Genius! I scored victory this weekend with two home recipes I want to share. My goal was to get more veggies into my increasingly picky son. As a rule, I am not interested in the idea of deceiving kids by sneaking healthy purees into normally forbidden foods.

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Since my Grandmother and Aunt have both passed, the responsibility for maintaining our family’s Holiday traditions (especially the food traditions) has fallen on me. I actually revel in the role. I was born to be a matron, and am thrilled to have reached an age where the moniker is not absurd.
In preparing last week’s multiple meals, I rifled through Grandma’s old green metal recipe box. As you can see, it looks like it was a military issue circa 1941. I was searching for her Christmas fudge recipe, in particular.

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A few years ago, one of my dear co-workers here at Choicelunch and I would have lengthy conversations about her involvement in her kids’ schools and activities. On any given week, she would talk of all-day gym meets, nacho sales at softball games and room parent burdens. I was in awe in her, but maybe not as sympathetic as I could have been, not yet being a parent myself. She was volunteering, after all, and it was her choice to devote so many hours, days and years of her life in these endeavors. Right?

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