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The 5 mistakes you might be making with homemade chocolates!

Imagine having the ability to pump out pounds of homemade gummies, right from the comfort of your own kitchen. Sounds pretty amazing, right? Having the option to control the ingredients, additives and flavors in your gummy candy is a parent's dream, so why don't more people choose to make candies at home? Many people find candy making to be intimidating. Gelatin takes time and effort, and when not handled properly, your candies can turn out more like Jell-O bears than gummy bears.  If you've been wanting to give homemade gummy candy a try, here are three tricks to working with gelatin! 1. Use The Proper Concentration  When working with gelatin, it's all about the ratio of liquid to powder. The more gelatin...

It’s no secret that a diet low in added sugar is a healthy one, but what about those popular sugar substitutes? Non-nutritive sweeteners have been around since the 1800’s, but only recently have consumers had so many choices available on the grocery store shelves. But how do we choose? Today we’re giving you the facts on some of the most popular sugar substitutes!

Do you like to prepare your own food? Would you like your children to do so as well? Instilling this habit at a young age can be highly beneficial both for the parents and for the youngsters in years to come.  Even though children can be restless, having them around and helping out in the kitchen while they’re still little is actually a rewarding family activity. It’s a good and useful habit that can help everyone connect and develop in many aspects of family life. But just like with every other habit, it is important to be consistent.  Children are inherently curious, therefore, it shouldn’t be too difficult to tap into their inner curiosity and harvest it for a good...

  It was only 30 years ago that cooking with cannabis was considered taboo and just something for the dedicated "stoner." The only health and wellness benefits of the plant's resin-filled buds were thought to be laughing and maybe getting a good night's rest. Even the increase in appetite from THC (aka "the munchies") got a bad rap for leading users down the aisles of 7-11 in search of junk food.  Of course, unless you've avoided the topic since your college years, you probably know by now that there are tons of health benefits to weed, that cooking with it is a healthy and widely-accepted alternative to smoking it; and that it has nothing to do with getting high unless...