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Tuesday Top Five: Navigating Eastern Market with Your Kids
March 17, 2009
Tuesday Top Five--Navigating Eastern Market With Your Kids
Back before we had kids, my husband and I used to smile at the families we'd see at Eastern Market on Saturday mornings, hoping for the day it would be us pushing a little newborn in a stroller or giving a big kid tastes of fruit. And as it turned out, both our kids has Eastern Market excursions while they were still tiny babies.
So, I've gotten pretty good at negotiating the crowds and figuring out which stalls are worth a stop and which ones need a pass, and now I have figured out several good ways to keep little kids entertained while we peruse the stalls to see what's new and fresh.
-- Travel light. You'll be carrying bags, probably pushing a stroller or pulling a wagon, and maybe juggling a bulky watermelon or frozen chicken or something. Stuff a diaper and some wipes, if you need them, inside a pocket or in your smallest possible purse and leave your big diaper bag at home. Because you will hit people with it. Don't ask me how I know.
-- That stroller or wagon? It takes up space. Respect the flow of traffic and if you need to stop and confer with your kids or partner about something, pull off to the side out of the main flow of people. My absolute pet peeve is the people who are all "Oh, look, strawberries!" and stop dead in the middle of the walkway.
-- The best food can be found in Sheds 3 and 1 -- humanely raised meat and pastured eggs in Shed 3 as well as exotic vegetables and good quality fruit. Shed 1 has local and organic produce, as well as the kind of stuff I have felt the market has needed for years-- small vendors just getting started who are trying to build and audience for their products. Of course, everything but Shed 5 is shut down until spring and everybody is crammed in there.
-- Keep your kids fed and they'll be happy. Almost all the stalls hand out samples of their stuff, and a preschooler can happily graze their way up and down the stalls. We also love the popcorn at Yoder's stall.
-- Lunch options abound: Russell Street Deli (they also sell soup in the stalls that is to die for), Supino Pizza (awesome, I cannot say enough good stuff about them), and the legendary $3 sausage sandwiches at Eastern Market Seafood -- $3 for a pita stuffed with your choice of three sausages from a list of anykind you can imagine and some I have never heard of.
Spring is on the way, and Eastern Market is one of the best parts of it. And one of the best parts of Eastern Market is watching the families introduce their children to the delicious sights, smells and tastes.
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Celebrate Chocolate Chip Cookie Week!
March 09, 2009
Hey! It's Chocolate Chip Cookie Week! As far as I am concerned that just might be better than Christmas, because I love, love, LOVE chocolate chip cookies more than any other food. Even a bad one is still pretty good, and a great one is a little slice of heaven.
Kids love making cookies, too. My daughter loves to bake with me, and now that my son is old enough to nibble a little "people food" he's soon to be in on the fun. And of course, baking is a great way to teach math skills like fractions and counting.
Not into baking --or afraid having a whole batch of warm, delicious cookies and their equally delicious dough around will derail your weight loss efforts (okay, that's probably just me)? Try Avalon International breads -- their cookies are exactly what you'd make if you had access to only the finest organic ingredients. Traffic Jam and Snug's are also wonderful. Not going to be near Midtown? Trader Joe's (the ones in the bag, not the round containers) are awesome. And Gayle's Chocolates in Royal Oak bakes 'em up with oatmeal and dried cherries inaddition to chocolate chips, a variation I have swiped and always make for friends to rave reviews.
So whip up some cookies, grab some cold milk and celebrate!
NOTE: If you haven't entered the Dan Zanes ticket and CD giveaway, please do! I have ten CDS sitting right here on my dining room table waiting for a good home, and there is a family four pack of tickets available as well, waiting for one lucky winner!
To enter, send an email to beingsavvydetroit@savvysource.com with your favorite music that you enjoy with your kids -- could be actual "kid's music," or not. Winners will be drawn at random. The contest ends Friday and let's just say your odds are REALLY good right now!
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December 02, 2008
As the Christmas shopping frenzy dawns, we'll be presenting toy reviews and book reviews for the next few weeks. Here are some toys reviewed elsewhere on Savvy I thought you'd like! Let's Play Measure and Cook : I'll admit we don't own these yet, but they are going on the Christmas list. My daughter loves to cook and it looks like the kind of thing my son will love soon too. Cooking is a fun Read more...
Goodbye, Farmer, Until Spring
October 30, 2008
Much as I relish fall, I must say one of the sadder parts is seeing some of the summer fun go away. It's dark early now, there will be no more of eating on the patio meals cooked on the grill, and summer produce has pretty much dwindled to a few never-to-ripen tomatoes still on the vine. That also means that the many farmer's markets that have sprung up around town are over, or drawing Read more...
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