Filed under: Playground bureau You want to create a family budget, but aren't sure how to get started. Here's a good place to start: Keep track of your receipts for one month. -- Alpha Mom Same-sex birthday parties are a common way to manage the headcount at birthday parties, especially if you can't...

Filed under: Newspapers, How To, Health & Medical, Food News This past weekend, Reuters reported the death of an elder woman in Minnesota due to Salmonella infection. She is the seventh person in the U.S. to die from this bacteria. As of last Wednesday, 491 people have been infected during the c...

How do you eat healthy during the winter? General tips for staving off winter weight gain? In the spring and summer, I tend to eat pretty well - lots of vegetables and fruits (often raw or minimally cooked), complex carbohydrates, lean fish, a little meat, minimal dairy, very few sweets. Typical tot...

Filed under: Health and safety, Eating and nutrition It's a pretty well known fact that fast food is bad. It's fast food, right? It's convenient and you can drive up to it and pay for it with the crusty quarters filling your car ashtray and sometimes vegetable chopping for salads is too much of a pa...