There is a box of granola sitting on a shelf at just about every grocery store in Connecticut right now, and it looks healthy. It has words like “natural,” “wholesome,” and “harvest blend” printed right on the front. But flip it over and read the nutrition label, and you will find more sugar than a
There is a window of time in our house — somewhere between 3:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon — where all four of my boys descend on the kitchen like they have not eaten in three days. It does not matter what we had for lunch. It does not matter that lunch was two hours
There is a moment that happens in every Connecticut mom’s week — usually somewhere between Tuesday afternoon and Thursday evening — when the snack situation becomes a full emergency. The boys come off the trail, in from the yard, or up from the basement, and they are hungry. Not a little hungry. Hungry in that
There is a jar of store-bought salsa sitting in the back of almost every refrigerator in Connecticut right now. I know because I used to keep one too. And then I started reading labels. Between the high fructose corn syrup, the sodium levels that make your eyes water, and the preservatives I could barely pronounce,
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This Week’s Haul Had One Goal: Keep Four Hungry Boys Happy Without Wrecking Our Health Goals If you’ve been following along here for a while, you already know that feeding four boys between the ages of 6 and 15 is basically a full-time job on top of the actual full-time job. This week I rolled
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Summer in Connecticut is something special. Between the beach days at Hammonasset, hiking trips through Sleeping Giant, and long afternoons at the local park, we are outside almost every single day from June through August. And if you have hungry boys like mine, you already know what happens the moment you pull into a parking
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Let me be honest with you right now: my boys are not going to sit down after dinner and cheer over a plate of fruit salad and call it dessert. That is not how this family works. We are a real family with real sweet teeth, and dessert in this house is taken seriously —
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If I told you that my boys used to pour sugar on their already-sweetened cereal, you’d believe me. Four boys, a busy homeschool schedule, and a pantry that had slowly filled up with things I wasn’t proud of — that was us a few years ago. The wake-up call wasn’t dramatic. It was just a
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It started as a desperate Tuesday morning. My 10-year-old had declared war on eggs, my 6-year-old had eaten approximately four bites of toast, and we were already fifteen minutes behind on our homeschool schedule. I blended together whatever fruit I had in the freezer, threw in some spinach, added a scoop of peanut butter, and
Another Week, Another Mission to Feed Four Growing Boys If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know that feeding four boys in Connecticut — ages 6 to 15 — is basically a full-time second job. Between football practice, church activities, homework battles, and the endless parade of friends through our front
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