Category: food

Velvet Ice Cream celebrates a family legacy and the tradition of the Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival

Marcy Rinehart of The Morning Thing talked with Luconda Dager, President of Velvet Ice Cream.

Click HERE to hear the full conversation.

She shared the rich family history of Velvet. She is part of the 4th generation leading the company.
Luconda shared the history of the Ye Olde Mill and the Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival.
There are many exciting events coming this weekend for families to have fun!
They talked about ice cream eating contests, favorite flavors, and recipes, and that Velvet plans to serve around 5,500 gallons of ice cream this weekend at the festival!
Don’t miss the family fun this weekend in Utica!

Click HERE for the festival details.

Click HERE to connect with Velvet Ice Cream – check out the yummy recipes!

Click HERE for details on how you can win gift cards to Ye Olde Mill with WNZR!

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Make your lunch breaks count for National Make Lunch Count Day

Today, April 13th, is National Make Lunch Count Day. Do you ever find yourself rushing through your lunch breaks at work, or do you work through them or even skip them altogether? While that may be tempting, it’s not good for you and your body. You should try to use your lunch breaks as just that – a break from work. To make your lunches count, leave the workplace if you can, pack a healthy lunch to take with you, resting, and getting the whole office involved in making lunches count.

Click HERE to learn more about National Make Lunch Count Day.

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The Morning Thing Friday Favorites for St. Patrick’s Day

Today for our Friday Favorites, The Morning Thing hosts celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by sharing their favorite GREEN foods to eat!

Click HERE to hear from Allison, Ricky and Marcy.

Click HERE for some history about this special day.

Click HERE for some unique ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

Click HERE to see some amazing green foods that are good for you!

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Simplify your life with seven simple shortcuts

Life can be hectic, and doing chores isn’t always fun. What if I told you there were some ways you could make those boring household tasks more entertaining and go a little faster? It’s true! We found some helpful shortcuts from iMom.com that you can do today! You can even get your kids involved and do chores as a family.

You can make a meal prep assembly line, create chore zones around the house for some quick cleaning, make a laundry pile that will make you smile, create a family calendar of events, cooking during your kid’s naptime, shopping online, and cleaning your car every time you’re in it.

Click HERE for all the details from iMom.com

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The Morning Thing Friday Favorites 2/24/2023

Today for our Friday Favorites, The Morning Thing celebrates National Hot Breakfast Month!
The show hosts shared their favorite hot breakfast foods to eat.

Click HERE to hear from Marcy, Allison and Ricky.

Let us know what you choose to eat for a hot breakfast. Email us wnzr@mvnu.edu

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The Morning Thing helps you answer the question….What’s for Dinner?

Do you struggle with answering the dreaded question – What’s for Dinner? 🙂 We do too!

Today, The Morning Thing shared some easy and yummy recipe ideas for your air fryer. We hope that you can save time and stress with some fresh ideas for your dinner table.

Click HERE to see 25 different recipes for the air fryer from allrecipes.com

On the show, Marcy shared these recipes. Let’s go shopping and start cooking!

Cajun Air Fryer Salmon

Air Fryer Turkey Breast

Air Fryer Apricot-Glazed Chicken Breasts

Breaded Air Fryer Pork Chops

Air-Fried Crumbed Fish

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Drink some hot chocolate while planning your next vacation!

January 31 has some fun holidays! Today on The Morning Thing, we celebrated National Hot Chocolate Day and National Plan a Vacation Day.

Warm up with a nice cup of hot chocolate and learn the history behind the sweet drink HERE.

Allison and Ricky shared their favorite hot chocolate recipes. Allison shared a recipe for Polar Express Hot Chocolate, click HERE to try it. Ricky had a dairy-free hot chocolate recipe to share HERE.

It’s also National Plan a Vacation Day! We shared some fun things you can do on your next family vacation. Check out some ideas from the Family Vacationist HERE

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The 2022 Turkey Trot supports Food For The Hungry

The Morning Thing’s Marcy Rinehart talked with Scott Burgess of We Run MV about this year’s Turkey Trot.

Click HERE to hear the full conversation.

The event will be held Thanksgiving morning on the campus of Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
Registration is at 8am. The race starts at 9am.
You are asked to bring a donation for Food For The Hungry as your registration fee.

Over the past 11 years, We Run MV has collected over 6,442 food items and $10,609 in donations!
Scott shares the group’s passion behind this event and how each dollar makes a huge difference.

On average each year, this event has 166 participants and raises $965 and 586 food items.
The members of We Run MV hope to beat that average this year.

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Thanksgiving can be FUN!

If you are like us, you are finalizing all of your plans for Thanksgiving! It is coming next week!

The Morning Thing is here to help. This morning (11/18), we shared some Thanksgiving activities for the whole family. These fun ideas from imom.com will help you get the laughter flowing along with the holiday cheer. You can also make some memories and start some meaningful family traditions.

Check out the full list HERE.

Click HERE to see the Thanksgiving FUN ideas that we shared.

Click HERE to see and download the Thanksgiving Lunchbox Notes.

Click HERE to see and download the Holiday Helper Cards.

We also had some FUN sharing Thanksgiving Brain Teasers.

Click HERE to get the full list and start the laughter at your family gathering.

Click HERE to hear from the Big Blue Crew! 🙂

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