Put your favorite smoothie recipe into one of these beakers for a pooktacular Halloween snack. These Mad Scientist Smoothies don’t require a whole lot of creativity but yield a ton of frightful fun!   Look, I get it. Being a parent means you are limited on your time and let’s face it, there are days where you’d rather spend that extra ten minutes on sleeping than turning your kid’s toast into an exact replica of a lion. You don’t have a ton of time to make extra creative ideas with your meals. You just want them to eat some form of vegetable and call it a day. As a parent of an almost…

All you need are 3 ingredients to make this incredibly easy and super creepy Halloween Slime in 5 simple steps. It’s endless fun in the home! I just followed the typical slime recipe from the Magic Liquid bottles and of course, added my festive fun touch of fake flies and ants. You know how I can’t resist the Halloween flare. Here is what you need to make the Halloween Slime: (1) 6oz bottle of glitter glue 1/4 c. Magic Liquid (you can find this at any craft store and they are usually next to the glue) a handful of fake insects (I got mine at the Dollar Store) Now it might look like this…

As you know, Halloween is my favorite holiday and today is a very special day. I’ve teamed with Whole Foods (this mom’s absolute go-to store for all my shopping!) to bring you some EPIC Halloween recipes to feed your family for that pre-trick or treat event that you can actually feel good about. From Monster Sandwiches to Deviled Bat Eggs, you can find every (non-spooky) ingredient at Whole Foods Market this season. Now that is something to feel good about, mom! No tricks, all treats with these Easy Halloween Snack Ideas. Check out Whole Foods Market’s site here for all the fun holiday recipes for these Easy Halloween Snack Ideas and more. This post has…

Reinvent the sandwich in your kid’s lunchbox with these Cucumber Sushi Rolls. A sandwich filling surrounded by a cucumber “roll,” this fun lunch idea is perfect for the dipping. My Dairy Free Ranch Dressing would be perfect for taking a dive into. Now of course you’re not going to be making lunches like these everyday but for those special occasions when you want to do something different and a little fun, these Cucumber Sushi Rolls are a creative way to serve a sandwich to your little one. And since we are always trying to find ways to serve veggies to our kids, why not use cucumbers instead of bread? Or instead of rice, really.…

Give Taco Tuesday a kid-friendly lunchbox spin by turning an average sandwich into unique Hummus and Veggie Sandwich Tacos! A loaded sandwich you can hold with one hand, this lunchbox idea is stuffed with tons of fresh veggies, lettuce, avocado, cheese and of course, a nice slather of roasted bell pepper Sabra hummus. The “tacos” part is of course in quotes because these aren’t tortillas; it’s just a fun way to reinvent the way you see bread and your kid’s lunch. As a mom myself, I get that parents don’t have a lot of time to make elaborate lunches to send their kids to school with. Though a lot of the food I…

Summer might be winding down but the fun doesn’t have to stop here. Even though it’s about that time to start thinking about school lunches again (how did summer go by in such a hurry?!), these Tic Tac Toe Sandwiches are an entertaining way to get creative with lunch. Create any sandwich you want, really, I just happened to make a…(read more here) This post has been written as part of my contribution to the Super Simple blog. For the full post for these Tic Tac Toe Sandwiches and the instructions on how to create them, click here. For more creative recipes I made for Super Simple, check these out: Octopus Pizzas Fruit and…

People are consistently asking me what I feed my little man (who is now 20 months old, can you believe it?!) and whether or not I am making my cute food art for him. The truth is that this can be a really tricky topic for me (and no, I do not make the food art for my son…yet. I’m just lucky if I can get him to eat some form of protein). I will try cute food later but for now I just want to get him into the basics, which means I deeply rely on great snacks options to get him the nutrients he needs. And now that I am living…

We are big car lovers in this family (and by “we” I of course mean my toddler son). I just simply provide all the sound effects, horn-tooting, and screeching halt noises with my mouth while playing cars with him. We go EVERYWHERE with either a truck, bus, or car in hand. There is no way we are walking out the front door with at least one! So as a way to give my son a snack that he would actually LOVE, I thought why not create these Fruit and Veggie Car Snacks for the Super Simple blog as part of my monthly contribution this summer? Who knows, maybe, just maybe I have figured out…