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Taste Tests – Does Temperature Matter?

Getting Started, Taste Test Ideas / Shannon

Are you in the hot coffee, cold coffee, or warm coffee camp? Warm Chili or cold chili? When we are doing taste tests with our teens, does temperature matter? Yes! Today I share a couple stories to get you thinking… about food, temperature, flavor, and preferences

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Taste Tests – Experiments in Food, Flavors, and Textures

Getting Started, Taste Test Ideas / Shannon

Taste tests with our teens are like experiments. We might think we know whether we will like an item, but until we taste it and try it, we just don’t know for sure. Then there are so many variables – preparation, flavor, texture, and even temperature. It’s not necessarily that we don’t like something –

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Memories and Food

Getting Started / Shannon

Whether we realize it or not, each day we are making memories with our kids. And that especially is true through food.

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When Shopping for Ideas for Your Teen: Use the Shopping Cart Method

Getting Started / Shannon

When Shopping for ideas for your teens – whether it be how to deepen your relationship or connection – or for taste tests or sparkle ideas – be sure to use the Shopping Cart Method. When you go to the store, you don’t put everything into your shopping cart. You only put in what you

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Using Sparkle to Build Relationship and Connection with Teens

Sparkle Ideas / Shannon

Hi, This is Shannon from Taste Tests and Sparkle. And I wanted to tell you the story of my sparkle wand ✨. I was looking for a sparkle wand on Amazon, for a prop for a completely different project. I was looking for something like this, which I found, but while I was looking for

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Chocolate Covered Cherries

Sparkle Ideas, Taste Test Ideas / Shannon

Have you ever taste tested Chocolate Covered Cherries? Or Dipped fresh cherries into chocolate? I personally love frozen sweet cherries. Oh So good. They’re like candy by themselves. But with a little chocolate sauce, decadent. Now I’m the only one in my family that likes any form of chocolate and cherry. How about for you?

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World Food Day – Grow, Nourish, Sustain Together

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