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Introducing a new feature on Jen Spends.com: video cooking tutorials! I love to cook and bake, and had promised my friend Joe that I would teach him what I know. I thought it would be a fun premise for a video series, and I lured my camera-shy friend in for this first episode with a [...]


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My grandmother made tabouleh on a couple occasions, and I liked it from a very young age. It’s a nice refreshing salad-type dish that comes from the Middle East. I had been wanting to make the recipe for years, but one thing stood in my way: I couldn’t find one of the main ingredients, bulgur [...]


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One of the selling points when we chose our house was the beautiful (if very worn) hardwood flooring throughout. I’ve always loved wood floors, but the attraction wore off a bit when I became pregnant. I had a nasty spill when I slipped while walking down the stairs in socks. I banged my back pretty [...]


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I currently have an army of ants frenetically scurrying around my bathroom. Why? Because they happened upon a single stray sesame seed. Times must be desperate in the world of ants. But not to worry–I have a secret weapon that works every time. Behold: I first tried Terro Ant Killer two years ago when our [...]


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I have been making almost all of my son’s baby food since he started solids at six months old. I hope someday soon I’ll be able to document and share some of my experiences – it’s been something I have truly enjoyed! Once he started to approach one year, I realized that I couldn’t feed [...]


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