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Easy Snacks to Make With Your Kids & Healthy Options to Buy When You Don’t Have Time

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Photo: Sugar Proof Kids   Ready for some new ideas for snacks for your kids? It can be easy to get into a rut, and unfortunately, most of the snacks marketed to kids aren’t the healthiest. In fact, 80% of kids’ snacks and products have added sugar and most have deceptive claims on the packaging. They may say “whole grain” or “made with fruit” or “rich in calcium,” making parents think they are getting something with added nutritional value, whereas many of these are highly processed and full of hidden sugars or sweeteners and other unwanted ingredients such as refined...

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[1] Today’s featured recipe: Carne Asada Fries (recipe and photos #1, #3, #6 © Idaho Potato Commission).

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[2] Very popular: steak frites, steak with a side of fries (photo © LT Bar & Grill | Hackensack, New Jersey). [3] Baked fries with bacon, cheddar and scallions. The recipe link is below. [4] Trending: shoestring fries atop a burger (photo © Chef Eric Levine). [5] Why do chefs love their fries in duck fat? The rich and elegant duck fat flavor adds a hint of delicious “duckiness.” The recipe link is below. (photo © Benjamin Zanatta | Unsplash). [6] National Cook A Sweet Potato Day is February 22nd, but you can cook sweet potato fries today—shown here with...

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Bacardi Real Rum Canned Cocktails are the Perfect Carry-Along for an Easy Cocktail at Your 4th of July Partie

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s Bacardi, the World’s Most Awarded Rum Brand Launches New Canned Cocktail Flavors Including Bahama Mama, Mojito, and Sunset Punch, Plus A New Variety Pack BACARDÍ® Rum is expanding its range of canned cocktails with three vibrant new flavors, following the successful launch of BACARDÍ® Real Rum Canned Cocktails last year, and the first-ever variety pack, just in time for summer. The new flavors are BACARDÍ Bahama Mama, BACARDÍ Mojito and BACARDÍ Sunset Punch (Sunset Punch exclusively available as part of the new variety pack). This lush, tropical trio joins the refreshing range that launched last year – BACARDÍ Lime...

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How to Roast Hazelnuts and the secret to removing those pesky skin

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s. Learn both Julia Childs blanched hazelnuts and Lisa Aheir’s roasting hazelnuts methods. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Have you ever wondered about roasted hazelnuts? Like how the heck do you make them? Their skins don’t peel off at all and they sure don’t taste like Nutella one bit when they are raw. So how do you take these delicious nuts from hard and bitter to crunchy and sweet? Read on! Back when I visited Tofino, I bought a cookbook at Sobo, a local hot spot for foodies. One of the recipes I wanted to try called...

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Chocolate Fried Pie

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s An old fashioned, made from scratch, chocolate fried pies has no equal. In the fried pie world, I have two favorites: Peach and Chocolate. For an amazing peach pie like my great grandmother made, you have to start with dried peaches. Fresh or canned just can’t pack the wallup of flavor that dried ones do. Click here for the peach fried pie recipe and if you want to watch me make them with Al Roker – just for kicks. And for fried chocolate pies like I grew up with, you have to make your own chocolate paste out of...

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