• Book: “New Junior Cook Book” by Better Homes & Gardens

     

    I love cooking with the girls.  My parents gave the girls the  “New Junior Cookbook” by Better Homes & Gardens Cooking a while ago and they love it.  They enjoy spending time in the kitchen with Mom and Dad.  Although they haven’t mastered all the recipes they are doing more work in the kitchen.  The cook book is fun, colorful and have recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts, celebrations, as well as basic cooking information.  If you are looking for a great cookbook to get started in the kitchen with your kids this is a neat one.

  • FREE ADMISSION to Botanical Gardens on May 6

    Celebrate National Public Gardens Day by visiting a participating Botanical Garden for FREE on Friday, May 6th!  Free Admission compliments of Better Homes & Gardens.  How do you get your free pass:

    • Check the list of Participating Locations
    • Fill Out a Brief Form
    • Print Coupons for your Free Admission Pass
    • One Coupon covers two people (for example if you have 2 people going you only need 1 coupon if you have 3 to 4 people you’ll need 2 coupons)

    It would be a great time to take the kids / family on a field trip to a local Botanical Gardens.  The closest one to us in South Carolina is in Charleston, but the one in North Carolina or Georgia may be worth a drive since they may be a little closer!  A great educational experience for the whole family and it’s free!

  • Book: Better Homes and Gardens

    Grandma Willa gave me this cook book –  Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book as a wedding gift and we use it all the time.  Grandma Willa is one of the most amazing cooks I know.  I am thankful for the times we had cooking together.  Grandma is still cooking a lot of meals for family and friends but due to distance I am not able to participate in her cooking adventures as often as I like.  Below is the note she put in my cook book, which I treasure even more then the cook book itself:

    What’s Cooking?

    Bridgette,

    My Aunt Zell Body, gave me a BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS cook book as a Wedding gift.  It was my first and faithful cook book, and I found it to have many helpful hints as well as great recipes.

    I and the girls wore one out, and almost the second one over the many years.  If I couldn’t find something, needed to substitute, know cuts of meat etc….. I’d go to old faithful BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS.  I hope this new version is as good or better than my old one was.

    Happy Cooking!!!

    Love,

    Grandma Willa

    “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” – John 6:35