Food + Holidays

The holidays spark all the feels. The cherished moments with kids, extended family, special events, and food "Glorious Food". I think the actual definition of the holidays is "eat all the rich, heavy decadent, savory morsels. Put the scales...

Happy Halloween! 🎃 At Duluth Mom, we're feeling festive and want to spread our spooky joy on to you, our readers. So we've brewed up a plan to host our 4th annual costume contest! We think it's a great way...

For the past several decades, about 50% of our plastic waste, such as single use food packaging (chip bags, yogurt containers, fruit containers, etc.) straws, single use water and soda bottles, plastic cutlery, cling wrap and plastic grocery bags...

Love them or leave them, we’re getting close to Elf on the Shelf season, and I, for one am firmly in the love camp. When my son was 2, I was clued in to Elf on the Shelf and I...

Have you joined the Instant Pot community yet? I did this past winter when we were in the middle of a huge kitchen remodel. What is an Instant Pot -- or IP for short? It's a fancy new pressure cooker...

The holidays are my thing. Come November 1st, I’m the obnoxious lady humming Christmas carols and browsing Target for a fancy new tree skirt as onlookers stare in contempt, nursing their sugar crash hangovers from binge candy eating the night...

Every Christmas my mom always goes all out making hundreds of cookies and other candies for all of our friends and family to enjoy.  Sugar cookies, peanut butter and coconut bon bons, peanut brittle, fudge and much more have...

It’s the holiday season, my friends, less the snow. Your holiday preparations are likely in full swing, and you’ve probably bought presents, put up ye old Christmas tree, and maybe even done some holiday baking. I have a confession to...

  Running two businesses while simultaneously running a household, hosting events, and managing volunteering endeavors, well, I have to be organized, or my life will disintegrate. Imagine me to be the Yoda of planning and organization (about the same height...

“It’s not a snack, it’s just an apple!” she wailed at me. Clearly disgruntled with my offering, she proceeded to hang from my leg and cry to get me to change my mind, but I didn’t. It was about...