The other night I accidentally conducted what turned out to be a very interesting experiment. For several reasons I won’t bore you with, I went an entire night without sleeping. Which I’m pretty sure I haven’t done since finals week in college. As expected (And I know these kind of anxiety-ridden expectations just contribute to insomnia; I didn’t even
Wow, it’s a snack bonanza this week here on Real Life Delicious. Today’s guest post is from my good friend Helen Olsson. Helen’s awesome blog, Mad Dog Mom, chronicles her adventures in parenthood, which have included taking her three kids backcountry skiing, llama trekking, and on multi-day camping trips before they could walk. Her new book, The Down and
One of the food-related things that seems to vex moms more than any other is what to give kids for after-school snacks. I am right there with anyone who struggles with this. It took me a while — an embarrassingly long while actually — to realize why my kids were always so cranky and even lethargic after school. I
I recently learned that it’s generally accepted among food writers, bloggers, and chefs that if you change at least three ingredients in a recipe you can call it your own and use it or write about it without crediting the source. Since I rarely, if ever, follow a recipe to the letter, I guess that makes me
We just got home from Mexico and I miss it. A lot. I miss the incredibly blue water, the warm salty air, our Gaudi-esque sand castles, the smoothies (of which I think my daughter might have set a record for consumption), the long days without WiFi — and of course I miss the food. The area where we stayed
This year when I gave up sweets for Lent, I honestly didn’t realize just how much of a sacrifice it would be. The first few days were the worst, coming off all the Valentine’s chocolate and forcing myself to toss a bar of Green & Black’s because just having it in the house, even buried deep inside the freezer,
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