Is Your Kitchen App Savvy?

February 27, 2010 | by Diana

If you have an Iphone or Droid or one of those other phones that are web capable, you may have a kitchen tool  or two at your fingertips – literally (I think that’s correctly used).  I have some Apps to suggest.  It’s really cool to find a recipe on your phone, to use for dinner.  There are organizational tools to help with shopping and dieting and even cool drink making apps – I think I’ll need that one while my daughter is home on spring break. Here are a few of my favorite apps, let me know in the comments what your best ones are.

  • Bento- Cost 4.99 – If you are going to pay almost five dollars for an app, it had better be useful.  Bento is a very useful organizing tool based on different templates you can use.  I’ll talk about a few of them, that I’ve investigated. How it works – you get a template from those available and add it to your library.  For example – in the Diet Log, you add an entry based on their template and you can keep track of what you’ve eaten for the day, …
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Fruit Pizza

June 5, 2009 | by Diana

This week we had our track awards picnic.  We needed something easy to make, but also easy to handle.  From previous experience, I knew there might not be plates or plastic ware to eat with. The coach doesn’t assign, just says bring something.  The coaches provide pizza.  My son received  an award  for each of the records his relay teams were responsible for setting.  He also received the Coaches Award.  he didn’t have the most points, but he was up there and also worked hard at every practice and showed up for every meet.  He  was one of the four kids on the team to go to Regionals.  Anyway, we made this quick and easy treat – my son started it, and my daughter and I helped to slice and throw the fruit on before we left.  fruit pizza_thumb

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