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Travel Hacks for Packing Food for Holiday Meals

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One of the best part of the holidays is getting together with family and friends and enjoying delicious food. While one person may be hosting these big fests, you’ll probably want to bring a dish or two with you. But have you ever packed food, put it in the car, and when you arrived, it really doesn’t look like the beautiful dish it once was? Such a bummer! So if you’re making food at home and taking it with you for your holiday meals, here’s a few tips so it arrives delicious and intact.  Click right here to see the list!

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Thanksgiving Recipes That Travel Well

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If you aren’t the person that is hosting Thanksgiving-exhale a big sigh of relief. But now you need to figure out what you are going to bring. You could always go for the easy items like drinks, dinner rolls, or offer to bring a few extra bags of ice; however, if you are wanting to bring a side dish to your Thanksgiving celebration, here’s a few recipes that travel well.

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3 Easy Hacks for a Healthier Halloween

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It only takes my kids a few minutes on Halloween to gather up more candy then they could ever eat in their entire lifetime. And believe me, we ALL indulge in their trick-or-treating goodies. However, sometimes all the candy from too many parties and all the treats from their Halloween booty, can be a bit much. So if you’re looking for a few easy ways to balance out all of the candy treats, here’s four easy hacks for a healthier Halloween.

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  1. Hand out non-candy treats to trick-or-treaters like this glow in the dark slime.img_3174

Here’s how you make it:

1 large bottle of white glue
1 bottle of glow in the dark craft paint
1 teaspoon borax
1 cup warm water

Mix the glue, paint and 1/2 of the warm water. Mix the other half of  water with the borax and when dissolved, add it to the other mixture. Use your hands to mix the slime, and hen it begins to form, put the slime in individual containers like to-go salad containers. Finish by drawing jack-o-lantern faces with black marker on the containers.

2. Spell out HALLOWEEN with healthy letters snacks like  Earth’s Best Sesame Street Organic Letter of the Day Vanilla Cookies. Such a fun idea for your younger kids!

3. Let your little ghosts and goblins fill up with healthy snacks befoe they head out to trick-or-treating.  Try Elmo and Big Bird shapes of Crunchin’ Crackers and Grahams. Yummy flavors and these sacks will give your kids energy to keep up on the Halloween fun.

4. Let your witches and wizards refuel on drinks that are made from real fruit juice purees – perfect treat to go with any healthy snack.

Happy Halloween!

Healthy On-The-Go Snacks

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You might have packing your kids’ lunches down to an art and when it’s snack time and your little ones are hungry, you can whip up healthy and yummy snacks they will love. But when it comes to eating healthy for you, sometimes it’s a little harder. You’re a parent-on-the-go and you need healthy snacks that taste great, won’s sidetrack all the healthy eating you’ve been doing, and will give you energy as you zoom from pickup, drop-off, and help with homework. So here’s three of our favorite portable on-the-go healthy snack recipes (and no it’s not this delicious donuts).

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Super Easy & Super Fun Trunk-or-Treat Ideas

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If you’ve been invited to participate in a Trunk-or-Treat, you’re going to need to bring a whole lot more than just a few fake cobwebs and maybe a scary mask or two.

Trunk-or-treats seem to be gaining popularity at schools and neighborhoods, and if you want to join in the fun, you’ll need some ideas for your trunk.

Here’s ten of our favorite Trunk-or-Treat ideas!

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Packing Your Trunk Like a Pro

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Packing your trunk may seem like a grown up version of Tetris as you try to make every last suitcase and bag fit perfectly into your car. While some people may consider themselves master trunk packers, if you’re anything like me, you start tossing bags and random items haphazardly into the car. Usually I pack all of our bags and suitcases, then shove everything throughout the car, and finish by tossing in tons of last minute items I forgot to pack but think we may need. So it ends up our car is a disaster and when we arrive, I can’t find anything. So to cut down on the chaos and stress and to make sure that you fit everything you need in the car neatly, here’s mom hacks for packing your trunk like a pro.

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