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Layered Ice Cream Treats, Fancy and Plain, to Explore With Grandchildren Ready for Spring and Summer
When our children were small, this Grandma took gourmet cooking lessons. Now I cannot find those fabulous recipes I compiled as we used...
Apr 19, 20163 min read
Choose Between Ina Garten’s Peanut Swirl Brownies or A Brownie Mix with Peanut Butter Swirl
This Grandma loves to think she is giving grandchildren healthy desserts if one ingredient is healthy. Yes, peanut butter qualifies. A...
Apr 8, 20163 min read
Adult Guilty Pleasure With Velvetta Queso Dip and What To Do With the Leftover Velvetta After Making the Best Mac And Cheese For Grandchildren
Our grandchildren love California Pizza Kitchen’s mac and cheese. This Grandma went on a hunt to try to replicate it and found a recipe...
Mar 5, 20162 min read
When Candy and Gifts May Cost Less Than Greeting Cards, Getting the Best Bargains for Grandchildren
It has happened twice in less than six months. This Grandma was one of the first intrepid on line shoppers. This Grandma was one of the...
Feb 12, 20163 min read
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Mini Dessert Sandwiches From a Famous Chef Add to Grandma’s Collection of Decedent Unhealthy But Delicious Treats With Which To Spoil Grandchildren
This Grandma always looks for decedent unhealthy but delicious treats with which to spoil grandchildren. Who would have thought I would...
Feb 6, 20162 min read
Healthy Grandchildren in 2016 With healthychildren.org and Baked Chicken Tenders
The news about the Zika virus passed by mosquitos is all over the news. The news about the children in Flint, Michigan being exposed to...
Jan 31, 20162 min read
Baby Carrots Are the Best Junk Food For Grandchildren and Not What We Think They Are
This Grandma has to admit that she believed that perfectly good large carrots out of the ground were whittled down to make the tiny baby...
Jan 27, 20164 min read
Cookie Exchanges Are Abundant in Holiday Season With Cookie Recipes For Every State and Every Grandma To Make Or Buy the Best for Grandchildren
Last evening a dear long (we never say old) friend said she was invited to a cookie exchange. She declined, as this Grandma would, as we...
Dec 31, 20154 min read
What is it About the Holiday Season that Makes One Dream of Cakes or Pies, the New Piecaken, or Cupcake Sandwiches or Winning an HGTV Sweepstakes
This Grandma loves HGTV since staying up all hours rocking newborn grandchildren. My newest favorite show is Fixer Upper. Chip and Joanna...
Dec 17, 20153 min read
Mashed Potato Pancakes That Can Follow the Thanksgiving Baked Potato Bar For Chanukah as Well as All Family Get Togethers
This year at Thanksgiving, being weight conscious and gluten free conscious, the mother of our youngest daughter came up with the idea of...
Dec 13, 20153 min read
Easiest and Best Thanksgiving Boomer Grandma Tips and Easiest and Best Thanksgiving Stuffing To Make With Grandchildren
This Grandma makes reservations. Holidays are an exception, although the best tip for grandmas at holiday time is to turn over the...
Nov 12, 20154 min read
Experiment with Baking No Mixer Easy Cupcakes on National Chocolate Cupcake Day
Yes, it does seem that every day is a special day. Cupcakes are special, but it seems that chocolate cupcakes make it to have their own...
Oct 23, 20152 min read
Skinny Oreos Add to the Oreo Boom but the Best for Grandchildren and Their Parents are Chocolate Covered Oreos We Make At Home Or Send Off Beautifully Wrapped For the Holidays
A skinny version of Oreos debuts in the U.S. next week, its maker says. Four Oreo Thins contain 140 calories, compared with 160 calories...
Oct 21, 20152 min read
Fast Food Stable and Staple in Our Grandchildren’s Diet
The New York Times reported on September 16, 2016 that “About one-third of American children and teens eat pizza or other fast food every...
Oct 16, 20153 min read
Hot Dogs Do Deserve Their Own National Day of Celebration
Hot dogs happen to rank among this Grandma’s favorite food. As a freshman in college in Boston, a bunch of us got an urge for a Nathan’s...
Sep 4, 20153 min read
Using Fresh Fruit and Graham Crackers to Bake bon appetit’s Apricot, Cherry, and Graham Cracker Crumble with Grandchildren
Summer fresh fruit is the best, but sometimes a grandchild is reluctant to try some new fruit no matter how much we grandmas might try to...
Aug 23, 20155 min read
Pizza Hut is the New Favorite of Grandmas With Its New Hot Dog Stuffed Pizza Crust Pizza
When this Grandma saw the commercial on television, I could not believe it. Pizza Hut created a new pizza that is a combination pizza and...
Aug 1, 20152 min read
The Best Frozen Desserts for Grandchildren For Summer to Make or Pop Out of the Freezer
This Grandma makes reservations. When Real Simple staffers sampled more than 120 bars, sandwiches, and ice pops and came up with the six...
Jul 8, 20152 min read
CombineTwo Grandchildren Favorites for Chocolate-Strawberry Waffle Ball on a Stick
This Grandma loves using fresh fruit in recipes with grandchildren. Children love donuts, and anything sweet on a stick. Chocolate...
Jun 24, 20152 min read
Celebrating the Red, White and Blue. . . .Foods to Make With Grandchildren for the Fourth of July
Parenting Magazine had a great article on ten festive red, white and blue recipes for Fourth of July. The children or grandchildren they...
Jun 18, 20153 min read
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