February 21, 2013

An Easy Chicken Corn Chowder Recipe That’ll Make You All Warm and Fuzzy Inside

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It’s still wicked cold here in Hotlanta (I know—nobody from Atlanta says “Hotlanta” anymore, but I’m from New York, so…) and when there’s a chill, our family wants nothing more than comfort—I’m talking fluffy slippers, warm blankets, heat turned up high and something warm on our plates. Thing is, that ...

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December 20, 2012

Kid-Friendly Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookie and Snowman Cupcake Recipes

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With just days to go before Christmas, my girls have been making the rounds to all kinds of parties at school and at the homes of their little friends, which basically means they’ve been some little baking fools around these parts as they bring goodies to the festivities. In the ...

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October 5, 2012

Healthy Choices At McDonald’s: Great Ways To Eat Smart Fast Food With Children

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There’s the softball and soccer practices, the flute, trumpet and violin lessons, the homework and all the other random extracurricular activities that totally suck the life out of our evenings—enough so that there are just some days when being The Best Mom takes a backseat to being The Good Enough ...

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June 27, 2012

Want Healthy Delicious? Try This Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie!

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Whether you’re hitting the beach or trying to stay cool inside this summer, there are many healthy, easy foods and snacks to prepare in advance or even on the fly. In the warm summer months, ice cream sounds more appealing than usual. But instead of indulging, try this five-ingredient smoothie that ...

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April 23, 2012

Bad Mommy—the Spring Break Edition: Getting the Kids On a Health Track With Vicks Nature’s Kitchen

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Yes, the picture accompanying this post, of my daughter downing a sprinkle donut and a can of soda for breakfast, is proof positive that I have Crap Mom Moments. I don’t specialize in them, mind you. But I have them, for sure. This was a particularly crappy Crap Mom Moment, ...

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March 20, 2012

Down With Pink Slime Meat: Healthy Recipes I’m Cooking Up With Curtis Stone & Vicks Nature Fusion

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So, with all the stories about the ammonia-treated pink slime hiding in fast food, our kids’ school lunches and even the ground beef and lunch meat we buy from the grocery store, let’s just say the Millner/Chiles household has become increasingly dedicated to knowing what’s in our food, eating more ...

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March 12, 2012

Score! Women Who Drink Wine and Eat Chocolate Will Live Longer

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By NICK CHILES Researchers at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have concluded that women who engage in light to moderate drinking at the end of a rough day have a lower risk of stroke. And another study in Sweden found the same result from eating chocolate! From this husband’s perspective, ...

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January 9, 2012

Curtis Stone Whips Up A Healthy One-Pot Meal For MyBrownBaby and Vick’s Nature Fusion

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When Nick and I moved to Georgia from New Jersey almost seven years ago, we did so because we were looking for real connections with our children—wanted to be the kind of parents to them that we simply couldn’t while we were working full-time jobs in one state, living in ...

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December 15, 2011

Curtis Stone’s Secret To Getting Kids To Eat Veggies: A Great Chili Recipe

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I mean, I get the three-year-old who only eats beige food and the occasional peanut butter-smothered carrot stick. I had one of those. If it wasn’t a chicken nugget, a french fry, applesauce or popcorn, she wasn’t eating it. But we put an end to those shenanigans around age five; ...

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December 14, 2011

MyBrownBaby Vlog: The Dog, The Spaghetti And the REALLY Traumatically Messy Moment

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So a dog named Teddy eats a plate of spaghetti with meat sauce and then walks into a closet… Sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, huh? Except this really happened and, well, let’s just say, it wasn’t all that funny. At least not when it was happening. ...

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