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How to Make Eating at Home Fun

Eating at home saves money. That is just a fact. I took my kids out to lunch at a family friendly restaurant for a treat, and with tip we spend half of our weekly food bill that feeds not only the kids and I but also my husband. Since we don’t often eat out, I had forgotten how much it really costs to eat out these days. Still, the kids love to do it. In fact, eight times out of ten that would normally be their choice. Well, it was that way, before I started getting more purposeful about making … Continue reading →

25 Inexpensive but Fun Ways to Spend Together Time with Your Spouse.

Yesterday’s blog featured the importance of sharing common interests and spending time together as couple, talking and being involved in each other’s interests and lives. Sadly too many couples seem to live almost independent of each other these days and do not put enough emphasis and value on spending time together. No matter how busy life is, I can’t stress how important it is to maintain your relationship and make sure you keep a regular date night or time together without family. So here are 21 ideas, most of which won’t cost the earth: 1. Cook a meal and go … Continue reading →

Fun Valentine’s Day Projects for Kids

If you are looking for an affordable gift to give grandma and grandpa this Valentine’s Day, these kid-friendly crafts are right on target. Gather your children around the table and have them make these homemade hearts out of everyday items. Kids ages 6 and up can craft these hearts with little adult supervision. With preschoolers you may want to help with the cutting and gluing, and with toddlers, consider doing the cutting yourself and let them have fun with the pasting. PAPER MOSIAC HEARTS Materials: Poster board or card stock Construction paper Old magazines or catalogs Scissors Glue stick Directions: … Continue reading →

Ice Cream Ball Fondue

This is the ultimate in special desserts for your family. You will have earned your accolades though. . .this is not an easy or quick recipe. Adapted from something I found from the food network, this display has three different sauce and then you dip the ice cream balls into the sauce of your choice. My suggestion for doing three sauces is to use a condiment dish that sets on a wire rack and use tealights or a small candle underneath. On the other hand, if your family is like mine, they will eat this so quickly that keeping the … Continue reading →

Fondue for Valentine’s Day

Who doesn’t love cooking dessert right at their table or fun of dipping stuff in chocolate? My kids think it’s just about the best thing in the world to not only get dessert but then to dip in chocolate to boot. Of course, you may well want to enjoy these treats without the kids! Here are a few recipes for dessert fondue for your Valentine’s Day dinner. While I’m quite partial to toasted angel food cake, you can really dip just about anything your heart desires: long stem strawberries, pound cake, cookies (short bread works particularly well). Chocolate Fondue (The … Continue reading →

Sunday Travel Funnies: One More Reason To Wear A Seat Belt

When I was growing up I don’t remember if our family station wagon even had seat belts. Fast-forward to today and I refuse to back out of the garage until everyone is buckled in. These days it seems most children don’t need to be bribed or whined at by adult drivers in order for them to fasten their seat belts. Even my 3-year-old daughter knows that seat belts help save lives. And this next story simply drives home that point. Last week an Oregon man swung by a fast food restaurant to pick up a handy breakfast sandwich. Once he … Continue reading →

Sunday Travel Funnies: Freeway Fondue

We’ve all heard of (or seen) highway accidents involving overturned semis. In most cases the truck in question spills its contents all over the road. I’ve personally witnessed overturned beer trucks and in one case a tractor-trailer carrying thousands of pounds of corn overturned near the freeway exit I take to get home. However, neither quite compares to what occurred last week on a California highway. According to news reports, a tractor-trailer hauling dozens of gigantic blocks of cheese erupted in flames, turning much of its cargo into freeway fondue. The good news: no one was hurt. The bad news: … Continue reading →

Family Fun Week in Review

From fondue to maps to dancing to creating stories to revisting memories, we’ve had a busy week over at the Family Fun section. We had lots of good ideas this week for relaxing, teaching, and enjoying your family. And most important of all, we gave ideas for making and recording memories. Jeff reminded us that sometimes the best fun and most special memories don’t have to cost a thing in Build an Indoor Fort. I’ve never known a child who wasn’t delighted by a blanket fort! Lauri suggested that you Draw a Map With Your Kids. She also shared ideas … Continue reading →

Fondue Kits

When is the last time you and your family had fondue for dinner? I know fondue was a big thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t still enjoy fondue today. Fondue can make a very relaxing meal. Your family can sit around the dining table, cooking their own meats and veggies, then later dip luscious fruits into melted chocolate. Doesn’t that just make you want to get out your grocery shopping list and start writing down ingredients for making fondue? Well, don’t! You can buy already-assembled fondue kits. At least you can at Whole Foods Market. … Continue reading →

Fondue Fun

Make dinner tonight a Fondue Feast for the whole family! Start with melted cheese served with apples slices, crispy bread cubes and celery and conclude with molten chocolate along side strawberries, brownie bits and cookies. In between, serve a traditional meal or go all the way with cook-your-own meats, poultry and veggies and cooking oils. What kid, big or small, doesn’t love to dip food into sauces, dressings or creams? Fondue presents an opportunity to dip EVERYTHING without the sideways glances or comments you might get otherwise. Personally, I do not care for the “upscale” fondue restaurants. The high prices … Continue reading →