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PartySavvy: Splash Out
Splash Birthday Party Ideas
First published 2011.05.28 | Canada | Birthday Parties
Pull out your summer whites and get ready to celebrate, because the summer is officially here. This month’s PartySavvy is all about splashing out with water—the perfect theme for summer fun in the...read more |
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PartySavvy: A Celebration of Spring
Spring Birthday Party Ideas
First published 2011.04.30 | Canada | Birthday Parties
It’s party time! We’re celebrating spring with the launch of our newest SavvyMom edition, PartySavvy. It’s a guide, it’s a plan and it’s a recipe for party success—because we love (and obsess about)...read more |
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Two Cooks in the Kitchen
Shut Up and Eat! & Ace Your Health
First published 2011.03.15 | Canada | Food & Drink
Who opens a book about feeding your family with the first chapter entitled ‘What fresh hell is this?’
Kathy Buckworth, of course—mother of four and author of several parenting and humour books,...read more |
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Don’t Be Nutty
Nut-free Snack Options
First published 2010.10.26 | Canada | Food & Drink
Accepting the fact that kids can’t eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at school anymore is a sad reality of modern day motherhood.
Our kids can’t bring anything with nuts in it to school—or...read more |
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Top Ten Quick Breakfast Recipes
Easy Breakfast Recipes
First published 2010.09.14 | Canada | Food & Drink
For most moms, the morning routine is hardly the highlight of the day. There are a lot of tasks that have to take place in a short time, and at the risk of stressing you out even more, many of them...read more |
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Cookie Cravings
Our six fave cookie recipes in time for the holidays
First published 2010.09.06 | Canada | Food & Drink
At SavvyHQ, holiday baking has become a new tradition, and a bit of a competition, you might say. We each take turns creating something we can bring to the office for tasting because let’s face it,...read more |
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Colourful Cupcakes
These lovely luau cupcakes make for a sweet 'beachy' treat
First published 2010.08.15 | Canada | Birthday Parties
You’ll Need1 box of vanilla cake mix
2 cups vanilla icing
Blue and white cupcake liners
Blue gel colouring paste or liquid food colouring
Shark gummy candies, pineapple pieces, maraschino cherries,...read more |
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The Canadian Cakes
This tower of treats is a perfect end to your Canada Day feast.
First published 2010.06.22 | Canada | Birthday Parties
Adapted from The Pioneer Woman
You’ll Need
For the Cake:1 cup butter
1¾ cup sugar
2½ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
2 whole large eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
1...read more |
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Eggs-cellent Chocolate
Some Savvy Chocolate Recipes
First published 2010.03.30 | Canada | Food & Drink
We’re not sayin’ that this weekend is all about the egg, or chocolate, or little bunnies…you choose what to celebrate, of course. We’re just sayin’ that we have a lot of savvy but simple recipes for...read more |
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Fantastic Female Foodies
Great Cookbooks by Toronto Women
First published 2010.03.18 | Toronto | Food & Drink
Toronto has an abundance of fantastic female foodies—women who know how to entertain with flair and finesse. Unsurprisingly, most of these women have collaborated with family members to produce some...read more |
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C is for Chocolate
Chocolate Crafts to Do With Kids
First published 2009.04.09 | Toronto | Food & Drink
Why does everything we love about spring start with the letter “c”? First there is celebration…whether it’s Easter or Passover, these holidays of rebirth and renewal put us in a spring-time mood. Of...read more |
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All Taste, No Allergens
Delicious Alternatives
First published 2009.04.02 | Ottawa | Food & Drink
It’s a nut, dairy, wheat, egg, gluten and soy loving world—which is just fine for many of us, but what happens when you discover you shouldn’t be eating those foods?
The news that you or your child...read more |
