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Why You Need a Girl’s Night, Even Alone, and Especially if You’re the Only Girl in Your Home

November 30, 2016 By Food Retro

I’m totally outmanned in my household (surprise!). It makes it hard to act like a girl (or care about acting like one) when you’re the only one who is required to pee sitting down. Boys don’t care about shoes and clothes. If you’ve got a tendency towards being a tomboy ANYWAY, the feminine behaviours generally…

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Filed Under: The Answer is 42, Things I Read

Why You Need A Gingerbread House Recipe (+ A Giveaway for $100 – Ends 11/30)

November 15, 2016 By Food Retro

Making your own gingerbread house is a great frugal way to entertain the kids for a weekend without breaking your bank on premade kits. Here's a recipe that makes 4 houses. Try to let the spirit flow. Let the kids go nuts. | FoodRetro.com

I once had delusions of grandeur when it came to having my own Norman Rockwell moments with my kid. Once when he was about 3 or 4, I decided to go all uber-mom and bake gingerbread men. We were using a vegan dough, so no worries about salmonella or anything, and having just THE BEST…

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Filed Under: Desserts, Kitchen Chemistry Tagged With: Christmas, dairy free, vegetarian

It’s Halloween!? DO ALL THE FALL FAMILY FUN!!! #BornOnTheFarm

October 29, 2016 By Food Retro

OH MER GERD OCTOBER IS OVER ON TUESDAY. INSERT PANIC AND PANDEMONIUM.

Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Life With Food Allergies, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: family fun, Halloween, hot drinks

Get in the Halloween Spirit with these Spooktacular Shows on Netflix #StreamTeam

October 28, 2016 By Food Retro

I’ve been really busy this month, and as a result we don’t feel quite as in the Halloween spirit as we usually do, but I’ve got big plans to rectify that this weekend. It’s time for some pumpkin carving, pumpkin seed roasting, and Netflix-watching family time. I’ve got no intention of sharing my bed with…

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Filed Under: The Answer is 42, Things I Read Tagged With: #streamteam

What a Simple Virus Like HPV Can Do

October 21, 2016 By Food Retro

When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”

Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Science Gives Me A Hadron, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, how-to, parenting, sponsored

3 Vegan Smoothie Recipes to Keep You Healthy This Fall

October 18, 2016 By Tiffany Watts

Fall is a great time for smoothie lovers, thanks to the abundance of freshly harvested produce. Whether you prefer your smoothies sharp and tart, sweet and tasty or soft and creamy, the profusion of all types of produce allows you to come up with a creation that adheres to your own particular tastes.

Filed Under: Drinks, Kitchen Chemistry, Snacks and Appetizers Tagged With: breakfast, dairy free, egg free, vegan, vegetarian

5 Preserves That Don’t Require a Recipe

October 11, 2016 By Olga

Every year, around this time, I am elbow deep in some kind of fruit. Some would come from my garden, and some would come from the forest near to our place, but from the beginning of May till let’s say end of October I am probably preparing some kind of things with some kind of fruit….

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Preserved foods

Vanilla Pumpkin Spice Cottage Cheese Spread

September 27, 2016 By Food Retro

As I said in one of my previous posts (okay, maybe two), I’m a late-comer to appreciating cottage cheese. I don’t think I ever understood how versatile the product could be until I started messing around with it. You can substitute it for a lot of other cheeses like in lasagna, you can use it…

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Filed Under: Cheese, Kitchen Chemistry, Snacks and Appetizers Tagged With: #bornonthefarm, breakfast, egg free, gluten free, no refined sugar, nut free, peanut free, vegetarian

Will Your Child Be Canada’s Next Cartoonist?

September 22, 2016 By Food Retro

For a long time, when I was a kid, I wanted to be some sort of an artist. Maybe an animator or just a famous painter. I drew a lot. My mom kept an uncomfortable number of drawings I made when I was 3. I kept doodling up until I was an adult, encouraged by…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, Friendly People I Meet, The Answer is 42

My Son’s an Unequivocal Fan of Dwight Schrute and I’m Not Going to Apologize for It

September 19, 2016 By Food Retro

Who knew that when I took away screen time, I would create a monster? It started innocently enough. My son was being a crabby little human being, who was watching annoying YouTubers using text to talk to say annoying things like “prankster gangster.” So I, in a moment of supreme mommy-ness, declared that screen and…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42, Things I Read Tagged With: #streamteam, The Office

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