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Don’t Take it with You!

This blog posting is a bit unusual. Instead of offering up our latest favorite recipe or nutrition news, we’d like to talk about organ donation. You see, Janice’s friend Ann has a 20-year-old daughter...

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Pretty in Pink

Although we typically blog about healthy family recipes, tips for feeding kids, and our dietitian/mom opinions on new food products, we’re switching gears today in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness...

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Janice’s Mother’s Day Road Race

My Mother’s Day started the same way it has for the past 12 years with a breakfast of our Hearty Cornmeal Pancakes topped with pecans and chocolate chips followed by a 3 ½ mile road race.  The Melrose...

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New Grant Brings Fruit & Vegetable Gardens to Schoolyards!

Welch’s is one of our blog sponsors, and when they told us about their new Harvest Grants program, we were eager to share the news with all of you. In conjunction with Scholastic Parent & Child...

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Pancakes on Patriots’ Day

Do you have one favorite day that you look forward to each year? I do. For me, it’s Patriots’ Day, a civic holiday in Massachusetts which commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord, the first...

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School Lunch Revolution & a Recipe for a Healthy Hero (Podcast #102)

Over the past few months, we’ve been absolutely wowed by the growing momentum behind school lunch reform. Both of us have spent time in the “trenches” working to improve the school lunch options in our...

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Drop In & Decorate, and the Holiday Food Podcast Project (Podcast 126):

The holiday season is all about giving, so on this week’s Cooking with the Moms podcast, we feature food blogger, Lydia Walshin, founder and director of the delicious nonprofit organization, Drop In...

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A Celebration of Vegetables: A Recipe for Winter Squash Risotto (Podcast #127)

We’ve done a lot of live TV interviews in our day and we’ve held a lot of cooking classes, but we’ve never cooked “live” online … until this week.  Thanks to Ustream technology, last Wednesday,...

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Registered Dietitian Day and a Tribute to Katherine Musgrave (Podcast #137)

Today is Registered Dietitian Day, and to celebrate I’d like to tell you about the dietitian of all dietitians. Last weekend Don and I drove five hours in the pouring rain from Boston to Orono, Maine...

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Teaching Kids About Eating Green and Red and Yellow and Orange …

For the past few years, I’ve been the “dietitian on call” for a five week, after-school program in my community called, Kids Cooking Green. In partnership with the Lexington, MA farmers’ market, Kids...

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Janice Eats School Lunch with Leah to Celebrate “National Take Your Parents...

When was the last time you ate lunch at your child’s school?  If you are like most parents, the answer is probably, “never.” For me, the answer was also “never” until this week when I joined my 6th...

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The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2012 … and Our Recipe for Monster Cookie...

There’s nothing better than a good ol’ fashioned cookie swap, and this year, we took part in the granddaddy of ’em all. Thanks to two dedicated bloggers, Love & and Olive Oil and The Little...

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A Recipe for White Bean & Roasted Garlic Dip, and an Afternoon Eating...

In 2007, Lori Deliso and Liza Connolly, two Lexington, MA moms concerned about the lack of “real” foods in kids’ diets and the desire to teach children about the benefits of eating locally and...

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Pickled Cucumbers, Pickled Beets, and the Many Reasons I Love my CSA

Picking up my weekly CSA share makes me very, very happy! I’ve been a member of my CSA—Farm Direct Coop—since it came to Melrose, MA close to a decade ago, and every Thursday during the growing season,...

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Cabot Virtual Road Race to Benefit Feeding America + a Cheese Giveaway

On Columbus Day, I ran the Tufts Health Plan 10k for Women road race with my friend, Mary. Besides the fact that I like to run (sometimes), I was eager to join the Cabot Virtual Race to benefit Feeding...

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FREE Trial Membership for THRIVE MARKET + Save up to 50% on Your Favorite...

Stocking our pantries with wholesome and organic staples just got a whole lot easier and affordable thanks to a new online shopping service called, THRIVE MARKET. And now everyone in our Meal Makeover...

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