We went on a road trip this weekend with my 2 1/2 year old. I had found a lot of great traveling ideas for kids. Most of the things were for older kids and didn't really work for my son. I found this great craft box and thought it would be perfect! It worked really well! He played with his cars and puzzle and watched tv and it was great as far as a 10 hr car ride goes!

I have so many favorite kitchen tools! I love tools that are 1. easy to use 2. make a process faster and 3 easy to clean. If its not all three I rarely use it. That said, these meet all those requirements.

First that pesky pineapple! I think because they are so big they seem scary, or maybe it's the spikes. Either way, they are not as scary as they look!

Since I also had mango in my juice I thought I'd do a post on that as well! It is so hard to cut up because its slimey and it has a huge funny shaped seed in the middle. I think I saw this on Food Network but its been a while so I don't remember what show.

I use my chef and santoku knives for pretty much everything. Don't be intimidated by the size, it is easier and faster to use a real knife to cut things. The santoku has grooves in the side help keep food from sticking. The bread knife is obviously for bread. You saw back and forth with it instead of cutting straight down like other knives. The small santoku is nice for small veggies like carrots. Although, I can cut two carrots at a time with a big knife. I pretty much only use paring knives if I am cutting something small on my hand (bad form I know but..)

Right or wrong, this is the way I always cut up a chicken or a turkey. It gets all the meat off and the cuts look pretty.