas and very ripe mangoes are nature’s sweeteners (and they’re creamier too!) Unsweetened dried fruit is [...]
Quick Fruit-Flavored Yogurt from Scratch
Let’s make fruit-flavored yogurt! And by that I mean the real thing, from scratch, like the one you see in the picture, not the sweetened yogurt you get in the store, which –despite the healthy image- nowadays is closer to ice cream than to fresh yogurt. 1 This treat will work great with any fruit. It’s super easy to [...]
Let’s Talk Fruit Platters!
Fruit platters are perfect for: - Playdates - School parties - INSTEAD OF birthday cakes (yup, keep reading) What’s great about a fruit platter is that it’s almost effortless and you can’t really go wrong with it. It’s fresh, fruity, and naturally sweet. Any fruit is welcome on a fruit platter. It’s important the fruit is ripe [...]
Orange for a Snack, Orange for a Drink
Oranges are juicy and naturally sweet, which makes them super easy to turn into a treat! Noticed how beautifully that rhymes? Our post today features two quick orange treats. By that I mean that the only ingredient we’ll be using today is an orange. Did you know? By slitting the orange along the white lines we drench it in [...]
Let’s Take it in Proportion
See this face?This is how I look when I’m mad.Really mad.Extra-super-duper mad like a few weeks ago when a book I had ordered online never arrived and the store admitted they had accidently sent it to the wrong address.Oh, boy.As expected at this point in our story, I was totally going to give them a [...]
Doing a Good Turn – Scout Style!
“A Scout is helpful and trustworthy, kind and cheerful, considerate and clean, wise in the use of all resources.”Does this sound familiar?It does if you’re in Scouts.This is the Scout Law we recite at the start of our meetings. These are the values we vow to cherish as members of the Scout movement wherever we are on [...]
Let’s Go Twinkie, Let’s Go!
Twinkies? Seriously? Are the folks at Wise Choice Market out of their minds to promote Twinkies as health food? Well, no. This post is not about that kind of Twinkies. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome…… Twinkie the mouse! Yes, you’re reading correctly. We have a new pet mouse named Twinkie, and she’s the most adorable, funny, fluffy, cute mouse ever! We [...]
The Power of Life and Friendship, and a Tomato!
I’m pretty sure today’s title makes little sense. It will all come together in a minute. There’s a story worth telling behind the tomato in the picture. Here we go: A few months back, just before the end of the school year, my 8-year-old came home from school one day, holding a teensy gardening pot. Inside the pot there [...]
Super Easy Tomato and Cucumber Salad
Do you like fresh, crisp, juicy veggies? If you do, I have one of the easiest salads for you today! This simple salad can be found - in different variations- all around the Mediterranean. If you’re familiar with the Greek salad, Italian salad, Couscous salad, and Tabbouleh, I’m sure you can spot the resemblance. This salad is a [...]
Are we Snacking Unnecessarily?
Do you find yourself sometimes snacking when you’re not really hungry? We probably all do that from time to time. For example, we might reach for a snack because we’re sad, tired, lonely, worried, annoyed or frustrated. The snack then becomes a form of ‘compensation’. Or we might have a snack at a social event just because that’s [...]
