(ARA) – Springtime packs a punch for students. Between tests, papers, school trips, extracurricular performances and jobs, finding the energy for spring’s after-school sports is often a challenge. Time and energy are at a premium. Eating well can help ease the crush. While breakfast is often tapped as the most important meal of the day, [...]

(ARA) – Dining at home has many advantages, from saving money to affording family members more time together. But it’s easy for those at-home meals to become routine and boring – unless you take some simple steps to make dinner time a special time for everyone. Fortunately, making dinner at home more special doesn’t need [...]

(ARA) – Hectic schedules often make meal-related decisions a chore. And planning for a bigger family meal over the holidays just adds to the stress. Affordable and simpler shopping routines could help you start savoring family meal time again. Regardless of whether you’re planning a holiday feast, a birthday celebration, or just day-to-day meals throughout [...]

(ARA) – “What’s for dinner?” It’s the question everyone loves to ask, and when the answer is “pasta,” kids and parents alike are excited to share the table, counting down the minutes until it’s time to eat. Pairing the right pasta shape with the right sauce can be a supermarket stumper. Of course, if your [...]

Get this–there’s a new “Dinner Spinner” iPhone app from Allrecipes.com, the world’s #1 food site.  Top features include: Search for meal ideas from thousands of Allrecipes.com’s most popular recipes Access detailed ingredients, cooking instructions, nutritional information, photos, ratings and reviews Give your iPhone a shake to watch the Dinner Spinner in action and generate dinner [...]

If you’ve ever contemplated going vegan, now’s the time during World Go Vegan Days, which started October 25 and run through October 31. Created by In Defense of Animals (IDA), World Go Vegan Days is an annual event to educate people about the vegan lifestyle. During World Go Vegan Days, IDA encourages people to become conscious of [...]

Fall is my favorite time of year for many reasons (my wedding anniversary is in October, I love Halloween–scary movies in particular, we adopted our dog in October, the trees are pretty, the air is crisp and clean, etc.). Plus, I start seeing one of my favorite types of produce in the stores this time [...]

Whenever my husband and I go on vacation (or really, any time we know we’ll be away from home for a few hours), we pack some Odwalla bars just in case we get hungry. Odwalla (pronounced Oh-dwa-la) is a juice company founded in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1980 and is now headquartered in Half Moon Bay, Calif. [...]

  The newly-launched channel Planet Green is taking “Bam!” to a whole new level with Emeril Lagasse in the new show “Emeril Green”. The show, which airs Monday through Thursday on Planet Green, will focus on seasonable, sustainable food and will be shot on location at Whole Foods. Six episodes will debut on Monday, July 14 from 8-11PM (ET). [...]

Green beans are in abundance right now, and whether you choose traditional green, yellow (called wax beans) or even purple, they are bound to be the sweetest and freshest of the season. When choosing green beans, go for long and skinny over short and plump, as the longer beans tend to be sweeter and crisper [...]