Due to Hurricane Sandy & her stubborn efforts to remain a CNN headline for as long as tropically possible, many East Coast households are waking up to a much larger pile of leftover Halloween candy this year. Here are a few ideas on how to transform your plastic jack-o-lantern pail extras into drinks and dishes [...]

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As documented here on So Good, when the weather starts to turn cool, seasonal products start to emerge everywhere we look. If you’ve been to the grocery store recently, you’ve been bombarded with everything from pumpkin cream cheese to the elixir of the gods also known as egg nog [and no, I did not buy a quart of nog at [...]

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For your enjoyment, please have at a plethora of Halloween themed magazine and newspaper advertisements, spanning those quaint decades before the internet and cable television ruined children. A simpler era when you weren’t afraid to hand out apples to a group of costumed kids at the door,  in fear they would burn your house to [...]

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If a kid waddles eight blocks, wearing a horrible, motion constricting Halloween costume comprised of his dead Grandmother’s clothes, high heels and a few strategically placed pillows, the least you can do is pony up some decent candy when he comes a knocking. And before you start patting yourself on the back for not giving [...]

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The days of pulling off a successful Halloween party by blindfolding a rec room full of gullible kids, plopping peeled grapes into their grubby little mitts & telling them they’re palm deep in witch eyeballs are long gone. Now, thanks partially to the Saw movies but mostly Martha Stewart, upping the ghoulish party ante has [...]

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Pity the young. All year long they are subjected to the often maligned fashion whims of their respective parental units. To add plaid insult to polka dotted injury, Halloween proves to be the cherry on top of an already traumatic fashion sundae. Here are some valid examples of why your kids, once fully grown, will [...]

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While Memorial Day is typically the kick off of summer BBQ season, for me Fathers Day is usually the beginning of serious outdoor cooking. I tend to cook my own Fathers Day meal because it really gives me an excuse to sit outside by myself and drink beer while meat slowly gets transmuted into gold. Over the years I [...]

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Only a few days until you’ll be scrambling for that last minute Father’s Day gift. Like so many before you, possessing limited creativity and/or an anemic bank account, it will likely boil down to the tried and true “eeny meeny miny mo” method of either socks or a necktie. Some call these the classics. Your [...]

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It’s that time again – Easter! For Christians, it’s the day Jesus rose from the dead. For everybody else, it’s the only day of the year gorging yourself on candy from the moment you wake up is socially acceptable. In light of the holiday, this Thursday’s Eating Styles poll is: what is your favorite Easter [...]

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Other than Candy Corn, I challenge you to find a seasonal treat that polarizes two sides so strongly than Peeps. There’s never any middle ground with these colorful sugar stuffed mallow bombs. You either love them, or vehemently despise the very essence of their being. There’s no denying that seeing rows of colorful chicks and bunnies [...]

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