Mad Dog Mom’s Killer Balls and Bars
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

I had a fantastic group of women here for class last week. They came with many different food concerns, from how to make family dinners less stressful when everyone is so busy to whether or not we all should be buying organic chickens. If there was one common theme among all of them, it was feeding picky eaters —
The beginning of January is pretty brutal, huh? I mean, here we are, cookie-less and booze deprived, trying to remind ourselves that we really meant it last week, when — in the midst to helping ourselves to as much wine and frosted sugar cookies as it is humanly possible to consume — we said we were really looking forward to “a fresh start,” “drying out,” and “eating nothing but vegetables for a very long time.”
