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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

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, ...

March 20, 2012

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

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 ...

March 12, 2012

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

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, ...

January 9, 2012

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

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 ...

December 15, 2011

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

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; ...

December 14, 2011

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

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. ...

December 6, 2011

Slim Shopping: Six Great Ways To Put Your Grocery Bill On A Diet

By TONI HOUSE This year, our holiday feasts will cost more than ever, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Food prices jumped a whopping 4 to 5 percent in 2011 and are expected to continue climbing next year. But you can have your fruitcake and eat it, too, without ...

November 29, 2011

Curtis Stone’s Secret To Healthy Families: Great Recipes & Vicks Nature Fusion

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m a complete and total whiney punk when it comes to being sick. I’m talking everything comes to a standstill: I’m wrapped up under the covers. All my mom duties—cooking, laundry, hairstyling, dish washing—are shut all the way down. And forget about having ...

March 7, 2011

Share Your Breakfast With Kellogg’s And Feed A Child In Need

I’m not gonna lie: I SUCK at eating breakfast. Like all-too-many women, eating a big plate of food first thing in the morning makes me feel guilty like I’m setting myself up for a day’s worth of over-eating. I recognize this is stupid. Particularly since I wouldn’t dream of sending ...

February 7, 2011

Home Made Love: Shrimp and Mussels In Lemon and White Wine Sauce

In “Attack of the Killer Lemons,” I wrote about our discovery of the super odd, Pirates of the Caribbean-looking Buddha Hand Lemons. In that post, I promised to give you the recipe for the shrimp and mussels dish I whipped up with the funky looking fruit, and so here it ...

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